With a stay at 16 Pilrig Guest House, you'll be centrally located in Edinburgh, within a 5-minute drive of Royal Mile and Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre. .This guesthouse is 1.9 mi (3 km) from Edinburgh Castle and 0.9 mi (1.5 km) from Princes Street.
Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre - 12 min walk - 1.1 km
Princes Street - 18 min walk - 1.6 km
Royal Mile - 5 min drive - 2.3 km
University of Edinburgh - 6 min drive - 2.8 km
Edinburgh Castle - 6 min drive - 3.1 km
Getting around
Balfour Street Tram Stop - 4 min walk
Edinburgh (ZXE-Edinburgh Waverly Train Station) - 20 min walk
Edinburgh Airport (EDI) - 37 min drive
Restaurants
Not Just Coffee - 5 min walk
The Brass Monkey Leith - 1 min walk
The Harp & Castle - 3 min walk
Coffee Tepuy - 3 min walk
Jiu Ding Chinese Takeaway - 4 min walk
About this property
16 Pilrig Guest House
Guesthouse in Edinburgh, near Royal Mile
16 Pilrig Guest House offers 7 accommodations. This Edinburgh guesthouse provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Rooms have detached private bathrooms. Bathrooms include showers. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested. Cribs/infant beds (complimentary) are also available.
Make yourself at home in one of the 7 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms with showers are provided. Housekeeping is provided daily, and both irons/ironing boards and cribs/infant beds (complimentary) are available on request.
This smoke-free guesthouse offers complimentary parking nearby.
Continental breakfasts are available daily from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include luggage storage and laundry facilities.
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM.
Languages
English, Hindi, Romanian, Urdu
Property amenities
Internet
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Parking and public transport
No on-site parking available
Free off-site parking
Street parking available
Food and drink
Continental breakfast available for a fee daily 7:00 AM–9:00 AM: GBP 10 for adults and GBP 8 for children
Family friendly
Free cots/infant beds
Laundry facilities
Guest services
Daily housekeeping
Front desk (limited hours)
Laundry facilities
Luggage storage
Accessibility
This property does not have any lifts
More
Smoke-free property
Room amenities
Bedroom
Bed sheets
Free cots/infant beds
Heating
Bathroom
Private bathroom (not in room)
Shower
Towels
Entertainment
TV
More
Iron/ironing board (on request)
Policies
Check-in
Check-in start time: 1:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Early check-in subject to availability
An early check-in fee will be charged
Contactless check-in available
Late check-in subject to availability
Late check-in fee: GBP 10 for check-in between midnight and 7:00 AM
Minimum check-in age: 21
Check-out
Check-out before 10 AM
Contactless check-out available
Special check-in instructions
The front desk is open daily from 10:00 AM - midnight
Guests must contact the property in advance for check-in instructions; front desk staffed during limited hours
To make arrangements for check-in please contact the property at least 72 hours before arrival using the information on the booking confirmation
If you are planning to arrive after 9 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation
Access methods
Front desk (limited hours)
Pets
Pets not allowed
Children and extra beds
Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are available for GBP 35 per night
Free cribs are available on request at the property
Payment types
Important information
Optional extras
Fee for continental breakfast: approximately GBP 10 for adults and GBP 8 for children
Early check-in is available for a fee (subject to availability)
Late check-in fee: GBP 10 for check-in between midnight and 7:00 AM
Rollaway bed fee: GBP 35 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a security system, and a first aid kit
We should mention
This property does not have elevators
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16 Pilrig Guest House Reviews
Reviews
7.4
Good
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Definitely a no frills stay. Located about 25 minutes (on foot) from the train station. They let us check in 15 min early. We asked for a cab at 4:30am they told us they would call one and ended up not doing that. There was no direction on what to do with the keys, so we left them in the room. The rooms were clean, but super small. I feel like I would have benefited from staying a little closer to the action. The price was pretty good and there are some places to eat near by, but it was a meh experience.
It is a lovely B&B very charmed by clean and well located. Next to the tram and a lots of food options around and walkable. Close to the main attractions.
This guest house is basic but well priced for Edinburgh and not far from the train / bus station. It is off Leith Walk and about 20 minutes walk from the main train station.
I would like to come back here again! Room is very comfy)
Verified traveller
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
8/10 Good
Rachel
20 Feb 2024
Rachel
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024
6/10 Okay
Thirumurugananthi
Travelled with family and small children
27 Dec 2023
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The property was good and cheap. Safe. Quiet. Support staff on site. Only drawback is heater was not working and was provided with a noisy fan heater. Not a great option when you have an active toddler.
This place is just awful. It's one of the worst hotels I have ever stayed in, anywhere. The room I was given was much smaller than the room illustrated on the Hotels.com website. The room was cramped, dirty, and poorly maintained. The television was broken. I complained about that and was told it had been fully fixed. In reality, no-one had even looked at it. The bed was uncomfortable - a cheap mattress laid over planks. The room was noisy, next to the kitchen and there was a horrible noise coming from the pipes every time the people in the room above flushed the toilet. I could go on, but I've said enough. This place really is just awful and I strongly recommend that you avoid it at all costs.
First impressions: Dinning room and reception dirty. Old and new sheets piled up in the dinning room, are guests expected to eat there? And old rotting banana the only piece of fruit in the fruit bowl turning black and prefectly representing this property.
My group arrived and the young lad seemed to have no idea what he was doing. Couldnt find our booking and phone the manager.
Gives the phone to me and the manger says hotel.com cancelled my booking. When i called hotel.com to recieve a refund they said they didnt cancel my booking and that the hotel has my money, the hotel refused my refund request then saying it wasnt hotels.com that cancelled it was me? So i wasnt entitled to a refund?! Lying and changing the story to avoid refunding me. It was eventually discovered I hadnt cancelled like they suggested i did so EVENTUALLY refunded. Disgusting how they will do or say anything to keep you from recieving your money back!
Tried speaking with the manager about this as well they said over the phone that theyre the manager but once they realised i wanted my money back they changed their story and pretended they had I idea what i was talking about theyre one a receptionist?
Hotels.com do the right thing and stop doing business with these scammers.
Property was in nice area but it was hard to reach someone at initial check-in
Meagan
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023
4/10 Poor
Rebecca
15 Feb 2023
Disliked: Staff & service
Loud, noisy but great location
We arrived at the hotel and was greeted by a young man who could speak English, this wasn’t a problem he was very kind but did struggle to find the booking due to his lack of English, however I helped with this.
We got into the room and it was nice enough, nice decor but very small but as we were only sleeping here we didn’t mind.
However during the night the room got worse.. the noise from the piping was very very loud in the room and kept us awake all night,
We know it’s not the hotels fault but the rooms above were very very loud banging about at all hours.
There was no greeting card or anything in the room to let us know what time we needed to check out, or what the wifi code was.
The TV remote was smashed up and wouldn’t work with the TV.
The guest house was nice enough, great location, but due to the very noisy rooms and the lack of service. We wouldn’t return here
Stay was all well and good. Room was fine, cosy and comfortable, private en suite bathroom was nice too, just slightly small and kind of cramped, but it was all good and clean too. Towels and bed sheets smelt really nice. Tea and coffee making facilities in the room were good as well. The TV was slightly small but it worked and had a good variety of channels.