Edinburgh youth hostel

wallacebob

Sitting on the bus today, I passed the SYHA on Leith Walk. Never noticed before (top deck spy) how swish and swanky it looks inside. People are always looking for inexpensive city rooms, this looks like a real bargain!! I suppose you have to join, but that is cheap at £8/year, and approx £20/night is very tasty.

Anybody had any experience of using it, before I recommend it to visitors?

See https://www.syha.org.uk

Ms_Chocaholic

There's two in Edinburgh, Central and Metro, I think the one you must be referring to is Central and it's got a 5* Tourist Board rating too.

high-rise_andrew

has a nice bistro/bar, terribly wonderful for the toursits. Not sure if they play bagpipe music or is decorated in tartan though;)

Edinburghlass_2

It was on the news this morning they are planning on selling off some youth hostels, 7 I think, and then ploughing the money raised into the other youth hostels.

Some of them are huge, beautiful buildings so I imagine they could made a mint by selling some and its good the money will go into modernising the others. I think the plan is to make more single, double rooms rather than the old style dormitories.

zebulon

wallacebob wrote: »

Sitting on the bus today, I passed the SYHA on Leith Walk. Never noticed before (top deck spy)

used to pass in front of it almost everyday (bus)
until one day I too realised how good it looked inside.

and, sitting on the top deck, there were often people at the windows waving, and I would wave back
which nice in the morning.

high-rise_andrew

yeah Edinburghlass, there has been a big growth in single/double or family type rooms the last 5yrs or so. Not things you can do at Loch Ossian or Glen Affric. The whole idea of youth hostels were to get away from the family and explore lol. Are there not more than enough "family-friendly" places around now?

Sammz

Shame (but understandable) that they don't take stag/hen parties. Would have been great for me.