Channings Hotel

The Channings Classic Hotel is a charming boutique hotel comprised of four late-Victorian terraced townhouses just minutes away from Edinburgh's city centre and the landmark Edinburgh Castle. Located on a cobblestone street, the Channings Hotel is three blocks from the picturesque river, Water of Leith, and is a one-half mile from shopping on Princes Street. The hotel is seven miles from Edinburgh Airport
With furnishing of deep rich colours in suede and velvet, the Channings offers 46 elegant rooms including three suites. Each guestroom features an ensuite bathroom with brass fixtures and complimentary Molton Brown toiletries. Many of the rooms offer breathtaking views of Edinburgh, while others overlook the hotel's private garden.

The Channings Hotel houses the Channings Restaurant and Ochre Vita. With black-and-gold tartan drapes and gilded mirrors, the Channings is an intimate gourmet restaurant offering fixed-price European lunch and dinner menus, Tuesday through Saturday. Ochre Vita is an informal restaurant featuring Mediterranean-style lunch and dinner dishes, snacks in the afternoon, drinks until late evening. A complimentary, cooked-to-order Scottish and continental buffet breakfast also is provided each morning.

This delightful hotel features a private garden with mature trees and wrought- iron gates, along with a traditional drawing room-style lobby, complete with comfortable leather sofas, marble fireplace, brass chandeliers and bronze statues. Two wood-paneled meeting rooms can accommodate small groups less than 20. Filled with memorabilia and relics, one room was once the library of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who owned the building in the early 20th century.