Hermitage Guest House

We booked this b&b 12 months ago. Arrival the lady who runs the b&b greeted us with breakfast menu card in hand plus debit card machine. I paid this was the only time i saw her. We took our luggage up 3 flights of steps no offer of help. The room was nice in the attic 1 slope side the bathroom had everything we needed. In the morning we went for breakfast a old Chinese lady was in dinning room.she asked if we wanted tea/coffee. She got us a coffee pot we got our own ceral. Only 2 choices cornflakes or bran flakes. The cooked breakfast was lovely. Even on N.Y. day we didn't see the owner no happy New Year or owt.

No “hello” upon check in, was just asked for the money. Room was very dated and not the cleanest. Room very cold and one of the lights didn’t work. Shower was not powerful, although it was a good temperature. We were told to preorder breakfast and what time we’d like it at, so we did. At breakfast, no one to be seen or heard from for a good 10 minutes. The cooked breakfast was not good at all, (eggs, bacon and tomato being the main offenders), so much so that it came back up on the journey home. Orange juice and milk left out in the open for who knows how long. Upon checkout, nobody to be seen again. When we did check out, we just got a “bye”, no “hope you had a good stay” or anything like that. Would definitely not recommend staying here.

This an old fashioned bb, but that said it was practical and clean. Couldn’t say staff were friendly but they were polite. Breakfast was quite nice but avoid the orange juice as I’m sure its no more than squash. If you don’t want to pay Edinburgh hotel prices this is just out of Edinburgh centre and is on a very convenient bus route straight into the centre but you can walk it in about 35 minutes.