Good -  cheap rooms in a central location.

Bad – cooked breakfast awful, rooms could be cleaner.  Lack of parking.

Rating – 7 out of 10

I needed to stay for a night in central Edinburgh so I did a search on HotelsCombined, a hotel price comparison site.  The Osbourne Hotel came up with the cheapest ensuite single room at £24 for the night.

The Osbourne Hotel is located five minutes walk from Princes Street and Waverley rail station.  I’d to park my car a ten minute walk away in a side street with pay and display parking charged at £1 an hour from 8.30 – 17.30. I was upgraded to a spacious twin room.  I’d requested a quiet room and was allocated a room at the back of the hotel, away from the main road. My room was pretty plain and simple with a good sized bathroom.  I had to move one of the single beds away from the wall to access the electric socket to charge my mobile phone and it looked as though this area had not been cleaned for months as it was really dusty on the skirting board and the carpet in this area.

The Osbourne Hotel

Breakfast is served between 7.30 to 9.30.  I found the breakfast room to be cold.  It was a self service buffet. I have to say the scrambled eggs were probably the worst I’ve ever tasted, totally inedible, cold and hard.  I wasn’t offered any tea, so tried the coffee and it was awful.

However thinking about the price I paid I could tolerate a bad breakfast and just have fruit juice, cereal and toast.  Apart from the dust behind the beds my room was pretty good.  If you are looking for somewhere cheap to sleep for the night in a central location the Osbourne Hotel is worth a look.

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