Balmoral Hotel
The Balmoral Hotel is a hotel and landmark in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located in the heart of the city at the east end of Princes Street, the main shopping street beneath the Edinburgh Castle rock, and the southern edge of the New Town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hotel
- Description: hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Also known as: “Balmoral”, “Balmoral Hotel, 1 Princes Street, Edinburgh”, “Edinburgh, 1 Princes Street, Balmoral Hotel”, “North British Hotel”, and “The Balmoral Hotel”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station and Scott Monument.
Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station
Railway station
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Edinburgh Waverley is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central. The station serves as the northern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, 393 miles 13 chains from London King's Cross, although some trains operated by London North Eastern Railway continue to other Scottish destinations beyond Edinburgh. Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station is situated 340 feet southwest of Balmoral Hotel.
Scott Monument
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The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana. Scott Monument is situated 760 feet west of Balmoral Hotel.
Edinburgh Castle
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Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. Edinburgh Castle is situated 2,600 feet southwest of Balmoral Hotel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.
Old Town
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Old Town is the original settlement of Edinburgh. At its core is the Royal Mile, the long street descending east from Castle Crag to Holyrood Palace. This medieval city was cramped for space so it built higher and higher, and stank higher still, hence its nickname of "Auld Reekie".
New Town
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New Town of Edinburgh is 250 years old, in contrast to the Old Town settled for over a thousand years. It was laid out on a grid pattern in the late 18th century with elegant Georgian townhouses, and the intervening loch was drained to become Princes Street Gardens.
Dumbiedykes
Suburb
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Dumbiedykes is a residential area in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. It mainly comprises public housing developments. It is bounded in the north by Holyrood Road, the west by the Pleasance and St Leonard's Street and the east by Holyrood Park.
Balmoral Hotel
- Categories: railway hotel, accommodation, building, and tourism
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Balmoral Hotel” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Basque: “Balmoral hotela”
- Breton: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Catalan: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Chinese: “巴爾莫勒爾酒店”
- Chinese: “貝摩爾酒店”
- Corsican: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Croatian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Czech: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Danish: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Dutch: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Estonian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Finnish: “Balmoral Hotel”
- French: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Galician: “Balmoral Hotel”
- German: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Hungarian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Indonesian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Irish: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Italian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Japanese: “バルモラルホテル”
- Latvian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Lithuanian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Luxembourgish: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Narom: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Balmoral Hotel”
- Polish: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Portuguese: “Hotel Balmoral”
- Romanian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Romansh: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Russian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Russian: “The Balmoral”
- Scots: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Slovak: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Slovenian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Spanish: “Hotel Balmoral”
- Swedish: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Tahitian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Turkish: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Ukrainian: “Balmoral Hotel”
- Welsh: “Balmoral Hotel”
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