The George Hotel, Category A listed hotel in New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The George Hotel is a category A listed hotel on George Street in Edinburgh's New Town, formed by five joined Georgian townhouses. The building contains guest rooms, dining areas, and meeting spaces spread across its interconnected floors.
The building dates to 1775, making it one of the earliest structures in Edinburgh's planned New Town. The five townhouses were gradually joined together over the following decades to function as a single hotel.
George Street was once the most fashionable address in the New Town, lined with banks and private clubs. The hotel still carries that sense of formality, with its tall windows and stone facade facing one of Edinburgh's widest streets.
The hotel sits on George Street, one of the main axes of the New Town, within easy walking distance of Princes Street and the Old Town. Starting a day of sightseeing from here means most central landmarks are reachable on foot.
Both Robert Burns and Walter Scott are said to have stayed here when the building was a meeting point for Edinburgh's literary and social circles. Some original 18th-century plasterwork and fireplaces from that period can still be seen in parts of the building today.
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