Alba Executive Apartments - Edinburgh

HOTEL OVERVIEW

apartment - exterior Surrounded by tree-lined streets and green stretches of well-kept lawns, the Alba Executive Apartments provide deluxe 5-star Edinburgh apartments, great for family holidays in Scotland. With all the tranquillity of the suburbs, yet with Edinburgh city centre only a pleasant walk away, this area is a strategically wise choice and one of outstanding architectural beauty.

Situated in a traditional Victorian Coach House, an impressive 19th-century Villa and a group of quaint Cottages, the Alba Executive Apartments offer tourists, business guests and families an enviable choice of luxury accommodation in these unique buildings. Families find the apartments particularly suitable, as they are very spacious and surrounded by gardens and play areas for children. Even the family pet can come along too, although the staff must be contacted in advance.

Although guests enjoy the utmost privacy, there is also a housekeeping service for guests on longer stays. The staff also offer a dry cleaning collection service and can arrange theatre tickets and restaurant bookings, access to leisure clubs, private dining facilities, as well as personal trainers.

LOCATION

City Area:Meadows - Marchmont

Position of the zone in the city

General map

APARTMENTS

apartment - double room The Alba Executive Apartments consist of 9 self-catering apartments and rooms, each of which offer very high standards of interior decoration and furnishings, despite the fact that each one has its own very distinctive feel.

The two luxury apartments, which sleep up to 8 persons, occupy the upper and lower floors of The Villa - a Victorian town house possessing that sought after grandeur favoured by Edinburgh's wealthy Victorians. Other apartments are situated in the 6 traditionally-built Mews Cottages, each of which has its own garden and sleeps up to 7 persons. The delightful Coach House sleeps up to 2 persons and retains the charming character of the original 19th century building.

Such prestigious accommodation also comes with a comprehensive range of amenities, including a plasma-screen colour TV, free wireless Internet access, DVD player and radio/CD player. The kitchen also comes equipped with a microwave, dishwasher, washing machine, coffee maker and ironing facilities. A hair dyer and a direct dial telephone can also be found within all of the apartments and rooms.

• Colour TV
• Direct dial phone
• DVD player
• Free coffee and tea making facilities

• Hairdryer in room
• Heating
• Iron and ironing boards in room
• Kitchen

• LCD flat screen TV
• Non-smoking rooms
• Radio
• Wireless Internet connection

HOTEL FACILITIES

• Credit card accepted
• Garden
• Laundry service
• Pets accepted

• Wireless Internet connection in the entire property
• City guide
• City maps

• Tourist information
• Private parking
• Valet service

MAP

district map

HOW TO REACH THE HOTEL

By airplane
From Edinburgh Airport: on exiting the airport, take the first exit at the roundabout and continue along Glasgow Road (A8). When you reach Gogar Roundabout, take the third exit onto the A720, the Edinburgh Bypass. Exit at Lothianburn Junction (for A702 City Centre, Carlisle) and then take the second exit for the city centre. After around 2 miles (3.2 km), take a right turn into Comiston Road and then into Cluny Gardens. Turn left at Oswald Road, then right at South Oswald Road and continue over Blackford Avenue onto St Albans Road. The Apartments are on the left-hand side of the street. Alternately, there is an Airlink 100 daily express bus that leaves the bus station, adjacent to the terminal, every 10 minutes. It arrives in the centre of Edinburgh from where you can take a taxi or walk to the hotel.

TRANSPORT SERVICES

• Private parking

• Valet service

On-site car parking is available, as well as an additional valet car parking service.