Surgeons hotel poised for big op
A city hotel is to reopen to the public for the first time since it provided a safe haven during lockdown for more than 500 frontline medical workers.
Ten Hill Place will build on its proud lockdown legacy offering a discount staycation deal for other frontline workers all over the UK.
Delighted staff will begin a carefully phased reopening from 15 July, after the Scottish Government approved that date for hospitality venues to resume operations.
Scott Mitchell, managing director of Surgeons Quarter, which operates the hotel, said: “We had the privilege of accommodating hundreds of Edinburgh’s frontline health workers at the height of the crisis.
“Now we want to extend a welcome to similar frontline workers from the rest of the
UK. Summer holiday plans have been wiped out for millions of people and foreign travel may still be a long way off. This is an amazing city and many of those who have earned a holiday and want to spend that precious time somewhere special will be looking to Edinburgh. We want to give them an extra reason to visit.”
Ten Hill Place is Edinburgh’s biggest independent hotel and at the height of the coronavirus pandemic it offered free accommodation and meals to more than 500 exhausted hospital staff in a gesture which cost the hotel owners £100,000.
The £249 deal is for two nights bed and breakfast and a meal and bottle of wine in the hotel restaurant.