Best for design gurus

£ £ MARKET STREET HOTEL

Between the Old and New Towns, just steps from Waverley station, you’ll find the capital’s first representative of the Design Hotels group. Its striking, angular stone facade is topped by an irregular, geometric roof with a reception, unusually, on the top floor. Interiors are contemporary and pared-back, and rooms are on the compact side — in categories such as Cozy, Roomy and Vista — but the sleek bathrooms are spacious. The place to be, however, is the seventh-floor Champagne lounge, Nor’Loft. Nursing a cocktail while looking out over the rooftops of Edinburgh’s handsome skyline takes some beating.

ROOMS: From £168. marketstreethotel.co.uk