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Ardgarth
Guest House is a warm and comfortable family run Guest House in Edinburgh's
seaside suburb of Portobello where there is ample free parking and convenient
public transport links to the city centre.
The Scottish Tourist Board have graded the accommodation as a Three Star Guest House.
The house has been tastefully adapted from a large Victorian family house with a variety of well-proportioned rooms to suite couples, friends, family groups of up to five, and the independent single traveller.
Ardgarth Guest House Accommodation
Rooms:
We have a variety of rooms to suite your needs. We have single, double,
twin and family rooms, either en-suite or standard (with wash basins).
The rooms are of generous size, clean, warm and comfortably furnished.
En-Suite Rooms all have private Shower and WC. Standard Rooms all have wash basins in the rooms, and there are two shared bathrooms fitted with showers and WCs. All rooms have TV and tea/coffee making facilities and hairdryers. Cots, high chairs and baby listening can be arranged.
Bedrooms: 1 twin, door width 85 cm, 1 double, door width 77 cm, both with en-suite facilities (doors 85 cm) curtained shower area (level with floor, no step) with flip down seat for double room and shower chair with lockable wheels, hand rails around toilets. Bed blocks available, raised power points. All rooms are equipped with TV, tea/coffee facilities and hairdryers. French is spoken, and special diets can be catered for.
Rooms for People with a Disability: The ground floor
accommodation is suitable is accessible (with no steps) directly from
the low pavement via a purpose-built ramp. The Scottish Tourist Board
has graded the accommodation as Category 1 Unassisted Access.
Parking: Unrestricted street parking adjacent.
Entrance and approach: Ramp or 3 steps, handrail on inside (left) of ramp,
to front door.
There are two bedrooms with en-suite showers and WCs fully equipped for people with disabilities. The “roll-in” shower trays are flush/level with the floor enabling easy access by the wheeled shower chairs (provided). One of the rooms is a double and the other has twin beds. Bed blocks are available and power points are raised.
The dining room is on the same level as the bedrooms and the tables are of appropriate height and width. The public telephone is also at level access. All door openings are of ample width for wheel chairs.
Breakfast is included in the price of the room. We offer a choice of
a cooked Scottish breakfast, Continental breakfast or Scandinavian Breakfast.
We also cater for vegetarians and other diets (by prior arrangement).
Breakfast is served daily from 7:45 till 8:45 in the carefully restored
dining room with period fire place, pine floor and Ursula's unusual collection
of teapots on the delft rack.
Public telephone: Ground floor, level access.
Evening meals: If you have difficulty in going out for
meals, please let us know, and we can provide and evening meal (at extra
charge).
We have two fully accessible rooms on the ground floor, and were honoured to be given the Leonard Cheshire Award for excellence of accessibility in 2005.
We want people with disability to stay with us and have the same positive experience as our able bodied guests. In 1997 we were "runner-up" in the Thistle Awards category "Tourism For All".
Also in 1997 Scottish Enterprise awarded a Certificate for providing
"Scotland's Best Service to each Visitor".
To assist our guests we now have free wifi and free internet access on
our guest computer in the guest lounge.
Location:
We are in a seaside suburb to Edinburgh just 3.5 miles to the East of
Princes Street in the City centre.
Directions From Edinburgh Airport:
Take the Airport bus (Bus no.100) to City Centre (Waverley Bridge), then
follow directions as below.
From Waverley Train Station (City Centre) By bus:
Walk to Marks & Spencer's on Princes Street where you can catch the
15 or 26 bus (except those to Kings Road).
Ask the driver to stop at the Brunstane Road North Bus Stop at St Philips
Church, (500 yards, or four stops after Portobello Town Hall). It is then
only a short walk back to St Mary's Place which is on the opposite (South)
side of the street.
Directions By Car:
Google Maps have a route planner between two post codes (our post code
is EH15 2QF).
If you are coming from the West, join Edinburgh bypass (A720), drive East
following signs for A1 Berwick-upon-Tweed until you get to "Old Craighall”
roundabout (turn left onto the A1).
On the A1 following signs for Edinburgh. You will soon see a retail park
on the left followed by ASDA where there is a roundabout.
Go straight on at the roundabout and get in the right hand lane. You quickly
come up to traffic lights where you turn right into Milton Road East (signed
Joppa and Musselburgh).
Almost immediately turn left (in front of the large grey house on the
corner) into Brunstane Road. After crossing the narrow railway bridge
turn left at the first cross-road into Argyle Crescent.
St Mary's Place is the first turn on the right, and you will see our sign
a short way down the street.
Otherwise, if you are lost:
Find Portobello High Street and go East (with the sea on your left). You
will soon come to a park on the left (Abercorn Park). Take the first right
turn after the park. This is St Marys Place and we are half way up on
the right hand side.
Parking: There is ample and un-restricted on-street parking in St Marys Place. Many of our guests prefer to leave their car and take a bus to the City centre (where parking can be both difficult and expensive).
Email Ardgarth Guest House enquiries & reservations: bookscotland@madbookings.com
