Menzies Guest House

Edinburgh


A pretty average guesthouse with seven high-ceilinged Victorian rooms spread over three floors, and vegetarian-only breakfasts (but no eggs!). The family rooms, with double and single beds, offer excellent value.


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1. Flodden Wall

0.65 MILES

At the western end of the Grassmarket, a narrow close called the Vennel leads steeply up to one of the few surviving fragments of the city wall that was…

2. The Meadows

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This mile-long stretch of lush grass criss-crossed with tree-lined walks was once a shallow lake known as the Borough Loch. Drained in the 1740s and…

3. George Heriot’s School

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4. Edinburgh Castle

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5. National War Museum of Scotland

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6. St Cuthbert's Parish Church

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7. Grassmarket

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8. St John's Church

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