Meeting venuesEdinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh's meeting hotels double as some of the UK's busiest leisure hotels, so a corporate quote depends less on your brief than on which tourists are in town that week. Two identical requests a fortnight apart can come back far apart.
How Edinburgh hotels quote
Day delegate rates are standard, inclusive of VAT at 20%. Residential rates swing heavily with the leisure calendar, so 24-hour rates are often quoted per date rather than per season. Quoted in pounds sterling.
We fix all of that into one per-person package, in GBP, before any hotel quotes. Hotels then compete on a number that means the same thing in every offer, and the rank you see is the rank of what you would actually pay.
August is the Fringe and the International Festival: forget it for anything price-sensitive. Hogmanay takes out the last week of December and the first of January. Six Nations home weekends at Murrayfield fill the west of the city. November to March, outside rugby weekends, is the buyer's window.
Market conventions, tax treatment and event dates as understood in September 2026 from published sources; they change. Every offer in an RFPVenue contest states its own tax, service and fee basis, and that is what you compare on. New to these conventions? Read the day delegate rate guide or start from the RFP template.
Leadership offsite · Edinburgh · 40 people
One locked package · 4 confirmed comparable offers · quoted in GBP
Saved versus 4 confirmed offers
£1,350.0012.1%
Method: awarded total versus the average of confirmed comparable offers on the same locked package. Sourced quotes a hotel has not confirmed are excluded. Not a guarantee of future savings.
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Illustrative proof. Your Edinburgh contest produces one like it, in GBP, for the meeting you actually award.
Where to hold it
The hotel clusters buyers use, and what our sourcing desk would tell you about each before the brief is fixed. Name a district in the brief or let the field decide.
Georgian-townhouse hotels and the big conference flagships. Boardroom quality, and the most exposed to festival pricing.
The convention quarter, with the largest purpose-built breakout capacity and easy tram access from the airport.
Character venues for dinners and small leadership days. Limited plenary space.
Business-park hotels for training days with drive-in delegates. Rates barely move with the festivals.
Venues buyers shortlist
A sample of established meeting hotels across Edinburgh's districts, with the capacity figures each hotel publishes on its own site. Not a ranking, a recommendation or a partnership: when you send a brief we invite whichever comparable hotels fit it, whether or not they are listed here.
| Hotel | District | Meeting rooms | Largest room | Theatre | Banquet | Event space | Transport |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa, Edinburgh | Festival Square / EICC | 12 | The Edinburgh Suite | 470 | 500 | 986 m² | – |
| The Hoxton, Edinburgh | Haymarket, Grosvenor Street | 8 | Largest room 300 m² | 250 | 170 | – | Haymarket station, 100 m |
| W Edinburgh | St James Quarter | 9 | Event Studio 1–3 | 200 | 110 | 316 m² | – |
| Edinburgh Marriott Hotel Holyrood | Holyrood, Old Town | 5 | Salisbury Suite | 70 | 50 | – | – |
Figures are each hotel's published maximum for the layout, read on the date shown below; they shrink once staging, AV and catering are in the room, and hotels change them. Confirm capacity against your brief before you rely on it. For a meeting of 20 to 120 people the largest ballroom is rarely the right room; the number of meeting rooms tells you more about breakout capacity.
Sources · guide reviewed 2026-09-07
Meetings in Edinburgh
Board meetings and client dinners for the financial-services cluster, leadership offsites that add a night for the city, and training days at the EICC end for Scotland-wide teams.
Most briefs are for 20 to 120 people, but the venue table above shows the ballrooms and convention hotels for several thousand, and the process is the same. Send the brief as you have it; we make it comparable.
Room, breaks, lunch, AV, bedrooms, taxes, service and cancellation terms are locked before any hotel sees the brief. Every quote means the same thing.
We invite properties that match the brief on capacity, standard and location, including any you name. A round needs at least three comparable offers to open.
Hotels see their own rank and the price to beat, never each other. Prices can only fall. You award on best value and are under no obligation if nothing fits.
The awarded total against the average of confirmed comparable offers, hashed and printable. The booking contract stays directly between you and the hotel.
Questions
What buyers ask us about this city first. Anything else, put it in the brief.
Send the brief you were about to email around. Comparable hotels quote one fixed package and compete. Our service is free for buyers; you pay only the hotel.