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Top-selling Edinburgh hotel + rail breaks

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Create your perfect break with 1000s of hotels to choose from, exclusive package discounts, and ABTA-protected UK Rail breaks, Coach breaks, and Eurostar packages to Europe. And for London getaways, all the must-see theatre shows.

What are customers saying about Hotel Direct?

I was looking for a London theatre?weekend break

I was looking for a London theatre weekend break as a Christmas present and came across Hotel Direct. I wanted to see The Lion King and stay in a hotel close by. I was pleasantly surprised how affordable it was. It was easy to book and will definitely use again. Highly recommend.

Easy to book

Easy to book.The trip was good value, hotel excellent and good theatre seats

Great communications

Great communications and all went very well.

Hassle free booking

Hassle free booking and good value hotel and train combined. I do like using this website.

Stress free experience

Provided an excellent all round service. All aspects of the trip were attended to. Any concerns were quickly addressed by a phone call by very helpful staff.

Excellent weekend

Easy to book and great instructions of what to do and times so no need to ask for further advise. Great choice of hotels.

Great service

We booked a combined hotel and rail break to London via hotel direct.co.uk. The booking was easy to use and regular communications from Hotel Direct were timely, accurate and helpful. I telephoned Hotel Direct to book train seats and travel times and the call was handled in a polite, friendly and professional manner. Everything went smoothly and according to plan. Thank you.

Brilliant service and easy to use

Brilliant service and easy to use. Thought the prices were too good, had to get my partner to check it was a genuine website.Plenty of email reminders and notifications on what time I need to be where and when definitely book again and the hotel was brilliant and centre to everything we needed with two tube stations nearby.

Hoteldirect theatre breaks was?

Hotel Direct theatre breaks was fantastic. It was all very easy to book hotel, theatre and rail tickets. Email communications were excellent. Good directions. Reminder emails and repeat rail tickets on the day were very useful. Highly recommended. We will use again.

Hotel direct is a great way for booking?

Hotel direct is a great way for booking your weekend packages away, used a couple of times & have never been disappointed, highly recommended.

Booking with Hotel Direct

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Useful links for visiting Edinburgh


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Christmas in Edinburgh


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