City Centre Guest House Edinburgh airport arrivals transfer information bus and taxi options shuttle express local connections direct route 35 100

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19 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh. EH3 9NE. Telephone: +44 (0)131 229 5622

Edinburgh Airport Information

Edinburgh's airport lies just seven miles to the west of the City Centre. Unless you are picking up a hire car, the transport options are buses or taxi.

Transport is well sign-posted from within the terminal.

Travelling from Edinburgh Airport to the Valentine City Centre Guesthouse is simple, you have three main choices.

1.
Lothian Buses service 35 for just £1.10 per person will transport you from the Airport terminal to less than 200m from us. This takes around 50 minutes and is a good choice unless you have very heavy luggage without wheels, or are in a desperate hurry. You will need the exact fare, as no change is given. The Valentine is one of very few guest houses which are along the route of this service.

2.
Lothian Buses Airlink service. This is the 'standard' Airport to City Centre option, for all guesthouses within the central zone you then need to switch to the appropriate local bus to complete your journey. The service costs £3 single £5 return and takes just under 25 minutes, using the Shandwick Place stop, you can walk just around the corner to
	Lothian Road and pick up the 10 to our door, or the No.11, 15, 15A, 16, 17, or 24 to the end of Gilmore Place (King's Theatre) stop under 50m away. With a quick connection you can be with us in 30 minutes overall. This is quicker than the 35 Service and can be right to the bus stop outside our door, but it does involve changing buses and is a bit more expensive.

During March and April 2008 Shandwick Place will be closed for Edinburgh Tramway roadworks, the 100 air service will be diverted and use a bus stop at the beginning of Princes Street instead, during this time simly cross at the junction to get to the connecting services on Lothian Road - this is not a major change for guests on their way to the Valentine and simply means alighting from the airport bus even closer to the connecting stops than usual! A map of the changes can be found on the Lothian Buses website
3.
A taxi will transport you and your luggage direct to our door for between £13 and £20 dependent upon traffic, number of passengers and the amount of luggage. ( Note that fares to areas such as Mayfiled and Newington are further away and therefore more expensive to reach by taxi, we benefit from being on the airport side of the city centre). This is of course the most expensive option, though certainly worth it if there are three or four of you, or if you are struggling with heavy luggage. Journey time depends on the time of day, but 30 minutes is typical.

The choice is yours from these options, if you have any problems simply call us!

	The award winning new control tower at Edinburgh Airport.
	For more information on Edinburgh Airport, its services and Airlines try one of these sites: Official BAA Edinburgh Airport website (official information, and an interactive Terminal map) Unofficial Edinburgh Airport site (full of useful information anfd quick links to all the Airlines on-line booking pages)

Phone or Email us with any questions or availability enquiries

+44 (0)131 2295622

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or contact us via one of these easy to use forms:

Availability Form	(specific trip dates)
Message Form	(General Enquiry/no dates yet)

Here is our sitemap:

Home - our home page and welcome!

Specials - split into two pages :
	Current Offers - Special Offers, long-stay discounts, group bookings and so on
	Events in Edinburgh - including the Festival Fringe, Hogmanay, Six Nations Rugby

About Us - information about the guesthouse, the area, and the owners

Facilities - split into two pages :
	What You'll Find - Our bedrooms, the dining room, the annex, with pictures!
	Real Reviews - Reviews of our establishment

Directions - split into two pages :
	Finding Us - Comprehensive local directions on foot, bar car, bus or train
	Airport Arrivals - A special page with details of your options after arriving at Edinburgh airport

Contact Us - A form that you can send a general message on (if you have no fixed dates yet for example)

Policy - The rules! Terms and Conditions, most of which we think work in your favour.

Links - All the other relevant corners of the web dealing with Scotland and Edinburgh information

Availability - Get our best quote on your trip dates.

Nothing here but technical stuff!!