{"id":609072,"date":"2025-12-03T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609072\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:22:13","slug":"new-edinburgh-hotel-set-to-transform-abandoned-city-centre-office-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609072\/","title":{"rendered":"New Edinburgh hotel set to transform abandoned city centre office block"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A BRAND new 195 bedroom hotel is set to open inside a former office block.<\/p>\n

The vacant Edinburgh<\/a> Capital House off Lothian Road in the heart of the city centre will undergo the \u00a321 million conversion.<\/p>\n

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Premier Inn are set to open a new Edinburgh hotelCredit: PA<\/p>\n

The 195 room hotel will be in the city centreCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Whitbread PLC, the company who own Premier Inn, bought the empty offices last year.<\/p>\n

A proposal for the huge conversion was sent to the City of Edinburgh Council.<\/p>\n

Planning<\/a> chiefs have now given them the go-ahead to completely overhaul the 1980\u2019s building into a plush 65,350 square feet hotel.<\/p>\n

The new Premier Inn will have a ground floor restaurant<\/a> and bar and is set to become their fourth hotel in Edinburgh city centre.<\/p>\n

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Bosses at the hotel chain say the new city centre Premier Inn will be a great spot for guests and is near some of the capital\u2019s most popular tourist spots.<\/p>\n

Jill Anderson, Acquisitions Manager for Scotland<\/a> at Whitbread, said: \u201cWe are fortunate to have an established network of 14 trading Premier Inn hotels<\/a> in Edinburgh which welcome a million visitors a year and drive \u00a332 million in annual external spending in the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strong year-round demand we are continuing to experience for our rooms in the city is driving<\/a> the expansion of Premier Inn across Edinburgh, including at Capital House in the heart of the city centre. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a sensational location for a budget hotel given its proximity to iconic tourist destinations like Edinburgh Castle, a host of theatres and concert<\/a> venues, the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) and the Exchange District.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting the green light to convert the 1980\u2019s office into a latest format Premier Inn is a huge achievement for the team and we will waste<\/a> no time in breathing fresh life into the empty building and adding another high-quality location for our customers in Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n

They also reckon the new hotel will bring over \u00a38m to the city.<\/p>\n

A Premier Inn spokesperson added: \u201cThe new Premier Inn is anticipated to generate an additional \u00a38.1 million per year in visitor expenditure through the external spending of more than 56,000 business<\/a> and leisure guests which are predicted to stay at the hotel every year once it reaches maturity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhitbread believes half of this external year-round expenditure is anticipated to be spent supporting city centre businesses based on a comprehensive nationwide study of its customers in 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is expected to bring more than \u00a38m to the cityCredit: Alamy\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BRAND new 195 bedroom hotel is set to open inside a former office block. The vacant Edinburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,895,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-609072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-section-moneynews-money","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115654436470247362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}