Old Rectory
This has to be Britain's most romantic love nest. Must be why it's booked up nine months ahead for weekends
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Rich red and flamboyantly gothic, a huge bedroom with gothic bed and gilded pinnacles leads to a sitting room with daybed and a leather-lined bathroom and its magnificent central silver bath.
A very large and theatrically decorated suite overlooks the Royal Mile and over the coast of Fife in the distance from bedroom, sitting room and bathroom. The dramatically red bedroom has a huge Gothic bed and several seating areas and there is an adjacent sitting room with a large Empire-style day bed and a quirky collection of gothic artefacts. The bathroom, with red and gilt leather walls, a polished silver bateau bath, twin sinks and separate black marble shower room was previously James Thomson's study and is the Witchery's largest and most sumptuous bathroom.
• Flamboyant red and gold gothic décor
• Gothic oak bed created from pulpits
• Sitting room with large Empire day bed and media cabinet
• Additional seating and breakfast areas
• Seven windows overlooking the Royal Mile towards Princes Street
• Large bathroom with central free-standing bath, twin basins and separate WC & shower
• Second floor suite reached by stone turret stair above the restaurant
The Old Rectory costs £325 - £350 per night inclusive of tax, breakfast hamper for two served in your suite, newspaper, mineral water and a bottle of Champagne in your suite on arrival.
A full a la Carte Breakfast Menu is available daily in the original Witchery from 8.30 - 10.30am.
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