Scotland Edinburgh
ibis Edinburgh Centre Royal Mile - Hunter Square
Independent pet-friendly review by Four Legged Guests · updated August 2026 · paw rating built from 3 verified guest reviews mentioning pets
Bring your dog if
- You're happy with a standard hotel-room stay where the property explicitly welcomes dogs
- You're basing yourself in Edinburgh / the Scotland and want a pet-friendly anchor for day trips
Worth knowing
- Paw rating is based on 3 reviews - limited sample, treat as directional
- Pet fee: £10 per pet per night (max 2 pets) - research-verified; confirm at booking
- Shared corridors and common areas mean nervous or vocal dogs may find it harder to settle
How this review was built Evidence, sources, refresh cadence
- Evidence: 3 pet-mention guest reviews sourced from major booking platforms - guests who explicitly mentioned travelling with a dog. Each review is screened for pet-relevance, then judged for sentiment to compute the paw rating.
- Not a personal visit. We don't stay at every hotel we cover - we summarise patterns from real guest reviews, paraphrased and never quoted verbatim. Full standard on our editorial policy page.
- Wider context: The property has 3,648 guest reviews overall across booking platforms, averaging 8.3/10 - the paw rating reflects only the pet-mentioning subset.
- Last refreshed: August 2026. Policies and pricing drift; we re-check on a rolling basis. Confirm specifics with the property at the moment you book.
- How the paw rating works: Full detail on the methodology page, including the three verification gates and known limitations.
Pet policy at a glance
- Pet fee: GBP 10 per pet, per night.
- Up to 2 pets per room.
- Dogs of any size are accepted; cats are not.
- Pet-friendly rooms are assigned at check-in, not guaranteed by room type.
- On-site pet amenities: bowls.
- Service animals are welcomed.
Pet-friendly summary
The ibis Edinburgh Centre Royal Mile - Hunter Square sits on Hunter Square, a few minutes' walk south of the Royal Mile and roughly five minutes from Waverley railway station. That central position is the most useful thing about it for travellers with dogs: short, direct walks to Princes Street Gardens, the Meadows and Holyrood Park, none of which need the bus or taxi journeys you would face from the city outskirts. For owners who want to combine sightseeing with regular walks, the location does a lot of the heavy lifting.
The hotel is openly pet-accepting rather than pet-promoting. Dogs of any size are taken, up to two per room, for a fee of GBP 10 per dog, per night, which is low by the standards of central Edinburgh. Cats are not accepted. Pet-friendly rooms are assigned at check-in rather than guaranteed by room type, so it is worth flagging your dog when you book and again on arrival. Bowls are provided, and guests travelling with dogs report a dog bed being put out in the room. Service animals are welcomed in line with the operator's group-wide policy.
Guests travelling with dogs describe helpful front-desk staff, clean and modern rooms and an easy walk to the station. The recurring complaint is about the pet kit rather than the welcome: the dog bed and bowl put out for guests have been described as too small for anything larger than a very small dog, so it is worth packing your own if yours is a medium or large breed. Street-facing rooms also catch noise from late-night pub activity in the surrounding lanes, which is worth avoiding if your dog is sensitive to it.
Best suited to small-to-medium, settled dogs on short city breaks where central access matters more than space. Owners of high-energy working breeds, or anyone who wants a private garden or off-lead field on the doorstep, will get more from a property at the city's green edges.
Highlights from pet-mentioning reviews
What reviewers travelling with dogs consistently noted about staying here.
- Central walks to Royal Mile and Holyrood
- GBP 10 per dog, per night
- Up to two dogs of any size accepted
- Bowls provided, dog bed on request
- Supplied bed and bowl run small
- Street-facing rooms can be noisy at night
About this hotel
A 99-room, 3-star hotel on Hunter Square, a couple of minutes south of the Royal Mile and a short walk from Waverley station. The property is run by Accor and offers an on-site bar and restaurant, complimentary Wi-Fi, daily housekeeping and round-the-clock reception - a practical central base rather than a destination hotel.
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Location
6 Hunter Square, Off Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH1 1QW
