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Edinburgh's most bike friendly hotel?
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Posted 12 years ago # -
Yeah, I like the accessible signage, especially for those dyslexic thieves who have issues with certain letters.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Just down from there, the Raj Hotel has a magnificently battered old Indian Rickshaw outside - apparently it still works...
Posted 12 years ago # -
The doors were open and I'm not sure there was actually space for bikes right there. I think it lead somewhere round the back of the building, and was more just a sign of the owner's liking for bikes. Baldie, you're just being a curmudgeon ;)
Posted 12 years ago # -
I think hotels in Edinburgh and indeed Scotland really miss a trick with there lack of cycling facilities or at best advertising of what facilities they offer. Just finished planning another tripe to Holland and as always the hotels are most accommodating and welcoming. I have noted that thanks to CEC planning regulations that some of the newer hotels have cycling racks outside so that's a good start.
Posted 12 years ago # -
There's a "Cyclists Welcome" scheme, like the "Walkers Welcome" one. I forget what they have to do to be part of it - secure parking, I assume, and not minding if you turn up sopping wet, that sort of thing.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I stayed in a Cyclists Welcome B&B in Melrose a couple of years ago. I chose it specifically for this reason so I didn't have to worry about my bike. Nothing sophisticated, just a wee locked courtyard that could only be accessed by the B&B owner but it did the trick. Plus it is just nice to be welcomed somewhere for a change
Posted 12 years ago # -
I've stayed in a few places that gave it the old "cyclists welcome". What that tended to mean was they had a garage/shed you could stick your bike in, once you'd squeezed past the lawnmower, garden furniture etc. It does just enough, but in my book misses the trick of having an easily accessible and properly secure (eg, with a wall anchor or similar, so you know it's still secure if someone happens to fail to lock the door) place for bikes.
Posted 12 years ago # -
there's also http://bedsforcyclists.co.uk/
Posted 12 years ago # -
Do you think Visit Scotland have gone a bit far with their welcome schemes:
http://www.visitscotland.com/quality-assurance/welcome-schemes
"Film Crews Welcome"?
"Classic Cars Welcome"?I think my favourite is:
"Arts Welcome" - "Establishments displaying this award will offer specific provision for guests attending cultural events or venues"
What specific provision?!
Also, this seems a bit unfair. Bikers get, "secure parking and facilities for maintaining their machines in top condition both mechanically and visually".
Cyclists on the other hand get, "clothes-drying facilities and flexible eating arrangements".
(Ok, I'm sure there's more to it than those sound bites...)
Posted 12 years ago # -
flexible eating arrangements
Don't knock the tourers curse. Turning up hungry, still being hungry an hour later and wanting more food just before bed!
Posted 12 years ago # -
flexible eating arrangements
I read this as you can eat in the shed in the garden as the other guests won't want to eat with stinky sweaty lycra clad cyclists!
I must fall into the Curmudgeon bracket eh WC?
Posted 12 years ago # -
You have to ask? ;)
Posted 12 years ago # -
Spent a luxurious weekend at Prestonfield for our anniversary. Their website says (in two places):
"Prestonfield has secure bike racks for guests and we have some mountain bikes that you are free for guests to use during your stay."
We didn't take the bikes, so I cannot say whether "secure bike racks" is anything more than the two Sheffield racks under the big tree near the front door.
And the concierge denied any knowledge of mountain bikes available for guest use.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I was there a couple of months ago for a friends birthday I attached my bike to the wooded fence by the door. I noticed the 2 metal racks. When outside round the back think I sore some other cycle parking.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Aye there was a strange toast rack thing around the back next to the kitchens that I guess the staff were using. There were only a couple of bikes there but neither of them were supported securely by rack. One of those "designed for six, will comfortably hold none" racks.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I'd like to sing the praises of various motels and budget hotels in Canada, most of which had no actual bike related welcome policy at all, but almost universally interpreted this to mean "oh, you can just take the bike into / up to your room." Road dust and all. I did put my groundsheet under it when the room was carpeted, but not because I was asked to!
Posted 9 years ago # -
{D'oh!]
Posted 9 years ago # -
We've had some super welcomes from B&B owners when we were on bike holidays. Up to and including taking our wet clothes away and bringing them back washed and dried by breakfast time.
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