The 14 Best Hotels Near Edinburgh Airport (2026)

Walk to the terminal: the three hotels on the airport campus. Ingliston is the airport's own campus, and these three sit within a few hundred metres of each other on the Eastfield Road side of it, each about ten minutes on foot from the terminal doors. No taxi, no shuttle timetable, no 4am panic: you check the departures board from bed and walk. That convenience is exactly what you pay for, and all three are pricier than the tram-line hotels a few miles east for a room that is usually smaller. Light sleepers should know they're beside a working airport: reviewers at Hampton and the DoubleTree say the aircraft noise is less than they feared, while at the Moxy noise is a common complaint.

Hampton by Hilton Edinburgh Airport is my pick for a dawn flight, and the one I'd book by default. It's a 240-room, no-frills Hilton with the two things that matter at 5am: a ten-minute walk to the terminal and a free hot breakfast laid out from about 3am for the first departures, by the hotel's own account (ask at check-in). A November Tuesday was £142 including breakfast (£167 on a flexible rate), the best value of the three on the campus, and its Park and Fly rates bundle 4, 8 or 15 nights of parking: £277 prepaid for the 15-night version, breakfast still included. The trade-off is that it's proximity you're buying, not polish: no shuttle, so you walk your bag over (guests say the path is unkind to wheeled cases), a breakfast reviewers call average and crowded, parking at £15 a day, and value as its lowest Tripadvisor score.

DoubleTree by Hilton Edinburgh Airport is the full-service option on the campus and the one I'd choose with children or a long-haul flight the next day. It's the only airport-side hotel with a pool, a 17-metre one with a sauna, steam room and spa bath, and the only one with a genuinely free shuttle: every 20 minutes from 3am to 10am, with reception calling one outside those hours. The walk is about ten minutes if you'd rather not wait. Rooms are proper hotel-sized, family rooms sleep four or five, and Olive & Stone does breakfast from 6am and dinner until 9:30pm.

It's also the priciest of the three: £162 room only for a November Tuesday (£188 flexible), breakfast on top unless you take the inclusive rate, and £20 a day to park. If you're leaving a car, though, its Parkfly rate is the best deal on the campus: a night plus 15 days of parking for £253, cancellable, against £277 at Hampton (with breakfast) and £308 at the Moxy. The decor is due a refresh in places and reviewers rate value lowest. One thing worth knowing: Ingliston Park & Ride is a 15-minute walk and sits in the tram's city fare zone, so a trip into Princes Street from there costs £2.40 instead of the £7.90 airport fare, a saving of £11 for two people each way.

Moxy Edinburgh Airport is the one for a very early start or a very late landing. It's the same ten-minute walk from the terminal as its neighbours, with a 24-hour front desk, a bar open 6am to 11pm and a grab-and-go counter that never shuts, which is more use at 4:30am than any breakfast buffet. A queen room was £142 prepaid for a Tuesday in November (£158 flexible), and its Sleep and Fly rates bundle parking for 3, 7 or 14 days at £193, £235 and £308, all of which compare well with the airport's £40-a-day drive-up tariff in the long-stay car park, though the DoubleTree next door does a fortnight's parking for £55 less.

The rooms are the catch. They're small by design and the hotel says so, breakfast is extra (£23 to £26 on top of a room-only rate), there's no shuttle and no pool, and it has the weakest reviews of the campus three by some distance: Tripadvisor scores it 3.0 from 529 reviews (September 2026), with rooms tagged cramped and noise a recurring complaint despite the hotel's own soundproofing claim. For one night before an early flight it does the job; for anything longer, the DoubleTree is the better bed for £20 more.

A shuttle ride away: Holiday Inn Express Edinburgh Airport. Just west of the campus on Ingliston Road, a 20-minute walk or a five-minute shuttle from the terminal, this is the only hotel here with a round-the-clock shuttle: roughly every ten minutes, 24 hours a day, five minutes to Stand 10 at the terminal. It costs £3 a person for the hotel-to-terminal leg, bought at reception; the ride from the terminal back to the hotel is free. For a 5am or 6am departure that combination, plus a free breakfast that starts serving continental at 4am and cooked from 6:30am, is hard to beat, and it's why the recent reviews keep saying the same two things: great breakfast, great shuttle.

The caveat is price volatility. A double with breakfast was £115 for a Tuesday in early November and £174 for the Tuesday after, so check your dates before assuming it's the budget option. Parking is £13 per 24 hours with a code from reception, there's no pool, and it's a small hotel over two floors, which means it sells out. If the price is right, this is my pick over the Moxy for an early flight without a car.

On the tram line: Edinburgh Park and the Gyle. Three miles east of the terminal, Edinburgh Park is an office park with a train station, three tram stops (Edinburgh Park Station, Edinburgh Park Central, Gyle Centre) and a cluster of chain hotels where the budget end costs a good deal less than the airport campus. The tram reaches the terminal in 10 to 15 minutes from these stops and Princes Street in 20 to 25, every seven minutes through the day, and because these stops are in the city fare zone, a ride into town is £2.40 rather than the £7.90 you pay from the airport stop. The trade-offs: no shuttle anywhere, nothing to do in the evening beyond a retail park, and the first tram of the day doesn't arrive at the airport until about 06:15, so a flight before 8am means a taxi.

Premier Inn Edinburgh Park (Airport) is the best-value bed near the airport and my pick for anyone flying at a civilised hour. Edinburgh Park Station's tram platform is across the road, and £109 for a November Tuesday (£128 on a flexible rate) buys a clean, well-run Premier Inn with the chain's usual big beds, 200 rooms, a lift, family rooms and £5.50 parking. It scores 4.3 on Tripadvisor from more than 3,300 reviews (September 2026), and the praise is consistent: opposite the tram, friendly staff, quiet. The catches are small: the windows don't open and the air conditioning gets complaints in warm weather, breakfast is an add-on at £12.99 and starts around 6:30am, and the Thyme restaurant is small enough that you should book a table with the room.

Novotel Edinburgh Park is the step up on the same block, and the one I'd take for a family or a two-night stay. It's next to Edinburgh Park train station and less than five minutes' walk from the tram stop, with 170 air-conditioned rooms, a heated indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna, steam room and gym that are all free to guests, a 100-space car park and Paolozzi Beer and Kitchen downstairs. Family rooms and the pool make it the obvious choice with children, and its 4.5 Google rating from more than 3,600 reviews is as high as any hotel here.

The rate is the catch: £140 for a Superior Queen on a November Tuesday (£162 flexible), which is £31 more than the Premier Inn across the block, plus £15 a day to park and about £17 a head for breakfast, so two adults with a car and breakfast are at about £190 before the tram fare, and more with children. You're paying for the pool and the extra space (the Superior Queen with a sofa bed is 24 square metres and sleeps four). It's also a business-park hotel in every sense: its neighbours are offices and the Hermiston Gait retail park, and the tram is the whole point of the location. For a family or a two-night stopover it earns the difference; for a solo traveller on a dawn flight, the Premier Inn does the same job for less.

ibis budget Edinburgh Park is the cheapest bed with a tram stop you can actually walk to, and it knows it. The hotel sits beside the Gyle shopping centre, four minutes on foot from the Gyle Centre tram stop (about 23 minutes to Princes Street, about ten to the terminal), with 161 compact air-conditioned rooms, a continental breakfast from 5:30am, a 24-hour café for a coffee before a dawn taxi, and triple rooms with a double bed and a bunk that are the best-value family layout out here. Parking is £5 a day.

At £89 for a November Tuesday (£103 flexible) it undercuts everything else on the tram line except the Travelodge, and the breakfast bundle adds only about £9 a head, but it's a budget hotel in the strict sense: compact rooms, a continental rather than cooked breakfast, a 3.8 Google rating, and a car park the hotel says it can't guarantee a space in, so it's no use for a park-and-fly. It's the classic one-night-before-a-flight bed, and that's exactly what I'd use it for, and nothing more.

Delta Hotels by Marriott Edinburgh is the old Edinburgh Marriott on Glasgow Road, 2.3 miles from the terminal by the hotel's own measure, and where I'd leave the car if I wanted a pool as well as parking. Its Park Here, Fly There rate (promo code PKF) covers a night in a full-size room plus free parking for up to 15 nights, matched only by Hampton's, and the leisure club (indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna, steam room and gym) is free to guests. The Airlink 100 stops right outside and reception sells tickets, so the five-minute bus ride to the terminal is the easiest connection here that isn't a walk, and the Edinburgh Gateway tram and rail interchange is nine minutes on foot. Cast Iron Grill does breakfast from 6:30am on weekdays and a steak at night, and the front desk is staffed 24 hours.

It's the dearest room on the tram line, though, and the most volatile: a Deluxe room was £155 prepaid for a mid-November Tuesday (£182 flexible) and £92 the Tuesday before, so the date matters more here than anywhere else near the airport. Breakfast is extra unless your rate includes it, and the Park Here, Fly There package isn't priced until you enter the code for your dates. Parking without the package is a fair £8 a day. The recurring complaint in recent reviews is that parts of the hotel look dated, and the refurbishment is working its way round the rooms rather than finished. If you don't need the parking allowance, the Novotel gives you the same pool for less; if you do, and you'd rather leave the car with a hotel than in an airport car park, this is the one.

Travelodge Edinburgh Park is the fallback when the Premier Inn and the ibis are full, and I'd only book it with a car. It sits on South Gyle Broadway among the offices, with the usual Travelodge kit: standard doubles with king beds, SuperRooms with a coffee machine and a power shower, family and accessible rooms, a Bar Café for breakfast and dinner, and free parking on a first-come basis. At £74 on the same mid-November Tuesday (£88 flexible) it's the cheapest bed near the airport, and breakfast is £10.99 on top.

The problem is the walk: the nearest tram stops, Gyle Centre and Edinburgh Park Central, are 13 to 15 minutes away, so the tram advantage that makes the rest of this group work is mostly gone, and it doesn't claim to be an airport hotel. There's no park-and-fly product either. If you're driving in late and out early, it's a perfectly decent cheap bed; if you're on foot, the Premier Inn is £35 more and opposite the tram, and worth every pound of it.

A taxi ride away: Newbridge and Ratho. West of the airport along the A8 and around the M9 junction, Newbridge and the canal village of Ratho have the hotels where you trade the walk for cheaper or free parking, a bigger room, or some actual character. None of them has an airport shuttle, and none is on the tram, so every one of these needs a taxi (five to ten minutes; the Travelodge quotes £20 to £27) or your own car. Since July 2026 Ember's electric bus between Livingston and the airport has stopped in Newbridge and Ratho, which is worth checking in the app if you're travelling light, but I'd plan on a cab.

Norton House Hotel & Spa is where I'd spend the last night of a Scottish trip. It's an 1840 Victorian country house in 55 acres of grounds, a five-to-ten-minute drive from the terminal along the A8, with 83 individually designed bedrooms split between the original house and a newer East Wing, an 18-metre indoor pool with a hydrotherapy pool, sauna and steam room, and a Brasserie holding two AA Rosettes. Parking is free with an EV charger, and the Stay and Fly rate (£140.25 for a Classic Double on a November Tuesday) includes a taxi to the airport in the morning, which neatly solves the no-shuttle problem. The catch is that Stay and Fly is non-refundable, the flexible room-only rate is £157.50 and the bed-and-breakfast rate (breakfast from 7am, 7:30am at weekends) is £32 more for two, and reviewers grumble about the price of drinks and dinner and about a spa that gets crowded at busy times. The free shuttle only runs three times a day to the Ingliston tram stop. Still, for a proper bed, a swim and a decent dinner within ten minutes of the terminal, nothing else near the airport comes close.

Premier Inn Edinburgh Airport (M9, Jct1) is the Newbridge Premier Inn, renamed from Edinburgh Airport (Newbridge) and sitting beside the M9 roundabout about three miles from the terminal. It's the sister of the Edinburgh Park hotel in every way that matters: same beds, same £12.99 breakfast, same Thyme restaurant that's worth booking a table at, lift, family and accessible rooms, air conditioning, and a similar price (£114 non-refundable, £133 flexible, mid-November). The staff get warm reviews, consistently.

What it doesn't have is a way to reach the airport without a car. There's no shuttle, no tram, and the hotel's own FAQ says to take a taxi (seven minutes, though another line on the same page says fifteen), which the recent reviews echo with some heat: "not really near the airport" and "this is not an airport hotel" are the phrases that keep coming up. Parking is £7.50 a night in a 78-space car park. If you're driving and want a cheap night before a morning flight, it's fine; if you're arriving by tram, book the Edinburgh Park one instead and save yourself the taxi fares.

Travelodge Edinburgh Airport Ratho Station is a roadside Travelodge on the A8 at Ratho Station, six minutes from the terminal by car according to the hotel, and it earns its place here for one reason: free parking (limited, first come, first served) plus a cheap bed. At £88 midweek in November (£99 flexible) it's the cheapest bed on this side of the airport, though breakfast is £11.99 extra. Rooms are the standard Travelodge set, including SuperRooms and family rooms, and the Bar Café does dinner from 5pm to 10pm. One thing to pin down before a dawn flight: the hotel's page says breakfast starts at 6am and its booking page says 7am, so ask.

Read the small print before you book. The hotel is only reachable from the westbound A8, so from the airport you loop round at Newbridge; there's no shuttle and no bus named on its page; the hotel itself quotes £20 to £27 for a taxi to the terminal, so without a car two taxi rides cost more than the difference to the Holiday Inn Express a few minutes' drive east; and you can't leave a car here while you fly. With a car the sum flips: free parking against the Holiday Inn Express's £13 makes this the cheaper night by some way, and for a driver arriving late off the M8 or M9 with an early flight, it works. For everyone else, there are better options a few minutes either side.

The Bridge Inn at Ratho is the characterful pick, and the only place near the airport I'd choose for the stay itself rather than the flight. It's a canal-side pub with four bedrooms upstairs, each looking over the Union Canal, named for local figures (the Bonnington has a mahogany four-poster, the Baird is the big one that takes a third bed) and done out with Egyptian cotton, Nespresso machines and Scottish toiletries. Every room is £130 a night on the inn's own site, full Scottish breakfast included, and it's ten minutes' drive from the terminal. Downstairs is a proper pub with a garden on the canal, a kitchen open until 9pm on weeknights, and live music and quiz nights.

It's a pub, so weigh that. Breakfast doesn't start until 8am, which rules it out for anything before a mid-morning flight; the bar is open until 11pm (midnight on Fridays and Saturdays) and the rooms are above it; reception keeps pub hours and there's no shuttle, so you're booking a taxi. Dogs can stay in two of the rooms for £25. Four rooms go quickly, and booking direct is the only way to get free cancellation up to 48 hours before. For a last night that feels like Scotland rather than an airport, it's lovely.

Fifteen to twenty minutes' drive: Dakota Edinburgh. For a last night that's more about the hotel than the alarm clock, Dakota in South Queensferry is the upmarket pick within easy reach of the terminal: 15 to 20 minutes by road, with free parking right outside. It's a dark, glossy, grown-up hotel with The Grill for dinner, a bar to match, a free gym, and rooms from a 23-square-metre Classic Double up to 40-square-metre suites, all with rainfall showers. Breakfast runs from 6:30am on weekdays, early enough for a mid-morning flight. A Classic Double was £154.50 prepaid on that November Tuesday (£168 flexible, £192.50 with breakfast for two), and the visitor levy is already in the price. It also sells a Park, Stay & Fly rate, £233 that night, with 14 days of free parking, which makes it the most comfortable park-and-fly near the airport by a distance.

Be clear-eyed about the location. Dakota sits on the Ferrymuir retail park at the motorway junction, not on the historic waterfront a mile below it, so the old High Street is a 15-minute walk downhill and the Forth Bridges about 25, rather than a view from the window, and reaching the terminal without a car means a taxi. Check-out is 11am. If South Queensferry itself is the draw, our South Queensferry guide covers the town and the bridges; if you just want the best dinner and bed within 20 minutes of the airport, this is it.