Hotels Near Murrayfield Stadium: Where to Stay for Match Days & Concerts (2026)

Walk to the gates: under 15 minutes. Only three places make this ring, and The Murrayfield Hotel is the one to book first. It's a 44-room independent on the corner of Corstorphine Road and Riversdale Crescent, 10 minutes on foot to the Roseburn Street entrance and, by the hotel's own reckoning, under 250 metres from the stadium itself. Nine of the rooms are in Murrayfield House, a townhouse a few doors down. The Bothy, its pub, has big screens, a beer garden that's open all year and a Six Nations match-day menu (soup, stovies and pies at £5 to £8 last season), so the pre-match pint is downstairs. Off-peak a Classic Double is about £246 a night, and the Junior Suites are sold as stadium-view rooms.

The event-night reality: for the Scotland v Wales weekend in February 2027 the booking engine refuses a single Saturday night and asks for two at around £513 a night, so budget £1,000-plus for the weekend and book the day the fixtures drop. Parking is free but only 'subject to availability', which on a match day means arrive early or don't count on it. It's a two-storey building with no lift, the entry-level Cosy doubles start at 107 square feet (about 10 square metres), and the upper floor runs warm. Ask for a garden-facing room away from Corstorphine Road, where the buses can be felt as well as heard.

The Roseate Edinburgh is the smart option in the walking ring: two restored Victorian villas on West Coates, 12 minutes to the Roseburn Street entrance and 10 to Haymarket station, so you can walk to the game and still be near the trains. It's a Small Luxury Hotels of the World member with a whisky bar, a garden, afternoon tea and, since June 2026, KIN, the restaurant of Gary Maclean, Scotland's national chef. Off-peak the cheapest room is about £216 a night, non-refundable, for a 10-square-metre Petite double in the house across the road; the main-villa rooms and suites cost a good deal more.

It doesn't impose a minimum stay on Six Nations nights, but the cheap categories vanish months out: in September the Wales weekend was already £400 and up, and the Friday-night Ireland game had only suites left from £545. Parking is on site but not free, £20 a night, one space per room, and it must be booked ahead. There's no lift, and one reviewer counted 65 stairs to a top-floor room, so ask for a lower floor if that matters. Bathrooms in the entry rooms are small. Where it wins is atmosphere: after a match, a whisky in the bar of a Victorian house beats a chain lobby.

No 6 West Coates is the cheap bed in the ring, 11 minutes to the Roseburn Street entrance and the same to Haymarket, in a Victorian townhouse a few doors from the Roseate. It's a self-service guesthouse rather than a hotel: nobody on a desk, an electronic front door, key codes emailed the day before, and no bar or breakfast. Off-peak it's about £127 a night, which for this distance from the stadium is the lowest figure you'll find.

Know what you're buying. It rates 3.2 on Google across 253 reviews, and the pattern is consistent: good location, decent beds, tired décor and a lobby that's seen better days. One reviewer calls it the place to stay for a Murrayfield concert, and that's exactly the job it does. On the Scotland v Wales weekend it wants two nights at roughly £222 each, so the bargain is an off-peak one. Fine for a one-night match trip with a rucksack; not the place for a birthday.

Haymarket: 17 to 26 minutes on foot, or one tram stop. This is where most people should stay. You're at the station for the trains home, the tram from Haymarket reaches the Murrayfield Stadium stop in one hop, and the walk is 17 to 26 minutes depending on the hotel. The Hoxton, Edinburgh is the stylish pick. It opened in June 2025 across 11 Georgian townhouses on Grosvenor Street, on the site of the old Edinburgh Grosvenor, three minutes from Haymarket station and 24 from the stadium entrance: 214 rooms, an Italian restaurant (Patatino), a lobby bar and the usual Hoxton good looks. A Cosy double off-peak is about £269 a night; the bunk-bed Snug Bunk is the cheap way in at £215.

It sells single nights on Scotland weekends (a Cosy was £323 for the Wales game, £359 for New Zealand), so there's no minimum-stay trap, but popular dates go months out. There's no parking, and the nearest public car park is a 10-minute walk away. Cosy rooms run 14 to 21 square metres, so pay for a Roomy if you want to spread out, and expect breakfast to be charged by the item, which reviewers grumble about at this price. For a couple who want a good bar and a good-looking room after the match, it's the Haymarket hotel I'd pick.

The Haymarket Hotel is the independent value pick: 70 rooms spread across a run of Victorian townhouses on Coates Gardens, four minutes from Haymarket station and 19 from the stadium entrance. Logan's Bar is open all day and does the breakfasts; there's no restaurant, but Haymarket's are outside the door. Off-peak a Cosy double is about £170 non-refundable or £189 flexible, and direct bookings get 10% off, a drinks voucher and a noon checkout.

On the Wales weekend it had no minimum stay, but its cheapest doubles were already gone and the Superior Double sat at £206 to £229. The catches are the ones you'd expect from joined townhouses: no lift, three flights of stairs in places, no car park, and front rooms that hear the street. Some rooms are fresher than others, and a few reviewers call the older ones tired for the money, so ask for a recently done one at the back.

Tynecastle Park Hotel is the one for people who came for the rugby and nothing else: 25 rooms built into Heart of Midlothian's football stadium on McLeod Street, 20 minutes' walk to the Murrayfield entrance (the hotel says 10, which is optimistic). The Roseburn rooms have a live stream of the Hearts pitch, the Skyline Restaurant looks over it, and the hotel sells Murrayfield packages from £170 with the fixture list on its own page. Off-peak a Plaza room is about £139 room-only or £170 with breakfast, and it rates 4.8 on Google across 427 reviews, the highest of any hotel here.

Six Nations nights are priced up rather than blocked: a Plaza was £267 flexible or £240 non-refundable for the Wales game and £223 for New Zealand in November, single nights allowed. The trade-off is Gorgie: a residential football district 25 minutes' walk from Princes Street with a handful of local pubs (the Athletic Arms is the good one), and on Hearts home days the streets fill and, by the hotel's booking listings, the small car park is closed to guests. Check the Hearts fixture list as well as Scotland's before you book.

hub by Premier Inn Edinburgh Haymarket is the cheapest clean bed at Haymarket that isn't a gamble: 149 compact rooms on Torphichen Street, five minutes from Haymarket station and 26 from the stadium entrance, from about £145 a night off-peak. There's a lift, accessible rooms, a lounge bar and a free coffee machine in reception, which matters because the rooms have no kettle.

Rooms are 11-square-metre pods with a window that doesn't open, so it's a place to sleep, not to spend a wet afternoon. On the Wales weekend it was £212 for a single night and £230 for New Zealand, with no minimum stay, which makes it one of the calmer event-night prices around the station. No parking at all; the hotel points you to paid car parks nearby. Recent reviews are split on cleanliness, so if the room isn't right, say so at the desk straight away.

Leonardo Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket is the big reliable one: 282 rooms on Morrison Link in the building that was the Premier Inn until Leonardo took it over, four minutes from Haymarket station and 26 from the stadium entrance. It has a lift, accessible rooms, a bar and grill serving until 9:30pm, and the thing almost no Haymarket hotel has, a car park, £10 a night, first come first served. Off-peak from about £179 a night.

Single nights are sold on Scotland weekends (£268 for Wales, £274 for New Zealand). The car park can't be reserved, so on a match day it may be full by the time you arrive; it is, at least, well outside the road closures. Rooms are functional and some show their age, and the windows on the Morrison Link side aren't soundproofed, so ask for the back. Check-out is 11am, earlier than most, which matters after a late Friday kick-off.

Four Points by Sheraton Edinburgh is the nearest chain hotel to the stadium: 17 minutes from the entrance at the far end of Haymarket Terrace and five from the station. It was the Apex Haymarket until Marriott took it on, with a refurbishment in 2023, 69 rooms and an Italian restaurant, Amalfino. Off-peak from about £185 a night, and it sells single nights on Scotland weekends (£255 for Wales, £240 for New Zealand).

Then the honest bit. It rates 3.5 on Google across 212 reviews, the lowest of the Haymarket hotels, and the 2026 reviews cluster on damp bathrooms, wear the refurbishment didn't reach, and noise from Haymarket Terrace. Some guests report excellent staff and a free upgrade; others a mouldy shower. For the distance it's tempting, and I'd still book it before a hotel half an hour further out, but only after the Roseate, the Murrayfield Hotel and the Hoxton are gone, and I'd ask for a recently refurbished room high up.

Travelodge Edinburgh Haymarket sits in a Georgian terrace on Eglinton Crescent, six minutes from the station and 20 from the stadium entrance, with a bar café for breakfast and a plate of something in the evening. Off-peak a standard double is about £173 non-refundable or £196 flexible, so it isn't as cheap as the brand suggests, but on a Scotland weekend it stays sane: £300 non-refundable for Wales, £250 for New Zealand, single nights fine.

The building is the catch. There are steps at the entrance and the hotel says it can't offer wheelchair access, so anyone with mobility needs should look at the hub or the Leonardo instead. No car park; the nearest are the Q-Park and NCP at £33 to £36 a day. Rooms facing the garden are quiet, the front ones aren't, and reviews split between 'a place to leave bags and sleep' and cleanliness complaints.

Garner Hotel Edinburgh - Haymarket is the budget bed closest to the trains: it's on Clifton Terrace, one minute from Haymarket station and 22 from the stadium entrance. It was the Haymarket Hub (and before that a Tune Hotel) until IHG reopened it as a Garner in June 2025 after a £2m refurbishment: 195 small rooms, nine of them accessible, with the Platform 5 pub attached. Off-peak from about £149 a night, or £134 with free IHG membership.

Thirty-seven of the rooms have no window, and the cheapest rate is often one of them, so check the room type. Being on top of the station means tram bells and traffic at the front. It had no single nights on sale for the Wales weekend by September, so book early and expect to pay more. It rates 3.6 on Google, with 2026 reviews split on cleanliness, and the pub next door is the bit everyone likes.

West End luxury: half an hour on foot, or two tram stops. If the trip is as much about Edinburgh as the rugby, the two grand hotels at the Castle end of Princes Street put you in the centre, with the tram two stops from the stadium (West End to Murrayfield Stadium) and a 33-minute walk back if the queues are long. The Caledonian Edinburgh, Curio Collection by Hilton is the old red-sandstone railway hotel everyone calls the Caley, freshly renovated, with an indoor pool and spa, The Court in the old station concourse, and Castle views from the back. Off-peak a Queen Deluxe is about £284 a night with the levy included.

It sold single nights on the Wales weekend from £304, so there's no minimum-stay problem, just the bill. There's no parking of its own (the NCP on Castle Terrace is the fallback), the Princes Street and Lothian Road sides are noisy, and the long renovation left a run of 2025 reviewers grumbling about noise and closed areas. Book a Castle-view room and it's the most glamorous place to come back to after a win.

Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa on Festival Square is the other West End option, with the better spa (One Spa, with its rooftop hydropool and thermal suite), the One Square brasserie and an on-site car park at £25 a day, which at this end of town is the rarer thing. Off-peak a standard king or queen is about £174 a night with taxes included, cheaper than the Caley on the same terms.

On the Wales weekend it was down to Deluxe rooms only from £481 in September, so it isn't a bargain for match night, and the 1980s block doesn't look its price from the square; some rooms face the neighbouring building rather than the Castle. Two stops on the tram from the West End to the stadium, or a 33-minute walk. Come for the spa afterwards, not for proximity.

The Corstorphine side: buses and a car park. Beyond the stadium to the west, Corstorphine Road is where the hotels near Edinburgh Zoo live, and one of them earns a place here. Holiday Inn Edinburgh is the modern block beside the zoo at 132 Corstorphine Road, 28 minutes' walk to the Roseburn Street entrance along the main road, or a few stops on the 12, 26 or 31 bus. It has what the stadium-side hotels don't: complimentary parking for guests (first come, first served, with overflow in the zoo car park at £4 a day), an indoor pool and a health club, a restaurant, and kids eat free. Off-peak from about £182 a night.

It's the family and driving choice, not the atmosphere choice: the area is residential, the walk to the ground is along the A8, and reviews call some rooms and the gym dated. On the Wales weekend it had two room types left from £300 with no minimum stay. If you're bringing a car and children to a Saturday game and want a swim on the Sunday, it makes sense; otherwise, Haymarket.