If you want the short answer, my pick of Edinburgh's hotel spas is One Spa at the Sheraton Grand, with a rooftop hydropool and a proper thermal suite, and rooms from about £174. For a splurge, the Balmoral's Irene Forte Spa sits under the clock tower by Waverley. For a family with a pool, Kimpton Charlotte Square. Every hotel here advertises a spa with treatment rooms on its own site; hotels with only a pool and a sauna, such as Apex Grassmarket, the Holiday Inn by the zoo, the Novotel at Edinburgh Park and the Delta on Glasgow Road, aren't included here. If you haven't picked an area yet, start with where to stay in Edinburgh, then come back for the spa.
The page is grouped by what you want from the spa: city-centre spa hotels with a room under £300, luxury splurges where the hotel is the point, spa and pool hotels that let children swim, and country-house spas on the city edge and just outside. Each card gives the thermal facilities and pool, a named treatment price, the spa-day or day-pass price, whether residents use the facilities free, the age limits, and the walk to Waverley or the Castle, with a link to the full area guide. Spa prices were checked on each spa's own pages on 25 September 2026; treatments are often £5 to £10 dearer from Friday to Sunday.
Room rates are indicative off-peak midweek prices, mostly for a Tuesday in October or November 2026, checked on 17 and 18 September 2026; use them to compare, not as quotes. They swing hard with the calendar: in August, when the Fringe and the festivals fill the city, and at Hogmanay, rooms can cost two to four times as much, so book six to nine months ahead for those. Since 24 July 2026 every hotel inside the City of Edinburgh Council boundary also adds a 5% visitor levy to the room; the Caledonian and Dalmahoy prices below include it, and Marine North Berwick and Houstoun House, outside the boundary, don't charge it.
