Channings

About Channings

Channings is an informal relaxed hotel with a very friendly approach. To suit its location slightly away from the city centre Channings is a wonderfully quirky property which feels a bit like a Scottish country home full of charming Victorian paintings prints books furniture and memorabilia. There are 41 hotel rooms at Channings in all - no two are quite the same in either layout or decor. One of the Channings townhouses 14 South Learmonth Gardens was home to Sir Ernest Shackleton the Antarctic explorer while he was secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society between 1904 and 1910. We have named our top-floor hotel suites after Shackleton and his fellow adventurers and are proud to display prints of black-and-white photographs that were taken on the expeditions and a copy of a journey planner.

Channings enjoys a quiet location set on a cobbled street overlooking private gardens yet is only 10 minutes walk from the west end where you can explore the citys many tourist attractions such as Princes Street the main shopping area overlooking Edinburgh Castle.