Near to the Scottish capital is where a notably unusual hotel has been described as "outstanding in every possible way," having been named the quirkiest in the UK.
The HeraldScotland reports, the ‘floating’ world-famous Fingal Hotel in Leith Docks, near Edinburgh, was a former Northern Lighthouse Board buoy-laying and lighthouse tender based out of Oban in west Scotland.
With an ultra-luxury accommodation boasting some 22 luxury cabins, a multi-award-winning restaurant, and an events space, the establishment was recognised alongside places across the country, including The Witchery by the Castle in Edinburgh and the Artist Residence in Oxfordshire, England.
As The Times highlighted what makes Fingal in Edinburgh the quirkiest hotel in the UK, saying the ship has been "kitted out" with gleaming wood, curvy lines, and warm colours.
The 1963-built Northern Lighthouse Board tender NLB Fingal had served the buoys and lighthouses off the west coast of Scotland from the NLB depot based at Oban. In stark contrast is its current role on the east coast, located at Leith’s waterfront, and according to the newspaper, the nicest of the rooms here are the split-level duplexes, which are said to "really capture a sense of oceangoing grandeur."
Read more here on the luxury floating hotel conveniently located near the capital.
As Afloat also highlights, the NLV Fingal made a rare call to Dun Laoghaire Harbour in 1994 as part of a tender-sharing arrangement between the NLB and Irish Lights, which also applies to Trinity House, the third General Lighthouse Authority (GLA) responsible for such a role in waters of Ireland and the UK.
