What The Dickins: Home Sweet Home

Bruntsfield is buzzing. It has always been much loved and with good reason as the local offering of independent shops, cafes and restaurants is so good. Plus Bruntsfield Links and the Meadows are on the doorstep and Princes Street easily reached. But recent additions have taken Bruntsfield to a new…

There’s something very unique about Foster + Partners Quartermile development in Simpson Loan. Their transformation of Edinburgh’s Old Royal Infirmary Hospital into a mixed-use urban community of luxury homes, affordable houses, office, retail and leisure space has been very successful. Two types of home are available here – purpose-built architecturally…

Self-catering in Edinburgh is what we’re all about at Dickins, but we’re also about so much more. The world of self-catering has changed beyond recognition since we started letting for the Edinburgh Festival back in 1998. Then, the phrase self-catering probably conjured up the sense of a damp, old fashioned…

Scottish guidebook guru, Peter Irvine, whose go-to guide ‘Scotland the Best’ is about to launch it’s 13th edition, calls this corner of Edinburgh the East Village. And this title is a good one because the area around Broughton Place does feel like a village, yet it only takes ten minutes…

Guests love our home on St Mary’s Street, situated in the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town. Because they regularly give us great feedback about staying there, it is in our Dickins Most Loved Collection. We can understand why they love it because we do too! There’s a great vibe…