The Hostel
Edinburgh. Looked at for its owner on 18 October 2026, the way a guest and an AI assistant would.

- Your prices, and the commission booking sites take
- How your competitors price, day by day
Your price against your competitors
Each hotel's lowest price on Google Hotels. Prices move every day, and the hotels near you change theirs for busy nights first. With OneHorizyn you follow these prices for the nights ahead, and know when to raise yours and when to hold it.
- The Hostel (you)£39
- MEININGER Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket£41
- Britannia Hotel Edinburgh£86
- Leonardo Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket£156
- ibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge - Royal Mile£157
- Novotel Edinburgh Centre£170
How you compare with 5 competitors in Edinburgh
MEININGER Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket comes first on Google Maps, and you outside the first 64; they're rated 3.9 on Google on average, and you 3.4. These are the hotels of your kind within a few kilometres of you, the ones a guest choosing where to stay in Edinburgh weighs you against.
| Hotel | AI recommends it | Google Maps rating | On Maps for “hotels in Edinburgh” | Lowest price on Google Hotels | From you |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hostel (you) | Not asked yet | 3.4 from 703 | Not in the first 64 | £39 | |
| MEININGER Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket | Not asked yet | 4.1 from 135 | 1st | £41 | 0.4 km |
| ibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge - Royal Mile | Not asked yet | 4.2 from 4,160 | 8th | £157 | 1.9 km |
| Leonardo Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket | Not asked yet | 4 from 4,040 | 18th | £156 | 0.2 km |
| Novotel Edinburgh Centre | Not asked yet | 4.3 from 3,895 | 6th | £170 | 1.1 km |
| Britannia Hotel Edinburgh | Not asked yet | 2.8 from 3,877 | 4th | £86 | 0.6 km |
Read on 18 October 2026. With OneHorizyn you follow these hotels every week: their prices on every booking site, their reviews and what AI assistants say about them.
You're not in the first 64 on Google Maps for “hotels in Edinburgh”
Most guests who search the map choose from the first ten hotels it shows. You're rated 3.4 from 703 reviews. MEININGER Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket (first), Britannia Hotel Edinburgh (fourth) and Novotel Edinburgh Centre (sixth) come before you.
- Answer every review, the poor ones first and within a day
- Ask happy guests for a review as they check out
- Add new photos of your rooms every month
- Keep your phone number, website and hours right on your listing
With OneHorizyn you see your place on the map and your reviews against your competitors', every week.
- 1stMEININGER Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket4.1 from 135
- 4thBritannia Hotel Edinburgh2.8 from 3,877
- 6thNovotel Edinburgh Centre4.3 from 3,895
- 8thibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge - Royal Mile4.2 from 4,160
- 18thLeonardo Hotel Edinburgh Haymarket4 from 4,040
- 100+The Hostel (you)3.4 from 703
The bars are each hotel's number of Google reviews.
Your website's health is 55 out of 100
We read 6 pages of edinburghcitycentrehostels.co.uk on 18 October 2026, the way Google and AI assistants do, and found 18 things to fix. These cost you the most guests:
- 1Google writes its own line about your hotel
Your pages give Google no summary to show under your name, so it picks any sentence it finds.
What to do: Write two sentences about your hotel for each main page: what it is, where, and why guests love it.
- 2Nothing on your website says what makes your hotel special
AI assistants look for a page about a hotel to describe it to guests.
What to do: Add a page about your hotel: its story, what's special, and what's nearby.
- 3Your website is heavy on a phone
Most guests look on their phone, often on mobile data, and leave a page that's slow to open.
What to do: Ask whoever looks after your website to compress your photos and files.
- No button to book on your home page, so a guest who wants to book direct has to hunt for one
- No WhatsApp link, where most guests in India ask first
- A phone number a guest can tap to call
- AI assistants can read your website
One thing to do this week
Each one comes from what we found above, and each wins back guests who book you direct.
- 1Google writes its own line about your hotel
Your pages give Google no summary to show under your name, so it picks any sentence it finds.
How: Write two sentences about your hotel for each main page: what it is, where, and why guests love it.
With OneHorizyn you see every week whether each one worked, in guests and in rupees.
We've already done 2 of the 6 readings your first look is built from
Everything above came from what anyone can see: Google, Google Hotels, Google Maps, an AI assistant and your own website. Your hotel's own reading fills in the rest and turns each finding into a figure you can act on.
- Your price on booking sitesnot read yet
- Google and Google Mapsrated 3.4 from 703 reviews
- Your website6 pages read, health 55 out of 100
- What AI assistants saynot read yet
- Your reviews, week by weekonly on your own hotel's reading
- Your price every night aheadonly on your own hotel's reading
Your own reading takes about half an hour, and nothing has to be connected to your systems.
There is no commission on any of these, and this page says nothing about them. We haven't looked at any of them for you.
- Weddings and events
- Conferences and company travel
- Travel agents and tour operators
- Events that publish a list of hotels
- The nights your town fills up
- What your competitors charge, nightly
- Weddings and events
The planners and families booking weddings in Edinburgh, who fill your rooms for three nights at a time and never touch a booking site.
- Conferences and company travel
The companies running meetings and incentive trips near you, and the firms whose staff already stay in Edinburgh every week.
- Travel agents and tour operators
The agents and operators selling Edinburgh to guests abroad, who send the same rooms again and again once you're on their list.
- Events that publish a list of hotels
Festivals, matches and conferences in and around Edinburgh that name hotels to stay at. Being on that list costs nothing, and most hotels never ask.
- The nights your town fills up
Which dates Edinburgh runs out of rooms months ahead, so you price them before your competitors do, rather than after.
- What your competitors charge, nightly
Their price for every night ahead, not the one night on this page, so you know which nights you are leaving money on.
Stop losing £48 to £91 a month for each room
OneHorizyn finds where your hotel loses money and tells you what to fix first, every week:
- Booking sitesWhen they sell your room for less than your own website, so more guests book you direct
- Your competitorsTheir prices in Edinburgh for the nights ahead, so you price every night right
- Google and AIWhat they tell guests about you, and how to get recommended first