As the festivals have come to an end for the summer we’ll be closing our listings until next year.  We’ve got a lot of exciting new developments in the pipeline including changes to the site and new listing options. We’ve also got some very exciting news about the properties you can book for next year.  We’ll be announcing these over the coming months so stay tuned.

Thanks to all our guests and hosts that made our first year so successful.

Contact Host

We’ll forward your  enquiry to the host and they can then reply by email. This facility is great when you need check availability of a room for the festival, or need to learn a little more about the room location of the accommodation in Edinburgh.

If you are a host you will receive an email notification that a new message has arrived. You can view these messages in your account

Make bookings online with confidence, knowing up to date festival accommodation availability!

Here’s our simple guide to booking the room you want.

Select you dates

Have a good idea of when you want to stay. Edinburgh Festival Rooms has up to date availability of rooms so your search will return results for your desired stay.  The search results you get will only include rooms available for the dates chosen – you don’t have to filter through listings that aren’t going to work for you.

Review the available rooms

You can view each rooms details – this includes an overview of the accommodation provided by the host, photographs of the advertised festival room and the availability. You can also get an idea of where in Edinburgh the advertised room is by viewing the map.

Book it!

Once you have chosen your room for the festival, and it meets your criteria including dates and price, you can book the room. Just click on the Book Now button and you will be taken to the payment page. Here you can review the details of your booking and enter your contact information and payment details. You can choose to book your festival room by using either paypal or credit card. Click submit and your room will be reserved immediately. Your host will get an email with your reservation details and contact details.

So three simple steps to getting your accommodation sorted for this years Edinburgh Festival using Edinburgh Festival Rooms.

1. A picture is worth a thousand words

2. Who are you

Provide a little bit of information about who you are. Again guests want to know who they will be sharing with for the duration of their stay. Keep it simple, you don’t need to add your life story, but maybe you can indicate what type of festival activities you are interested in or whether you’ll be at work during the day. This will help the guest decide whether the room might work for them.

3. Price realistically

Renting your room out over the summer can be a good way to generate extra cash. But you should think carefully about how to price your accommodation. There is a lot of demand for places to stay but there is also a healthy amount of competition between hosts. Things to consider when pricing your room are location, quality of room and general furnishings and the amenities provided with the accommodation. Take a look at what’s currently available; this can be a good guide to the price you should be charging.

4. The devil’s in the detail

Write a clear and full description of the room you have available. The more information you can provide, the more a potential guest is able to decide whether the room is going to work with them. Guests would rather know about a limitation up front than to find surprises when they arrive. But be positive, remember to explain all of the good points about your property!

5. Keep up to date

It’s important to keep your room information up to date – especially the availability. Once a guest has chosen your room they will want to make a booking straight away. They need to be confident that the availability information you are displaying is accurate. You don’t want to be double booked! Updating your information is a straight forward task – just log in to your control panel, go to rooms and click “set room availability”.

With these tips your chances of getting your room rented out this festival will increase significantly. Remember to add your room to EdinburghFestivalRooms.com

The good news for Edinburgh residents is that, arguably, you live in the festivals world captial! The festivals collectively produce a surge in visitors to the city every year – Edinburgh is home to Europe’s largest festival event, the Edinburgh Fringe as well as a host of other festival events. This influx of people creates a big demand for short term accommodation, a demand that hotels can’t meet alone.

Visitors to Edinburgh are keen to rent rooms from private landlords – these can often provide better value than commercial alternative and they also provide a unique experience of Edinburgh – visitors get an “insiders guide” to where to eat, drink and visit. Rooms rates can vary dramatically depending on location and property facilities but the current average room price on Edinburgh Festival Rooms is £48 per night. If you rent your room from mid July when the festival season is starting to the end of August at the summer festivals end you could generate £1960 at this room rate. So this would pay of your £1800 council tax bill in one shot and leave a little left over to treat yourself!

Legally you are allowed to earn up to £4250 tax free a year so you don’t need to worry about the tax man, and if you have more than one spare room you can make that work for you to! So why not rent your room out on Edinburgh Festival Rooms – it will pay for your council tax and then some!

Back in 2007 I launched EdinburghFestivalJobs.com – a very niche job listings board. But I could see an opportunity to create value for both advertisers and job seekers that wasn’t being met. This site has gone on to become popular with both audiences.

Again – focussing on a niche I’ve launched EdinburghFestivalRooms.com. Similarly I hope to offer value to both guests and hosts by specialising on serving those visiting Edinburgh and those renting rooms out in Edinburgh. The service offers value that is currently uniquely available to Edinburgh Festival rooms.

As a landlord you can

• Take bookings online
• Manage availability in real time
• Set peak and off peak prices

To advertise a room you can register here

As a guest you can reserve a room online and see exactly when it is available.

Edinburgh Festival Rooms is a new venture, in time it’s hoped that the same success seen by EdinburghFestivalJobs.com can be captured for EdinburghFestivalRooms.com but this will only be possible if we try to deliver real value on the market we are working in and this requires a real focus on the needs of that niche.

Here at Edinburgh Festival Rooms we also hope to connect people. We’re listing rooms available to rent in Edinburgh during all the Edinburgh Festivals. Our spaces are placed around the city and include some perfect locations near to festival venues.

Edinburgh Festival Rooms lets you book your chosen room online allowing you piece of mind to enjoy all the Festival city has to offer.

Everyone has a plan until they get hit

A great quote for business courtesy of Mike Tyson