Unusual wedding venue Fingal has sailed into the AA’s prestigious list of hotels and restaurants, after being awarded a top five-star rating for the hotel and two AA Rosettes for its Lighthouse Restaurant.
The floating hotel, located on Edinburgh’s waterfront a short distance away from The Royal Yacht Britannia, joins an exclusive list of just 43 five-star hotels with two AA Rosettes across the whole of the UK and Northern Ireland. It is also one of only 25 hotels around the country with an overall quality assurance score of 87% or above.
AA inspectors praised Fingal for the “exceptional quality of the ship’s stylish interior design, meticulous attention to detail, unique maritime heritage, outstanding customer service and fine dining experience”.
With curved walls, portholes, deck spaces and 23 luxurious cabins including the Skerryvore Suite for the newlyweds, guests enjoy the glamour and style of a superyacht, but with an air of old-world Art Deco luxury ocean liner elegance.
Cabins on Fingal, a former Northern Lighthouse Board tender ship launched in 1962 which opened as a luxury hotel in 2019, are named after Stevenson lighthouses.
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