I stayed at a luxury floating hotel for $430 a night. The experience felt like a weird, wonderful cruise to nowhere.

• We spent one night on Fingal, a ship that’s been converted into a luxury floating hotel.
• Fingal is in Edinburgh and has 22 rooms and an onboard restaurant.
• Our stay made us feel like we were on a cruise to nowhere in the best way.

When we planned our latest trip to Scotland, my partner and I decided to spend one of our nights somewhere special.

So, we booked a stay at Fingal, Edinburgh’s luxury floating hotel at Alexandra Dock, Leith.

Fingal is an old Northern Lighthouse Board ship that’s been converted into a luxury hotel. The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust owns it and invested £5 million in making it into a hotel, which opened to the public in 2019.

Our one-night stay in a classic cabin on Fingal cost $430. Here’s what it was like.