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

<p class="ingestion featured-caption">We spent a night staying at Fingal in Edinburgh. Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>We spent one night on Fingal, a ship that's been converted into a luxury floating hotel. </li><li>Fingal is in <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/living-in-scottish-city-from-avengers-action-movies-edinburgh-2024-2">Edinburgh</a> and has 22 rooms and an onboard restaurant.</li></ul><p>When we planned our latest <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/glasgow-vs-edinburgh-scotland-family-vacation-destination-2024-9">trip to Scotland</a>, my partner and I decided to spend one of our nights somewhere special.</p><p>So, we booked a stay at Fingal, Edinburgh's luxury <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-good-hotel-the-floating-hotel-that-was-once-a-prison-2016-7">floating hotel</a> at Alexandra Dock, Leith.</p><p>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 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fingal.co.uk/media/1692/edinburgh-s-fingal-sails-to-top-of-world-s-best.pdf">£5 million</a> in making it into a hotel, which opened to the public in 2019. </p><p>Our one-night stay in a classic cabin on Fingal cost $430. Here's what it was like. </p>
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