Bravo Pride of Scotland: when the nearby Romanes & Paterson said I was going to struggle to find a ‘small’ grouse hat for my uncle you came good. Harris Tweed is to be found in many varieties in this store, alongside a wide variety of tat. It’s like searching for treats in a charity shop but cutting out the middle man of waiting for someone to own them first. I’m not sure if this analogy is really working so I’ll call a halt just here.
Donna
Tu valoración: 2 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
I’d describe Pride of Scotland as a sterotypical gift shop. They play really loud bagpipe music into the street, which is off-putting for a start and the products for sale are the type of things you’d expect to find in any of the other tourist shops which populate the city. The staff appeared very uninterested also.
Steph T.
Tu valoración: 3 North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
I am disappointed in Stuart B’s harsh review of ‘everything Scotland represents’, including ‘ugly women’. Pffft! Disgraceful. But I kind of see his point and when I had a quick spy in The Pride of Scotland I didn’t feel as proud as I perhaps should have. It’s tacky, it’s expensive and it sells Nessie and tartan memorabilia by the bucket-load, which is just what the tourists want I suppose but we have our fair share of those shops on the Royal Mile. One thing I did notice was that it was playing some sort of Scottish Chillout mix when I was in there, very surreal experience indeed.
Stuart B.
Tu valoración: 3 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Pride of Scotland supply everything that Scotland sterotypically represents, Kilts, Rock and Ugly Women. I can imagine if my flight was in half an hour and I hadn’t picked up anything for my Aunty Mavis in Columbia, this is the place I would shop. I realise that this is a brutally short review but this place is not for me, I’m actually from Scotland.