It is one of the best places to get souvenirs in Edinburgh. Huge selection of clothing and guft food items. Probably not the cheapest place to get plain shortbread/fudgr/tablet. if you are willing to pay extra for the pretty packaging or want unusual flavours, this is a great place. This was the only place on Princes Street where I found tartan gift bag. I made up up my own scottush goody bags.
If you just make one stop for souvenir shopping, this place is it. Not only is it a Princes St original (make sure you check out their shopfront), they even have a tearoom (unfortunately closed for most of January.)
They have the biggest variety of all possible gifts from Scotland - notably the biggest range of whisky fudges, biscuits, alcohol samplers, but so many fashion items too, even slate homeware which I didnt see anywhere else - with a range of prices. It had a real magic bazaar feel to it (with a Scottish twist), because of the size of the shop & the dizzying amount of choices.
Also helpful that they have promos, sales items by the counters & bundle deals for those who need a haul to bring home to family & friends.
If you're looking for generic china-made souvenirs like magnets, keychains, they admittedly have a smaller variety of these, but you can head to any shop on the Royal Mile for those anyway. Just past that section is walls of tiny bottles of whisky, gin (& there might have been rum too), representing all the distilling regions & so many of the distillers. This section is worth exploring even on its own just to see everything. Had to stop myself from getting a tiny bottle of evetything! Of course, they have the full bottles as well, which you can ask them to pack for your luggage situation.
Usually I buy souvenirs from this shop as they have good price deals and collections. Located at the city centre high street this shop is a wee little gem
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