Bens flat was the perfect place to make our stay in Edinburgh exceptional. The flat is right in the heart of the grass market - a very lively part of town central to everything anyone visiting would want to get to with out being the overtly touristy parts of the city. The view of the castle from the front door is breathtaking.
The apartment itself has so much charm and so many thoughtful amenities - a kitchen with all of the appropriate cookery, a washer/dryer combo, a rain style shower head, heated floors and floor to cileling windows that create a dreamy old world feel with clean, modern styling.
But if that wasn't enough, ben himself was phenomenal. While my husband and I never had the pleasure of meeting him directly we were given a very thorough information packet before we arrived that helped explain the apartment and the area around us to get situated. Further more, once we got in and emailed with ben to confirm entry I casually mentioned that if he had any dinner or pub reccomendations we'd appreciate it. He wrote us back an incredibly throughtful list of suggestions based on what we said we were after - and the places we went to were excellent! He even offered to meet us if we needed help getting oriented in the city. Top notch guy.
There are two things that I think are worth noting - one, it is quite loud at night. This is a very hip neighborhood in a very hip city and as long as 20 year olds are taking holidays with the goal of getting trashed every night then this neighborhood will have drunk 20 year olds screaming and singing in the middle of the night. Based on our mid week stay my guess is that this won't be going away anytime soon. We had a white noise machine on my cell phone and that solved the problem well enough for us.
The second thing to note is that, at the time of this writing - September 2017 - the bed was quite stiff and uncomfortable and there were very suitable pillows. I want to mention it because I know this can be a deal breaker for s