Per the listing description, this apartment is neither amazing nor spacious - it’s an adequate space if all you really want is a place to crash with immediate access to the Royal Mile. I’ve not written a negative review before and I don’t think this is one, it’s just my perspective on the place so, take it with a gain of salt and understand that I neither liked nor disliked it, it was just convenient. Now, having said that, it is not brightly or very comfortably furnished - it does not look like the pictures in the description, through the furniture is more or less the same. It is plain and generally a step above shabby - it has outdoor grade carpet with no padding and there’s some peeling paint / plaster. It had one small wooden table with a set chairs and one small love seat for furniture, as well as a bed in each small room with a fitted sheet and a comforter - no flat sheet, but two pillows on each bed, plus one towel in each room. That’s about it. There is no TV in the event that is important to you,
The kitchen is ok and has a minimum set of kitchenware - there were some mugs, but I do not recall seeing any glassware, but I could have missed this. There is a kettle and Nespresso. There is a lot of street noise in the front room, but the back bedrooms are relatively quiet. I think four adults is stretching comfortable capacity.
The shower lacks sufficient pressure and the temperature mixture doesn’t work well so it’s either full cold or full hot - and for me this made it all be unusable. The bathroom taps are separate, so again, full cold or full hot. The kitchen sink lack pressure also, but does have a mixed tap so at least you can get warm instead of scalding water.
As for the host, I’m sure D is a nice person and was perhaps just very busy the last week or so, but overall I found D to be distant and not terribly communicative. It seems D manages multiple properties which is probably how I initially ended up with the wrong address to the reserved apartment - had I not know Edinburgh fairly well and recognized this was the wrong address, I would have booked transport to this location which would have meant either being a half-hour walk away from the High Street or having to secure another taxi ride after getting the correct property sorted out. Although I got it fixed, the communication remained minimal.
The takeaway is if all you want is immediate access to the Royal Mile this is an adequate spot.