I stayed with my friend in Jakes apartment for our 8 day holiday in Edinburgh. I´ll start with the things we liked: The apartment itself is clean, has the basic equipment, a good location with 30 Min. by foot to the city centre and right at Arthur´s seat and Holyrood Palace. Anyway, we were pretty disappointed with our experience after reading all the good reviews. First of all, Jake´s communication was very dismissive. He send a lot of messages making sure that we don’t come to early and leave on time, yet he did not at all react to questions asked. Then the apartment. It allows no privacy whatsoever, the bathroom door is as useful as a curtain. There is a huge gap and it can neither be locked nor closed. The mattresses in both rooms are so thin that you can feel the frame underneath and we had back pain already after the first night. The kitchen is equipped only very rudimentary, there aren’t even knives.
All in all, we would have cancelled if we could have found another stay and I would suggest some efforts into improving hospitality as well as the apartment.