My stay at this apartment was fairly nice. Upon first walking into the building it does look a bit scary, the entry is more than a little worse for wear, but the actual apartment was in a much better state. The host was very thoughtful in that they provided lots of different shower gels and such, and they also had a small sampling of Scottish goodies such as short bread, candies, and some fresh baked bread. It is a bit of a walk to the Old Town of the city, about 45 minutes to get to the Royal Mile. We are young so we didn't mind walking but the public transportation was a bit confusing (maybe that's just me?) and the Ubers would definitely add up. The main issue with this apartment was that we had a lot of issues with the heating. The heating would be on and working fine, but then it would shut off randomly. This would not have been a huge issue except that it is connected to the water heater, so this made it very difficult to shower. At first we could solve the problem by resetting the heater every time it stopped working, but at some point even that stopped working and we had to take ice cold showers our last day there. While this was definitely inconvenient, the host apologized when I alerted him about the problem and has told me that they will be getting it fixed. Other than that, we had a perfectly pleasant stay in this apartment and very much enjoyed our time in Edinburgh!