Disappointing!!
We stayed at the Lochside House Residence for 4 days in October 2017. It is a nice big house, in a nice area, close to Arthurs seat. However, if you choose to stay here you should know that the place has not been well looked after and does not really feel like an airbnb property. It is owned and run by a letting company, so you don't get any of the personal touches you often get with airbnb properties, and it basically feels neglected. Below is a list of reasons to feel disappointed:
The sofa and chairs are different to those pictured, one of the chairs is broken and basically un-useable.
There is something wrong with the boiler - the pressure remained at zero for the entire time we were there. The thermostat also seemed oblivious to any amount of button pushing we engaged in. All in all it took about 2 days before the house warmed up.
The plughole in the downstairs bath/shower is blocked, as is the one in the upstairs shower. Both are VERY slow draining.
Several of the downstairs blinds are broken and do not raise.
Several of the lights downstairs kept going out. We had to make endless trips to the fusebox to switch them back on. Usually they would trip out again a few minutes later. We had to stop using the outdoor lights altogether.
The kitchen is very poorly stocked for a house that is supposed to be for 10 people. There are only a handful of glasses (assorted shapes and sizes) and there is nothing in the way of cooking oil, salt, sugar, teabags etc. etc. that you might usually expect in an airbnb property.
The TV/DVD set up is amongst the most bizarre I have encountered. The TV is mounted on a wall in the living room. Wires from the TV run through the wall and into another room, where the DVD and virgin media box are conveniently situated in a pile underneath a collapsed shelf. So if you want to change channel or put on a DVD you will need to stand up and walk into the dining room. When we used it the DVD player stopped working part way through the film we were watching. The DVD remote didn't work so that was the end of that.
Last but not least, it is not Lochside.