The apartment was comfortable and modern in quite a central location, easy walking distance to shops, restaurants and the university of Edinburgh. The heating and wifi worked well, and the bed was comfortable.
The kitchen was well equipped with cooking equipment, although was missing a few cooking staples like oil and pepper.
When I booked the accomodation, the advertisement said the apartment had a clothes dryer, however this wasn’t the case when I was there - apparently the washer drier had been replaced with a washing machine but the listing not updated. In the end, wasn’t too hard to dry my clothes - hung most of them up on coat hangers, but I was thankful I had brought with me some pegs and an elastic clothes line which I strung between two chairs near the radiator to dry my smaller pieces of clothing.
There were a number of times throughout the stay where ALTIDO representatives had to visit the apartment, including once to replace the light bulb in the bathroom, once to measure up the space to replace the fridge, and again when the new fridge was delivered. I understand that this needs to happen in order to carry out maintenance; ideally, some of this could have happened in between bookings, especially the fridge delivery, so that I didn’t need to stick around the apartment that day (the ALTIDO representative didn’t arrive until after the fridge delivery people arrived and had me buzz them up and let them bring the fridge inside).
As noted by other reviewers, there can be a lot of noise from the street. This didn’t really bother me.
Also worth noting, the stairwell up to the apartment has an unpleasant smell and I ended up holding my breath as much as possible going up and down the stairs.