We stayed in Chloe's flat to visit the Edinburgh festival. It was overall OK, but a bit like my old school reports I think the overall conclusion was "could try harder". I really want to leave a balanced and fair review - so let's start with the positives. It is REALLY quiet, which was wonderful. It is in a residential neighbourhood which is about 20 minutes from Princes Street by bus. The flat is about 10 minutes walk from the bus-stop and it feels like a very safe area. There is a decent Co-op about 15 minutes walk from the flat. The bathroom has a great shower with instant hot water. There is one bedroom and a double sofa-bed in the lounge. The bedroom is a bit cramped - but my daughter thought that the bed was very comfortable. The sofa bed was not too bad.
There is a decent sized kitchen in the open plan kitchen lounge with 2 ring hob and oven. There is a great sized fridge and decent freezer. My disappointment with the kitchen is that is was rather bare. There was one saucepan just about big enough to do rice / pasta for two, and a couple of tiny one-person saucepans. Although there is a nice oven there are no oven dishes - only a couple of metal trays - so OK for oven chips but no way of cooking shepherd's pie or anything like that. There was no corkscrew, no bottle opener and no can opener. But there was a helpful range of salt / spices etc which was very welcome.
The flat is on the second floor and there is no lift - so if you have mobility issues this might be an issue. There is a TV but no connection to the outside world so you cannot watch anything other than DVDs. This is clearly stated in the listing - but if a family were to stay the lack of TV channels might be a disappointment.
During our stay there was no hot water to the taps due to an electrical fault. Chloe sent someone to look at it but could not repair it. These things happen - but we are the second people to experience the same issue - which raises a slight concern about the electricity.
If you are looking for somewhere clean, quiet and not really interesting in cooking other than heating things up this is a clean and quiet apartment. I think some additions in the kitchen would be very helpful.