Staying at Phil's apartment was a wonderful, very warm and positive experience.
House can say a lot about a person, and I think in this situation it's completely appropriate - the place is spacious, welcoming, very light and very cozy.
Despite the weather being mostly miserable during our stay, I was surprised to learn that my friends also preferred to hang out at the apartment than trying to conquer the local pubs and/or nightclubs.
One of my friends commented that she got the best sleep in her life, while another one was planning to 'move in' into one of the walk-in closets.
Phil and I stayed in touch the entire time between me booking and us arriving - questions about where would we prefer to go and what could he help with, what items we might need, for example, we didn't need a TV, but hoped we could have something to listen to music on, so he arranged to have an old school MP3 player, he made comments and suggestions how to find the place when traveling from the airport, as well as simply offered a lovely chat and exchange of information about the typical British conversation subject - the weather! ;)
I probably wouldn't be able to recommend this place highly enough! Considering that Edinburgh is one of my favourite cities to come back, Phil can be sure that it wasn't the first and the last time he has seen us!