This apartment is located about half a mile from the Edinburgh Castle. You can see it from the "private balcony", but the balcony and view is not all that great. The pictures on the ad does not show an updated picture of the balcony. The apartment is right across the street from a pole dancing bar and other bars. If you do not want to be bothered with noise until 1:30am I would not book this particular place.
It was advertise this was a family friendly apartment. Definitely not. I think I would pass on my toddlers seeing strippers. It was advertised it had a pack n play for an infant. Yeah, I didn't even bother trying to put my infant in it as 1). it was completely broken in the bedroom closet. 2). No instructions as to how to put it together if I did want to use it and 3). it was full of dust.
The overall cleanliness of the place was horrible. The amount of dust found on the nightstands, the leather couches and on the floor was as if the cleaning person didn't even bother to dust none the less vacuum or sweep underneath the beds or the floors. The bed linens I will say were clean and so were the bath towels.
The iron needs to be replaced, something the cleaning person probably should have noticed when cleaning. The amount of black tar on the metal part of the iron is unacceptable. The ironing board was horrible as well. When I went to use the iron this is when I found the iron was not in a condition to use unless I wanted my clothes to have black stuff on it and the board cover was on the floor of the guest closet and so flimsy.
The hair dryer was not in the bathroom but in one of the bedroom drawers. It would have been nice if they would add this to the welcome book as anyone would expect a hair dryer in the bathroom not in bedroom drawers.
The freezer was completely frozen over I could even open the drawers to put anything in the freezer. HORRIBLE!
On a positive note, Rebecca was super friendly and when we had issues with the heater I messaged her and she got back with me in a timely manner and sent someone over to correct the issue.
This place has a lot of potential and unfortunately, my expectations for the apartment were not met, especially after reading some of the previous reviews. With a little TLC and Quality Inspection I truly believe my expectations of this place would have been met,, regardless of it being across the street from a pole dancing bar.