I was very excited to be coming to stay here as the photos looked amazing. Sadly on arrival parts were a little more dated than the photos showed. On a while it was clean though so I was happy enough.
Sadly my partner that I was down visiting with was taken into hospital for emergency surgery so I was left staying in the apartment on my own.
The first problem I had was that I couldn’t get the oven to switch on. I rang the host who explained the knack to get it to work which was great but I feel there should have been instructions there if it is a common problem - which looking at previous reviews now, it is.
I left my partner after she had come out of surgery and went back to the apartment to sleep. I was woken in the night by the carbon monoxide detector going off. I was scared and didn’t know what to do so rang the host again. He instructed me to throw the device in the bin as he had been meaning to replace it…… but said I should switch off the boiler and open all the windows. I said that I didn’t feel safe but he assured me I was. I had no choice but to stay there, the rest of Edinburgh was booked up and I didn’t know anyone there. Therefore I sat in the freezing cold all night, no hot water to even have a shower at the boiler was off.
On inspection, the monitor was due to be replace 3 months before my stay!
I asked him the following day if I could be refunded in any way and he said as I had stayed the whole night - no. I contacted Airbnb and then he suddenly said to them there was a spare monitor in the apartment - strange that this wasn’t mentioned on the night when I was scared. Why ask me to switch the boiler off and open the windows then.
Definitely wouldn’t recommend if you want to feel safe.