We had a wonderful stay! Jon was a great host and a great communicator. We are a family of four with 2.5 year old twins.
Pros: Location! This flat is literally across the street from Edinburgh Waverly train station. You can see the front of the station from the living room windows. It’s also very central to most of the popular tourist attractions in Edinburgh.
Space. With three bedrooms and two full baths, plus a good sized kitchen/dining/living room, we had plenty of space. We had a babysitter watch our girls in the flat one evening, and even she remarked about how spacious it was. The bedrooms don’t have a whole lot of space for luggage, especially the two with two single beds, but since we didn’t need the third bedroom, we just kept our luggage in there.
Amenities. Jon has done a great job of making the apartment feel like home. There are plush towels, plenty of pillows, plush bath mats, plenty of shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and soap. The kitchen is fully stocked as well, to include a variety of teas. We even found a travel cot (pack and play) and high chair in the closet.
Cons: There’s really only one—stairs. And there’s lots of them. The flat is on the third floor (fourth floor for Americans), so it’s 3.5 flights of somewhat-twisty stairs to get up to the flat. And because the flat is on a close, you have to either walk up stairs from above or down below to get to the building. And it’s probably around two dozen stairs either way. (If you’ve never been to Edinburgh before, it’s built on a hill, and a close isn’t actually a street, it’s just a more narrow walkway between buildings.) So if you have difficulty with stairs, or you’re traveling with lots of heavy luggage, this is not the flat for you. But otherwise, it’s great!