We stayed in the two bedroom Forth Suite for a weekend. This is a stunning, spacious apartment with beautifully proportioned rooms. The views from the sitting room and both the bedrooms are absolutely spectacular. Out to the castle on one side, and over to the Firth of Forth and the bridges on the other.
The appliances supplied with the apartment are of absolutely the highest quality. I loved the hairdryer and the iron. Everything is finished to the best available. The two shower rooms are compact but immaculately clean, as is the whole apartment. The standard of furnishings and kitchen equipment are really first class. The towels were huge, soft and plentiful and there was a lovely big dressing table in our bedroom. The apartment was so warm that we turned off all the radiators when we arrived and didn’t need to turn them on again!
The no-key system is great as our party came and went at different times and there was no need to worry about who had the keys. Made for very easy check in and check out.
I am nit-picking here but there were a couple of negatives. The apartment is up three very steep flights of stairs (beautifully carpeted and lit, but nevertheless quite a climb). This of course means the views are fantastic as mentioned earlier, but the stairs are not for the faint hearted and the lack of a handrail on the lower, very steep flight, is quite dangerous.
It is also a very noisy apartment, especially into the small hours but this is to be expected in this fantastic location, so we just brought ear plugs and weren’t at all disturbed.
We did also have an issue with the lamps in the sitting room which didn’t work. The only light available was from a very dim central chandelier and this spoiled what is a fabulous room with amazing views. Our host responded quickly when we mentioned this and gave us the impression that the lamps would be fixed quickly, or at least during our stay, but this didn’t happen. He was very good at keeping in touch though and eventually offered us a small discount to compensate but it was a spoiler.
The bedroom too is very dark and we had to rig up lamps from the second bedroom to give me enough light to dry my hair. The duvet for the bed is also very neat and could be larger.
These are minor issues which all could be improved upon and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this apartment to anyone.