Jason and his business partner Armando were excellent hosts and very accommodating. After traveling for approximately 14 hours from Kingston Ontario, we were simply exhausted when we arrived in the morning in Edinburgh. Although check-in is at 3:00 pm, Jason was very accommodating by letting us take the flat at about 11:00 am. This was greatly appreciated since it gave us some time to take a quick nap before heading out the Edinburgh-Cardiff rugby game at Murray Field that same day.

You couldn't ask for a better location to rent a room. It is a 3 bedroom apartment and very well appointed. It is close to all the amenities that you need. I was attending a conference at the Edinburgh International Conference Center and I walked every morning. It took about 20 minutes to walk to the Center. It was a pleasant walk.

The area is quiet so having a good night's sleep will not be an issue. On our second last night, they were filming scenes from Trainspotting 2 just down the street so that was quite interesting to watch (from a distance).

The apartment is quite close to a grocery store, it is about 2 minutes away by foot (effectively 5 houses down) and there are many excellent restaurants (from italian, pizza, scottish pub food, burgers, etc....) something to satisfy all tastes.

We had dinner at Mothers and Papavero.

Papavero can be described as a Scottish/Italian restaurant while Mothers offers more traditional Scottish fare. Mothers has an extensive variety of gin. I would suggest that you try the gin flight. Very informative since they give you a bit of history of each of the gins on the flight. They also have live entertainment. My son had the haggis burger and he is still raving about 1 week later. I guess I am going to need to learn how to make haggis.

Papavero was excellent as well. The staff were very attentive and the food was wonderful. I believe that the owner actually served our table 2 of the 3 times we were there. He even remembered that he had forgotten to serve me an Amaretto with my coffee on my first visit. He hadn't charged me so I did not raise a fuss On the last night that we dined in his establishment, he brought an Amaretto to all of us without charge mentioning that he had forgotten to bring it when I had ordered it the last time. I was pleasantly surprised that he would remember and that we would give us one on the house. That my friends, is class.

There are many other food establishment in the area but we simply ran out of time to try all them. I guess I will check them out next time.

I would like to conclude by saying that I would not hesitate to stay at this AirBnB again if I were to visit Edinburgh again (which I definitely plan on doing sooner than later).