1 Liner- AVOID THE TROUBLE!
We (4 nhs doctors) had gone to spend some good time in Edinburgh after the hectic 1.5years. We had no contact with Peter. Barbara is a extremely rude and insensitive person. On our last day, our mistake was that we assumed (our silly mistake) that check out time is 11am. Barbara showed up at the door at 1030am and asked me to leave the flat right away as check out was 10am. I apologised to her and tried to explain that I thought check out was 11, but she just wouldn’t listen AT ALL. She told me she had been waiting downstairs for us to leave since last 30 min. We were anyways packed and almost ready to leave so I tried to request a little time for us to leave. We were literally asked to leave right away. I told her she would atleast need to give me 10 minutes to get out of the apartment, to which she rudely replied- “Hand me the keys over and I will be back in exact 10 mins”. We were all left extremely disheartened and felt like some piece of trash being thrown out. Probably, we were not as white as Barbara, thats why she behaved in that manner. I do appreciate there was a mistake from our part to not look at check out time properly and I am not even going to give an excuse for that. But, everything has a decency. We could have been politely told about us being late etc. if she was keeping an eye on us from downstairs, looking up to her flat through the big windows and knew we were running late, she could have sent me a polite message at 10am about us still being in her property. But she just decided to barge in and push us out at 1030 and be little us.
Even on our day 1 when I couldn’t find cutlery/ silverware in kitchen- She was quite rude to reply my message back.
Check in- the lock pad where the key is stored is quite difficult to open. We had to try for good 3-4 min (3 different people) until it finally opened.
Parking- free on street but almost impossible to find a free space. The private parking on premises as mentioned in description- they are all number and we couldn’t really find number 4!
Flat- clean and generally good overall
Location- Wrongly described as being very close to Royal mile. Its 30 mins (1.5miles) walk to Edinburgh Castle. So it depends if u really wanna count the distance where the royal mile begins but doesn’t have anything touristy. Arthur’s seat is 2 miles drive. Again thats not called being VERY CLOSE. This was my 3rd visit to Edinburgh, most of the places available to rent as about 5-15 min drive from Royal mile, so, nothing isn’t really far.
And just to give an overall prospective, this wasn’t my first air bnb stay. I have traveled quite a lot and stayed in many air bnbs till daye without an issue!