Jewel of Royal Mile Apartment

Great location easy walk to Edinburgh Castle Waverley station & underground vaults & holyrood palace. Well appointed kitchen toaster kettle microwave. Great to have washing machine & drying rack. has parking at rear to enable us to load our luggage into rental car. Good communication with host allowing us to leave luggage 1 hour before official check in as we flew in from Iceland. Lovely big main bedroom & kitchen newly renovated bathroom & kitchen. Quiet location, clean tidy well maintained spacious apartment.

I googled address as previous people said it was tricky to find. the apartment is off the close down the staircase & through a courtyard garden. The lockbox was easy to find during the day. Maybe putting the house number on the front of red door rather than on the side of door frame would help to know which was no 2. Also blue sofa bed had been broken & didn't lay flat for a double bed. Luckily we only had a teenage daughter using it. Owner left instructions & bedding for sofa bed. Not being from UK it took us a while to work out how to get hot water to the shower so maybe a sign on the hot water system in kitchen cupboard would help saying which buttons to turn on.

Broken sofa bed

The apartment is in an excellent location within walking distance to all major sites in Edinburgh as well as the airport express bus. There are a huge number of good dining options close by.

It smells a little musty and the Wifi was slow/intermittent but it didn't bother us as we were there to make the most of the Festival and the location was amazing. The shower had very good pressure and the apartment contained everything we needed.

It’s close to Royal Mile.

The unit was cold as soon as we walked in. The heater was hard to manipulate. Wifi wasn’t working, hubby had to re-start the modem. The unit is unkempt. The sofabed in the lounge is lopsided, a child may be able to sleep here but not comfortably. This has a potential to be a great accommodation if only the owners takes care of it.