The Leith Walk Flat (just off)

This was the worst place I've ever been to in my life. Firstly, the apartment is on the ground floor and has as many entrances as a cupboard from Narnia. When you walk into the property, firstly, it's absolutely freezing. Only the heating in the living room works, and when I say heating, i mean electric fireplace, so the bedroom, which is to the back of the property, has none. The sofa bed is as comfortable as sleeping in a tent with no sleeping bag. The wooden flooring and dark lighting make the property feel an axe murderer going to jump out of one of the many cupboards in the property. The kitchen is so dirty that you couldn't even boil water in the kettle. The limescale is so thick you could cut through it with a chainsaw. The cutlery were so dirty you would eat soup with your hands. The air vent in the kitchen makes so much noise and is so black it's causing more pollution in the property than the whole of Edinburgh. Let's not talk about the midgies in the property. Godfobid, you forget your bottle of water open you'd be drinking a generation of flies. The microwave has more rust than the pipes at the bottom of the thames. I haven't even gotten to the smell of the sheets smelling like they were manufactured in a tobacco factory. Then the dust and everywhere like the property was last clean in anglo-saxon time. Moving on to the water magic in the bathroom. The shower was the size of a fridge and had so much mold and rust when you first turn the water on the itsty bitsy mould fell out the water sprout. Now! Here is the real magic when you turn the sink on the water doesn't do down its starts to fill up like an inflatable pool in the backgarden in the summertime. The the water from the sink brings up all the creatures of the underworld from the drain of the shower, backing up into the shower, turning it to a showertub of death. I am almost certain that what i witness in that shower would kill you faster than covid.

I had an awful experience with this apartment. When I arrived, the key was not in the lockbox as promised. I called the contact number provided, and all I was told was that they were "waiting for a response" and they stopped answering my calls and messages. Meanwhile, I was left standing outside in freezing weather, under the snow and rain, completely wet and cold. I waited for a total of 1 hour, until 4 p.m., with no updates or resolution until finally they gave me the code for a spare key hidden in a tree. For the price, I would have excpected a better service, specially under those weather conditions. The management is unreliable, and there is no guarantee that you’ll even be able to access the property.

The flat had everything I needed.

There seemed to be a problem with the drainage

Centrally located and spacious

No one got in contact to tell how to do the key pick up. No e-mail shared for information request for check in. Their phone number in Booking does not work at all. And the host didn’t replied to our messages on Booking. So we needed to call booking help call centre. It took us more than 2 hours to get in contact and pick up the keys. We were in the house after 5pm! It was extremely annoying as someone is disrespectfully stealing from your already limited and valuable holiday time. I do not recommend staying in this place if you are comparing with any other options.

Loved its proximity to centre of city easy to get to bus and tram

Location is nice, easy to get to the airport with the tram

Wifi didn't really work, not possible to use the TV or use the wifi to work. Easy to collect the keys but the key didn't work properly, the lock stuck each time. Parking is street parking only, which is not clear from the property details.