Linton Collection - 28 North Bridge

The 1 star is for how absolutely gorgeous this building and the apartments are to look at, and for the lovely staff member who brought me an extra blanket on a snowy night. Unfortunately the remainder of my stay was absolutely miserable, and ruined a 2 night stay in Edinburgh. You will not sleep in these apartments- or at least not in No 3. The living space has double glazing and faces a main road, but the external noise isn't bad. The bedroom, however, has no secondary glazing and faces over a beer garden of a live music venue that is open and LOUD until at least 1.30am. I ended up sleeping on the sofa in the living room where the noise didn’t carry as badly - only to be woken at 2am to discover there is absolutely no soundproofing between you and the the neighbouring flat. My neighbours proceeded to being the Sunday night party home and blast music, dance, and shout until around 4am. I feel as though I might have gotten better sleep in the youth hostel around the corner as at least they have a lights-out and be respectful from 11pm rule. I feel it should be listed on the website of such a pricey luxury place that there is very little soundproofing. I also feel there should be a request to respect your fellow travellers after 11pm as standard in most hotels and complexes. Finally, I feel editors apartment 3 should have a notice that the bedroom is the only of the 3 apartments of its type which has a bedroom directly overlooking a late night music venue. I understand the property team has no control over city centre sounds, but they do have control over the information they give guests and how they communicate to their guests how to respect the property. Further, we awoke to discover that the oven in apartment 3 has a broken door which you must manually hold closed for the unit to heat, so there is in effect no option to cook anything other than on the hob which has made the food we purchased for self catering essentially redundant. Really disappointing after being so excited at how beautiful everything looked on arrival.