a&o Edinburgh City

Location is good, it is near to everywhere. Room card was broken regularly but staff is not helpful about this issue. Even, in the evenings I couldn’t find them in reception.

Do not stay here. I booked a 4-person female room, and the first night I arrived, staff told me they had oversold rooms and I would need to stay in an 8-person mixed dorm. My room smelled terrible and did not even have the privacy of a curtain in a room full of men--my bed was literally in the middle of the room. The next two nights, I had to be moved each night to be in a female-only room due to the overbooking. The wifi was also completely useless here. Avoid this place unless you're desperate.

what do you get when you try to commercialize at scale the idea of a hostel ? A&O . maybe 4 floors with 12ish bunks per room and , 10 rooms per floor . 666 beds give or take . once you check in on the computer in the lobby , you get a bed number. they try and squeeze a few extra pounds out of you for a towel and breakfast , dont add on. there will be a towel on the bed and nobody is there at breakfast to check if you bought it or not. once you get to the room, forget what your bed number was because it's jungle rules , first cime first serve. guy in the bunk above me stumbled in around 1am . he started having a chat on his phone for an hour . then he lost somthing in the Crack between his mattress and the frame and proceeded to use his phone flashlight , somehow shining it directly in my face above my curtain . I hope he was looking for somthing because if he wasn't, he just wanted to look past the privacy screen at somone sleeping . once he went to sleep , he joined 4 others at the sawmill just sawing logs , ripping snores . they should get a ENY on staff to investigate the undiagnosed sleep apnea of the population that stays there. then , promptly at 8am , my man got back on the phone to talk to whoever about who knows . it's jungle rules at breakfast as well. get there early because the will run out of food , cups , silverware and plates. not bowls , plenty of bowls. you can use a