We have stayed in the Apex City for the last 4 years during the festival. Its a great hotel in a wonderful location. Its only about 10 minutes walk to most venues so perfectly located on the grassmarket. There are lots of shops and restaurants close buy and the royal mile is just minutes away and you can see the castle above you from the front of the hotel.

The rooms are very comfortable. They are light and airy with climate control features (a rarity in Edinburgh), flat screen TV, DVD, Tea/coffee making and free internet. The bed is very comfortable with a choice of pillows. The bathrooms are simple with good toiletries and plenty of towels.

The doors are locked for security in the small hours but there are signs on the door directing you to a side door where you will be let in by the night receptionist upon showing your room key.

I would highly recommend this hotel and will be back next year for the 5th time!!

We stayed at the Apex for 4 nights at the end of July 08. The trip was part of our honeymoon and the hotel upgraded our room to a larger suite. The room was spotless, spacious and the bed enormous! Great bathroom with a walk-in shower too.

My husband has lived in Edinburgh previously and so knows the area well. Grassmarket, the road the hotel is on, is wonderful. In the old town, the pubs opposite the hotel and in the surrounding area are steeped in history! The hotel restaurant is wonderful, we ate there the first night of our stay, but there are also plenty of excellent places to eat on Grassmarket and in the surrounding streets. We can recommend the Beehive Inn opposite the hotel for a reasonably priced and delicious meal.

The location of the hotel is just WONDERFUL! We had the most beautiful view of the castle from our hotel room (see attached photos) and shared a really romantic last evening together watching the rehearsal for the Royal Tattoo and listening to the pipers. Awesome.

Grassmarket is a 5/10 minute walk from the castle and about a 15 minute walk to Princes Street where there is the most amazing array of shops and, again, a beautiful view.

The only complaint we had about our stay at the Apex City was the temperature of our room. We hadn't realised that the hotel wasn't air conditioned and, as we were staying on the 4th floor, our room was very warm. We contacted reception about this though and they supplied us with a fan which was great and solved our only problem! I don't think that Edinburgh is used to the hot and muggy weather we had during our stay :)

Overall, we had an absolutely wonderful stay at the Apex City and will definitely be returning to the hotel and to Edinburgh. If I could afford it, we'd be buying property up there :)

Highly recommended!

Stayed here on a group tour. Excellent location near Edinburgh Castle. Very friendly front desk staff. Rooms were sleek and modern. Huge separate walk in shower and tub. Beds were very comfortable, and windows opened to let in the cool evening air. Toiletries were large sized spa products which smelled heavenly. After several days of drying my hair in other hotels with no mirror in which to look, I appreciated the thoughtfulness of a hair dryer stationed beneath a large mirror!

I opted to stay at this hotel for 3 nights after spending days reading other people's reviews on hotels in Ediburgh. I went for this hotel purely because it had a much higher percentage of postive reviews. I just did not know what to expect but was not dissapointed at all. I felt that having made my decision relying on other people's experiences that I must offer mine too.

Check in was swift, staff were friendly, room appeared to be small at first but then realised that it was due to number of features in the room. The room was clean. The additional facilities such as the minibar fridge, TV, CD/DVD player were useful. You can hire DVD's from the hotel (same prices as Blockbusters) but I had taken my own favourite DVDs so would recommend you do the same unless you have an 18 hour day plan. The Bed was very soft and felt I was sinking in but then again I am used to a hard bed but did sleep well on the first night. Only problem was the third night as it was humid, the room got very hot and couldn't sleep. Wasn't aware until checkout that there is no air conditioning in the hotel at all and that I could have requested a fan from reception- so please bear this in mind.

The great thing about the hotel was the location - it is 15 mins walk away from Lothian Road where you will find many shops, cinema, bars and eating places. There a plenty of pubs (not that it mattered to me) and places to eat outside the hotel and along the walk to Lothian Road. It was noisy at night but then again, having the opportunity to see where the hotels I reviewed were located in the city centre, I think noise would be a problem for most as Edinburgh is a buzzing capital city, day and night.

I would probably come back to this hotel due to the location and would recommed to all my friends.