Absolutley wonderful and so full of history! For those that love the community and not the stuffy snooty city type hotels, this is it!!! Top floor huge apt with windows open to the Royal Mile and to the Jolly Judge Pub below...just great! We can't wait to return and hope to get the same apt to re-live our wonderful memories!

My husband and I stayed at the James Court Apartments (aka Castle Apartments) for 3 nights and I have never been so impressed with a hotel. It was our honeymoon and we couldn't have picked a better spot. The staff was very friendly and I was surprised to see that we really stayed in an apartment. There was a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room. It felt like home instead of a hotel.

The building is so old that is has no elevators which we loved, but i would not reccomend this place for people who are afraid of stairs. It is located right on the Royal Mile in the heart of downtown Edinburgh which was perfect for us. We didn't want to miss any of the action. It was nice being able to hear the sounds of people down in the pub below us and hear the street performer playing his bagpipes in the late afternoon from our room. It just brought home the fact that we were in another country.

I was sad when we had to move on to our next location. I could have stayed a few more days and not yet had enough of Edinburgh. I will definitely stay there again.

Having arrived (tired) off a train from London at about 7pm, I walked to the James Court office at 493 Lawnmarket (per my booking confirmation) only to find a scruffy note on the door advising that the office had moved to 6 Queen Street. As I had luggage I made a £5 cab journey to the new address. The person manning the office, though perfectly polite, seemed more interested in getting payment off me than either apologising to me or explaining why I wasn't informed of the office move. Once I had paid I was informed that my apartment was actually not in Lawnmarket but in somewhere called Wardens Court. This was quite a distance from the office so I had little choice but to take another cab. At no point was there a suggestion that this might be paid for by James Court. I then requested a VAT receipt and received a blank stare - I think that they genuinely didn't know what this was!! Eventually and only after much protestation, I received a amateurish handwritten note in lieu of a receipt. I left the office at 8.15pm.

The cab driver had never heard of the Wardens Court address and it took an age to find it. £8 later, it was eventually located at around 8.45pm. I entered the apartment exhausted in the hope of relaxing. The whole place stank of something resembling old chip fat. The hallway reeked of damp and this was confirmed by the fact that the wood floor was falling apart and presented a dangerous trip hazard. With the exception of the kitchen, the apartment was grubby, poorly maintained and had a feel of having been" tarted-up on the cheap". The bathroom was dirty and had remnants of the previous occupant - a razor in the bathtub and hair in the sink. YUCK!!

I could go on and on and on but I shall stop here. I have no doubt that some of the apartments that this company offers are fine but if you book with them please avoid being shunted off to 2 Wardens Court. I can still smell the old chip fat in my nose.

Suit a stag night - not for any sort of home comforts or a bit of luxury. Plain and uninviting - shower was rubish - near got 3rd degree burns - no fire alarm / extinguisher or seperate fire escape! Website gives wrong impresion, this is not a step up from a hotel but more of a hostel. I stayed with a few mates but would have been devestated if I had booked in with my family.