We stayed in the Aarajura Guesthouse for two nights in June. We had a family room to sleep three (one adult and two children) with an ensuite bathroom. The room was on the second floor and had a bay window that looked onto the street. We were awoken several times the first night by the street noise. As for the room, it felt a bit run down. The main bed, a four poster, was lumpy. There was a dead bug underneath one of the pillows. The two chair beds were board-like and no top sheets were provided. The bathroom was clean, but a disaster. There were no towel bars and no place to put anything atop the tiny sink. We used the hangers in the wardrobe to hang up the wet towels on the arms of chairs. We received one small round bar of soap for use in both the sink and the shower. The toilet was possessed and flushed irregularly. The shower was quite dangerous as it fluctuated from icey cold to scalding hot.

The service was poor. We had a few dishes in the room from our first night. They were not picked up by the cleaning staff the next day. Indeed, it appeared that the only "cleaning" that occured was to pull the sheets up on the bed burying whatever was on the bed underneath. No clean towels, no new soap, no taking out the trash, nothing.

The breakfast was OK. However, the service again was slow. I noticed a sign that said that the guesthouse would not hold luggage after checkout and that guests could store their luggage for the day at a locker in the train station.

Finally, take the bus. While the owner told us that we could walk to the Old Town portion of Edinburgh, the walk is quite long and a bit confusing. There is a bus stop just a few doors down from the guesthouse and the bus drivers are very helpful.

This guest house was our best yet on our world tour of which we are 9 months in and 3 left to go. just for others who want supreme cleanliness, beautiful rooms and most willing staff then choose aarajura, we can not recommend highly enough. Everything was good, the breakfasts lasted us all day so saved us cash on lunch, the staff arranged loads of free things for us to see and the location is in the centre so we spent virtually nothing getting about which is brilliant compared with our european cities we have stayed in. We had room 2 which was just so relaxing after other places. it is at the back so dead quiet and good views over the city. if we ever make it back we will stay again as we are heading back home now to the states after spending 2 years working in the uk.

If some one would say me to live in a guesthouse , i would say then we need only Aarajura, This was an excellent stay and i would say more then what i was expecting from a guesthouse.
The facilities for excellent and cooperation was beautifull. Every member is ready to help you . Even when the owners were handling us , i feel that we were VIP guests. Thats a way how a customer dealing is done. Well done.
Oh yeah rooms, breakfast and furniture was really upto a standard of 4 or 5 star hotel. i would recommend this guesthouse to any one who is gona stay edinburgh.

We were expecting something pretty great at the Aarajura. How disappointed we were! The beds were uncomfortable, the pillows were useless, I'm not even sure if they were pillows. It was like someone had tossed a couple of cotton balls into a pillow case. The breakfast was fine, but the breakfast staff were so unfriendly - on the verge of rude. They would plonk our toast down and storm off! The exhaust fan in the bathroom would stay on for an hour at a time. Also I was told it was in proximity to Princes St, it was a half hour walk & I was travelling with an elderly woman!! Having said that, the room was an adequate size, the view wasn't bad, and the coffee was good. I would not recommend it.