Breakfast

We’ll leave a light breakfast laid out for you in the conservatory each morning, and there is a fridge for AirBnB guests in the utility room, just off the conservatory. There you’ll find semi-skimmed milk, yoghurt, fruit juice, fresh fruit and butter. We are usually around between 8am and 9am if you need any assistance.

If you would like a cooked breakfast – sausage, eggs, bacon, haggis, black pudding – just ask and we’ll get that sorted for you.

Tea, coffee etc

There are tea and coffee making facilities in your bedroom, but do make yourself at home in our kitchen at any time. Tea, coffee, sugar, teaspoons and mugs are in the cupboard above the microwave and there is always milk in the fridge.

If you run out of tea and coffee sachets in your room just let us know.

Keys

We’ll give you a front door key so you can come and go as you please. Leave it on the hook when you’re in so we don’t disturb you.

Getting to town

….by bus

We highly recommend the ‘Transport For Edinburgh’ app. Download it then set your ‘home’ to EH5 2AN’ and you’ll get directions home wherever you are.

The number 8 bus runs from Granton Road, just over 200m walk from the house. Buses run roughly every 12 minutes or so. There is a timetable in your room. Or you can get a number 27. Turn right up Fraser Crescent, left onto Boswall Drive, then the bus stop is on the right on Ferry Road.

Buses accept contactless payments – see www.lothianbuses.com/contactless/. You’ll pay the standard single fare for each journey but it will be capped at the day-ticket rate for unlimited journeys. Note you need to use a different card for each person for this to work.

If you are using cash you need exact change. If you are likely to be making more than 3 journeys, it is best to buy a day ticket which gives unlimited journeys on Edinburgh buses and trams all day.

Lothian Buses  £2 single fare, £4.80 unlimited journeys each day.

By taxi

Useful black cab numbers: City Cabs 0131 228 1211 | Central Taxis 0131 229 2468

Uber is quick and cheap—around 10 minutes to town costing between £5 and £7.

We can maybe give you a lift

Let us know when you want to go into town, and if we are around we can give you a lift – it’s a 10 minute journey to the city centre.

Or it’s a nice walk

The walk into town is just under 2 miles, and should take around 45 minutes. But you’ll not want to rush! The journey takes you via Edinburgh’s wonderful Royal Botanical Gardens, then through fashionable Stockbridge and then into the New Town before reaching George Street.