Apex Grassmarket Hotel, Apex Suite

This hotel is horrible. First off, the lift drops you off a million miles from your room and you will surely get lost as you transverse the winding hallways and clamber over the tripping hazards that are the bags of towels and linens strewn along the corridors. When you finally arrive at your room, you’ll see that it’s tiny. The double beds touch three of the walls so one person will have to climb over the other to get in and out. It’s roasting. The aircon is abysmal and the room is boiling and humid. You’d think opening the window was a good option? You’d be wrong. If you’re lucky enough to get the window to stay open, you’ll probably be met with a bug, a spider, or worse, a rat in the night after it climbs in from the window box or grassy ledge outside. The walls in our room were filthy. There was some sort of brown liquid running down the wall next to the head of whichever unfortunate person got the inside of the bed. Attention to detail is clearly not the cleaners forte. The bathroom door may as well not exist. The frosted glass door doesn’t latch and there are huge gaps at its sides. Did I mention the room is tiny? Good luck having any privacy… Last, and certainly least, the STENCH. As soon as we opened the door to our room we were hit with the worst smell of SEWER GAS. We had to run the water to hopefully clear the pipes which did very little to solve the problem. Luckily though, the smell of sewer gas was often over powered by the smell of MOULD. This hotel kindly offers a spare blanket, in case you get cold in the boiling hot room, and a complimentary tote bag. You cannot begin to imagine the smell of mould that has latched on to these garments. I assume the tote bag is complementary because you could not sell such a biohazard. We were miserable in this hotel. We felt dirty every second we endured there and for €225 euro a night I would expect A LOT more. I almost took the tote bag to feel like I got something for money but I value my health too much. It’s only saving grace is the location but you can find better close by. I cannot stress enough that you NEED TO AVOID THIS HOTEL AT ALL COSTS! Save yourselves a miserable few days here!