The Dickins Edinburgh Accommodation Blog

59 (3F2) Thistle Street, Central New Town

This charming and small, but perfectly formed one bedroom Thistle Street apartment has a feeling of Parisian chic. Located in one of Edinburgh's most stylish streets with clothes boutiques, smart restaurants and beautiful jewellery shops as your neighbours, this is the perfect base from which to explore all the treats that Edinburgh has to offer.

Located on the third floor, the apartment is small but chic and comprises of a lovely quiet double bedroom with a large amount of storage space, a sweet sitting room with a window seat and flat screen TV. The kitchen has a washer dryer and microwave, together with the usual fridge, hob and oven and the bathroom has a bath tub with shower over. The apartment has the benefit of wireless broadband. It's available for self catering holiday lets, short and corporate lets and the Edinburgh Festival.

From £300 per week

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54/8 St Mary's Street, Old Town

This stylish one bedroom self catering apartment is located on St Mary's Street in the heart of Edinburgh's historic Old Town. There's a fantastic range of shops, restaurants and bars within a few minutes walk of the apartment and St Mary's Street itself has a number of boutique stores. Edinburgh's many visitor attractions lie on the doorstep too. The apartment is less than 5 minutes walk from The Pleasance so perfect for the Edinburgh Festival.

Located on the third floor with lovely views to Arthur's Seat from the recently fitted kitchen and quiet double bedroom, this lovely apartment comprises a good sitting room, a double bedroom, a large bathroom with shower and a small study. Wireless braodband is also available.

From £350 per week

 

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Have You Got that Friday Feeling...?

Good morning on this rainy Edinburgh day!

So when did the memo go out that Christmas is in two weeks time? A question that all of us have been asking ourselves since all the shops have started putting up their Christmas decorations and putting out their Christmas stock. This happens every year, however it always seems to start just a little bit earlier each year. Head to Dobbies and you can pick yourself up a Christmas Tree (fake or real!), baubles, lights of all colours and shapes as well as that all important singing reindeer that you obviously have to have on your roof this year!

On top of thinking about buying those all important Christmas presents for every single member of your family we've also got the worry of the credit crunch which is hitting the nation. Although it all seems a little uncertain at the moment we are seeing an increase in enquiries from companies looking for short term accommodation for employees and clients alike. Often on a budget it's crucial that these companies find the most cost effective option and that's where we are able to help them. By offering apartments that are close to their offices, often with parking and broadband or WIFI we are able to solve their accommodation needs as well as providing them a real 'home from home'.

Experts in our field we are doing all we can to ensure we provide excellent quality accommodation that stands out from the rest which will see us through these turbulent times.

Dickins need more one bedroom holiday apartments in Edinburgh to let

We've lost a few of our most popular one bedroom holiday apartments in Edinburgh recently due to owners moving back into them and as they are our most popular size of apartment to let, we're keen to replace them.

So if you have a good quality, central Edinburgh one bedroom apartment and are interested in doing short lets all year round, please give Dickins a ring on ( +44) 0131 558 1108. We specialise in short lets from 3 nights up to but not including six months. Owners can take care of changeovers and maintenance themselves, or we are able to organise everything on an owners behalf.

So if you own a lovely one bedroom Edinburgh apartment get in touch with Dickins today.

[email protected] and you can check out the other flats we let on our website at www.dickins.co.uk

Economise but don't compromise......

You only need to pick up a newspaper, turn on the radio or the TV, to sit open mouthed at the almost daily collapse of major international financial institutions and only yesterday the Bank of Scotland, Scotland's oldest bank vanished without trace, taken over by Lloyd's TSB. These are historic times and in running a small business its easy to feel very concerned about what the future holds, but happily our phone have never been busier in September.

Already this month our bookings are up 52% on the bookings we took for the whole of September last year. The fact that with a Dickins short let apartment you can economise without having to compromise on quality or location is appealing to customers from all over the world who are snapping up our home from home Edinburgh holiday apartments for lets from 3 nights up to a few months. Short lets offer vital cost effective flexibility in these uncertain times.

Customer feedback

'Dickins is a very easy company to deal with and made our stay very easy indeed.' Lucy Wood 26/8/08

Clean sweep for Dickins on the If.comedy awards

Dickins are proud to be housing all four nominees for the prestigious If.Comedy awards 2008. David O'Doherty, Kristen Schaal, Rhod Gilbert and Russell Kane are all staying in Dickins Festival properties across Edinburgh.

We're now in the home straight of the Edinburgh Festival 2008 with most people packing their bags and leaving town on Tuesday, leaving us with the usual lost keys, keys left in flats, things left in flats, stuff to deal with when we get back to the office on Tuesday after the Monday Bank Holiday. With sets of keys for over 200 flats coming back to the office over a couple of days, you start dreaming about key tag numbers!

Highlights of the festival have been Michael McIntyre who delivered a polished, consistently funny show that had you laughing out loud for an hour. The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel was an electric performance with a real sense of energy and excitement pulsing around the Usher Hall audience and that's not something which happens often. It seemed that only The Scotsman reviewer Kenneth Walton did not enjoy the evening and chose to give the performance a 1 star review despite the reaction of the Usher Hall audience and indeed a similar audience reaction was felt at The Proms the following evening. The arrogance of reviewers really makes your blood boil sometimes and makes you realise that perhaps reviews aren't worth taking too seriously, or perhaps its just Kenneth Walton's reviews which should be ignored.

Homecoming Scotland 2009

We're excited about Homecoming Scotland 2009 the 'biggest ever celebration of Scotland's achievements and culture.''

Cultural, sporting and historical events are to be staged throughout Scotland in 2009 to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Robert Burn's birth. Events kick off on Burn's Night on 25th January and finish on St Andrew's Day in November.

One of the major events taking place in July will be The Gathering in Edinburgh in Holyrood Park. It's going to be the world's biggest clan gathering and Highland Games and there'll be a spectacular pageant on Edinburgh Castle Esplanade.

So if you are planning on coming back to your roots to celebrate The Homecoming and would like to make Edinburgh your base for exploring all that this wonderful country has to offer, why not book an Edinburgh self catering holiday apartment. That way you'll be able to feel a part of the life of our ancient capital city and experience staying in one of our historical buildings with all the modern facilities you'd expect these days. Have a look at our apartments >>>

We're creating to new microsite for The Homecoming too, so look out for that.   

One of Our Festival Regulars!

"Thanks for your help...as always you guys at Dickins are fantastic!"

Andrew Taylor

Help Flats Needed for the Festival!

Just 7 weeks to go and the pressure is on to find those illusive apartments for the Edinburgh Festival 2008.

We've just had our weekly Festival meeting, which is close to becoming a daily Festival meeting! It has dawned on us that we desperately need good quality 1-5 bedroom apartments in the Southside, Bruntsfield, Marchmont and Old Town areas for our retained clients. If you are reading this and have an apartment in one of these areas, or know somebody who does and are thinking about going away and letting it for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, please get it touch and we would be delighted to have a chat with you about it.

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Tel >>> 0131 558 1108