We booked this room with lastminute and it cost us £90. I was confident of the accommodation because my brother had lived on the apartments for a couple if years and he had no complaints. When we arrived the concierge refused to have anything to do with the booking as it was 'nothing to do with them'. They even refused to advise us on how we would be able to get hold of a key. We left the edge and Rang lastminute to be told that we should have contacted the agent prior to arriving. When we returned the conceriege refused to let us into the building!! When we finally managed to get in (we had to sneak in behind a resident as the management co had left a spare key in the apt) we found the room dirty and in poor condition. Mosaic tiles were missing from the shower and sink unit and the shower and microwave were filthy. We complained to lastminute and have received a partial refund. My advice...DO NOT STAY HERE!

We booked at the Edge on the recommondation of a friend who had stayed previously as we didn't really know Manchester. First impressions were excellent..this building is really swish as city apartments go. The lane you have to drive down to access it you could almost miss it, and could do with a bit better signage in fairness, but the actual building, the parking area, the lobby etc. were all top notch. The apartment we stayed in was quite a spacious studio apartment which had a large balcony. Having a nice bit of outside space in the city was a real bonus. The shower was lush and the kitchen, although quite small, was well laid out and had all the utensils and cookware we needed.

The apartment had a double bed and a double sofabed, and enough bedding for a family! The only downside is there is no room service or hotel breakfast since it is an apartment, but we had breakfast out the first day and bought some in the next day so not really an issue. We asked about this when we checked in and were told it is possible to pre-order a breakfast after booking, but we didn't bother in the end since we shopped for what we needed.

The best part of the apartment is the location. We were there for a concert and some shopping, and it is only a 10 minute walk to the MEN arena, so we parked at the apartment and walked across! Also it's really close to the big shops like Harvey Nichols and Selfridges and some the nicer bars in Manchester. Lovely overall.

The positives of this apartment:

- It is situated very close to the centre of Manchester - good for the shops and nightlife.
- Apartment was furnished well with a balcony and a nice view of water features and grass verges below.
- Good sized bathroom with a plentiful supply of clean towels and complimentary toiletries.
- Kitchen had all the utensils you would need to cook in (which we did), lots of glasses and a full box of teabags.
- Lots of wardrobe space.

The negatives of this apartment:

- The main drawback was the collection of the keys for the apartment. We had to wait on a street corner in some back streets of Manchester for the man who arrived late to turn up to open an office (which itself looked run down). He opened the office up and then locked the door and took us up to the next floor in the lift. This is not a safe way to hand over the keys especially to a group of young females and we did feel worried and unsafe that it was not all kosher. I would not book the apartment again on this reason alone. A better way to hand over the keys needs to happen - somewhere that is not in a run down closed office block in the back streets of Manchester. Why we could not be met at the apartment with the keys since the man had to travel into Manchester to give them to us we do not know! The man was very helpful and gave tips on where to go in Manchester so it is nothing against him personally - we would say the same meeting any stranger in a deserted office block! Giving the keys back was easy though - we were told to lock the door and then just post them back into the apartment.
- We were told that many people lived in the apartments on a more permanent basis and the concierge did not appreciate them renting out the apartments for a night or two at the time, so why the concierge is advertised on The Edge website apartments is questionnable, and this did not make us feel very welcome.
- The apartment size itself was 'cosy'. The apartment was supposed to be big enough for 4 people, but it was more adaquate for 2 people and although there was a nice big flat screen television in the apartment, it was positioned at an awkward angle so that you could not really watch it from the sofa, but had to instead sit on the edge of the bed which had a hard edge and was difficult to sit on.

We payed around £135 for the night for this apartment. I would say that this is a little overpriced considering the size of the apartment but it is in a good location and is stylish.

Just got back from stayng in the Edge apartments just off Deansgate. My friend booked it for her birthday. It was originally 4 girls when she booked a month ago, but we wanted to add one more on, so she called the Edge number from the website who said they would get the 'owner' of the apartment to contact us/ A daylater the 'owner' text my friend to say an extra person was fine for no extra cost but we would need to bring a blow up bed as the apartment only slep 4 (1 double bed and 1 double sofa bed).

We arrived at the Edge all excited with our booking confirmation and was soon told by the concierge that they had no record of our my friends name and we would have to contact the owner to get them to call the concierge desk so they coudld release the keys. Luckily we had his number from the text but what would we have done if my friend didnt have it? We called the owner , he didnt answer so we left a message, he called us back after about 30 mins and all was then fine.

We were not told where to park so we just presumed that the room number was the same as the car parking space, so we parked in that. We later found out that the car parking space numbers do not coralate to the room numbers and we could have got clamped or blocked in, so be careful to ask which car parking space is yours.

When we got into the room it was clean and modern, it was small for 5 girls but we werent in there long and it was very close to everything,. Pefect location, nice modern apartment, but not very well organised.