iQ Fountainbridge Reviews

Student Review: 2.6 /5

By member859699 On 8th June 21 Verified student

I've lived here for about a year or so and getting to talk to some of the staff, they've been lovely and very good to me however, when I had some problems is when they would start to get a little stubborn and quite condescending towards me. All in all a good experience however, I wouldn't recommend it. You can definitely find a better value for money elsewhere.

Reply from iQ Fountainbridge On 14th June 21

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We're sorry to hear about the issues and will feedback to the team, but glad your overall experience with iQ was positive.

I have booked a gold en-suite room which was expected to be 'newly refurbished'. I checked into the room to find that the appalling conditions indicated otherwise. The windows cannot be closed properly. The shower room doors lacked a seal strip, resulting in water spilling out onto the floor every time I take a shower. The walls of the room and table have suffered multiple blows and scratches. After much hassle, I have successfully switched to another room. However, the problems are not over yet. My heater works intermittently and the shower head is lose. The main door to the flat will not close properly, Maintenance came to fix it within a week but the nightmares were not over. The heater of another room in our flat leaks water. The dishwasher floods the kitchen floor every time it works. Not to mention that the motion-sensor corridor lights works occasionally. Please only choose this place for a haunted experience.

Dumb AF staff, but good location.

PLEASE AVOID THIS. Internet is a joke. BUT the most annoying thing is the washing machines. They are absolutely terrible. You need to pay to use them (3.5 GBP) and 99% of the time they will not work properly and your clothes will basically remain either unwashed or completely wet. Dryer is also available to you (1.5 GBP) and they also don't work properly. Any issue with them is being directed to the company that manages them which doesn't do much. Rent an Airbnb instead of this place.

Good place to stay, friendly enviorment and near to university

Reply from iQ Fountainbridge On 30th May 19

Thank you for this lovely rating! We are glad you liked the central location and friendly environment while staying at iQ and we hope to see you around (again).

Reception available from 8 to 6 on weekdays. Security guys throughout the night and on weekends. Management is friendly, helpful and very caring. A lot of social activities every month, lots of free pizza and goodies. The Social Hub is excellent for meeting people and in-house parties, always something happening down there on fridays. I met all my friends from the social area, we study down there on the weekdays and pre-drink on the weekends. Rooms are above average but not excellent, Room views are not that good. Wifi is good in general but a few issues every now and then. you clean your room yourself and can borrow a hover from the reception at anytime.

rubbsih waste of money, a scam as wifi doesnt work neither do wahsing machines, have been left without food for days beaucse they cant be arsed to fix the cooker, complete s***

I have lived here for 3 years and It has been great. The staff are lovely and there is always someone around to help you when you have problems. It's central to all of the universities and within walking distance of the city centre. Sometimes there are issues with the onsite washing facilities and WiFi but generally the facilities here are pretty good. I would recommend living in IQ because most student flats are overpriced and a bit scummy. At least here you live in a flat which is clean, secure and has onsight staff to help you with your problems.

I have stayed in iQ Fountainbridge for two years (my 1st and 2nd years of university), it has great location for Princes St/Haymarket and Edinburgh Napier Craiglockhart campus. The building is very modern and the flats are nice and spacious. The reception staff are friendly and helpful and easy to talk to! However the price of the rent was very high for students, it was nine instalments of £683 over the 43 week period. This didn't include an iron, toaster or kettle which we had to purchase ourselves even though they are fairly essential...and also the hoover was not very useful in hoovering. The laundry system was pretty good, quite a lot of machines however very expensive, this is a different company 'circuit laundry' but either way £2.50 for one wash which you're doing quite often was expensive! Overall I had a good time in iQ, met good friends and have good memories, it was perfectly suitable for either first year or your first few years of university!

The only good thing about this accommodation is the location and the friends I made here which made it bare able, the staff are awful always complaining and threatening to the students living here about noise and partying which fair enough it can get excessive but its university and there were many first years, rent here is 692 a month which doesn't cover food and this is for a shared fact of 4 and kitchen, small kitchens and bedrooms.

The place is overpriced for students and you just get the basics. For what you are paying you should expect a cleaner to come in at least once a week, because I know of people that pay way less and get a cleaner twice a week. The security is very good, and if you get locked out they will be there within 15 minutes to help you. Also the location is good, it's not too close the centre but also not too fa everything is walking distance. I would not recommend this place because it is too expensive for what you get.

Poor management, security often let themselves into our flat at all hours, poorly run (eg no-one has any idea when deposits will be returned), phenomenally expensive for basic amenities - which were more often than not out of use; such as hot water and Internet.

The social experience lacks because it's self catered and he flats are only in 5. There are also a mix of uni and colleges so everyone has different agendas. Cleaning is great but only for the common areas, there are no flat cleaners. It is one of the further out halls for Edinburgh university but it depends how much you enjoy walking because it is only about 25 minutes. Despite this, I always felt safe and if there were ever problems the staff were incredible! More over, my room/flat was beautiful and modern. It is a little pricey but the en suite is great and not often you get a bed that is bigger than a single! On top of that, wifi was perfect. Definitely a nice student halls!

This was such a good accommodation to live in for first year. The flats were modern and fitted with the best equipment. Perhaps a tad far away from campus if you don't know the city but overall a great place to stay with helpful and friendly staff and a great maintenance team.

really good halls, lots of fit lads when I moved in too ;)

Flats themselves are amazing but if I hadn't been so lucky with my flat mates I'd have been miserable here. It's really anti social and a really awkward distance from campus (especially kings!! Takes an hour to get there)

Pretty bad, compared to the other halls of residence at the university the value for money is below par. The location is not ideal, its not too far that you'd have to get a bus, but its not close enough to be pleasurable. Hall management could be better, the reception never seems to be open, but that could just be my luck. We don't actually have cleaning in the halls, so I can't judge. The common room is actually ok, if people used it! Its not easy to meet people, on the confident seem to succeed, so the social experience is not great, the halls are also to far away from others to meet people outside.