Yeah, basically. I know those in Cayley have to move out completely during the holidays because their rooms are used by visitors etc.
This summer there will be visitors coming to stay in Bakewell (I think it's for the Olympics or something? I'm not sure, i wasn't paying a great deal of attention, lol), so we all got the chance to offer our rooms up to them. Because we have a 41 week contract, these visitors would be staying in our rooms during our let. So, to make up for this, we'd get like £16 for every day someone stayed in our room.
Like the complete spaz that I am, I forgot to hand my form in, so I missed out on this, but it might be something to consider for you guys, just in case they do it again next year.
Also, there's now an official facebook page for Robert Bakewell hall Freshers 2011, if you want to check it out:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/RobertBakewell Not a lot posted yet, but it's worth keeping an eye on it if you're thinking of applying to Bakewell. I found my Freshers page really helpful both before and after I came to Loughborough.
One last thing: we just got told where we're having our Summer Ball and it is absolutely fantastic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfUmfd-kFQ If anything, next year's committee will have to either match that, or top it, so that might be something to keep in mind