En Suite or Shared Bathrooms?

You'll most likely have to share in your second/third year anyway and at most unis the shared bathrooms in halls are cleaned every day! To be honest going to the bathroom isn't something I spend hours doing, I'm more of a straight in and out kind of girl. I'd much rather spend £160 A MONTH on clothes/ shoes/ food/ treats (REAL luxuries) rather than having a comfortable ****.

Got to agree with you there, for the sake of walking 5 seconds out of my room, I'll happily take the £20 a week and use it for other things! All the toilets/showers in our halls are cleaned every other day anyway, so they never get dirty enough that it becomes a problem. Plus if somebody is being stupid, it's hardly difficult to have a word with them and get it sorted (most of the time, anyway).

I know, but £40 a week extra (at my uni) is just a ridiculous amount of money just for a very tiny en suite. I go to the gym alot and have no problems using the showers there, I just manned up! £160 a month tho, It wasn't long til the students in the en suite accom were complaining about having no money and wished they'd gone for the cheaper accom

Definitely, a few weeks in and people with en-suites realise they would prefer to have the extra cash!

Perhaps.

I was in university standard accommodation for three years. That wasn't an ordeal or anything. The worst we had was a few people who didn't know how to flush, someone who kept getting jiggy in the shower and lots of hair belonging to whomever.

This year, I have opted for an ensuite. Partly because I didn't have much of a choice - this college only offers that. Whilst the money is pretty scary - this room is around £120 per week - I love having an ensuite. It is a luxury but one that I am very grateful for, especially when I am up and out first thing and so forth. So, for this year, I am willing to scrap around money wise and enjoy this little bit of privilege, just for once.

Yeah it's nice to have if you don't mind paying the extra.

I just find it quite amusing, at the start of the year, 90%+ of people "NEED" an en-suite, by the end of the year, there are very, very few people who still say the same.

Everybody is seriously over-exaggerating on the extra cost.

At Sheffield, most of the rooms are en-suite, and cost £109 a week. The shared bathroom rooms are £91 a week.

For a 42 week contract, overall this makes for a difference of £767 for the whole year, and with a much larger desk and more storage space, and with more modern facilities in the en-suite accommodation, as well as a larger kitchen/living area pp, this is a price I am definitely willing to pay!

A lot of rooms don't give you any extra space for having an en-suite though, so that's not much of a point. In some rooms you even get less space, as the total floor plan of the room is very similar between normal and en-suite rooms, but the en-suites have to fit the bathroom in too!

I don't think anyone's exaggerated the cost, they're just stated what the costs are. £20 a week is a pretty big cost to save yourself a few seconds walk.

Spending £20 a week more not only saves you that few seconds walk, but it also gives you more privacy, more hygiene... and avoids: frequent long waits for someone to finish using the shower/toilets, having to contend with loads of hair remaining in the shower plug hole, blame over who blocked up the shower/toilet, having to drag all your shower stuff over there, having to smell someones humper-dumper after they've used the toilet, if either breaks the whole flat is *****... yeh I think £20 a week is worth it

Tbh most people say they never have to wait to use the shower/toilet and shared bathrooms generally get cleaned often enough by cleaners to be alright. And ensuiters will have to buy their own cleaning products for the bathroom so that's a bit more cost. And the 'dragging your shower stuff' over sounds a bit dramatic! Don't mean to be picking you apart, just saying

Well tbf I think I over-dramatised my little rant :P

Meh, I can only draw from what I've seen at Sheffield uni where there's only 1 shower/toilet between 8 people, and the en-suite rooms have nicer deco and have larger desks, and more storage space... plus a cleaner comes once a week and does the bathrooms....... and in en-suite flats the kitchen and living area is bigger. Hence I still think £20 extra is worth it, at least at Sheffield.