Lancaster University Accommodation

Pretty safe, if you lock your room and be sensible.

There's wired Internet is all rooms, wifi in few, but pretty uncommon. You get given a short cable when you arrive to connect to the internet with.

Around campus - there's wifi in just about all the teaching buildings. There's a colorful map floating around the internet somewhere if you want to know about anywhere in particular - google "iss lancaster wifi".

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Ahh great thank you
I was just thinking about phones that need wifi...Do they work in rooms?
Are the cables reliable?



Ooh great! cheers

There probably won't be wifi, depends where you are going for though. I know the newly rennovated Furness Standard has Wifi. And I've never known anyone have a problem with the cables...you may want a longer one if you want to sit on your bed with in though in an ensuite!

Sit in your bed with your laptop that is, not just the cable. That would be a bit odd.

The cables are quite reliable, and we haven't really had many problems with them in our flat. As far as I'm aware, phones that need wifi don't work in our rooms here in County, although they may in some others; the people I know who have them generally just stick to using their laptops to access the internet in their rooms, and when they need to use wifi on phones and such just nip down to the Learning Zone or around there and do whatever they need to. Generally speaking, many of our lectures will be just a couple of steps away from a Wifi zone (for example, Faraday building lectures are very close to Alexandra Square, from where Wifi spots are easily accessible), so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle.

I'm going to be surviving solely on student loans/grants at uni... I got an email from SF saying the money would be paid to me 'a few days after the beginning of your course' which is excellent, naturally, but if it comes through after the rent is due, what am I supposed to do about this?? Help please!!

Then you'd just ask your college officer if you could pay your accommodation fee later because your loan/grant has not come through yet. They're cool with that.

I'm going to Lancaster this year and I'm thinking of applying for either a county/Grizedale townhouse or county superior standard accommodation. was wondering whether anyone at Lancaster atm could give me any advice to help decide? I really want somewhere with a social area and as far as I know these are the only accommodation types that have one. are these 'sociable' halls? I'm not bothered about having an en-suite!

Does anyone know how many people share a flat in the superior ensuite accommodations for Grizedale and Fylde? And also do those flats have communal spaces with T.V's and sofas?

I've lived in County townhouse and Superior standard and personally I'd go with superior standard - you get cleaners (which actually makes quite a bit difference!), there's wireless internet and for some reason it's just less claustrophobic than townhouses generally. It's also about £5 a week cheaper, which adds up You really don't need an en-suite as there are five bathrooms for 10-13 people which are cleaned every day! Both are really great, sociable accommodation blocks though. With 10-13 people in a flat you're pretty much guaranteed to meet people you'll get on with If you have any other questions let me know!