[MrKate]

Hello, I have just chosen Bristol as my firm choice & haven't a clue what halls to go for-
I have a maintenance loan&grant of £6154 & want to go self-catered,
Goldney Hall looks nice and fun, but I would have about £50 a week to live on & I don't know if thats too tight of a budget
I've also looked at University hall & it looks like the cheap option & okay

could anyone at Bristol give me any info on accommodation, in terms of money, social events and the sort of people who go there?
Thank you

[Undergrad2012]

Hello I am also in the same boat :/

Im thinking of Colston Street as my first choice and Durdham as my second - I wanted self catered and an ensuite so these seemed best!

Goldney = more expensive, some rooms bigger than others so be careful, very oversubscribed so would need to be happy with second choice and slightly quiter on the social side.

Uni hall = used to be cheaper but is now the same price as Durdham and others! Im not sure how they justify this as the rooms and kitchens are tiny. However its supposed to be very lively!

It seems that the stoke bishop halls are more social but uni is what u make it. I am choosing Colston Street because it is only one year old, finished to a good standard and a good price. It's also in the centre close to pubs clubs shopping uni and I wont have to walk for ages to uni everyday haha :P

Let me know what you choose!

[MrKate]

Yeah I agree with what you say about Uni is what you make it, I reckon I'm going to go for accommodation in Clifton for the same reasons- closer to uni & city centre-
I think I'm going to check out Colston street too & maybe The Hawthorns,
we have got till June 7th until we can apply anyway, time to think!
thanks for your input!

[Mattyness]

Don't go to The Hawthorns, its a lot of internationals.

Colston Street is quite quiet, as is Durdham. But obviously there's still lots of opportunities but other halls in Stoke Bishop/Goldney would be a safer option if going out etc is appealing to you.

[georget1]

where will i end up if I put bristol as my insurance choice uni and go there? Presumably one of the worse accommodations?

[punctuation]

(Original post by Mattyness)
Don't go to The Hawthorns, its a lot of internationals.

Colston Street is quite quiet, as is Durdham. But obviously there's still lots of opportunities but other halls in Stoke Bishop/Goldney would be a safer option if going out etc is appealing to you.

Internationals?



Oh... that's me.

[Rubgish]

(Original post by punctuation)
Internationals?



Oh... that's me.

I (basically) live with a Canadian this year, you guys aren't proper internationals Apart from a few weird terms and us having to beat the american out of you, you're basically English

[PsycMike]

(Original post by Rubgish)
I (basically) live with a Canadian this year, you guys aren't proper internationals Apart from a few weird terms and us having to beat the american out of you, you're basically English

I'll take that as a compliment.

I don't think I have any American in me though...

[MrKate]

(Original post by Mattyness)
Don't go to The Hawthorns, its a lot of internationals.

Colston Street is quite quiet, as is Durdham. But obviously there's still lots of opportunities but other halls in Stoke Bishop/Goldney would be a safer option if going out etc is appealing to you.

Oh okay, I basically want somewhere close to uni, not too pricey, self catered, & fun I guess- I'm getting the impression a social life depends heavily on the accommodation you choose?

[Rubgish]

(Original post by MrKate)
Oh okay, I basically want somewhere close to uni, not too pricey, self catered, & fun I guess- I'm getting the impression a social life depends heavily on the accommodation you choose?

Social life does not depend heavily on the accommodation you choose, some halls are likely to have a greater % of people getting drunk and going out on any given day than other halls, but that is categorically not the definition of social life. Not only that, there are always people going out everyday at every halls, if you are that bothered about getting drunk all the time you'd just need to proactively seek them out.

No-one in my flat has gone out clubbing this term because most people here are just a bit tired of it, once you've done it 3 times a week for a term or two you realise that for most people it just isn't that much fun to do it all the time. Once you really get to know people, you don't need alcohol to lubricate social situations and you can happily sit around and chat, watch some tv and generally enjoy each others company while totally sober.

n.b. If I sound bitter about life in general I blame exams and the fact that my friends dragged me into trolling the UoB vs UWE boat race page this morning when I should have been working

[BackDoorEntry]

(Original post by Undergrad2012)
Uni hall = used to be cheaper but is now the same price as Durdham and others! Im not sure how they justify this as the rooms and kitchens are tiny. However its supposed to be very lively!

It seems that the stoke bishop halls are more social but uni is what u make it. I am choosing Colston Street because it is only one year old, finished to a good standard and a good price. It's also in the centre close to pubs clubs shopping uni and I wont have to walk for ages to uni everyday haha :P

Let me know what you choose!

Durdham is really quiet for some reason, no idea why. But that won't impact your social life.. unless you just hang around with people from your halls.

(Original post by MrKate)
Oh okay, I basically want somewhere close to uni, not too pricey, self catered, & fun I guess- I'm getting the impression a social life depends heavily on the accommodation you choose?

Somewhere close to uni: THE HAWTHORNS, woodland court, colston street, manor hall
Not too pricey: colston street, manor hall, goldney, hawthorns
Self catered + Fun: colston street, manor hall, university hall, manor hall

Social life is the same which ever HALLS you go to. (except unite house LOL, they are a massive exception -_- )

[LaurenAvo]

(Original post by Mattyness)
Don't go to The Hawthorns, its a lot of internationals.

Colston Street is quite quiet, as is Durdham. But obviously there's still lots of opportunities but other halls in Stoke Bishop/Goldney would be a safer option if going out etc is appealing to you.

Quite offended by this. Not an international student but hell, international students are fun! My boyfriend is at Warwick and his best friends happen to be international students. Don't see what you are trying to say here...

[Mattyness]

I don't want to get into an argument but from my own experience, international students aren't that fun at all. Most tend to be on very work-intensive courses, rarely go out, rarely socialize, if they do socialize do it with people of their own culture. English people who get put in flats with a load of internationals that I knew had a terrible time and did everything to try and transferred out.

[punctuation]

(Original post by Mattyness)
I don't want to get into an argument but from my own experience, international students aren't that fun at all. Most tend to be on very work-intensive courses, rarely go out, rarely socialize, if they do socialize do it with people of their own culture. English people who get put in flats with a load of internationals that I knew had a terrible time and did everything to try and transferred out.

[AliceStrawbs]

I got placed in University Hall and it wasn't even my back up choice so to be honest, you might get placed somewhere you don't really want to be anyway. That sad, Uni Hall was a a bit of a dive (all part of the uni experience!!) but it was full of lovely people and the staff are excellent.

[Dusty12]

(Original post by punctuation)

Ahah, GO BACK HOME!....jk

The 'international student' stigma seems quite misplaced to me. While I wouldn't want to live with the stereotypical international student who's reclusive, antisocial, barely speaks English and cooks weird food, I think it would be quite nice to live with a few people from different places. After all, I know enough British people already!
That said, 100% of my close friends are Welsh, so all you English people are foreign enough to me.

[LaurenAvo]

(Original post by Mattyness)
I don't want to get into an argument but from my own experience, international students aren't that fun at all. Most tend to be on very work-intensive courses, rarely go out, rarely socialize, if they do socialize do it with people of their own culture. English people who get put in flats with a load of internationals that I knew had a terrible time and did everything to try and transferred out.

Very stereotypical.

[oaktrees]

(Original post by LaurenAvo)
Very stereotypical.

It is stereotypical but stereotypes obviously come from somewhere . I would agree that whilst we had a lovely international student in my block last year, after the first few weeks of freshers were over he tended to be more reclusive than the rest of us, and found a group of friends from other blocks who were also international students. That said he was a lovely person and still came along to all our block birthdays and things, which is more than a couple of English people that were in our block too.

If I was at uni in a foreign country and there was a large group of people who spoke my language I'd probably gravitate towards them.

[Mattyness]

(Original post by LaurenAvo)
Very stereotypical.

Indeed it is but that's from my own experience. If anyone wants to find out the hard way feel free.

[kadeeeja]

(Original post by Mattyness)
I don't want to get into an argument but from my own experience, international students aren't that fun at all. Most tend to be on very work-intensive courses, rarely go out, rarely socialize, if they do socialize do it with people of their own culture. English people who get put in flats with a load of internationals that I knew had a terrible time and did everything to try and transferred out.

I think basically because most of these international students left their home to seek a good academic degree. most of them are actually good students that worked very hard to get a scholarship or saved money to study in UK or any other country. so it's expected that they will tend to study more and have little fun. (I guess)