The UCL accomodation thread

Pretty much however much you want it to be! You can feed yourself on absolute basics (and a lot of pasta) for like £15 a week if you want, I normally spend about £25 and you can spend pretty much anything up from that if you have the money. If you have housemates you really get on with you can collaborate on a weekly online delivery which generally works out cheaper

Thank you for your earlier reply. Also I would like to know what is the usual that a student earns per hour while studying at UCL? Will the money earned per week suffice for everything, if one lives in the most basic of conditions?

Pretty much however much you want it to be! You can feed yourself on absolute basics (and a lot of pasta) for like £15 a week if you want, I normally spend about £25 and you can spend pretty much anything up from that if you have the money. If you have housemates you really get on with you can collaborate on a weekly online delivery which generally works out cheaper

Many thanks for this piece of information.
I have a further question: which house would you advise me to choose if I want to share a flat with a few people? Are there places to avoid?
I thought of Ann Stephenson, but it seems that there aren't so many places for undergrads there. :s

Schafer has flats of mostly 5 and some fewer. Ann Stephenson flats are small and there are undergrads there Langton Close has about 7/8 people in theirs. Apart from that I'm not sure, if you don't want a big corridor then avoid Ramsay and Astor and the intercollegiates.

Hey, anyone else really want to get into Ramsay Hall?

What would you say is the best self-catered and en suite accommodation in terms of facilities, distance from the University and social life?

So out of the following:

Prankerd House
James Lighthill House
Ian Baker House
Goldsmid House
Frances Gardner House

Where can I find a username and password to apply for accommodation? There's nothing on my offer letter. My offer is for medicine, might that have something to do with it?

You have to follow through their instructions to set up your own username and password, there's nothing but a link on the offer letters.

Confusing, I know.

I've heard Prankerd is a bit meh and quite quiet, plus IIRC it's largely for mature students/couples. Also the facilities are at Schafer but that's down the road rather than being on site. Goldsmid is really really far! I don't know much about James Lighthill but I'd say the best two out of that list are Ian Baker which is about 5 minutes away and shares facilities with Ramsay (which is a very sociable hall) and Frances Gardner which is a bit further (20 min walk) but on a site with Langton Close so there are generally more students around
Don't get too hung up on certain choices though as you're not able to request specific halls.