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Eating in halls versus self catering

A mix of both? Hall food at a given college tends to be always the same (esp if you eat there all the time). But it's convenient and not quite bad if you're lucky with your college. Then cooking, if you are lucky with the facilities, is slightly cheaper and fun, but it requires time and organisation (so easy to waste food if you only cook once in a while!)... So yeah, I think it's very lucky that we don't have to make a definitive choice in the beginning of the year in Cambridge.

Reply 21

Chubasco

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Blimey!! They sneaked that one by, didn't they!? I very rarely go to hall- too many commitments!! Plus they very rarely do food I like/am not allergic to!

Did they not tell you? Me thinks it's time to get GCSU on the case. I only knew how much they were because we got a letter explaining how the whole dinner ticket thing worked in our freshers pack. I can normally manage to work my commitments around hall but it is a bit of a pain!

Reply 22

Scipio90

The system at Caius sounds pretty awful. :frown:

Reply 23

Chubasco

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The system at Caius sounds pretty awful.

To be fair, it's not THAT bad. Hall is a good opportunity for socialising at least - you get to know people really quickly. What people tend to complain about is the number of dinner tickets we have to buy, the somewhat variable quality of the food and (I didn't realise this until earlier) the massive price increase this year.

Reply 24

smilepea

Scipio90

The system at Caius sounds pretty awful. :frown:

It's not that bad, I was talking to a friend at Clare and we've ended up paying similar amounts of money for food last term (not that I've got my bill yet :rolleyes:

) by taking into account my dinner tickets and extra food and his FKC and all his food.

It's fine unless you get turned away at hall, which happened to some people last night :s-smilie:

And an increase of less than 10% isn't that bad considering the increase in food costs over the last year or so.

Reply 25

Llamaaa

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smilepea

It's not that bad, I was talking to a friend at Clare and we've ended up paying similar amounts of money for food last term (not that I've got my bill yet :rolleyes:

) by taking into account my dinner tickets and extra food and his FKC and all his food.

It's fine unless you get turned away at hall, which happened to some people last night :s-smilie:

And an increase of less than 10% isn't that bad considering the increase in food costs over the last year or so.

Oh phew, I'm not the only one without a bill at the moment!! There was me thinking that I had just been forgotten :biggrin:

I'm going to have so many fines on my bill this term :frown:

Yeah, last night was awful!! Around 30 people were turned away from formal....madness!!

Reply 26

Tyrotoxism

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Formal Hall at Homerton is £12.50 according to the Freshers guide :eek:

Reply 27

Eye

Tyrotoxism

Formal Hall at Homerton is £12.50 according to the Freshers guide :eek:

That's quite expensive as far as Formal Halls go but you won't generally be going to that most nights and there should be a regular hall which is cheaper.

Reply 28

FadedJade

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IIRC Homerton formal is only on a couple of nights a week anyway. Girton is over £15

Reply 29

Arrogant Git

FadedJade

Girton is over £15

No it's not. it's £11.50 or something. More for guests.

Reply 30

FadedJade

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Sorry I meant for guests. It's definitely over £15 for guests.

Reply 31

Supergrunch

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I think we have the cheapest formal, it's about £3.95 or something - this does mean it's horrible though, despite all the candles and so on. Still, they're charging us £33 for our halfway hall - it had better be good. :rolleyes:

Reply 32

paneity

FadedJade

Sorry I meant for guests. It's definitely over £15 for guests.

It's £10.50 for girtonians, £12.50 for guests, whoever charged you over £15 ripped you off.
It used to be £16 for everyone about 3 years ago when we (apparently) had a rubbish JCR president.

Also, grads get in free, and get free wine at formal. The gits.

Reply 33

paneity

Supergrunch

I think we have the cheapest formal, it's about £3.95 or something - this does mean it's horrible though, despite all the candles and so on. Still, they're charging us £33 for our halfway hall - it had better be good. :rolleyes:

They charge you for Halfway Hall! At least we get a free dinner every year. Scandalous. Do they charge for matric dinner as well?