Bristol vets 2009 - current bristol vets help please :)

I was just wondering what is the difference between university halls and the student houses
Im trying to decide on which accomodation i'd go for if i do choose Bristol, but im totally clueless ! lol
I need advice all i know is i definatley want to go self catered

Student houses are similar to student halls. They do vary in size, some are small (ie; ~10 people) and some are large and almost as big if not as big as some halls (ie; Northwell, Winky, etc with 100+ people). Houses are normally split into flats of varying sizes (ie; 4-8 people) each sharing a kitchen and a couple of shower rooms as opposed to being on a corridor.

A lot of the halls are situated out at Stoke Bishop (ie; Wills, Durdham, etc) which is a little out of the town on the other hand most of the student houses are more local to the uni precinct.

All of the student houses are 100% self catered. They're also generally cheaper than being in halls rent wise.

At the end of the day you're going to enjoy your time wherever you end up and being a vet student it's not like you're going to have plenty of time to lounge around staring at your 4 walls.

PS: Get your accommodation form in as quickly as possible to guarantee that you get to where you want to be. I applied late but to 'under subscribed' places and still didn't end up there

I'm defo going halls for first year, just because it's not the sort of thing I'm gonna go back to when I'm in later years, more of a 1st year sort of thing. If you don't go halls in 1st year, you'll never go halls, and you won't have experienced it. I don't think anyone stays in a student houses and then moves to halls later on

yeah id like to get the whole halls experience i think, then i could always move into student houses in 2nd year
just cant narrow it down to which halls ! lol
have u decided ?

some of the student houses are basically halls - the hawthorns for example is classed as a student house, but is basically a hall

Well I'm trying to decide, not too sure at the moment, same as you lol

I was thinking Stoke Bishop, but what put me off was the distance (2 miles (?) every single day would get a bit tedious), and also that I've been told there aren't any gyms out there. So now I'm thinking clifton, and I'm also leaning towards catered because I can never be bothered to cook anything, it's so much hastle having to do a big shop, cook every day, keep food in my room where people can't nick it, then wash dishes, just seems a burden.

So I'm sort of narrowing it quite a bit, but still not 100% certain. Another thing I thought about, if you go catered, is that at dinnertime aswell (midday time)? because no one would get back to stoke bishop in time when they've only got like an hour to get lunch!

is the main difference that there is a bar & common room in a uni hall, but not in student houses ?

theres so many different ones to choose from after looking at the bristol accomodation website !! i know that i would like an en-suite which rules out like one of the self-catered places, but that still leaves about 5 to choose from lol
where did you stay/staying ?

Also I think Bris doesn't care how early you send in your app form, because they don't operate on a first-come-first-served basis (or at least that's what it says on their website).

can i just say non en-suite is no wear as bad as most people seem to think-it means you dont have to clean the bathroom as the cleaners do and you get free loo roll. also you never have to wait for a free shower. also non ensuite bathrooms are alot bigger and ensuite bedrooms are smaller than non ensuite bedrooms cause the bathroom takes abit of your room space up.

also non ensuite are cheaper.

Well I'm trying to decide, not too sure at the moment, same as you lol

I was thinking Stoke Bishop, but what put me off was the distance (2 miles (?) every single day would get a bit tedious), and also that I've been told there aren't any gyms out there. So now I'm thinking clifton, and I'm also leaning towards catered because I can never be bothered to cook anything, it's so much hastle having to do a big shop, cook every day, keep food in my room where people can't nick it, then wash dishes, just seems a burden.

So I'm sort of narrowing it quite a bit, but still not 100% certain. Another thing I thought about, if you go catered, is that at dinnertime aswell (midday time)? because no one would get back to stoke bishop in time when they've only got like an hour to get lunch!

Very few places have cleaners which come in and clean your rooms for you while you're away If they do, expect to pay for the privilege but also there is a degree of aggravation, the cleaners can/often grass you up to the wardens if you've got contraband in your room (ie; unchecked electrical equipment, pets, guests who haven't signed in, etc).

Student housing is cheap, the walls are thin. Ensuites can be pretty noisy when your mate next door comes in with alcohol poisoning and proceeds to vomit continuously for a couple of hours or decides to have rampant shower sex in his/her ensuite which is connected to your room. At least if your toilets and showers are discontinuous you're less likely to get that sort of disruption (unless you're the one having sex while vomiting down the toilet late at night - I guess you could call it multitasking).