Official University of Edinburgh Accommodation Thread for Entry 2010/11

just one questions, if you apply for twin room in Pollock halls, do they normally put students in same gender into one room or they are mix?

thanks

So it's that time of year when everyone needs to start sorting out where they're going to be living next year, and essentially I am freaking out.

There doesn't seem to be ANYthing available in Marchmont or Bruntsfield (where everyone is pretty much going to be living), and everything in Tollcross is farrrrrr too expensive.

So yeah, am I stuffed; will we have to look further out? I do not want to be living on the otherside of Princes' street or something crazy like that. Will more come on the market soon?

Anyone have any advice?

I presume that a lot of teneant will be moving out at the end of the academic year (surely). Get a list of landlords from your uni, and start calling them to find out if they are going to be needing new tenants for september (also - dont piss off your current landlord, you may need a reference)

So it's that time of year when everyone needs to start sorting out where they're going to be living next year, and essentially I am freaking out.

There doesn't seem to be ANYthing available in Marchmont or Bruntsfield (where everyone is pretty much going to be living), and everything in Tollcross is farrrrrr too expensive.

So yeah, am I stuffed; will we have to look further out? I do not want to be living on the otherside of Princes' street or something crazy like that. Will more come on the market soon?

Anyone have any advice?

I'm applying for accomodation now and I enjoy socialising but I don't drink for various reasons and I'm worried about being put in a flat with people who will come home ill every weekend. Is there a section on the application form where you can specify what your interests and preferences are so they can be matched with other people?

Also, I have been told that the quietest accomodation is in an old hospital but I can't remember the name! Can anyone enlighten me?

My worry is that I need self catered accomdation but I cannot get ensuite with that, so I will have to share a bathroom with potentially hungover people; it's not a situation I would be comfortable with. I don't want to sound like a kill joy but I have a genuine concern.

Thanks in advance, and I'm not as boring as this post makes me sound!

I'm applying for accomodation now and I enjoy socialising but I don't drink for various reasons and I'm worried about being put in a flat with people who will come home ill every weekend. Is there a section on the application form where you can specify what your interests and preferences are so they can be matched with other people?

Also, I have been told that the quietest accomodation is in an old hospital but I can't remember the name! Can anyone enlighten me?

My worry is that I need self catered accomdation but I cannot get ensuite with that, so I will have to share a bathroom with potentially hungover people; it's not a situation I would be comfortable with. I don't want to sound like a kill joy but I have a genuine concern.

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Hey what are the rules about having people stay in your room in self catered halls? Visiting friends I mean...

Ohhh, big relief!! Thank you. I had been looking at the wrong application form!

I think my choices will be:
1. Darroch Court
2. Roberton's Close
3. College Wynd

Do you happen to know how hard it is to get a parking permit? As on the OP it says parking is available at Darroch Court but on the uni site it says '' Parking is extremely limited and normally only for residents with special needs.''

if you had read the very extensive first post on this thread by nearlyheadlessian you would have found the answer to this question - there is a very marginal difference in size.



with regards to the locations you've picked out - they're all fine... Hermits Croft and New Arthur Place are literally at the foot of the Craggs and very pretty. Darroch is across the way from NAP but not so good (in my opinion) as it is right on the a junction of a road and is noisy if you end up in a room facing the road, whereas the other two are set back from the road. I have no experience of East Newington Place, I don't think it was offered as first year accommodation when I was a fresher. Fraser Court is attached to Pollock Halls... from your list I'd go for HC, NAP and then the choice is yours with ENP/DC/FC. When I was a fresher (2006) Fraser Court didn't have telephone points in the rooms but I would assume they now do anyway.

I posted this earlier but then spoke to someone who went to Edinburgh who said that Pollock Halls is the place to be in first year because it has such an atmosphere and a lot of the first years are there.
But I think I'm wanting self-catering and hadn;t looked at Fraser Court before but it's right next to Pollock Halls, so does anyone know anything about it?

All of the Pollock people say that... seriously, in first year if you meet someone from Pollock they look at you blankly when you say that you don't live there which is highly ironic given that about 50% of first year do not live in Pollock! It is just the perception of people in Pollock that the first year world is there, when in reality it really is not... they live in the Pollock bubble. Even now (4th year) people from Pollock seem to think you had an awful first year as you didn't live there and its like, so half of first year had a based time based on where they lived? Yet by the middle of first year all of the people in Pollock are constantly at your flat as they hate the food in the JMC

I remember being really really worried about not living in Pollock as when I went to the Edinburgh open day at the accommodation talk they went on CONSTANTLY about Pollock and then were like "we also have self catered flats"

That's good to hear, thanks.
I've talked about it with my parents and I think I'm still veering more towards Pollock now though. Are there any real differences between the different houses that offer en-suite? Other than the slight differences in prices?