En Suite or Shared Bathrooms?

In halls for all 3 years (entering 3 year, this year).

1st year: En-suite
2nd year: Shared

3rd year? EN-SUITE!

what was shared like? did you get any bad experiences?

Honestly? It was quite filthy but I learnt to ALWAYS wear flip flops and stick a broom under the door handle so no one could unlock it fro the outside and come and steal my towel! You just get used to it! However, our gym showers are AMAZING so my Flatmate and I would always shower thoroughly there and use the flat one for quick showers.

Spunk in the shower - which is where I drew the line. It only happened once but everyone sat down to discuss it and no one confessed. I made it clear that if it happened again, I'd report everyone unless someone confessed. The boys were a bit miffed with me but they got over it the next morning and it never happened again.

As long as you wear flip flops, give the shower a quick (or more, if necessary) once over before and after you go in - you should be fine

Also, generally you learn the "habits" of certain people and you begin to learn who to go in after or when to avoid it. For example our cleaners would come in 9am on a Thursday morning and clean the communal areas, including the bathroom. I learnt that while my flatmates are still asleep , and hungover from Frat night, I could get a decent shower.

Good luck x


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lol someguy took a dump in the shower....?? wtf??? i wish i applied for ensuite sooner now, regret living in a townhouse and sharing a bathroom with someone

If you're anything like me you'd want the ensuite. I couldn't bare sharing a bathroom with people I don't know - imagine them leaving un-identified hairs and all sorts I just couldn't do it. I'd rather pay the extra!

Im really torn over what I want, I have enough (just about as I get an nhs bursery) for ensuite, but im not sure what I would want more my own bathroom or an extra 15-20 quid?

Ive been told by a friend that if I go for the more expensive places that there will be a lot of foreigners and mature students, not that I mind living with either at all I just wouldnt want to be the odd one out as ive been told that the average student tends to fight for the cheapest place.

So what are the shared bathrooms actually like? Are they like public or office toilets with cubicles, or are they more like decent toilets in restaurants with floor to ceiling walls?

I'll be in shared accommodation next year; I'm not too fussed (I've been sharing bathrooms in private accommodation for 3 years), and I have no choice anyway, but I am just curious. I think that postgrads deserve en-suites but for £90pw I'm not going to complain.

First time at Uni but I'm going for en-suite. Who wants to share a bathroom with 6 other people first thing in a morning? That'll be pretty hectic.

Not at all. Not everybody showers in the morning, plenty shower the night before.

Plus, in a flat of students it's very rare to have everybody having a shower at the same time. So you'll have 2 (maybe 3 if you're lucky) bathrooms probably to yourself at that time. When I wake up it's rare that I see anybody in the other shower, and I've never (in 2 years of being in shared bathroom accommodation) had to wait for the shower.

Edit - A neg for this!? I thought this was somewhere where people could give advice?