Which Cardiff accommodation is best?

hey,
i'm doing med. i know all the med stuff isn't exactly in campus so will probs be looking for accomm near the med stuff, but still near the town and the shops.
plus i want an en-suite, a large(ish) room and sociable (but not messy or rowdy)
i know these are a lot of demands (i realise that these will cost more- already broke don't know how i'm gonna afford it). i'm willing to compromise on a few. any ideas????

Taly court - Nicest by quite a bit, rooms are massive, bathrooms are damn good (proper shower cubicle) kitchen is nice, and you have a carpeted living roomish part of the kitchen. People here are a bit more quiet and some a little more posh as it's the most expensive you could say. Decent parties when you want them, quiet when you're trying to sleep.

Taly South (Living here atm) - Rooms smaller than court, bathrooms fine except the showers are kinda wet rooms so there's no cubicle so having a shower will drench the whole bathroom floor(unless you stay perfectly still :P) Kitchens are fine, enough space. Epic parties when you want them, but seeing as there seems to be constant parties here it's sometimes hard to sleep when you want to. Also south has a silverfish infestation so they appear sometimes in your room (literally every room I know has seen at least 1) but if you're on the ground floor you have thousands of students walking past each day/night which would be annoying as yanno windows and all and noisy (luckily I'm on top floor :P)

Taly North- Known as the bronx, decent rooms, poor bathrooms, kitchen is a bit small, looks poor on the outside, but is closest to the sports complex and tesco, but furthest from town/uni. Also the cheapest out of the 3 but for what it's worth I'd recommend paying the little more for south. Wouldn't pick this one unless it was your third choice. But yeah from what I know flats are pretty social.

I wouldn't worry about having a boring flat. Every flat in my house has people I'd happily live with, and I spend quite a bit of time with the opposite flat so it doesn't take much to just walk to other flats if yours does happen to be a bit boring.

Hmm yeah, but does that mean the other halls can be a bit quiet an boring- I want parties too, just dont want to be kept up till early hours when I want to sleep... and its such a trek to main building- which is why I put Sengennydd as my 1st.

uhh I think I just ended up unlucky due to my flat constantly noisy when I'm trying to sleep but I know the opposite flat (in south) is quiet. I've got a mate in court who has quite a few parties but I think it's safe to say south is the most partyin, whether you manage to get a quieter flat is just luck, Earplugs have probably been the best thing I'e bought at uni :P

Yeah well I'm in engineering building so I'm pretty much as far away as you can get. You just man up and endure it :P I'm glad I piked south and I've got a house 10 minutes walk next year so I can live with it :P Synghetto....you're a brave person :L

Is it that bad, or is that just because you're a Taly person...?

well it looks awful from the outside, rubbish decorating inside from what I've heard, a mates got broken into over Christmas because the doors are crap. I think it's safe to say it'd bad whether that's coming from a taly person or not :P The only plus I can think of it's near town

It doesnt look that bad from the outside, looks just like taly north or south. Also the decorating inside is great, with a huge open bedroom plan (only taly court is bigger but thats only because of it being allmost £20 more!)

They have said that this year they are revamping alot of them with new paint on the walls and desks and stuff including wifi so it's going to be even better!
Also its amazingly close to town, campus and the student union (no taxi fees for nights out!)

It doesn't look anything like taly south!!! much worse! All the halls are getting wifi over the summer holidays. looks like you got a lucky flat then as a mates decorating is awful!! But I will give you it is close to town so is cheaper in transport costs.

Overall i prefered having the extra £20 to survive student life, then choose to have a mediocre en-suite which i would be loosing anyway when i moved into shared houses in year 2!

so you havent actually lived in the flats then? I've lived in both taly south and senghenydd and the outside is similar, just taly south has some baige and blue coloured houses haha

The inside is just as good as taly south if not better anyway. One of my friends had damp growing on his walls in taly south and two of my flatmates wet rooms had mould growing in the showers, but thats just a factor of living in uni halls!
You might think one is better having lived there, but thats the thing, untill you live in a hall for 7-8 months, you wont know what its like, whatever you friends say!

I think there is alot worse accomodation then taly south and senghenydd but they - as all halls - have one or two downsides. Overall i prefered having the extra £20 to survive student life, then choose to have a mediocre en-suite which i would be loosing anyway when i moved into shared houses in year 2!

Aren't south and senghenydd exactly the same price (for the en-suite, you can't compare prices of one without one and one with) ?

It doesnt look that bad from the outside, looks just like taly north or south. Also the decorating inside is great, with a huge open bedroom plan (only taly court is bigger but thats only because of it being allmost £20 more!)

They have said that this year they are revamping alot of them with new paint on the walls and desks and stuff including wifi so it's going to be even better!
Also its amazingly close to town, campus and the student union (no taxi fees for nights out!)

No you're right you can't really compare the prices, but you can have a preference over how much you want to pay. Surely would would prefer £20 more a week in some situations?

And they are only the same price if they are the same sized ensuite. Its like the taly north ensuites which are the same and smaller in comparison to taly south rooms

Do you realise that this year, most of the medical stuff is at the normal campus.. not at Heath Park campus?

Yeah, all talybont rooms have their own ensuite.

I'm going to be studying Law, is there specific accommodation where students studying law stay or are they mostly mixed?