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Accommodation-what's it like??
Hey, what's the accommodation like, and is it all on campus? Is it sociable? Thanks!
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You get what you pay for. Yes, the majority is on campus and it's v sociable, whether you go catered or self-catered. I'm catered ensuite, so I'm paying a lot, but I love it all the same. I've attached a couple of pics for you!
(EDIT: This is Pennsylvania Court, about 10 minutes from the centre of campus)
(EDIT: This is Pennsylvania Court, about 10 minutes from the centre of campus)
What she said.
Plus there's all this from an old accommodation thread...
CATERED HALLS
Holland - expensive, and the newest hall. Cost is £142 a week, and at present the university is just running breakfast and dinners in all catered halls - no more lunch vouchers, so you have to make your own arrangements. Very close to Family Centre, Health Centre, Student Counselling Service, Peter Chalk Centre and the gym. Has its own bar and fab views over the Exe Valley. All rooms are double beds and ensuite (unless you have a disabled room - I think they just have single beds). Although it is the newest hall, it has already built up a reputation as being the sloaniest hall, a reputation inherited from...
Mardon. a.k.a. 'Hotel on the Hill'. Is in pretty much the same place as Holland Hall but a bit further along the hill. I think they have to go up to Holland Hall for meals at the weekends but eat in Mardon during the week.
Hope. Very difficult to get a place in Hope Hall as it is so nice there! They also have their own bar, The Badger, and very nice it is too. A lot of the rooms are shared but there are some single rooms.
Lopes. Can't say I know much about Lopes to be honest, but it's also very competitive to get into and it's pretty much the same price to live in as Hope Hall. Both Hope and Lopes are on the other side of campus to Holland and Mardon, near Cornwall House, Amory Building, town centre, and the School of Business and Economics.
Kilmorie. Kilmorie is just off campus, along the main student road, Pennsylvania Road. I think it is also the smallest catered hall, with only about 80 students, so therefore very competitive to get into. People who live there are called Kilmorons and they have the HLK ball in the summer with the people who live in Hope and Lopes. I think they also go to Hope Hall for dinner.
Ransom Pickard. I can't pretend I know much about Ransom Pickard either, but it is one of the cheaper catered halls as far as I know, and as such, it looks it. However, I've heard that the atmosphere there is pretty good, and as well as being quite near the tennis courts, it is also allowed to share Hope Hall's bar (as are Lopes and Kilmorie).
Pennsylvania Court. Newer annex of Lopes, and as such, it is slightly more expensive to live in. I think it is quite similar quality to Holland Hall.
Duryard/Birks. Duryard is being knocked down this year and rebuilt, whereas Birks has been a couple of years out of the accommodation circuit due to undergoing the same process. It is now open to students as of the 2006/2007 academic year, and is known to the fresh as Birks Grange (but it'll always be plain old Birks to us oldtimers
). While it is still on campus, it is on the very outskirts so you have to like hill climbing
SELF-CATERED HALLS
Lafrowda. Lafrowda is the cheapest self-catered accommodation available. Standard flats are c.£55/week and enhanced flats are c.£65/week, all-inclusive. The standard flats are quite basic but they have everything you need. For your extra £10 a week in an enhanced flat, you get more storage space, better fixtures and fittings, and a proper living room rather than just a TV in the kitchen. If you want an enhanced flat though you have to be quick - there are something like only 200 enhanced rooms available out of the 700 or so total Lafrowda rooms. Next to Cornwall House.
Rowe House. Next to Lafrowda. Mostly allocated to returners. Double beds, ensuite. More expensive of the SC halls. A good step up once you've lived in grot for your first year, if you want to stay in uni accommodation.
St German's. See above.
Nash Grove. Holland Hall side of campus. Very nice SC accommodation, very near the postgrad centre where there is lots of yummy food available
Holland Hall self-contained flats. There are very few of these, but you get the advantage of catered hall atmosphere while maintaining your independence. Unfortunately you are not able to use the free laundry facilities available to catered Hollanders (unless you make friends with someone who has a card and can let you into the laundry facilities ), so you have to drag your laundry elsewhere on the hill.
Clydesdale. Don't know much about this, but it's near Nash and the Postgrad Centre - and from what I've heard it's quite nice in there.
St David's. Down the hill near the station. These are more like houses than SC halls, and they have quite nice facilities. Laundry facilities and small shops are very close, but you have to like climbing the hill to campus.
Cook Mews. Self catered. Also quite near St David's but I don't really know anything more about it.
James Owen Court. Next to the Odeon cinema in the city centre. Let to returning undergrads, postgrads and international students.
Rowancroft Court/House/Mews. Near St Luke's campus.
Plus there's all this from an old accommodation thread...
CATERED HALLS
Holland - expensive, and the newest hall. Cost is £142 a week, and at present the university is just running breakfast and dinners in all catered halls - no more lunch vouchers, so you have to make your own arrangements. Very close to Family Centre, Health Centre, Student Counselling Service, Peter Chalk Centre and the gym. Has its own bar and fab views over the Exe Valley. All rooms are double beds and ensuite (unless you have a disabled room - I think they just have single beds). Although it is the newest hall, it has already built up a reputation as being the sloaniest hall, a reputation inherited from...
Mardon. a.k.a. 'Hotel on the Hill'. Is in pretty much the same place as Holland Hall but a bit further along the hill. I think they have to go up to Holland Hall for meals at the weekends but eat in Mardon during the week.
Hope. Very difficult to get a place in Hope Hall as it is so nice there! They also have their own bar, The Badger, and very nice it is too. A lot of the rooms are shared but there are some single rooms.
Lopes. Can't say I know much about Lopes to be honest, but it's also very competitive to get into and it's pretty much the same price to live in as Hope Hall. Both Hope and Lopes are on the other side of campus to Holland and Mardon, near Cornwall House, Amory Building, town centre, and the School of Business and Economics.
Kilmorie. Kilmorie is just off campus, along the main student road, Pennsylvania Road. I think it is also the smallest catered hall, with only about 80 students, so therefore very competitive to get into. People who live there are called Kilmorons and they have the HLK ball in the summer with the people who live in Hope and Lopes. I think they also go to Hope Hall for dinner.
Ransom Pickard. I can't pretend I know much about Ransom Pickard either, but it is one of the cheaper catered halls as far as I know, and as such, it looks it. However, I've heard that the atmosphere there is pretty good, and as well as being quite near the tennis courts, it is also allowed to share Hope Hall's bar (as are Lopes and Kilmorie).
Pennsylvania Court. Newer annex of Lopes, and as such, it is slightly more expensive to live in. I think it is quite similar quality to Holland Hall.
Duryard/Birks. Duryard is being knocked down this year and rebuilt, whereas Birks has been a couple of years out of the accommodation circuit due to undergoing the same process. It is now open to students as of the 2006/2007 academic year, and is known to the fresh as Birks Grange (but it'll always be plain old Birks to us oldtimers
). While it is still on campus, it is on the very outskirts so you have to like hill climbing SELF-CATERED HALLS
Lafrowda. Lafrowda is the cheapest self-catered accommodation available. Standard flats are c.£55/week and enhanced flats are c.£65/week, all-inclusive. The standard flats are quite basic but they have everything you need. For your extra £10 a week in an enhanced flat, you get more storage space, better fixtures and fittings, and a proper living room rather than just a TV in the kitchen. If you want an enhanced flat though you have to be quick - there are something like only 200 enhanced rooms available out of the 700 or so total Lafrowda rooms. Next to Cornwall House.
Rowe House. Next to Lafrowda. Mostly allocated to returners. Double beds, ensuite. More expensive of the SC halls. A good step up once you've lived in grot for your first year, if you want to stay in uni accommodation.
St German's. See above.
Nash Grove. Holland Hall side of campus. Very nice SC accommodation, very near the postgrad centre where there is lots of yummy food available
Holland Hall self-contained flats. There are very few of these, but you get the advantage of catered hall atmosphere while maintaining your independence. Unfortunately you are not able to use the free laundry facilities available to catered Hollanders (unless you make friends with someone who has a card and can let you into the laundry facilities
), so you have to drag your laundry elsewhere on the hill.Clydesdale. Don't know much about this, but it's near Nash and the Postgrad Centre - and from what I've heard it's quite nice in there.
St David's. Down the hill near the station. These are more like houses than SC halls, and they have quite nice facilities. Laundry facilities and small shops are very close, but you have to like climbing the hill to campus.
Cook Mews. Self catered. Also quite near St David's but I don't really know anything more about it.
James Owen Court. Next to the Odeon cinema in the city centre. Let to returning undergrads, postgrads and international students.
Rowancroft Court/House/Mews. Near St Luke's campus.
sarah89
Hey, what's the accommodation like, and is it all on campus? Is it sociable? Thanks!
I think you can simply say that accommodation varies here at Exeter.
I'm in Murray (an old Duryard hall) that is being used as temporary accommodation with little chance of us being moved out this year because they have over subscribed by about 150 places this year. Having said that, we have all come to realise that it's not necessarily worth paying the £50 extra for nice en suite accommodation with the posh double beds like they have in Birks because you are only really going to be sleeping in the room and working at your desk.
It's really the people that you are with that makes the difference I think and, although the facilities at Murray can best be described as basic (I've heard stories of previous years where people were housed in common rooms, having no water btw
), you'd still have a great time, even in the most basic of accommodation.
Ahh that view from Holland is lush *jealous* I have a rather attractive view of a main road and car garage 
Like other people have said, the accommodation here varies greatly depending on what you want to pay, you can live in a 'hotel' (Holland/Birks) or a Swedish prison (Lafrowda) or the greatest hall in the world (Kilmorie
) but it doesnt matter too much what the quality of your room is like, cos you probably wont spend that much time in there. Whats more important is the people you live with.
Like other people have said, the accommodation here varies greatly depending on what you want to pay, you can live in a 'hotel' (Holland/Birks) or a Swedish prison (Lafrowda) or the greatest hall in the world (Kilmorie
) but it doesnt matter too much what the quality of your room is like, cos you probably wont spend that much time in there. Whats more important is the people you live with.Angelil
Duryard/Birks. Duryard is being knocked down this year and rebuilt, whereas Birks has been a couple of years out of the accommodation circuit due to undergoing the same process. It is now open to students as of the 2006/2007 academic year, and is known to the fresh as Birks Grange (but it'll always be plain old Birks to us oldtimers ). While it is still on campus, it is on the very outskirts so you have to like hill climbing
Duryard/Birks. Duryard is being knocked down this year and rebuilt, whereas Birks has been a couple of years out of the accommodation circuit due to undergoing the same process. It is now open to students as of the 2006/2007 academic year, and is known to the fresh as Birks Grange (but it'll always be plain old Birks to us oldtimers
). While it is still on campus, it is on the very outskirts so you have to like hill climbing Most of Duryard has actually been demolished and is not being rebuilt, but Murray is still open for this year and Moberly House (the best place to be!!) is remaining open. Apparently there are plans to refurbish Moberly and make it permanently part of the new Birks Grange. Yes it is at the bottom of the infamous Cardiac Hill, but it is the most sociable hall and has the greatest atmosphere. (It also has heated floors!)
The rooms in Hope are very small, rooms in Kilmorie are HUGE. Kilmorie is not really on campus, but across the road from Hope. Holland is like a hotel, its ridiculous and Lopes is very nice inside.
Wherever you chose to go, you WILL be at the bottom of a hill, and it is inevitable that all your lectures will be at the top! But its fantastic all the same!
One more thing, I'm soooo annoyed that all the accommodation is being upgraded to double beds with en-suite! The whole point of uni accommodation is that its crap and basic. I know its a contradiction, but thats what makes it great!! So everyone apply for Moberly!! There is soooo much less socialisng and atmosphere in the upgraded accommodation, with their silly security systems and heavy self shutting doors. In Moberly, you can get to any block at any time, and everyone keeps their door open when in their rooms, so people can always stop in for a chat.
Which halls are nearest neat the Union and liveliest?
And we're fab aren't we
Totally!!!!!!!
sophierw
One more thing, I'm soooo annoyed that all the accommodation is being upgraded to double beds with en-suite! The whole point of uni accommodation is that its crap and basic. I know its a contradiction, but thats what makes it great!! So everyone apply for Moberly!! There is soooo much less socialisng and atmosphere in the upgraded accommodation, with their silly security systems and heavy self shutting doors. In Moberly, you can get to any block at any time, and everyone keeps their door open when in their rooms, so people can always stop in for a chat.
Firstly, I'm quite pleased to have had a double-bed/en-suite option. Nash Grove is superb, and where I stay has views similar to that of Holland Hall. Yes, the heavy self-shutting doors are a nightmare for 'community relations', but it isn't impossible to wedge them open (even though it's probably illegal).
I understand your feeling about the point of university accommodation being crappy and basic, but I get the distinct feeling there are some folk at this university who would not cope very well in such an environment.
Just to add, if you want basic accommodation, there will always be enough spaces.
sophierw
The rooms in Hope are very small, rooms in Kilmorie are HUGE. Kilmorie is not really on campus, but across the road from Hope. Holland is like a hotel, its ridiculous and Lopes is very nice inside.
Wherever you chose to go, you WILL be at the bottom of a hill, and it is inevitable that all your lectures will be at the top! But its fantastic all the same!
The rooms in Hope are very small, rooms in Kilmorie are HUGE. Kilmorie is not really on campus, but across the road from Hope. Holland is like a hotel, its ridiculous and Lopes is very nice inside.
Wherever you chose to go, you WILL be at the bottom of a hill, and it is inevitable that all your lectures will be at the top! But its fantastic all the same!
Ha, you havent seen mine! According to my cleaner, I have like the smallest one!
No fair. But yes generally they are massive.Roberto Tomato
Which halls are nearest neat the Union and liveliest?
Lafrowda basically surrounds the union!! Followed by Rowe House and St German's (mostly let to returners/postgrads).
Sweepster
I get the distinct feeling there are some folk at this university who would not cope very well in such an environment.
In the 70s and before you would have had to - basically it was Lafrowda or Duryard!!!
I don't think the universities (not just Exeter) do a great deal to help matters - they provide swish accommodation so as to procure more money, and by providing it in such huge numbers, the students convince themselves that they need it and that nothing but ensuite will do. If it didn't exist, neither would this problem.....
Angelil
In the 70s and before you would have had to - basically it was Lafrowda or Duryard!!!
I don't think the universities (not just Exeter) do a great deal to help matters - they provide swish accommodation so as to procure more money, and by providing it in such huge numbers, the students convince themselves that they need it and that nothing but ensuite will do. If it didn't exist, neither would this problem.....
In the 70s and before you would have had to - basically it was Lafrowda or Duryard!!!
I don't think the universities (not just Exeter) do a great deal to help matters - they provide swish accommodation so as to procure more money, and by providing it in such huge numbers, the students convince themselves that they need it and that nothing but ensuite will do. If it didn't exist, neither would this problem.....
I couldnt agree more! The people in the swish "hotels" will find it so hard next year going into rented accommodation, having to, wait for it, SHARE a bathroom, and have a SINGLE bed
whereas myself and other sensible people who dont want to pay extortionate amounts of money for so few benefits will be comparitively living in luxury!!sophierw
I couldnt agree more! The people in the swish "hotels" will find it so hard next year going into rented accommodation, having to, wait for it, SHARE a bathroom, and have a SINGLE bed whereas myself and other sensible people who dont want to pay extortionate amounts of money for so few benefits will be comparitively living in luxury!!
whereas myself and other sensible people who dont want to pay extortionate amounts of money for so few benefits will be comparitively living in luxury!!That's perhaps the only good thing about being in Murray- wherever I end up next year will seem like a palace!
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