The Warwick Accommodation Thread (+Guide in Post#1)

Sounds good thanks How do you find the bathrooms in Rootes? When we looked around I thought they were a bit worse for wear. Are they ok? Thanks

You need to apply for accommodation anyway. Check out Principles of Allocation - you will be placed in group 3 and will have the same chance as all other insurance entrants. Firms get priority over you for allocation on campus (but not necessarily for allocation into specific halls).




You need to apply for Accommodation before 31 July, firm Warwick by 31 July but meet the offer by 31 August.




Sadly not. Personally, you live a much better uni experience on campus in the first year though and getting back home can be much easier after social events at night. Where do you currently live though??



Applications opened in mid May. Chillax

I live in Birmingham currently + the thing is, I don't mind travelling but i also have this side of me that wants to experience University life at the full.. haha but I put N for university accomadation on my UCAS?

Applying to accommodation should still be fine if you want to end up doing so. If you want to you could contact Warwick Accommodation to check on the situation, but my thoughts would be that it would be OK. I think you have to weight up the pros and cons of living on/off campus.

The thing is, if you were planning to spend year 1 off campus and year 2 on campus, the financial situation would be roughly the same compared to if you did it the other way around. You get £800 more Maintenance loan off campus, but have a £2200-5600 (average £3000-3500) or so accommodation bill to foot up, but don't have to get a bus/train pass (or parking permit???) which will cost about £400 for the year. So perhaps living on campus will cost £1000 more in the first year, but the advantages are that you are on campus so you can essentially go do any activity whenever you want to and not worry about getting back home if you go out late, additionally you don't have to spend nearly 1 hour commuting in and 1 hour commuting out of uni each day.

Remember, you can still apply for accommodation (once it opens) if you want to, you don't have to give up any cash. If you want to commute in, then you don't have to accept the contract

EDIT: Oh, and first year Biology is still full of labs and lab reports

Applications opened in mid May. Chillax

But it says mid-April online

How are the kitchens in warwick accomodations generally? Cramped or not. Is food stealing rife?

Every picture I see just shows the kitchen with one set of hobs with 4 plates and I sometimes wonder how 25 peoples in westwood share 4 hot plates and 1 kitchen...

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But it says mid-April online

But it says mid-April online

Last year they kept delaying the opening of the applications for some reason - don't worry about it, you get the same priority whether you apply the day it opens or the day before the deadline

In the last two years they have said 'open in spring', 'open in April' and they both opened in mid-May.

In the last two years they have said 'open in spring', 'open in April' and they both opened in mid-May.

Is it true that on the application you can only apply for one accommodation which is en suite?

Is it true that on the application you can only apply for one accommodation which is en suite?

What would you consider to be suitable accomadation for a reasonable price?

Check out the Prices and Sharing section of the guide, but these are also my thoughts:

39 week ensuites: probably for you not worth it, unless you want brand new stuff (Bluebell). Just forget about it. Will you use the extra 9 weeks? Probably not if you are in Brum. You are paying for 9 weeks - but at the ensuites you are paying £120-145/week for them (£1080-1305 'wasted') compared to the £774 'wasted' at Rootes/Westwood. If you get a 30 week let though, you have to move in/out over the holidays - what is the additional cost of that compared to having a room you can return to over the holidays and keep your stuff in?

Good locations for your degree (Biological Sciences): Bluebell, Rootes, Jack Martin, Cryfield, Benefactors, Tocil, Arthur Vick, Whitefields (anything south basically ).
Avoid: Westwood (big rooms though), it's on the other side of campus. And probably Lakeside as well.

So really, apply the location filter and 39 wk en suite filter and you get:
Cryfield, Whitefields, Benefactors, Rootes, Tocil, Jack Martin and Arthur Vick.

Cryfield is pretty much the best value for money. At £2280, no other halls comes near to beating it when it comes to annual price, although Whitefields is pretty good value for money as well, and you only have to move out for 2 weeks. Cryfield can be a bit claustrophobic at times - and the rooms are on the small side but you still get the basic stuff so it's fine if you just want that, pretty similar to Whitefields. There is the issue with the isolated Whitefields flats - it can make it difficult to find a new group of friends if you hate the people you live with as you will always have to leave your flat to meet others.
Benefactors sits as a strange hall - you will basically know all 70 people in the halls because there is one massive communal area, it's pretty cheap for an en suite as well (I'd say the shared room is well worth it if you don't mind sharing). Benefactors single: I'd be very tempted to pay a few hundred more for JM where you get a much better kitchen, but sadly forfeit the lounge. The Benefactors lounge was always a tip though whenever I visited it.
Rootes is pretty standard really - best atmosphere (in general) if you want to go out, facilities are better than Cryfield and Whitefields I'd say but still with the issue of high sharing ratios. Many people choose it because it is the place to have parties, etc. But you get quiet and loud areas everywhere - it's just that there are more loud areas in Rootes.
Jack Martin over Arthur Vick, these two halls are useful for UK students who can move back over the holidays. They are essentially the same except that AV has wider corridors, larger rooms (probably by about 33%) and a lounge yet rubbish kitchens compared to JM. JM is considered by many, including myself, to be more lively though. Are they good value for money? You pay for the en suite, that's all I can say, it's only a few hundred more than Rootes/Westwood/Tocil across the year and perhaps the 9 weeks 'wasted' could be better spent on an en suite. JM you also pay for the great location.
Tocil you pay for the location (it's probably the best located halls of the lot) and the better sharing ratios compared to Rootes and Westwood. Beyond that I haven't seen anything special about it.

Apologies for the slow reply and possible gibberish. It has taken me a while to respond to this one.