Ok this year I'm in H Block (old) Rootes:
PROS:
-Nice sized rooms with sink and good layout.
-Lots of room in cupboards in both room and kitchen.
-Walking distance of everything on campus! So you can literally role out of bed 30 mins before lectures.
-Some rooms have good views of the fields at the back (depends which side you're on)
- Loads of likeminded people who you generally get on with because you see them so often - lots of social cohesion!
- Being in Rootes is cool - it's the place most first years seem to be because it hold so mnay people - i'm proud to call myself a Rootes girl and will be for the rest of my time at warwick!
- The cleaners are cool - ours is lovely.
CONS:
- Ok no matter what peopl say about quiet areas etc. Rootes is a noisy hall, along with whitefields it is probably the most noisy on campus. This is because the corridors really echo, people come in late at night - you hear it. The doors bang - your neighbours come in - you hear it. The union is very close and particularly in the block I'm in if there is a big night at the Union (maybe 5 times a week) you hear the music dull in the background until it stops at 2 or 3 in the morning. You hear everyone get chucked out of the union - many of whom live in Rootes - drunk people do tend to scream and shout outside your window. If you have a noisy neighbour it's kinda hell! Like I do this year; the walls are very thin.
- The showers are not up to much, they go moldy everyday but the cleaners to their best. I don't use the baths. I often have to wait for a shower but never the toilet.
- The kitchen gets very dirty very quickly, more so than in the posh ensuite places - JM and AV.
-If you're stuck in a bad kitchen with people you don't see eye to eye with it can be very difficult. I have one friend who moved out of old Rootes to JM last term because of the noise and people.
- Most importantly FIRE ALARMS, this year so far (we have been here 15 weeks) there have been around 30 fire alarms - no exaggeration. They are usually between 1 and 3 am though we have had them at 3.30 and 8.45am aswell as two in a row at 2.30am and one in the snow. I hear you ask can nothing be done? Well the people who set them off are drunk and move around floors so they can't be caught and there is very little the wardens can do. This happened last year also in Rootes and the year before so it's not going to stop next year unless something drastic happens!
There you go - lots of things to bare in mind when applying. Good luck!