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The Hub Dundee

fitzybhoy

2

Does anyone know the price of a room here? Can't find pricing info anywhere :confused:

Reply 1

L i b

19

I think it's £300 odd p.p.m. at the moment, but that includes internet, phone, electricity and so forth. I imagine there'll be some difference between a room in their 5-bed and 4-bed flats.

It's actually quite a bit cheaper than uni accomodation - but then again, uni stuff is only 37 weeks a year... so it's cheaper if you don't intend to spend summer in Dundee.

Reply 2

fitzybhoy

OP

2

£75 a week?! Balls to that! I'll stay at home I think; I live in Lochee!

Reply 3

L i b

19

Bit of a hike, but quite possibly worth it.

Or you could just get some accomodation that doesn't make you feel like a gerbil in an identical tank to all the other gerbils in the shop. :biggrin:

Anyway, I'm not totally certain on this price, I'm going on one vague and faintly unreliable source.

Reply 4

Teenie

1

For first year I wouldn't go to the hub, yes ok, its in a good location but I think most of the students in the hub are 2nd year and up, would you not prefer to stay somewhere with other people in your year and the same situation as yourself? Lochee would be a bit of a hike or expensive with the 10 week bus passes(10 week passes, 12 week terms??! Not very sensible me thinks) I am in west park at the moment, its good banter, you should maybe think about uni accomodation for 1st year.

Reply 5

ArchiBoi

12

I'd avoid the hub at all costs. I spent my second year staying at the hub and thought it was an absolute disgrace. Half the place was still in scaffolding when I arrived, and I awoke every morning to the joy of the sounds of local builders and fire alarms that go off randomly every 10 hours; great for revision. The woman who "manages" it is a smokescreen who is no help and does not take any complaints seriously. You would be better having a conversation with a brick wall. She claims to have no power to make any changes anyway. Accomodation was shoddy, poorly built, with corners cut everywhere. It's rather like being battery farmed, with Ms. McDonald as your not so considerate keeper.

If you want photographs, or any more advice, send me a pm.

I was not a happy camper.
:frown:

Reply 6

L i b

19

Ouch. Sounds awful.

Although to be fair, I think construction noise was a bit predictable.

Reply 7

ArchiBoi

12

Yer, but it's what came with it; like builders wandering into girls flats without any notice, and leaving cigerette packets in people's bins who didn't even smoke. Anyway, don't take my word for it, I beleive there is student services office on campus that gives you advice about private accomodation. They have filed a whole heap of information on the hub, and logged lots of complaints, your better speaking to them for impartial and solid student-orientation advice.

Reply 8

ArchiBoi

12

I suggest you all check this out tis a bebo group run by one of friends for the shoddy hub!; http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4892300028

Reply 9

L i b

19

I hear the Union made a statement about it being crap.

Reply 10

SmilerNuts

15

Libertinus Septentrionalis

I hear the Union made a statement about it being crap.

Wasn't that just about the city in general :p:

Reply 11

L i b

19

SmilerNuts

Wasn't that just about the city in general :p:

Nah, just about your mum.

Reply 12

SmilerNuts

15

Libertinus Septentrionalis

Nah, just about your mum.

If you always use lines like that I'm surprised you didn't win best debater :p:

Reply 13

clapyourhands

zzz smilernuts stop posting on every thread about dundee.

avoid the hub like the plague. scammers, poorly built and hardly any network coverage for phones.

Reply 14

SmilerNuts

15

clapyour hands - shut up.

Reply 15

L i b

19

clapyourhands

avoid the hub like the plague. scammers, poorly built and hardly any network coverage for phones.

Maybe not quite like the plague, but for the same amount of money you can find better and more reliable accommodation in Dundee, certainly.

Reply 16

Beebee_bloo

Hey, i am probably going to Dundee next year, so will be taking university accommodation. Out of interest, is the Hub any worse than Unite is. My brother stayed in Unite in Aberdeen for 2 years. It was badly built, a pain in the bum, but a LOT better than renting a flat. He is having huge problems with that now. The Hub website looks OK and the prices are REALLY cheap compared to Aberdeen prices.

What better accommodation is there in Dundee that is not renting a flat? As my parents live in France, they can't pay for a flat the same way as Scottish people, thats the problem. For my brother we had to pay for the whole years rent all at once coz of that!!!

Beebee_bloo

Reply 17

L i b

19

The Hub does work out even slightly cheaper than university halls if you work it out (the leases are of a different term etc). As far as I know, the Unite flats in Dundee are just a bit ****, the Hub has plenty of more pronounced problems.

I don't quite get how you can presumably pay a year's rent at once, but not space it out over the course of a year.

If you're going for university accommodation though, why does it matter?