Student Houses vs. Halls

thanks soo much for posting!...so if u could choose again, would u go for a hall? or winkworth?...and yeah the en-suite-ness is veryyy tempting lol!

student houses are fine, no hall bar admittedly but most of them are in the centre next to uni so there's millions of other places to go to - Winkworth has pubs either side of it. You're gonna make friends anywhere so you should be picking a hall on location and facilities. There was no way I was walking 45 minutes to uni every day and I didn't think there was much of a chance of getting into Goldney (plus its mostly not en suite) so Winkworth was a great choice. There are a couple of student houses with only 8 or so people in which you may want to try and avoid but those houses were really sociable last year having loads of really good parties
Geoff's also exaggerating, if you're an engineer like me and him it only takes 5 minutes to get to uni if you power walk up park street and then you get to rub all the stoke bishop kids noses in the fact that you got up 20 mins ago and they've been up since half 7.
But yeah if you're worried about making friends, don't; Hawthorns and Winkworth will be absolutely fine (although I did have a bit of a weirdo in the room opposite me :P )
I can't vouch for orbital this year but it was good last year.

PS one thing about the Hawthorns, on a few uni websites it's advertised as being en-suite but actually not many of the rooms are so if you want that be careful.

No way! I had a Psycho right opposite me too! What a coincidence lol!

Anyone got aything to say about Hillside/Woodside? Considering putting it as my second choice.

Haha you probably live across from each other...

Fine, lmao. I was tired and thought that was witty at the time!...

Hillside/Woodside are actually very good places to live despite being an actual house and living with about 5 other people.

It's actually situated very close to the sports centre, which means that it's near almost all the University buildings. For example it would have taken me less than 5 minutes to walk there from Hillside/Woodside to the Engineering department if I lived there last year. This means you can literally get out of bed to lectures.

Another good reason to stay there as Wowbagger said already is that there are loads of house parties during the year which wer great.

Says it's 20 minutes in the prospectus thingy. Sure you're looking at the ne across the bridge?
But I can see one hell of a house party happening in it.

if it counts for anything, i think it was witty haha!

Yeah sorry it's been like a year since I was studying in Bristol - I can't remember the names properly. All I know is that the student houses on St Michael's Hill, the road parallel to Tyndall Avenue (the sports centre road I think) is what I was referring to in my post.

If those aren't Hillside/Woodside then I've go no idea... Sorry!

PPS @ the hawthorns person, back when I read the prospectus for the Hawthorns a few years ago it implied it was virtually all en suite, 50/50 is probably right although as far as I know it's still a random allocation so it's up to you if you wanna take the chance

G, Hillside woodside is that massive house over the bridge where anit and and a couple others were last year - Gina came back from the party in a trolley remember? It's a pretty cool place, fair way out but closer than stoke bishop and you go through clifton which is much nicer (and you're closer to the epi) You're also really close to ashton court which is good. When we were in first year it was boys only but they had some really good parties - orbital are good when you want to organise one as they'll email everyone on your behalf.

do you know if all the shared rooms are en suite though?