Is £24.50 a night expensive for summer university accommodation?

Hi everyone,

I am looking to stay at my university over the summer for about 6-8 weeks to work on soma academic commitments for this year, as I am worried that home circumstances may affect my progress in them (I have Aspergers and really, the worry about this is unbearable).

I asked for the price, and was told that it was £24.50 per night, which works out at over £170 per week - bed only.

Is this an average/reasonable price for bed only? Would it be reasonable to request a discount per night, given that I would be staying for around 60 days?

I am sort of stuck, as I really feel that I need to work on my academic work away from home this summer, however, due to the nature of my disability, private ranting/sharing is far to worrying for me. I could only really work on the projects away from home if I was staying in university accommodation. However, if the price is too high and can't afford it, I will have to return home during a very difficult family time and risk under-performing/failing my projects.

Are there any other options available to me? Please could you advise me - I am really worried about this.

Can you not look at cheaper private accomodation for the 2 months? our maybe see if your university has cheaper dorms/accomodation? Can I ask what uni you go to? or the general area, might be able to do a quick search for you

Well how much do you normally pay then?

It's normally about £21 per night, but that's fully catered too. I receive a grant due to the fact that my parents are on low incomes. Otherwise this would be higher.

Could you potentially mention that to your uni?

that's a tad too wide a search, but yh, search private because I assume that you wouldn't need a lot of access to uni property eg library, but if do it won't be far away. Also, I'm going northeast (NCL) so I know that north is fairly affordable, £24.50 a night for 60 days is just under £1500, let alone food and other stuff.

I'm hoping that you're in a en-suite super big room or something in which case the easiest would just be to ask to be moved to a cheaper room 😂😉 good luck with everything

Look around.

I stayed one summer and paid £35 per week. I was in a very cheap town but my accommodation only charged 50% of normal rent over summer as very few were there. I did negotiate for that though it wasn't their first offer.