Best Halls of Residence? (The Big Accommodation Choices Thread Mark II)

What's the general concensus around Woolton Hall? Im thinking of making it my first priority accomodation Is it a nice area? Due to it being in Fallowfields, im guessing it's quite a sociable area?

Thanks!

I live in woolton hall and i love it! It's not full of rahs! It's a fairly small hall but has a great sense of community. The social life is wicked but i guess that's what u make of it yourself and depends on the people u meet, i've been really lucky. It's right next to oak house, richmond park and owens park so there's always loads of people about. The grounds are really lovely..lawns and trees and squirrels! The rooms are really big too, bigger than my bedroom at home!

Fallowfield campus is pretty good if you want a lively social life. And by lively I mean parties most nights, not necesarily in your flat, but there's enough action going around for you to have a laugh. Best thing about fallowfield is you can get away with pretty much anything and it's cheap as funk. Bus journey to Uni's about 10 mins usually, City centre 15, so it's not really an issue. Factor in bus pass cost into your weekly rent as obviously it's not included. Victoria Park is very very very very quiet and good if you're the studious type. But you'll still have fun. City Campus is a mixed bag depending on where you live, if you're near Oxford Road there's enough student bars and stuff for a laugh, but the student community is a bit more spread out and not quite as anarachaic as Fallowfield. North Campus city residences I'm not so hot on because they feel too far removed from the university and a bit too close to the real world, but then that might be what you want

Fallowfield (Oak House) is the best place to live, hands down. If I was you, if you definitely want self-catered, put down at least one self-catered, shared bathroom option because if you put down three self-catered ensuites, you might not get any of them.

I know a lot of people who applied for Sheavyn, Richmond Park and Canterbury Court (or somewhere like that), and they've ended up in Owens Park or in one of the catered halls in VP. Self-catered ensuite is always oversubscribed. Putting down something like Sheavyn, RP, Oak House means that you're at least likely to get Oak House. Or Whitworth Park, or somewhere like that.

No-one knows where your lectures are going to be exactly, but Whitworth Park is right on the Oxford Road campus where you will have lectures/tutorials/whatevs.

Uh oh... I applied for accommodation on Jan 1st (I'm on a gap year and already have a place hence the early application, thought I'd get it out of the way!) and I put Sheavyn, Richmond and Canterbury... do you think it's worth changing? Oh and does anyone know the dates for the accommodation open day thingy? I believe it's in March sometime but don't know exactly when?

i was thinking of putting richmond, sheavyn and oak house...obviously i'm gonna wait for the accommodation open day thing (when is that by the way?) i'd ideally like richmond but i think i'd be happy with any of them. i just really don't want to be catered and don't want to be somewhere like owen's park.

Tbh, from what I've found, Oak House is virtually no different to Owen's Park

ahhh ok...i see. thank you for your advice. do you mean that is really noisy, you get no sleep etc?

I'm not there, but I have friends down there and it always seems pretty lively. But its good fun too, so you need to weigh it up really. I know of a few people on here who are living there this year, so maybe one of them will be able to tell you more

ahh cool. thanks for the advice. i definitely do want somewhere really lively...but just somewhere that you can actually sleep/work too its just that my stepsister was in owen's park last year and said its fun but you never get any sleep and fire alarms go off constantly at like 4 in the morning