Bristol University Accommodation Info (please post all questions here!)

Elle Jeffrey

Hi everyone, would really appreciate some help please =) have trawled through the last 113 or so pages on this thread and have narrowed my choice down to Goldney and HB, but I cant decide between the two!

HB - Catered and very sociable, also I have about 20 contact hours a week so having to walk 40mins to and from uni everyday might just kill me.

Goldney - 15mins walk so much closer to leactures and the town

what are people's thoughts about the two in comparison to each other? choosing is driving me insane!

x

You may want to think about your budget - Goldney is relatively expensive when compared to HB - the amount of money you'll spend on your own food will make the living costs higher than HB, plus you'll need a lot of time to cook (you can tell that I don't like cooking much...)

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Jimi Haze

Bit risky I know but ended up going for:

Goldney
Richmond Terrace

Purely 'cos I love Clifton, was gonna do HB as 2nd choice but thought catered probably wasnt the best for me.

Fingers crossed for Goldney now :frown:

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Elle Jeffrey

Thanks Basho, History Lost in Physics and Paranoid Kid that helped a lot =) wise words!!

What you all applying to study? x

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I'm going self catered but I can't cook. So I put down cooking as one of my interests. Now I'll be put with people who enjoy cooking! This plan is going to backfire, isn't it?

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dragooon

I'm going self catered but I can't cook. So I put down cooking as one of my interests. Now I'll be put with people who enjoy cooking! This plan is going to backfire, isn't it?

HAHA! Canny!

............quite possibly, though you could just tell people you're into haute cuisine and chemical cookery and simply "don't have the equipment".

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Elle Jeffrey

dragooon

I'm going self catered but I can't cook. So I put down cooking as one of my interests. Now I'll be put with people who enjoy cooking! This plan is going to backfire, isn't it?

hahaha good one, i put down i like cooking even tho i cant cook anything! i figured id like it if i could do it right =P did you find that you ticked loads of the boxes? how are they going to match people when they are such general interests!

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Elle Jeffrey

hahaha good one, i put down i like cooking even tho i cant cook anything! i figured id like it if i could do it right =P did you find that you ticked loads of the boxes? how are they going to match people when they are such general interests!

I loved the options which went along the lines of "going out with friends." Is that because they felt the "staying at home by myself" option would sound too harsh?

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Emma the Hippy

dragooon

I'm going self catered but I can't cook. So I put down cooking as one of my interests. Now I'll be put with people who enjoy cooking! This plan is going to backfire, isn't it?

Now this could be interesting, cos I've done exactly the same thing...

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Emma the Hippy

Now this could be interesting, cos I've done exactly the same thing...

Ok, three of us have admitted to doing this. This suggests my plan is going to fail and I may have to learn how to cook something.

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dragooon

Ok, three of us have admitted to doing this. This suggests my plan is going to fail and I may have to learn how to cook something.

I'm beginning to think an illegal in-hall catering business could be a very lucrative idea....

Get a george forman .....Toasted Sandwiches/Meat that pretty much impossible to undercook..... s'all good.

Or you could just live off ready meals.

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Reilly

I'm beginning to think an illegal in-hall catering business could be a very lucrative idea....

Get a george forman .....Toasted Sandwiches/Meat that pretty much impossible to undercook..... s'all good.

Or you could just live off ready meals.

Get some friends at a catered hall on the first day - and go to every meal time there. No one will ask any questions... hopefully :s-smilie:

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History Lost in Physics

Get some friends at a catered hall on the first day - and go to every meal time there. No one will ask any questions... hopefully :s-smilie:

I already have friends who have applied to catered. Hmmm... Sounds like a plan

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History Lost in Physics

Get some friends at a catered hall on the first day - and go to every meal time there. No one will ask any questions... hopefully :s-smilie:

Hehe I'm a cooking god thanks :biggrin:

I'll be orite.

I'm going to crack out 101 things to do with potatoes seen as they seem to be the only staple not ridiculously sky rocketing in price....

Potato fritters, potato pancakes, potato wedges, potato skins, potato dumplings.... (I also love potatos anyways....must be the irish in me :p:

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Reilly

Hehe I'm a cooking god thanks :biggrin:

I'll be orite.

I'm going to crack out 101 things to do with potatoes seen as they seem to be the only staple not ridiculously sky rocketing in price....

Potato fritters, potato pancakes, potato wedges, potato skins, potato dumplings.... (I also love potatos anyways....must be the irish in me :p:

)

Don't forget pasta! I really hate* the majority of things that the British do with potatoes. The French; now there's a people that know what to do with a potato!

*New potatoes and baked potatoes will not be eaten, chips or roast potatoes which are even slightly over or underdone will make me swear.

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History Lost in Physics

Don't forget pasta! I really hate* the majority of things that the British do with potatoes. The French; now there's a people that know what to do with a potato!

*New potatoes and baked potatoes will not be eaten, chips or roast potatoes which are even slightly over or underdone will make me swear.

I'll have to make you a potato pancake then.....I'll change you're mind (to be sure, to be sure).

Coincidently, I work in a chip shop, and the evil chips burnt my hands really badly today :frown:

(yes I am classy)

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