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

My postcode is BS20 :frown:

Its not fair cos there will be people within the BS22-28 etc etc who are less in need of accomodation than me because they drive. Its annoying because I worked hard and got into Bristol which is a good achievement but I'm not wanting to go there because there is a chance I will have to live at home..

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Rhys.

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Boo_2

My postcode is BS20 :frown:

Its not fair cos there will be people within the BS22-28 etc etc who are less in need of accomodation than me because they drive. Its annoying because I worked hard and got into Bristol which is a good achievement but I'm not wanting to go there because there is a chance I will have to live at home..

I highly doubt you'll have to live at home, it more just means you won't get into the most popular halls, and you might have to be in a student house.

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fox_amro

Is smoking allowed in any of the halls?

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~Adel~

I don't think you'll be allowed to smoke in your own room as that might trigger the fire alarm. Smoking on the veranda should be fine though.

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EvenStevens

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All halls are non smoking. You have to go outside to smoke, just like restaurants or bars

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Rhys.

I highly doubt you'll have to live at home, it more just means you won't get into the most popular halls, and you might have to be in a student house.

Living in a student house would be fine by me, I don't really want to live in a hall. Atm I'm deciding between Clifton Hill, Hawthornes and Northwell!

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Paranoid Kid

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fox_amro

Is smoking allowed in any of the halls?

Last year at Wills anyone who put himself down as a smoker was designated a smoking room. AFAIK Your room doesn't fall under the smoking ban that affects bars/clubs etc, because it counts as your residence. Communal areas are non smoking though, obviously.

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Ongels

Boo_2

Living in a student house would be fine by me, I don't really want to live in a hall. Atm I'm deciding between Clifton Hill, Hawthornes and Northwell!

You know that Clifton Hill House is a hall?

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organised_chaos

i'd put maybe hawthorns as it's not very popular, but it's still doubtful as to whether you'd get accommodation; there were a good few people who turned up without any at all last year and had to be put in random emergency accom for a while. It's risky, but there's always the possibility that you could get a house with some other people in the same boat?

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Ongels

organised_chaos

i'd put maybe hawthorns as it's not very popular, but it's still doubtful as to whether you'd get accommodation; there were a good few people who turned up without any at all last year and had to be put in random emergency accom for a while. It's risky, but there's always the possibility that you could get a house with some other people in the same boat?

I thought Hawthorns was oversubscribed last year??

Reply 2812

Preasure

13

If you dont get a room one often turns up. We had 3 people leave our floor and got one new person who had been in overflow accomodation in guest rooms. Its not ideal but you stand a very good chance of getting a room. As I remember there were only a handful of freshers who didnt get rooms this year.

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Ongels

You know that Clifton Hill House is a hall?

oh right no I didn't know that! I looked at so many of them the other day its quite difficult to remember what kind of accomodation each of them is!

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Valkyrja

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Boo_2

Living in a student house would be fine by me, I don't really want to live in a hall. Atm I'm deciding between Clifton Hill, Hawthornes and Northwell!

Have a look at Queens Road - from the outside it's not amazing looking, but inside it's been refurbished this year (work will be complete by sept) and its in a really amazing location (in clifton, next to the student union 5min walk away from precinct.

Hawthorns is apparently being decommisioned - thats what I heard anyways?!

And why Northwell? It's quite far out.....Winkworth is lovely (but then I'm biased).

Richmond Terrace isn't as lovely as the pictures suggest though....it's pretty but is a bit anti-social and arsey in general.

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Valkyrja

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fox_amro

Is smoking allowed in any of the halls?

Yes it is...in some...it should say which ones in the accommodation prospectus. Some halls/houses have designated smoking rooms/flats/common areas.

I know the definitely have a few smoking rooms (as in bedrooms you can smoke in) in richmond terrace....think they are a bit few and far between though.

Most of the halls have somewhere sheltered outside to smoke though.

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