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

Hey, I'd like to know if anyone here stays in/has visited Wills Hall, as I'm looking to apply there now that I've accepted my Bristol offer (Chemistry), but nobody seems to be able to make their mind up as to whether it's full of rahs and somewhere to definitely avoid, or somewhere with a reputation completely blown out of proportion and is just a really nice place!

I wasn't able to visit it on the interview day due to time constraints, I wish I could have. Should it turn out to be too much, I was thinking about Churchill. Any advice is welcomed, thanks

Hey, I'd like to know if anyone here stays in/has visited Wills Hall, as I'm looking to apply there now that I've accepted my Bristol offer (Chemistry), but nobody seems to be able to make their mind up as to whether it's full of rahs and somewhere to definitely avoid, or somewhere with a reputation completely blown out of proportion and is just a really nice place!

I wasn't able to visit it on the interview day due to time constraints, I wish I could have. Should it turn out to be too much, I was thinking about Churchill. Any advice is welcomed, thanks

Yay, Durdham! The best of all halls IMO. But of course, I'd say that, I live here.

The rooms are fairly sizeable. Not enormous but big enough. It's about the same size as my room at home so I was quite happy. Here's mine circa November 2008

Durdham is known as the quieter, more studious hall, I think - but the range of people is pretty large. There's a few party animals, quite a lot of musicians, but we're all pretty much nice fellows and ...fellettes? The bar is the best hall-bar, definitely Pretty big, nice atmosphere and cheap! Plus it's just a nice place to go with your friends if you're bored in the evening.

It also has a music room, so if you're the musical type and keep getting told off for playing in your flat-band too loudly then you can go there and be as loud as you want.

I'm glad I got into Durdham, actually. They mixed my flat really really well and we all get on surprisingly well. ^_^

Thanks Durdham looks really nice...its looking very likely that I will put Bristol as my firm choice and I'm thinking of putting Durdham my 1st choice accommodation and Manor Hall as my 2nd choice...I'm not thinking of accepting my offer until mid march tho, so do you think that will effect my likelihood of getting good accommodation (ie...Durdham or Manor)

Thanks Durdham looks really nice...its looking very likely that I will put Bristol as my firm choice and I'm thinking of putting Durdham my 1st choice accommodation and Manor Hall as my 2nd choice...I'm not thinking of accepting my offer until mid march tho, so do you think that will effect my likelihood of getting good accommodation (ie...Durdham or Manor)

Accommodation isn't done on a first come first serve basis.

Word of advice - don't put Manor as your "insurance" hall as it's very popular and will almost likely get filled by first choice applicants. You'll need to put a less popular hall second so if you don't get your first choice, you'll at least get somewhere to live

No...accommodation is pretty much unaffected by EVERYTHING if you're guaranteed it. I accepted my offer early, applied for accommodation on the first day possible, am obviously amazing and still got put in the worst self-catered hall . Which I now love, so don't stress too much! Also, I'd personally go for Manor over Durdham because of the walk. If you don't mind the walk, then you might as well go for UH because it's so much cheaper and apart from the aesthetics, there's minimal difference and a much better social side

Accommodation isn't done on a first come first serve basis.
Word of advice - don't put Manor as your "insurance" hall as it's very popular and will almost likely get filled by first choice applicants. You'll need to put a less popular hall second so if you don't get your first choice, you'll at least get somewhere to live

How is it done then?

based on what course you do or something???

How is it done then?

based on what course you do or something???

Thanks for the reply...I'm going to wait until all my decisions come through (just waiting on one...) and then go on the open days, and if Bristol is my firm I'm thinking of putting either Durdham or Manor first choice and uni halls as second choice Any advice on these choices?? I only have the 2007 accommodation prospectus which I got on the open day and Ongels, which halls are you in??

The prospectus won't change much. I'm in University Hall, which I was REALLY unhappy with when I found out, but now I love it. It's pretty damn ugly but you get past that after the first couple of days, and it more than makes up for it in the social life, people and extra £1000 to spend. The only bad thing is the walk, which you learn to live with, but I would definitely not like to be in somewhere like Durdham or Wills because then I'd feel cheated paying more but still having the downside of the location.

Dang...my internet breaks for a week, and I miss all the Durdham-loving...

EvenStevens, I think we finally encountered each other the other day - I was the mad blonde wandering round trying to steal peoples wireless. You were asleep at 3 in the afternoon. Shameful.

Haha, was that you? Sorry about that. It's not often I get a day in the middle of the week completely off. I thought I'd take advantage of it

Obviously you managed to get your resnet working again

Yeah, having ensuite bathrooms, kitchens that can actually feasibly fit 5 or 6 people in them and a lack of vermin scuttling around is a bad thing.

I've lived in Uni Hall and Durdham. IMO, it's worth the extra money.

I wish. Spent about an hour on the phone to someone on Wednesday, eventually decided I should bring it in to see them so they could have another poke, though I'd already done this on Monday to no avail, and the problem only seemed to be when I was plugged into my socket. Did that today, they spent about five minutes looking at it and decided that someone needed to come up and look at my socket. Which was what I sort of realised on Wednesday, but there we go.

So I'm currently perched in the Vet Museum, on Uni Wireless. Can also be found most evenings sitting on the floor of C block basement, where, bizarrely, there is also uni wireless.

Someone's coming to look at my socket tomorrow, I hope.

You haven't made any drastic changes to your laptop in the past few month have you? Like over Christmas or something