Halls, house share, or studio flat?

If you want to have fun = House Share/Halls
If you want to get good grades = Flat/Halls

has anyone here used or heard of NIDO student living? any information would be great xx

has anyone here used or heard of NIDO student living? any information would be great xx

What if I want both?

has anyone here used or heard of NIDO student living? any information would be great xx

Yeah Nido is great, I'll be staying there this summer onwards hopefully.

Basically there are three types of rooms.
1) Standard single cube
2) Single corner cube (sleeping and study areas are separated; there's also a ceiling to floor glass window)
3) Twin cube (share with a roommate)

You do not share bathrooms with others, unless you get a twin room in which you share with your roommate. You get a kitchenette if you get the single cubes, but I'm not too sure about the twin rooms. You definitely get a fridge though (with locks if you share rooms).

Prices are pretty expensive, for a standard single it's about £250 per week, corner cube £300, and twin cube about £180. From floors five upwards, the prices are more expensive. And also, the higher your room is the greater view you get. Unfortunately I heard that the lifts break down often so if you room is on the higher levels then it'd be pretty tiring to climb up the stairs!

Most students in Nido are international, it seems that there are alot from the States staying there as an exchange student. I'm not entirely sure though. It's definitely a very diverse place to live in, which I think is great. People in Students in Nido always organise events and gatherings so you'd probably be able to make friends really easily and quickly.

There are alot of facilities. Gym, cafe, 24 hour security, 24 hr laundy room, cinema room, game room, wireless internet at the lounge (though you don't get wireless in your room!), etc. There's a maid service too if you are too lazy to clean up your room, but you obviously have to pay! The gym is free to use but you have to pay a £10 fee when you first register. There's also pay-as-you-go classes if you want to take other fitness classes (yoga, aerobics, etc). Nido issue you a card that you can use to get food from the cafe and gym, so you don't need to use cash at all! Oh also, if you can't be bothered bringing your pillows from home you can just get it from the Nido store; they sell pillows, blankets, sheets, etc.

With guests, you're allowed you have guests over from 8 am to midnight daily. So if you still have guests after midnight they'll be thrown out. You can also have them overnight (one guest per night) but for only twice a week. So you can have them for four nights straight at the end of a week and the beginning of another week! You have to fill in a form and give them a 24 hr notice though.

Having said that, Nido is pretty much very safe. You can only access the room areas if you have a Nido card, where you swap on the ground floor, and there are guards who patrol your floor frequently every night.

That's all I can think of for now. I hope this helps! If you want to know more you can just ask me, or just visit their website! There's a computer generated video on their site so you can get a feel of what Nido looks like. There's also a facebook group, so you can read all the comments and questions!

thank you for such a detailed response! yeah i have been looking at it a lot, a tihnk i will go for a corner room. dad is going to look round it on monday because I live in cornwall and i have school so i cant get up... as far as the kitchen thing goes, you only have a hob (so like two burners) do you know if there are other places you can cook? are you sure there is no wireless in your rooms? is there no way of connecting in rooms? xx

The are no more corner rooms available for summer, I already asked I really want that room too but oh well. Hope it's available from September onwards. I'm not sure if you can cook anywhere else, sorry! Yeah there's definitely no wireless in rooms, they purposely designed it that way (stupid I know!) But you get like a LAN cable so that's the only way of getting internet in your room I guess.

So I'm coming to the end of my first year at UCL , i spent this year in uni halls of residence, and am starting to think about accommodation for next year.
I've applied to live in halls again next year (for cheapness and great location mainly, both of which are hard to come by in central london!), and am still waiting to hear whether or not i have received a place.
However, I have also been asked by a couple of different groups of friends if I would like to rent with them year, which would be a lot of fun, but I am slightly worried about the cost, and being able to find a house in time!
Finally, I've been looking online at studio flats, many of which have have bills inclusive of the price of rent, and seem quite good value. The idea of living on my own seems quite attractive, but at the same time, I'm concerned that it could get quite lonely.
What to do, what to do!
I would be grateful to see what people think is the best idea!

there arent any for summer because they do 51 week contracts, there are definitely corner rooms from sept i asked . that internet thing is ridiculous xx

Yeah Nido is great, I'll be staying there this summer onwards hopefully.

Basically there are three types of rooms.
1) Standard single cube
2) Single corner cube (sleeping and study areas are separated; there's also a ceiling to floor glass window)
3) Twin cube (share with a roommate)

You do not share bathrooms with others, unless you get a twin room in which you share with your roommate. You get a kitchenette if you get the single cubes, but I'm not too sure about the twin rooms. You definitely get a fridge though (with locks if you share rooms).

Prices are pretty expensive, for a standard single it's about £250 per week, corner cube £300, and twin cube about £180. From floors five upwards, the prices are more expensive. And also, the higher your room is the greater view you get. Unfortunately I heard that the lifts break down often so if you room is on the higher levels then it'd be pretty tiring to climb up the stairs!

Most students in Nido are international, it seems that there are alot from the States staying there as an exchange student. I'm not entirely sure though. It's definitely a very diverse place to live in, which I think is great. People in Students in Nido always organise events and gatherings so you'd probably be able to make friends really easily and quickly.

There are alot of facilities. Gym, cafe, 24 hour security, 24 hr laundy room, cinema room, game room, wireless internet at the lounge (though you don't get wireless in your room!), etc. There's a maid service too if you are too lazy to clean up your room, but you obviously have to pay! The gym is free to use but you have to pay a £10 fee when you first register. There's also pay-as-you-go classes if you want to take other fitness classes (yoga, aerobics, etc). Nido issue you a card that you can use to get food from the cafe and gym, so you don't need to use cash at all! Oh also, if you can't be bothered bringing your pillows from home you can just get it from the Nido store; they sell pillows, blankets, sheets, etc.

With guests, you're allowed you have guests over from 8 am to midnight daily. So if you still have guests after midnight they'll be thrown out. You can also have them overnight (one guest per night) but for only twice a week. So you can have them for four nights straight at the end of a week and the beginning of another week! You have to fill in a form and give them a 24 hr notice though.

Having said that, Nido is pretty much very safe. You can only access the room areas if you have a Nido card, where you swap on the ground floor, and there are guards who patrol your floor frequently every night.

That's all I can think of for now. I hope this helps! If you want to know more you can just ask me, or just visit their website! There's a computer generated video on their site so you can get a feel of what Nido looks like. There's also a facebook group, so you can read all the comments and questions!

are you being paid by Nido??? this is rather misleading. My best friend lives at Nido and though he is overall satisfied with it, would not stay another year because they raised the weekly rent from 220 to 245 for the same tpe of room, whereas rent prices in London have gone down. Also, while it is really international most events are usually not well attended and are quite boring from what I hear, so that social life and getting to know new people is not the easiest, since not many people attend. C) the gym, which I also visited is literary tiny, only 2 treadmills for 1200 students. While being downstairs at the reception I also talked to some people and most claimed that the management tries to make money out everything. they even charge a faster internet connectin, which should have been included in the price and if you have lost your key there is a charge up to 70 pounds apparently.
I am looking for a studio as well and considering Unite and Hive Old Street so far.



http://www.hivestudents.com/locations/default.aspx
http://www.unite-students.com/

If you want to have fun = House Share/Halls
If you want to get good grades = Flat/Halls