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Craghyrax
This one would break your heart :p:


What was wrong with it? :s-smilie:
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ukebert
What was wrong with it? :s-smilie:

It was overpriced, dirty, and where the Holyhead YHA had alot of communal stuff and sharing going on in the kitchen, this one was really sparse with people labelling their stuff and warning people not to use it, and the staff were really bored and disinterested :p:
Craghyrax
It was overpriced, dirty, and where the Holyhead YHA had alot of communal stuff and sharing going on in the kitchen, this one was really sparse with people labelling their stuff and warning people not to use it, and the staff were really bored and disinterested :p:


you were self catering? its a common problem in hostels nowadays that this part of the hostel is rather undervalued. hostels are becoming more and more like hotels in england, and that breaks my heart.
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ukebert
you were self catering? its a common problem in hostels nowadays that this part of the hostel is rather undervalued. hostels are becoming more and more like hotels in england, and that breaks my heart.

Yeh, we were keeping costs down. Had a nasty shock. At Holyhead we got a room with twin beds and en suite for £13 each. At Llanberis it cost £18 each to sleep in male/female dorms :pinch:
Craghyrax
Yeh, we were keeping costs down. Had a nasty shock. At Holyhead we got a room with twin beds and en suite for £13 each. At Llanberis it cost £18 each to sleep in male/female dorms :pinch:


Aye, I would expect to pay that sort of price for a ppular hostel in a walking location in high summer. This is why I volunteer instead of hostel :sad:
ukebert
Well i don't know, why do basements not have decent headroom? :hmpf: Do you know what the sound insulation is like in Fitz St? I got complaints last year...

Dude, you're the engineer! the deeper you dig, the more expensive it is, so headroom will be the absolute minimum.

Hope you feel better soon!
scarlet ibis
Dude, you're the engineer! the deeper you dig, the more expensive it is, so headroom will be the absolute minimum.

Hope you feel better soon!


Exactly, absolute minimum. Which should be greater than 6'2 :p:
ukebert
Exactly, absolute minimum. Which should be greater than 6'2 :p:

The modern minimum is 2.4m, but older buildings may have lower ceilings. 2.4 still feels really low if you're tall, so I've been told!
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scarlet ibis
The modern minimum is 2.4m, but older buildings may have lower ceilings. 2.4 still feels really low if you're tall, so I've been told!

Well you've probably seen both my first and second year rooms :p: I could only just stand straight in first year, and this year there was only one area of the room I could stand in.
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smilepea
I'm on the slowest computer EVER!!! and my phone's broken but I couldn't get it fixed because BOTH the O2 shops in Southampton had no loner phones and I need one. Unimpressed.

But I'm living in the new forest atm so it could be worse
Yay I got my Hermes back! :smile:

This kind of reassures me that they know I'll be back in September... (was getting just a little bit worried about this, especially when a friend who wasn't even sure she would be back still had her Hermes!)

One more month until clinicals start, eeeks. (And I still have no idea where I'm staying, which is a bit weird after 2 years of room ballot where I usually had an idea of where I would be staying by March or so!)
smilepea
I'm on the slowest computer EVER!!!


It can't be as slow as my mum's. And she keeps expecting me to be able to fix it, and none of my usual speed-up-sluggish-computer responses are working. :s-smilie:
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psyche87
Yay I got my Hermes back! :smile:

:bumps:
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Craghyrax
Well you've probably seen both my first and second year rooms :p: I could only just stand straight in first year, and this year there was only one area of the room I could stand in.


Oh my gosh, I stayed in at Pembroke College's 40 Panton St. house at the summer school I was working in last month. They put me in one of the basement rooms. It was worse than being punched in the face, though slightly better than being kicked in the gentleman's area. :yes:

And yes, Athena, you do recognise me from PG forums. I'm off to Robinson to do an MPhil in Archaeology =)
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AATTMM
Oh my gosh, I stayed in at Pembroke College's 40 Panton St. house at the summer school I was working in last month. They put me in one of the basement rooms. It was worse than being punched in the face, though slightly better than being kicked in the gentleman's area. :yes:

Peterhouse accommodation is pretty nice. Even the basement rooms. They're only unpleasant if you're tall - they're perfectly nice, well maintained comfortable rooms apart from that.
No offence to any Pembroke students, but some of their accommodation I've seen (and heard) is a bit crap comparatively. On Fitzwilliam street half the houses are owned by Peterhouse and half by Pembroke. The Peterhouse houses all have fresh coats of paint and polished brass door handles, and the Pembroke houses have peeling paint and battered doors and so on.
Craghyrax
Peterhouse accommodation is pretty nice. Even the basement rooms. They're only unpleasant if you're tall - they're perfectly nice, well maintained comfortable rooms apart from that.

Well at least there's some advantages to being short. :p:

Craghyrax
No offence to any Pembroke students, but some of their accommodation I've seen (and heard) is a bit crap comparatively. On Fitzwilliam street half the houses are owned by Peterhouse and half by Pembroke. The Peterhouse houses all have fresh coats of paint and polished brass door handles, and the Pembroke houses have peeling paint and battered doors and so on.

Hmm, I haven't even seen my accommodation for next year yet...
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Scipio90
My room for next year is one I was showing people around on an open day.
alex_hk90
Well at least there's some advantages to being short. :p:


Hmm, I haven't even seen my accommodation for next year yet...


where are you living?

40 Panton is actually pretty good, although I've only been in rooms upstairs and attic. The basement rooms in Pem St were pretty big though.
FadedJade
where are you living?

Lensfield Road, I think 61 but might be 63.
Lensfield is fine. My husbands and wives lived there in second year. The basement is the best room by miles!

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