to think University students without particular needs do not need an en-suite shower room?

[LindorDoubleChoc]

I'm so surprised that University Halls of Residence now offer this as an option to more or less all their students. What the hell? How many of you are indulging your offspring with this poncery and why? (exceptional needs aside of course).

When I went to Uni in the dark ages of the 1980s no one had an ensuite. Almost no one had a wash basin either. Is it a money making exercise?

New build houses are the same. Not every bedroom needs separate washing/bathing facilities. The first world's gone mad!

It stops the arguments about whose turn it is to clean the bathroom and people using your shower gel and toilet roll.

Modern halls of residence are built that way. I’m glad my stepdaughter doesn’t have to shares bathroom. I’d fear for her flatmates! 😂

I think it’s great. Saves having to share and provides some privacy especially in the early days when you have moved in with complete strangers.

They have cleaners in halls and toilet roll is provided.

Ikr - and what's with all the 'mobile phones'? We managed just fine in the 90s!

I think the same about all indoor toilets, it was much better when it was an outhouse in the garden - the world has gone soft

I think it’s great

Times have moved on. Don't you like our better living standards, improved hygiene etc these days? I certainly do!

In my halls the showers and bathrooms were cleaned by cleaners. Toilet roll was provided in the toilets. You kept your shower gel in your room in your wash bag.

I think it’s great. Who wouldn’t want an en suite.

If you were building new halls now why would you deliberately build to 1980s shitty conditions?

DD didn't have an ensuite in halls. DS did - it was about £30 more per month. We went for it. And I hate people who call basic comforts 'poncery'. Toxic nostalgia is a thing.

I went to uni in the early 2000s and shared a bathroom with 3 other girls. No wash basin in my room either.

An en suite? No I think that's daft myself and wouldn't be paying out extra on one for DD.

I think it's a waste of space and money. Would rather have a bigger bedroom. It makes accommodation more expensive which is silly when money is short

I would have loved it!
I shared with a bunch of pigs and as soon as I cleaned anything it was grim again in record time. I used to dread using the loo or shower etc.

Not all do. At the Unis we looked at for DS, some only had cleaners in the toilets on a monthly basis, others only had them once per term. None had weekly cleans. Gross!

In the mid nineties we had shared rooms, about a dozen rooms on a mixed sex corridor with 2 or 3 showers and toilets on each corridor. You walked to and from in a bathrobe. It was fine. Of course total privacy would be nice but it's not necessary.

I mean, if people want to pay for extra convenience, what's your problem?

Progress is good remember ...

Most universities randomly allocate accommodation. Some are en-suite, some aren't. I don't know of any universities that my students (or own child) have experience of whereby if you want an en-suite you pay extra and get one. Most ask students to put a list of so many preferences and then allocations are random.

I was at university in the 80s too. We had a sink.

DD has shared bathroom but a sink in her room.

The en-suites tend to have smaller "bedroom" bits.

It is for the money, obviously. The money they get by opening up the accommodation in the 3-4 months they'd otherwise be empty. Summer courses, conferences etc.

It's nothing to do with students.

Universities use their accommodation during the vac to host conferences and other non-student-related activities. Adults won't pay to stay in a building where they are a bathroom with someone else. So it makes financial sense to build new accommodation with ensuite facilities.

Mind you, some of our student housing still had outdoor bathrooms in 2003, so it has been a time of change.

I went to uni in 2015 and all of our halls had ensuites. I would have paid extra to ensure I had one, if they weren't offered as standard, as I couldn't imagine using a filthy bathroom because other people are too inconsiderate/don't care about hygiene.

I don't think my personal hygiene standards have improved since I was at University. I could leave my room and walk maybe 10 steps down the hall to a locked shower room where I could shower in lovely hot water for as long as I wanted. Which I did daily.

In my first year I shared a large uni owned house with 15 others male and female we had two showers and a bath that was mainly used for soaking rugby kit. It was a bit grim, but the alphabet letters in the shower made for some amusing shower reading.
In my 4th year I moved into finalist en suite halls, it was bliss because everyone else in my flat/section of corridor was male and having seen how some of them left the kitchen I was very glad to not share a bathroom. The bathroom was more like a pod wet room thing, very compact but perfect for just me

I had an en-suite when I went to uni 20 years ago. It isn’t that modern to have one. It was brilliant. Meant that I didn’t have to share with people I didn’t like and when I did move into a house for the other years I had chosen who I was living with.

Flats are now mixed so it's good that bathrooms are en suite. I was in a female only hall in the 90's

At my DD'S uni, they have a cleaner, but toilet roll is not provided. DD used to take hers back to her room as she got so sick of her flatmates never buying any!