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!

Who honestly cares OP? You don't have to pay for the en suite so if students want to pay for it, let then pay for it.

My eldest has an en suite at uni. Other people’s hygiene in the shared areas has come as a surprise to her. I think she would prefer an en suite kitchen now! 😂

Back in the 80's early nighties, student poverty was real .. think THE YOUNG ONES. That was proper student life, no money to eat properly , accommodation was v v v v poor , falling apart and freezing. But always enough for drinks . Happy days

I shared a bathroom in halls with some rather disgusting men who would happily wank in the shower, leave their semen all over it and then tell us all about it. They were all rugby boys and were the most obnoxious and hideous examples of the toxic masculinity of the 90s. I’d have def paid more for an en-suite if I’d known the horrors to come!!!

For exactly the same reasons you don't want to share....

just because they're a student they don't need privacy? Or a private washroom?

If they should share with strangers, then why not you?

What's the difference?

I remember visiting a friend's halls with a shared bathroom.and they were revolting. So glad I had an ensuite

@WillowCraft they don’t all have cleaners and loo roll. DSs halls had no cleaners for room or shared lounge/kitchen. No loo roll provided either.

My dd pays extra for an en-suite because while she is happy to scrub her own loo and shower, she doesn't want to be cleaning after others. She buys her own loo roll.

Her flat is mixed and it's not unreasonable not yo
want to share with men.

This made me chortle, @Missedmytoe! @LindorDoubleChoc — it was the same when I was at university (early 90s) but I’m aware both time and definitions of what count as ‘luxuries’ move on. (There was once a time people didn’t have TVs. Or fridges. Or cars… And at one point, women couldn’t vote. Imagine that!) Am rather envious of my DS, actually, just starting uni & having an en suite…

When I went to University in 1994, there was a 2nd/3rd year hall with ensuite shower rooms. It was brand new and considered very fancy. I had a sink and shared 2 showers and 2 toilets with 13 others (half of whom were lads).

I ended up in said ensuite Hall in the my third year after some house mate drama. It was absolute bliss. Unlike most of MN, I love my ensuite.

Exactly.
back in the 1980s I hand wrote all my essays, shared a bathroom with 6 other people, queued up to use one of the three phones in the hall of residence and attended all lectures in person…life has moved on.

A shared bathroom is pretty grim I think you are on a wind up.

Erm no. I think you are agreeing with me.

As an older teen I had horrible floody periods. Hated trying to get to the loos (which were absolutely grim) down the hallway past probably twenty other rooms.

I had an en-suite at uni in 2000. It really helped me a lot to have my own little space there and not have to wait for loo etc. had to share a loo in later years and it was a nightmare if you had bad flatmates.

Why would you deny a small comfort to young adults trying to navigate living away from home for the first time, living with 7 utter strangers. En-suite very sensible option for a multitude of reasons.

It’s always amazing how people expect low standards in this country. An en-suite for an adult living in shared accommodation is considered a luxury. Next, someone will come along and say that Garlic is exotic. It’s not the 1950s anymore.

@LindorDoubleChoc

100% disagree. I bet YOU would not like to be staying somewhere for 3 WEEKS, let alone 3 years - with 3 or 4 other people who were strangers, and you had to share the shitter with them. No privacy for the shits, or if you're vomiting, or if you're sick/ill/ or got flu or something, and no privacy when you're butt naked after a shower.. No way in hell would my DC have ever have had any accommodation without their own shower/loo with a bunch of randoms she didn't know. Possibly men too.

And as has been said, some student accommodation is now mixed sex/mixed gender. Like fuck should any young woman have to share a bathroom with men.

As for 'what the hell' and 'what poncery is this?' What kind of stupid comments are these? Do you actually think anyone cares what you think about them - or their young adult children wanting their own en suite? 😆 You sound bitter and annoyed for some reason. What a strange attitude you have.

You had an entire weekend off?

La de dah.

I was down t'mines til 11:30, after finishing school at 3pm when I were 8. Didn't hear me complaining.

Yeah what’s wrong with a tin bath in an unheated scullery. All this hot and cold running water has made people soft.

Most people prefer their own wash facilities and their own complete privacy. I don’t get why you are so outraged at the idea. Most people also don’t stay in hotel rooms without an en-suite either. The uni’s have cottoned on to the fact that there is demand for that.

Quite.

My dad lived in a tower block that swayed in the wind when he was a student, amd electric regularly went out. He got 1st class and PhD, but thank goodness standards have improved.

No, I don't. I think an en-suite is lovely. I'd certainly get one for my DC. You think it's a pointless luxury and have spent several posts railing about it.
You have still failed to explain 'why' it's a problem.

This. Such a goady thread. OP knows this though. Probably loving the attention and the frothing.

My uni room had an en-suite bathroom. My parents didn't contribute a penny towards it.

Well put!
OP has gone to great lengths to pretend she doesn't care at the same denouncing en-suites. What's the issue? Don't know.