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!

I wouldn't want to share a bathroom with strangers either.

They're paying, why not have the absolute basics of a private toilet? You sound like one of those annoying boomers who don't want anything easier for their kids than you had 'back in my day'.

Think I may have been in the same tower block!

I remember lying in lovely bath in my communal hall of residence bathroom in the 80s, thoroughly enjoying listening to someone taking a shit in the stall next door. Why wouldn’t you want an en suite?!

It’s a first year bit of poncery but they are then back to sharing bathrooms in second and third year houses but with central heating , washer dryers and dishwashers and then they bring coffee pod machines and nutribullets etc etc 😂Looks back at the horror of my Liverpool house shares in the 80s ( still best city though )

Why not if it's possible? You pay enough to send them to uni.

Having shared a bathroom with 'pube sponge lad', an en suite is quite appealing.

Don't they have doors with locks?

Southern Coastal town? 😂

I had something called a pod in my room at university 15 years ago which was an enclosed space where I could basically shower, wee and clean my teeth all at the same time.

Unfortunately have access to this life of luxury as a student has made me incredibly entitled, I’ve been fired from 87 jobs because I can’t cope in the real world and I’ve built a pod in every room in my house because I thought that’s what normal life is like. Oh well.

I hated walking 20m along a corridor in a mixed sex floor to a shower cubicle that got couldn’t really get dressed in and back to my room.

Things move on. At one point we don’t have hot water or indoor plumbing.

What is with all these posts obsessed with other kids or young adults (but never their own) not being resilient enough?

Strange thing to get yourself all het up about OP?

Yep!

Oh well that's worth the extra hundreds of thousands of pounds it costs to put these in every hall of residence, the extra costs to rents and the extra cleaning . Let's indulge teenagers and stop squabbles. Actually the cleaners clean the bathrooms, not the students.

My child is use to having his own bathroom so we have paid for an en-suite Uni room for his first year. He’s only just turned 18 (August baby) and I wanted to make sure he stuck it out so it was more about me hedging my bets on him staying the course🤣 He is already looking into a house with bathroom share for next year as he wants more space and would prefer to share a house and bathroom than go into en-suite room again.

Yes. I shared with a delight who would come on to all the female students then call us lesbians (he put signs up and everything) when we refused. He also made hilarious rape jokes.

Just the sort of man you want to share a shower with.

It’s called progress!

@LindorDoubleChoc: "I think you might have mis-quoted me. I'm not a shit parent for not paying for the en-suite option for my two Uni student DC? Just dropped my son off at Uni where his rent is £170 p/w (no ensuite) not in London or Oxford/Cambridge - and there are two loos and two showers per landing of 5 rooms. I think he can survive. The ensuite option is £210 p/w."

Ah see, you're assuming that all en-suites are expensive. My daughter's en-suite halls in Bristol are £171 a week.

When I went lived in halls in 1983 I had a room with a sink and shared toilets, bath and shower with 7 others.
The ''pranksters'' (male) thought it was a good laugh to take the doors off hinges, bang on the door when you where were in the shower/bath, take all the loo roll etc etc etc
If I had a daughter going to uni I would much rather they had an en suite
As it is my son has just gone to uni. He thought the ensuite was worth the extra £20 a week. As did I. He has a decent size room, ensuite is small but more than adequate for one person

When I went to uni 20 years ago I had an en suite in my halls for the first year but that was more because I got my uni place through clearing and that was the only accommodation they had left. That said, I was so glad that I had the en suite.

They aren’t particularly for the benefit of the students. The en-suite showers are so the accommodation can be rented out for conferences etc in the vacations.

Oh, it's bath for Queen BOOP I see, us commoners make do with a flannel and a tap.

I was in house shares in Liverpool in the 90s. Fucking brilliant.

Why did you post about such 'poncery' then

I'm not a shit parent for not paying for the en-suite option for my two Uni student DC? Just dropped my son off at Uni where his rent is £170 p/w (no ensuite) not in London or Oxford/Cambridge - and there are two loos and two showers per landing of 5 rooms. I think he can survive

That's more than either of my two is paying for their en suite rooms. And yes, they could have had a shared bathroom - or shared room- for less; but there were other factors to consider. They could also have paid a lot more, had we been in a position to afford it. You work to budget, right?

I had one in 1999 thank you very much. Why should I or any other student not have one? I didn't have to put up with 10 other adults puking in the toilet after a night out or using the shower.

People can have what they want.