Yippee, DS got first choice hall at Warwick! So now he'll be able to eat, drink and be merry and won't need to get a term time job because it's really cheap! Someone said maths students at Warwick don't have time to work part-time as the course is pretty intense.
Smallish room with sink, shared bathroom between 6, shared kitchen between 12 or so, nearest laundry 2 minute walk, 34 week let, so has to move out at Easter with some limited storage. But as Warwick is only an hour or so away, driving up there to fetch stuff is easy. It has a common room as well in each block so should be pretty sociable.
DS has sorted his student bank account with Nationwide, just waiting for his card to pop through the door.
We were thinking of keeping his old bank account going in parallel, so if he got very overdrawn on the student account I could top up his old account and he'd still have access to food money, without it just paying off his overdraft. May not be necessary now his cheap accommodation has been confirmed.
I was really worried when he chose Exeter as his insurance as the accommodation wasn't guaranteed as insurance, and he may have ended up with only really expensive or distant options, neither of which would have been great. Their cheapest accommodation was around £5k. But he wouldn't be told! Just as well he got Warwick.
I may be rambling a bit...