It all went well. We arrived before any crowds. His room (same university, halls near his twin's hall) is a third of the size of his twin's room - massive contract. Same price of not far short of £8k. Should it be a third of the price as it is a third of the floor space?
However it is modern and very clean rather than circa 1900 so pros and cons. He likes clean new things. His twin will cope with his sink with the chips I thought were dirt orginally but were just about 70 years of wear and tear and it is a massive huge sink like you get in old country houses even bigger than ours in the bathroom.
Small modern room boy seems really glad he has his room not one like his twin's so perhaps they both ended up with what they prefer which is nice, although he will be cramped in there. To go from having a 5000 sq foot house and massive bedroom with en suite and he has a whole downstairs living just for himself etc etc is a huge change.
A father was taking loads of possessions back to his car complaining to me about the lack of space in the rooms.
It's like moving into a monastic or prison cell in a sense - everything is much much worse than at home even in the £8k a year halls. But it is a very important life changing event and terribly good to live away, meet new people, get to study in a wonderful place and with 3 older siblings who already graduated they will definitely be fine.