Accommodation at Nottingham university

[Appuskidu]

Has anyone got any recent experience of the halls at Nottingham?

We are looking for DS for next year. He fancies the university campus and it looks like most halls there are catered which is fine but there doesn’t seem to be much in the variety in price-they seem to all cost about the same-unless you go for an en suite.

When I went to university, you had a small room with a desk in-that was your bog standard basic. The cheapest options at Nottingham seem to be a bedroom with no desk in, but a separate study with your desk in shared with someone else? That really wasn’t a ‘thing’ when I went! If you don’t want to share a study space, you’re looking at £6500+ minimum which is over £2k more than the basic maintenance loan. I know you don’t have to give money for food on top of that, but there don’t seem to be many cheaper options? Just a small room with a desk in isn’t the cheapest option?!

Mine was at Ancaster and was about £7,000 catered. Had a massive room with its own sink and shared a bathroom with one other (was a nice way to meet someone day 1). Some halls have study rooms between 2 bedrooms and these are massive. Anywhere on campus is good as all halls have positives. Fab city and free buses run and trams nearby. Campus is beautiful.

And they get lunch in that too. Get a card with £15 (I think) on - anything they don't use can be spent on campus. Mine stocked up on chocolate and cereal.
Houses in Notts are cheap so it gets much easier from 2nd year.

@mumsneedwine

Mine was at Ancaster and was about £7,000 catered. Had a massive room with its own sink and shared a bathroom with one other (was a nice way to meet someone day 1). Some halls have study rooms between 2 bedrooms and these are massive. Anywhere on campus is good as all halls have positives. Fab city and free buses run and trams nearby. Campus is beautiful.

Thank you for the reply! I think Rutland and Sherwood are the two halls with the most ‘reasonably priced’ accommodation-I think it was £62500 for a room with a desk (single study). I just thought it was really odd that the cheapest option in most of their halls was a small bedroom with no desk in, then a shared study room?

www.nottingham.ac.uk/accommodation/halls

£6260, ignore the last zero

@Appuskidu 😂😂 now that would be expensive. When choosing you put a zone bit and individual hall, so allocation is a bit random. DD said food was ok and they provide take away if late back (can be microwaved in floor kitchens). Lunch anywhere on campus included on card. And from 2nd year it is cheap ! DD in Notts is £80 a week and DD in Bristol is £145 !

I was in a shared study room many many moons ago. It wasn’t by choice but what that’s what was allocated. I ended up shoehorning a small desk into a tiny single room (no laptops you could lock away and didn’t want to risk leaving valuables out) but if you get a good neighbour that shared space can be great fun for socialising and having more space overall. It was handy being on campus and close to lecture theatres and the Downs. Can’t recall hall fees but we all moved out to Lenton in 2nd year and prices don’t seem to have increased that much given how long it’s been.

@Rankellior

I was in a shared study room many many moons ago. It wasn’t by choice but what that’s what was allocated. I ended up shoehorning a small desk into a tiny single room (no laptops you could lock away and didn’t want to risk leaving valuables out) but if you get a good neighbour that shared space can be great fun for socialising and having more space overall. It was handy being on campus and close to lecture theatres and the Downs. Can’t recall hall fees but we all moved out to Lenton in 2nd year and prices don’t seem to have increased that much given how long it’s been.

What was the general feeling about the shared study rooms when you were there-they just seem a rather random idea to me.

I could get it if you had a good-size bedroom and had a shared study on top as an extra perk-that might be nice-and something worth paying more for, but why build rooms like that in the first place; why not just have bigger bedrooms??

The reactions differed. As the pp says it’s a lower cost option so a compromise if you want catered on campus but are priced out of the single or en-suite rooms. I found it ok but I spent a lot of time in other friends rooms, out or asleep. I don’t know anyone who really hated it and now tech is so portable you can work wherever so less limiting. I do recall it was handy having space for a drinks cabinet! I don’t know if all rooms were originally that design and then some reconfigured to provide single rooms or if it was just considered a good option at the time.

Has he looked at broadgate park? It is right outside the university gates and offers a cheaper alternative as it is self catered. Just as close to all the uni things as the halls based on campus

I was at Nottingham a couple of decades ago, most people studied in libraries or in the computer labs. The internet was only just a thing and often you'd have to use library items that couldn't be checked out or only an hour at a time. So the shared study space wasn't a big deal.

I know when I was there it seemed pot luck as to the quality of your room and halls as the pricing was fairly standard even though room arrangements vary massively. I moved out of catered halls into the self catered block about 6 weeks in because the food was crap and found meals at specific times way too restrictive, - things like on a weekend I had a choice of going swimming or breakfast not both!

Accomodation for Nottingham opened on 1st March for those that had firmed, and its first come first served.
Maybe what you're choosing from is all that's left. Have you spoken to accomodation?

Funny you mention Broadgate Park, I didn't go for self catering originally as it was "off campus", but I ended up in Florence Boot so literally across the road. I guess these days it's much easier to do that sort of research, because if I'd known that in the first place I would have gone straight for self catering

@cptartapp

Accomodation for Nottingham opened on 1st March for those that had firmed, and its first come first served. Maybe what you're choosing from is all that's left. Have you spoken to accomodation?

This is for next year.

We are just looking on the website so I think everything is showing-some is showing as fully booked but we are just seeing what’s available.

I started in broadgate 2008-11 because I wanted to be self catered. It wasn’t cheap even then for your own room with ensuite (absolutely tiny shower over a toilet with a sink) and a shared kitchen between 6. But accommodation in 2nd and 3rd years is so cheap over you’ve made friends and moved into a house most likely in Lenton. I paid £52 a week and £60 respectively.

I was at broadgate park many years ago and it's very close to campus. Wasnt my choice (I wanted halls but didnt get them). BP is a cheaper option, but if things are the same then halls are very much better socially imo.

Like @mumneedswine my ds was in Ancaster and loved it. He had a decent sized room and shared a shower room with the boy next door who quickly became a close friend.

DS didn't opt for an en suite room because he said they basically put the pod in your room so you lost space.

@EmmaGrundyForPM

Like *@mumneedswine* my ds was in Ancaster and loved it. He had a decent sized room and shared a shower room with the boy next door who quickly became a close friend.

DS didn't opt for an en suite room because he said they basically put the pod in your room so you lost space.

The en suites are out of our price range!

I suppose I’m comparing it with older DD who was in a self-catered halls (not too far away) but these ranged massively from £4500-£7000 and there was lots of choices (that didn’t involve sharing desk areas), whereas Nottingham seems to have very little in the lower price range on campus where he wants to be.