Bristol University Accommodation

[Doublethecuddles]

DD has accepted a place at Bristol, we are in Scotland and won’t have a chance to have a look around. Looking for recommendations for accommodation. On the website they all look good but would like some personal experiences.
I am slightly surprised how big some of the flats are.
Thank you

Daughter settled into hillside Woodside room is massive and ceilings very high so freezing! Only one radiator in the room, I told her to go and see if she can turn the heating on but don’t know how it goes down with rest of halls? Does anyone know 😂

@Maximusdecimus my DD awash told that the heating doesn’t get turned on until October. Might need to pay a visit to TK Maxx for a fluffy blanket !

Oodie. V useful from 2nd year when they can't afford to put the heating on for more than 2 hours a day.

Sending you a 🤗 and hope you feel better soon. Whilst dealing with losing your dad and a house move it must be a big relief that your Dd seems to be settling in well.
My Dd just graduated and had a brilliant time at BU. Wishing the same for yours!

Don’t suppose anyone has a dd/ds that is looking for accommodation next year?

DD was supposed to be looking with one friend group they have now offed and found their own place 😭 have one very upset daughter

@Maximusdecimus She needs to get in with a bigger group. Two isn’t enough. Friends in hall or on the course might need 1 more? She needs to actively market herself and not be choosy (not saying she is by the way). She’s in halls right now, there must be others looking?

DD had the same happen. Had assumed she was in a group and then they replaced her with 2 school friends and went from a 5 to a 6. DD found another group easily but did all the legwork looking at flats after getting the alerts. She has to be proactive.

So she has tried super hard to make friends on the course but hasn’t.

It’s the group in the halls that have all gone off without her.

She has put an ad on spare rooms.

@Maximusdecimus, the housing fair took place yesterday and there was a find a flat mate event y’day afternoon.
join the university of Bristol parents Facebook group and post there.

Thanks she didn’t go to that they ditched her today. I think they were planning it.

@Maximusdecimus sorry to hear, the parents fb page is supportive.

@MaximusdecimusThere are surely more in the hall than one group? I know it’s the absolute pits when this happens but she does need to ask everyone in the hall she knows. There can be others who are ditched.

Going back 20 years UBU used to have some sort of housing hub where people could look for housemates - that’s how I found my 4th year accommodation. In second year, I was in a similar position, when I fell in the gap between my course mates and hall mates. I went for a room in the Hawthorns in the end - convenient for lectures, seminars and the library if nothing else!

@Maximusdecimus I forgot Hillside Woodside is small. Only 34. However what are the others doing? Has she asked around now? What about asking around on her course? Even if she doesn’t know others well, they might know of a group looking for one more person.

She has posted on the flatmates website and also on spare rooms.

She seems to think everyone else has made friends with other groups.

Also our budget is very tight. Probably too tight for Bristol.

Will PM you Maximus

@Maximusdecimus Is that the root of the problem? Others have more money and have priced her out by their choices and they know she’s not able to pay. I know that hall is cheap for Bristol but I would have assumed everyone there was on a tight budget. However the weekly rent now has to cover 50 weeks and it’s going to cost more. Is this stopping her finding a group I wonder?

@Maximusdecimus my dd did a year abroad so had to suffer out this years accommodation whilst away. She found a Facebook group where people were advertising a room. She did a few FaceTimes with people before deciding on one. She didn’t know anyone she was moving in with but it has all turned out really well.
In her second year a group rushed into getting a house together. By December they all couldn’t stand each other. So sometimes it’s best not to share with friends.

I think this is probably it, I’ve said similar to her, but she is stuck on feeling left out. She has made contact with a few people thanks @Bristolfreshers25 so hopefully she will sort something out. I think she is panicking.

Let’s hope it works out!