LJMU accomodation

[RockyKeen]

Anyone have any suggestions? My daughter has been looking online at Albert Court, Grand Central , Copperas and St Luke’s . It won’t be possible to visit and during the open day we didn’t have time to look at the accommodation as we took longer looking at the uni and had a train to get. She wants to book through the university rather than privately to make sure she gets put with other first year students like herself.
Grateful for any advice if any of your children have studied at Liverpool. Thanks ☺️

My daughter went to LJMU and stayed at this place. It’s about 8 years ago so I don’t know if it would still be as well kept. She really liked it
https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChsSEwiKv4_T2YiTAxXHl1AGHUL1AJoYACICCAEQABoCZGc&co=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA8KTNBhD_ARIsAOvp6DJikrtbNBXHmW7xWg05jyBdjdUWDJ0MfWOUyHWvunvDrcj3JORi2TwaArc4EALw_wcB&cce=1&sig=AOD64_0wkhoxgmkP9pAZH4Lm-E68Bwx7Og&q&adurl&ved=2ahUKEwihzInT2YiTAxVSQUEAHUXqNE0Q0Qx6BAg1EAE

I was there 20 years ago, so my knowledge of the actual halls is out of date.

However, Liverpool isn't a huge city and it's totally walkable. Does she know which campus she'd be studying in?

thanks will take a look .

Yes she will be based at the Mount Pleasant campus. She would like to be as near to the city centre as possible .

Whatever you do NOT Marylebone

Grand Central is a good option but very social. St Luke’s is a smaller, better version.

Albert Court absolutely not, wouldn’t be a very nice walk home after a night out.

look at Cambridge court and horizon heights.

Thanks you’ve confirmed what I’ve been thinking in terms of location. I think she’s set on Grand Central, Horizon or St.Lukes. Grand central is older but cheaper , horizon is the most expensive , St Luke’s somewhere in the middle and I think she’s leaning slightly more towards it because she wants a social hall but maybe not too wild. She can see from the map that they’re all quite central to walk to at night .

My daughter was at horizon heights. It was nice. Better than a grand Central that was a bit rougher she said. It was loud but the front desk was good.

Dd stayed at St Andrews Gardens, which I thought was a very cool building. She was there 2020/21 though so it was half empty and impossible to really tell what it was like to be there. I just liked it!

What's wrong with Marylebone? DD has already signed up for it in September. 😬

Did she find it easy to socialise ? Is it quite a social hall ?

It seems to get good reviews and reasonably priced but if you book through the university there’s only the option of a shared bathroom and she prefers ensuite which is a shame!

What is more important than the building is who you are with and whether you get on with them. That's obviously a lottery. So I would choose the best location to suit.

Having said the above take a look at Hardman house.

Lots of first years stay in Grand Central, and the student who showed us round had spent all 3 years there. The rooms and bathrooms were all fine. The biggest difference with Horizon was that the public areas of Horizon were much newer and smarter.

She’s very sociable. So she did fine. I think it is easy there because it’s so central. So it’s easy for people to drop by. A lot depends on your flat. There are a fair few things they do in the communal areas like pizza nights. But that wasn’t my daughter’s type of thing.

Oh sorry that’s for @RockyKeen and I am talking about Heights. Central had really odd kitchens that felt oppressive! Heights looks and feel like a hotel - check out the sky lounge!

@RockyKeen asked dd. She said:
Horizon heights is nicer than all those other ones and you can book cinema room etc for socializing but I would say friends at uni accom is pure luck most of your friends will be made at uni / work / nights out. She should join a society if she’s worried about making friends. But deffo horizon heights over any other one - grand central literally had rats

apology for punctuation. She can write really! She has a very overactive toddler hanging off her!

Heights is expensive though and goes up massively in price if you stay past the first year.

Thanks has been very helpful . She will try for horizon and failing that , St Luke’s .

My daughter is currently living at Albert Court. She loves it there and chose to stay there after her 1st year. She says the staff are very responsive to any issues and the location is ideal for her. It’s also very reasonably priced.

My son lived in Agnes Jones house on Catharine Street, it was very good. He was in a very large flat with 7 bedrooms but they ranged in all sizes from 2-7 rooms.
Excellent location, used to be the Womens Hospital
www.mystudenthalls.com/student-accommodation/liverpool/agnes-jones-house/

Marybine has a bad reputation due to it being very basic and run down and in the past the area wasn’t that nice. It’s mostly used for nursing/medical students.

dd stayed there for a week as she was representing the uni in an event out of normal term time) & said it was nowhere near as bad as people made out.

It’s not in the best condition and not in an area of town that’s very nice to walk back to in the dark. It’s round the corner from the YMCA so there can be some slightly dodgy characters roaming the area fairly frequently (mostly harmless and just in need of help, but still not a nice experience for the students). The draw used to be that it was so close to Byrom but there are other closer ones now.

depending on where your room is you can hear the traffic from Leeds street as well.

The area still isn’t that nice! It’s the arse end of town and a solid twenty minute walk to all the nightlife

Does she feel safe walking back at night ? My daughter is worried it’s too out of the way .

@RockyKeen having lived in Liverpool
my entire life I would not have done that walk back from a night out either as a student or now in my thirties, especially now London Road is becoming increasingly less busy with the old Royal knocked down.