Accommodation in general

Over the two years I have spent at st Andrews I have had the delight of being able to maintain a place in the University accomodation. There are many different accomodation places on offer around St Andrews in many different halls, each hall is priced differently. Of these many halls I have stayed in two and visited most at some point. Here is a little about some of them: New hall Situated on the North Haugh New Hall is used as a hotel over the summer months, meaning that it is a luxury stay. The rooms are all en-suite with a double bed and a tv(though liscensing comes out of your pocket). The atmosphere is not the most friendly as the hall is designed ...

Situated on the North Haugh, 10 minutes or less from the town centre (depending on how quickly you walk / stagger home) New Hall, is easy to spot from the main road heading into St Andrews. It's the sprawling, pinkish grey breezeblock structure with the turrets, yes turrets, although I've never figured out if they actually have a functional use... On the ugliness meter, New Hall actually isn't that bad. Large areas of ugliness, namely the Biomedical Sciences Building and Andrew Melville Hall, between which New Hall is sandwiched, actually tone down the hall, making it quite pleasing to the eye. Down to the important stuff. What's it like to ...

I had the (mis)fortune to live in David Russell Hall for 3 of my years in St Andrews, a situation brought about largely by financial necessity, as DRH was (and still is) the cheapest hall of residence. And with good reason! It is a good 20-minute walk from the centre of town, and a walk in the bracing sea breeze does a good job of waking you up in the morning, especially if you've had a heavy night in one of the town's many hostelries! Apparently, the design of the hall (10 separate concrete blocks in a rough 'V' shape) was borrowed from a Swedish asylum, the theory being that from every window in hall, you could see at least one other ...