Dancing round Wright Robinson Hall (Accommodation in general)

Member Name: zoe_page_1

Product:	Accommodation in general
Date:	30/05/01 (704 review reads)
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Advantages: The daily cleaners!

Disadvantages: The fact the post doesn't get there till 11am some days

Just ignore the title ok? It's the result of a bored night last Christmas when some of my flatmates made up a song about the wonderful (can you hear the sarcasm ?) place in which we live.

Actually it's not all that bad. I was dreading having to share a bathroom with 15 other girls, for example, but it's not that bad. Big thanks of course are due to our daily cleaners who leave everything spotless.

The hall had 11 corridors which can house up to 16 students each. There's a kitchen / common room on each floor with a TV and enough fridge and feezer space and cookers etc. They provide crockery and cuttlery (and washing up liquid if you beg) but you have to do all the cooking – unless take aways are on the menu as they frequently are. There's also a communal common room on the ground floor with pool tables and a TV but I don't think any one's been in there all year.......

The rooms themselves are huge compared to normal halls. You get a lovely big desk (large enough to hold a desktop computer, printer and CD player and still give you enough room to work on) and lots of shelves for CDs, smelly stuff and, some strange thing students sometimes need called books...... There’s a wardarobe, again with shelving inside and an ample supply of coat hangers unless the person in the room last year knicked them all – it has been known..... The bed is an off ground one which gives plenty of underbed storage, and you get a desk chair and a relaxing chair. The room’s come equipped with sinks mirrors and towel rails. There would be more than enough room to fit in another bed, and this comes in handy when 6 people want to crash on your floor for the night. Each room has its own private telephone and all have internet facilities if you buy the special card. This is a different line so you can phone your friends while surfing the net – bonus! All phone calls within the building and to other UMIST resid
ences are free, and everyone also had their own personal voice mail. The hall provides sheets and quilt covers which have to be changed on a set day each week – some of us cannot be bothered and so just use our own.

Rooms on my side of the corridor have an extra fan thing to keep you cool as it can be noisy trying to sleep with the window open (these rooms look down onto London Road). The other rooms don’t as they’re quieter and look onto the SU courtyard.

On each floor there are 4 showers and 3 toilets which are spread between two bases – the north and south ends of the corridor. As I said, these are cleaned daily which is a wonderful bonus. Individual rooms are also cleaned every 2 weeks, and the kitchen, again, every day.

There’s a laundry room in the building with 2 washers, 2 dryers (which often don’t really dry) and space to hang things and wash by hand. It’s 1 pound per wash, and 20p per dry, although you need to put in 60p really to get anywhere.

There's a fairly active residents association who organise a ball and a shopping bus etc - the latest event was the summer BBQ last weekend with free food and a bouncy castle (yes we're all 'mature' students, but sometimes you just have to act like kids, especially at exam time :) ).

The location of the hall is great : the postcode is M1 and that says it all really. We're opposite Picadilly station and less than 15 mins walk from the town centre. The hall's at the heart of the UMIST campus, but close enough to the uni of Manchester if that's where you study.

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