Great Halls Experience (Halls Of Residence At City University)

Member Name: kjmccabe

Product:	Halls Of Residence At City University
Date:	20/09/09 (31 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Location, Price, Staff, Security

Disadvantages: Slightly Dated, but it is a STUDENT hall

FINSBURY AND HEYWORTH HALLS

After reading the negitive reviews of the halls at City, I feel that I must add my two cents to defend them. This is primarily a review of Finsbury and Heyworth Halls but there is some crossover into other residences.

These residences consist of 14 floors with 24 rooms on each floor, each room has a wash basin, wardrobe, single bed, desk, bookcase, desk lamp and underbed storage chest. The kitchens are big and each room is assigned a lockable food cuboard. There are two fridge freezers and two cookers with grill, oven and 4 ring hob per kitchen which is shared among 12 students. Each group of 12 students also share 2 toilets and a shower room with 2/3 private showers!

Yes, the halls are basic, but it must be remembered that
1. They are student halls, not a 5 star hotel - students today seem to be expecting to live in the lap of luxury.
2. They are priced at under £100 a week - including all utilities except internet (which can be purchased from City University for a small annual fee of around £50)
3. They are in CENTRAL LONDON - 5 Mins from THe Barbican Centre
4. There are 500 students on site - all in the same boat
5. Sharing your bathroom is not the end of the world - do all these students have en-suite bathrooms at home? Surley they can wait till they have graduated and can afford three times the amount of rent per week to get an ensuite bathroom?

Finally, there has been comments made regarding the security at halls, ie, it is strict and guest must sign in before hand etc. There is a reason for this - The Univeristy is protecting the welfare of its students! We live in 2009 London - do we really want anyone off the street walking in to a building which houses 500 18 year olds, not to mention the number of laptops, iPods etc?

Think about i....

Summary: Excellent Halls of Residence, 5 stars for Finsbury