Home Sweet Home (Halls Of Residence At Keele University in general)

Member Name: DocDan3

Product:	Halls Of Residence At Keele University in general
Date:	04/11/09 (35 review reads)
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Advantages: Good Variety, Stay For Years 2 & 3

Disadvantages: Can Be More Expensive Than Renting

Keele University offers student accommodation on campus in the halls of residence for the first few years of your course. Unlike other universities, you can find students living in halls on campus for years 2 and 3. I am currently living in the Horwood Halls, which feature standard rooms with or without basins. Mine has a basin along with a mirror and light, which includes a useful shaving port on it.

Other Halls include barnes, which is mostly standard rooms (some with basins). It is located right beside the medical school and entrance to the university. Lyndsay halls consists of Lyndsay court where there are premier en-suites in relatively new buildings. The Oaks also contains premier ensuites as well as normal ensuites. Just off campus is Hawthorns, which has a small range of rooms too.

As I say, many students will be given accommodation so it's not a problem, although some share for the first few weeks before they are allocated to empty rooms (due to people not turning up or dropping out etc). The main differences between places such as Barnes and Horwood to Lyndsay and the Oaks is that the buildings are a lot nicer in Lyndsay and Oaks due to refurbishment or newer buildings.

The prices do vary according - you can pay around £2670 for a room with basin and the next room up the list (an ensuite) will cost you around £500 more a year. The ensuites do not accomodate in the easter period either so you only have them for 33 weeks instead of 37 (full term time). This means you will have to live elsewhere or go home during this time.

Accommodation without ensuites either has a wash basin in room with shared toilets and showers or no wash basin at all and shared everything. All accommodation has shared kitchens, so stealing food CAN be an issue although I have not experienced it yet myself. The accommodation I'm in is good enough - I have to share, but I can put up with it and I'm paying a lot less at the end of the day - more money for other things... I'd recommend staying on campus at Keele as there's always something going on and it's very practical as well as social.

Thanks for reading,

Dan ©

Summary: A good place to stay