Live in the lawns if you want some serious FUN! (Halls Of Residence At The University Of Hull)

Member Name: Woodenboy

Product:	Halls Of Residence At The University Of Hull
Date:	20/03/01 (710 review reads)
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Advantages: Size, facilities, bar, loads of decent people

Disadvantages: Far from university, wardens!

Lets rock! The lawns certainly does, you just can't go wrong there. Absolurtely brilliant for first years, not so good for higher years, primarily because of the amount of first years there!! OK, you've got your own room, if you're lucky, or you're sharing with someone in a block of about 25 people. Set on about 3 or 4 floors with showers, kitchens, drying room and cleaner! You get an evening meal every night, which does leave a bit to be desired, but it's FREE! a computer room in the main section, along with a games room, massive playing fields, tennis courts and loads of parking places. Sounds good so far? There's also a pretty big bar area open for normal pub hours but way below pub prices, excellent. You also have, as part of your particular block an associated common room, which when you've all payed a small deposit has anything from TV's and pool tables to arcade games and slouching chairs. And there's more! There are also washing rooms provided, which are free, for all your laundry needs. And the final cherry on the cake, which you only really appreciate after not living in the lawns is the fact that you pay NO bills!
So you've heard the good points, what about the bad ones, well I can tell you now, that there arn't many! You could live a faior distance from the bar and computer area, because the Lawns is so big, but what are legs for eh?! Each Hall, (there are 6), has a warden, who is put there to spoil your fun, what else. They need some respect or they will fine you money and can even kick you out if they have reasonable cause-so bear it in mind! And the onlyt other bad thing about the Lawns is that if you haven'y got a car, looks like you're getting the bus to and from university every day with all the hundreds of others. You get used to it, but it is a pain in the neck, and you'll have to get a bus pass too, (1997-1998 year was £52 per semester for all bus travel), but it's gone up now, supr
ise suprise!!
So the Lawns is a real treat, you'll meet loads of cool people and have loads of fun, and I mean loads, this is the definitive student accommodation-trust me!
As for the other halls of residence, there's Ferens Hall, attached to the Lawns, but always regarded of kind of inferior, because it's smaller and hasn't the same facilities, but residents from ferens can use all the lawns facilities, and in ferens you get breakfast every morning too.
All the other halls of residence I can only comment briefly on, because I never lived there, only knew people who did.
Thwaite hall, generally populated by foreign students, and situated opposite Cleminson hall, with it's fair share too. Again, both have wardens, who WILL enforce the rules, but both halls are set in a really nice area of Cottingham and are a bit closer to the university, but are after the lawns on the bus journey, so when the buses are full, you better start walking or keep waiting!!! Needler hall is very similar to these two, but is actually in Cottingham. the same applies. All other halls have nowhere near the facilities that the lawns has, and are not even close in their size.
You want my advice? Go to the lawns, you'll probably regret it if you don't.

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