Halls Of Residence At The University Of Kent At Canterbury

Having stayed in Tyler Court A, I feel the luxury has warped my idea of student standards but nevertheless! Tyler Court A is one of 3 Tyler Court Blocks, B & C being the most expensive and expansive of the lot. In A, you can expect 4 stories of long corridors going all the way left to right throuhg the building with rooms either side. A bit like a hotel, like a holiday inn. There is a reception with staff and a lift, also a communal workspace and communal washing room, as in where you wash your clothes, where you put coins in washing machines and tumbledryers. The corridors were split into, say, 7 rooms, to a kitchen, with a single person in each one. The ...  Read the complete review

My experiences with halls of residence at the University of Kent were far from positive. When I came to Canterbury in my first year, I had applied for accommodation on campus and got it - and, although I had actually applied for self-catered accommodation, I was put into Rutherford College, the oldest of the four colleges apart from Eliot. The first shock I had, happened when I walked into my room for the first time and realised that two steps took me from the door to the window (and I'm not particularly tall), which obviously means that the room was, moderately spoken, tiny (the rent is pretty high, however, about £280 per month but paid per term). I had ...  Read the complete review

As an undergraduate, my first experience of halls was in Eliot College. My room was reasonably large and had a small hallway where there was a cupboard and a sink. There was ample storage space. Having a sink in my room was brilliant, because it would have been horrible queueing up to brush your teeth in the morning. It was also great when you had to do handwashing...when you seriously ran out of clean clothes. I had an excellent view looking down the hill onto the city and the cathedral. The windows are massive and one piece of advice, is never to mess about near it when open. I was sitting on the back of a chair and almost fell out once! Also, ...  Read the complete review