A real variety of student pit to glamorous flats (Halls Of Residence At The University Of Kent At Canterbury)

Member Name: hannahgibbins3

Product:	Halls Of Residence At The University Of Kent At Canterbury
Date:	26/10/09 (17 review reads)
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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 stuff in the rooms and kitchens is all new pretty much with big desk built in, bed built in, bedside table and window and en suite bathroom complete walk in shower, sink and toilet. THe kitchens were nice. It is reasonably expensive to live here.
In Tyler B&C it is much bigger rooms, and bigger kitchens generally a more luxurious building but ridiculously expensive.

Virginia Woolf buildings are the most expensive on campus and are really nice, but they are just for post-graduates. I have only been in one once, but i remember a massive kitchen with bedrooms leading off of a small corridor like a flat, and a sofa in the living space.

Eliot and Rutherford College student rooms are pretty much the same as the buildings are built the exact same. Very confusing. They have much the small dingy corridors with extremely tiny rooms, and a shared grotty toilet/shower, and no cooking equipment as they are catered accom, but you only get one meal a day.

Park Wood have villages of houses made for students but it is annoying to live there as they are a long walk through a woods to get to. Also difficult to navigate your way to the right area your house is in as you have to follow the maze.

Darwin is like tyler but on a budget, better internet connection, rooms not so luxurious but you will definetely make great friends it is very social, the kitchens are nice and big and you share with a block, shared toilet and bathroom per flat of 4/5.

I can't really comment on keynes as I never went there.

I wouldnt advise eliot.rutherford or any catered accomodation at all, waste of money and you will not get a decent kitchen to cook anything on.

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