Prospect Point is a new, well furnished and well situated private hall in Liverpool. It serves The University Of Liverpool, as well as John Moores. It also has private occupancy rooms.

The flats in PP have about 5 or 6 occupants. You'll get a shared living area with a kitchenette, sofa, table and TV. You get freeview, which can also be accessed in any of the rooms, Just remember you'll need to buy your own TV licence.
The kitchen is small, probably too small for 6 people, and the cookers and extractor fans are a little out of date. They cooker takes a very long time to heat up and the extractor fan doesn't really do anything at all. It's supposed to operate the fans in the bathrooms at the same time, but it really doesn't seem to do anything.

The bedrooms are a very good size. Beds are small but reasonable comfortable and although it's really bright outside at night with all the streetlights, the blackout curtains in the rooms are amazing. The bathrooms are lovely. Very spacious. All the bedrooms are en suite and I've not seen a bathroom of this size and quality in any other halls of residence.

I mentioned before that the fans in the bathrooms don't work. This contributes to the huge humidity problems in the rooms. My window is always running with condensation, paper gets wrinkly from the damp, and I don't have to water my plants ever! Everyone else I've spoken to in Prospect Point reports the same problem. Maybe fortunately, the heaters are over-powerful so you end up having to open a window, which helps cure the damp. Turning the heaters down even slightly means they don't have any effect whatsoever, and the room gets baltic.

The walls here are very thin. I can hear next door's conversations and the ambulances that regularly pass, as we are over the road from the hospital. As it is primarily a first year block, there's always someone coming home late and making loads of noise, meaning a good night's sleep can be difficult.

Prospect Point allows smoking in rooms. Although they do not allow smoking in shared areas such as the kitchen, they do not enforce this rule. The smell of smoke, even from just one person smoking in their rooms quickly fills the whole corridor.

The rent in Prospect Point is very competitive. You can pay a lot more for a similar, but not quite as well furnished flat elsewhere in the city. Prospect Point is probably about a 20 minutes walk from town, 10 minutes from the station and 10 minutes from the university. Directly below Prospect Point are takeaways, connivence stores, a chemist and cafes.

Prospect Point has 24 hour security and huge gates, so it is a very secure area. Fellow students often comment on how well locked up the rooms are. I need to pass through 3 different locked doors and gates before I even get to my room, which also has a lock on it. Although there are car parking spaces here, and rather a lot of them, you are only allowed to have a car here for loading and unloading. 95% of the parking spaces are empty all the time, I never did work out why.

I think that if you are going to go into halls, Prospect Point is great for facilities but falls down on social aspects. It's very difficult to establish friendship groups here, as there are less people in the flat, and you are very isolated from the majority of students, who are off campus. If you are unlucky, like I was, to fall into a flat with people you don't get on with, it can be very difficult.