The Grange

Rooms are spacious and kitchen is an ok size. Had issues regarding lights and rats(!) which took around 2 months to solve. Despite this, it is a nice community-like area and if you have friends living near, it is a nice area to meet for pre-drinks, etc. However, Grange house had only the kitchen as common room which proved difficult to have all 5 of us in together

All in all, The Grange was a fairly... okay student accommodation. The location is brilliant as it’s a couple of minute walk to the university and about a 5/10 min walk into york city centre. The social experience again is brilliant! There are plenty large patches of grass and seating which are great for socialising, esecpially in the summer if you decide to stay in halls rather than returning to your parents home. The rooms were a good size and all come with a desk, desk chair, few drawers next to your bed and a wardrobe. The bed unfortunately gives you spinal problems due to it basically being concrete! Facilities wise, not awful but not too brilliant. There’s a laundry room in which one washer and one dryer actually work and the dryer takes about a year to dry one sock. You also get cleaners once a month to do communal spaces. The cleaners are terrible and don’t actually clean, rather just bitch about students and how much they hate their job whilst simultaneously making up complaints to the uni to get us charged. Again, all in all it’s okay. But I guess okay for student accommodation is excellent!!

The loctation of the grange is very practical and very close to the town centre and the uni itself! It's very social between all the houses and flats in the grange and you can meet many new people which is nice in your first year. The room itself is okay, quite an average size for a uni room, and the kitchen is decent.