Halifax College

The location of halifax is nice if you want secluded. It is surrounded by fields and it can be lovely in the summer! However this means that it is quite a walk into university campus and it often feels secluded because there is no social space and no bar or anything and therefore it can be a bit harder to make friends. The en-suite rooms are nice but the standard rooms are a bit rubbish and there is often problems with silver fish.

Cheapest accommodation York offers, and it shows. With terraced, prison block-style buildings housing 20 people in each ‘flat’, it is easily becomes noisy, dirty and is always unattractive. The college is the furthest away from campus (about a 15 minute walk from the library) so even though it houses the most students in the uni, it often lacks atmosphere or any form of occasion. The college is disconnected from the bus route too, so expect a 10 minute walk before a 10 minute bus ride to get into the centre of the City. It comes as no surprise then that Halifax is often people’s last accommodation option, but all is not all bad however. Having houses of 20 really helps with getting to know people, and people from neighbouring houses are always close-by too. Halifax has its own little shop too, albeit slightly expensive, is a handy saving grace when your milk gets stolen by your flat mate. The social aspect of Halifax is what saves it as a college on a day to day basis, yet despite this, the events the college holds always seem to flop, with miserable attendance or a lack of atmosphere and commitment. I don’t regret living in Halifax as I met some of my best friends I ever could there, but if you’re after a place where you can bring your friends from home and have a wild time then Halifax isn’t the halls for you. With small rooms and shared toilets in most blocks, and prison-themed architecture, it becomes to embarrassing to being your friends back here, so you better hope they’ll offer for you to stay at theirs after a night out.

My university hall experience was undoubtedly the best year of uni I’ve had. Met great people and made life long fiends through the collegiate hall system here at york. However the actual rooms could do with some TLC. Very low lighting and clinical bath rooms don’t exactly boost motivation and productivity. The beds aren’t the comfiest, matresses god knows how old and my block had bed bugs!! A pro of my halls lay out was I had my own space. Having the opportunity to stay in an en suite room was fantastic, sometimes you just need at get away from the hustle and bustle of first year. Also the desk space was great, lots of space to store my things and make the room feel as homely as it could.

Really out of the way, is a strange kind of bubble and you don’t really get to meet anyone outside your house. Halls are houses not flats so not like you bump into people unless you live with them. If you dont like the poeple in your house you probs wont like halifax

Was in a house of 20 people and there wain't nearly enough kitchen space for everyone the only good thing is people living off takeaways meaning I could have kitchen space. The people were mostly alright which made it better except my neighbour who was awful. Overall it is far too overpriced for what it is.