Accommodation

Hi everyone!

I believe that once you have met all of the conditions of your offer the first question you will ask yourself is ‘What now?’ Well, my advice would be to secure your accommodation!

Since my first year I have always lived in private accommodation, as my sister used to study here and she secured me a room before I came. It’s cheaper than University owned ones, but if you are not lucky as I was to have somebody you know here, you should be careful and never book a private room over the internet. Make sure you view the place, even if that means you come and stay at a hotel for a week. The average pricing for a private room in a house share is around £250 -£350;, depending on the location, if it includes bills or not and the condition of the house.

Even though I never stayed in University halls, a lot of my friends did. I am quite impressed with the high quality accommodation that Coventry University offers (especially compared with the ones back home in Bulgaria). Around £115per week, would include all your bills and food, if you choose a catered hall.  Food is great, as there is a catering company that provides the food and they cook international meals as well!

A huge advantage of living in University halls is the amount of people you will meet. Don’t get me wrong, you can still socialise and make new friends living in a house, but you do it a lot quicker if you live in halls. Most of the people in halls are first years and are more open and of course have more free time. I lived with second and third year students and they weren’t so fond of going out that much as they had course work or jobs. I still enjoyed living with them, great people, but I think I missed out from the ‘fresher’s experience’ for the first couple of months.  So my suggestion is, if you can afford it, stay in University halls during your first year and then find a house with the people you get a long with for the second year. Just make sure you do it early enough as the good ones go quickly ;)

Speak to you soon!

Mira

Xx

P.S. Just to give you a heads up – in the UK it is all about tradition, so don’t freak out when you see that you have two separate taps for cold and hot water, but you’ll get used to it.