Accomodation: MOdern rooms or Standard?

madnirvana

I am confused about choosing between them..

Which Single room Type is better ?? (Dont worry about Charges)

Also is there any wireless connectivity?

xeduCat

Are you an incoming first year? Then your accommodation is likely to be in Trinity Hall so I'm going to answer with reference to those rooms.

About 10% of the rooms in Trinity Hall are "standard" and the rest are "modern". There are some past threads reviewing the rooms so do a quick search here on Trinity Hall if you want to see what your predecessors thought!

The summary is that the standard rooms (in Cunningham House) are not ensuite (toilets/showers on your floor), have large, shared kitchens for a floor or floors (like a youth hostel) and are 60s or 70s in vintage. There is no fixed network access (i.e. what you'd be used to from home as 'broadband' if you have it) but there is wireless access across the building (of the speed and quality you'd get from a wifi hotspot or better).

The modern rooms, completed less than five years ago, are laid out like apartments, with a handful of bedrooms grouped around a kitchen/living room, rooms are ensuite, fixed network access in the bedrooms, cable TV points in the living rooms. Oh and if accessibility is an issue there's a lift.

Cunningham is great - never stayed their but my ex did.

While the rooms are off lesser quality, they much more 'cosy' as the modern rooms are more like an operating theatre.

Also, there is great craic in Cunningham, however the walls are very thin

xeduCat

Various comments comparing the room types are in these threads, may be helpful:

this one and this one too.

cianclarke

Cunningham = da ghetto.
Modern is pretty comfortable, only 6 to a kitchen rather than 14 and en-suite. Big plus!