gleann na ri

ancientdog

hi,i want to know all about gleann na ri,what the rooms and everything is like.how much it is a year , how long it is to galway city and when you have to book and how you would do it.
i want to go there and i need information so if any body lived there or knows about it please comment...

pointofnoreturn

Hi, Best thing to do is stay away from it, infact stay away from all student villages in Galway if your looking for decent internet access and living stands,

how far from Galway, basically it's like 1hr walk to the city center! it's miles aways! + the buses don't run regularly!

ARGINITE

pointofnoreturn wrote: »

Hi, Best thing to do is stay away from it, infact stay away from all student villages in Galway if your looking for decent internet access and living stands,

how far from Galway, basically it's like 1hr walk to the city center! it's miles aways! + the buses don't run regularly!

It's like most other student villages, yes it is a good distance from the city center, but the buses aren't that bad as long as you have a time table and it's not raining.

Try this for more information.

Redhairedguy

Relatively a hella lot more quiet than the likes of Glasan, Gort na Coiribe etc

Maneen here likes his sleep.

Dellboy2007

Do yourself a favour and stay well away from that place.

smashey

Dellboy,

Careful what you say as this is a public site.

Dellboy2007

Ok fair enough went a bit over board.

Listen all i will say is read any documentation that they tell you too. You don't want to end up losing your deposit if you decided you wanted to leave early or because the places were not up to your satisfaction.

Redhairedguy

Aw... I missed that rant:(

I love huge rants...

pointofnoreturn

You could rant on about student accommodation in Ireland for ages!! I hate seeing foreign students coming over and know that Ireland like to be seen BIG in I.T yet the internet and even the overall service provided in such accommodation is appalling! it's absolute bull! for a section 50 Dev that gets all this Tax deductions and doesn't continue to compliment the requirement should be sued or some governing body to keep things in check and updated and informed!

I know too many people that find it impossible to lived in anyways in student accommodation i just wish someone would stand up about it and get it sorted!

P.S Redhairedguy, here your rant back again!

AlmightyCushion

There is a student accommodation in Sligo that actually uses the college's network for internet access. As you can imagine it's insanely fast, and I'm surprised that more places don't do this.

JimmyCrackCorn!

Move to Baghdad its quieter even around Halloween.:D

The only reason to stay there is to party and take grief from security and be treated like a child.

The only hope is that you move next door to a dealer or loose ladies

smashey

JimmyCrackCorn! wrote: »

Move to Baghdad its quieter even around Halloween.:D

The only reason to stay there is to party and take grief from security and be treated like a child.

And you have experienced this?

JimmyCrackCorn!

Yes moved in after two weeks (gave notice). Being followed by security,crap internet, uncomfortable furniture, noisy neighbours.

Moved to Lois an Uisce better houses and half the fireworks around Halloween and only one bin was set on fire in the estate.

Ogh and it was cheaper and cleaner and i had nice neighbours who i got on well with.

Solarball10

I lived in Gleann Na Ri from 2003-2006...I actually liked it a lot! Plus unlike other rented accomm, you ONLY pay for your room, regardless if there's a spare room vacant, so you could end up with an apartment to yourself, likeI did one summer, paying 50eur a week! The only problem with that is there's a chance anyone could move in @ anytime, although they do tell you first, but only like a day, (in one case, an hour!), so it's kinda crap in that way, in that YOU don't get the choice to who moves in. I remember me and my b/f were coming back after a summer and they assigned us an apt, and told us there was a guy moved in already. That was fine, so we moved in all our stuff (this was like a week before we were due to move back) and we went home again. We didn't lock our bedroom door (there was no key, but that's no excuse, we should have asked for one!), and when we came back there was stuff in our room messed around, and it was also obvios our bed was slept in! Needless to say, we asked to be moved straight away, but it just shows u could end up with any bastard!

DuckSlice

ive stayed in glean na ri, found it quite nice, but a good few of my class mates were in there so it made it better. management is fine, my room had to get about a foot sq of the wall replastered and they gave me a months free rent so no quarals there, security is sound, big dave is bang on. we had a massive food fight from bottom appartment to top, and all he said was have it cleaned up before the morning.

but it is a nice walk away from the college which is why i wudnt live there again. hard to go in if its pissing down rain.
glasan is probably better but management isnt great, but they changed it last year and they are a lot better. people complain about not getting deposit back from glasan tho. my advice, dont give them an excuse look after your house/digs whatever and u will get our deposit back, live there 2 years and got around 250 back both times. but that was about right.

thats my two cents

funkycat83

lived in gleann na ri from 2004-2007, management were bang on. But if your thrown a party be warned theyl shut up down by cutting your esb off!
double standards though one night my next door neighbours threw an all night party and i rang about the noise and nothing was done about it..

they ask alot in deposits but its clean and ALOT better than glasan who are now run by winters I think? so dont know what their new stance is on giving deposits back but before they took over never heard of anyone getting any money back off them! only prob with gleann na ri is no washing machine!

funkycat83

funkycat83 wrote: »

lived in gleann na ri from 2004-2007, management were bang on. But if your thrown a party be warned theyl shut up down by cutting your esb off!
double standards though one night my next door neighbours threw an all night party and i rang about the noise and nothing was done about it..

they ask alot in deposits but its clean and ALOT better than glasan who are now run by winters I think? so dont know what their new stance is on giving deposits back but before they took over never heard of anyone getting any money back off them! only prob with gleann na ri is no washing machine!

But they do have a brilliant laundrette

funkycat83

thats so weird i was having this conversation today in the canteen with my friends about the laundrette! yes its great 8e for a massive gearbag of clothes and you get them back clean ironed folded and sometimes still warm! and the dudes are sound and they get it done fast! heard of ppl losing clothes in the glasan one and or all their clothes coming back grey and when asked they said "you never told us to separate your darks from whites"

Comon!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats THEIR job!!!!!

Dellboy2007

Or you could just get a house with a washing machine in it. That way you know that mangement won't try their hardest to rob your deposit.

Also you could end up living with someone doing engineering who smells and never stops talking about cars.

muddle84

is there any student village in galway that has washing machines??? gleann na ri is spot on!!! just a bit far away from the college if its wet!!! but apartments and management bang on security sound aswell!!!
Glasan aint bad either if you behave and don't wreck the place you will get deposit back!!!! i know alot of people that didn't get anythin but in faitness they did wreck there flats!!!!

cson

I slept on the floor in Gleann Na Ri one night. Nice spot tbh, waaaayyy nicer than my own Kilmurry (UL) but its far enough from the IT to make you stay in bed on the cold winter mornings methinks.

OoO nice chipper there too.

Perrin

So the general consensus is gleann na rí is probably the best place to live if your going to gmit