Private campus on Docklands.

Sandals

Hello I heard an ad on radio for a private campus place on docklands offering dvd and free broadband in each apartment for just 80 euro a week can anyone confirm if this place is any good/ give me a web link or tell me just how close is it to tcd. thanks.

cuckoo

it might be the national college of ireland student residences, they're in the IFSC beside NCI, and as they rent rooms to trinity students.

they've the usual college rules about guests after a certain time, i visited someone there a long time ago and from what i remember they were quite spacious, with en suite bathrooms for each room and a large shared kitchen/sitting room.

i think it's be about a half hour stroll to trinity.

jd

cuckoo wrote:

i think it's be about a half hour stroll to trinity.

you jest!

cuckoo

jd wrote:

you jest!

there may have been alcohol consumed the night i was down there, which might have affected my time perception, but i think it could be done in half an hour, if you were to walk up the river, cross over at the Isaac Butt bridge and cut up Lombard St to Pearse Street station and enter the campus at the Hamilton.

Of course, you could always walk to connolly dart station and catch a dart to Pearse St, but that could take longer if you're waiting for a train.

(note, my timings relate to my 'hello world, hello trees, hello lamp post' dawdling style of walking)

jd

tbh- i would have thought 15/20 mins

venice_irk

i walk like cuckoo,it's the best way to walk.

Boston

The accomodation in the NCI is more expensive then normal IFSC accomdation, plus you have to go by all the college rules with reguards guests, and you have fuk all rights. This was told to me by someone working in the NCI who handles the accomodation for trinity students.

xeduCat

Yeah, that's true - you are under "NCI rules" so it's pretty much the same (or inferior) to private sector accommodation, and TCD has no control or influence over it (that can be good or bad depending on your personal experience of Trinity bureaucracy/systems).

Walking-wise, though, there's the new Sean O'Casey footbridge that's very close to the place in question, which takes a few minutes off the trip, and brings you up in the Hamilton direction.

Chardee MacDennis

http://www.ncirl.ie/prospective_students/accommodation/default.asp

LiouVille how expensive is normal ifsc accomodation

Chardee MacDennis

bump

Boston

Can't remember, but it was direct from someone that worked in the accomodation office. something like 90 euro a week, but can be less as far as i remember.

cuckoo

One advantage to student accommadation is that you don't get tied into a 12 month lease, as some landlords in the private sector will insist on.