Student Accommodation in Cork

embraer170

Hi,

Wasn’t sure whether to post this here or on the Leaving Certificate board. Decided here since I finished school ages ago, or at least it seems like ages ago.

How is the student accommodation situation in Cork? What are the best options etc.? Is it already too late to apply for on campus accommodation for the 2003-2004 academic year?

Thanks for any replies.

Jer

GoneShootin

what college were you hopeing to go to ?

scojones

If it's UCC try college road - the houses aren't that great but it's a 5min walk to the college. That's not bad!

embraer170

Gone Shootin,

Sorry very stupid of me not to include it. UCC.

Jer

GoneShootin

Best to ring UCC themselves and get the story. but if its anything like CIT (and id image it to be worse) then best bet is to start right now for this year, and if going for Oct 03, start in July at least.

A post in the CORK forum might help you out

Darth Henry

Contact the Accomadation Office in UCC and CIT too, it's not that far to travel from CIT area if you can't get anywhere near UCC.

Directions to UCC
http://www.ucc.ie/aboutucc/mapclick.html

CIT Accommodation Office
Tel: 021 4326 453.

Illkillya

just out of curiosity, what would you expect to pay for student accommodation in cork?

Darth Henry

anywhere between 50 and 85 euro per week. 70 could be an average, maybe.

the students union try not to publicise figures like that because then people who are charging below the average will up their prices and nobody wants that!

GoneShootin

its more like 87 > 100 tbh, thats for digs tho

im paying 95 per week at the mo for digs 10 mins walk from cit.

Darth Henry

i saw an ad in c.i.t. for a room 10 mins walk from cit for 32 euro a week.

beat that!

probably a coal shed or something.

Synkronite

Try Brookfield, Castlewhite or Deans Hall or the likes, they have the best most modern accomodation in Cork (as opposed to living in student houses) these are like actually dorm flats, a bit more expensive though, over 100euro per week I think.. Why cant Ireland have cool accomodation. Im going to be in Sweden next year and have accomodation on campus at cheap (300euro per month) which includes elec, heating and a 10mbps internet connection..

sceptre

Originally posted by sjones
If it's UCC try college road - the houses aren't that great but it's a 5min walk to the college. That's not bad!

Not bad at all.

On that note, I'll throw out a small piece of advice. If you go looking for accommodation and find any houses owned by an old landlord called Arthur, run, run very fast. I could tell stories told to me by a family member who had the misfortune to occupy one house owned by the chap but the mods may well let me off just by mentioning a first name in a non-libellous way. The stories I heard about this chap make any dodgy landlord I had to deal with in Castletroy seem like a walk in the park. That's all but please folks, keep it in mind (you could regret it if you don't). Chap owns quite a few houses and the odds of you staying in one if you're a student in Cork seem high*.


*Doubt me? Hehe. While they weren't all going to UCC at the same time, I've found out that my sister, cousin and current girlfriend all stayed in houses owned by this chap. Sister and girlfriend had the same room four years apart (now that's weird)

Darth Henry

Try Brookfield, Castlewhite or Deans Hall or the likes

Every such place is booked out about a month or two ago for NEXT year.

eibhilin91

im looking into accomadation on college street for the year 2009/2010. i cant find any information on it at all online. im not to sure if its on the ucc website but i cant find it anywhere on google etc. is there any particular name on the houses on college street? please reply! thanks!:)

EllaF

eibhilin91 wrote: »

im looking into accomadation on college street for the year 2009/2010. i cant find any information on it at all online. im not to sure if its on the ucc website but i cant find it anywhere on google etc. is there any particular name on the houses on college street? please reply! thanks!:)

College road, I think you mean?

Well from my experience if you pop onto daft you'll see some houses/rooms going fairly reasonably in and around College Rd.
Obviously make sure to view first, some good, some not so good places on College Rd.
I'm assuming you're going to UCD if you were thinking of college road specifically, yeh?..

marzcatzkell

hey guys ok just been reading a few suggestions der.. i dont know much about castle white but brookfield and deans hall are like mount joy my friend lived in b.field and i live in deans for 1st semester and we just had to get out of der.deans hall the receptionst show u this lovely showhouse apart and it looks so glam as it does in the web but unless u want mice d smell of the brewery and complete cows at ur trout do not live der im a relitivly neat person and 4of the ppl i lived wit were nice but they locked the fire escape sent bills and put on 24hr security 4rag week den took off the security wen u need it most and jim the nicest security guard in the world got fired 4being 2nice d little dote e was d coolest guy on earth..and my friends r not aloud live der nxt yr 4putting the wrong rubbish in the correct bins allocated to them seriously prision..:mad: college road all the way living der and it cheap warm good crack and always a party in store some place

Lump

marzcatzkell wrote: »

hey guys ok just been reading a few suggestions der.. i dont know much about castle white but brookfield and deans hall are like mount joy my friend lived in b.field and i live in deans for 1st semester and we just had to get out of der.deans hall the receptionst show u this lovely showhouse apart and it looks so glam as it does in the web but unless u want mice d smell of the brewery and complete cows at ur trout do not live der im a relitivly neat person and 4of the ppl i lived wit were nice but they locked the fire escape sent bills and put on 24hr security 4rag week den took off the security wen u need it most and jim the nicest security guard in the world got fired 4being 2nice d little dote e was d coolest guy on earth..and my friends r not aloud live der nxt yr 4putting the wrong rubbish in the correct bins allocated to them seriously prision..:mad: college road all the way living der and it cheap warm good crack and always a party in store some place

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104494431

Most places near UCC are 80-120 a week, I dont know anyone paying less than 85 per week.

You have two realistic options: student village type college accomodation or renting a room in a house or a whole house.

The student village (apartment block) type accomodation is expensive but you are provided with all the facilities you realistically need as well as your own room which is usually a decent size.

The house option is (generally) the cheaper option, can end up being good or bad (as can the other type of accomodation really).

Having lived in in both types of accomodation I would say that houses are the best option as they are cheaper and you can make it your home instead of having a clinical apartment.

If sharing with people you know then it doesn't matter where you live as long as you have a comfortable bed, security and no idiot neighbours keeping you awake

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Would it be okay if I asked about student accommodation in Cork here for myself or should I go start a new thread, just asking ^//^