cuirt na coiribe.

Patri · 09-01-2011 08:11PM #1

Hello, Im heading to Nuig hopefully next year and was just wondering how much would I expect to be paying a week in cuirt na coiribe?? And is the rent shared amongst 4 or 5 or what?? Thanks in advance

ciano1 · 09-01-2011 09:56PM

http://www.cuirtnacoiribe.com/index.php?module=rates

Thats per person.
Gort is the same price and better craic overall!

Fionn MacCool · 10-01-2011 06:43PM

Too much. Go to Corrib Village if you're not fussy and prefer having the craic. Otherwise get a house.

cat_xx · 13-01-2011 11:40PM

I am currently living in cuirt and personally hate it. The walls are too thin
i can literally clearly hear my room mates conversations like i am in the room. The doors bang SO LOUD and there is actually nothing you can do to stop it. Management are a nightmare and occasionally burst into your room in the morning demanding that you get up and go to the kitchen where you get given out to about having unregistered guests (happened to a friend of mine.) Security are awful, can't bring anyone into your apartment and they usually go around with there little book of the residents faces so there is no hope for people who don't live here getting in, totally unnecessary. My room mates and i hate it here and can't wait to get out. Can't say a positive word about it! Rant over.

Crybabygeeks · 14-01-2011 04:52PM

I used to live in Cuirt na Coiribe and would not recommend it to anyone. they treat you like you are a 5 year old and charged me €100 at the end of the year for 'cleaning' despite my room being spotless. They're completely obnoxious, have bad management and security is terrible.

AVOID.

TheCosmicFrog · 15-01-2011 03:16AM

A few of my friends live here. Lovely place in terms of size/comfort, but visiting friends is a nightmare. They have a "gated community" philosophy and they don't even have an intercom on the outside gate. You need to call your friend and ask them to come down and let you in. I hear good things about Gort na Coiribe, which is in the same complex. Much more of an easy-going atmosphere and security are supposed to be decent.

*waits for the onslaught of "f*ck Gort!" comments*

ciano1 · 15-01-2011 03:48PM

TheCosmicFrog wrote: »

*waits for the onslaught of "f*ck Gort!" comments*

WooHoo.. Gort!

They're much more laid back here in Gort about everything.
A good example is parties..

House party in Cuirt generally ends up with security coming up to your place and breaking it up. While in Gort the most that security will so is come over to your house and tell you to close your window if its getting too noisy!

There are also NO restrictions on overnight guests in Gort.

cat_xx · 15-01-2011 04:56PM

ciano1 wrote: »

WooHoo.. Gort!

House party in Cuirt generally ends up with security coming up to your place and breaking it up. While in Gort the most that security will so is come over to your house and tell you to close your window if its getting too noisy!

your forgetting the €100 fine for the parties aswel

dmcg90 · 15-01-2011 06:09PM

I'm in Gort, been here for a year and a half now. Its the best student accommodation hands down. Security is fine, policies are fine, management is quite helpful, location is brilliant, great parking and the houses are pretty decent.

Seriously, Gort > Cuirt anyday.

don101 · 15-01-2011 10:30PM

currently living in gort, visit cuirt a couple of nights a week.

cant advise gort strongly enough when compared to cuirt, the security in cuirt are overly strict, stand at the gate with a folder full of the faces of residents, so borrowing someones key to try and get in is a no go. Granted they only go on the gate at ~11pm, but its still a pain in the hole compared to the way you can walk into gort any time of the day or night. Last year while living in gort, mental party was mental, security came into the house and helped us kick people out (other housemates let randomers in and then left) and that was that. Same incident in cuirt would cost €100 and an eye kept on your appartment.

Gort is cheaper, option of twin rooms if thats important.

Feels more like a home which i like, still very student accomodation but cuirt is more like a hotel, i feel.

walls in gort are excellent, 3 am dubstep has never caused us any problems with neighbours, < slight exaggeration> in cuirt if you hit a wall with an elbow youll wake everyone. </exaggeration>

If youre lucky youll get a green area in gort which is lovely for frisbee or whatever catches your fancy.

If you smoke, while they ask you not to, last year the maintainence fellow (Frank) enjoyed a cigarette on our couch with my housemates while replacing our toaster

plenty more reasons im sure, but seriously, if its a choice between gort and cuirt, go to gort!

Foxx92 · 15-01-2011 11:40PM

don101 wrote: »

plenty more reasons im sure, but seriously, if its a choice between gort and cuirt, go to gort!

Agree completely. I live in Cuirt at the moment and needless to say won't be there next year. While it is more quiet ( in terms of parties, not the cardboard walls or the noisy doors ), your better off staying in Gort.

ru437z9t8fidq2 · 15-01-2011 11:48PM

the hallways of cuirt are quite the resting spot i must say

Fionn MacCool · 17-01-2011 05:59PM

The notion of paying top dollar to rent a place and then being told you cannot smoke or have an overnight guest is insane.

ru437z9t8fidq2 · 17-01-2011 07:07PM

Yeah exactly!!! Like no offence to anyone who lives there now, but its terrible value for money. You can move into a good apartment in town in a central location for around 70 or 80 euros (can be less) and actually have a living area thats bigger than a square foot and be allowed to take a dump without permission! imo gort is way overpriced too.. id say if someone was really obsessed with being unneccessarily close to parties move into a house in dun na coiribe that can literally be half the price as gort..

ciano1 · 17-01-2011 07:16PM

Just a quick heads-up that Cuirt booking opens on the 25th of January for next year and Gort bookings open on the 31st....

They both tend to book up fairly fast.

ru437z9t8fidq2 · 17-01-2011 09:18PM

ciano1 wrote: »

Just a quick heads-up that Cuirt booking opens on the 25th of January for next year and Gort bookings open on the 31st....

They both tend to book up fairly fast.

Also with a private house you dont have to commit ALOT of money REALLY early in the year.. And there'll always be a nice private place available in galway, just incase your worried about getting a certain amount of points for a course.

ciano1 · 17-01-2011 10:11PM

Since when did this thread turn into a Student Acommodation vs Private Accommodation debate?? eh Pete?? :P

ru437z9t8fidq2 · 17-01-2011 10:17PM

ciano1 wrote: »

Since when did this thread turn into a Student Acommodation vs Private Accommodation debate?? eh Pete?? :P

Since when did this thread turn into a cuirt v gort debate hypocrit?.. Boooooom!!! (Ginger insult included) :P

Nah seriously tho private ftw..

ciano1 · 17-01-2011 10:25PM

Misael Salmon Nun wrote: »

Also with a private house you dont have to commit ALOT of money REALLY early in the year.. And there'll always be a nice private place available in galway, just incase your worried about getting a certain amount of points for a course.

You actually pay for it after you get your CAO results.. You can cancel at any time before that!

Misael Salmon Nun wrote: »

Since when did this thread turn into a cuirt v gort debate hypocrit?.. Boooooom!!!

Nah seriously tho private ftw..

Suppose..

But imagine you're not from Galway (Like Me) and coming to Galway knowing pretty much nobody.. Where would you prefer to live? In some random house in the city away from the student area of Galway or amongst hundreds of other students?

The only real advantage that private has over Student accommodation is that it's cheaper!

At least you know that you'll defo be living with other students.. Theres less of a chance that the drug squad will come banging on your door because of one of your housemates little secrets !! :P

ru437z9t8fidq2 · 18-01-2011 12:17AM

ciano1 wrote: »

You actually pay for it after you get your CAO results.. You can cancel at any time before that!

Suppose..

But imagine you're not from Galway (Like Me) and coming to Galway knowing pretty much nobody.. Where would you prefer to live? In some random house in the city away from the student area of Galway or amongst hundreds of other students?

The only real advantage that private has over Student accommodation is that it's cheaper!

At least you know that you'll defo be living with other students.. Theres less of a chance that the drug squad will come banging on your door because of one of your housemates little secrets !! :P

lolol lets not get personal ya big ginger..
theres loads of websites to help students find other students to share a house with in galway, and you will find nice people if you look hard enough.. and its not as if you move into a "random" house cian.. you look at each house or apartment and see what fits you best..

well whatever the case, anyone who has friends to move in with, which is alot of people, should move into a private house in my opinion.

also before i got my private house, i stayed alot in the student accomodation. actually the main reason i moved in was because of a night i spent in gort na coiribe when i couldnt sleep (not because of the fact i didnt have a bed) but because of the noise outside and the random people that kept climbing into the window of the house. as well as that i woke up and found about 10 people in the room i slept in that werent there when i went asleep... thats unreal craic and all that (and i know thats cos there was a party on in the house and its prob not always like that), but id rather visit the craic and go home to a private apartment than live in the craic....
yeah if theres an isreali in the house tho ud wanna check if hes a drug dealer seriously...

cian did u book next year in gort too?

ciano1 · 18-01-2011 12:27AM

Misael Salmon Nun wrote: »

cian did u book next year in gort too?

Putting down the deposit soon I'd say

ru437z9t8fidq2 · 18-01-2011 12:31AM

ciano1 wrote: »

Putting down the deposit soon I'd say

Well we might aswell accomplish something here and just finish with

DONT GO TO CUIRT

Patri · 18-01-2011 12:44AM

Gort all the way it seems! Thanks for the replies, will be hittin the application big style when it's available to young bucks like myself :pac:

Fionn MacCool · 18-01-2011 04:52PM

Cuirt looks a lot nicer than Gort, but by the sounds of it their security have become pretty bad. I stayed there a few times last year and never had a problem. One morning we had the front door propped open with a book as we were helping the girls move out, and one of their security guys knocked and told me I'd have to move the book as it was a health and safety issue or something. I laughed and walked away because I wasn't sure if he was serious, but I guess he was because the door was closed when I came back.

I've never got the idea of paying half your years rent in one go (I hear Corrib are now making people pay for the entire year in one lump). That is a preposterous thing to be asking people in these times, especially what with the hiked registration fee and all the other costs of starting college. As with absolutely everything these people get away with, it's based on the fact that they can do whatever they want because the demand will always be there. Places like Corrib would do well to wake up to the fact that they are charging people extortionate amounts to live in prison cells, get severely ripped off by their dishonest staff when it comes to deposits, and the only thing they have going for them is the craic you have there - which is the very thing they try to clamp down on.

meg3178 · 13-02-2011 12:40PM

Patri wrote: »

Hello, Im heading to Nuig hopefully next year and was just wondering how much would I expect to be paying a week in cuirt na coiribe?? And is the rent shared amongst 4 or 5 or what?? Thanks in advance

My Daughter just moved into Cuirt and imo if you are a serious party head who likes to be around a lot of noise, then cuirt is not for you. However, if you like to go out and then come home and sleep Corrib village is not for you either. Gort is much nicer than Corrib Village and around the same price. It does allow parties and is not far from college.

reap-a-rat · 18-02-2011 09:07PM

meg3178 wrote: »

My Daughter just moved into Cuirt and imo if you are a serious party head who likes to be around a lot of noise, then cuirt is not for you. However, if you like to go out and then come home and sleep Corrib village is not for you either. Gort is much nicer than Corrib Village and around the same price. It does allow parties and is not far from college.

Gort is probably the happy medium from the sleep/study/party point of view to be honest!

Dman001 · 18-02-2011 10:53PM

I'd agree that Gort is a good medium, Corrib is a bit too mad, while Cuirt is a bit too quiet and dead. Cuirt's security is annoying, but you can always get people to stay the night as long as you sign them in. At least there is a (safe) method to get people in, unlike Corrib. Walls are way too thin, and the doors are really annoying. Its the first thing we noticed when we moved in. It isn't an exaggeration that when we bang your elbow on a wall that you wake people up. But that said it is lovely accommodation, and dont have (much) problems with noise.

Fotish · 18-07-2011 01:56PM

Just got the remains of my deposit back from Cuirt,not good news.

cat_xx · 18-07-2011 02:19PM

Fotish wrote: »

Just got the remains of my deposit back from Cuirt,ripped me off big time,crooks.!!

oh really? Im still waiting for mine.. not looking forward to it

Foxx92 · 18-07-2011 02:56PM

Fotish wrote: »

Just got the remains of my deposit back from Cuirt,ripped me off big time,crooks.!!

did you get in contact with them or did they just send it out by post?

kev.f · 18-07-2011 03:42PM

am i the only first year going into altantas apartments.....

cuirt na coiribe.

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