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3.34 / 5
394 ft from Aberystwyth University - Penglais Campus View map
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I made the best friends I've had at university through living in Penbryn in my first year. The cleaning staff were AMAZING, we had a lovely lovely lady called Helen, she was really nice. For catered accommodation the food is amazing :)

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By member723909
On 5th September 16
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Most helpful review

I made the best friends I've had at university through living in Penbryn in my first year. The cleaning staff were AMAZING, we had a lovely lovely lady called Helen, she was really nice. For catered accommodation the food is amazing :)

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By member723909
On 5th September 16
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Does everyone really speak welsh? I’ve been offered a room here but don’t want to be isolated.
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Student Review: 2.6 /5
By member626960 On 9th July 17 verified Verified student

The best thing I got out of living in Penbryn is the friends I made with which I moved into a house the year after. You are likely to end up living with a lot of people so the chances that you find someone you like are higher. However, at the same time, this means there is a lot more noise and I literally wasn't able to sleep during my entire year due to parties held by people living above and below me. The location is perfect though if most of your classes are on the main campus. Another advantage of living in Penbryn is that you don't have to worry about cooking yourself, but a big disadvantage is that you don't really have a great kitchen if you would want to cook yourself. I wrote more on it in a blog post which includes pictures so you can see what a room looks like: [website link removed]

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Student Review: 3.1 /5
By member823986 On 12th September 16 verified Verified student

Not the greatest hall in Aber, but still nice enough. Wouldn't recommend it, as other halls seem to be nicer. But if you're too lazy and would want to live super close to uni and don't want to cook, then it's perfect.

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Student Review: 4.7 /5
By member723909 On 5th September 16 verified Verified student

I made the best friends I've had at university through living in Penbryn in my first year. The cleaning staff were AMAZING, we had a lovely lovely lady called Helen, she was really nice. For catered accommodation the food is amazing :)

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Student Review: 3 /5
By member621621 On 3rd April 16 verified Verified student

depends on which block and flatmates you have. can be good. probably crap

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Student Review: 3 /5
By Jackdaw On 2nd September 15 verified Verified student

It's a hole, but it's a hole where your dinner is cooked for you, except weekend evenings, so there's that.

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Student Review: 3.1 /5
By member1114888 On 18th August 15 verified Verified student

Living in Penbryn was an experience to say the least...the asbestos in the walls, the meals in the corridors due to no social area or even not having any chairs or tables, or having to sit on the counters and cook our meals in a box. But the room sizes are great and it's right next to the lecture halls and spent way too much time in ta med. This really is a s****** but it was home and I loved living here with some great people. Really sad to leave it!!

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Student Review: 4 /5
By member89005 On 17th May 15 verified Verified student

I made the best friends I've had at university through living in Penbryn in my first year, and met my fiance through them. The cleaning staff were AMAZING, we had a lovely lovely lady called Olga, she was really nice. Warning though, although it's 'catered' there isn't enough money on your food card to buy more than one meal a day, so it's a good idea to budget for some other way of getting food!

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Student Review: 2.8 /5
By member126139 On 13th April 15 verified Verified student

Lots of people on one corridor can be both a positive and negative

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Student Review: 3.3 /5
By member76092 On 12th April 15 verified Verified student

It's a good place to meet new properties and settle in however the lack of socialising space does cause a problem. The food facilities however are AMAZING cheap and cheerful however make sure you're up early on a weekend as does close early. All in all a good place to live, but could do with updating!

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Student Review: 1.7 /5
By member95747 On 28th March 15 verified Verified student

Kitchen is absolutely pathetic, no communal space to socialise. Not even a table and chairs so instead we sit on fridges and live on a diet of microwave meals because kitchen facilities are s***

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Student Review: 3 /5
By Shortstack1815 On 26th March 15 verified Verified student

I didn't enjoy my time in halls, but that was due to the people I lived with mostly. Even so, I did find that while the cleaners were friendly and thorough the management staff were petty, arrogant, ignorant and useless. The quality of the accommodation was just scraping adequate so long as you let the suspiciously opaque water from the taps settle. The cost was stupidly organised, the extra paid for catering was not realistically represented in your food allowance. Which not only limited your daily amount if you wished to eat all semester, but also was not equivalent to how much extra you'd paid.

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Student Review: 2.8 /5
By member104876 On 22nd March 15 verified Verified student

s****** but with great people in it

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Student Review: 4.5 /5
By member114833 On 22nd March 15 verified Verified student

Great way to socialise because there was about 20 of us in one corridor! Right on the campus which meant we were close to the lecture buildings!

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