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3.57 / 5
3.57 / 5
1.3 mi from University of Nottingham - University Park Campus View map
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1.3 mi from University of Nottingham - University Park Campus View map
  • 10 mins
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The location and value for money in catered halls is great. However it does get very very noisy. The staff are all friendly, cleaning is mediocre, if your sharing a shower/toilet between the whole flat it does get messy. The social aspect of halls is brilliant especially for 1st years. Wifi is good enough. The evening meals are usually good, but the breakfast service is pretty bad. The food is served just warm instead of hot a lot of the time. But it is one of the best catered halls in my opinion.

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By member458277
On 19th May 21
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Most helpful review

The location and value for money in catered halls is great. However it does get very very noisy. The staff are all friendly, cleaning is mediocre, if your sharing a shower/toilet between the whole flat it does get messy. The social aspect of halls is brilliant especially for 1st years. Wifi is good enough. The evening meals are usually good, but the breakfast service is pretty bad. The food is served just warm instead of hot a lot of the time. But it is one of the best catered halls in my opinion.

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By member458277
On 19th May 21
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Do study is have sinks
By member762178 On 6th September 21
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are you allowed kettles and irons in your rooms
By member1251074 On 10th September 20
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Is there a group chat for students who have applied for accommodation at derby hall going to uni in September 2020/2021?
By member1348409 On 18th May 20
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Will students need to pay hall fees if they don't physically attend university from next week .. and will they get a refund for this term's fees if they are now at home?
By member646858 On 19th March 20
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Are there any en suite rooms here
By member636560 On 17th March 19
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Student Review: 3.9 /5
By member668245 On 15th April 22 verified Verified student

It’s and interesting place. Rooms are a lucky dip and some people are hooligans. Experience depends on what block your in

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member458277 On 19th May 21 verified Verified student

The location and value for money in catered halls is great. However it does get very very noisy. The staff are all friendly, cleaning is mediocre, if your sharing a shower/toilet between the whole flat it does get messy. The social aspect of halls is brilliant especially for 1st years. Wifi is good enough. The evening meals are usually good, but the breakfast service is pretty bad. The food is served just warm instead of hot a lot of the time. But it is one of the best catered halls in my opinion.

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Student Review: 3.7 /5
By member558161 On 18th May 21 verified Verified student

We have a “nice” accommodation

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Student Review: 4.3 /5
By member935989 On 10th February 19 verified Verified student

Pool equipment always being broken but otherwise nice to have along with table tennis and darts. Rooms are good size and regularly cleaned

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member435821 On 3rd February 19 verified Verified student

The food is not great at all and the dinner ladies are occasionally unnecessarily aggressive and mean. I don’t feel like the food is nutritious and sometimes is not cooked properly.

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member1033132 On 26th July 18 verified Verified student

Decent value for money for those with renovated rooms (which should all be done now) though for a short period one block was known as ‘the ghetto’... The location is unparalleled; 5 mins walk to the centre of campus, 2 mins to the bus stop straight to town, in a cluster of other halls and one of few to have a bar. The halls management team are lovely (porters, cleaners, reception, etc) though the warden and halls tutors are intolerable; many of the tutors (there supposedly for pastoral care) had huge authoritarian power trips making many of our social group feel uncomfortable. As a catered hall the food is what you’d expect (not great but edible) but dinner is always a sociable time. This is naturally a very sociable hall, and all of us thoroughly enjoyed living there.

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Student Review: 3 /5
By member833050 On 23rd July 18 verified Verified student

Tutors and Warden treat you like a child and try to make you go to bed at 10:30. Enter your room without permission even if locked.

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member532434 On 17th June 18 verified Verified student

Location is a great middle ground for pretty much everything except the tram route, which I can deffo live with. Repetitiveness of halls dinners for sure knocks it down a peg or two, but the absolute best porter/warden teams. Thanks so much for looking after us so well.

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Student Review: 5 /5
By Herbertie On 13th June 18 verified Verified student

Very nice hall with lots of food options and green space

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Student Review: 4.9 /5
By member532105 On 4th June 18 verified Verified student

The only downside is the dinner but breakfasts are great

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member431142 On 26th March 18 verified Verified student

For my year, definitely the most sociable halls on campus, with a good social spaces and the food is okay as far as catered halls go (albeit the combinations of cuisines they put are often completely bizarre), with echo bar offering cheap pints, decent pitchers and okay food (although the food's a little pricey). Location is second to none. Easy trip to campus and right next to the bus stop outside Lenton hall with the 36 straight into town and back again, but also only 5 mins walk from the gym. Halls management and porters are charming and honestly do their best in running the hall in an efficient manner; however, Derby halls greatest downfall are the Halls Tutors, who are supposedly there for pastoral care. Their very presence makes any room uncomfortable, and many have a complete power trip and like to reassert their authority at every opportunity. The 11pm curfew is a bit of a joke for Univeristy halls, however we've made a habit of making the common room more sociable.

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Student Review: 3.6 /5
By member1026126 On 22nd March 17 verified Verified student

Food is hit and miss. Combination of food each night is very random. Quality of meat is poor.

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Student Review: 3 /5
By member824561 On 4th November 16 verified Verified student

Food quality is appalling. Fairly good location for most places (ie. Trent and Portland Building, DRSV, libraries). Cleaning staff are really nice and the receptionists are fairly nice. Social space and the library are tiny given how many people live in Derby. One of the ugliest halls by far

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Student Review: 4.3 /5
By member1122720 On 1st June 16 verified Verified student

I've had a really great time living here. I have a shared study room which is great cause I love the person I share with. The hall is a nice distance from the rest of the campus and close to the bus stop into town.

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Student Review: 3.7 /5
By member519518 On 23rd November 15 verified Verified student

Using water in any room will burn the skin off your hands

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member518164 On 12th November 15 verified Verified student

Big block, lots of people, lots to do, good food

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Student Review: 3.9 /5
By member818059 On 12th November 15 verified Verified student

Really good hall atmosphere and great in block bonding! Slight issue with food quality and the social space is underused!

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Student Review: 3.8 /5
By member78837 On 30th April 15 verified Verified student

Food isn't great, old cleaner (Barb) was really good, new one not so good.

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