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Chantry Student Residence Reviews

17 Reviews by Students
#13 out of 17 halls at Solent University, Southampton

3.35 / 5
3.35 / 5
0.7 mi from Solent University, Southampton - East Park Terrace View map
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0.7 mi from Solent University, Southampton - East Park Terrace View map
  • 15 mins
  • 4 mins
  • 15 mins

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Worst place I have ever been in my life. No one cares about repairing stuff. All Solent accommodation team cares about is money. It's a shame.

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By member1352568
On 25th November 20
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Worst place I have ever been in my life. No one cares about repairing stuff. All Solent accommodation team cares about is money. It's a shame.

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By member1352568
On 25th November 20
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Student Review: 1.1 /5
By member1352568 On 25th November 20 verified Verified student

Worst place I have ever been in my life. No one cares about repairing stuff. All Solent accommodation team cares about is money. It's a shame.

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member1342727 On 14th October 19 verified Verified student

Chantry Student Residence was fantastic would recommenced to a friend 10/10

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Student Review: 2.1 /5
By member636934 On 5th April 19 verified Verified student

Things keep breaking, considering I pay more to live here then my maintenance loan gives me, the fact that things break, there’s a silver fish infestation, the rooms are tiny and the lorry’s shake the rooms as they go past in the early hours of the morning it’s not good value for money, I can’t wait to get out

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Student Review: 1.9 /5
By member536698 On 23rd March 19 verified Verified student

The halls were dirty, everything broke and there was a constant smell of weed

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member636687 On 23rd March 19 verified Verified student

Yeah pretty prefect, meet friends for life here!

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By Solentgrad2022 On 21st March 19 verified Verified student

Cheapest & just been refurbished so it's so nice you get daily cleaners and has nice little bathrooms/kitchens: although it's not ensuite... 10/12 minute walk to uni and 5 to shops/highstreet/city centre. 15/20 to clubs. Best common room of all halls.

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Student Review: 4.9 /5
By Pancakes1996 On 4th June 18 verified Verified student

I had the most amazing time at Chantry. It’s the cheapest but definitely not the worst option and you quickly get used to the shared bathroom - made a lot of friends through a shared bladder timing. It can be noisy, when I was there in 2014 I was on the floor above “c**k floor” (a floor made entirely of guys) and they liked to come up and prank us often. You can’t get onto each other’s floors without a fob so unless someone lets people in, during freshers pre drinking music hours (9-11pm) and other than the 3am rush of people drunkenly walking into the walls of the corridor as they try and get to bed, it wasn’t that noisy. The layout of the floors also means you get to know more people rather than being stuck in a flat of 6. Internet didn’t ever go down when I was there but I know that my friends who would play PS4 online had some issues. It was my third choice of halls when I applied but now I’m so glad I got given Chantry because I had the best year and made so many friends.

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Student Review: 5 /5
By 1howid92 On 21st March 18 verified Verified student

We were nicknamed "c*** floor" - 40 lads on the same floor, needless to say we had a lot of fun. Very messy, but made a lot of friends. Massive common room, very sociable halls and situated in close proximity to other halls and the university.

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Student Review: 3.3 /5
By member826321 On 20th April 17 verified Verified student

what can i say. the wifi cuts out, cleaning is minor, and security? hahaha forget security they are as unhelpful s a popsicle stick!!

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Student Review: 3.6 /5
By member1315353 On 9th September 15 verified Verified student

I was in red kitchen first floor. We had a huge spacious toilet/shower room with NO DOOR (so the smell from toilets would leak into the hallways). The kitchen was tiny, definitely shouldn't be for 10 people and it had no window. Everything else was average. Overall it was s*** but a great experience! The social life was great and we enjoyed having a s*** halls.

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