Never had a warmer experience staying away from home. The reception team: Kaylee, Anthony, Elle and Klaudia, have made this one of the best places to stay. I have genuinely had a really bad day and I can go to talk to anyone on the team and I’m instantly happier because of the type of people they are. They are the most supportive and genuine people. Not only do you form a great relationship with them you also talk to everyone in the staff and there’s not a single one of them who would make you feel unwelcome.
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Never had a warmer experience staying away from home. The reception team: Kaylee, Anthony, Elle and Klaudia, have made this one of the best places to stay. I have genuinely had a really bad day and I can go to talk to anyone on the team and I’m instantly happier because of the type of people they are. They are the most supportive and genuine people. Not only do you form a great relationship with them you also talk to everyone in the staff and there’s not a single one of them who would make you feel unwelcome.
Mealmarket Exchange Information
| Telephone | 0122 464 8545 |
| Postcode | AB24 5SW |
| Price from | £129.00 per week for 24/25 (subject to availability) |
| Features | Short bus ride from the University of Aberdeen, outdoor social space, social events calendar & bike storage. |
| Top tip | Beat rising energy costs with all bills included, all year long at Student Roost. Enjoy peace of mind with no caps or hidden costs, so you can focus on a great student experience. |
Mealmarket Exchange Biography
Mealmarket Exchange is a great option for students in Aberdeen, located right in the city centre. You’ll be close to plenty of amenities and the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University are just a short bus ride away from the accommodation.
There are two types of rooms to choose from at Mealmarket Exchange, an en-suite room in a shared flat, or a private studio with a fitted kitchenette and en-suite shower room. All the rooms are styled with you in mind and come fully furnished with a comfy bed, study space with a desk and chair, and plenty of storage. There’s staff on-site 24/7 for your peace of mind, and secure bike storage.
There are social events that take place throughout the year that you can get involved with which provide a great way to meet your neighbours and make new friends. There’s also an outdoor space to enjoy when the sun decides to shine, and group booking is made easy if you’re looking to live with your friends.
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The staff are genuinely phenomenal
Great staff and location and accommodation great value for money
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It’s actually good and I feel that maintenance has improved since I came.
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Helpful, kind staff. Good location, close to town and bus stops
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All staff really welcoming and lovely.
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Ive loved my time here, have felt very safe and have had very comfortable living conditions
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Kayleigh and Susan and Barry and Anthony are all amazing at their jobs and have done so much to make this place feel like a second home. Naomi is lovely too. Klaudia is delightful too
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Lovely place, lived 2 years here because I enjoyed the first year so much. Perfect location just a stones throw from the beautiful Marischal College. Exceptional cleaning staff big shoutout to Susan. Friendly reception staff shoutout to Elle and Anthony. Not to mention the friendly and very efficient handy man Barry, who protects the site from Sammy the seagull. And when something is broke. Usually fixes it within the same day/week.
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Had such a good time this year made lifelong friends
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All staff amazing give them all a raise
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Good location but social/study spaces could be better
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I have really enjoyed living here! Such lovely and caring staff, would definitely recommend living here as a second year student, it’s the ideal location from the uni and into town.
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Staff are all excellent, wifis up and down but generally 8/10
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Jameel at the reception is very welcoming and friendly.
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Very nice accommodation close to town and easy to access buses and shops. Very friendly and welcoming staff
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I arrived in September to a dirty bathroom, the desk was covered in candle wax and carpeted floor was covered in pins under the desk. While trying to revise for exams in April the wifi was constantly being turned off without explanation.
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Susan Archibald fixed our hoover and mop bucket in 10minutes of asking! Has been great all year
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I have lived here for almost 3 years now and will be spending my 4th year here aswell, the reception staff are always friendly and welcoming and ready to deal with any issues I have! The location is perfect, right in the city centre just minutes walk from everything you might need.
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Good value for money and beneficial location.
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Staying at Mealmarket Exchange student accommodation has been a delightful experience! Everyone at the reception is incredibly nice and welcoming, making it feel like a home away from home. A special shoutout to Anthony at the reception for his exceptional helpfulness and kindness. The community here is lovely, adding to the overall pleasantness of the stay. Highly recommend for a cozy and friendly living environment!
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A great place to stay with a great atmosphere
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amazing location staff lovely and very helpful, great value
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Good place to live, friendly staff
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Good experience however it took unreasonably long for our flat to get working hot water.
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Very good, friendly staff, good location, defo recommend
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The place is well maintained and the team members are incredibly nice and helpful
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Love the staff, especially Claudia. Good place to meet new friends
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Very helpful if support is required. Lovely staff Amazing place to stay, location is great as it is right next to city centre and many buses to get to places.
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Overall a very good first experience for a student accommodation and have rebooked for next year
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Reseption is very helpful when there was a leak in my bathroom
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great place with nice staff! always makes us laugh and gives us free stuff
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Never had a warmer experience staying away from home. The reception team: Kaylee, Anthony, Elle and Klaudia, have made this one of the best places to stay. I have genuinely had a really bad day and I can go to talk to anyone on the team and I’m instantly happier because of the type of people they are. They are the most supportive and genuine people. Not only do you form a great relationship with them you also talk to everyone in the staff and there’s not a single one of them who would make you feel unwelcome.
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Overall it’s a great place for both unis, very central, staff are nice and helpful
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Good accommodation, all round recommend for any uni/ college in Aberdeen
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The location is really good, close to everything and also a short bus to UofA campus. Ensuite rooms are decent but pretty good value. Internet is very fast and consistent.
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I’ve really enjoyed staying here this year, the staff are very nice and accommodating and very helpful when it comes to anything you need
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Mealmarket is a fantastic choice for student accomidation. Whilst both remaining professional they make you feel welcomes into what does feel like a home. The reception team are fantastic. Claudia being a litteral Ray of sunshine, and has seemingly become the face of social events; elle has become someone we go to for advice and in return receives gossip; Anthony is a straight to the point angel and was the first person I met when arriving here, he is also the divine deliverer of our mailbox key majority of the time; kaylee is a fantastic manager and a role model to others hoping to achieve the same role. Barry and Susan are a dream team and the friendliest bunch you will ever meet. Booking into mealmarket with friends was simple and any issues were quickly sorted by staff. Rooms are spacious. The only reason I wouldn't suggest mealmarket is if you're loud cause I need my beauty sleep.
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Staff are so lovely especially Susan!! All very helpful!
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I have absolutely no complaints about here. Its great value for money and rooms are lovely and spacious. The staff are just fabulous. Always so helpful and friendly and always up for a chat!
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Very nice flats. Well looked after rooms and kitchen/living space. Got a very good price as booked early but price has gone up alot for next year.
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I moved in September 2022 and I couldn't have asked for a better place to help me get settled in Aberdeen. All the staff are so lovely, welcoming and friendly. Always ready and willing to help with any problem I came to them with. Kayleigh has helped me so much over the time I've been here which I'm really grateful for and been great to chat to. Elle puts really funny memes around the building that brighten my day and I love talking for ages about D&D and other things with them. Susan's always so sweet and helpful, I love chatting with her. Barry's a great guy who's always working away but happy to chat and ask how I'm doing. Anthony never fails to make me laugh and help me out with any issues I'm having. Klaudia is so much fun with the games and activities Student Roost puts on and I always end up stopping by to chat for awhile. I can't say a bad word about this place, I could say a lot more to be honest about how great this place is but I've reached the word limit.
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I love claudia and elle, they’re the sweetest receptionists ever
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Nice pls e to stay good value for money
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Staff is very lovely and easy to talk to
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Staff are really friendly and helpful
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I love it here and my flatmates and I all get on, the only problem is there isn’t many inter-flat activities but there are plenty of reception events ❤️❤️
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I have had a great experience living here. The student roost representatives are very friendly and always willing to help where needed.
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i love living at mealmarket and the staff is incredible and super helpful. great location
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Amazing, friendly and helpful staff. always happy to provide help or even just a chat. I often go down to reception to see Klaudia just for a chat if I'm feeling bored and I am always welcomed. there is a wide range of social events, competitions etc that appeal to lots of different personalities and abilities. any issues are always resolved extremely quickly with a positive attitude. there could be an improvement of social and communal areas such as vending machine, pool/table tennis etc. the Internet is sometimes weak but for the most part it works well to do my online studying. overall I enjoy staying at mealmarket as the staff are very friendly, it is a clean environment to live in and an ideal location close to city centre and the University.
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Susan is a lovely lady very helpful and welcoming
Elle made me feel really comfortable here, if I had any problems I would come speak to her if she was on shifts. Also really talkative in the good way, also big up Susan she’s ace love her to bits.
Absolutely terrible student accommodation. I didn’t have a working toilet for months despite repeatedly reporting the issue. Numerous other problems on top of that and if maitenence was ever schedueled it was always at an inconvenient time with short notice. The on site laundry always had broken machines and the app doesn’t link with certain banks meaning washing clothes impossible for some. Everyone that I had spoken to at the accommodation also had at least a couple problems such as lights, oven, fridge etc breaking. Wifi is slow and made online lectures difficult as they would just cut out meaning you would need to go back and rewatch parts. No real social space apart from a smoking area. Would not recommend to anyone.
The accomodation I stayed in was convenient for me to go to uni. The receptionists were very nice and helpful.
Previous rating 2* now gladly 4*. Management take over was needed (previous reviews on here were correct at time of writing). It’s not a 5* for me yet, things are getting done and it really can be seen around the site but we are the only flat that still have the fabric single seats in the living room that we were told in 2018 would be changed… It would be good to see the consistency shown around site in the actual flats. Can genuinely say I’m looking forward to my 3rd year here and the refresh of the garden area for the start of semester 1 in Sept 21. Affordable £400 a month stable, all bills included (NEW washing machines have just been installed! Although that’s payable to Circuit). Location is exactly where you want for city living. FREE PARKING. 24hr reception always friendly, thanks to Cheri particularly . They also match students up for age etc so if you start uni in your 20s chances are there will be others to. I recommend staying at Mealmarket now.
You pay for what you get with the room. The location is really good for morrisons and for going out in town if we weren’t in a pandemic. I’ve had some issues with mealmarket previously and felt a man who used to work there was really rude and just generally really horrible.
Lovely staff who will help out wherever possible, a lovely community feel. Feels safe even with its central location. Rooms are a good size and are easily made to be your own. Lived here 2 years and has defos been the best value for money and friendliest student accommodation I’ve seen.
If you’re looking for student halls with unprofessional staff who will try to charge you for rent after you’ve cancelled your lease and then refuse to give your deposit back then mealmarket is a good choice for you. Mealmarket staff also don’t like it when you post useful information about cancellation policies that could help other students, so if you try to do that they will block you on their Facebook page. If you want a luxury of only 4 communal washing machines which are out of order most of the time, and tumble dryers that don’t dry then again mealmarket is a place for you. And you can’t forget the loud parties, and screaming and shouting even during exam periods - reception staff sadly can’t do anything about it as they are too busy doing their hard jobs of blocking people on Facebook (And that’s not a joke- it must be a genuinely difficult task as the WiFi at mealmarket is terrible!)
Staff mostly nice. Wifi dropped every 20 min. In 44 weeks cleaner came twice in total. Electrics failed in kitchen multiple times.
The management are a joke, never resolve issues, the desk is never open at set times, you'll be lucky if its open when you get back from a long day at uni. The rooms are outdated and not safe, the locks dont work properly and the building is so cold
The best thing about Mealmarket is its location. However, even at that, it's a trek from the University of Aberdeen. Some of the staff are friendly but this is countered by certain members of management who are unfriendly, rude and clearly only used to dealing with first or second year students as they treat everyone like they are just out to cause problems, e.g. accusing people of deliberately setting off fire alarms (who actually does that?), playing music too loud to bother neighbors etc. The discount that is advertised is ridiculously difficult to actually get because for some reason it isn't taken off your rent immediately. The facilities are also very basic and poor quality and the whole building has an isolated feeling to the extent it's almost like living in your own prison block. Overall I wouldn't stay at mealmarket again.
Stayed at Mealmarket for 2 years now and have really enjoyed living here! Great location with everything close by including bus stop to RGU. Staff are great and the fact they are onsite 24/7 makes it feel super safe. The only thing is the kitchen cleans were stopped which was a great help in ensuring the living area of the flat was kept clean and tidy for everyone within the flat. Also, there isn't a great social space (small bit at reception) but events held here are always super fun!
very very very very very very good
Living here is really nice! The staff a really helpful and the location is perfect. I like the fact that everything is very close by and it takes me less than thirty minutes to get to my university. I would highly recommend moving into this accommodation.
I have lived in this accommodation almost two years and found that it is such a comfortable place. Due to it is nearby to food sources e.g. M&S and Morrisons actually it took around five mins to the food. Similarly, the distance between this accommodation and University of Aberdeen is just 1.3 km, which is not that far. Finally, the staff will be willing to help you anything you asked.
Great value for money and everyone is willing to help out
Having stayed at Mealmarket for the duration of my whole uni degree, I cannot recommend this place enough! The rooms are spacious, the staff are amazingly helpful, and all utility bills are covered within your single rent payment. A 2-minute walk from Morrisons, the city centre, and your closest bus stop make for a great location and when comparing rent prices, this is a no-brainer.
It is in a great location with a bus stop literally outside your door which goes to RGU and a 20mins walk to Aberdeen University. Its a 5min walk to the city centre and a morrison supermarket right beside it. The rooms come with everything you could need (ample storage, desk space). The management team is always very helpful and friendly, very accommodating to all of your needs! I would definitely recommend!!
Amazing location, a bus stop literally outside your door and 5mins to the city centre! Rooms come with everything you could need (storage, desk space). The management team is always very helpful and friendly, very accommodating to all of your needs! I would definitely recommend!!
Central location as it is next to Morrison's (one of the biggest supermarkets), 7 mins walk from the city and 15 mins walk from the University of Aberdeen with bus stops surround in the area. Really friendly staff who are always willing to help you and make your stay feeling like home. Overall, clean in the common areas and a cosy environment!!
This is a really nice place to live. The staff are very friendly and helpful and will sort out any issues you have regarding your room/ flat and any other queries. The location is excellent and the flats are very nice. The rooms are nice and clean and well fitted inside, will a large spacious desk and many areas for storage eg. shelves, drawers, a cupboard and even underbed storage. There are also different events which are hosted in reception, where you get free food/ drinks/ additional goodies. For example, there are free toastie Tuesdays and free breakfasts on Thursdays as well as other events. Free teas/ coffee/ hot chocolate etc are always available to takeaway from reception too which is really handy! I highly recommend this accommodation as it gives me everything I could have asked for!
I liked my stay here. The staff members are really helpful and available 24/7. The wifi sometimes acting strange but no other problems. It is close to everything which is really convenient
This accommodation is an amazing place. This place is not far from University of Aberdeen and near Morrisons. You will spend around 20 mins to the university by walk and just 5 mins to Morrisons. There are basic things including kitchen already provided for you. Staff is very kind and ready to help you when you face any problems. In every festivals, there is a party relating to such festival, which will be taken place in order to enjoy people who live here and make them have happiness. These are the reasons why I choose to live here another year.
Excellent location & very secure place to stay, a secure carpark and 24 hour staff. There is always free evets on for students to attend, staff are very friendly and approachable
I stayed for a whole academic year and it was a nightmare. Only to mention some problems:My flat had a problem with the frost and we complainted a lot until they fix it. All the kitchen appliances were in an awful condition. Although the staff reasurred us that they will sort out everything, they just ignored us. The cleaners cleaned only the surfaces and the floor on the kitchen and not the fridge, the oven and the corridor!! Stupid events with none to attend. The rent was extravagant comparing to what you can pay in the private sector in Aberdeen after the oil and gas crisis. And on the top of this you pay extra your laundry. Really bad customer service and tried to keep my deposit as well as from other ex residents at the end! Although, the location was fantastic, easily access to city center and bus stop and excellent rooms in good conditions, I had always hot water and internet.
Great Location, made loads of new friends which has made the whole experience a great one. The staff at reception are amazing! They have helped me so much whether it be with my accommodation questions or where to eat, local area or where to start a night out. The facilities on site are great too. Any maintenance issues have been resolved super quick along with having 24/7 staff and the fortnightly kitchen cleans help A LOT!