Borth Reviews

For a nursing block you would expect for it to be clean and you would expect it to be quiet. I found the opposite. Do not expect to get any sleep until gone 4am each night. Lack of common spaces mean that students throw late night parties in the kitchen and placement is very difficult when you are sleep deprived. Students taking drugs within the building. There is only so much security can do to ask other student nurses to behave rationally and courteously. I recommend any other halls than Borth.

Nice building cant give it a bad review for the people living in it

Not great, things weren’t fixed when asked and the common room was not made available to me, however the actual rooms themselves were more than adequate

Oh this was great I got a disciplinary for putting up a post it note in the kitchen area

Y Borth is a great place to spend freshers, the cleaners are friendly and being in the middle of Ffridd site allows it to be accessible to all of the facilities! Rooms are a good size and well maintained :)

kitchen is not good to socialise in, carpets are very dirty and rooms look slightly like prison cells which is very inviting when moving away from home

It's all okay if you get good flat mates. Rooms are tiny and very much like prison cells. The cleaner will only clean if the place is already clean.... The management also takes ages to respond to any issues.

The lack of common space in each flat is appauling, The kitchens can be used as a comunal area, but lack the space and comfort for one. The on sit common room is too small as well our flats have not been given the code for the door rendering it useless to us. The kitchen rating system was abandoned after just 3 weeks and dispite our best effort to keep the kitchen tidy when the cleener comes she will do the bare minimum and has moped the floor a grand total of 4 times. It is unfortuate that these issues have arisen, other than that I have had a very great time in halls

The best part of halls is the people in it, I didn't really expect it to be a 5* hotel and it wasn't, the kitchen was small and hard for 7 people to fit their food into the 6 shelves in the fridge and freezer but I wouldn't have lived anywhere else if I had the choice. It wasn't horrible to live there, it was comfortable and the maintenance team are great! They fix any problem quickly and efficiently which made halls more comfortable to live in.

Nowhere near anything like value for money. One of the older halls in the uni, yet costs just as much as the newer ones. As well as that the rooms are absolutely tiny, I could sit on the edge of the bed and my feet would touch the opposite wall. Plus when I arrived last year loads of things were broken or preceded to break throughout the course of the year from old age. No living spaces in the flats either, only the kitchen with kitchen tables. Only nice thing I have to say about it is that the cleaning was fairly good and maintenance gets on to things pretty quickly.

Y Borth- Block M is a great block to stay, although set on the edge of Ffriddoedd Site, it's still involved in Uni life. The rooms are bigger than what they appear on the website and the kitchen is a great place to socialise. The only thing that I wish is that we had a larger kitchen so that we could have seats like blocks such as Peris and Alaw, and a Common room so the whole block can socialise as it's hard to at the moment.

The Y Both Halls are really great despite the fact that they are some of the older buildings on site. While there is seemingly slightly less storage space than some of the newer halls, there is a lot more floor space. The communal kitchen is cleaned once a week and this space is used for social gatherings, be that flat parties or simply talking with flatmates. Each floor of the building has 2 flats consisting of 8 people and so is really quite a tight knit community. Furthermore, the older buildings on the Ffriddoedd Site have keys to access flats and bedrooms as opposed to a key card, which is something that I have found incredibly useful over the past year. My building is located across the road from Security and a Laundrette which is very convenient, and is within a 2 minute walk (if that) to the Mail Room, Halls Office and Convenience Store. I would definitely recommend applying for these Halls.