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I got my offer for Whitworth after a very stressful day and cried after seeing the reviews on here. I am 3 months into my first year and I can honestly say that I love it here. There is no reason to stress. Yeah, it's not amazing, but no uni accom is. Sure you could be in Unsworth, but then you'd be paying way more money, for what I don't think is worth it. In my flat we have two exchange students (who are 5th year and 3 year respectively) who are leaving to go back home after christmas and one international student. All of them are super social so I don't think its fair to say that international or postgrad students aren't social and that you're gonna be in a flat full of unsocial people. The shared bathrooms take getting used to, but they're cleaned by cleaning staff (along with the kitchen) once a week and sometimes more. I'm a big believer that an experience is what you make of it. Whitworth is full of good people, and you're going to be fine here. Good luck at uni!!

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I got my offer for Whitworth after a very stressful day and cried after seeing the reviews on here. I am 3 months into my first year and I can honestly say that I love it here. There is no reason to stress. Yeah, it's not amazing, but no uni accom is. Sure you could be in Unsworth, but then you'd be paying way more money, for what I don't think is worth it. In my flat we have two exchange students (who are 5th year and 3 year respectively) who are leaving to go back home after christmas and one international student. All of them are super social so I don't think its fair to say that international or postgrad students aren't social and that you're gonna be in a flat full of unsocial people. The shared bathrooms take getting used to, but they're cleaned by cleaning staff (along with the kitchen) once a week and sometimes more. I'm a big believer that an experience is what you make of it. Whitworth is full of good people, and you're going to be fine here. Good luck at uni!!

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I have just been given this accommodation despite it not being one of my 5 options, does anyone know the best way to change accommodation or know anyone that is wanting to swap?
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Student Review: 3.1 /5
By member885489 On 29th April 23 verified Verified student

Small rooms with bare cinder block walls. Either very hot due to the pipes running through the room or too cold. The kitchen and bathroom facilities are poor and outdated but for many prone to rats and silver fish. Our cleaner sometimes screams through the flat and knocks the doors in the morning if there's the slightest problem, although she cleans well. The social spaces are poorly looked after and the grove, whilst big, is often empty (cheap drinks though). Whilst the price is on the cheaper side it still isn't objectively value for money as rhe facilities haven't improved in 20 years yet the fees have over doubled.

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Student Review: 3.1 /5
By member774943 On 14th January 23 verified Verified student

There are 4 stories to these satanic triangle houses, with doors accessing these flats on the ground and third floor. Flats are spread over multiple stories. Most of the accommodation blocks are breezeblock, unrenovated since 1970s rooms with curtains that are made of dust. Garstang has 9 people to a shared bathroom of 2 showers and 2 toilets. It has a separate kitchen and living area. KITCHEN: - We have had mould for the past two months, despite our flat banding together to harass the staff to remove it, the dehumidifier didn’t work, and was taken away the next day. - No window - Fridge doesn’t work BATHROOM - Shower floor has broken off, slowly sinking - Water pressure is good 💯 - Mould in vent above showers Wifi cuts out often, and is poor. 4G network service is poor. BENEFITS: -Unbeatable location -student bar is cheap -bike shed -park nearby -good heating You won’t die in Whitworth, it’s not the end of the world. But this is reality for some students

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Student Review: 3 /5
By member1374607 On 22nd December 22 verified Verified student

Great location, easy to get to lectures. Good social life with very cheap bar on doorstep. Kitchen and toilet facilities awful but it means you dont care about messing them up. Rooms small and cold but just sleep in a coat. Easy bus down to fallowfield which is good. Sometimes toilets flood but at least your only paying 115 quid a week (lot cheaper than other options) so more money to spend on nights out.

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member674061 On 7th December 22 verified Verified student

I got my offer for Whitworth after a very stressful day and cried after seeing the reviews on here. I am 3 months into my first year and I can honestly say that I love it here. There is no reason to stress. Yeah, it's not amazing, but no uni accom is. Sure you could be in Unsworth, but then you'd be paying way more money, for what I don't think is worth it. In my flat we have two exchange students (who are 5th year and 3 year respectively) who are leaving to go back home after christmas and one international student. All of them are super social so I don't think its fair to say that international or postgrad students aren't social and that you're gonna be in a flat full of unsocial people. The shared bathrooms take getting used to, but they're cleaned by cleaning staff (along with the kitchen) once a week and sometimes more. I'm a big believer that an experience is what you make of it. Whitworth is full of good people, and you're going to be fine here. Good luck at uni!!

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Student Review: 3.9 /5
By member1069451 On 12th June 22 verified Verified student

So you’ve been told you’re in whitworth park and you’re freaking out at the reviews thinking there’s no way I can go here. The good news is that whitworth is way better than the reviews let on. The bad news is you will not be able to change accom (trust me bestie we all tried). It’s a brilliant location, you can walk everywhere, people are a lot friendlier than fallowfield, there are parties and security is relaxed. Free food throughout the year at certain points. No, it’s not the most amazing accom for partying but icl fallow parties aren’t great unless you like not being able to dance or talk from how crowded it is. If you’re in leamington house - you’re absolutely sorted. It’s all been refurbished and the nicest flats are at the top, flat 9 and flat 18. They’re huge and great for hosting parties. Thorncliffe - Kitchens decent size Aberdeen - refurbished looks ok Everywhere else needs a referb but like it’s fine I wouldn’t have gone fallow over whitworth now :)

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member865031 On 16th December 21 verified Verified student

Whitworth has a great location - only 5 minutes walk away from any lectures. There’s over 1000 students on the accommodation so you’re bound to make friends there. There’s also a bar for students with cheap drinks and events on most nights. The shared bathrooms worry some people, but my experience has been fine, there’s rarely more than one person in there at a time.

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Student Review: 2.6 /5
By evajohnson23 On 4th July 21 verified Verified student

I remember coming onto this website 2 years ago to look at reviews for Whitworth Park, and it looking mostly good. Honestly, this place is a bit of a H*** hole, there's silverfish, rats, appalling management, terrible staff and hygiene, so much so that we all decided to rent strike in first semester. My advice would be don't let them get away with stuff, you are a customer and you deserve a good experience, so feel free to get angry. Security is not great either, there was a lot of break ins. HOWEVER, these last 2 years here have been 2 of the best years of my life. I have made friends for life, and had so so many experiences and happy memories. It's a wonderful place in its own way, in that it brings so many people together, and you really can make the best of it. The people make it, not the place. Just don't let management treat you poorly!!! And get yourself to The Grove for some wonderfully cheap pints. And Morrisons at 10pm for the best cheeky reductions and discounts. Nice trees.

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Student Review: 4 /5
By member758731 On 25th May 21 verified Verified student

It was nice and quiet - which I liked, and was really close to uni, the city, shops, and a park. The rooms are a decent size and the toilets and kitchen were cleaned twice a week so were always clean. It's not nearly as bad as the photos look lol

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Student Review: 1.7 /5
By member1355476 On 21st March 21 verified Verified student

Whittyp is quite possibly the worst uni accommodation i have ever seen. There are mice EVERYWHERE including dead ones found in the kitchen and alive ones in peoples rooms. Maintenance don’t do anything about it and no traps have been set or any effort to get rid of them at all despite multiple flats making complaints all year long . Location is decent but other than that do not go to whitworth if you can help it.

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Student Review: 2.9 /5
By member752617 On 26th November 20 verified Verified student

I lived in Whitworth Park in my first year, I found it incredibly lonely, hardly made any friends and the ones I did make, I only saw once a week. I was put in a flat with 6 other international students who were very cliquey, which made socialising difficult. If you can avoid it and you really care about making friends and having a sick social life, do not choose this accommodation under any circumstances. It will ruin your university experience.

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Student Review: 2.6 /5
By member1052321 On 18th November 20 verified Verified student

I am currently staying in Burleigh and admittedly it is one of, if not the, oldest buildings. As an international student, you will have to accept the leftover housing regardless of the double tuition fees you pay. Everything is old. We kept having problems with heating in our rooms and hot water. The fridges are way too small for nine people. The bathrooms are two toilet stalls and two shower stalls. There are huge stains on the carpet that look gross and the kitchen smells like a rotting hamster. The oven billows out smoke and the fridge is either too warm or it freezes everything like a freezer. The cleaners are nice but do a subpar job it took them two months to empty the sanitary bin and we all know how rancid old tampons can get. The internet goes out five times a day and 2 of my outlets don't work. The laundry facilities are on the other side of campus. Good luck lugging your clothes back and forth. Lots of Break-ins. Restricted package deliveries. Close to shops, though.

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Student Review: 3.1 /5
By member751455 On 8th October 20 verified Verified student

Guys, please do not think about Whitworth. I have lived 1.5 months here and this is the shittiest accomodation in manchester. Ceilings are broken, rainwater literally wets your furniture, your books, your bed!!! The management does not look at it, not bothered. There is no campus security, 4 burglaries in 1 week and thats the average, ground floors are broken into and valuables are stolen. Please get private accommodation but not this.

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member647530 On 25th April 20 verified Verified student

Many people think it's crappy since it's not in fallowfield, but it's actually pretty fun! Grove is super cosy and everyone gets to know everyone since it's not as big as fallow. It actually doesn't matter the halls you get but the people you surround yourself with, wanna party hard, you'll find your people, wanna have chill hangouts, there's people that'll like that too

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Student Review: 2.7 /5
By member1247382 On 17th April 20 verified Verified student

It's cheap and has an excellent location (about 3 minutes walk from uni) and the cleaners are nice and come twice a week. However, the rooms are tiny and look like prison cells, and there are 2 toilets (one of mine had a broken seat) and 2 showers shared between up to 9 people both boys and girls. The gym is limited and I had many maintenance problems including water leaks, broken microwaves, no hot water and a hole in my wall. I've seen mice on site and from my room I had no service for the whole year so I had to sit outside for phone calls and rely on the wifi which often went down. The social aspect was not good at all either, no one really talks to each other except at the weird social events. Would not recommend at all if you can afford somewhere nicer but tbh for the price, the accommodation itself is tolerable and if you're happy not making friends here it's not that big a deal, at least it was quiet at night. The staff were really nice though.

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Student Review: 2.4 /5
By member1146173 On 28th February 20 verified Verified student

Don’t come here I found it EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO MAKE FRIENDS as my flat was full of people who could barley speak English, don’t make the same mistake I did by coming here, the only positive is it’s location, however, I’d prefer to have friends than a good location

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Student Review: 2.4 /5
By member1146173 On 28th February 20 verified Verified student

Don’t come here I found it EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO MAKE FRIENDS as my flat was full of people who could barley speak English, don’t make the same mistake I did by coming here, the only positive is it’s location, however, I’d prefer to have friends than a good location

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member940229 On 8th July 19 verified Verified student

Cleaned on time and respectful staff

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Student Review: 4.3 /5
By member737907 On 14th May 19 verified Verified student

If you are at Whitworth pay a little extra to get a room with a sink. Not because of the convenience of having a sink but because these rooms are all in thorncliffe- despite having two flights of stairs your room will be way bigger, there will be less damp and you will have a better view and social experience. Thorncliffe also have nicer showers and toilets. The downside is that pretty much all UoM accommodation has pests that the uni can’t do much about. Thorncliffe has a silverfish problem and a slight rodent problem. Some people go without seeing them although I have seen one rodent and 10+ silverfish. I don’t know of one accommodation that doesn’t have a pest problem in Manchester. They are commonly silverfish, mice, rats, cockroaches and earwigs. The only way to avoid this is to keep your areas clean and dry, keep food in containers and don’t leave clothes or books lying around on the floor. Don’t go out of your room at night and you won’t see them as they are only in common areas

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Student Review: 4.3 /5
By member1336455 On 10th March 19 verified Verified student

Looks a bit like a prison, but just means no one cares when it gets trashed at parties

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Student Review: 2.6 /5
By member735346 On 20th December 18 verified Verified student

Disappointing. The rooms are so old and look like prison cells. I've lost count at how many times we've lost water or internet over the past few months. Not worth the money at all. Location is good though.

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Student Review: 2.7 /5
By member735326 On 17th December 18 verified Verified student

Really f****** boring. Honestly people will report you if you breathe too loudly after 23:00.

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Student Review: 3.7 /5
By olliegilpin On 5th November 18 verified Verified student

Amazing location if you want to be in/close to the city. Lots of great people and about 1/5 international students (less than other in the city) so good mix of people. Great ability for social life being so close to the city and unit and having a decent cheap bar on site with socials going on every week. It's away from the constant business of fallow field but still has enough energy for great party's and less noise at times when work is important (and fallow field is still very easy to get to if you need). Safe area even at night, lots of shops and great bars within crawling distance and a maccies, subway, morrisons, sainsbury's and dominos literally across the road.

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Student Review: 2.4 /5
By member933973 On 29th September 18 verified Verified student

DO NOT GO HERE. The only good bit about it is the location.

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member632989 On 21st July 18 verified Verified student

It is the best hall in Universe

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Student Review: 3.3 /5
By member432834 On 14th July 18 verified Verified student

I would have to say that I have both up and downs with Whitworth park. Positive: Close distance, Reslife team(who organizes events) are really nice, twice a week cleaner, free squash courts, own bar and 10-pound gym, free trips around the UK (Chester, Stratford-upon Avon Negative: Mice in our kitchen, shower only one of the two works, room size very different but same price, some rooms single glaze some double and at summer very hot!! (no AC and top floor kitchen is very hot), some windows open small and some big, cleaning days could change without any notice, no socialization with other halls. Overall I would say if you want somewhere cheap and close to university Whitworth is great. The Reslife team were great and I use the squash courts and gym a lot so that was good. I had a moderately large room so I cannot complain but mice and shower problem continued and these problems were summed up as 'this hall is old so this is normal' which was not good.

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Student Review: 2.7 /5
By Pqlamz On 31st May 18 verified Verified student

Despite a great location (close to a lot of buildings, shops and libraries as well as a short bus ride to bars and clubs) and also a great pub on site, my first year here has been quite awful. My social life wasn't too bad. Me and my flat have been out a lot and I get on with most people. Thorncliffe is probably the best house to go to for social life (plus this is the only house with a wash basin in the room). Cleaning and hall management etc are TERRIBLE. One of our cleaners would drink and eat our food and use our dishes - when reported nothing happened to him, even though other flats reported the same thing! The cleaning they done - when they actually turned up to clean - was very minimal and they usually made more mess! There was also a constant problem with our sockets/extractor fans in the kitchen and we also had rats. Staff were often reluctant to help and came across very rude. But as other reviews have said, you do get what you pay for!

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Student Review: 3.3 /5
By member731451 On 25th April 18 verified Verified student

Cheap, cold, and not very cheerful accommodation! Positives: Best located accommodation for UoM, literally a few minutes from most main campus lecture halls. Flats do get cleaned every week (communal areas). That is where the positives end though... Negative: Very cold, I got ill on several occasions. Also, living with 7, 8, or 9 people is quite tough as it is more likely you'll have one (or two in my case) people who do not know how to clean/put their stuff away. Room sizes are all very different so you could either have a tiny 1 by 2metre box or a decent size room. Slanted roofs so banging your head happens a lot. All flats (except ground floor) are spread onto 3 floors so you'll have to walk flights of stairs to get to your kitchen on the top floor. Squirrels get into kitchens when (idiot) flatmates leave windows open. Bar is usually dead as the events that happen there are quite boring. Can be noisy every Friday/Saturday night. All-in-all, do not pick Whitworth

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Student Review: 2 /5
By Alan Johanes On 30th December 17 verified Verified student

The location is good and the international students are friendly ..... Other than that are all sux ..... UoM is a looser.

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member1129294 On 5th December 17 verified Verified student

I am a postgraduate student and so far I have had good time in Whitworth park. The room size do depend on a luck, despite that we pay the same price. I live on the top floor and have a double glazing but some of my friends have bigger rooms with single glazing so it really do depend on your luck. However the location is the best! Literally 3 minutes to campus and I usually walk to city center as well. It has its own bar (Groove Bar) which has nice area to chill and relax and with only 10 pounds you can join the gym as well! (It is small but it does do its job :) ) The staff member are nice and cleaners do come to clean the kitchen,living room and toilets which is good too. It also has a squash court that students can use. Despite being next to campus it has this bubble of silence that for postgraduate student is really suitable. Negative point will be that I have seen some silverfish and we have seen a mouse in our kitchen..(hopefully will be sorted soon...)

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Student Review: 3.4 /5
By member925568 On 3rd January 17 verified Verified student

It's good because it's a 10 minute walk to the uni. Shared bathroom is not nice. Can get lucky with the bedrooms and get a big one or be unlucky and get a tiny one. Could get lucky with kitchen and have windows. Overall it's not bad- it's cheap and really neat to the uni

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Student Review: 3.3 /5
By member725109 On 17th December 16 verified Verified student

You'd expect better facilities for the money you pay, but it's ideally placed, with only a 5 minute walk to the uni.

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Student Review: 4.6 /5
By member623175 On 15th July 16 verified Verified student

Great location close to university, has its own bar, gym, squash courts, it room. Good balance between loud and quiet social life depending on what you want

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Student Review: 2.7 /5
By Chaz5436 On 5th May 16 verified Verified student

Utter s******, but very cheap and right next to the Uni. Hall Management is a joke, Extractor fan hasn't been working since November and no one has come round to fix it. Kitchen is as bad as you'll see.

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Student Review: 3 /5
By member1120296 On 6th December 15 verified Verified student

whittyP is so so quiet but the people you do meet are so chill its just hard to meet them due to the lack of social life.

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Student Review: 3.1 /5
By member1119923 On 28th November 15 verified Verified student

You get what you pay for but the social life does suffer, a lot of quiet international students and students who are VERY work orientated. Still a flat party every weekend without fail so not a total loss and always something on at the bar located in the residence.

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Student Review: 2 /5
By member419907 On 28th November 15 verified Verified student

ridiculously poor maintenance. radiator not working house corridor insanely hot never fixes leakages in room no windows in kitchen

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Student Review: 3.1 /5
By member1118999 On 17th November 15 verified Verified student

Honestly didn't believe it when people told me these halls were full of international students but it's true. It's not necessarily a bad thing but a lot of the students outside of Europe aren't very sociable and prefer to hang out with people from a similar culture. If you are someone who likes a party this halls is probably not for you, though I'm sure through Facebook you can probably find something happening every night there's just not the same vibe as halls in Fallowfield. Also, apart from going to uni every other bloody event is down there so you might as well buy the bus pass despite being a five minute walk from lectures. The living room/kitchen is the best part about the flat, though the maintenance are pretty s*** we've lived here months and our cupboards are still broken. The room sizes vary so much, the smallest isn't very functional and boiling hot but the bigger ones are actually really nice rooms but you all pay the same. They'll also fine you for stuff constantly!

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Student Review: 3.7 /5
By member1018745 On 15th November 15 verified Verified student

Cheap, extremely close to the university, and a nice bled of quiet and social.

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Student Review: 1.1 /5
By member1018702 On 14th November 15 verified Verified student

Stay away, incredibly s***, so tiny, so old, people are **** just go to fallowfield even if its further awat

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member618624 On 14th November 15 verified Verified student

Basic, but good socially, convenient location.

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Student Review: 3.3 /5
By member918577 On 14th November 15 verified Verified student

Rooms are small, and halls are too hot. However, location is ideal, it is not too loud, there are a lot of social opportunities and it is cheap.

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Student Review: 3.9 /5
By member917171 On 21st October 15 verified Verified student

It is a cheap accommodation with just what you need, so you simply get what you pay for and not a penny more. You have to do some investment in your room to make it livable, but it is no great cost. After all, you are here to study, not to spend your whole life in your room. The social atmosphere is also worth mentioning. This is not a hall for you who likes to party day in, day out. Then you should rather find something in Fallowfield. Whitworth Park is close to the main campus, and not a far distance from the northern campus (Engineering campus). The student bar is excellent place to start your night with cheap drinks and not too loud music, which makes it possible to discuss where you and your friends are going to spend the evening. Bus stop is right outside the gate and it run buses all the time.

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Student Review: 3.9 /5
By member1016869 On 17th October 15 verified Verified student

Amazing experience so far, you won't spend much time in your room so it's all good, as they are small. Part from that it is a great social life

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Student Review: 4.3 /5
By ChemManc101 On 17th October 15 verified Verified student

10 minute walk from the majority of lectures so you miss the Fallowfield bus queue and ultimately get to lie in for longer. We have our own bar that does super cheap drinks and puts on a bi-weekly comedy night for free (Phil wang, Jack Whitehall etc.) so pretty decent! Very very clean and all facilities are perfect acceptable and extremely good value for money. I had heard lots about the rooms being very small but this isn't the case they're a lot bigger than others I had seen. You're in your own community so very easy to make lots of friends very quickly. The buildings were all initially very very warm but they do listen to your complaints which is amazing. Also lots of international students which isn't a problem but communication can be difficult and you have to adjust to each other's way of living, habits etc. Finally you're right opposite the shops, dominos, subway, McDonald's and a Chinese so very very close to all the horrible unhealthy yet delicious food. Overall great. 10/10.

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Student Review: 3.7 /5
By member1116358 On 5th October 15 verified Verified student

Whitworth is great, close to campus, lots of events, but quieter and more...peaceful than fallowfield. Perfect for me, only problem is that rooms are SO HOT, even with windows open in the middle of winter! Bring your shorts people!

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Student Review: 4.1 /5
By member716286 On 4th October 15 verified Verified student

Decent place, close to the city and uni. Reasonably cheap too.

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Student Review: 3 /5
By Member1234567 On 4th October 15 verified Verified student

Thorncliffe 21. They party in communal area all the time until 2am. I could not sleep. Annoying. Please get rid of them ASAP

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member711751 On 31st July 15 verified Verified student

I think its a great place right in the heart of the city and I love living just 5 min walking from the lecture halls

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Student Review: 1.8 /5
By HowlingHerbivore9857 On 25th April 15 verified Verified student

Must be the worst uni halls, full of weird and unsocial people.

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Student Review: 3.8 /5
By member127456 On 25th April 15 verified Verified student

I love whitworth park. we've had a horrible horrible cleaner but that was just us and the place is clean she's just very angry. It's cheap and close and completely manageable. Don't expect luxury though :)

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Student Review: 2.5 /5
By Zoomania On 25th April 15 verified Verified student

Most of my flatmates were really rude and cliquey, but obviously this is luck of the draw. The location is super handy for life scientists (and probably more degrees too), there is a lot of diversity and around 1000-1500 students on site and the bar is pretty cheap too. The washing machines absolutely suck though and the rooms vary in size a lot, but it is one of the cheapest halls here.

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Student Review: 3.2 /5
By member65253 On 26th March 15 verified Verified student

It's literally the closest halls to south (main) campus so you can get up at 8:45 and be on time for a 9am lecture. It's pretty far from Fallowfield so you tend to socialise with other people in WP since everywhere else is fairly far but with bus stops right outside. WP is okay, you pay for the convenience of being close to uni not for the mad social life or the fancy en-suite accommodation

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Student Review: 4.7 /5
By Naomi On 18th March 15 verified Verified student

Great social life, and great location!

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