Crescent Hall Reviews

The halls itself were an absolute joke. We had random strangers coming into our flat and despite us reporting it to management nothing was ever done. There was a huge bloody fight outside our halls, in which security never did anything?! We had a drug dealer staying in our halls, and he constantly brought round underage girls to the flat. He also would bring round men of about 40-50 yrs old, and as a group of 19yr old girls this was horrible. Nothing was ever done about this but as soon as we made noise after 10 we would get hugely told off?! Even fined?! I would tell everyone to never go to these halls, they’re a joke and need to sort out their management and false portrayal of power. If you want a true Halls experience go anywhere but here.

Nice wardens - Rita is always great and helpful. Good team - quite run down location though! Cleaning is okay but the rooms are rubbish

This is such as joke, everyone is actually slagging off crescent hall. It has been said and in my own experience crescent hall is the best hall and best for the price. The wardens are very nice and helpful, especially when you are in trouble like when I cut my finger. The cleaners are Wonderfull as well, our kitchen is always clean and high standard. The social life here is very good, but it all depend who you have in your flat or block, of how much of a party or social animals they are, which depends on you as well, of how comfortably social you are to make new friends from other blocks, coming out from your shell, if you don't then you can't blame there is 'no' social place, if you really want to go and meet people go to block parties that's open to everyone to go to. Shops like Aldi is 12 to 15 minutes walk, or you can take the brooks bus then 5 mins walk to Aldi. Temple Shopping centre, which includes shops like wilko, Iceland, b and m, is like 12 minutes walk from crescent.

Great hall, staff are lovely. Ignore comments of those who slag it off, they are the ones who just want to party all the time while everyone else is sleeping or trying to work. Probably got told off by staff because of noise they were making at stupid hours!

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Avoid this place,unless you want problems with the wardens, also as their is no common room it is a lot harder to meet people here,espically if you are a January Starter as everyone in your block will probably know each other,the place is like a graveyard,it is like this because the wardens have it in for students and want to profit from finding reasons to fine them.Go to a hall with a common room to have a better experience

Decent halls, got a top floor flat so nice rooms with lots of character. Management are okay, wardens walk in and out of your flat whenever they please for no reason, privacy infringement alot of the time. Other people got mould in their rooms, shower broke, everything is covered in limescale. Socially I got a horrendous flat of weird people and this was made worse by there being no common room or space to hang out with others. Overall okay halls, if you don't mind sorting half of the problems yourself.

Worst place ever. When I arrived the room was so dirty. There was hair in my sink and they did not clean it. The common rooms were dirty and smelly too. I would never revomend it.

Something very wrong with the staff here.

Honestly best experience I have ever had it was a strong (9.4/10), our whole block was like a family and I was like the baby of the crib being spoilt and being looked after by the best of the best flat mates . Swaggiest security, adorable corner shop man and suavest hairdresser 1 minute away (Big up Mark Dancer Hairdressing). My stomach was a bit queazy before I joined crescent hall as there were some bad reviews but when I joined you realise those people were absolute scissys, it so much fun compared to other halls and for what your paying for its pretty damn good! Showers are super fresh, spoilt with cleaners every week (which a lot of unis dont have), Sainsburys 8 and half minute walk away (Tesco/Lidl pretty close too) and for nights out theres the free bus! Only bad thing was that they were occasionally strict about our tunes for pre drinks and the management were sometimes unnecessarily rude for no reason, you know who you are..but manz not snitching. Bless up Crescent Hall

Hall manager and half the staff are aggressive and confrontational for no reason. Fire drills at 6am during exams.

To those who feels like their rights has been violeted by the management, I strongly suggest the locals to make a report and press charges on the management. The management tend to abuse power which doesn't exist at all, speaking about charges, I would've press charges on Chrissy Knight if it wasn't for the fact that I have left the state. Do not get intimidated by her as she likes to make false accusation to make you take responsibility for the halls loss( faults in the hall), I suggest students to stand firm and negotiate, if it doesn't work, try go to accomodation bereau, and if they still insist, report to the police to settle. Shoutout to Devane, the only warden who treats the resident with respect and give everything he got to help the students. Big thumbs up to Devane. As for Chrissy Knight, I strongly suggest the management to consider her capability as a manager, I believe Crescent could have been better with a better men in charge.

Met one of the worst management in my studying career. The Hall Manager, Crissy Knight, is very rude and sorry to say, but a total idiot. I had my personal belonging stolen in the kitchen, and then I realized it was Chrissy who took it as she claimed she thought it was for "donation", the funny thing is, she only took those items which are valuable, and left those older items aside, based on this I could've sue Knight for theft as she has no authority or whatsoever to claim things that are not hers. Secondly, they have no respect for privacy, I've seen Chrissy Knight open my hall mates room with her spare key without any reasonable purpose(Urgent), she just buldge in because no one answers her when she knocks the door(reason is, she wants to talk) and I find that really offensive. Thirdly, they like to play with the fire alarm(test), almost 4 times in a month, dear Chrissy, we are not retired person, we are having assesment, and we need no distraction like that early in the morning.

We were stuck with a flat that had old sofas and barstools compared to others which were brand new. 1 full sized fridge freezer and a mini fridge, all for 7 people, is nowhere near enough space. however cupboard spaces are good. Rooms are comfortable and en suites are useful. Reception staff are very friendly.

Halls manager seems to have it in for the students so just watch out. Otherwise best experience, so sociable, people are so nice, really feel like you're part of a family living here. The doorbells make it so easy to visit other flats if you don't really like your own. Only thing is you have to get the bus pretty much everywhere, as everything is that little bit too far to walk, but you get a free bus pass so it's really not that bad. Thought the actual halls were going to be really small and gross, but was actually fine, exactly how you'd expect student accommodation to be like. Sharing bathroom and shower has never been a problem for me, never had a shower clash, and get cleaned weekly by the cleaners so you don't even have to clean them yourself. Overall love this place and will be sad to leave!

Crescent hall is the cheapest hall for Oxford Brookes. You get what you pay for, I guess. The rooms are tiny, and there is no common room. The wardens can be really annoying at times. I think it went ok for me in the end, because I ended up with a bunch of nice people. But the halls are sh*t, not gonna lie.

A pretty bad place to be a fresher, miles from the other halls and main campus where social/sport activates take place. This means that most people don't make the effort to take part in sports or societies as its too much 'effort'. There wasn't much sense of community in this complex much smaller than any of the other halls. Rooms are also much smaller than other halls Oxford Brookes has to offer, the Kitchens however are a good size. There is no social space, apart from kitchens in the complex.

My room was absolutely hideous, I thought the mould was actually going to eat me.

It's really old and not a nice old. The rooms are really small and the we don't have a sofa or anything nice in the common room. Crescent is the cheapest and is not really nice.

What can I say... Something broke literally every week, the showers were freezing 80% of the time, everything was mouldy and we had a psycho cleaner. And I'm definitely not a snob, it's just shocking that these were the cheapest halls and still quite expensive considering the state they were in! But the people were great, lots of good nights out

Good considering its easily £20 cheaper than most accommodation a week, although if you don't have a bike to cycle to uni you spend crazy times waiting for the world's least reliable bus

Cheap and cheerful. Despite all the jokes about being a crescent peasant, due to the small number of people in Crescent you make great friends that you'll see for the rest of your university life.

It may get bad reviews but it's actually perfect. I miss this place already,

If the hall manager wasn't such a ****** it would be a reasonable set up

internet is terrible, not good enough for the amount that we are paying.

Very strict on noise and social activities. made it difficult to socialise. Maintainance staff will walk in and out of flats unannounced and the wardens aren't particularly friendly or approachable.

The location is a bit far out but there are two buses running from outside the halls to the other university campuses

Crescent halls, although thought of as cheap and out the way, are actually in my opinion the best halls. Due to the halls being smaller than others people are much more friendly than in other halls I have found and people tend to make larger groups of friends at Crescent. The halls, although cheap, are really nice and homely and you get a lot for your money, with a large kitchen and table for socialising. The bedrooms are a good size and easy to make your own. I couldn't recommend Crescent more!