McLaren House

member74572

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member74572 21st December 2022

21st December 2022

This accom is so bad. Wifi never works. The showers are disgusting and barely function, same with heating. During my time here, one of my flat mates discovered a leak in her room during one of the first weeks in September. She quickly alerted management and was moved to a new room, except no one ever came to fix the leak, it started to leak to the corridor and created a horrific smell. In December the entire block of flats was evacuated because of this leak that had been left and ignored for months. We lost all of our food, heating and hot water didn’t work, we were moved to the other accommodations put in flats with strangers and couldn’t bring much of our stuff. Received a very small amount of compensation for food. We also aren’t allowed guests over at all unless you sneak them in before 8pm! ;) security will send you and your friends out onto the streets ( in central london) in the middle of the night if you haven’t had approval for a guest. Guest approval is so difficult to seek read more

member72412

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member72412 13th October 2022

13th October 2022

A lovely place to live (especially in the superior flats). Security are very strict during the evening/night so keep that in mind. read more

member61719

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member61719 14th August 2021

14th August 2021

This was the most disgusting horrible place I've ever stayed in in my whole life. Bins in every single kitchen would be overflowing due to cleaners not coming and emptying them. On multiple occasions I had rats and mice in my accommodation. The way that this halls run is like an absolute prison. You aren't allowed to bring someone in past 11 o'clock if they haven't been signed in prior the day before even if they are from the university. This causes massive problems with socialising and it means a lot of the students only make friends with other people in the halls because its so much hassle to try and get anyone else in. Because of the lack of others to socialise with means that once people have fall outs with each other ( which is only natural! but also massively advanced due to this!) means that people are easily singled out and then find it hard to make more friends. When I lived there I saw this happen to many people and them become severely depressed. read more

member34536

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member34536 23rd October 2018

23rd October 2018

This place is absolutely dreadful. Please don’t come here and if parents are reading please don’t send your children here. Don’t plan on getting sleep (EVER) and don’t even think about trying to bring a guest round (it will ruin your personal relationship). It’s actually quite amusing because the staff try their HARDEST to be as rude and as condescending and as unhelpful as possible...but there’s no accountbility so what can you do?? Will be moving out in January and paying extra to live in student housing because this place is like living in a psychiatric asylum. read more