If you're in the North campus of the city and spot a tall white building, just above the north…read morecampus union- Barnes Walis, it would be Wright Robinson student acommodation. It looks majestic and is one of the really popular halls in the city campus. Very helpful to live in if you're an engineering or science student at the University since most of your campus would be just a minute's walk away. It consists of 11 floors with 15 rooms on each floor, so that's a lot of freinds you would be making on a single floor! Each room is washbasin equipped and the bathroom is shared. There is a kitchen and common area on each floor. They have all facilities like a laundrette, internet and phone lines. A great hall to be at and is always very very lively!

I currently live in Whitworth Park and I really enjoy it. When i first got here i did think why…read moredid I not choose Fallowfield, but in the long run I'm really glad I live here. All the complaints the others put down about Whitworth Park are the things I like- there are loads of international students and english ones to and Ive ended up with friends from all over the world and country. My friends that live in Fallowfield seem to have only made friends with people from the same place and backround as them. It is pretty peaceful in Whitworth at exam time but there are also great parties and bbqs now the summer is here. There is lots of space to hangout and a great gym and everyone is really friendly. The staff here are also really lovely and actually like the students. The best thing for me is I feel like i am living in Manchester- not in Fallowfields which seems really far out of whats going on. Its great being close to Curry Mile and I go there a lot for food and sheesha. There are great bars nearby- like Big Hand, gigs every night at teh Academy and as a woman I have never felt unsafe, even walking back alone after a night out. the best thing is you can walk into town easily, get a bus or get a taxi so living here doesnt cost a fortune. Whitworth Park is great if you are on a budget as its the cheapest- and because of this you avoid having to live with spoilt brats. There is a real mix of interesting people here. Its good for making you go into Uni as it is 2minutes away and at exam periods because the library is so close. Its also good for nightlife as it is cheap to get back from clubs and pubs (£5/6 in a taxi from the center). Lidls is a god send- you can live like a king on a students budget from there- the quality and price is better then asda or sainsburys- £8 for a bottle of rum! Room sizes are luck of the draw- there are small rooms, medium (good) size rooms and really large rooms- but everyone pays the same price. There is the art gallery and museum to take your mum to when she comes to visit. SOme flats in whitworth are more sociable than others due to their location, but in the end its up to you to make friends rather than where you live. Also- famous people lived here like Engels (obviously not in these halls but on the street they were built on) so hopefully some of that intelligence will rub off on me...

This is where I spent my first year of univeristy! When I first looked upon this place the huge…read moreslanting buildings facsinated me to no extent and I was really vey excited to start living here! It is a great little area with many buildings togther, all 3 storeys and they even have a bar, a gym and a squash court. The rooms- If you're lucky you may get a lovely big room with big windows, but if you're the unfortunate type like me, you may end up with a really small space, more like a little store room and be not so thrilled to have people over due to obvious space constraints! But this place is amazing according to convinience! Minutes from university buildings, you can manage getting up at 8:45 for a 9 am lecture and still make it! McD's, Subway, Greggs and Mc Colls all just under the Halls. It makes you a little spoilt definitely, though I never complained! The Grovel is probably the cheapest bar I've ever been to and it has a friendly atmosphere and a great place to make friends!

I had no idea about halls of residence when I was informed of my new address at Weston Hall on…read moreSackville Street. On applying to the University of Manchester, I had no inclination to look at accommodation, so chose blindly from the online list. Luckily for me, I struck gold with Weston Hall. I say gold. Perhaps I mean fools gold. Weston, superficially, is fantastic. It is wonderful for centralised, city living. The rooms are small but well equipped, with individual en-suites, and are in flat layouts of 8 rooms with a large kitchen and living room area. The main problem with Weston Hall is consistency. Some flats have beautiful (well, comparatively) open plan Kitchen/Lounge areas. Some flats have access to the hall lift. Some flats take the form of an L shaped, private area, whereas others are nothing more than secure sections of corridor. Unfortunately for me, I have to climb 4 flights of stairs every time I want to get to the flat, as the lift is through 2 locked doors. I have a kitchen with no window or adequate ventilation, and my flat is one of the 'secure unit' corridors. However, despite these shortcomings, Weston really is one of the best student accommodation blocks available in Manchester. Everything is kept to a fairly high standard in terms of decoration and maintenance, and an active Residents Association, who organise all sorts of events, serves the hall. There is a laundry room (which, if I am honest, is vile - underground with no natural light, and about enough appliances for a hall half the size), which overcharges for your washing, a common room with occasional bar and a reception area which operates from 7am-1pm Monday through Friday. The Hall tutors are excellent, and will always be on hand to help you with any problems. If you want cleaners, 24/7 reception and a full bar every evening, then Weston is not the hall for you. However, if you want en-suite rooms, large communal areas, and are unafraid of meeting new and interesting people (and doing your fair share of cleaning!), then look no further.

I'm going to stick to my guns and say that Owens Park is still the best university hall. I think…read moreits definitely the centre of Fallowfield, which is in turn he centre of Manchester student life. However, I'm going to put Sheavyn House in at number 2, at the expense of Oak House. The reason for this is that whilst Oak House is just a slightly worse version of Owens Park, Sheavyn is good for different reasons. First and foremost, it is in Fallowfield. This is the most important factor, as its literally where all the young foolish student fun happens, and what is the point of university without that? Whereas Owens Park is quite grim, Sheavyn is a pretty little halls. Owens Park smells of old beer and horrible food from the previous night, whereas as Sheavyn has trees and grass. Its just at the edge of Fallowfield, making it right there where the fun is to be found, but whereas at OP there's no getting away from it, Sheavyn is in its own large peaceful ground, making quiet rest or study a nice alternative to the raucous shenanigans of Fallowfield proper.

Sheavyn House located in the heart of the student population of Manchester University, Fallowfield…read morehas the most livliest and happening crowd as far as I've witnessed. Come here without a friend and you're definitely leaving with two! A very friendly and warm enviornment. with lush green surroundings and also a supportive community. It has en suite flats shared by 9 people and also bedsits. But by an experience of a friend, I've learnt that bedsits are a pretty lonely option to go for since it pretty much isolates you from socialising and making the most of University accomodation. Its very near the bus stop and has all the other necessites around it, making it a very ideal location to choose. All in all, its a great place to start your university at!

Its an overpriced prison cell. I wouldn't recommend you…read morewould be much better off getting a house share as it will be cheaper and you will have a better year of your life. Room is tiny, cleaner fines us most weeks for an overflowing bin (eg pizza box is on the top = £10). Flat gatherings get shut down by RA (reslife advisors) who are very nice but like a bit of quiet. Cleaner does do her job however must love the extra cash on fining us for eg two pots in a sink bearing in mind there are 10 people to a medium kitchen. You will have kitchen problems things going missing and being used and there will be a person reporting everything from noise in the kitchen to a pasta jar going missing and then there will be a formal meeting with fellow adults discussing a pasta jar (try not to laugh). The bar is cheep however the type of people that live at seems heavily populate this bar and they are the type to have never socially integrated before and their mummies and daddies pay for it - don't get me wrong they are nice but take their "rolls" a little two seriously. The flat below us had a few months of rather strong smelling "cigarettes" but that seems to have stopped :(. The water went of for a few days the rooms cant handle a hair dryer on with another appliance or the fuse will go...

Tramways is a great place to live. It is like a little community and everyone knows everyone…read moremeaning you feel very safe. The staff, Mark and Sabina are brilliant and are always helpful. It is very close to uni and the buses stop at the end of the road to get into town. I would reccomend it to Salford Uni students ;-)

I'm not sure if you're aware that all my Yelp reviews are posted on my Twitter page... in fact it's…read morereally all I use Twitter for. Well, occasionally I do find myself being praised, honoured or having a hit put out on me by the companies I've reviewed, no doubt they find me through this trending topics new-fangled thing. Anyway, I'd referred to Bramall in one of my reviews and was told that if I thought Bramall was quiet I obviously hadn't been there lately. Maybe I was thinking of Matthias, the postgraduate haven amongst the madness. Okay, so here's the deal. I visited Bramall in my undergraduate heyday and it was similar to John Lester and Eddie Colman (flats of 2, 3 or 4 sharing), which to me meant it was fairly low-key. But then I remembered a significant difference. Students living in Bramall kept their front doors open. Not even unlocked, actually wide open so that interlopers could walk in. As a paranoid antisocial, that's like my worst nightmare, but the idea was to open up these isolated little flats, make friends and have parties. Well, can't fault them for trying. Matthias however is understandably a little bit more subdued. Postgraduates are a different breed; after all, those who stay on at university longer than is necessary often have a mixture of smarts, idealism and insanely misguided dreams. Or they've just been harangued by their lecturers like I was. They knuckle down, they read a lot. Matthias even offers solutions for postgraduates in couples and/or with families so you know life there is going to be a great deal more civilised and a lot quieter. Both blocks benefit from all those classic Salford Uni accommodation perks I've discussed previously, and Bramall particularly attracts a lot of Music, TV, Media and Drama students due to its close location to the Media, Music and Performance campus at Adelphi. And if you live there, the Pint Pot's your local. Can't really fault that. So for optional privacy with more of a party atmosphere than the Lesters and Colmans of the Salford University world, make Bramall Court your choice. For postgraduate reflection and concentration, you're best off with Matthias.

Bramall Court: Salford's very own little Bohemia. Its close proximity to the University's school of…read moreMedia, Music and Performance at Adelphi means that Bramall Court attracts a lot of creative types; fashion students, musicians, actors and artists. Such a mix of 'free-thinkers' has meant that over a period of fifty years a somewhat 'chilled' atmospheres has evolved at Bramall, between staff and student alike, and at this place you'll feel more like a family member than a tenant. In recent years Bramall may have lost some of its more decadent charms, from 2011 annual renovations have been made; re-fitted showers and carpets, wi-fi installed in each room and in the summer 2013 the building had an entire face-lift! If you are a free spirit who also loves their mod-cons then this is the one stop shop for you! Vital stats: Bramall is on the doorstep of Adelphi Campus, Media City bus-stop nearby, and most importantly 5 minutes from the Old Pint Pot pub and the Crescent!

Another student housing option in our very own Vicky Park campus. Burkhardt House, offers pretty…read moredecent looking flats at about 107 pounds per week. A couple of my coursemates lived here last year and I would like to say that it was pretty comfortable to them. It is usually self catered but you can also opt for the catered option by paying a litle more than the usual. The flats are fully broadband equipped, with around 8-10 people sharing a flat with a fully functional multi-purpose kitchen for all the cooking that you might want to experiment with in your uni life! It also has a little music room which can be double up as a common room for studies or those group meetings during the semester. All in all, it is decent, though not that lively like the acommodation options around fallowfield and city campuses.

Burkhardt house is one of the nicest accommodation blocks in the Hulme Hall complex. The newest…read moreaccommodation available area, Burkhardt is fully en-suite and self catered, and is one of the most popular accommodation blocks available through the university. The halls have some of the largest en-suite rooms available to students, and are very well equipped with furniture and ample storage. Each flat of 8 rooms has a separate living room area, and fully fitted kitchen. Unfortunately, due to the terms of the accommodation contract, students sometimes have to move out of the rooms during university holidays in order to make room for visiting conferences, but this is a similar feature in other halls available on campus. Out of all of the Hulme Hall accommodation, Burkhardt is by far the best appointed, and independent, as it is hosts the only self catered accommodation at Hulme, which definitely makes a difference for a lot of people in choosing their hall. The best thing about the Burkhardt accommodation is the size of the rooms, which are way above average for en-suite accommodation. A friend of mine who lives in Burkhardt has thoroughly enjoyed her time there, and if I had to make my accommodation choices again, I would happily apply to live in Burkhardt after hearing about, and witnessing her experiences.

Very nice place - only problem is, Freddy Krueger has a room just off the living room on the ground…read morefloor. It is otherwise a treat, only 4 people share this quaint little charming old gardener's house (5 if you count Freddy) and all are postgrads only! The rooms are all good sized (except the sm single room - it is tiny and next to the only full bathroom...) and while there is only 1 bath w/ over hanging shower, there are 2 toilets (one ground level and the other in the bathroom on first floor). It has a washer and a tumble dryer! and a sweet garden to be envied with apple trees which produce nice apples in the spring. South facing windows allow for a reasonable amount of light for the house, and the bills included makes keeping this place warm is a piece of cake. Oh, and cleaners come twice a week during term times! The postcode is not officially registered with Royal Mail, so expect to get lots of grief from pre-filled address fields (like if you want to order a new phone or Netflix for example) and many missing packages! They will go to the Owen's Park office, but I suspect they may take some things as my mother is not in the habit of lying about sending me care packages... All in all, it is a great little place which allows for a wonderful place to call home for the duration of your studys.