Hi everyone, my name is Lucy and I’m a third year medical student at the University of
Nottingham. In this video, I’m going to be giving you
a quick taster of all of the amazing night life that Nottingham has to offer you as a
student. This is going to range from all of the student
club nights to the wide variety of cocktail bars and pubs.
So Nottingham has so many clubs and they cater towards all different tastes in music.
Two of the most popular club nights for students at the University of Nottingham are Crisis,
which is held on a Wednesday night at Rock City, and Ocean which is held on a Friday night.
If you are part of a society or a sports club,
then you will probably be attending one of these clubs dressed up in fancy dress.
These club nights are great for freshers because you can actually get tickets from the clubs
and societies at Nottingham or from the Nottingham Students’ Union.
However, if you’re not a fan of the chart and club classics music that’s played at
Crisis, or if you’re not a fan of the cheesy throwback music at Ocean then there are plenty
more student club nights for you.
The University of Nottingham have a student night at Pryzm and this is a massive club
with so many different rooms all playing different genres of music so there’s bound to be something
to suit your tastes there. There’s also a club called Ink which is
great for those of you who like your sort of techno and drum and bass music.
There’s a student night at Pom Pom on a Thursday which is more sort of club classics
and RnB music.
And Stealth and Rescue Rooms are two very different sort of clubs that join together
on a Saturday night to give you a wide range of music as well.
If you’re not a fan of these kind of really lively, packed club nights then there are
plenty more nights for you. For example, Rescue Rooms does a really nice
acoustic night on a Monday where you can just go and relax and have a drink and listen to
some live music. And of course you don’t have to go to these
clubs on the designated University of Nottingham nights. You can pretty much go anywhere on
a Friday or a Saturday and a lot of the clubs are open throughout the week too.
So basically, whatever day of the week you want to go on a night out, there will probably
be a night out happening.
Nottingham is home to so many really cool, quirky cocktail bars and most of them have
really nice sort of décor and really great unique drinks.
There are so many I could mention here but just to name a few, there’s Hockley Arts
Club which is decorated inside by loads of like pink and purple flowers.
There’s Coco Tang which has a really interested menu of drinks.
There’s the Slug and Lettuce which, again, is decorated so beautifully inside.
And there is Cookieshake which does a wide range of quirky milkshakes and shots.
In Penny Lane, you can play arcade games while you have food and drink.
And one of my personal favourites is Boilermaker which is a secret underground cocktail bar
so you have to enter through this sort of fake boiler room and you go underground and
then there’s a cocktail bar under there and it does really cool drinks that come in
sort of really cool containers. And this is definitely a place I’d recommend trying
out. It’s a very fun experience.
The Alchemist is another really interesting cocktail bar where often the drinks come in
sort of conical flasks and you have to mix different ingredients up before you drink
them. My personal favourite drink there is the colour changing cocktail.
Nottingham definitely isn’t short on pubs either.
There are so many different Wetherspoons’ in Nottingham. Some of them are very relaxed
and very pub like and some are more kind of clubby.
And there are a few pubs local to the campus as well.
So Rose and Crown is in Lenton and is often frequented by Nottingham students and there’s
also Mooch which is actually on campus itself and does really cheap food and drinks.
So the majority of the clubs and bars I’ve mentioned are in Nottingham city centre.
So this is about a twenty minute tram or bus journey from University Park Campus or it
would be about a sort of ten minute taxi ride.
In your later years, if you move into a house and you live in Lenton, the city centre will
actually probably be in walking distance from you.
The city itself is very compact so all of these bars and clubs are very close together
and you can easily walk between them. And this makes Nottingham really good for
bar crawls as well.
So I hope I’ve shown you that Nottingham has a lot of night life to offer you as a
student. You will definitely never be bored here.
There are club nights pretty much every night of the week and there are countless of cocktail
bars and pubs. Hope this video was helpful and hope to see
you coming to Nottingham in the future. Thank you and bye!