Welcome to University of Southampton my name is Raymond and I hear that you're looking to find
out some information about the accommodation we have to offer here at the university.
So let me take you on a little trip. Our journey starts here at our busy interchange
located on Highfield campus, with over 6,000 rooms, located in multiple sites you need a
way to get across all of them. Luckily included in your halls fees is something that's as close
to a key to the city, as you'll possibly get. The Unilink bus pass, with the Unilink bus pass you
get unlimited travel allowing you the freedom of access to your chosen hall and the city.
When you come to apply for halls you will have to make a series of decisions,
one of them being location, location, location. If you want to be right in the middle of all the
action Mayflower Halls is the one for you. Located in the midst of shopping centres,
music venues, restaurants and right next to the train station, it is the ideal city location.
Now come on, follow me. Here we are in the shared kitchen space, this self-catered flat
typically holds up to 10 students and as you can see there's sufficient cooking and
storage space to accommodate this number. All shared kitchens come with a fridge, freezer,
oven, microwave and dining area as standard across the board. Top tip, wait until you get here before
buying a kettle after all you don't want 10 kettles! Now let's have a look at those views.
Let's go see our first room. Here we have an ensuite bedroom all of our student bedrooms
come with desk space, to support your studies as well as sufficient storage space for storing all
of your belongings. Included in your halls fees is also contents insurance,
you will be responsible for the upkeep of your room and that includes laundry.
At all of our accommodation sites 24/7 access to laundry is available. Washers and dryers complement to
the ratio of students at each accommodation site and are all at a fair price. Ironing facilities
are also available so at that point all you need is your detergent and your dirty laundry!
Here we are at one of our part-catered halls Connaught part of our Wessex Lane complex.
Now let's go see what's cooking! We realise that not everybody's Gordon Ramsay and may opt for
a part-catered hall. Part-catered means that you will get breakfast and a main
meal during the weekdays only. This main meal can be had in halls during the evening
or on campus during the day or early evening along with that you will get
lunch on Saturdays and lunch on Sundays but if you're feeling peckish outside of those times,
don't worry. If you opt for part-catered you will have access to a pantry which is a slightly
smaller kitchen, you'll get a storage space a fridge, a freezer, an oven and a microwave.
if you do opt for a non-ensuite room you will have access to a communal bathroom space.
The amount of showers and toilets will be appropriate for the number of people in the
flat. It's perfect for when you know, you need that privacy. All accommodation sites have communal
spaces available to you for studying or resting here at Connaught and most other accommodations
there are computer and printing facilities available to you. Now these communal spaces will change
into student study areas during exam periods, to support your studies.
A team dedicated towards your student well-being.
They work 24 hours, 365 days a year. They help you settle into halls, provide information and
advice and throughout the year they run social events in halls. These events allow
you to get out there make the most of your uni experience and also make those friends for life.
No matter what halls you're placed in you will have access to a 24 7 reception team
staffed either by members of the residence team or members of security
they're happy to give information on a range of different topics whilst you're living in halls.
Now if you're doing some online shopping you've got nothing to worry about, your parcel will be
held by reception until it's ready to collect and they will let you know through an email.
Now if you have a maintenance issue again, you've got nothing to worry about you can either come in
personally to reception but we do recommend bringing it up through our online system.
Now you're probably wondering about some more of our rooms
so we've made a little montage for you, whilst I give you some more facts.
When making your application to live in halls, you'll be asked to provide a minimum of three
and maximum five preferences. As we've seen in this video these can be based on catered,
part-catered halls and can vary in contract level or site and room type. Residences will
then allocate and match accommodation as closely as possible to your preferences,
although preferences can't be guaranteed. You can also specify in your application whether you need
any special requirements, gender-specific flats or even a quieter lifestyle option.
You will also need to consider your room contract limit. 38 and 40-week contracts
are available as well as a 36-week contract in select areas which exclude the Easter break
all contracts include the Christmas vacation periods and all are suitable for undergraduates.
If you aren't worried about having an ensuite room you can opt for non en-suite. Even though you
don't have access to your own private bathroom, you do get your own basin at the same time all
your utilities are still included in the halls fees that includes wi-fi and wired internet.
Here at Glen Eyre and all other accommodation sites there are communal areas available to you.
This is the Glen Eyre common room and along with this beautiful room you also get a cinema room
perfect for you and your friends to get together, pop a movie in
and you're good to go! Cycling is a great way to get around Southampton
for a small fee you can pay to lock your bike up securely in bike sheds located across
all of our sites. With the Uni-link bus pass including your halls fees and secure bike
storage across all of our sites, there's no need to bring your car. Let's head back to Highfield.
Thank you for coming on this tour with me, it was lovely meeting you all and hope to see you around!
Hi I'm Dylan I'm Mike and we were in Glen Eyre halls in 2014
and we are now business partners at our startup called Boom.
Hi I'm Molly, I'm a third year, Film student. Hi I'm Emma I'm a third year,
Philosophy student and we met at Mayflower. I remember initially feeling very nervous
but I remember being welcomed because everyone else there was feeling nervous
and we sat down in the kitchen and we all introduced ourselves and it was really nice.
You're moved into this flat you know and you are it seems really scary because you're moving by
yourself but actually all the people that are there with you all going through the same thing
and it suits you because you're there and you want to make friends and all the other people
who are there want to make friends too. And as well you've got security, you've got social
nights organised by the uni there's support, everything is you know is made to suit people
living out by themselves for the first time. Whenever anyone had a birthday or around
Christmas we'd all tend to get together as a block and have food together so we'd get a
big takeaway in or have Christmas dinner um we'd put all the tables together in the hallway of the
of the of the block because it was the only place it was big enough so you could just look
through the front door and see this table of us all sat there um and we'd all have dinner and
have some drinks and stuff and that was great fun. We'd have we not like parties like the
pres (pre-drinks) but like in our kitchen would always be fun every time like when we have people
in just from random places it would just always be fun to be my favourite part of the whole night.
We used to get all of our duvets and all of our bedding out into the hall and sit down
and watch some terrible rom-com, obviously it wasn't my choice but
I think what was really nice about halls is how secure it was and how safe you always felt
and it was just so nice to like get back and just know that you know there are all these different
layers of security protecting you all the way down from like the entry to the like the halls
complex to your room door and you just all access through one fob that was really good. I remember
being really nervous about cooking because at the time I was vegetarian, I'm vegan now
but I think cooking for myself has helped me in that sense
and I think I was okay before and definitely better now kind of expanding what I have but
luckily Southampton has lots of great restaurants
and there's Deliveroo! Which is something we use too much!
Luckily I didn't have that problem I was quite confident at cooking I think it's quite good,
it's quite a good thing to go to as well because you people look up to you and you you get that
the prestige of of knowing how to cook and uh people
who will look to you be like 'is this a good idea?' and you're like 'no'.
Literally you're nervous because you're meeting new people but everyone is meeting new people and
none of you are going to know each other and it's all very kind of scary but in the best way.
We've now taken our relationship to the next level uh by starting a company together.
It's a long way from when we met on the first day of university in halls.
They do love each other! *Laughs*