Accommodation in London
 

Can anybody recommend accommodation whilst studying at London Guildhall Uni for ATPL's?

Any responses would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I would think that London Guildhall themselves are the best people to advise on accommodation - check out their main web site www.lgu.ac.uk/facilities where they have an accommodation section or e mail on [email protected]


Good luck with house hunting and the course

Thanks
 

aaaaaa, thanks for your input. I have the accommodation list from LGU, but I was looking for personal experience from X students, if there were any out there.

Cheers.

Cat3C,

When I started at LGU, I had digs in London already setup. However, there was a large number of danes starting at the same time and none of them had accomodation sorted. Basically, it took most of them about 3 weeks to sort themselves out, and in the mean time they were living out of suitcases in hostels. I can only suggest that you spend a week or two before you start seeking out accomodation as this will save you no end of trouble. Although the LGU has an accomodation list, your best bet is to get yourself a copy of Loot. It has a huge list of rooms going for rent in london and should give you an idea of where and what you can get for your budget.
For LGU, look at the east end as it's cheap and fairly easy to commute into tower.

All the best.

Digs
 

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To save even more time, go to WWW.LOOT.com

Good luck

Gus and Tiger Eye, thank you very much for your input. I was planning on taking time out next week to do just that, find somewhere to live! It most definately makes sense to sort this before starting, thanks once again.

Gus, just out of interest, what area are you staying in and it is fairly reasonable in terms of cost?

Well, I live oop in North London in a place called Bounds Green. It's still fairly cheap on the rental sides, around £300-£400! a month for a room in a shared house, but that doesn't normally include bills. It about £22 for a weekly travelcard into london and takes about 45mins to get to LGU.

My tip for flat hunting in London; the first thing to do is pick a few areas that you can afford and can see yourself living in and concentrate on finding somewhere in these areas. Once you know where you want to live, then blitz all the flats till you find one you like.

Anyway, good luck and I don't envy you...:p

Gus, thanks very much, and I am sure you dont envy me!:D

Loot is a great idea, however if you have maybe a day spare go into the other universities in London ie Kings College on the Strand, LSE opposite etc. You will find enormous boards of adverts for flat shares normally reasonable and quite central, normally quite sane people to share with as well (provided they are not medics) you can email me if you want further advice ie where the Unis are and where the boards are. Good luck !

Firstly, unless you are made of money, are very lucky in the location that you choose or are happy to accept digs that are verging on being a squat, you have to accept that you will probably spend about 1 hour each way commuting, door-to-door. That's London for you.

The other tip about London accommodation is not to look too central and don't discard areas that aren't on the tube as they tend to be cheaper, and are often as well connected by train/bus/dlr/whatever.

Also don't discard the middle and outer suburbs - many do this in a sort of inverse snobbery - they often tend to be cheaper, and what you get tends to be nicer and safer! Quite often you are looking at a similar length commute by train that you would by tube from a more expensive, central suburb, with regular night buses to get you home from the pub late at night

This is particularly true for south of the river where the tubes don't really go. Personally if I were you I'd look South East*, connected by train to London Bridge, as it automatically puts you on the right side of London for LGU. SE London has many nice but (relatively) cheap areas if you don't mind commuting by train - East London would also make sense, but watch out as some areas can be rough!

For instance a room as a lodger in Bromley (LT zone 4/5) would set you back about £330 per month all in, add onto that around £100 per month for your train ticket - 30 mins ride to London Bridge and then a 10 mins walk to LGU.

Good luck!
foggy.

*caveat I'm biased as I live in SE London however have lived in North, West and South West London before.

IceMaiden & Foggy, once again thanks for your comments, all good advice.

I rang a couple of places on the accomodation list today who had rooms, so will check them out next week.