A nosy look inside the UK’s most luxurious (and expensive) uni student accommodation

When most of us think of student accommodation, we picture a shoebox-sized dwelling with a suspiciously stained mattress, an inexplicably wobbly desk and a communal kitchen that poses a health risk. But if you happen to have a few extra thousand pounds lying around, you could live in plushy halls with perks like cardio studios, cinema rooms and unlimited coffee.

Here’s a very nosy look inside some of the UK’s most expensive and luxurious university student accommodation. 

Manchester, £410 per week

Fusion Students runs halls with “all-inclusive student living”. At their site in the Deansgate area of Manchester, you get free laundry, a cardio studio and a roof terrace. The different studio apartments will cost you in the realm of £400 per week, though.

Guildford, £445 per week

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Uni Life’s Riverside House is down the road from the University of Surrey. Students get unlimited hot drinks, use of games consoles and a karaoke machine, a £100 laundry card and some very aesthetic views of the river.

Egham, £469 per week

 

 

 

 

 

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For those of us not posh enough to know our way around Surrey, Egham is the town just beyond Heathrow Airport that contains Royal Holloway University. Prestige Student Living has a Penthouse Studio in its Straits Garden hall that will set you back £23,919 per year. The room is 25m², and doesn’t come with your own outside space or anything. You can use the on-site gym and snooker table.

Edinburgh, £1,243 per week

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Vita Students has halls in many big UK uni cities, with many rooms costing more than £600 per week. The New Waverly halls in Edinburgh are on a whole other level, though. Students get perks such as unlimited tea and coffee, a cinema room, breakfast on weekdays and a pickup from the airport.

 

 

 

 

 

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The plushiest pad costs a jarring £1,243 per week (so, £64,636 for a full year). This “room” consists of three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a washing machine and a “large fridge”. 

London, £3,850 per week

 

 

 

 

 

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No, that’s not a typo. The Lincoln’s Inn Collection student accom block in London features two flats that cost £3,850 per week. That would amount to £200,200 for a full year. Other spaces on the same site seem to have been listed at £5,600 per week in the past. Really.

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The site is in a super central location, right by the main site of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The spenniest apartment up for grabs at the moment is 133m², and has a “shared living area and shared kitchen with a breakfast bar”. Bills are included. Er, I should think so!

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