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Have no fear: Queen's accommodation has a vast range of
information and options to help you choose the right living
arrangements for your time as a student.
into three-storey apartment blocks with shared
kitchen and common rooms, Elms Village is a safe
and friendly environment to live in. With the help
of a support team of Residential Assistants, Elms
is able to help students deal with settling in to
both student accommodation and student life.
After choosing Queen's as your student home,
the next decision to make is where to live. It's not
easy, as there are a vast number of options available
to undergraduates and postgraduates alike.
The Options
Queen's Accommodation
The good news: rates across all the Queen's
accommodation options include bills and rates,
allowing you to budget the rest of your money
for other expenses.
On campus
Elms Village, the University's purpose-built student
village, housing over 1,100 en suite and over 500
standard single bedrooms, is just a 10-minute walk
from the Lanyon Building on the Malone Road. Split
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If you would prefer to be in No Alco
hol, Single
Sex or Quiet Living accommodation
, Elms can
cater for your needs. The wide rang
e of options,
combined with the vibrant student
atmosphere,
makes it even easier to get the bala
nce between
work and socialising.
With the completion of Willow Wal
k at the star t
of the last academic year, Elms has
become even
more diverse. This new accommoda
tion block
boasts a wide range of high-quality
, fully-furnished,
1-4 bedroom apartments.
Off campus
Mount Charles: suitable for the mor
e independent
student and just off Botanic Avenue
and University
Road, each building houses seven
to eight students
and has all the same features and
facilities as
Elms, but is more integrated into the
University
and local neighbourhood.
Guthrie House: situated just beh
ind the Students'
Union on Fitzwilliam Street and hou
sing solely
standard rooms with shared bathroom
s, Guthrie
House has a great location and a
number of
rooms especially for Single sex lifes
tyle choices.
College Gardens and Grant Hou
se: the smaller
of the Queen's Accommodation opti
ons, these
two separate locations have all the
same facilities
as the other locations but in a mor
e intimate setting.
Private accommodation
Seeking accommodation privately
is always
an option and many students cho
ose this route.
Whether it is about the rooms curr
ently available,
the rates for each option, details of
how to find the
right place on the private market, the
University's
accommodation website contains
a huge amount
of information.
I really enjoyed living in Elms Village
and getting to
know people from a wide range of
backgrounds. Two
years on, I still bump into the people
I lived with in first
year and chat to them about how
they're getting on.
Queen's Accommodation is the mos
t simple and
efficient path to taking that all-impo
rtant first step
into student life.
For more information or for contact
details for
the team at Queen's Accommoda
tion go to:
www.stayatqueens.com
I lived in Elms Village ('Elms') for two years and
really enjoyed the sense of community that was
built up within the various floors and buildings
around the Village. Not only are the flats well
equipped, but wherever you are on the site the
"Treehouse", with shop, restaurant and computer
facilities, is still within a two-minute walk. Furthermore,
the student Residential Assistants organise great
trips and away days over the weekends so there
is always something different to do.
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