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University housing—Reliving your college years
When the students are away, the tourists will play. During the summer school break, many European universities and colleges help pad that endowment by renting out all that unused dorm space.
From sometime in late May or early June, when students head home for the summer, through the end of August and even into September, universities in London and other European cities open their dorms up to travelers. In some cases, you can get even rooms during school breaks and weekends as well—and, if enrollment is down, they'll rent empty dorms out year-round.
Rates vary, from around $22 per person in a dorm to $45 to $110 for a private double—but can also run as little as $140 per week. What's more, folks under 26 often pay even less—presumedly because young 'uns will just blend in, so the administrators don't have to bother explaining what a bunch of old fogies are doing living on campus).
So brush up your partying skills, dust off those dim memories of the lyrics to Louie Louie, and get ready to share the bathrooms—it's time to go back to college.
Resources to help find University dorms in Europe
IN THE UK
Visit Britain (www.visitbritain.us) - You can search the accommodations database for "Budget and Student" and will get results mixing hostels and campus housing. For some direct links to London college and university dorms, read on.
IN LONDON
Univeristy of Westminster (www.wmin.ac.uk/comserv) - Near Victoria
Queen Mary and Westfield College (www.admin.qmw.ac.uk/ccrs/conference) - East End
London Metropolitan University: Arcade Halls (www.londonmet.ac.uk/accommodation/summer-accommodation) - Holloway Road
London School of Economics (www.lse.ac.uk/vacations) - Holborn, Bloomsbury, Bankside, Butler's Wharf, Clerkenwell
International Students House (www.ish.org.uk) - Great Portland Street
King’s College (www.kcl.ac.uk/kcvb) - The Strand (Covent Garden)
City University London: Walter Sickert Hall (www.city.ac.uk/ems) - Clerkenwell, Islington
IN
ITALY
Sadly, there's no Website, buy you can get a list of student housing in dozens of Ialian cities—including biggies like Rome, Florence, Benice, Milan, and Palermo—by sending a letter asking for the "Guide for Foreign Students" to:
The Italian Ministry of Education
Viale Trastevere
00153 Rome, Italy
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This material was last updated July 2006. All information was accurate at the time.
Copyright © 1998-2008 by Reid Bramblett. All rights reserved.
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