Transom House, bristol

Had a comfortable stay with good accommodation and a convenient location. There were plenty of stores, cafés, and useful amenities nearby, which made everything easy and accessible. Overall, a pleasant and convenient experience.

Not recommended at all Old building with no elevator, they only clean the shared places in the flat once a month, sharing the shower with 4 other students, the furniture in the flat is so old. The only good thing is the location

Before moving into transom house for my first year at uni I was dreading it after reading some of the older reviews but I have honestly had the best year living in the building. The “standard” bedrooms are huge: with a big window, massive desk and a decent sized bed aswell as loads of storage and floor space. The shared kitchens are big compared to some of the other UWE accommodation kitchens and the shared showers are also pretty large. Don’t expect 5* decoration and modern facilities but it definitely does the job. The location is perfect and the staff are all so lovely and helpful, theirs is pretty much 24/7 desk service so you can always collect your delivery’s. It can be noisy because of how thin the walls are and as it’s on the Main Street so bring earplugs. Maintenance issues are fixed fast if they’re serious. Only complaint that that I wish there was more washing machines.

No lifts so definitely not disability friendly. Building is extremely old and overrun with poor maintenance. The company uses the cheapest facilities possible. Never once did I feel safe living there. Walls are extremely thin so there was always noise and constant stress. It was the worst place I have ever lived in. Staff don’t care about you at all, so don’t bother trying to raise any issues whatsoever.

Good student accommodation. BTW the lobby doesn't look anything like these pictures there is no sofa, post box's, hot water, signs or that much notices. Its pretty plane all orange and grey. (I've put a sneaky picture). All those things would of been nice. The location is lovely has an old church opposite and street with trees covered in fairy lights. So close to the centre so everything is there and only takes half an hour to get to UWE. The building is ok they are slowly updating all the flats from bottom to top and unfortunately I'm at the very top so its a little dated but maintenance is amazing! If something is wrong they're on it! The downside is in my room one wall is only a stud wall between the next flat room so I can hear everything in there and they like to go on tiktok till 2am (that's on their phone its probably not on full so it tells you how much you can hear). The other side is fine tho cant hear a thing from them which is strange. That definitely need sorting. There is no lift, no cleaner and no building common room. There is a huge size difference on the top floor, its a lot smaller but for student living the rooms are still big than other places! I feel like there is a lot more the staff could do to organise events and things for the students. There's been a couple pizzas by reception that's about it. The events they did just around Christmas all got cancelled last minute. Since then there's been nothing really. Overall its good accommodation I do like it everyone is friendly, its safe and good location just small things could change. :)