Nido Pods For Students With Cash July 7, 2007
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Student life seems to have changed somewhat in the last few years. There was a time when a single three-bedroom home could house a small village-worth of smelly, badly dressed, over-opinionated students, while the notion of ‘personal space’ was a nebulous thing, right up there with winning the lottery.
What you are looking at above is a Nido Pod, part of the two 16-storey Nido [Nest] tower blocks being built in Kings Cross for students. The pods are cubes with bathrooms, measuring 135 to 184 square feet, and 950 students will fill the blocks.
Around 100 pods will be shared, and cost £120 per week, while singles will cost £180 a week. Pod-students can also avail off a concierge service, free gym and fitness centre, entertainment and games rooms, private study rooms, three shops, 50-seat cinema, bicycles for hire and an underground car-park.
What happened to ‘floor space’ and ‘sleeping bags’?
They open in September. Find out more here.-Martin Lynch
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Pretty nice but stupidly expensive. Won't be long before those rooms are covered in drunken vomit.
No use for a student - you are not allowed anyone to stay over in the single rooms and if your roommate is away in the double any guests are charged 25 quid a night - what a joke!
the above about over-night guests is incorrect. You get 2 overnight guest passes a week and you can accumulate them.