Kolej Na Větrníku UK

Dirty bathrooms and usually noisy during nightime, not good choice if you want quite place for studying, otherwice cheap accomodation.

I stayed there in the hostel part. Pretty expensive compared to how ugly it is. There is no extra toilet/shower/bathroom for the guests, they need to use the normal, dormitory one. The service is usually awful.

Receptionists yell at you for jo apparent reason, they don't know english (where at least 80% of the students living here are international), pretty depressing rooms, single rooms are usually not available, 50% of toilets are not renovated, other shower cabins are transparent, WiFi works badly, no chairs in kitchen, other facilities are barely functional, a typical Soviet building, police inside the building. It's cheap tho. 160 euros for single room, 110 for a doule and good connection to the center, 20-25 min via tram and metro (petřiny-line A is in 10 min walk)

Was the worst accommodation I have ever stayed in. Receptionists dont speak English which is a huge problem, sockets in my room continually stopped working which meant the fridge stopped working and all my food got spoilt. Toilets are unisex which is quite odd and all the cubicles dont have locks which is a big problem. Kitchen smelt due to poor waste disposal, part fault of the residents and part of the cleaner. Very unfriendly residents as well. I found the fact that it was shared rooms quite odd as in the UK that is unheard of at unis. and the room was too small to be shared. Door of my room continually jammed which meant I kept getting locked out and it was impossible to communicate to the receptionist.

For erasmus The good things: -Cheap prices (between 100-200€ per month) -You will be pertmanently in contact with many students and erasmus -Public transport and supermarket near the building The bad things: -The recepcionist don't speak english, and they are extremely grumpy and desconsiderate, all the workers in general -Disgusting common areas. The ping pong room is horrible, useless. They will kick you out of the TV Room for no reason -No security (thiefs or homeless people go inside climbing through the windows) -Old, small and nasty kitchens for 40 people -They don't provide anything, such as toilet paper in the bathrooms.

I stayed here for almost 5 months during an ERASMUS+ exchange (the EU exchange programme), and my overall opinion of the Větrník Dormitories is that it's good enough. Nothing amazing, but definitely enough for a short-term stay, such as an exchange. It's also quite cheap (€120-ish per month) which is a clear advantage for students. For any longer durations (1 year or more) I'd personally look for a flat or something similar. Below I'll go into more detail about the rooms, facilities, location and communications. I lived in Block III during my time here so most of my experiences concern that building. However, I believe a lot is the same across the blocks. The rooms: Kolej Na Větrníku offers both single and double rooms, some 12 square metres in size. The rooms come with beds, desks, a wardrobe, some shelves and a small fridge (with a freezing compartment). There is not room for much else. Most of the furniture is quite old and worn. Smoking is not allowed in the building, except for in designated smoking rooms. If you live in a double room you'll get a same-sex roommate, or if you have a friend who will also stay in the dorm then you can ask to share with them. The corridors: Each corridor has a number of bedrooms (20 or so), a kitchen and a restroom+shower area. The kitchen is about the size of a bedroom and has a table, sink, stove with oven, and a microwave. Pots, pans, etc. is not available so you must bring it yourself. Due to there only being one stove per corridor only two or three people can cook at once. I know some people were cooking in their own rooms using their own equipment. The kitchen tended to be quite messy as people didn't clean after themselves, unfortunately. The restrooms are shared between men and women and are generally in good quietly. The showers (also shared) are booths with frosted glass doors which offer some decent privacy. Other facilities: Mail is delivered to small mailboxes by the reception, or is kept in the reception if it's too big. Block III has one laundry room with 3 washing machines and 3 tumble driers. You pay per use. Block III offers a few study rooms, one which has a TV and a piano. There is also a room with table soccer. Block IV has a ping pong table, and block II has a party room and a gym. All these activities are pay-per-hour, except the gym where you buy a card, but generally cheap (<€1 per hour). There are also guest rooms available for visitors. In the same building as block I and II is a nice pub (Do Větru), which is open for everyone (i.e. not only students living there). Staff: The staff in the receptions don't speak English which is quite unfortunate, though its still possible to get by using dictionaries and Google translate. The staff in the accommodation office (who deal with contracts, rent payments, etc.) are English-speaking. Location: Kolej Na Větrníku is located in the north east section of Prague, about 6 km from the city centre. It is a typical residential area with some stores, pubs, etc. in the vicinity. A larger supermarket is only a 10-minute walk away. Behind the dormitory is Břevnov Monastery with a beautiful park and garden, and not far away is a stadium. Communications: A few hundred metres from the dormitories is a bus and tram stop. The buses take you to and from the airport (without changing lines), and the trams into the city. It's about 15 minutes to the city centre, and 25 to Karlovo Náměšti (near which the faculty of science is located). 10 minutes walk from the dormitories, just by the supermarket, is also a metro station (line A/green line).

I've spent roughly four years in the first block of this dorm. My suggestion to all newcomers and future residents: don't give too much weight on comments such as "Rooms are dirty; kitchens horrible, baths are nightmarish" etc. Because it depends. My room was relatively clean even on my first day. After that, it's your job to keep it clean. It's a dormitory, not a hotel. As to kitchens and baths, they are cleaned on weekdays by the cleaning staff, and as far as I've observed, they do their best. So the real problem, if any, is not the dormitory. You pay a little amount of rent and everything is included in it: heating, 100MBPS Internet plus Wi-Fi and electricity. Remember, you are here to study and this dormitory is your shelter for you to sleep, you're here temporarily. The real problem here is other students, who prefer to complain about everything and everyone while ignoring to look into the mirror. Here you'll meet with students who leave great mess behind them in shared kitchens after they're done cooking. Do they clean up their own mess? Very rarely. What about bathrooms? Sometimes you'll witness such horribly abused toilets, you will end up praying for the cleaning ladies who mostly are in their 50s and have to clean up some spoiled brat's sh*t on the floor or on the walls to earn money, every single day. You might think you're safe when they're in their rooms, but you're dead wrong. For there will be students who shut their doors so hard, you'll jump where you're sitting or wake up. The doors have handles, but hey, some people may require education to use them properly so let's not be too harsh on them. You might be lucky to have civilized neighbors who would refrain from such uncivilized behaviour, but still, someone on your floor will be so unlike them, that person's existence will be more than enough. Oh, by the way, prepare yourself to be ignored when you say "Hello!" to your neighbors or other residents you come across as they will avert their eyes from you as though you were Medusa herself. Consequently dear friends, stop complaining about minor things such as the staff don't talk English etc. I've never needed to learn Czech but still I could always communicate with them using Google translate whenever I needed to communicate. Stop saying they're cold, not smiling, because they don't have to, they might have their own problems going on. Don't take everything personally. Act or at least try to act befitting a university student.

Disgusting rooms, shared bathrooms and showers, old building, rude receptionists and administrators who also don't speak English. Loud and noisy at nights, poor maintenence support, small fridges, barely any space for personal privacy in shared rooms. Few available cooking spaces, only 3 washing machines for an entire floor of 20-30 people. Vending machines aren't working. Seeing good reviews about this place is a disgrace.. Perhaps those people have low living standarts, but i can assure you, there is nothing good about this place and the photos on display are fake. Move out as soon as you can.