You are just arrived to Dundee and you are completely lost? You need a duvet, a pillow, some plates, some cutleries, some food… and you don’t know where buy all of that? Then, this guide is for you! In this guide I’m going to give you some advices to help you to make your installation as smooth as possible.
First of all, I’m going to present you the functioning of the student accommodation.
There are 4 accommodations: Meadowside, Victoria Chambers, Parker House and Lyon’s Street. In each accommodation you have several flats with several bedrooms in each flat. Each flat have 1 or 2 kitchens for all the students of the flat with table, chairs, fridges, freezers, sink, hotplate, oven, microwave, cupboards, dishwasher… You have to buy your own plates, cutleries and kitchen utensils. Kitchens are cleaned once a week by cleaners. Bedrooms are composed of one little bed, one desk, one chair, one cupboard, and one chest of drawers. You need to buy sheets, duvet and pillow for your bed. You can choose a bedroom with your own shower room, or the shower room can as well be in common. Your shower room is also cleaned but not every week it depends of the accommodation, so you must buy some household products too.
So, as you can see you have to buy lots of things when you arrive in the accommodation. And I know it’s difficult because you don’t know the city so you don’t know where you can buy all of that. That’s why I’m going to give you some advices.
First, for kitchen utensils and household products you can go in the mall Wellgate where there are lots of shop where everything cost £1 so it’s really interesting. There is also this kind of shop in the city centre.
Wellgate Shopping Centre
Then, to buy food you can go to Tesco which is a supermarket like in France and it’s not very expensive. There is also M&S which is bigger so you have more choice but it’s a little bit more expensive. The Iceland shop in the Wellgate is well to buy frozen foods because you have lots of choice.
To finish, you can go to the Primark to buy your sheets, duvet, pillow and other household linens. Primark is a big shop situated in the shopping centre Overgate which sell also clothes and which is really cheap! In the Overgate there are many other clothes shops as H&M, New Look and Topshop, so it’s a good place to shop!
Overgate Shopping Centre
I’ve tried to give you the best advices for your move. But if you have any other questions, feel free to post a comment and I will try to answer at best!
