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Eclipse, Cardiff
0.6 mi from centre2 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Study space
- +3 more
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£149/week
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Student accommodation in Cardiff
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The Fitzalan
0.5 mi from centre2 room types
Bills included28–44 week tenancies
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +9 more
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£150/week
34Rooms available
Canvas The Parade
0.6 mi from centre1 room type
27–51 week tenancies
- Gym
- Study space
- Communal lounge
- Cinema room
- +1 more
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£164/week
12Rooms available
Crown Place, Cardiff
0.3 mi from centre5 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- +6 more
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£166/week
69Rooms available
Zenith
0.5 mi from centre8 room types
Bills included9–43 week tenancies
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
- 24/7 security
- +8 more
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£169/week
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Alwyn Court
0.4 mi from centre2 room types
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
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Livin
0.6 mi from centre1 room type
Bills included
- Wi-Fi included
- Kitchen
- En-suite
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Northgate House
In the city centre6 room types
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- Wi-Fi included
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- Gym
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Summit House
0.3 mi from centre1 room type
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- Wi-Fi included
- Laundry
- Gym
- Bike storage
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Windsor House
0.3 mi from centre2 room types
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Start with your university
Pick a university and see the buildings around it, with the walk or the ride to campus on every one.
Neighbourhoods
Where to look in Cardiff
Use these established student areas as starting points, then compare each property's rent and route to your university.
Where students live in Cardiff
Areas students actually take rooms in, with the buildings closest to each one. Matched by location, so a building appears under the area it stands in rather than the area its marketing claims.
Cathays and Maindy
Woodville Road and the streets leading off it, where Cardiff University's buildings and its students' houses are interleaved street by street. Nothing in the UK is more concentrated: expect noise, and expect everything to be five minutes away.
- Cambrian Pointfrom £177/week
- Severn Pointfrom £171.25/week
- Crown Place, Cardifffrom £166/week
Roath and Plasnewydd
Over Crwys Road from Cathays, with Albany Road for shopping and Roath Park and its lake at the top. The standard move for anyone who has had enough of Cathays but not of the short walk to lectures.
- Arofan Housefrom £165/week
- Livinfrom £150/week
- Canvas The Paradefrom £164/week
City centre and Callaghan Square
Towers above the shops, beside Cardiff Central and the stadium. Good if your teaching is scattered, and the only address here where you hear a Wales match from indoors.
- Zenithfrom £169/week
- Northgate Housefrom £182/week
- Bridge Street Exchangefrom £175/week
The Heath and Gabalfa
Built around the University Hospital of Wales, where Cardiff's medics and dentists spend their clinical years. Residential, well bussed, and a long way from the Cathays evening.
- Clodien Housefrom £193/week
- North Courtfrom £233/week
Useful to know nearby
Places students in Cardiff actually use. We have no arrangement with any of them.
- Cardiff Central Library
Free public study space beside the central station and shopping streets, convenient for students living in the centre.
- Bute Park
The large riverside park between the centre and Cardiff University. Its paths form one of the easiest walking and cycling routes north.
- Cathays station
The station inside the main student area, one stop from Queen Street and immediately beside Cardiff University buildings.
- Roath Park
A lake and open park at the northern end of Roath, one reason students accept the longer walk from streets further out.
A few Cardiff buildings worth a look
Picked by distance, price and choice, measured from the listings on this page. Not a ranking, and not a recommendation: the numbers are what they are on the day you read this.
- Crown Place, Cardiff0.3 miles
Closest to Cardiff University
- North Court0.9 miles
Closest to Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Zenith0.2 miles
Closest to University of South Wales Cardiff
- Eclipse, Cardifffrom £149/week
Lowest listed rent here
- Northgate House15 room types
Most room types to choose from
What to know before choosing a room in Cardiff
A city-by-city note about the decisions that change your daily routine. Prices and availability remain live in the listings above.
Cardiff does something few cities manage: its main campus and its main student area occupy the same ground. Cardiff University is spread through Cathays Park and the streets immediately north of it, and those streets are where most of its students live. You can finish a lecture and be home in five minutes, which is why Cathays stays full and why the rest of the city is priced against it.
New to booking student accommodation?
Room types, what bills included really covers, when to book, and what to check if you are arriving from abroad.
Other student cities in the UK
Comparing options? These are the other cities in the UK where most students on our shortlist are basing themselves.
Getting around Cardiff
Most of Cardiff's student travel is on foot, because the distances in Cathays and Roath are short and the city is flat. Cathays station sits on the Valley Lines and is one stop from Cardiff Queen Street, which is the hub for everything else including Cardiff Bay and Llandaff North. Buses cover the Met campuses and the outer suburbs, and Nextbike stands are spread across the centre. Cardiff Central reaches Bristol in under an hour and London Paddington in around two, and the city is compact enough that a bike removes the need for anything else.
Frequently asked questions
- 19 buildings in Cardiff publish a starting price, from £149 to £251 a week, and half of them start under £169. Most of the difference is area and room type rather than one or two outliers. Each figure is the cheapest room in that building, so compare the room lists rather than the headline.
- Everything we list in Cardiff is in Cathays and Maindy, Roath and Plasnewydd, City centre and Callaghan Square, and The Heath and Gabalfa. Buildings are filed by their coordinates, not by the area their marketing claims, so the table above puts each one where it actually stands.
- 18 of the 25 buildings here say so, and 7 publish nothing either way. A page that says nothing is a gap in what the building has told anyone, not a bill, so ask before you rule it out.