Dining Hall New College — Restaurant in Toronto

Pro - I stayed at 45 Willcocks/New College III building. GREAT STAFF! central location (510 streetcar stops right outside the door, a few minutes to Spadina TTC station, near main streets: Spadina, Bloor, Yonge, Bay, Queens Park), cheap accommodations (cheaper than Massey College where I usually stay who went up on their rates), quiet in summer months so you don't have to share bathroom/showers with a lot of people (at least not in New College III); FREE internet access via wifi or ethernet (free if you have your own cord, but $5 to rent one from them); access to kitchen/fridge (if you want to cook or store leftovers)- tv is also in that room; laundry room on each floor; study rooms are available if you need them; cafeteria in the 40 willcocks building

Cons:

1. extremely small rooms (I guess I was spoiled by the room plus sitting area offered at Massey College just up the street)
2. ethernet streaming buffers frequently (annoying when watching news or movies)
3. The towel that's provided is only a little bigger than a hand towel so BRING YOUR OWN! You only get the one - no face towel.
4. Beds are firm so you may need to use 1 or both blankets as a kind of mattress cover/cushion so BRING YOUR OWN blanket. If you like firm beds, you'll be fine.
5. breakfast only in summer (no lunch or dinner on site except for summer camps), but it ends at 9:30am not 10am as I was told - buffet style $9, but I don't think there's a lot...

Just had my 2nd stay at the University Residence Hall - it was perfect and really easy on my budget! This time I brought my own pillow - and also some food as they do have a shared kitchen area with a fridge that you can use. There's also a TV with netflix - and I wound up watching a movie early one morning before I headed out for touring. I drove there and both times used their parking facility two buildings over - but learned this time that you can keep pushing the "max time" button on the machine to book multiple days for your car to be parked so that you don't have to get up at 5:30 a.m. to get a new sticker in your car window by the 6:00 a.m. departure time. Between parking for my car and the room fee, I wound up staying there for 2 nights/3 days for only $140 - which is awesome. If you really don't spend a lot of time in your room and don't need much - these room options are fantastic. The location is so close to everything and I felt very safe there the entire time. Kings Noodles - about 3-4 blocks down on Spadina has great food at also very reasonable prices - I can't wait to go back again - Toronto is a...

Just had my 2nd stay at the University Residence Hall - it was perfect and really easy on my budget! This time I brought my own pillow - and also some food as they do have a shared kitchen area with a fridge that you can use. There's also a TV with netflix - and I wound up watching a movie early one morning before I headed out for touring. I drove there and both times used their parking facility two buildings over - but learned this time that you can keep pushing the "max time" button on the machine to book multiple days for your car to be parked so that you don't have to get up at 5:30 a.m. to get a new sticker in your car window by the 6:00 a.m. departure time. Between parking for my car and the room fee, I wound up staying there for 2 nights/3 days for only $140 - which is awesome. If you really don't spend a lot of time in your room and don't need much - these room options are fantastic. The location is so close to everything and I felt very safe there the entire time. Kings Noodles - about 3-4 blocks down on Spadina has great food at also very reasonable prices - I can't wait to go back again - Toronto is a...