Best UF Dorms

"I have lived in lakeside for 3 years. The rooms are apartment style, meaning each apartment has four private bedrooms and two bathrooms, as well as a kitchen and common area. Four people live in each apartment and each have their own bedroom. The bedrooms are pretty small, but it is nice to have your own space, and awesome to share a bathroom with just one other person. The kitchen has a full sized fridge, microwave, stove, oven, sink, and garbage disposal. There are bar seats. There is a common room with a couch. Lakeside is really close to the largest gym on campus, but further from most classes than other dorms. However, there are two bus stops at lakeside, with buses running to the heart of campus about every 5-15 minutes (the bus ride is like 7 minutes long and not bad at all). There are many parking spots, but they do get full. However, if full, people can park at the gym which is about a 5 minute walk away. Lakeside is close to Archer road, Lake Alice, the intramural sports fields, and Southwest Recreation Center. Important note- laundry facilities are in a separate building in the center of the complex so you do have to leave your building to do laundry, but this has never been a problem for me."

"Great location, pretty new, and clean. Pretty much the only thing I didn’t like was that you couldn’t turn the AC off or mold would grow. It was freezing!!"

"My experience at Fletcher Hall was great! you can't bit the location, literally in the middle of campus, just steps from the Swamp. The building is so beautiful, the architecture is outstanding. The three room triple rooms are of a very nice size! They come with an XL twin bed, you can raise the bed frame and use the bottom as storage or place the dresser, a mini fridge or a futon under it. You have space in the middle to place a rug and a little chair. The room comes with a dresser, a desk, chair and a closet with doors. My room had a big window with so much natural light. Our three room triple had a common area where we place the tv, a futon and two chairs and a baker's rack. The three of us shared a bathroom. The toilet was separated from the shower. Cons, no elevator, no kitchen in our floor, not enough space in our common area to have more than a couple of friends over and the laundry facilities are across the building in the commons. To cook we had to get out of our building and go into the side, to another entrance and upstairs to the closes community kitchen."

"Rooms are updated and nice with lots of window space. It is the international dorm so you meet a lot of new people who are generally older than freshmen. If there is a down side it would be that the halls can be noisy on weekends and that the bathrooms can get real nasty sometimes. Hall does have an elevator and trash-chute which is very convenient."

"Compared to most dorms at the University of Florida, Cypress is a luxury. It is one of the few suite style dorms and it even has full xl size beds. The rooms are on the smaller side and the shared closet space is close together. For this room to be comfortable, it’s best to know your roommate because you will be very close together. Also, consider alternative layouts for the bed and desks to get the most out of the space."