Cyncoed Campus Student Removals

Cardiff Met requires a permit to park on campus, and Cyncoed needs one even for overnight parking. For students in halls the university is blunt: you may park only if you are allocated a permit, and the criteria are limited to Elite Sport and Limited Mobility. It also asks people not to park in the local neighbourhoods, where residential permits and restrictions apply.

That shapes the move more than anything else on this page. Nobody is keeping a car at Cyncoed to ferry things up in stages, so the van brings everything in one run and leaves. Visitor spaces are Pay and Display, card only or through PayByPhone. The rules are on the university's managed car parking page.

The 549 rooms split six ways, and the divide that matters for a move is catered against self-catered. A catered room comes with breakfast and dinner seven days a week during term, so pots, pans, plates and a food shop simply are not part of the load. A self-catered en-suite needs all of it.

If you are in one of the 244 Ensuite Premium rooms or the other self-catered categories, budget for a bigger load and buy the bulky kitchen basics after you arrive rather than moving them across the country. There is a shop on campus and the 52 runs into the city.

Cyncoed is Cardiff Met's sport campus, with the National Indoor Athletics Centre, an outdoor 400 metre track, a 25 metre pool, tennis and badminton halls and a gym that is free to first years. Its students arrive with the luggage to match: kit bags, boots, racquets, bikes and the occasional set of training weights.

Tell us what is coming beyond boxes. A bike, a set of clubs or a kit bag is easy, but they change how the van is packed, and anything heavy is better loaded low and last rather than balanced on top of a wardrobe box.

The 52 runs from Customhouse Street in the city centre and drops off in front of the main building, hourly through the day with extra departures every thirty minutes at peak times. The M1 links Cyncoed with the Llandaff campus. Heath High Level and Heath Low Level stations are about 25 minutes' walk away.

For a second year move into a shared house, Roath and Cathays are the usual destinations and the 52 reaches both in about ten minutes. That makes the move itself a short run, with the time going on stairs at the house end rather than the drive. The campus details are on the university's Cyncoed campus page.

Not everyone at Cyncoed studies there. The university notes that Social Work, Health and Social Care and Housing are taught at the Llandaff campus, and that Plas Gwyn is the better option for those students.

If you have ended up living on the wrong side of the city for your timetable, a move between halls is a short job and worth doing early rather than commuting across Cardiff all year. Our Llandaff and Plas Gwyn page covers that end.

A room's worth of boxes and a few bits usually lands between £85 to £150, and a full room of furniture and boxes between £130 to £220. Open-ended jobs can be charged hourly instead, at £45 an hour for one person and a van or £65 for two, with a 2 hour minimum.

A 42 week contract means one move in and one move out, so it is worth booking both when you know the dates. The full breakdown is on our prices page.