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  • 1/5 Joshua A. 1 year ago on Google
    Terrible place. I would not get paid to come here for its miserable staff and absurd policies. I would recommend anyone who values their time on this planet or the has any loved ones to find a different place. Small rooms, mistreats clients and doesn’t allow for guests in a student housing. Security guards have egos never seen of this magnitude and they sent off my friend to sleep in the streets and cited they didn’t check in because it was past 8PM even though we emailed the place before hand. We were willing to pay a premium but nothing would prevail and left a young adult to sleep on the streets as no hotels had space. This is one of the many horror stories this place has to offer and you will never know the extent unless you stay here.
    7 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Paul O C. 1 year ago on Google
    Forced to leave my room despite informing them i will need to extend my stay well in advance. Got an email late at night telling me I had to leave by 11am. Maintenance man had no problem getting cheeky with me and my family whilst departing. Security guard is nothing but rude. Would not recommend
    6 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Josh B. 1 year ago on Google
    One of the janitors tried grabbing my balls from behind me, almost had an epiliptic fit after. Would not recommend this place for accomodation as mount joy has way better amenities.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Niamh 8 months ago on Google
    I've stayed in many student accommodations over the years, however, this was by far the most accommodating and comfortable. The staff at the reception were amazing .They were friendly and chatty and made us feel so, so welcome. Nothing was a problem for them esp when i lost my key card! I wasn't expecting much being student accommodation but it surpassed my expectations. Room and bathroom was spotless, beds very comfortable and the kitchen area is pleasantly clean and organised. Thankfully we had a pleasant view of the city and the noise level was at a minimum. The gym which seems to be open late was an extra bonus! Loved that!! What a fantastic experience we had in a great safe Dublin location. We are looking forward to visiting again.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Chris F. 8 months ago on Google
    I've nothing but good things to say about Heyday. All the reception staff are very friendly and do an amazing job (Eric is a legend). The rooms are great, mattresses are comfortable and the common areas are very clean. I also enjoyed the gifts the gave me at the start of the year. I really recommend this student accommodation :)
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Katarina P. 2 years ago on Google
    Great accommodation! Rooms are very clean and nice, staff is friendly and always there to help! It is located at the top spot in Dublin and has a wide choice of common areas. Would 100% recommend!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Aileen Hazel M. 2 years ago on Google
    I stayed at Heyday for 5 weeks and it was a wonderful experience. The place is very accessible, clean and safe. Everyone is very friendly, from the staff at the reception to the residents. I will also miss the unlimited coffee at the lounge and my study sessions in one of the conference rooms. Thank you for my very pleasant stay Heyday! More power and God bless!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Jeanne M. 6 months ago on Google
    I stayed from September 2022 until August 2023. The pros: safer-ish against people from outside thanks to a system registering whoever comes in and out compared to other accommodations. Some people from the welcome desk are nice, maintenance is quite quick to fix the issues. This accommodation is decent for short term stays and people who don't cook. The cons made it an overall very bad experience for me, to a point that I would not recommend Heyday to anyone. Room allocation with a mix of long term and short term residents, the propension to incriminate residents when they are seeking help and other strange behaviours make it a place where you never feel comfortable and you are always scared something might happen. In more details, the rooms allocation is absurd, as it often mixes long term students with language school students in one apartment. The latter can stay from 1 week to 6 months, so you never know who you're going to get. As a result, this situation results in thefts and/or degradation of collective and individual property. Nothing is done by Heyday besides a promise to make them pay a fine if they leave the kitchen dirty, which was never applied despite 2 complaints from me (and other complaints from long-term flatmates). It gets worse over the summer, where tourists from Booking are coming for a few nights in the same apartments (and of course no one was warned). Often they are not told, like the language school students, that they are going to share space with actual students. So all year and summer long I had to: tour the kitchen for them to know not to look into people's personal cupboards or help themselves in it, remind that not everything is shared and that cleaning behind themselves is a basic duty. In total, I caught at least 4 people trying to take people's things, one of them became threatening when I said not to use my things, and on many occasions I had to clean behind them if I wanted a half decent space to cook. It also makes it impossible to establish a collective cleaning routine, collective rules and use of the space. Feeling like I was living in a dirty hostel is not a nice thing to do when rent is so expensive. To this day I still don't understand how they're not succeeding at renting to tourists in separate apartments. But again, their management is absurd. When I got bowls and cups stolen (and a lot of other things displaced and found in other people's cupboard, dirty...), not only heyday staff was unsupportive and didn't help or didn't really try to retrieve anything, they also were incriminating our attempts at not having our tools deteriorated (one of my flatmate's and my perfectly removable labels were called "unacceptable vandalism" and we were told not to claim more than the 3 default shelves per room that couldn't fit a pan... Even if most of the other collective closets were empty and we were not taking anyone's space!). To sum up they were stricter against our use of the space we pay for than against theft. This "it's not our legal responsibility but please stop trying to use the space" was very frustrating. Finally, their policy of 'everyone's equal' is completely oblivious of the fact that short term and long term residents will have different needs in terms of space and tools. Which primes short-term residents to feel entitled to use any belonging they want to, since they're often leaving before anything can be said to them. It's also paying for everyone's tablets, dishwashing soaps, trash bags because no short-term residents will ever bother (and it's not provided by Heyday). I hope other residents will also give a review as many said food was stolen from them from their attributed shelves and nothing was done about it. They have no issues threatening of fines for lack of cleaning (aka If you decide to clean after yourself only and not others who have left already), if you're having someone over 2 nights you pay 15e per night. But the admin fee you already pay does not mean they will care about the issues their poor management and room allocation.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Daniel S. 9 months ago on Google
    Very nice rooms, pretty building and a cool mix of residents. Perfect location within Dublin. Staff was friendly and respectful, but the house rules were sometimes strange and strict if you consider yourself a grown up (at least when I was there). It's way too expensive, like most other student residences in Dublin. Great place to stay if you're there on Erasmus for a few months or money is not an issue for you.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 ben l. 6 months ago on Google
    I had a really good time at Heyday. The staff here are incredibly friendly and welcoming, always ready to assist with any concerns or questions. One thing that stood out to me was the frequent visits from the cleaners, ensuring that the common areas and individual rooms remained spotless. It was such a relief to have a clean and tidy living space throughout my stay. What truly impressed me was the management’s effort to create a sense of community. They organized events where we received free pizza, fostering a warm and inclusive atmosphere among the residents. It seemed clear that they genuinely care about making everyone’s stay enjoyable. The building itself is modern and well-maintained, with a wide range of facilities available for residents. From study spaces to recreational areas, there’s always something to do here. I can honestly say that I never encountered any significant issues during my time here. Overall, this student accommodation offers a top-notch experience. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a comfortable, clean, and friendly place to live during their studies.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Aaron N. 2 years ago on Google
    I have been living in heyday for the last 2 years and have really been able to enjoy my time here! The staff are so humble and very helpful! The accommodation itself is very new and modern and the perfect spot for someone wanting to live close to the city and experience Dublin!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Henrique C. 1 year ago on Google
    The building is new, the room is big, the shower is good and the kitchen is good. The biggest downside for me is that you can't invite friends without signing them in, or even have overnight guests without sending an email beforehand. This makes you remember that you are living in a student accommodation and not really in an apartment (which is actually true!).
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Louie R. 2 years ago on Google
    Great place to stay! Worth every buck! Staff are very nice, very helpful. I stayed in Heyday for two months, and I would have loved to stay longer. Suffice to say, Heyday made my transition to moving to Ireland a bit easier. Thank you Team Heyday!
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jacob B. 1 year ago on Google
    Great student accommodation in Dublin. Good sized bedroom with on suite bathroom and offers a gym, common space with ping pong, study area, bike storage, laundry room, cinema room, and is close to city centre.

  • 5/5 Elena M. 1 year ago on Google
    I have been living in heyday for 1 month now and I have found that the staff has been very welcoming and informative of the property. The common areas and location are great too!

  • 5/5 Rachel H. 2 years ago on Google
    I had a great experience staying at Heyday Carman's Hall. The staff were so helpful in facilitating my every need. The facilities were top class especially the gym and residential kitchen. I would highly recommend this accommodation to every student!

  • 5/5 maria romero n. 1 year ago on Google
    Lovely place! Great common areas, modern and cozy rooms and kitchens with the best appliances.

  • 5/5 Gabriele A. 2 years ago on Google
    Wonderful place where I met fantastic people. Very nice accomodation. Big plus for Ana, the reception administrator! Always willing to help. She really solved a lot of problems during my transition to Ireland

  • 5/5 Annachiara G. 2 years ago on Google
    Was in Heyday for 2 weeks of self-isolation with my boyfriend in March 2021. My experience has been great throughout. I got in contact with Ana, before booking, she has helped me from start to finish. The team at Heyday is amazing, immediate response to email, help and kindness 24/7. They helped us with a smile every time we asked. We couldn't have asked for more!!!

  • 5/5 Lorenzo G. 2 years ago on Google
    Kind staff, great organisation, clean place... Wonderful gym and leisure activities space; very comfortable and hospitable structure. Suggested for everyone who heads Dublin with a purpose of study, but also to take time for yourself

  • 5/5 Alessio M. 2 years ago on Google
    Really cozy accommodation and friendly staff. In my experience they have been really fast and honest in dealing with a particular problem that I had at the beginning of my stay. Definitely recommended for a short or a long stay as student in Dublin.

  • 5/5 Juanjo C. 5 months ago on Google
    I stayed here as part of my language course to improve my English for over 4 weeks from Spain. Staff were friendly and helped me navigate my way to school with tips about public transport and a student leap card. They also helped me when I had an issue with the laundry app. good location to the city centre.

  • 5/5 Mikitognoni 2 years ago on Google
    Nice place to stay in Dublin, right in the city center with everything you need to have a good permanence.

  • 1/5 simona m. 5 months ago on Google
    Dear Management, (nobody actually signed Your communication). Your approach is aggressive and unclear. The maintenance requested at the end of August has not fixed a simple leak so far (November), ignoring our detailed complains identifying the origin of the problem. in the kitchen there were 6 chairs for 8 students, 3 pans, few plates and glasses. Your rules were not clear and miscommunicated while booking. The treat guests like inmates and most of the things we agreed verbally were not respected. the amenities are not well kept, eg broken controllers for ps4. Your patrolling of the building makes living there an unconfortable experience together with your manners. It is very disappointing. Most of other student residence in Dublin have not policies like yours and students are happier. keep in mind for the future.

  • 2/5 T B. 7 months ago on Google
    Stay from 16.08 till 21.08: My experience in a few points: - I arrived past 23:00 and could receive access to my room without any issues. Checkin to be completed the following morning. - Quite and no noise complaints during my stay (expect an iPhone alarm going for 20 min each morning from another residence, but it didn’t bother me as I was awake already anyway.) - the mattress slept okay Room for improvement: - you have to sign a 5 pages lease and complete 2 inventory forms, and do not receive a copy, even when booked through booking.com. I doubt the legitimacy of this as I have booked with booking.com. The rest is upon them and booking.com. - non GDPR compliant processes, a scan was made from my passport without asking permission. To ask to view is something else then to walk away and scan. Also no information was provided on how, where and for how long the passport would be stored for. Very uncomfortable as it the highest class of personal identifiably information. - I received a disabled room which I did not book. The shower has a seat that could did stay folded and prevented that I could shower normally. But it got sorted the same day by the maintenance team. - the disabled person green bright alarm light was blinking when I arrived but no information was provided on how to switch it off. I had to sleep with a bright blinking light the first night. The light was so bright with my eyes closed and facing away from the light I was still seeing it flash. It was fixed for the second night as I found out how to disable it. There were three different places that needed to be reset before the light would finally turn off. - female hair on the bathroom floor and mold in for corner, not clean as I expected. - the bin in the bathroom contained garbage from the past tenant. - no hand soap and paper hand towels provided although there were the utilities installed for it. Upon notifying the staff nothing was done about it. Overall it was an okay stay but I will never stay here again.


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