The Four Best Student Party Towns in the UK
When it comes to the best student party towns in the UK, it"s not necessarily a question of the most obvious candidates, either: London"s great if you"ve got a millionaire businessman"s budget, but for your average student falls well short. As a general rule, for student nightlife it"s very much a case of making for the north and west of the country...Leeds
Nightlife-seeking students have been making a beeline for Leeds for years now. And it"s really not hard to see why. Leave aside the bustling student ghettos of Hyde Park and Headingley тЂ“ with the lived-in charms of their pubs and bars тЂ“ and you"ve still got the city centre to reckon with. Like its northern cousin, Manchester, Leeds has been at the forefront of UK house and dance music for nearly two decades, and the clubs and bars surrounding the Corn Exchange quarter still pay vivid testament to that fact.
Cardiff
The Welsh, it"s been said, know how to throw a good party. And anyone who"s been to Cardiff University can certainly testify to that! The action revolves around two areas тЂ“ the city centre and the (relatively) new Cardiff Bay quarter. Here, the pumping heart of things is St Mary Street, although Mill Lane and Charles Street offer slightly more refined scenes.
Manchester
Manchester"s one of the great nightlife meccas in Britain. And this is underpinned by the nocturnal proclivities of its tens of thousands of students. To get things started, there"s the lively university area of Rusholme (also home to the city"s legendary тЂ˜Curry Mile"), but that"s really just a sort of light aperitif!
For the main course, there"s top-class indie music in abundance in the city"s Northern Quarter, while less trendy distractions can be found round the city"s Deansgate Shopping centre. Then of course there"s Canal Street, and the infamous Gay Village... It"s exhausting just running through the options!
Newcastle
Another northern city, another one of the undisputed best student party towns in the UK. Newcastle"s got a lively vibe тЂ“ albeit in a decidedly knock-about sort of way. Sure, there are cool cocktail bars on the Quayside, but there"s also the bouncing student quarter of Jesmond to contend with. And that"s before you even get to the infamous тЂ˜hold-on-to-your-hats" quarter, the Bigg Market.