Résidence Jean Meygret - Lyon

Mathilde S.

Très calme et belle vue sur Lyon

Pablo B.

Gaston

Hussein .. K.

This dormitory is reserved for foreign researchers, mainly PhD students. Location wise it is located in a calm touristic neighbourhood that overlooks the city from above, the disadvantage is there is quite a distance from the city center and the main way of getting here is by cable car (funiculaire).
The rent is a little expensive (444€ for ~16m²) compared to other places but the place is well equipped, decent rooms with spacious bathrooms, a common room with computers for studying/meeting. However there is only 1 washing machine and 1 dryer for all the residents so its not very practical.
I would recommend if you don't mind being somewhat far from you university or shopping malls since its very calm and there and considered a more classy neighbourhood.

Francesca

The residence is for foreign phd and researchers. I lived there for 9 months and I would like to share my impressions as there are not many descriptions out there. The location is absolutely amazing. A lot of parks around to go walking and jogging (the Gallo-roman Theatre, which is super nice), a beautiful view of the city from above, and a quiet neighborhood. Perfect for people who like to be out of the city noise. It doens't mean it's far from the center. On the contrary, in less than 10 minutes walking you're in the old center, and in the metro D station, and 20 minutes walking to Hotel de Ville. in 15 minutes or even less you are in Bellecour. It is true, that if you need to take the public transport, then it is not really practical as you have only the funiculaire. But they are quite frequent anyway. No big markets close by (only small and expensive ones), so you need to go grocery shopping at least a couple of km away. The studios are potentially fine. I say potentially, cause in my opinion they could be perfect for short-term stayings if the quality of the forniture and isolation was better. Walls are made of plasterboard and you can hear your neighboors' telephone calls / snoring / cooking etc.. The bed is in most of studios a mezzanine. It doesn't feel really solid and the ladder (of my studio) had loose steps, and screws that came out of the wood (because of bad quality repairing). The toilet is fine. There are holes in the walls (at the pipes' level) and several of us had mice problems. The windows are very badly soundproof, I was waking up everytime because of the garbage truck. The place is really small, around 16m2, and you have only a desk that would be your table too. Only a plastic chair, and no drawers but only open shelves. To sum up, I really think the location of this residence is wonderful, but they should care more about the quality of the studios. Especially for windows, walls holes, and bad quality wooden forniture. If you adapt easily and you care more about the location and surrondings, then it's fine. it also depends on which side of the building you are, I guess if you are south facing, then it would be quieter but really hot in the summer (no AC).

Ali H.

Good and calm place to stay in Lyon.

Amit

Hilly location

Ana B. M.

Vitja