Reading University Student’s Union

Pumping dance floor in liquid lighting from the second you enter and are faced with a  rounded bar with clubbers and sweeping disco lights. Then suddenly through a door into a misplaced corridor with no music but chatting students enjoying normal lighting. here there is a cafe with a bar off to the left and another in front. The one ahead contained a large bar and seating area with cover pool tables and plenty of standing students. Most Saturday night you are paying £5 a ticket or £3 with NUS and the queues can be enormous if you choose to get there after 10pm. The bars and club atmosphere has clearly been well invested in although the bouncers are ridiculously stupid and overly violent. Bar staff are friendly - the bar at the back just seems like a loud pub while the club pictured is at the front and resembles more of the clubby atmosphere expected on a Saturday night. The place is packed with too many pretty boys, in fact its safe to say the place feels a bit like a club in Brighton and not like a student community.

Overall its your typical snakebite drinking student dive except that with its multi million pound makeover it feels more like the ultimate student club that an SU. No doubt this is the most well done Union I have yet visited and as such it gets a pretty hot 8/10.