Incoming/New CAO Students

Before You Book

Please carefully consider these points before your book:

You may need to arrive 14 days earlier to complete your responsibilities relating to "Restricting your Movements" before commencing academic activities if you are travelling from outside Ireland - further details https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/coronavirus/travel.html#Restrict-movements-travel
Rooms in Student Residences are offered on the full 7 days per week for the full academic year as normal
In response to the risks associated with Covid19 residents will not be able to host visitors to their apartment from outside the Campus residential community - no overnight guests and no daytime casual guests.
Consider whether a community environment where shared kitchens and (in some room types) shared bathrooms will meet your needs particularly during the Covid19 pandemic
Choose your preference of apartment type after you have carefully read the information on the different types of accommodation available and the costs associated to living on campus.
All apartments are non-smoking. Therefore smoking is not permitted in the living areas or bedrooms of the apartments, or in the hallways of the buildings. If you smoke, you will have to do so in the open air outside the building
We regret that the on-campus accommodation is not a suitable environment for families and children, and so no children can be accommodated (16yrs and younger)
Diversity: Apartments are mixed and you can expect to live with or near students of any gender, any nationality, any age, any course and at any stage of their course. However we make the effort to allocate rooms according to student categories as far is possible so most rooms for postgraduates are together.
Some students may wish to live on campus because of the impact of a medical, welfare or mobility issue. Further details for students is available here.
Do your financial planning in advance, taking into account that you are charged for 7 days a week for the full academic year with a maximum of two instalments August and January anually. Payment dates and rates This year and because booking is later than usual there will be a very short time interval between the day to book, the day fees fall due and the day of your move in. All may happen possibly within one week. Please arrange your funding in advance so that you have time to draw down loans or make transfers from accounts to your Bank Card account, bearing in mind that all payments will be made online via Bank Card only (no ebank transfers, cash, cheques or invoices can be accepted).

Additional Process for Published University Schemes

Incoming/New CAO students who catergorise themselves in the following categories should follow an additional process for their own category:

Sports Scholars (check with the Sports co-ordinator of your sport for what is required)
Students with Additional Requirements/Disabilities - speak with the Access Office
Scéim Chonaithe – Irish Speaking Students - email Oifig Na Gaeilge <oifig.nagaeilge@mu.ie
Northern Ireland Students or those who have been awarded an Academic Scholarship should email residence.office@mu.ie when you have been offered a CAO place.

How the booking process will work on the day of Booking

Application Form

The booking form will appear on the Accommodation Home page on the "Booking Links" icon when we next open.
The online form of booking is the only one accepted. Paper, email, personal callers, telephone etc. applications will not be processed.
Please ensure you use a laptop or desktop only for booking on the day as the website is not compatible with a phone or tablet.
The format of the application form can be found below:

How the Application form will work on the day of Booking
On the day of booking the application form opens at TBC(IST) on a first come first served basis. The first group of students to click on the form and based on a time and date stamp generated by the system (the time stamp will be in milliseconds as demand is high when it opens), will be given automatic access to the form for booking.

Not all students who gain automatic access to the application form are guaranteed a room.
All other students who click on the link will be placed in a Queuing system behind the first group of bookers. For example if you are number 1 on the queue you are potentially the 501st person to click on the link (as judged by the booking engine).
Should any of the first group of students not complete the booking, the first students in the Queue will get access to the booking form and so on until all the rooms are booked.
The chances of booking a room from the Queue are low, especially if you are a higher number.

I am in the Queue, how will I know when all the rooms are booked?
Once all the rooms are booked a message will appear on the Queuing screen on your browser to advise all rooms are fully booked.
Important: It may be the case that this message does not appear on your screen if your browser settings do not allow the message to update or if pop up's are blocked on your internet browser. If this is the case or you are unsure whether to remain in the queue, please check on the Accommodation Office homepage HERE where we will publish all messages. Please do not call the Accommodation Office during booking as we will be unable to answer.

How will I know if my application was successful?
Once you receive access to the application form and choose a room, you will be given 15 minutes to make payment of the non-refundable booking fee of €500. On completion of the payment, a message will appear to advise that the payment was successful. Where a successful payment is made a transaction number will appear on your screen and a confirmation email will be generated to the email address you put on the booking form. Please note that when the booking is complete the timer may still keep counting down. However once a successful payment has been made and a transaction number received the accommodation is secure. Should you wish to confirm your booking, please log into your self-service accommodation account the login details of which will be in your confirmation email.
Important - It is very important to input your email address correctly in order to receive a confirmation email. To ensure that the confirmation email does not go into spam add residence.office@mu.ie to your contacts.

Please note we will not be available by telephone until the afternoon at 4.00pm on the day of booking. However ASK will be open and you may email residence.office@mu.ie if you have a query.

Vacancies/Waitlists/Cancelations - Incoming/New CAO Students

We do not operate wait lists.

Please check the website for information on Expression of Interest in Vacancies and Scheduled booking days (usually every Monday if there is a room vacancy from 1 October onwards but this may vary - always check the home page www.maynoothuniversity.ie/accommodation under the heading "Booking Links" for the most up to date inforamtion).

Typical Time Table for booking Campus Accommodation for CAO Students

*Dates are postponed

Bookinge Day	€500 Booking fee applies
CAO Offers	Bookings not matching a CAO Round 1 Offer on the Booking Day are invalid and will be cancelled without advance reference to the booker
First Semester Accommodation Fees Due	€Amount and due date will be advised on your room offer emai which is sent automatically to you once your have booked a room on booking day, the details of which are dependent on room type booked and date of arrival. Please note that due to the very late in season bookings this year the booking fee and the accommodation fees will both be due within one week of eachother at most. Please ensure that you have taken that into account in advance as check-in is not offered to residents whose fees are outstanding.
Check-in	Is likely to be within a short time after booking - maybe just one week and some students may need to come earlier if they need to self-isolate due to travel outside Ireland.

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Before You Book

Additional Process for Published University Schemes

How the booking process will work on the day of Booking

Vacancies/Waitlists/Cancelations - Incoming/New CAO Students

Typical Time Table for booking Campus Accommodation for CAO Students