Welcome Week wristbands are a total waste of money

You may have well just thrown fifty quid down the drain instead of buying gold and platinum wristbands for the Guild’s disappointing Welcome Week events.

With the Guild hyping Welcome Week up to be the best seven days of thousands of eager freshers’ lives, you would have thought anyone would be stupid to miss out on buying an events wristband – but you couldn’t be more wrong.

In reality, the events were a complete disappointment and a total rip-off.

With gold wristbands costing £50 and platinum bands a whopping £60, they were hardly a small investment for the first year students, although the excessive advertisement via post and email promised it would be well worth it.

The enormous queue to get in to the Zane Lowe gig still wasn’t half as long as the one at the bar, which took nearly an hour just to get a tiny drink that seemed to have almost no alcohol in at all.

The Guild also conveniently forgot to mention you could buy individual tickets on the day for about five or six pounds, rather than forking out for an entire week’s worth of events.

Zane Lowe, packed and unimpressive

First year Psychology student Niamh McGrattan said: “I basically spent £50 for one event which was Zane Lowe on the first night.

“It was alright but it was so sweaty in there that we didn’t want to go to another Guild event again and ended up in town every night.”

Orla Gillespie, who’s just started studying Orthoptics, agrees.

She said: “I’m so glad I didn’t buy a wristband. They were far too overpriced and the clubs in town were way better with no queues and much cheaper.”

Fake freshers bands vs. £60 quid ones

Some sly individuals came up with a cunning idea to forge free bands, probably making it almost value for money.

By even the second and third day many freshers got the right idea and decided to completely sack off the guild events and hit the clubs, avoiding gigantic queues and uncomfortably clammy atmosphere that the Guild had to offer.

A strong word of advice to next year’s freshers: save your cash on the abysmal nights at the guild and head to town if you actually want a half decent night out.

Cutting off wristbands was one of the best decisions they’d made all week

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