Poly Canyon Village

What a complete rip off. I lived here my sophomore year at Cal Poly and absolutely hated it. While I could see how some individuals (introverts, ultra school conscious, minimalist) would like PCV, it was not right for me. I lost almost all of my freshmen friends because no one wanted to come all the way up to PCV due to the terrible parking regulations and long walk. The room sizes are also very small (about 10′ x 6′), and it makes you feel like you are living in a shoe box. The whole complex, while it is new, has a very sterile feeling, as if you are living in a hospital (all white walls, rules restricting you hang wall décor). For the same price, I was able to live on Hathway, with all my friends, in a mansion like house, closer proximity to my classes, and had a bathroom all to myself. I cannot justify paying ~750 for a room in PCV as it did not provide any special amenities to me.
If you are considering living here, take a good long second to think about the isolation you will be putting yourself through in PCV.

Pros: weekly cleaning service, which rocks.
Fully furnished
Utilities (Cable TV and internet included)
9 month lease
Individual lease (if your roommates leave or dont’ pay, you don’t get screwed)
Private mail box
Cons:
You could wind up with a bad CA
Fire alarms are super sensitive, and need to be manually shut off by campus PD.
Long walk from campus (10 – 20 minutes)
Can’t legally drink
I personally had a great CA, he never really showed up or did much. I was able to keep a pet rabbit there for the full year, and never had an issue. I also played beer pong in the living room and never had a problem with getting away with drinking there. Really, the only big downside for me was how far it was from class and those stupid fire alarms.
I’ve heard some people complain about the cleaning service, but the cleaning lady for my building was great. She came around noon on Wednesdays, and scrubbed the kitchen counters, mopped, swept, and then cleaned the bathrooms. I never had to clean while I lived there (aside from doing my dishes).
Christ. I set them off without smoke a few times, I was steaming some vegetables, and they went off once, another time, they went off because I had four pots going on the stove and it was just too much steam and heat I guess. And they kept going off for twenty minutes until a campus police officer showed up and confirmed that there was no fire.

Pretty good place to live on campus.
— 15 min walk to the business building (so about 10 – 20 min walk to your classes)
— Weekly cleaning for your kitchen and bathroom as long as you empty the counters and sinks and tub of all your things or else they’ll clean around it or won’t clean it at all.
— Don’t have to worry about electricity – it’s okay to leave the lights on!
— A decent amount of cable channels if you have a tv
— Pretty new
— 2 parking garages that take 5 mins max to walk to
— Jamba Juice, Einstein’s, and Peet’s in the plaza
— Village Market if you need to buy some food or snacks
— Swimming pool, beach volleyball, basketball court
— Pick up your packages in the plaza
— The hallways aren’t outdoors like in Cerro Vista. It’s kinda like a hotel layout.
— Furnished
The downside is that it’s getting more expensive every year. And the CAs get kind of annoying if they check up on you every… single…week.

This place sucks. If you want to be babysat by irrational advisors all year and get woken up early once a week by minimally helpful maids, this is the place for you. Also a good place if you like to be located out in the boonies. However, you won’t really get to enjoy any peace an quiet in the boonies, as the apartments are built so cheaply that any noise your neighbors make will sound like a mini-​earthquake.
Now don’t just write me off as a crazy partier who is just angry for getting in trouble for something alcohol related, because that isn’t the case. I did get in trouble though. For having a decorative, unlit candle in my apartment. Had a meeting with housing about it and everything. It was really a good use of everybody’s time.
However, I did feel that all of my stuff was safe here. But that’s my only positive.

I have lived in Poly Canyon for 3 years (was here when it first opened) and all I have to say is that is is horrible. When I first arrived, I was a transfer student, and was placed in Foxen with all transfer students, which was great since we were all older students. People would leave their apartment doors open so that you could meet your neighbors and visit! It was fun and easy to meet new people. Now, after 3 years of living here, it has all gone downhill. Foxen is no longer a transfer dorm, so you have all ages, which is inconvenient for having alcohol (you can have alcohol if everyone in the apt is 21). Now everyone closes their door and feels like they have to hide from the CA’s (other student’s who pretend to have some type of authority). I had a lot of fun living here the first year, but now, I greatly regret living here. Only good for Sophomores or Freshmen, DON’T LIVE HERE IF YOU WANT SOME SORT OF FREEDOM!

Poly Canyon is a great clean place to live if you want to live on campus. I also found this website called
that is specific to ratings in the San Luis Obispo area. I would suggest you check that out.

Pretty much the best housing you can get on-​campus.
Everything is pretty much furnished. Every building has a clean-​up service that comes around the same time and day each week, scrubbing the counter tops, cleaning the bathrooms, and restocking the tissue paper.
I don’t know why the other person who reviewed here gave it 2 stars, I’d rather live here than MANY places off campus.
Great place to live when you’re a sophomore and up.

Awesome place to live~
Good:
Super close to classes! — To get to the closest class takes only seven minutes and the farthest can take between fifteen and twenty minutes.
Fully furnished! — Don’t need to buy your own furniture (:
NEWW — Everything’s pretty new so it looks super nice inside: D
Fair pricing — about $ 700 a month for a single room which includes everyyythang
Bad:
Noise violations! — gotta keep it down and make sure you don’t get complaints about noise!
No alcohol! — what else can I say about this. haha
No garbage disposal — sinks get clogged a lot):
Basically if you don’t mind the last three things then PCV is a great place to live!

On campus housing for second years and above
Newly built, opened a few years ago
Suitable for 4 – 6 people, with optional singles and doubles [rooms]
Rent paid monthly or quarterly, comes out to approximately $ 750/​month
Doesn’t open in the summer, so must move in and out every school year even though if you’re planning to live in Poly Canyon again.
Includes two bathrooms, kitchen, living room.
Custodial cleaning weekly (with restock of toilet paper)
Some locations have wifi, some don’t
Two parking garages just for residents (have to pay though)
Overall: really enjoys living here, very hotel like feeling