Apartments

This is going to be my first summer at CP and i was wondering where the apartments and dorms are in relation to the park?

Commons apartments and dorms, along with Bayside apartments, are off point. You'll have to take the shuttle or get a ride to get to the park.

Gold dorms (female) and Cedar dorms (male) are on point. You can walk to the park.

To be a little more specific to Stephany's answer they are located right at the start of the causeway. :)

Yes, yes they are. (at the end of the causeway... which, by the way, is the long "road" that leads to CP)

I get caught up in CP lingo too often.

if there are no traffic problems the shuttle takes... what guys? 5 minutes? to get from the apartments to the park, but there's usually a lot of cars going to or from (depending on the time of day) the park... I like living on point better, but I've made that point more detailed in other threads. =)

I've been told by so many people that living offpoint is a heck of a lot better, because the Cedars dorms are crap. Is this true?

well.. cedars dorms ARE crap, but I don't think commons is a WHOLE lot better. Commons ARE in better condition, but it's not like you're in your room a whole lot anyways. Literally last year all I did was sleep in my room, and that's because I was always busy doing other stuff, not because I was trying to stay out of a gross living area.

http://www.pointbuzz.com/cpplace.aspx?mode=search&q=cedars&type=Rank&forum=3

Here is a search that will give u some forums on Cedars.

I never lived in Cedars (not allowed anyway, being female) but I stayed there a lot in 2003, and the only real problem I had was that it is HOT in there. The room I was in had a fan, but it was not really getting the job done. For some reason, it is 20 degrees warmer in that building then what it is outside. SO uncomfortable. Of course I was spoiled because I AC is Commons. But other than that, not too horrible a place.