Residence & Meal Plan

Browse residence options and meal plans available to current students living on King’s campus as well as current King’s Day Students. To obtain a cost estimate for your year at King’s, please feel free to use the tuition calculator.  (Day Students can purchase a King’s Residence Meal Plan by emailing accounts@ukings.ca or can purchase a Chartwell’s Community Meal Plan by visiting Prince Hall- King’s Arts and Admin Bldg.).

Residence Days- Fall Term: September 1, 2024 – December 18, 2024, and Winter Term: January 5, 2025 – April 27, 2025.

* The caution deposit: A damage deposit that is credited back to the students account after their departure as long as the room is good order.

*The gown deposit: In the earliest days of the college, Residence students gathered to eat the main meal of the day in a formal setting. Much like today, the students all wore academic gowns and heard traditional Latin graces, and etiquette rules were in place. These basic, simple formalities have remained relatively unchanged for some 200 years. Formal Meal is held once per semester, providing an opportunity for staff and students to dine together and listen to guest speakers. Attendees wear their academic gowns, and students stand until the head table arrives and the Latin grace has been said. The gowns, the grace, and the ritual have become familiar territory for King’s students and alumni; an essential part of what it means to be part of the King’s community.  The gown deposit is credited back to the students account after it is returned in good condition upon their departure ($90 is refunded, there is a $10 cleaning fee).

In addition to the above fees, residence students must participate in one of the King’s residence meal plan options.

If you live in a residence at King’s, you must have a King’s residence meal plan. You may choose from four meal plan options.

** 5 Day All Day Dining is Monday-Friday only.

Dining Dollars

All residence meal plans have dining dollars attached to them through their student ID card. Dining dollars are funds that can be used throughout the academic school year to purchase food beyond the meal plan.  Dining dollars will be attached to the cost of the meal plan in the fall term and will begin the first day after the fall term due date. Dining dollars can be used at Chartwell’s (Food Service Provider) vendor locations within the Dalhousie Student Union Building: Tim Horton’s, Bento Sushi, Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Booster Juice, Passage to India and To Go, as well as King’s Prince Hall dining area. Please contact Chartwell’s directly for more information. Unused dining dollars cannot be carried forward beyond the end of the residence contract date and will be forfeited at that time.  For students who arrive after the fall term due date, dining dollars will be attached to the cost of the meal plan upon their arrival and for use within 2 business days.  (Please note: student ID cards have different buckets of money, with the dining dollars being its own, separate from regular DalCard monies one can load).

Changing your Meal Plan

For the fall term, meal plan change requests received online through Erezlife (residence student portal), prior to September 6, 2024 will be applied retroactively to the first day of residence. Those received between September 6 and September 17, 2024, the change will take effect on the day of the request. While you can upgrade your meal plan at any time during the academic year, the deadline to downgrade your meal plan for the academic year is September 17, 2024 by 11:59 p.m. ADT. Corresponding meal plan dining dollars are mandatory and start September 18, 2024. Meal plan changes will be processed within 2 business days. (New admits to residence in the winter term (Jan. – Apr.) who wish to downgrade their meal plan must do so by January 20, 2025.)  Changes to one’s meal plan that results in an amount owing must be paid in full by the term due date, for changes made after this date, full payment is due the date of the requested change. Outstanding accounts will be subjected to late fees and interest charges.

* (Students are expected to pay their residence fees in full by the term due date. Failure to do so will result in late fees and weekly interest charges, and for the fall term those with an outstanding student account may not be eligible for residence in the winter term).

* (Should a student incur a residence cost after the term due date, the cost is due on the change date (room change, meal plan change etc.), or date of service (replacement key/card, lockout etc.)).

Door Prices

Breakfast – All you care to eat – $6.74

Lunch – All you care to eat – $9.92

Dinner – All you care to eat – $12.91