Black car in London · 2026-09-21 · 8-minute read
The hotels near Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario are the Wellington Road South cluster - the Lamplighter Inn and the family and suites hotels around it between the hospital's Commissioners Road entrances, Parkwood Institute and the 401 - five minutes from the ward; the hotels near University Hospital are the north cluster around Masonville Place and Richmond Street, and Windermere Manor beside the hospital itself, two to ten minutes away. LondonLimo.net's travel desk books the room at the hospital rate the hotels offer, a household account holds the family's daily run to the ward at a fixed in-city planning figure of $40-55 for a sedan, and the hospitals page has the entrances; this article is the family's week, hotel by hotel.
Victoria Hospital's cluster: Wellington Road South
Victoria's campus faces Commissioners Road East, and Wellington Road South runs a kilometre west of it from the hospital's district down to the 401 interchange with the Lamplighter Inn and Conference Centre at its heart and the family hotels, the suites hotels and the road-trip hotels around it; White Oaks Mall, the restaurants and the pharmacies are on the same strip. Five minutes to the main entrance, the cancer centre's loop or the Children's Hospital's doors; the hospital entrances article has each.
| Cluster | Hotels | To the hospital | The family it suits | Sedan, each run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington Road South | Lamplighter Inn; the family and suites hotels | Victoria Hospital and Parkwood, 5 min | A patient at Victoria, the cancer centre or the Children's Hospital; a Parkwood rehabilitation stay | $40-50 |
| The north, Masonville | The hotels by Masonville Place and Richmond north | University Hospital, 8-10 min | A patient in cardiac, transplant or neurosciences | $40-55 |
| Windermere Road | Windermere Manor | University Hospital, 2 min | A family who wants to walk to the ward | $40-50 |
| Downtown | DoubleTree, Delta Armouries | Both hospitals, 12 min; St. Joseph's, 8 | A family who wants the market and the Row in the evenings | $40-55 |
| Extended stay | The suites hotels on Wellington Road and downtown | 5-12 min | A hospital month; a family with children who need a kitchen | $40-55 |
LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST; the travel desk asks each hotel for its hospital rate.
University Hospital's cluster: the north
University Hospital sits at Western's north edge on Windermere Road, and the hotels around Masonville Place and along Richmond Street north are eight to ten minutes away with the mall's restaurants and pharmacies beside them; Windermere Manor, the country house on Windermere Road, is two minutes from the hospital's doors and the choice of a family who wants to walk to the ward. The neighbourhoods page has Masonville's and Old North's drive times.
The hospital rate, and the travel desk
Most of the hotels in both clusters offer a hospital or medical rate to patients' families - a discount on the nightly rate and often a flexible cancellation - on request, and the travel desk asks for it when it books the room; a family arriving from Sarnia on a Tuesday for an indefinite stay gets a week's booking that can be extended by a text. The hotels page has the clusters.
The daily run to the ward
A household account holds the hotel, the hospital's entrance, the family's names and the card, and a fixed-rate sedan runs from the porte-cochere to the ward's entrance at 9 and back at 6 - or at whatever hours the family keeps - with a text from the ward moving the return; a family that would rather have the car through the day books it by the hour. The wait times article has the waiting rules.
The pharmacy, the grocery and the kitchen
A prescription filled at the Wellington Road Shoppers, groceries from the Masonville Loblaws for a suites hotel's kitchen, a child's toy from the mall: fifteen-minute stops inside the fare on the way to or from the ward, and a morning of errands by the hour when the list is long. The hourly page explains the arithmetic.
The relative flying in
A sister from Vancouver, a son from Calgary, a parent from abroad: met at Pearson with a name board or at YXU beside the carousel, and driven to the hotel or straight to the ward's entrance with the family texted at each leg; the airport pickup guide has the meet.
The evenings, and the days off
A family in a hospital week needs an evening away from the ward - dinner in Wortley Village, a walk at Springbank, the market - and a fixed-rate car makes it a decision rather than a logistics problem; the attractions page has the city, and the desk will suggest the quiet places.
The Ronald McDonald House, and the children's families
The Ronald McDonald House beside Victoria Hospital takes the families of children in the Children's Hospital and the neonatal unit, and a family staying there books the same runs - the airport, the pharmacy, a sibling's school, home for a weekend - on a household account; the Children's Hospital entrance is a walk away.
The out-of-town patient's series
A radiation patient from Goderich, a dialysis patient from Chatham, a rehabilitation patient at Parkwood from Windsor: a Wellington Road hotel at the hospital rate, a daily run to the entrance and back, and the weekend runs home and back at the destination page's rate; the out-of-town patients article has the referral runs.
Three hospital weeks, as they went
A Sarnia family, Victoria's cardiac unit, ten days. A Wellington Road suites hotel at the hospital rate; a sedan to the main entrance at 9 and back at 6 each day; the pharmacy on Wednesday; a daughter met at YXU on Saturday.
A Goderich patient, six weeks of radiation. The Lamplighter at the hospital rate; a daily run to the cancer centre's loop; the Friday run home to the lake and the Sunday run back.
A Winnipeg family, University Hospital's transplant unit, three weeks. Windermere Manor two minutes from the doors; the runs to the market and Wortley Village in the evenings; the son met at Pearson on the second weekend.
Booking it
The room is one email to the desk and the travel desk, with the hospital rate asked for; the daily runs are a household account booked in a minute each; the hospitals page has the entrances and the rates page the in-city figures.
Three questions the desk is asked about the hospital week
Can we change the daily run's time each day? Yes - a household account's standing booking is moved by text the evening before, and a day with no run costs nothing. Can the car take the children to a park while the parent is on the ward? Yes - an hourly booking with the chauffeur takes the children to Springbank or Storybook and back, and the attractions page has the places. Is there a discount for a long stay? The hotels' long-stay rates through the travel desk; the chauffeured runs are the fixed in-city rate each, with the same chauffeur where the roster allows.
The Lamplighter and Wellington Road, in detail
The Lamplighter Inn and Conference Centre on Wellington Road South has its halls, its pool and its restaurant, and the hotels around it - the family properties with breakfast and the suites hotels with kitchens - line the strip between Southdale Road and the 401; White Oaks Mall's shops and pharmacies are on it, and Victoria Hospital's Commissioners Road entrances are five minutes north on Wellington Road.
The north, in detail
The hotels around Masonville Place at Richmond and Fanshawe Park Road have the mall's restaurants and pharmacies beside them and University Hospital eight minutes south on Richmond and Windermere; Windermere Manor on Windermere Road is two minutes from the hospital's doors with its grounds and its quiet, and the neighbourhoods page has Masonville's streets.
The runs, hour by hour
The hotel at 8:45; the ward's entrance at 8:50; a text at 12:30 for the pharmacy run; the entrance again at 1; the mall at 5 for a change of clothes; the entrance at 5:30; the hotel at 8. Four fixed rates or the day by the hour, and the desk says which is cheaper for the day described; the hourly page has the arithmetic.
The airport ends of the week
The family from Sarnia drove up; the daughter from Vancouver flies to Pearson and is met with a board at Terminal 1 and driven straight to the ward's entrance with the family texted; the son from Calgary flies to YXU and is met beside the carousel. The airport limo page has the meets.
The weekend home, and back
A family with a long stay drives home on Saturday morning to see to the house and the dog and returns on Sunday evening: the Sarnia page's fixed rate each way, or the Windsor page's, with the chauffeur at the hotel's door at 9 and at the home's door at 6.
The Ronald McDonald House, in detail
The House beside Victoria Hospital's campus takes the families of the Children's Hospital's and the neonatal unit's patients, and a family staying there books the airport meet for a relative, the pharmacy, a sibling's run to a London school for the week, and home for a weekend; the chauffeur knows the House's door and the Children's Hospital's entrance.
What the hospitals themselves publish
LHSC publishes visiting hours, parking rates, the campus maps and a list of nearby accommodation on its site, and the desk reads it; this article is the chauffeurs' version of the same list, and the hospital's site is the authority on the ward's rules.
Booking checklist for the hospital week
The hospital and the ward's entrance; the arrival day and the likely length; the hotel cluster the family prefers, or the desk's suggestion; the daily run's usual hours; the relatives flying in and their flights; the weekend runs home; the account or the card; and a phone number for the texts from the ward. The desk books the room through the travel desk and the runs on a household account.
A worked example: the transplant family's month
A Winnipeg family with a father in University Hospital's transplant unit for four weeks: Windermere Manor for the first week and a Masonville suites hotel with a kitchen for the rest, at the long-stay rate the travel desk negotiated; a household account with the daily run at 9 and 6, the grocery stop on Mondays, a son met at Pearson on the second weekend, and the evenings' runs to Wortley Village when the news was good. The hospitals page has the entrances the family learned by heart.
Booking it, in one line
The room is one email to the desk with the hospital rate asked for; the daily runs are a household account booked in a minute each.
The desk's rule of thumb
Wellington Road for Victoria, the Children's Hospital and Parkwood; Windermere Manor or Masonville for University Hospital; the suites hotels with a kitchen for a month; the hospital rate asked for on every booking; and the daily runs on a household account. The FAQ has the questions families ask most.
