Black car in London · 2026-09-21 · 8-minute read
University Hospital and Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario are the referral hospitals for Southwestern Ontario's two million people - the cardiac, transplant, neurosciences, cancer, paediatric, neonatal and trauma programs that London Health Sciences Centre runs for the region - and a patient referred from Windsor, Sarnia, Chatham-Kent, Stratford, Kitchener or the Huron shore books a LondonLimo.net run from home to the hospital's specific entrance at the destination page's fixed rate - Sarnia $195-235, Chatham $200-240, Windsor $340-400, Stratford $130-160 for a sedan - with the chauffeur waiting through the appointment by the hour or returning on a text, a companion riding free, and a wheelchair-accessible van through the partner fleet with notice. The hospitals page has the service; this article is the referral run town by town, with the arithmetic against driving yourself.
The referral pattern, honestly
A Sarnia cardiologist refers to University Hospital's cardiac program; a Chatham paediatrician to the Children's Hospital; a Goderich family doctor to Victoria's cancer centre; a Windsor neurologist to University's neurosciences; a Stratford surgeon to a London specialist. The patient gets a letter with a date, a time and a building, and a two-hour drive each way to a campus whose garages are full by 9, on a day whose length nobody knows. The hospital entrances article has the campuses and the wait times article the waiting.
| From | To University or Victoria Hospital | Time | Sedan, each way | The day by the hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarnia, Point Edward, Bright's Grove | The 402 to London | 1 h 05 | $195-235 | quoted; usually 6-8 h |
| Chatham, Wallaceburg, Blenheim | The 401 east | 1 h 10 | $200-240 | quoted |
| Windsor, Tecumseh, LaSalle | The 401 east | 1 h 55 | $340-400 | quoted |
| Stratford, St. Marys | Highway 7 and Highway 4 | 50 min | $130-160 | quoted |
| St. Thomas, Aylmer, Port Stanley | Highway 4 north | 30-40 min | $85-110 | quoted |
| Woodstock, Ingersoll, Tillsonburg | The 401 west | 40-50 min | $115-145 | quoted |
| Goderich, Bayfield, Grand Bend | Highway 4 or Highway 21 | 1 h - 1 h 15 | $165-205 | quoted |
| Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge | The 401 west | 1 h 10 | $200-240 | quoted |
| Strathroy, Mount Brydges | The 402 | 30 min | $75-100 | quoted |
LondonLimo.net planning ranges before HST; a companion rides free; the engine quotes the exact addresses.
The right entrance, from two hours away
A Windsor patient who has never been to University Hospital does not know that the Windermere Road doors are the main entrance and the clinics are off the loop; a Chatham family does not know the Children's Hospital has its own coloured entrance on Victoria's campus; the chauffeur does, drops at the right doors, and walks the patient to the information desk if wanted. The neighbourhoods page has the drive from the 401's exits to each campus.
Two fixed rates, or the day by the hour
A single appointment with the return held open for a text is two fixed rates - the destination's figure each way - and the chauffeur spends the hours between on other bookings in the city; an appointment with a test before it and a consultation after, or a patient who wants the chauffeur in the garage throughout, is a day by the hour, quoted by the desk from the town's distance and the hours. The desk says which is cheaper for the day described, and the hourly page explains the arithmetic.
The companion, the walker, the wheelchair
A spouse or an adult child rides free in any vehicle; a walker or a folding chair travels in the trunk; a patient who travels in their own wheelchair is booked into a wheelchair-accessible van with a ramp or a lift through the partner fleet, with a chauffeur trained to secure the chair, and the desk needs notice. The fleet page has the classes.
The series, and the family's hotel
A cancer patient from Goderich with six weeks of daily radiation at Victoria's cancer centre does not drive two hours each way every day; the travel desk books a Wellington Road hotel at the hospital rate, a household account holds a daily fixed-rate run from the hotel to the cancer centre's entrance and back, and the chauffeur drives the patient home to the lake on Friday and back on Sunday; the hotels near the hospitals article has the clusters.
The arithmetic against driving yourself
A Sarnia patient driving to University Hospital pays the fuel for 200 kilometres, the garage's daily rate, two hours of a companion's driving each way on the 402 in whatever the weather is doing, and the walk from the garage; the chauffeured run at $195-235 each way with the companion free, the entrance, the wait and the door is close in cost once the day's hours are counted and far ahead on the day itself. The comparison guide does the same arithmetic for the airport.
Winter on the 402 and the 401 west
The 402 to Sarnia and the 401 to Windsor take the squalls off Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair across the flattest land in the province; a patient with a January appointment is driven on winter tires by a chauffeur who read the cameras, in an SUV when the forecast calls for it, with the desk moving the pickup earlier by rule - a patient does not miss a transplant clinic for a squall. The winter article has the discipline.
The visiting family, and the relatives flying in
A patient admitted for a month from Chatham has a spouse at a London hotel, children driving up on weekends, and a sister flying in from Vancouver to Pearson or YXU; the household account holds all of it, and the airport limo page describes the meet.
Three referral runs, as they went
A Sarnia cardiology patient, University Hospital. A sedan from Bright's Grove at 8 a.m. for a 10 a.m. clinic; the Windermere doors at 9:40; the return held open and moved by text to 1:50; home by 3:15. Two fixed rates at $215.
A Chatham family, the Children's Hospital. An SUV with a car seat from Wallaceburg at 8:30; the coloured entrance at 10:40; four hours waiting on an hourly booking; home by 5.
A Goderich radiation patient, six weeks. A Wellington Road hotel at the hospital rate; a daily sedan to the cancer centre's entrance and back on a household account; the Friday run home and the Sunday run back.
Booking it
The destination pages have each town's fixed rate; the reservation engine prices the run to the hospital's entrance in seconds; the desk quotes the day by the hour, holds a return open, and books the hotel through the travel desk.
Three questions the desk is asked about the referral run
Can the chauffeur come to a farm address? Yes - any address the engine can locate, and a rural route number with a description for the desk if it cannot; the chauffeur calls the evening before to confirm the lane. What if the appointment is cancelled by the hospital? A text to the desk and the run is cancelled without a fee, as the terms state for a change outside the passenger's control. Can two patients from the same town share the run? Yes - a second pickup in the same town is a short stop the engine prices, and the fare is shared as the passengers choose.
The 402, the 401 west and Highway 4, in detail
Sarnia's run is the 402 straight into London's west side and Wonderland Road to University Hospital or Wellington Road to Victoria; Windsor's and Chatham's is the 401 east to Wellington Road for Victoria or Wonderland for University; Stratford's is Highway 7 and Highway 4 through Lucan's back roads to University Hospital's north side; St. Thomas's is Highway 4 north to Victoria's Commissioners Road doors in thirty minutes. The destination pages have each road and the neighbourhoods page the last kilometres.
The referral letter, and what the desk asks
The campus and the building, the appointment time and how early the letter asks the patient to arrive, whether a test precedes the consultation, and whether the patient will be able to travel home the same day; the desk sets the pickup from the town's drive time and the letter's arrival instruction, and books the return held open or the day by the hour. The wait times article has the waiting logic.
The LHSC's regional programs, and who comes for them
The cardiac program's referrals from Sarnia, Windsor and the Huron shore; the transplant program's from the whole region; the neurosciences' from Windsor and Chatham; the cancer program's from every county; the Children's Hospital's from every family doctor west of Kitchener; the neonatal unit's families from the towns whose babies were transferred. Each program has a clinic, a building and a door, and the chauffeur knows them.
The companion's day
A companion who rides along has hours in the hospital's waiting areas, the cafeteria and the coffee shops on Windermere Road or Commissioners Road; on an hourly booking the chauffeur can drive the companion to lunch in Wortley Village or the market and back while the patient is in the clinic, which is the commonest use of the waiting hours. The attractions page has the city around the hospitals.
The overnight, when the appointment is early
A 7:30 a.m. appointment at University Hospital for a Windsor patient is a 4:30 a.m. departure or a night in a London hotel at the hospital rate booked by the travel desk, with the run down the evening before and the ten-minute run to the door in the morning; the desk says which is kinder for the patient described.
Booking checklist for a referral run
The town and the address; the campus, the building and the entrance; the appointment time and the arrival instruction; the return held open or the day by the hour; the companion; a walker, a wheelchair or an accessible van; a hotel night; the account or the card; and a phone number. The reservation engine takes the fixed rates and the desk quotes the day.
The honest summary
A fixed rate from every town to the right door, the return held open or the day by the hour, a companion free, an accessible van with notice, a hotel for a series, and a chauffeur who read the cameras in January: the referral run is the city-to-city service's medical version, and the destinations hub has every town's figure.
Booking it, in one line
The destination page has the town's fixed rate; the reservation engine prices the run to the hospital's entrance; the desk quotes the day by the hour, holds the return open and books the hotel through the travel desk.
The desk's rule of thumb
One appointment: two fixed rates from the town's page with the return held open. Two or more stops, or a companion who wants the car through the day: the day by the hour, quoted. A series: a London hotel at the hospital rate and daily in-city runs on a household account. A wheelchair: the accessible van, with notice. The hospitals page has the rest.
