Information for Benenden Hospital Patients

Bressenden is on the same road as Benenden Hospital and two minutes away from it by car. Hospital patients or their partners who want to stay should contact me directly via the contact  page, as the booking form will only work for stays of two nights or more between Friday evening and Wednesday morning.

Special deal

Benenden patients and carers can benefit from flexible, fully cancellable booking arrangements that are not normally available to guests, including single-night and mid-week stays. Hospital patients and their partners or carers may cancel at any time without incurring cancellation charges. You may also cancel any extra nights that you booked provisionally but do not need. No fees will be charged for unneeded nights or postponed appointments. In return for such flexibility, breakfast is not included in this deal. An excellent breakfast is available at the hospital (see below).

Breakfast

The hospital’s restaurant offers cooked breakfasts, hot meals, snacks and beverages every day except Sunday. For single-night guests arriving at Bressenden on Saturday, we can offer a basic, self-service cold breakfast (fruit, cereals, bread, croissant, yogurt) on request for an additional charge of £10. Guests wanting to book under the normal terms of the minimum two-night stay (which includes breakfast) should note that breakfast is never available at Bressenden on Thursday or Friday mornings as we are always closed from Wednesday afternoon until Friday afternoon except for hospital guests. There are tea- and coffee-making facilities in the bedroom, and guests may bring snacks to eat in the guest kitchen, which is equipped with a microwave, kettle, toaster, crockery and cutlery etc.

If you try to use the booking widget to check availability and your chosen room or night’s accommodation is shown as sold out or unavailable, this does not necessarily mean that I cannot accommodate you. Please enquire via the contact form.

TRANSPORT

If you do not have your own transport, you will have to hire a taxi to get to the hospital. Please ensure that you book a taxi well in advance of your stay. This is particularly important for early morning hospital appointments. If you try to book a taxi on a Sunday night to get you to hospital for a 7 a.m. appointment on the next day, you will not succeed. We cannot drive you to the hospital as we are neither licensed nor insured to provide taxi services to paying guests. Although the hospital is very close by, the road is not safe to walk along as it lacks pavements, verges, lighting and speed restrictions. (A few taxi services are listed in the Guest information page.)