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 the fees that would normally apply in the case of bookings that are cancelled at a late stage. You may also cancel any extra nights that you booked provisionally but no longer need. No fees will be charged for such unneeded nights or for postponed appointments. As part of the deal, breakfast will not be provided, but an excellent breakfast can be obtained at the hospital (see below).

You may of course book under our normal terms, where breakfast is included (except Thursdays and Fridays), but you would risk being charged if you cancel the booking. We do not recommend this, as in our experience, half of all the hospital guests we see (and often don’t see!) have their appointment dates or times changed at short notice. Furthermore, you may not need overnight accommodation before your hospital admission if a procedure is switched from early morning to the afternoon and you may only be notified the day before. Another common scenario is that you are told to prepare for a hospital stay of “one or two nights”, so you reserve two nights to be on the safe side, but you may not know until late in the day whether the second night will be needed. An early discharge may be good news for you, but it is not good for our income! Our special deal benefits you by ensuring that you don’t pay for cancellations, and it benefits us in that we reduce our food costs and waste as well as our early morning workload.

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 may be able to offer a basic, self-service cold breakfast (orange juice, cereals, bread, croissant, yogurt) on request for an additional charge of £10. 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.)