Staying near the Texas Medical Center? Compare the whole cost — not just the room rate.

For families coming to MD Anderson, Houston Methodist, Texas Children’s and Memorial Hermann: the medical rate you have to ask for, what parking really adds over 2 weeks, which stays run a free shuttle, and the free housing most people never hear about.

Free & low-cost housing first Show all hotels

11 hotelscompared per hospital, below

$56.99–$229published medical / weekly rates / night

$0–$46hotel self-parking per night · valet up to $56

True totals from $798 for 14 nights · Free housing from $0/night

Before you book a hotel: free & low-cost housing exists here

Many families never hear about these until a social worker mentions them. If treatment is outpatient and long, they can take the lodging bill to nearly zero — check eligibility first, because waitlists happen.

Hope Lodge Houston — FREE Hospitality Apartments — FREE + cleaning fee Ronald McDonald House — $0–25 / night Rotary House — MD Anderson’s own hotel, skybridge

Free if eligible — referral / active treatment / waitlist — Check eligibility.

See free & low-cost housing →

Pick your hospital

Each hospital has its own page: the hotels that serve it, how each one gets you there (shuttle, skybridge, walk), its parking options, and a true-cost calculator set for that hospital. This home page is just the sorting hub.

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Cancer treatment, often weeks of outpatient visits. Rotary House on campus, the $13/day Mays Clinic garage, and free Hope Lodge & Hospitality Apartments nearby.

MD Anderson stays →

Houston Methodist

In the heart of the campus. The Marriott connects by skyway, Methodist garages run $15/day, and most Medical Center hotels shuttle here.

Houston Methodist stays →

Texas Children’s Hospital

For families of young patients. Ronald McDonald House runs $0–25/night, and the Hyatt House patient code (68903) is the Texas Children’s code.

Texas Children’s stays →

Memorial Hermann

Served by every hotel on this site — several shuttles list Memorial Hermann by name, including Home2 Suites’ free weekday shuttle.

Memorial Hermann stays →

Not sure yet, or comparing across hospitals?

See every hotel in one list, with the same filters and true-cost calculator.

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On every hospital page and the all-hotels page you can now search by your dates, see the hotels on a map, save a shortlist and compare up to three side by side — and every hotel has its own page with its Google reviews linked. Also here: hospital parking rates (garages, valet, and the TMC Value Pass) and the medical rate guide — how to ask for the rate that booking sites don’t show, with a copy-paste email.

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Hotels for your dates

Before you book, check the Free & hospital housing page — and see hospital parking rates if you’ll drive in on other days.

The true-cost calculator

A $139 room with $20 parking can cost more than a $159 room with a free shuttle. Set your stay length and how you’ll get to the hospital — the ranking below re-prices every stay.

How many nights?

14 nights

Getting to the hospital each day

Park at the hotel and shuttle or walk over. You pay the hotel’s nightly parking. Drive to the hospital garage. Priced at the Mays Clinic garage, $13/day — the cheapest TMC garage. No car. Shuttle, skybridge or on foot — $0 parking.

Days you’ll park at the hospital

Only counts if you pick “drive to the hospital garage.” Most families park most days — appointments, labs and visits add up.

Stay	Total

Room totals use each hotel’s published medical / weekly rate. Live-price-only hotels use the live anchor noted on their card and are labelled illustrative only, not a quote.

Hospital-run & free housing — check these first

If treatment is outpatient and long, these four can take the lodging bill to nearly zero — or put you inside the hospital campus. All need an application or referral, so ask your hospital social worker on day one — waitlists happen. Every card links to the program’s official page, where eligibility is spelled out.

Hope Lodge Houston

FREE64 suites

American Cancer Society housing for adult cancer patients in outpatient treatment at any Texas Medical Center cancer center. The largest Hope Lodge in the country.

CostFree

KitchenCommunal, with your own storage

ParkingFree

ShuttleYes — to TMC cancer centers

Also: free laundry and Wi-Fi. Apply through your treatment team / social worker. Eligibility on the official page: cancer patients 12+ in active treatment, living 40+ miles away, with one caregiver.

Free if eligible — referral / active treatment / waitlist — Check eligibility on the official page linked below.

Official page — eligibility & how to apply ↗American Cancer Society · cancer.org Call Hope Lodge(713) 848-8905 ACS helpline1-800-227-2345

Hospitality Apartments

FREE+ cleaning fee

Furnished apartments for patients in treatment at the Medical Center — the closest thing to a free apartment rather than a hotel room.

CostFree + one-time cleaning fee ($140 on MD Anderson’s list)

KitchenFull, in-unit

ParkingFree

ShuttleMD Anderson shuttle, Mon–Fri

Also: free laundry, wheelchair accessible. Self-referral is OK; call (713) 790-9120, Mon–Fri 9am–5pm. Eligibility on the official page: any TMC patient living 50+ miles away, 2-week minimum / 3-month maximum stay, caregiver with you 24/7.

Free if eligible — referral / active treatment / waitlist — Check eligibility on the official page linked below.

Official page — eligibility & request a stay ↗hospitalityapartments.org Call to join the waitlist(713) 790-9120 · Mon–Fri 9–5

Ronald McDonald House — Holcombe House

$0–25per night

For families of children being treated at Texas Children’s and other TMC hospitals. You pay what you can, up to $25 a night — nobody is turned away for inability to pay.

Cost$0–25 / night

KitchenCommunal

ParkingFree

ShuttleHospital shuttle, weekdays

Also: free laundry and playgrounds. Eligibility: families of patients 21 and under, living 30+ miles away; first-time families need a referral from a health care or state social worker. Max stay 45 days, then re-admission may be possible.

Free if eligible — referral / active treatment / waitlist — Check eligibility on the official page linked below.

Official site — staying at the House ↗RMHC Greater Houston · rmhchouston.org Eligibility & referral details ↗Joe’s House listing Call RMHC Houston(713) 795-3500

Rotary House International — MD Anderson’s own hotel

$165–355per night

Not free — but it belongs here: a full-service hotel owned by MD Anderson and managed by Marriott, connected to the hospital by enclosed skybridge, and open only to MD Anderson patients and their families. All 322 rooms are built for wheelchairs and medical equipment.

Cost$165–$355 / night by room type

KitchenKitchenettes in select rooms

ParkingAsk when booking — not published

Getting thereSkybridge — no car needed

Eligibility: you must be an MD Anderson patient (or family) with a patient record number. Returning guests can book online; first-timers, call.

Free if eligible — referral / active treatment / waitlist — Check eligibility on the official page linked below.

Official page — rooms, rates & eligibility ↗MD Anderson · mdanderson.org Booking & eligibility details ↗Joe’s House listing Call to book(713) 790-1600

Parking at the hospitals themselves

If you’re driving in for the day — or your hotel has no shuttle — these are the garages that matter, at the rates the hospitals publish.

Garage 10 & Garage 2 — MD Anderson

Run by the Texas Medical Center. Garage 10 links to MD Anderson’s Main Building by skybridge; Garage 2 sits by the Pavilion / Acute Cancer Care Center. Both open 24 hours.

1 hour or less$5
Up to 24 hours$19
Lost ticket$25

Handy for a full day of appointments, but at $19/day it’s the priciest way to park for a long stay — see the Mays Clinic garage.

Mays Clinic / Duncan Building Garage — MD Anderson

Run by MD Anderson itself, open 24/7. The cheapest hospital garage in the Medical Center — worth the short walk if you’re parking daily.

First hour$3
Up to 3 hours$8
Up to 5 hours$10
Up to 24 hours$13
Lost ticket$13

Saving vs. Garage 10: $6 a day — $84 over a two-week stay.

Houston Methodist garages

Self-parking at the Outpatient Center, Scurlock Tower and Smith Tower garages. Free for the first 20 minutes.

Self-park, up to 24 hours$15
Valet, 0–3 hours$15
Valet, 3–24 hours$20

The Marriott Medical Center connects to Methodist by skyway — staying there can mean never paying this at all.

Valet at MD Anderson

Flat fee, best on days when walking from a garage isn’t realistic.

Main Building (Aquarium entrance)$20
Pavilion entrance$20
Mays Clinic$20

Main Building valet runs 4am–11pm, seven days a week. Pavilion and Mays Clinic valet run 5am–11pm, Monday–Friday.

TMC Prepaid Value Pass — the long-stay trick

For anyone parking at TMC garages again and again. The pass adds in-and-out privileges, which daily tickets don’t.

$52 pass$60 of parking
$100 pass$115 of parking

That’s roughly 13–15% off every day you park. Sold at TMC garages — MD Anderson lists them at Garage 10, Level 3, by the skybridge. No refunds on unused value, so buy the smaller pass first.

The METRORail Red Line

Runs straight through the Medical Center along Fannin St, with stops by MD Anderson, Methodist and Texas Children’s.

Best forHotels near NRG / Old Spanish Trail
Why it mattersNo garage bill at all

If your hotel is near a Red Line stop, price the stay as “no car” in the calculator above — several budget stays beat the skybridge hotels once parking is $0.

About this site

Texas Medical Center Stays & Parking (medcenterstays.com) is an independent guide to staying near the Texas Medical Center in Houston — built around the question families actually have: what will the whole stay cost, not just the nightly room rate?

Who it is for

Patients and families travelling to the Texas Medical Center for treatment and appointments — at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Methodist, Texas Children’s Hospital and Memorial Hermann — whether that is a two-night visit or weeks of outpatient treatment. Most visitors come from far enough away that a hotel is not a holiday choice but part of the treatment plan, and the costs that catch people out are rarely the room rate: they are parking charged by the night, resort and amenity fees, and a “cheap” hotel that means paying for a hospital garage every day.

What the site does

Compares 11 hotels near the Medical Center by true total cost for your dates — room, parking and mandatory fees together — with a calculator on every hospital page.
Publishes the medical rates hotels offer patients and families, including the booking codes, and explains how to ask for a rate when it is not published.
Lists hospital parking rates — garages, valet and the TMC prepaid Value Pass — so you can price driving in against a hotel shuttle or skybridge.
Leads with free and low-cost housing — Hope Lodge, Hospitality Apartments, Ronald McDonald House and MD Anderson’s own Rotary House — because many families qualify and never hear about them.

How the prices are put together

Rates, parking charges and fees are gathered from the hotels’ and hospitals’ own published information and checked by hand. Hotel prices move daily, so the figures here are estimates to help you compare — the final price for your dates is always the one the hotel itself quotes. The date prices were last checked appears in the footer of every page.

Not affiliated — and not a booking site

This site is independent. It is not affiliated with the Texas Medical Center, MD Anderson, Houston Methodist, Texas Children’s Hospital, Memorial Hermann, or any of the hotels listed, and nothing here is endorsed by them. The site does not take bookings and does not collect payment: every “Check direct price” button takes you to the hotel’s own website, because medical rates are direct-only and booking direct is how you get them.

Spotted a price or detail that has changed? Please tell us on the Contact page — corrections from families who have just stayed are how this guide stays accurate.

Before you book a hotel: free & low-cost housing exists here

Pick your hospital

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston Methodist

Texas Children’s Hospital

Memorial Hermann

Not sure yet, or comparing across hospitals?

All hotels

Stay length

Hospital

Amenities & access — counts show hotels with each feature

Price

Hotels for your dates

The true-cost calculator

Hospital-run & free housing — check these first

Hope Lodge Houston

Hospitality Apartments

Ronald McDonald House — Holcombe House

Rotary House International — MD Anderson’s own hotel

Parking at the hospitals themselves

Garage 10 & Garage 2 — MD Anderson

Mays Clinic / Duncan Building Garage — MD Anderson

Houston Methodist garages

Valet at MD Anderson

TMC Prepaid Value Pass — the long-stay trick

The METRORail Red Line

How to actually get the medical rate

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