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Waikato Hospital

Waikato Hospital campus map Getting in and around Waikato Hospital Level 1 corridor map

To find out more about the changes currently going on at the Waikato Hospital campus, please check out our Service & Campus Redevelopment information.

Parking at Waikato Hospital

Where can I park?

The primary parking place for patients and visitors at Waikato Hospital is in the carpark building. The 18-level building can hold more than 800 vehicles and provides direct lift access to the hospital’s main buildings red corridor and Transit Lounge.

How much will it cost?

Waikato Hospital has a user-pay system for staff, patients and visitors who wish to park on-site. The prices for patients and visitors are as follows:

Length of stay	Cost
Less than 30 minutes	nil
30 mins to 1 hour	$1.50
1 hour to 2 hours	$3.00
2 hours to 3 hours	$4.50
3 hours to 4 hours	$6.00
4 hours + and maximum charge per day	$7.50

All charges are GST inclusive

How do I pay?

The carpark building works on an automated pay system.  This means that as you enter the building you will be required to take a ticket and have this ticket validated at one of the parking payment machines before returning to your vehicle.

Parking payment machines are located on levels B5 (ground), B3 (Transit Lounge) and L1 (main enquiries). When you are ready to leave Waikato Hospital you will need to go to one of these machines and insert your ticket.  The machine will then tell you how much you need to pay for parking and once payment has been made your ticket will be validated for exit.

You must then immediately go to the exit in your vehicle and insert your ticket into the machine to raise the barrier arm.

Pay and display

As construction for different projects end, smaller parking areas within the Waikato Hospital grounds will be designated for patients and visitors. Payment for these areas will be through a prepaid ‘pay and display’ system. 

This means that once you have found a park, you will need to go to the nearest ‘pay and display’ machine before you leave your vehicle to enter hospital buildings, and pay the required amount according to the desired time you wish to stay on the rate board on the machine.

When you put your money into the machine a ticket will be printed for you to place on your vehicle dashboard. This must be prominently displayed so that parking enforcement staff can see you have paid for your time to be there.

Staff will be strictly monitoring these areas so make sure you pay for the correct time and go back to your vehicle before this time runs out.

If your time runs out you can pay for a new ticket.

Who can I contact for help?

Although Waikato Hospital’s new parking payment method is based on an automated system, assistance is available if required.

Contact Waikato Hospital's Parking Control Office:

• Phone: (07) 839 8901
• Fax: (07) 839 8798
• Mail:
  Parking Control Office
  c/o Waikato Hospital
  Selwyn Street
  PO Box 19036
  Hamilton
  

Wilson Parking staff can also assist with vehicle problems such as flat batteries, tyre changes and keys locked in a vehicle.

Concession parking

If you visit Waikato Hospital frequently during a week, there is a seven-day carpark building ticket for $7.

These tickets provide you with unlimited carpark building access for seven days. You can buy seven-day carpark building tickets from the Parking Control Office but first you need to get authorisation and complete a form from the ward or department you are visiting.

Disabilty parking

Most of the disability parks are in the parking building. There are four on every floor (18 floors) very close to the lifts, and the first two floors of the building are dedicated to disability parking. One floor has high ceiling so suitable for the higher disability vans. The charges to park in the building are all the same, irrespective of disability or able-bodied.
 
There are a few external mobility parks. There are two outside the back entrance of Hilda Ross house with a time limit of two hours maximum. There is one at the East Entrance, one at Dialysis and one at Rheumatology. There are also two outside Hockin Building front entrance and two at the Menzies entrance. All of these parks are free of charge. However, as the campus redevelopment proceeds, these external parks may change or disappear.

Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre

Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre is based on the Waikato Hospital campus and is marked on the Waikato Hospital campus map.

There is parking available near the centre by the Selwyn Street entrance to the campus or you can use the carpark building a short distance away.

Directions from the carpark building: Exit the lifts at level B3 or B5 - go out of the sliding doors and follow the road around to the left and past the Lomas Building (Regional Cancer Centre) - Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre is the next building along. You will be entering at Level 3 of the Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre and there is a reception desk on that level. If you stay on the road you will eventually see the main entrance to the building on your left, fronting onto Selwyn Street.

Thames Hospital

Street address 610 Mackay Street, Thames

Thames Hospital map

Directions from the main highway

• From Auckland: Continue on SH25a and go over the Kopu Bridge. Turn left to Thames, then right onto Mackay St.
  
  
• From Hamilton: Travel through Morrinsville, turn left onto the Morrinsville-Tahuna Rd, cross over SH27 to Paeroa.
  
  
• From Paeroa: Continue on the Paeroa-Thames highway. Thames is well signposted from here.

Te Kuiti Hospital

Street Address

24 Ailsa Street, Te Kuiti

Directions from the main highway

86 kilometres south of Hamilton on State Highway 3 – turn right into Hospital Road at 1st pedestrian crossing. Left into George Street. Right into Ailsa Street. Hospital is at the top of the hill on the right.

Tokoroa Hospital

Street address

Maraetai Rd, Tokoroa

Public transport to the hospital

There is a bus service between Tokoroa Hospital and Waikato Hospital, which runs daily. Contact Tokoroa Hospital reception for more details.

Directions from the main highway

Once you reach Tokoroa, continue on SH1 and turn left into Maraetai Rd (from the south) or turn right into Maraetai Rd, if you are travelling from the north.

Taumarunui Hospital

Street address

Kururau Rd, Taumarunui

Public transport to the hospital

There is a hospital bus which leaves Taumarunui Hospital and the Information Centre at 7.45am, arriving at Waikato Hospital at 10.30am. The bus departs Waikato Hospital again at 4pm, (you must be at the stop 15 minutes prior) returning to Taumarunui at approximately 6.15pm-6.30pm.

There is also a train service available. Phone 0800 277 482, or the Information Centre (07) 895 7494.

Directions from the main highway

From the north: continue on SH4 until you arrive at the turnoff for Taumarunui. Continue up the hill for 700m and turn left into hospital grounds.

From the south: continue driving through Taumarunui township, turn left onto the bridge and turn left again at the end of the bridge. Continue 700m up the hill and turn left into hospital grounds.

Matariki

Street address

389 Kihikihi Rd, Te Awamutu

Directions from the main highway

Travel south from Hamilton. Once you get within the 50km area in Te Awamutu, go straight through the first roundabout and head around a sweeping corner.

Turn left at the next roundabout and continue on this road. Matariki is on the left once you hit the 70kmph area.

Rhoda Read

Street address

222 Studholme St, Morrinsville

Directions from the main highway

From Hamilton, travel through the main street of Morrinsville. Turn left into Studholme St. Rhoda Read is at the end of Studholme St, just before you leave the town boundary.