You are welcome to stay overnight with your child. However, parent and carer accommodation on the ward is limited, so we ask that only one parent or carer (no siblings) stay on the ward with your child.

• A parent may sleep in a parent or carer bed in our Bilima Building hospital rooms, or a fold-out couch/recliner/sofa chair in our other buildings.
• We ask that parents staying on the wards are dressed by 7:30am.
• Sofa beds and recliners should be folded away when not in use.
• All linen is to be placed into the linen hampers.

In exceptional circumstances where a sibling is allowed to stay, please note that we are unable to provide food, nappies, clothing, bottles or supervision for children who are not patients.

A number of wards have parent retreat areas for parents and carers to sleep in. For more information, please speak to your ward’s nurse unit manager.

The parent hostel is located within the hospital and is only for parents or carers (no siblings) of children who have been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

If your child has been admitted to the ICU please check availability with the clinical support officer. Availability cannot be guaranteed due to the nature of ICU. 

Cost

• Patients who live within 100 km of the hospital: $20 per room, per night
• Patients who live more than 100 km from the hospital: $43 per room, per night

Listed costs are subject to change.

For more information please phone (02) 9382 1156, 7am – 4pm.

Ronald McDonald House, Randwick is committed to providing family-centred care allowing families who live more than 100 km away from the hospital, to stay by their child’s side during their treatment at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.

Whilst staying with us, you will be required to claim financial support towards accommodation and travel from the relevant government transport assistance scheme in your home state.

Pre-booking is essential. Please phone (02) 9382 1622 for more information.

Randwick and Coogee have a number of hotels and lodges within a short distance from the hospital:

• The Blenheim Randwick
• The Lurline Randwick
• High Cross Park Lodge
• Perouse Lodge
• Avoca Lodge Randwick
• The Alison Randwick
• Avonmore on the Park
• Coogee Bay Boutique Hotel

If you choose to stay in private accommodation with your child, and live more than 100 km from the Hospital, you may be able to make a claim on some of these costs via the IPTAAS scheme mentioned above. 

If you have private health insurance, some of your accommodation expenses may be reimbursed. Ask your health insurance fund to assess whether you are eligible.

Single sofa beds are provided free of charge at each child’s bedside, except in

• Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
• Emergency Department
• Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit.

For these parents, please see the Parents’ Hostel information below. As space is limited, there is room for only one parent to stay with each child by the bedside.

Most units have two parent rooms (for one or two people) which are allocated by the nursing unit manager. Availability of these rooms is very limited and a number of factors are taken into account when a room is allocated. There is a fee per room per night.

The Parents’ Hostel on Level 2 at Banksia Building has a small number of rooms that can sleep up to two adults. 

Priority is given to families with children in PICU and NICU. Except for breastfed babies, we are not able to accommodate siblings in the Parents’ Hostel.

There is a fee per room per night.

This accommodation provides private rooms, shared kitchen and laundry facilities, office spaces and play areas for:

• families who live further from the hospital 
• families who need to stay at the hospital for a long time
• people going through high-risk pregnancies.

Eligible families can access this service at no cost. For more information, contact Ronald McDonald House on (02) 9806 7111. 

Find out more about Ronald McDonald House Westmead.

There are several accommodation options in Westmead and surrounding suburbs, including:

• 175 Hotel
• Wesley Apartments
• ibis budget Wentworthville