Royal Victoria Hospital

Plan your route

You might find the following websites useful in planning your route to our hospital (other websites are available)

• AA Map finder - enter your postcode, town or area to find online maps of your area

• Google maps - enter your postcode, town or area and the hospital postcode CT19 5BN

• AA Route Planner - you can search for a route using street or postcode, town or city and enter the hospital postcode CT19 5BN.

• Follow @KentHighways for the latest information on traffic and travel news or visit www.kent.gov.uk/roads-and-travel

Car parks

Royal Victoria Hospital offers pay & display parking. Please be aware that Radnor Park Avenue is one-way and you must drive past the car park exit before you reach the entrance. Payment can be made by coin, contactless or RingGo.

Patient and visitor car park is located directly in front of the hospital entrance.

Disabled bays for blue-badge holders are located within the visitor car park.

To find the visitor car park using what3words: ///polices.shampoo.arranges
or visit: what3words.com/polices.shampoo.arranges

On-street parking - Radnor Park Avenue (which runs past the hospital up to the Sports Centre) and the park-side of Radnor Park West offer free parking for up to three hours but please always check the latest signage in case any changes have been made since this information was published.

Weekly permits

Please call the Trust’s parking team on 01303 852732 for advice on obtaining a weekly ticket.

For details of parking charges, please see Parking information and charges.

There are bus stops close to the hospital on Radnor Park Road which are well served by Stagecoach bus routes Gold 16, 71, 73 and 91. These routes provide a direct service from Canterbury, Hawkinge, Hythe, Sandgate, Cheriton, Broadmead, East Cliff, Capel and  Dover as well as a high frequency service to and from Folkestone town centre. At the town centre bus station connections can be made with buses to and from other outlying areas.

To plan your bus journey to and from the Royal Victoria Hospital, please use the journey planner on the Stagecoach website.

Trains to Folkestone Central (Royal Victoria Hospital)

Folkestone Central is the nearest train station to the Royal Victoria Hospital and buses run from the station to the Hospital.

Please visit the South Eastern Railway website for full details and times of rail connections and timetables.

For information on the PlusBus service, which adds unlimited bus travel around town when you purchase your train ticket, please visit the PlusBus website.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) provides a free non-emergency ambulance healthcare transport service for patients who have a clinical and medical need for transport, where their current mobility needs would not allow them to use their own, or public transport to get to or from an NHS health care appointment.

To find out if you are eligible, please see the 'Getting to our hospitals by NHS transport' webpage.