Hotels Near MD Anderson and Which Ones Run a Shuttle
By Matt Spaulding · November 12, 2026
Photo: RobertKixmiller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Houston Marriott Medical Center/Museum District and The Westin Houston Medical Center/Museum District are the closest hotels to MD Anderson's main building at 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, 8 minutes each on foot (605 and 627 meters). They're also the only two hotels within 8 minutes of all three hospitals. Joe's House, the lodging site MD Anderson's FAQ links to for hotels, lists a free shuttle at the Marriott from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. We couldn't confirm one at the Westin.
The Hilton Houston Plaza/Medical Center, InterContinental Houston and DoubleTree by Hilton Houston Medical Center Hotel & Suites are 12 minutes from MD Anderson, and the Blossom Hotel Houston, Curio Collection by Hilton is 13. A shuttle is listed at all four. Joe's House has the Hilton Plaza's, the DoubleTree's and the Blossom's, with no hours for any of them. The InterContinental's comes with its amenity fee, according to its booking screen, and goes 3 miles for medical patient guests and 2 for everyone else. The Hilton Plaza and the InterContinental are within 12 minutes of all three hospitals, and the Blossom is the only one of the six that's closer to MD Anderson than to either of the others. All six are in Texas Medical Center and the Museum District.
MD Anderson's own hotel, Rotary House, is "dedicated exclusively" to its patients and their families, and an enclosed skybridge links it to the hospital.
Every hospital walk on this page is a street route we ran on 12 November 2026 to one OpenStreetMap point per building: MD Anderson's main building, Houston Methodist's Dunn Tower at 6565 Fannin Street and Texas Children's West Tower at 6621 Fannin Street. The routes don't use the Medical Center's skybridges or tunnels, and your clinic may be in a different building. Station walks end at the platform, and we didn't time any rides.
A 20-minute walk to MD Anderson
Five more hotels are 20 to 23 minutes from MD Anderson's main building. The Hyatt Place Houston/Medical Center and Hyatt House Houston/Medical Center share 7329 Fannin Street, 1,469 meters and 20 minutes away. The Hilton Garden Inn Houston Medical Center and Home2 Suites by Hilton Houston Medical Center sit together at 6840 Almeda Road, a minute farther. The Hampton Inn & Suites Houston Medical Center NRG Park, on Old Spanish Trail, is 23. By car, every hotel above is 2 or 3 minutes from MD Anderson, and even the Hampton is only 2,010 meters away by road.
Houston Methodist
Methodist's hotel page says the Marriott connects to its Scurlock Tower by skybridge, which our routes don't use. Even on the street the Marriott is the closest hotel to the Dunn Tower, 507 meters and 7 minutes, and the Westin takes 8. From the Hilton Plaza and the InterContinental it's 11 minutes, from the DoubleTree 13, the Blossom 17 and either Hyatt 24.
The distances on Methodist's page are measured from Scurlock Tower, not the Dunn Tower. It puts the InterContinental at 0.4 mile, the DoubleTree at 0.5, the Blossom at 1, Hotel ZaZa Museum District at 1.1 and the Hyatt Place at 1.2, with Hyatt House under the same heading as Hyatt Place. For the Westin it gives no distance, only that the hotel is across Dryden Road. Some hotels offer complimentary shuttles to and from the hospital, the page says, but it doesn't name them. On foot, ZaZa is 28 minutes from the Dunn Tower and 33 from MD Anderson.
Texas Children's
From the Westin it's 222 meters to the West Tower, 3 minutes, the shortest hospital walk on this page, though if you drive, valet is the Westin's only listed parking. The Marriott takes 4. Every other hotel is at least 6 minutes out: 6 to 9 from the InterContinental, Hilton Plaza and DoubleTree, 15 from the Blossom, 21 from the Hyatts and 24 from the Hampton.
Shuttles and patient rates, hotel by hotel
The Marriott's shuttle covers a 2 mile radius, first come, first served, and Joe's House names no destinations for it. Its Joe's House medical rate is 10% off for patients, family and caregivers, subject to availability, and the page says no proof is required. That rate window runs 13 October 2026 to 31 December 2027. Every other window in this section runs out by 31 December 2026, and none of the Joe's House pages we read shows an update date, so call the hotel to confirm hours and stops.
The Hilton Plaza's shuttle is complimentary within 2 miles, with no hours or destinations printed. The DoubleTree provides free transportation to hospitals within 2 miles, and the Blossom's shuttle covers the hospitals within 3. Joe's House lists a discounted rate at the Hilton Plaza with no percentage printed; the patient gives a doctor and facility contact, and the page doesn't ask for proof. At the DoubleTree it shows a parking discount but no percentage off the room. The Blossom's medical rate needs no proof, and Joe's House guests get discounted parking.
Joe's House lists a free Home2 Suites shuttle Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., to destinations including MD Anderson, Texas Children's, Memorial Hermann and Houston Methodist. Joe's House lists no shuttle at the Hilton Garden Inn at the same address. It gives both hotels 12% off the best available rate, and either may ask for proof.
The Hampton's shuttle runs Monday to Friday 6:15 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on weekends 10:15 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Its patient rate goes through a corporate ID code, and the hotel may want proof. Joe's House says the shuttle goes to "the Medical Center" and names no hospital as a stop.
Nothing we read confirms a shuttle at the Westin, Hyatt Place or Hyatt House. Joe's House's MD Anderson table shows no patient discount at those three, the InterContinental, ZaZa or the DoubleTree. It shows none at the Hilton Plaza, the Blossom or the Hampton either, though their own Joe's House pages list a patient rate.
Hotels named for the Medical Center that are not close
Nine hotels named for the Medical Center stand near Reliant Park, and even the closest, the Courtyard by Marriott Houston Medical Center Reliant Park, is a 31-minute walk from MD Anderson's main building. The SpringHill Suites by Marriott Houston Medical Center/NRG Park is on Old Spanish Trail like the Hampton, but 11 minutes farther out at 34, and the Residence Inn by Marriott Houston Medical Center Reliant Park is 34 too. From the Comfort Suites Houston near Medical Center- NRG Stadium it's 42 minutes and from the Staybridge Suites Houston - Medical Center 46.
The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Houston S - Medical Ctr Area is 52 minutes away on foot, the Wingate Houston near Reliant Park/Medical Center 56 (4,216 meters) and the Wyndham Houston near NRG Park/Medical Center 59. The Quality Inn & Suites NRG Park - Medical Center is 64. By car, every one of the nine is 4 to 8 minutes from MD Anderson. Joe's House's MD Anderson table lists 10% off at the Staybridge and the Holiday Inn Express. We didn't check shuttles at any of these hotels for this guide. They're Reliant Park hotels, and our Reliant Stadium hotel guide measures them to the stadium instead, where the Wingate is 7 minutes away on foot.
Rotary House and Ronald McDonald House
MD Anderson's lodging FAQ names Rotary House and no other hotel. It says MD Anderson owns Rotary House and Marriott International manages it, and it tells you to ask for the medical rate. Joe's House says you must be a patient or a patient's family member to stay, and the patient gives a doctor and facility contact. It lists a free shuttle as well. MD Anderson's Rotary House page prints no check-in rules.
The Ronald McDonald House inside Texas Children's, in the Abercrombie Building, serves families of children in the neonatal, pediatric or cardiovascular ICU. The charge nurse of each unit assigns rooms daily. RMHC Greater Houston says to ask the ICU receptionist or social worker, and to ask again each day, and its page for the house adds that families in NICU 2, 3 and 4 check with the unit secretary. Bedrooms are free, subject to space. The charity also lists Children's Memorial Hermann and MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital as partner hospitals, plus Holcombe House at 1907 Holcombe Boulevard and Amschwand House, with no hospital named for either. None of the pages we read printed an age limit or a distance rule.
The Red Line
METRORail is $1.25 a ride on every line. Its Medical Center stops are Dryden/TMC and TMC Transit Center. Memorial Hermann Hospital/Houston Zoo is the next stop north of Dryden, and Smith Lands and Stadium Park/Astrodome are to the south. METRO prints first trains before 5 a.m. and last trips after midnight, with no exact times.
The Marriott is 86 meters from Dryden/TMC, a 1-minute walk, and the Westin 2 minutes. The Hilton Plaza is 5 minutes from the same platform and the InterContinental 6. The DoubleTree is 9 minutes from either Medical Center stop, and the Blossom 11 from TMC Transit Center. For the Hyatts the nearest station is Smith Lands, 11 minutes away, and the Hampton is 7 from it. At 6840 Almeda Road the nearest station we routed is Dryden/TMC, 27 minutes away, which is farther than the 21-minute walk to MD Anderson. Home2 guests have the weekday shuttle. Hotel ZaZa is 8 minutes from the Hermann Park/Rice U station.
Fees and parking
The Marriott's Destination Fee, $25 a night, is included in the rate Marriott shows. The InterContinental charges an Amenity Fee of $25 a night plus 17% tax. That fee includes $30 in daily credits ($15 food and beverage, $15 laundry) and the shuttle, and the hotel holds a $100 security deposit per night. Hilton's price at the Hilton Plaza includes a mandatory charge of $0.99 a night, plus tax. The Blossom's charge is 0.33% of the stay and the Hampton's 0.43%, both inside Hilton's price, plus tax.
The Westin, DoubleTree, both Hyatts, the Hilton Garden Inn and Home2 showed no fee on the booking screen. That matches what our Houston resort fee guide found across the city, where six Marriott hotels add $25 a night and most others add nothing. Hotel ZaZa's screen added the most. Read for one night, it showed an Amenity Fee of $37.44, a State Recovery Fee of $3.55 and a Credit Card Processing Fee of 2.25%. Our ZaZa page lists a Magic Carpet Ride shuttle within 3 miles as part of that amenity fee, but the hotel's own Museum District page didn't mention it when we read it on 12 November, so we count it as unconfirmed.
None of the twelve Texas Medical Center and Museum District hotels on this page publishes free parking, and our Houston hotel parking guide found no downtown hotel that does either. Self-parking is $24 a day at the Marriott, where valet is $54. The Westin lists valet at $54 a day and no self-parking. The Hilton Plaza is $20 a day and the DoubleTree $30 a day, with no valet at either. The InterContinental is $46 a night to self-park and $56 a night for valet, with in and out privileges. Valet is the only parking at the Blossom, $49. ZaZa is valet only too, with no price published. The Hyatts charge $18 nightly for the 24-hour garage, and the Hampton is $12 a day. The Hilton Garden Inn and Home2 are $20 a day. Not one of these hotels says whether tax is added.
For a long stay, Hyatt House waives its garage fee after the 7th consecutive night, and Home2 lists complimentary breakfast. Houston's hotel tax is 17%. Stays of 30 nights or more are covered in our hotel tax guide.
