INSIDER TIPS

Insider’s Guide to the Mayo Clinic
offers many Insider Tips to help you and your family navigate the Mayo Clinic with ease. Here are a few examples:

If you decide to lodge downtown, stay at one of the hotels that is connected to the Subway/Skyway system. The climate-controlled Subway/Skyway corridors enable you to get to your appointments, eating establishments, and stores regardless of the weather.

Just like standby passengers hoping to snag a no-show’s empty seat on a flight, the Mayo Clinic has devised a system to fit in patients who want to try to be seen earlier than their scheduled appointments. It is called “checkers.”

There are many dining options available to patients and family members located within a few hundred feet of the Mayo complex. For example, savvy insiders know that immediately adjacent to the Siebens Building there are a number of fast-food outlets on the Subway Level of the Marriott Hotel.

You may park free of charge at any city meter if you have a disabled parking permit.

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