Students can request to have guests overnight. All guests are to be registered online on your Housing Hub. Ideally guests are registered at least 24 hours in advance.
Submit your guest request at least 24 hours before your guest arrives. Same day requests will be approved based on availability so request early so not to be disappointed.
In order to make a request you will need to do so through your housing application portal.
• Go to your Housing Hub
• Login using your student SSO login.
• Click the “Overnight Guest Registration” tab to begin.
When your guest arrives, please bring your guest to your Service Desk. They must provide some government ID. They will be provided a wristband authorizing your guest to be in residence.
You and your guest will need to sign the Residence Guest Sign-In Agreement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Any non-resident of Brock University Residences. Students must accompany any visitors (guests and/or fellow residents from other areas) at all times. Students may only have guests for six nights per month. No more than two guests on any occasion (i.e. do not invite groups of more than two friends to visit you in residence at any one time). Guests may not visit for more than three nights in a row. In the event of an extenuating circumstance, students may ask for permission from the Residence Life Coordinator to have a guest for more nights than indicated above. Students must be considerate of other students who share their living space while having guests and let their roommates/unit mates know when they will be hosting a guest. Guests must sleep in their host’s assigned living space and not in lounges or other common spaces. Students CAN NOT give keys or access cards to guests.
Before you go to the Service Desk, you can register your guest for the same day but last minute guest requests will be processed as time allows. You may need to be patient and wait.
It is best to submit request at least 24 hours in advance.
All guest requests must be made online, ideally 24 hours in advance.
Before you go to the Service Desk, you must submit your request online through your Housing Hub.
Last minute requests will be processed as time allows. You may need to be patient and wait.
No guests are allowed during the following times for 2025-26:
- Welcome Week (September move-in until and including September 8)
- First week of second term (January Move-in Day until and including January 12)
- St Patrick’s Day (Thursday preceding St. Patrick’s Day until after St. Patrick’s Day, March 13 until and including March 17)
- Exams (December 7 until and including December 20; April 7 until and including April 25)
There is no charge to sign a guest in. For the safety of everyone in the residence community, non-registered guests (i.e. guests without wristbands) will be asked to leave residence and/or escorted from campus.
Guests must follow Brock University parking guidelines. Daily and hourly parking can be purchased through the HONK mobile app.
Ask for details about parking when you check your guest in at the appropriate Service Desk.
For more information about parking please visit the parking services website.
Click here to learn more about the Residence Community Standards with regards to guests.
Visit the dining services website to view the guest policy with your meal plan.