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Hotel
SIWN08 /
SERF08 has arranged a block reservation
with
Park Inn
Glasgow City Centre
2 Port Dundas Place,
Glasgow, G2 3LD
http://www.glasgow.parkinn.co.uk
Room rates (bed and
breakfast) for SIWN08 / SERF08 delegates:
Standard room (single)
£80.00
Standard room
(twin/double) £90.00 *
Business friendly room
(single) £110.00
To book a room, please
contact directly with the
hotel by e-mail or telephone:
E-mail:
reservations.glasgow@rezidorparkinn.com
Telephone number: 0044
141 333 1500 (Fiona MacGillivray or Chevaune Jamieson)
Please ensure to quote
the conference’s acronym “SIWN08 / SERF08”.
* Two people sharing a
twin room (with two separate beds) will be able to share the room rate
(£90.00), for example, if on a half-to-half basis, it will be £45.00 per
person. If you wish the Conference Secretariat to help you find an
agreeable delegate to share a twin room during the conference, please
send your full information by e-mail to < secretariat@siwn.org.uk >,
stating your names, gender, age, citizenship, current job, affiliation,
arrival and departure dates. The conference secretariat will pass you,
if any, the information of another delegate seeking room sharing for
your agreement.
Glasgow International
Airport
http://www.glasgowairport.com/
This is the airport to which
most of international flights arrive. From the airport website above, 'To
and from airport' contains information about the transports between
the airport and the city centre. For example, there are two airport
buses:
service #905,
the final stop
of which is
at
Glasgow Buchanan Bus
Station, which is next door to the Park Inn Hotel above;
service #500, ask its stop at Glasgow Buchanan Bus
Station.
Glasgow Prestwick Airport
http://www.gpia.co.uk/
This is another
international airport in Glasgow. There is railway between this airport
and Glasgow city centre, and flight passengers are eligible for a
discount of this rail transport, see
http://www.gpia.co.uk/AirportInfo/HowTo/train.asp
Edinburgh Airport
http://www.edinburghairport.com/
This may be another
alternative for flights. 'To
and from airport' above contains useful transport
information. For example,
by Airlink #100: From
Edinburgh airport to either
Edinburgh Haymarket station,
or Edinburgh's main railway
station (Waverley);
by railway: From
Edinburgh Haymarket station
[or Edinburgh's main railway
station (Waverley)] to Glasgow Queen Street Station.
Trains in UK
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
ScotRail
http://www.firstgroup.com/scotrail/index.php
Bus travels across
Scotland http://www.citylink.co.uk/
Glasgow & Scotland
A selection of Day-Trip routes across main
sites of Scotland, which depart in the morning and
come back in the evening, are provided by the following providers:
Scottish Tours
http://www.scottishtours.co.uk/ departure
from Glasgow Buchanan Bus Station
Rabbies
http://www.rabbies.com/ departure
from Glasgow George Square
For Glasgow City, there
is a City Sightseeing Bus
http://www.scotguide.com/ Its stop at George Square is just less
than 5 minutes walk from the conference's hotel.
Other websites which might be of interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow
visit Scotland
http://www.visitscotland.com/
visit Highlands
http://www.visithighlands.com/
various information
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/
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