Housing & Travel

Housing

The venue of ABC2008 is the "Hotel Grauer Bär****" in Innsbruck with indoor leisure facilities such as a fitness center, indoor pool and sauna. Innsbruck, the place of two Olympic Winter Games, invites you to enjoy downhill as well as cross-country skiing slopes to foster informal scientific discussions in fresh air. Rental gear and instructions will be available. Double and Triple rooms will be available for students and postdoctoral fellows.

Travel to Innsbruck

The world-famous City of Innsbruck is located in the heart of the Austrian Alps and can be conveniently reached by several means of transportation:

• By airplane: Innsbruck has an international airport well connected to every major hub in Europe.
• By train: Travel to Innsbrucks main train station "Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof" with the Austrian Railways.
• By car: Innsbruck is situated at the intersection of the european highways E60(A12) and E45(A13). Please let us know if you need more precise directions to find your way or use a routeplanner such as map24.

Of course, roundtrip shuttle transportation service from innsbruck airport and main train station to the venue is available and included in the registration.

Flight booking

Austrian Airlines is the official Airline Carrier of FEBS-ABC2008.

Book your flights to FEBS-ABC2008 online at www.austrian.com and save 15 % on all applicable fares (except fares in booking-class T and O)!

Conditions:

• Applicant must be an accepted participant by the FEBS-ABC2008 organizers
• Booking period: now until March 08th, 2008
• Valid for flights to Innsbruck/and via Vienna and return as of February 16th, 2008 until March 22nd, 2008 (final date for return flight) on OS flight numbers.

Booking instructions:

Accepted ABC2008 participants will receive detailed instructions on obtaining this discount with their letters of acceptance from the organizers in mid-January (see General Information section for dates).