Travel and Accomodation information for the LHCb T1 Jamboree

You do not need an access card to enter the building. More information on the Science park can be found "here "

From Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol):

Take the train from the airport to Centraal Station. Once at the Centraal station get a 'Sprinter Train' to Amsterdam Science Park. There are many trains from the airport. From Centraal station there is a train at 18 and 48 mins past the hour (normally platform 13b - but check) and the journey takes 8 mins to the stop (Science Park) followed by a short minute walk under the bridge to NIKEF. At the automatic ticket machines at the airport select the 'other station' button and type 'AM' which will bring up a short list of stations including the 'Science Park'. Its €4.10 one way.

Another way is to take the train form the airport railway station to the station Amsterdam Zuid WTC From Amsterdam Zuid WTC take metro 51 (direction Centraal Station) and get out at Amstel Railway Station From Amstel Station take the city bus number 40 in the direction Muiderpoort Station. Get off at the gate at Sciencepark 105.

• From the Muiderpoort Railway Station: Take the citybus number 40 in the direction Amstel Station Gett off at the gate at Sciencepark 105 * From the Central Railway Station: Take any metro line to the Amstel Railway Station and take bus 40 Or take tram 9, get out at the stop Kruislaan and take bus 40 or walk about 15 minutes. * Taxi from the airport: The taxi ride is appoximately 45 euros for a 20 minute ride. Make sure your only take taxis from the official taxi stands. Accommodation NIHEF has special arrangements with the following hotels; * "NH Tropen Hotel " single room costs 105 euros per night * "Eden Lancaster Hotel ", single room costs 99 euros per night * "Eden Amsterdam Centre Hotel ", single room costs 130 euros per night. Please remember to ask for a hotel room when registering. If you have any questions, please contact Eveline Schram-Post at [p39@nikhef.nl].

  How to use the public transport planner

  If you want to design your own trip within Amsterdam, there is a public transport planner available. Here is how to use it if you don't speak dutch. You can get information on public transport by following this link. When you go there, you will see a screen like the following:

  

  The top fields are the address of departure. In this example I've used the address for the Bridge Hotel (Amstel 107, Amsterdam); the NH Tropen Hotel address is Linnaeusstraat 2 in Amsterdam. The middle fields are for the arrival address, in this case the address of NIKHEF (Kruislaan 409, Amsterdam). The last fields are for when you want to make the trip; here i've filled in Tuesday 24 january, arrival time 8:45; the "aankomst" (arrival) button specifies that the time you give is when you want to show up at the destination; select "vertrek" (departure) if you want the time you give to be the time you start your trip.

  Once you've filled in the fields, click "geef reisadvies" (give trip advice). If you do so you get the following screen.

  

  Near the top you see a number of various departure times, the light grey one is the one being shown in detail. Read it as follows:

  • Vertrek: departure time (from the departure address)
  • Aankomst: arrival time (at the arrival address)
  • Reistijd: how long the trip takes
  • Overstappen: how many changes you have to make between trams / busses.

  If you want to see earlier possibilities, click "eerder" at the right, if you want to see later ones click "later".

  You read the detailed information as follows (line by line).

  • Depart 8:21 from Bridge Hotel, to the Metro Station Weesperplein, arrival time 8:25, by "lopen" (walking) for 4 minutes.
  • Depart 8:25 from Metro Station Weesperplein, to Muiderpoort Station, arrival time 8:33, by tram line 7, "richting" (direction) Flevopark. (Note that the directions given by this web site are the same that are displayed above the front windshield of the tram or bus.)
  • Depart 8:35 from Muiderpoort Station to Science Park Amsterdam (the name of the bus stop, and also the name of the complex where NIKHEF is), arriving at 8:39, via city bus line 15, direction Station Sloterdijk.
  • walk two minutes from the bus stop to NIKHEF.

  If you click on the black button "kaart" below the detail, it will show you a map, depicting the last bus stop (red flag) and your final destination (green flag). To see the same information for the departure location (your hotel) and the location of the first tram / bus stop, click on the link "toon plattegrond van vertrek" (show map for departure) just below the map. On that map, the green flag is where you are departing from (your hotel) and the red flag shows the location of the station / stop where you get on your first tram / bus.

  For general map information, Mappy has very good maps. One hitch about Mappy, it does not yet show the new road along the southwest border of the Science Park; the bus stop "Science Park Amsterdam" is located on this road.

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  Jeff Templon

  Last modified: Fri Jan 20 11:35:49 CET 2006