General travel Information
The conference is held at Károly Róbert College
The address is: Gyöngyös, Mátrai út 36
Local maps are available here. An older set of local maps is still available here.
Daily commute buses, complimentary and free of charge for Low-x 2016 participants:
Lectures start at 9am each day, and we organized free minibus transfer from each hotel to the conference site with the following schedule:
|
8:15 |
Hotel Sástó |
|
8:30 |
Conference site |
|
8:40 |
Hotel Anna |
|
8:45 |
Hotel Mátra Vital |
|
8:50 |
Conference site |
Similarly, there will be buses in the evening as well, to take you back to your hotel or the given daily evening/afternoon programme. The costs of these buses is included to the hotel costs so no extra charge to you. Our goal is to help you to arrive to the conference site directly and in time and to compensate for the needed relocation of most of the *** hotel guests from Hotel Opal *** to more remote but at least as good *** hotels as Hotel Opal. In the evening the goal is to help to get back to your hotel without the need of waiting for the public bus transportation.
Conference transfer buses:
As a default there will be a bus for Low x 2016 conference leaving from the Liszt F. Airport in Budapest on Sunday, June 5 2016, at 18:00. It will arrive to the conference hotels in Gyöngyös by about 19:15.
There will be a hostess with a Low-x 2016 flag and a list of names of the conference participants who signed up for this bus. The hostess will collect you at the arrival hall of the Franz Liszt Budapest Airport, Terminal 2A, and will call the bus driver when all the participants arrived and ready to board the bus. The bus will wait for the hostess call outside the airport area as the new rules make it very expensive to park a bus at the Budapest Airport. Expect a timely departure.
As a default there will be a bus departing from the conference site to the Liszt Airport on Sunday, June 12 2016, leaving from the conference hotels between 8:00 (Hotel Mátra Sástó)8:15 (Hotel Anna, Hotel Mátra Vital) and 8:30 (Károly Róbert Student Hostel) and arrive to the Airport by 10:00 am.
The cost for the conference bus (Airport - conference site direct transportation) will be 8000 HUF (about 25 EUR)/person/trip, to be payed on the bus (and not included in the conference registration fee).
Public transportation:
Bus schedules are available here:
Budapest - Karoly Robert College (through Gyöngyös)
Budapest - Mátrafüred (through Gyöngyös)
Budapest - Sástó (through Gyöngyös)
Karoly Robert College - Mátrafüred
Mátrafüred - Károly Róbert College
Please note, that you have to buy a ticket on these public buses, and you can only pay in cash.
How to reach the conference site individually
Arrival by cab:
A simple choice is to pre-book a taxi to your hotel in Gyöngyös, reasonable cost range is 25 - 26 000 HUF (about 80 EUR, as of April 10, 2016).
If you take a cab from the airport to Gyöngyös without prebooking, please ask for the price ahead, it may be more expensive than you think.
You can also take a taxi at the airport to the Stadion Bus Station (Stadion Autóbusz Pályaudvar) in Budapest. During the day there are buses to Gyöngyös nearly every 30 minutes, as detailed at http://www.volanbusz.hu/en (see Domestic tickets / Buy online).
If the last bus already left, you can still book a room in the nearby Hotel Danubius Hotel Arena (former Hotel Stadion), or in any other Budapest hotel of your preference and come to Gyöngyös, Hungary with a bus next morning.
Arrival by car:
From Budapest you can reach Gyöngyös on the Highway M3. (Note that you will have to pay for the usage of the highway at one of the gas stations). You should take exit Gyöngyös-Nyugat on the old county road 3, then in Gyöngyös turn left to route 24 to the direction of Mátra. You will find all the three hotels and the conference site very close to this road, called Mátrai út, and in particular when you drive to the Károly Róbert College, the conference site, follow this road untill you see a big new SPAR and the hills, then after the traffic lamp take the first turn to the left, find a parking lot behind the main building: you have arrived to the conference site.
Arrival by bus:
There is a regular bus connection between Budapest and Gyöngyös. From Budapest Stadion bus station take Budapest-Gyöngyös express bus. During the normal working hours, there is a bus nearly every 30 min.
The English language searcheable official bus time table is available here:
http://ujmenetrend.cdata.hu/uj_menetrend/en/index.php
Arrival by train:
Not recommended, but this is also an option.
Take a train to the city of Gyöngyös at Eastern railway station ("Keleti pályaudvar"). Please change the train at Vámosgyörk. This option is inferoir to transfer by bus, if you happen to transfer from Budapest, because of the existence of direct and efficient, nonstop public bus connections between Budapest and Gyöngyös.
