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About Edinburgh
Getting to Edinburgh and to the Epigenetic Robotics 2002 venue.
We highly stress that Edinburgh is extremely busy at the time
of year the workshop is being held. Please make your bookings
well in advance!
Edinburgh is easily reachable by air, train, coach, and car.
Here are some links that can help you plan your trip:
Edinburgh Airport: Maps, facilities, airlines that serve
Edinburgh, and public transport from/to the airport.
Train information: includes
online timetables and planner. See also ScotRail's web page.
Coach information:
includes online timetables, and fare quotations.
Travelling by car - these might be useful: Map of
the city centre,
map
of the suburbs Here is a map (postscript)
of the city, and a map of the university central area
and the surroundings.
You might find additional information about Edinburgh at:
Edinburgh's
District Council Official Guide
Edinburgh and Lothians
Tourist Board
Accomodation information (under construction)
Edinburgh
offers a huge range of accomodation options ranging from magnificent
five star hotels to homely guest houses to budget youth hostels. We
have compiled below a list of few options (and we will be adding more
over the next few days): they vary in their luxury level, but all are
within reasonable distance from the workshop venue (less than 10-20
minutes walk, some even less), and have been checked/graded by either
the Scottish Tourist Board, the AA, or the RAC. This only applies to
the ones listed individually - you should check for entries listed as
part of compilations. Some options have Web pages on the net, offering
electronic booking etc.
Prices listed are per day, and are only estimates using current website
quotes. Summer is the height of tourism, so book your rooms early! As of
1/17/2002, the below establishments had openings, but do not delay!
- Hotels [middle - high prices]:
- Guest Houses, B&Bs [low - mid prices]:
- Budget accomodation - Youth Hostels
Some other hotels, very close to the venue (less than 10 minutes walk),
without web entries (that we know of):
Carlton Highland Hotel, 1 North Bridge, Tel.:
+44 131 556 7277 Fax: +44 131 557 2451.
Old Waverley Hotel, 43 Princess Street. Tel +44 131 556 4648
Fax: +44 131 557 6316.
Thistle Inn Hotel, 94 Grassmarket, Tel.: +44 131 220 2299,
Fax +44 131 225 5244.
If you have reached this point, and still haven't found anything, you can
have a look at some other sources of information:
The Wee Guide to
Edinburgh Accomodation
Bed and
Breakfast Accomodation by Scotland HolidayNet
Milford lodgings
list
AccomoDATA
Edinburgh Tourist
Board accomodation page
Smooth Hound
Systems Edinburgh entry
or contact the Edinburgh Tourist Board Central Reservations Service. Write to:
Central Reservations Department
Edinburgh and Lothians Tourist Board
3 Princes Street
Edinburgh , EH2 2QP
Scotland
Telephone: +44-131-473-3855, FAX: +44-131-473-3886
Other useful information
A few more bits that might be useful to some:
Weather
Forecast by the Met Office
Currency Converter
ON-line Scotland
Edinburgh Interdisciplinary links :)
Deep Sea World
Informational maps can be found on the University of Edinburgh's
here.
Thanks to Dr. Yiannis Demiris for the above information!
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