The organizers have reserved a small block of discounted rooms at The Passage Hotel in Basel, Switzerland.

EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg is the closest international airport to Basel.

AIRPORT CODE: BSL, EAP, MLH
DISTANCE: 6.4km/4mi to hotel (approximately 10 min drive to hotel)
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AIRPORT FAQs

• What currency is accepted at the EuroAirport?
In the French sector of the airport, it is usual to pay in Euros, in the Swiss sector in Swiss Francs.

• Are there multiple exits for arriving passengers (France / Switzerland)?
Yes, the airport consists of two separate parts, a French part and a Swiss part.
Arriving passengers can choose freely if they want to leave the baggage claim area for France or for Switzerland. The respective exits are clearly marked.
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Zürich Airport
8058 Zürich-Flughafen
Switzerland

AIRPORT CODE: ZRH
DISTANCE: 86 km/53 mi (approximately 1 hour drive to hotel)

Taxi transfers to/from EuroAirport and hotel run approximately 45-50 CHF per transfer.

The following car services provide airport transfers:

NAME: Transfer Service Basel
EMAIL:kontakt@transferservice-basel.ch
WEBSITE:http://www.transferservice-basel.ch/
TEL: + 41 78 861 35 50
VEHICLE: Sedan
COST: 50 CHF (inclusive of fees, tax, and gratuity).
PLEASE NOTE: Reservations are best fulfilled by email.

 

Public Transportation to/from EuroAirport (25-40 minutes)

Bus from airport:

• Take Bus 50: EuroAirport to Bahnhof SBB
• Arrive Basel SBB, Bahnhof
• Take Bus 30 towards Basel, Badischer Bahnhof
• Arrive Basel, Steinenschanze
• Walk north on Steinengraben toward Kanonengasse

Bus to airport:

• Head southeast on Steinengraben toward Kanonengasse
• Arrive Basel, Steinenschanze
• Take Bus 30 towards Basel SBB, Bahnhof
• Arrive Basel SBB, Bahnhof
• Take Bus 50 towards Basel EuroAirport, Verwaltung

(please allow extra time to travel to your respective terminals)

For timetables visithttp://www.bvb.ch/

Basel SBB railway station is the central railway station in the city of Basel, Switzerland.

The meeting hotel is 800m (0.5 mi) away from Basel’s Central Train Station (Basel SBB) – a 10-15 minute walk or 5 minute bus ride (#30) from The Passage Hotel.
BASEL SBB CENTRAL TRAIN STATION:
Bahnhof Basel SBB Centralbahnstrasse 10
4051 Basel, Switzerland

For tickets and timetables visit:
http://www.sbb.ch/en/home.html

Meeting venue transfers will be offered each day of the meeting from the meeting hotel, The Passage.

Basel is Switzerland’s third most populous city (behind Zürich and Geneva) with about 195,000 inhabitants.  Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. In 2011, the Basel agglomeration was the third largest in Switzerland with a population of 500,600 in 74 municipalities in Switzerland and an additional 53 in neighboring countries (municipal count as of 2000). The tri-national Basel metropolitan area has around 830,000 inhabitants in 226 municipalities.

Located in northwest Switzerland on the river Rhine, Basel functions as a major industrial centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: “Regio TriRhena”. It has the oldest university of the Swiss Confederation (1460).

The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.

Basel is among the most important cultural centres of Switzerland. The city comprises a large number of theatres and many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the world’s oldest art collection accessible to the public. In addition the Theater Basel was chosen in 1999 as the best stage for German-language performances and in 2009 & 2010 as “Opera of the Year” by German Opera Magazine “Opernwelt”.

–Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel