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SECOND ENBI FORUMS WORKSHOP > Accomodation and practicalities
 
Improving European participation in GBIF: The participants' point of view
- Second ENBI Forums Workshop (Palma de Mallorca, 10 - 12 May 2005) -
 
 
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Meeting site

The Conference Room of the Sa Riera Building (Universitat de les Illes Balears) will held the Second ENBI Forums Workshop. It is a centric place in Palma de Mallorca, about five - ten minutes walking from the City Hall see map.

A good street finder of Palma city can be found at http://www.a-palma.es/eng_index.htm.

Available facilities for the presentations includes Power Point Canyon. Other facilities are possible under request.

 

Hotel accomodation

Palma is a very turistic city thus, to avoid disappointments, we recommend that you reserve your hotel room as early as possible. No hotel gives special discounts to the meeting participants, so you may book whichever hotel you like. For your convenience, we provide a list of hotels (see list), which are located close to the workshop venue.

For further hotel, transport and tourist information you can visit the following web pages:

  • www.visitbalears.com Web page where you can find all kind of tourist information: hotels, bus lines, history, etc about Mallorca and neighbour islands.
  • www.caib.es Web page of the Government of the Balearic Islands where you will find tourist and another information related to the Balearic Islands.
  • www.a-palma.es Web page of the City Hall of Palma. You will find an street map and bus services.
 

Travel

Palma Airport - Palma city

Palma de Mallorca airport is situated at 9 km of the city centre and it is is well connected by bus. You can find further information about the Palma airport and other practicalities on http://www.aena.es/.

  • Getting city centre by bus: Line 1

    Itinerary:
    From airport: arrivals, airport petrol station, Gesa building, Porta d'es Camp, Avenues, Paseo Mallorca, Es Jonquet, seaside boulevard, Porto Pí, Port.
    From Palma: Port, Porto Pí, Paseo Marítimo, Sa Faxina, Paseo de Mallorca, Avenues, Porta d'es Camp, Gesa building, airport.

    Stops:
    Arrivals floor, across from the car park.
    Check-in floor, across from the airport access motorway.

    Timetable:
    From the airport: first departures, 6:10am, 6:35am, 6:.55am, 7:15am; last departures, 0:45pm, 1:15pm, 1:45pm, 2:15am.
    From Palma: first departures, 5:40am, 6:00am, 6:15am; last departures, 1:00pm, 1:30pm, 2:00am, 2:30am.Every 15 minutes.

    Price:
    1.85 €; 0.93 € for citizen card holders and 0.62 € for students.
  • Getting city centre by taxi:

    Stops:
    Arrivals level, outside gate D.

    Price:
    Minimum fare: 1,80 €.
    Rate 1 for each kilometre travelled (Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and every day from 21.00 to 6.00 hours): 0,74 €.
    Rate 2 for each kilometre travelled (working days from 6 to 21 hours): 0,49 €.
    Supplements: journey to or from the airport: 2,40 €; for each item or suitcase (excluding wheelchairs): 0,45 €; call over radio, rate 1: 0,90€; call over radio, rate 2: €0.45; waiting per hour, rate 1: €13.82; waiting per hour, rate 2: 14,06 €.


    Taxi companies:

    • Palma Taxi: 971 401 414
    • Telephone Radiotaxi: 971 755 440
    • Telephone taxi: 971 744 050

 

 
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