Getting There

• Heathrow Airport — you can continue on to Reading via a 45-minute coach ride (known as Railair, see below).
• Gatwick Airport — you can continue on to Reading by catching an hourly direct train that takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Stansted Airport — you can get to Reading by taking the train into London, changing to the Underground and then taking the train again to Reading. This will take around 2 hours and 10 minutes.
• Waterloo Station — Eurostar connections from western Europe to London.

With these airports you should have a wide choice of airlines to fly with depending on your quality and travelling preferences.

Local and national travel information:

• Rail:
  • UK train fares and times.
  • Book UK train tickets online.
• Bus and coach:
  • Railair — coach service from Heathrow to Reading.
  • National Express
  • Reading Buses:
    • You will want to take the number 18 or 19 bus to get to the university from Reading station. Click here for the timetable. You should get off at the St Joseph's Convent bus stop, as this is the nearest to Windsor Hall.
• Taxi — around £5 - £10 from Reading Station to the Univeristy of Reading.
• Road — Reading is situated next to the M4, junction 11. See the AA route planner for more details.

Accommodation

University Accommodation

We have a limited number of reasonably priced rooms available at the university which will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis until there are no free rooms left. After that you will have to make your own arrangements for staying in a local hotel and arrangements for traveling to the university each morning. Note that responders to the April survey who requested rooms will prioritised in the allocation of rooms.

Due to restrictions placed on us by the University of Reading everyone requesting a room at the university will have to pay for it by 12^th August 2006 and no refunds will be possible once you have been allocated a room. Also, due to tax reasons the only method of payment is to PayPal $75 US per night to the Wine fund using the button below. In your donation message, you need to indicate which nights you're staying, your name, a contact phone number and an email address.

Rooms at the university include breakfast. See here for more information on rooms in Windsor Hall.

Other Accommodation

See this page for information on hotels in the area (the first four are the best in terms of closeness to the university).

The University

The lecture theatre we will be using and the accommodation are both located on the main Whiteknights campus of the University of Reading. The conference itself will be taking place in building 59 in the Nike Lecture Theatre. The accommodation arranged through the university is in Windsor Hall. You can find both on this campus map (warning: 1.29 MB download).