Some infos about Stuttgart/Transportation

Sun Jan 9 11:17:15 CST 2005

Hello Brian,

you wanted to do the Wineconf web page ;) so here is some info you could use:

Location
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Stuttgart, Germany - http://www.stuttgart.de/ - The town of Stuttgart with
tourist information in 5 different languages. You can find there town
maps and the location of tourist information centres.

University of Stuttgart - http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ were the Wine
conference will take place. Be aware that the University of Stuttgart
is split into two big parts. One is located downtown, is smaller and
holds the non-techies. We will be in the upper part (natural sciences,
engineers) which is 10 minutes away by S-Bahn from Stuttgart downtown.
The S-Bahn station is called "University" and during the day you have a
train going at least every 10 minutes between there and Stuttgart
downtown

Our actual hosts: Faculty 5 http://www.f-iei.uni-stuttgart.de/ and more
specific the Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering
http://www.ikr.uni-stuttgart.de/ . Don't know if Mister Gemkow wants
this advertised on the Wineconf web page. At least you can get from the
last page the probable address of the Wineconf.

Traveling
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By Plane
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* Airport Stuttgart - http://www.stuttgart-airport.com/ located 27 minutes
away from downtown by S-Bahn or around 20 EUR for the taxi. The airport
is even nearer to the University and the S-Bahn going downtown passes by
the University and needs only 17 minutes to get you there.
Not being one of the top biggest airports in Germany offers some
advantages: not being that bound to the old big airlines it was
picked by the cheap airlines.

* Cheap Flights:
Cheap airlines (for US guys: this are like your SouthWest
Airlines) with direct flights to Stuttgart:
- Hapag-Lloyd Express http://www.hlx.com
- Air Berlin http://www.airberlin.de/
- Germanwings http://www.germanwings.com/
If you are (un)lucky to live in a spot were germans like to spend their
vacation then you can check out this two charter airlines because you
can get some cheap flights with them too:
- Condor http://www.condor.de/
- Hapag-Lloyd http://www.hapagfly.com/

* Normal Flights:
Any major european airline should have some flights into Stuttgart. Like
always with the traditional airlines if you have a stop over in the
major hub of that airline the tickets get way cheaper.

* US and non european flights:
- Delta has a direct flight into Stuttgart from Atlanta.
- All other flights will go over Frankfurt and maybe some few over
  Munich

* Flights over Frankfurt:
If you fly over Frankfurt you may want to check your stop over time at
the airport in Frankfurt. That's because the airport has a train station
where national and international trains stop. If you are lucky you can
be in a little bit more than 1 1/2 hours after grabbing your luggage in
Stuttgart downtown. You have connections between Franfurt airport and
Stuttgart main train station at least every hour (during the day/evening)
and the duration of the trip is around 1 hour 15 minutes.
At least Lufthansa has a deal with the Deutsche Bahn (german railways)
where selected trains have Lufthansa flight numbers and you check in and
check out at the Stuttgart main station (far far far less crowded than
the Frankfurt airport).
If you can not get one of those "flight by rail" try to get with your
flight a "feeder train ticket". That's a train ticket valid only with
your plane ticket from the airport to your final destination in Germany.
It's a fixed fee independent of the distance by train and it's way
cheaper than normal train tickets.
But if you don't feel comfortable in switching from plane to train
nobody stops you to fly the stone throw distance from Frankfurt to
Stuttgart.

* Flights over Munich:
What was said for flights over Frankfurt is NOT valid for Munich. Munich
might look on the map as neer to Stuttgart as Frankfurt but this is valid only to
downtown to downtown connection by train (2 hours). But from the Munich
main train station you will need almost 1 hour to get out to the Munich
airport by S-Bahn. Put in the time you loose between switching trains
and you can easily need 4 hours from Munich airport to Stuttgart
downtown.
If you plan to take anyway a rental car you should be able to get with
that in 2.5 hours to Stuttgart (no traffic, good navigation skills or
navigation system).

By train:
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Train is a viable alternative to get to Stuttgart. But look for special
discounts for the train tickets because around here flighing is normaly
cheaper than going by train. If you are still young (afair below 27 or
25) you can get cheap InterRail tickets.
Deutsche Bahn (german railways) http://www.bahn.de

By bus:
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There are different companies that have regular bus connections to
Stuttgart (As i don't like to travel by bus i don't know one. You may
want to ask your local travel agency). For different parts of Europe
this could be the cheapest way to get to Stuttgart (especialy true for
Eastern Europe).

By car:
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2 Autobahns pass by Stuttgart: A8 and A81. But i figure if you come by
car you will use your navigation system or your favorite map and guide
service. Address to type in to get to the University:
Universitaet Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 47
70569 Stuttgart

Traveling in Stuttgart:
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VVS, the Stuttgart public transportation system http://www.vvs.de . You
can get there schedules, price informations (group tickets), etc.
The S-Bahn is the main device you will use. It's a suburbs train and in
most of Stuttgart it's underground.
The main S-Bahn station which you will probably use:
- Flughafen - Stuttgart Airport
- Universität - University of Stuttgart (upper part where the conference
  will take place)
- Hauptbahnhof - Main train station
- Stadtmitte - Stuttgart "middle of the city" (downtown). Actualy the
  Stuttgart downtown is in between the S-Bahn stations Hauptbahnhof and
  Stadtmitte.
S-Bahn's to take if you want to travel between those stations:
- To the airport: S2 and sometimes S3
- downtown to the University: S1, S2 and S3
- Airport to downtown or University: the first S-Bahn that comes (will
  be S2 and sometimes S3 ;).

Lodging
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Mister Gemkow has a better overview of the hotels neer the University.
Here is only information for youth hostels.

Youth Hostels:
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- The Stuttgart Youth Hostel http://www.jugendherberge-stuttgart.de/
- More youth hostel style lodging (sorry, it seems to be available only
  in German)
  http://www.stuttgart-tourist.de/deutsch/hotels/jugendherbergen.html

bye
	michael
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