PSF Retreat 2018 - Logistics and Travel Arrangements

While in Boppard:

Wireless internet acces will be available. While we encourage live reports of the event on social media, please do keep your focus on the presentations and discussions during the sessions.

During the workshop mineral water will be provided, and there will be regular and long coffee breaks. With lunch and dinner you can order a non-alcoholic refreshment free of charge, with dinner this can also be a glass of wine or a beer. Other drinks (e.g. in the evening) have to be paid individually, you can pay directly at the bar when you order them.

Travel arrangements:

We have arranged a Bus that will carry 50 people from Heidelberg to Boppard on Monday morning and back on Wednesday afternoon. The bus will be waiting for you on the parking lot behind the crown plaza hotel from 08:00 and will leave 08:10 sharp.

If you cannot attend the whole workshop and wish to come later or leave earlier you should arrange your own travel (train, private car etc.) and let us know. Everyone else must make use of the organized transport.

The meeting point is a short walk from Bismarckplatz:

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Please plan to be at the meeting point at 07:50, so we can really start the trip in time. We will return on Wednesday afternoon around 15:30 and will be back in Heidelberg between ~17.30 h, depending on traffic.

You do not have to submit a travel application, but a collective travel application will be filed by the organizers.

Information below is only relevant for people that attend only part of the workshop and thus arrange their own transportation

( If you attend the whole workshop you needn't take note of anything below here)

Remember to fill out your travel application! (on MPIA intranet)

Hotel Ebertor is located directly on the banks of the Rhein river in the town of Boppard am Rhein. The easiest and shortest (156 km) route is to take the A61 north, which should take us to Boppard in ~01:45 to 2 hours:

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For several reasons, MPIA cannot grant the status of 'Significant business interest in using a private vehicle' for private cars. This means that the employer will not be liable for material damages should there be any unwanted contact with other vehicles or obstacles. Should you wish to do so, you can arrange with the travel department an external insurance that covers the three days during the Retreat. This will cost 3-3.5 euros per day.