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	UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference High-Availability and Reliability 25-26 February 2004 Bournemouth

Winter Conference 2004 Location

The event is being held in Bournemouth. The Conference Hotel and Tutorial Venue is The Queens Hotel, Meyrick Road, BH1 3DL Tel: 01202 554 415, Fax: 01202 294 810, www.arthuryoung.co.uk
Bed & Full English breakfast is available at the special rate of £45 inclusive of VAT for single occupancy per night, or £39 inc.vat if shared. To obtain this rate, bookings must be made via the UKUUG Secretariat.

The Conference proper will be held in the Mary Wollstonecroft Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth House, on the Lansdowne Campus of Bournemouth University, BH1 3LH, this is a short walk away from the Conference Hotel.

Transport

MAPS

	The Queens Hotel / Tutorial BH1 3DL	Lansdowne Campus / Conference BH1 3LH
MapQuest + PDA version	Map Route-planner	Map Route-planner
Multimap	Map	Map
StreetMap	Map	Map
The AA	Route-planner

 

BY TRAIN

Rail tickets can be purchased online from sites such as Qjump. Tickets may also be purchased from most staffed rail stations or by calling the tele-sales line for your train operating company.

Significant savings can be made if you book tickets >7 days in advance. A Railcard may save (a further) 33%. The National Rail web gives details of the different types of tickets, and the conditions that apply. Be aware that a Standard Open can cost many times more than the cheapest ticket.

Virgin: Direct trains from Reading, Oxford, Birmingham and the Midlands, Manchester and the Northwest, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

South West Trains: Comprehensive service from London Waterloo (journey time as little as 97 minutes). Also from Southampton, Winchester, Basingstoke to the East, and Poole, Wareham, Dorchester and Weymouth to the West.

South Central Trains West-Coastway service changing at Southampton Central. Chichester, Worthing, Hove and Brighton are served.

Bournemouth Railway Station, Holdenhurst Road. Tel: 01202 364000

National Rail Enquiries Tel: 08457 484950

BY COACH

National Express Coaches
Coaches leave London Victoria on the hour every hour from 09.00. Journey time is 2 hours 25 minutes. Return fare around £22.00. Coach also picks up from Heathrow; journey time 1 hour 15 minutes. Tel: 08705 808080.

BY AIR

Bournemouth International Airport (BOH,, Hurn) - www.flybournemouth.com

Dublin, Glasgow (Prestwick), and Barcelona (Girona): daily flights with Ryannair, www.ryanair.com

Airport to town centre by airport bus 3 times daily; fare £4.00; journey time 15 minutes.
Airport to town centre/hotel by taxi: cost approx. £12; journey time 10 minutes.
Tel: 01202 536267 air-n-portcars.co.uk, or Tel: 01202 697565 corfemullencabco.com

Southampton Airport (SOU)-www.baa.com/main/airports/southampton

Southampton airport is approx. 35 miles from Bournemouth. There is a direct train from the airport to Bournemouth.

Flights from Aberdeen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle.

BOURNEMOUTH TOURIST INFO CENTRE - www.bournemouth.co.uk

Weather -- expect max 8C (47F), min 3C (37F), and showers