Accommodation and travel:
Place of the conference:
This meeting will be held at the DESCARTES College, 1bis rue de la Préfecture in TOURS downtown, 10 mn walk from the railway station. Phone : +33 (0)2 47 31 01 01 - Fax : +33 (0)2 47 31 01 00.
Participants can join the meeting place directly by train, arriving to TOURS railway station.
If you get troubles, do not hesitate to contact the organization.
To come to Tours:
By train :
• from Paris-Montparnasse station (less than one hour)
• from Roissy CDG airport (1:35)
• from Lille: connections with London on Eurostar and Brussels on Thalys (2:30)
• from Bordeaux (2:15)
• from Lyon (3:00)
• from Strasbourg: connections with Frankfort, Munich, Zurick (4:15)
Two TGV stations:
• city-station in Tours
• St-Pierre-des-Corps station, with continuous shuttle service to the city-station (5 minutes)
For timetable: see the SNCF web site.
By plane :
• Aéroport International de Tours-Val de Loire: London-Tours once a day (see the airport web site).
• Aéroport ROISSY CDG (1:35 from Tours by TGV).
By car :
• Motorway A 10 Aquitaine Paris-Tours-Bordeaux: connections with northeast Europe to Spain and Portugal
• Motorway A 85 to Angers then A 11 to Nantes
• Motorway A 28 to Le Mans
• Motorway A 85 to Vierzon then A 71 to Clermond-Ferrand, Saint-Etienne, Lyon, Grenoble
To find your route: see the ViaMichelin web site.
Access map:
Accommodation:
Accommodation will be in downtown hotels (less than 10 mn walking from the conference place). You have to book directly your room to the hotel.
Hôtel de l'EUROPE
12 pl. du Gal Leclerc - 37000 Tours - tel: 02 47 05 42 07
Hôtel BERTHELOT
8 rue Berthelot - 37000 TOURS - tel: 02 47 05 71 95
Hôtel MODERNE
1 rue Victor Laloux - 37000 Tours - tel: 02 47 05 32 81.
Ibis Hôtel (Angle Rue Edouard Vaillant)
Single room with breakfast 64 €
1, rue Georges Claude - 37000 TOURS - tel : 02 47 70 35 35 / fax : 02 47 70 35 10
Etap Hôtel
Single room with breakfast 42 €
27, rue Edouard Vaillant - 37000 TOURS - tel : 08 92 68 09 22 / fax : 02 47 20 03 20
Hôtel des Châteaux de la Loire ** (the nearest from the Lycée Descartes)
single room from 41 €
12 rue Gambetta - 37000 TOURS - tel : 02 47 05 10 05 / fax : 02 47 20 20 14
Hôtel CRIDEN **
65, Bd Heurteloup - 37000 TOURS - tel : 02 47 20 81 14 / fax : 02 47 05 61 65
Astéries Hôtel **
8, rue Blaise Pascal - 37000 Tours - tel : 02 47 05 41 43 / fax : 02 47 05 89 96
Hôtel Colbert **
78, rue Colbert - 37000 TOURS - tel : 02 47 66 61 56 / fax : 02 47 66 01 55
Hôtel du Théâtre **
57, rue de la Scellerie - 37000 TOURS - tel : 02 47 05 31 29 / fax : 02 47 61 20 78
Hôtel Mercure
29, rue Edouard Vaillant - 37000 Tours - tel : 02 47 60 40 60 / fax : 02 47 64 74 81
Le Grand Hôtel (Best Western ~ 65 €)
9, Place du Maréchal-Leclerc - 37000 Tours - tel : 02 47 05 35 31 / fax : 02 47 64 10 77
Central Hôtel (Best Western ~ 60€)
21, rue Berthelot - 37000 Tours - tel : 02 47 05 46 44 / fax : 02 47 66 10 26