The Graz trip - practical arrangements

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Who is travelling with whom to Graz?
To be able to plan joint trips to and from Helsinki you need to know who travels when.

So there are two groups, and Mikael will join both.

I and 14 students: Kaistinen, Abdi, Delahay, Lopez Carcia, Tikkanen, Kareinen, Ahlamo, Korhonen, Liu, Kuismin, Peltola, Turppa, Wilhelmsson, Hopkins will travel via Vienna.

Also Mikael will join this group on the way to Graz.

Everybody should check in around 13:00, departure 14:40. We will meet at the gate 14:00.
This group (without Mikael) will be back in Helsinki Sunday evening 23:35.

The other group flying via to Graz via Frankfurth and back via München is Norman, Heino, Koskela and Pantovic + Mikael on the return flight.

They departure already 13:25 and should check in by noon. They will be back in Helsinki 23:05.

This group will probably not make the 23:10 bus to Tampere, so most of us will take the 00:15 bus on Monday morning. I recommend you reserve a seat in advance, the bus can be crowded if all 20 of us will be there.

We will have a meeting after next week to discuss all the travel and festival details.

Buses and bus tickets: http://www.expressbus.fi/timetables-and-tickets

Sharing rooms

Please add room mates below, two on each row:
Anna Tikkanen - Henry Kuismin
Johanna Peltola - Amir Abdi
GuanJun Liu - Neil Hopkins
Eeva-Kaisa Ahlamo - Eevi Korhonen
Anayte Delahay - Nelli Norman
Markus Turppa - Aleksi Kaistinen
Miska Wilhelmsson - Tero Koskela

Antti Kareinen - Danko Pantovic


Travel insurance
You should take a travel insurance covering at least medical expenses and your personal possessions.


New 3.11: How to transfer from airport to hotel Daniel
I asked Paul Pivec, our friend at FH Joanneum what would be the best way to move to the hotel, which is next to the railwaystation, (Bahnhof in Austrian) I've made the trip by train or taxi, unfortunately there is no tram line to airport.


Paul replied:
The train from the airport is okay, but a bit of a walk for the airport building. I am sure there is a ticket machine on the platform (€1.90). There is also a bus (also €1.90) from the airport to the Bahnhof ( where Hotel Daniel is). but it may be cheaper to put 4 or 5 in a taxi and share the cost. A taxi will be around 20 euros to Hotel Daniel. There are train and bus timetables on the Graz Flughafen web site.
(Flughafen = airport in Austrian)

Wednesday evening

Paul: We can meet you at the hotel at 7:30ish and take you all for a beer. We can get the Tram to the city (or walk if it is not raining) and we will buy the first round. This will give the students a chance to orientate themselves. Other than that, we don't have anything else planned.

(By city Paul means the awesome old town. By We Paul means himself and his wife, Maja. They arranged the Game Development Summer school hosted by IMP August/September. Maja has visited us many times. They work at our partner FH Joanneum (Joanneum UAS) which is among our best partners.)

FOOD

You'll have a good, lasting, all-around hotel breakfast at Daniel. On Thursday you have lunch at the Academic Network Conference, that is included in the participation fee IMP has paid for you.

About Friday and Saturday Lucie, the Project Manager of the Multimedia Festival tells you:

"Friday & Saturday there will be coffee, cookies & fruits but we will provide a list of places where to have lunch in the neighbourhood. Saturday evening, there will be a cocktail with finger food."