Hotel Information
Best Western Museum Hotel will accommodate Fejs 21st Annual Congress in Athens on the 14-19 April 2006.The participants will be accommodated in the heart of Athens, next to the most famous Polytechnic University of Athens, ‘Polytehnio’ and the Athens National Archeological Museum.
The hotel is ready to host its guests and offer all Fejs’s participants a comfortable, pleasant and unforgettable stay in the Capital of Greece.
The hotel is located, down town Athens and is accessible from all Greek transportation and is close to the most wellknown areas.
The hotel has also free access to Internet, for all the young professionals of the 21st Fejs Annual Congress in Athens, which is basically everything that a journalist wants.
Near the hotel there is the metro station of Omonia, which takes just a few minutes walk to get there. Omonia metro station can be reached from the ‘Elefterios Venizelos Airport’ or the National Railway Station.
Hotel Address: Best Western Museum Hotel- 16 Bouboulinas str. 10682, Athens tel: +30 210 3805611.
Visit now, the web site for more details www.museumhotel.gr
All seminars and lectures will be held in Akmi Studies building, which is placed very close to the hotel and there will be not need to use transportation to get there.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:The OC is only responsible for the participants for 14-19 of April 2006. The OC is not responcible for booking hotel or hostel for extra nights for coming earlier of leaving later from Athens. Participants are responsible for themselves during the days that are not part of the Annual's program.
How to get to the Hotel
Airport name: Eleftherios Venizelos Athens International Airport
Approximate driving time: 30-45 minutes
Distance:25 kilometres
Please, find here below the best transport links from the airport to our hotel :
From the Athens Airport Bus “E95” to Syntagma square/Terminal. Then Trolley No 3 or 5 or 12 or 15 to Museum station (3rd station) and then 100 meters walk to Hotel Museum.
Departures every 20/30 minutes. Duration of the journey: 45 minutes (approximately)
Fare: 3,20 € (Bus E95) and 0,50 € for the Trolley.
Bus operates for 24 hours, on a daily basis every ½ hour.
Trolley operates on a daily basis from 06:30 to 23:00
Or
METRO -the only line "3"- to Syntagma, then Trolley No 3 or 5 or 12 or 15 to Museum station (3rd station) and then 100 meters, walk to Hotel Museum.
Departures every 1/2 hour.
METRO Fare: 6 € for 1 person/10 € for 2 persons.
TROLLEY Fare: 0,50 €
Metro operates on a daily basis from 06:30 to 23:00 (DUE to constructions at the moment operates until 20:30) departing every hour and the half hour (ex. 08:00, 08:30, 09:00, 09:30…)
Trolley operates on a daily basis from 06:30 to 23:00
Or
METRO -the only line "3" to Syntagma station (changing line at Syntagma station- taking the line "2", direction to Aghios Antonios, for the next 2 stations) and then 550 meters walk to Hotel Museum.
Metro operates on a daily basis from 06:30 to 23:00 (DUE to constructions at the moment operates until 20:30) departing every hour and the half hour (ex. 08:00, 08:30, 09:00, 09:30…)
AN ADVICE for the ticket system of bus and metro:
*Tickets must be bought before getting on.
*Metro: buy them in the ticket office at the station.
*Bus: tickets are available in most newspapers-shops, in the white little shacks and from street vendors.
NOTE that the ticket must be stamped in the machines as you get on the bus and just before you enter the platform area in the metro. Fares are the same for children age 6 and up. Children of 6 years or less go for free.
Airport ticket prices:
Single ticket € 6.00 / Return ticket (valid for 48 hours) € 10,00 / 2 persons Group ticket € 10,00
3 persons Group ticket € 15.00 / Reduced single ticket € 3.00 (the young under 18 and elderly over 65)
-Typical taxi fare from airport: 28,00 -35,00 euros (depending the time and the traffic)
-Nearest train/metro station:
1) Larissa railway station for Central Greece and Peloponnese / SUBURBAN Railway station for going to the International airport. Distance (m/km): 1200 meters
2) Omonia Metro station. Distance (m/km): 550 metres
Driving directions:
Please pay attention to the driving directions from the airport to our hotel:
From Athens airport the Attiki odos(high way), direction to Mesoghion Avenue, turn to the right on Alexandras avenue on Ambelokipi cross, 2nd car lights” before the end of Alexandras avenue, turn to the left onto Spiridonos Trikoupi street, on the 5th street (Stournari) to the right, 1st street (Bouboulinas) again to the right and after 70 meters you are at Museum Hotel.
NOTE: Participants will cover their expenses until they reach the hotel.
Fejs Greece Organizing Committee members are going to be waiting for them to guide them from 9:00-19:00 in the airport and the train station. Search for our people...in any case of delays please let us know. In case, you dont find anyone, please follow the guide.
