Venue, accommodation and travel
Venue information
The conference is taking place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC). Click here for details on how to get there
https://www.eicc.co.uk/visiting/
All sessions will be held in the EICC, as well as the awards and poster reception.
The conference welcome reception will be held at Playfair Library
https://www.uoecollection.com/conferences-events/venue-hubs/old-town-campus/old-college-and-playfair-library/
The conference dinner will be at National Museum of Scotland
https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland
Accommodation
Click here to find a selection of accommodation options in Edinburgh.
https://edinburgh.org/accommodation/
Getting to Edinburgh
Rail:
Edinburgh’s two major railway stations, Edinburgh Waverley and Edinburgh Haymarket, operate regular services to other parts of Scotland and the UK on a frequent basis. Haymarket is a few minutes’ walk from the EICC.
LNER provide links from Edinburgh to London, Newcastle, York, Leeds and Aberdeen. Rail travellers can travel to London in approximately five hours.
TransPennine Express has services into Edinburgh from Manchester Airport, Manchester, Preston, Leeds, York and Newcastle.
Virgin Rail operates a service on the west coast to London via Lockerbie, Preston, Birmingham and Coventry.
Caledonian Sleeper is an overnight service operating between Edinburgh and London (Euston) every night (except Saturday).
Scotrail operates a full schedule of trains throughout Scotland.
Plane: Over 150 destinations served by
Edinburgh airport:
UK: London City, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, London Luton, London Stansted, Belfast City and Belfast International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter and Southampton.
International connections include Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Cork, Doha, Dublin, Florence, Geneva, Helsinki, Istanbul, Lisbon, Madrid, New York, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Shannon, Stockholm, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington DC and Zurich.
The
Edinburgh tram runs from the airport to Haymarket which is a short walk from the venue.
Car:
An extensive road network links Edinburgh to the rest of Scotland and UK making access to Scotland’s capital easy by car.
Travelling west, Edinburgh to Glasgow can take just over an hour along the M8 and travelling northwards, it will take approximately 2.5 hours to reach Aberdeen and 3.5 hours to arrive in Inverness. Newcastle is approximately a 2.5 hour drive and Manchester and Birmingham, 4 and 6 hours respectively.
Coach: Click here for National Express
https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/destinations/edinburgh
Things to do in Edinburgh and the surrounding area
For more information visit
https://edinburgh.org/travel-trade/