Venue and Antwerp - Recommended hotels with pre-negotiated prices available
Hotels are found through this link.
The conference is held at the Flanders Meeting & Convention Center Antwerp, in central Antwerp, Belgium. The venue is conveniently located in the heart of the city, in the award winning 19th Century Antwerp ZOO (the Garden of Life), just a few minutes walk from the central railway station. A number of hotels are located in close vicinity to the conferene centre, and you can reach the historic city center by foot in about ten minutes.
Info about the City of Antwerp.
Hotels
The Antwerp Convention Centre kindly offers a list of hotels with discounted prices.
Hotels are found through this link. (Note: You can easily choose other preferred dates on the hotel web page).
Travel
Antwerp is easy to reach by train and is less than 30 minutes from central Brussels, with several trains every hour. The Thalys takes you there from Paris in a little more than two hours and from Cologne you'll need 2:45 hours. With Eurostar from London, you'll reach Antwerp in a little more than three hours via Brussels.
If you need to fly, you can easily get to Antwerp from Brussels airport in about half an hour, with several options every hour to choose from.
For European train travel, we suggest a number of timetable and booking sites:
- SNCB International, Belgian railways iste for international bookings
- Bahn.de (German railways)
- Omio.com (international booking site, good for intracountry EU train travel).