Venue

The ASTERICS kick-off meeting will take place at

ASTRON
Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4
7991 PD  Dwingeloo
The Netherlands
tel. +31 (0)521 595100

 

 

Travel

Dwingeloo is in the north-east of the Netherlands, and can be reached in about 20 minutes by either private car or taxi from Hoogeveen railway station, a two hour train ride from Amsterdam Schiphol airport. For a train schedule, please look at the website: http://www.ns.nl/en/travellers/home.

Purchasing train tickets - at ticket machines or in advance via website 

At Amsterdam Schiphol airport or any other railway station you should buy a train ticket (ticket has a chip) from the machine with a blue sign. These ticket machines accept creditcards (Visa and Mastercard). Machines accept most debit cards with a Maestro logo. 
More information about purchasing a ticket: 
http://www.ns.nl/en/travellers/arrange-and-buy/tickets-and-passes/purchasing-tickets 
and 
http://www.ns.nl/en/travellers/arrange-and-buy/tickets-and-passes/purchasing-tickets/ns-self-service-ticket-machine.html 
IMPORTANT: At the start and end of your public transport journey you must check in and out at the gates or yellow card readers at the entrance of the platform or station. You do not have to check out and in again at Zwolle station if you change trains. For more info: http://www.ns.nl/en/travellers/arrange-and-buy/tickets-and-passes/ticket-and-pass-types. 
  
In case you want to buy a train ticket in advance, you may want to use https://www.b-europe.com/ 
This site allows anyone to buy train tickets (on a specific date) for the larger intercity trains using any standard credit card and print out the ticket. Train times match the timetable of the Dutch railways (NS). Print the ticket and bring it with you together with your passport. The site https://www.ns.nl/eticket/ only allows buying e-tickets with a Dutch bankcard - that is why the above website is recommended. With this print ticket it is not necessary (yet) to check in and out.

Shuttle transport from/to train station Hoogeveen

We can arrange for taxis (or private shuttle buses at peak travel times) from/to Hoogeveen. For that purpose please fill in your time of arrival in Hoogeveen and departure from ASTRON/hotel in the registration form.

 

 

Accomodation

Participants are requested to make and pay for their own hotel reservation. A block reservation has been made at two hotels nearby, for the night of 26 May. Note the expiration dates!
It is advisable to make a hotel reservation in time.   

 

 

Fletcher Hotel-Restaurant De Börken (32 rooms blocked)
Lhee 76
7991 PJ Dwingeloo
https://www.fletcher.nl/en/hotels/borken/
Hotel De Börken is at walking distance from ASTRON (approx. 1.5 km). If you prefer to use the collective transport service, please indicate on the registration page.
Room rates are € 67.50 incl. breakfast for a double room with single occupation (excl. tax).
While making the hotel room reservation, please refer to ‘Blockbooking ASTRON F59-FC23181’ to get the preferred rate. We made a block booking that will expire on 1 May 2015. You can reserve a hotel room by:

 

 

Hampshire Hotel Wesseling (20 rooms blocked)
Brink 26
7991 CH  Dwingeloo
http://www.hotelwesseling.nl/

Travel distance to ASTRON: approx. 3.5 km. If you intend to use the collective transport service, please indicate on the registration page.

Room rates are € 72.50 incl. breakfast (excl. tax).
While making the hotel room reservation, please refer to ‘ASTERICS ASTRON’ to get the preferred rate. We made a block booking that will expire on 1 May 2015. You can reserve a hotel room by:

 

 

 

Contact

If you have any additional questions please send us an email.