Arrival at Cape Town Airport
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Conference Venue
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Shuttle Service
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Hotels
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Other Accommodations
- Arrival at Cape Town Airport
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- For travels from Cape Town Airport to your accommodation you are
strongly recommended to use a professional airport shuttle service
and pre-book it before your air-travel.
Your accommodation will probably be able to organise such a service.
If not, you can require assistance from the SEFM 2008 official travel
agent
(lorinda@travelvialorinda.co.za).
Please note that privately-operated Mini-Bus and Taxis are not reliable.
- Upon arrival at the airport, there will be several people offering their
help.
You are advised to politely decline to receive their help and walk straight
to the pick-up-point where the pre-booked professional shuttle-operator will
be waiting for you.
The shuttle driver should also help you carry your luggage.
For this service, it is customary to give the driver a tip worth approximately
10% percent of the transport fee from airport to destination.
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- Conference Venue
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- Computer Science Building, 18 University Avenue, Upper Campus
- University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town
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- Lecture Theatres:
- SEFM School: Room 303 (level 3)
- SEFM 2008 Conference and Tutorial: Room 2A (level 2)
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- Shuttle Service
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- Special shuttle services will be organised from UTC Upper Campus to the reception and banquet venues
with drop-off on return directly to the accommodations of conference participants who have requested it.
A daily special shuttle to and from the UTC Upper Campus will be organised for those participants
whose accommodation are outside the regular Jammie Shuttle routes.
- Information on all Jammie Shuttle routes (including maps of timetables), which connect several
areas of Cape Town and suburbs to the Upper Campus of the University of Cape Town are available at
http://www.uct.ac.za/students/services/transport/maps/regular/.
Conference participants may need to be requested to show their conference badges to board the shuttle.
The organisers have sent all advanced registrants a letter to be shown (if requested) to board the
Jamie Shuttle on the first day.
Some of the regular Jammie Shuttle routes are listed below (with links to maps and timetables).
- Line 3 - Sandown connects
Rondebosch with the UCT Upper Campus, with two pick-up stops
(drop-off stops on the way back) in Sandown Rd (close to the intersection with Camp Ground Rd)
and in Dean St (close to the intersection with Main Rd)
See map
and timetable.
- Line 10 - Hiddingh Hall
connects the UCT Upper Campus with the UTC Hiddingh Campus,
which is located in the city of Cape Town.
See map
and timetable.
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- Hotels
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- Vineyard Hotel, Newlands (http://www.vineyard.co.za/)
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- Southern Sun, Newlands
(http://www.south-african-hotels.com/southern-sun-newlands/)
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- Other Accommodations
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- GUEST HOUSES IN RONDEBOSCH:
More economical rates available (compared to hotels) and GH's should be contacted
directly for special rates as their availability is limited due to them only having
a couple of rooms.
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- STUDENT ACCOMMODATION IN ROSEBANK:
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- BACKPACKERS ACCOMMODATION:
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- Other cheap accommodation for students:
- St Paul's B&B Guest House 182 Bree St Telephone 021 423 4420, Fax 021 423 1580.
A charming, well managed and inexpensive guesthouse in a Georgian building (formerly a maternity hospital) in a calm street on the city-centre fringes,
within easy striking distance of the sights. The rooms are large, comfortable and light with huge windows, and sharing bathroom and kitchen facilities. under R100
- Travellers' Inn 208 Long St Telephone 021 424 9272,
(www.travellers-inn.co.za).
Pleasant budget accommodation in an early-twentieth-century building above a cybercafé.
With no bar and no backpacker scene, this is a good bet for travellers wanting to avoid the hectic social atmosphere of the city-centre hostels.
Apart from the light and spacious family rooms with twin beds and a double bunk, the rooms are small and sparely furnished; all rooms share bathroom facilities.
Weekly and monthly discounts are available. R100-200
- Cat & Moose 305 Long St Telephone 021 423 7638,
(www.catandmoose.co.za).
The most stylish of the Long St lodges, housed in an eighteenth-century building a couple of doors from the steam baths at the south end of the city centre.
Timber floors with Turkish-style rugs, exposed beams, earthy reds and ochres as well as some African masks imbue it with a warm ethnic feel.
The dorms, triples and double rooms are arranged around a small leafy courtyard, with a waterfall cascading into a plunge pool.
Dorms under R100, rooms under R100
- Long Street Backpackers 209 Long St Telephone 021 423 0615, (www.longstreetbackpackers.co.za).
The oldest Long St backpacker lodge, on the top two floors of an unexceptional three-storey former apartment block arranged around a courtyard,
with dorms, doubles and singles. Quieter than some of the other lodges in the vicinity, it's a well-organized place, with a laundry,
Internet facilities and a travel desk; there's also a lively bar and a kitchen. under R100
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