TSANet Europe
Meeting
Wednesday 7th
and Thursday 8th December 2005.
Please read and print the following information to keep with you.
Currency in Germany is
Euros (€)
Dress code for the Meeting and Dinner is Business
casual
Name Badges – You will be issued with a name badge when
you register at the meeting, please wear prominently at all times to concur
with security at IBM.
Travel from Frankfurt Main
Airport to Hilton Hotel Mainz
(NB There are 2 Hilton Hotels in Mainz – ensure that you give the name and
address of the correct Hilton hotel to your taxi driver – the one by the
river!)
Inform the taxi
driver BEFORE the journey if you
wish to pay by credit card.
Hotel Address
Hilton Hotel Mainz
Rheinstrasse No. 68
Mainz
Germany
+49
(0)6131-245-592
Please note
there is no hotel shuttle bus
available from the airport.
Taxi – (35 – 45 minutes depending on traffic) approx €50.00.
Train – (20 – 30 minutes) Take S8 train to Mainz station from there a 10 minute walk or
a taxi (5 minutes) cost approx €5
Bus (10 minutes) from Mainz Station to Hotel take Bus number 54
or 56 and alight at Bruckenplatz
For those of you arriving at Frankfurt airport and wishing to go straight to IBM.
IBM from Frankfurt
Airport Taxi cost approx €50 (Euros) Inform the taxi driver BEFORE
the journey if you wish to pay by credit card.
Meeting Venue Address
IBM Executive Briefing Center
IBM Deutschland GmbH
Niederlassung Mainz
Hechtsheimer Strasse 2
Mainz
Germany
IBM
Events Contact
Cornelia Steffen, Team leader in Events TotalStorage
Executive Briefing
& Education Center
Mainz, Germany
Tel + 49(0)6131-84-3189,
Car Parking
at IBM
A reserved zone for visitors, you
will see it by turning into the street with the IBM Building,
Hechtsheimer Str. 2. Overnight car parking is available.
Car Parking
at Hilton Hotel Mainz
Car parking is available - €15.60
per day.
Day 1 – Wednesday 7th December
Delegates meet
in lobby of Hilton Mainz Hotel to board a courtesy coach for IBM Briefing
Center
Assembly time 09.15
hrs please be prompt, we
will not wait, late arrivals will have to arrange and pay for their own transport by taxi to IBM approx cost €10 -
€15 depending on traffic.
Lunch – at IBM (no charge)
Delegates will return
by courtesy coach to Hilton hotel at 17.15 hrs.
Day 1 - Evening
Meet TSANet staff in
the Hilton Mainz hotel lobby at 18.30 hrs. From there a short walk to the Christmas market
in the main square, a chance to do some last minute Christmas shopping and to
warm up with an aperitif of gluhwein.
We will then
walk for approx 10 minutes to the Wilhelmi Restaurant. (See map enclosed in
information pack given to you at meeting)
Please ensure
that you have euros for the Christmas Market and for buying additional drinks
at the restaurant. There will be a complimentary bottle of wine of each table.
Day 2 – Thursday 8th December
Delegates to meet
in lobby of Hilton Mainz Hotel to board a courtesy coach for IBM Briefing
Center
Assembly time 09.15
hrs please be prompt, allow plenty of time for hotel checkout process
- late arrivals will have to arrange and
pay for their own transport by taxi.
Lunch – at IBM (no charge)
NB: There will be no coach return journey
to the hotel at the end of the meeting Day 2.
IBM to the Airport.
Please complete
the form in your information pack to request a taxi from IBM to the Airport.
Delegates will be responsible for taxi
fares to airport. Cost approx
€50 (Euros)
Please inform us when completing taxi request from if you wish to pay for this
journey by credit card.
IBM for return
to the Hilton Hotel.
Delegates will be responsible for taxi
fares to Hilton Mainz
Please complete
the form in your information pack to request a taxi from IBM to Hilton Hotel. Cost approx €10.00 (max €15.00 if traffic slow
moving)
Please inform us
when completing taxi request from if you wish to pay for this journey by credit
card.
Internet access at IBM Briefing
Center
Limited internet
access stations are available at IBM – HOWEVER we politely request that
delegates do NOT spend time during the meeting checking emails or leaving and reentering
the conference room in order not to distract other attendees and presenters.
Mobile Phones
Delegates are
politely requested to switch off/silent mode their mobile phones in the conference
room during the meeting
Tour of IBM Labs
There will be an
opportunity for delegates to have a tour of the IBM facility – places for this
tour are restricted so please indicate your interest on the form in your
information pack.
Hilton Mainz Hotel Internet Access
Hilton Hotel Mainz
offers wireless LAN access in all hotel rooms.
Cost of
purchasing a card
1 day access =
€24.50
2 hours access=
€ 9.50
30 minutes
access = €4.50
Your Meeting Information Pack
Each delegate
will receive on registration at the meeting an information pack. This pack will
include the following.
- Agenda
of the meeting.
- A list
of attendees/company
- List
of TSANet Europe Board of Directors.
- Meeting
feedback forms.
- IBM
tour, please register your interest.
- Location
map of Wilhelmi Restaurant
- TSANet
Meeting follow up form.
- Taxi
request form for end of meeting Day 2 Thursday 8th December (FROM
IBM TO Frankfurt Airport or FROM IBM TO Hilton Hotel Mainz.
TSANet Europe Staff Contact Details
Please note
TSANet Europe Staff will arrive in Mainz
on late afternoon Tuesday 6th
December. We will have
limited access to email if you wish to contact us during the 6th
December or after please call the numbers below.
Leigh Darby – mobile +44 (0) 7803 050 711
Stephanie Benson – mobile +44 (0) 7966 164 036
Nicki Sanday – mobile +44 (0) 7910 288 044
After the meeting
All presentations
will be available online as soon as possible.
If you have
completed the follow -up form a TSANet Europe member of Staff will contact you
shortly after the meeting.