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Overview

The Tenth DELPH-IN Summit will be held between July 14 and 18, 2014, in Portugal, in the town of Tomar not far away from Lisbon.

The meeting will take place at the Hotel dos Templários. For those who wish to stay in the hotel, the hotel guarantees 40 available rooms for reservations made until June 12 mentioning the code "Grupo DELPH-IN". The price for these rooms is 54 Eur/night for single rooms and 63 Eur/night for double rooms. They include free Wi-Fi and breakfast. After June 12, room availabililty and these prices aren't guaranteed. In any case, the hotel say July isn't a very busy month for them, so late reservations might still be possible.

Watch this space for updates.

Travel Info

• To Tomar: From Lisbon, you can reach Tomar by train (recommended) or bus. When you arrive at Lisbon's airport, we recommend you take the underground trains, called Metro. Beware that the Metro is closed between 1am and 6:30 am. Also, depending on a number of factors, you may need to wait up to 10 minutes for a train. Lisbon's Metro stations are marked with a red M sign. In this underground map, the colored lines are Metro lines. The airport's station is the Aeroporto station at one of the ends of the red line.

  • By train:

    • You want to exit the Metro at the Oriente station, which is also on the red line (third station after the airport). Here you need to go upstairs to the train station.

    • As of February 2014, a schedule of the trains is available here. Notice that you'll be departing from the station "Lisboa Oriente" (second line in those tables). Notice also that the trains are direct: you do not need to change in Entroncamento.

    • There are two types of trains you can choose from: Regional trains and Inter-regional trains. Regional trains are cheaper, but they serve more stops. You can also take a high-speed train (called Alfa-pendular) to Entroncamento and then change there, but this is more expensive.

    • You may want to check the train company's web site. You can find Tomar's train station in the tab "Timetables and Prices", but not in the tab "NET Ticket", because you can only buy online tickets for Alfa-pendular (high-speed) and Intercidades (long-distance) trains, not for Regional and Inter-regional trains.

  • By bus:

    • The bus station in Lisbon is in the Sete Rios area. The nearest Metro station is Jardim Zoológico, on the blue line. From the Airport Metro station, it may take you almost one hour to reach the Zoo station. If you follow the indications there you'll reach the bus station (1 or 2 minutes walking), which is just outside.

    • This is the bus company's Web site: click the UK flag below the logo "Rede eXpressos" for the English version.

    • There are two daily buses from Lisbon to Tomar; they leave at 3:15pm and 6pm. There are a few more buses that don't operate every day. Daily buses from Tomar to Lisbon leave at 7am and 10:15am.

• To Hotel dos Templários: The bus station and the train station are right next to each other. From there to the hotel, it's a 15-minute walk map.

Participant Fees

The fee is 270 EUR per person and covers all expenses (meeting rooms, coffee breaks, lunches at the hotel, admittance tickets to guided tour, on Monday, and to visiting the castle, on Wednesday) except the summit banquet of Wednesday evening, which costs 15 EUR per person (welcome drink, couvert, soup, 3 dishes, dessert, coffee, and drinks and wine included).

Fees are due in cash during the coffee break on Tuesday morning. Participants will be asked at that time to fill out a form which will be used to generate receipts and certificates of attendance.

Activities/Climate

Weather forecast for Tomar, Portugal. You should also check the ultra-violet index map.

There will be a group activity, as usual. We will announce it soon.

Summit Schedule

See TomarSchedule.

Participants

If you plan to attend the Summit, please leave a note on TomarParticipants.

Photos

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