phoebe ayers wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am not on the official logistics team so I cannot tell you exactly
> where to go when you arrive. But I can give you a little bit of
> general gdansk travel information:
>
> 1) the venue is the Baltic Philharmonic, Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka
> im. Fryderyka Chopina .
> 2) the various hotels are scattered around the city (all within a
> fairly close radius to the venue however)
> 3) here's a map:
>
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=pl&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117126163892714460579.000466478a8b96d9f7d6d&ll=54.351854,18.659163&spn=0.024661,0.077248&z=14
> <
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=pl&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117126163892714460579.000466478a8b96d9f7d6d&ll=54.351854,18.659163&spn=0.024661,0.077248&z=14>
> which personally I would print out the central part of so as to have
> something to show a taxi driver.
>
> A taxi from the airport to this part of the city costs about 50pln.
> (15USD, 12 Euro). At night it will be more expensive: 65pln. There is
> a bus between the airport & the railway station (Gdansk Glowny), but
> that overshoots where you want to be in the old city
> (
http://www.polrail.com/sections/travel/railairlinks.html#Gdansk).
>
> The Gdansk airport is small! It is only a few gates. So you won't get
> hopelessly lost. Basically, you get off the plane, go through
> immigration (or not, you'll likely be coming on a transfer flight from
> another EU country), claim your luggage, walk out the door and there
> are the taxis. Then it's about 8km into central gdansk.
>
> -- Phoebe
>