[Wikimania-l] Airport Pickup

[Ray Saintonge]

I'm leaving tonight, and expect to arrive in Gdansk on a Lot flight from 
Frankfurt at 1715 on Tuesday, July 6.  I have no problem with taking a 
taxi, and will do so (with luggage) to the Philarmonic when I get there, 
unless I receive different instructions.

Ray

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
>