Logistics in Tromsø


Date: 2002-03-28
Source: Norwegian member body, NTS
Status: For your information

The Norwegian Tecnology Centre (NTS) hereby has the pleasure to invite ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 - Internationalization to hold its next meeting in Tromsø, Norway, 2002-06-10/12.

Meeting place

The meeting meeting place is:
room E1004
Humanistisk fakultet
Universitetet i Tromsø
Norway
Host 1: Trond Trøsterud
Tel: +47 7764 4763
Host 2: Keld Simonsen
Tel: +45 3322-6543

It is the corner room to the right of the 8-digit on this map.

Accomodation

List of hotels, with phone numbers:

http://www.destinasjontromso.no/overnatting.htm

is a list over the hotels in Tromsø.

The list itself contains no prices, here are some price examples (these are full prices, in NOK and per night, where 100 NOK is about 13 USD:
Comfort With 845,- (say you are related to the university)
Amalie 795,-
Hotell Nord 450,-


Saga 1050,-
Polar 790,-
Ami Hotel 450,-


(Rica is sold out!)

Then there is "Apartementshus", the more rough variant, no food, more of the student flat type, 260,- / night if you stay for three nights or more.

If you want to limit the number of hotels to not too many, Rica, Amalie and Hotell Nord are recommended. There you have 3 hotels, in the high-mid-low price category, all of them in the middle of the centre and close to each other.

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It is STRONGLY recommended to make your reservations as soon as possible. Tromsø houses Midnight Maraton, starting June 15th, and from 15th and onwards all the hotel rooms are already fullbooked. There are still free rooms left for the period of the WG meeting, but the sooner you book, the more choices you have.

People actually come here to see the midnight sun, so you should book in time.

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Transport

A map of the buses, indicating airport, downtown and university area is found here:

http://www.tromsbuss.no/pdf/kart.pdf

The same island is here viewed in natura, picture taken from the east, with the centre of the town facing the photograph, and the south edge of the island to the left: http://www.saturn.org.uk/Tromso/Tromso2.JPG

The airport, at the western shore of the island, is marked "Flyplassen", on the bus map, downtown Tromsø, with the hotels, is marked "Sentrum", and the university area, on the north-eastern shore of the island, is marked "RiTø". The distance from the city centre to the university is appr. 6 km, there are 4-6 buses each hour.

A map of the whole area is availble.