Accommodation
We kindly ask our registered conference guests to make their own hotel reservation for their stay. We can recommend the following hotels because they are nice and close to the conference venue:
- Hotel Harbr Konstanz (e-mail: Konstanz@harbr.de)
- Hotel Ibis Styles Konstanz (e-mail: H9282@accor.com)
- Hotel B&B Konstanz (e-mail: konstanz@hotelbb.com)
Travel Information
Getting to Konstanz by plane
Zurich Airport (CH)
Switzerland’s largest airport is just a 45 minutes car ride away. Trains take 60 minutes and leave every hour.
Bodensee Airport Friedrichshafen (DE)
This smaller airport is about 60 minutes from Konstanz by car, or 75 minutes by public transport (catamaran, train and/or bus).
Munich Airport (DE)
There is a S-Bahn (municipal rail line) to the central bus station, from there you may taket a coach to Konstanz (ca. 3.5 hours’ ride). Alternatively, an S-Bahn train will take you to München Hauptbahnhof (Munich main train station), from where you may take a train to Konstanz (ca. 4.5 hours).
Stuttgart Airport (DE)
From Stuttgart airport, you may likewise take a train or a coach to Konstanz. Coaches depart directly at the Airport and take ca. 2:45 hours. To travel by train, take the S-Bahn S2 or S3 to Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (main station) and transfer to a train to Konstanz (via Singen; ca. 2:45 hours).
St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport (CH)
Another smaller airport, St. Gallen-Altenrhein can be reached by car in 60 minutes and by train from St. Gallen in 90 minutes.
Getting to Konstanz by train
Getting to Konstanz by coach
Getting to Konstanz by car
Getting around Konstanz
You can navigate around Konstanz by using the Stadtwerke city buses – find the timetables here.
Or do it like the locals and discover the city by bike – you can rent the public Konrad bikes for 9,- EUR a day and pick them up or leave them at several points in the city. One pick-up station (Schänzlebrücke) is very close to our conference venue.
As Konstanz is rather small, you can also reach most places in and near the city center on foot.
Visa and arrivals from abroad
In the form of the Welcome Centre, the University of Konstanz provides a helpdesk to assist you in all questions regarding visa and travelers arriving from abroad. You may find them online here, or contact them via e-mail.
phone (09-12 a.m. CEST, Mon-Fri):
+49 7531 88-4496
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Our conference venue: Bodenseeforum Konstanz
Address
Reichenaustrasse 21, 78467 KonstanzBus stop
Bodenseeforum / IHK8467 KonstanzArrival
It is a nice and not too long walk along the water from the city center to the Bodenseeforum. Alternatively, you may take the city bus or a cab. The Bodenseeforum has its own bus stop: “Bodenseeforum/IHK”. Take bus line 4/13 or 13/4. Bus line 4/13 leaves Bodenseeforum in the direction of the city center. The line 13/4 runs in the opposite direction, i.e. from the city center to Bodenseeforum. The exact departure times can be found in the Stadtwerke timetable here.
Accessibility
Access to the Bodenseeforum is barrier-free – all entrance doors are threshold-free and have sufficient width for wheelchair users. Inside the building, there handicapped-accessible elevators to change floors.
The building also has an inductive hearing system. The infrared system ensures good speech intelligibility for the hearing impaired. If you wish to make use of the inductive hearing system, please contact the conference organizers.