Sy David Friedman's 60th-Birthday Conference

Accommodation

Choice of hotel

You have the following options:

• You can choose and reserve any hotel yourself.
  See, e.g., tripadvisor or similar.
  You can use, e.g., ANachB or google maps to estimate the distances to the KGRC.
  Please inform us that you have booked (or will book) a hotel yourself (so that we get a better idea of how many bookings are still coming, and so that we do not have to pester you with reminders to book a hotel.)
• You can pick one of the hotels with special university rates listed below, and follow the booking instructions on the details page. Please note that in many cases internet deals or even booking directly over the hotel website will be cheaper than our special rates (when comparing prices, take the cancellation policy and breakfast into account). Just an example: Our special rate for Strudlhof is 110 EUR (SR), via olotel.com a few rooms are offered for 74 EUR.
• Of course we are also happy to help you find other hotels as well and arrange reservations.

Time of booking

We strongly recommend to book the hotel very early. In case you are not sure whether you can actually come, just book a hotel with a favourably cancellation policy. (Often you can cancel without penalty up to 3 days before arrival; this is the case with all hotels listed below.)

Cancellation

If you book a hotel yourself, you will obviously be solely responsible for cancelling the reservation in time (and you might have to pay a cancellation fee). If we book the hotel for you, we will inform you about the cancellation policy (with all hotels listed below, you can cancel without penalty 3 days before arrival). Please tell us about any cancellation in time, otherwise we might have to ask you to cover the cancellation costs.

Hotels with special University rates

Please note that some of the following hotels will be fully booked many months in advance, so please book early to guarantee that you get something reasonable.

See the details page for addresses and booking instructions.

Prices:

SR: Singel room; DR: double room. The prices are per person and night (in some cases assuming that you stay at least 5 nights, or exactly for the duration of the conference).

Availibility:

The number of available rooms is updated manually and irregularly, and accordingly may be inaccurate.

Air Conditioning (AC):

Note that most of the hotels listed do not have AC. Usually AC is not needed in Vienna (and private homes typically do not have AC). Nevertheless a dozen days or so each year it can get very hot (and this can well happen in July). If you are susceptible to heat and want to play it safe, then you might want to book an AC room. In the following list, these are: Bellevue, Strudlhof, Hotel Kaiser Franz Joseph (+5EUR/night).

Distance:

This column gives the approximate time in min (using ANachB) to reach the KGRC by foot (F) or public transport (PT).

Hotels with special University rates (Expired)

Here are the hotels that were offering special rates, but where the offer is now expired. You can still book the hotels, of course, and the internet rates might be better then our previous special rates. (Note that in particular the very good olotel rate for Strudlhof still seems to work.)

Other hotels

The following hotel might be a good choice if you have special dietary needs and want to cook for yourself. It offers (in addition to usual hotel rooms) reasonably priced single apartments (no breakfast, with kitchen block, room service only twice a week.) These apartments are also an inexpensive way to get AC (+5 EUR). The Hotel does not offer special University prices.

The following hotel is the closest to the KGRC (1 min walk), and Gödel lived in the building for a while! Possibly the rooms are not very quiet (Währinger Strasse is a reasonably busy street), but we do not have any first hand experience with the hotel. The hotel website seems to indicate a **** rating. We were offered special University rates, but these rates were about 50% higher than the current online prices at the hotel website, so you should book directly at the hotel website (you can cancel the reservation without penalty up to 24h before arrival). Note that the online prices can change (i.e., go up) daily (actually, from Nov 2012 to Feb 2013 they already have increased from 49 EUR to 66 EUR), so please book soon if you want this hotel.