Linköping, Sweden,
July 29 - 30, 1999
Linköping, Sweden,
July 30 - August 1, 1999
Information about Linköping
- Registration form
- Conference site: Quality Hotel Ekoxen
- Accomodation NOTE: Prices may be tax excluded.
- Social events
- KRDB social event (scheduled for July 29):
Boat trip from Linköping to Hjulsbro on
Kinda Kanal.
During the trip we pass a number of sluices and have our conference dinner.
- DL social event (scheduled for July 31): Trip to Vadstena. Dinner in Vadstena monastry and guided tour in Vadstena castle. Vadstena is a nice, small, historic town about 40 km from Linköping.
Vadstena Castle is one of the earliest castles in Sweden. It was raised
by the first Swedish king, Gustav Vasa. It is built at Vättern, the
second biggest lake in Sweden.
- Maps
- Lonely planet on Sweden
- Weather in Linköping and Östergötland
- A visa for entering Sweden is required from certain countries.
Please check with the Swedish Consulate in your home country for further
information.
- Tourist information
- A tourist information office is located at the conference site.
- How to reach Linköping?
- Linköping airport is served by Skyways (partner of SAS)
- from Stockholm (location of IJCAI'99) - 200 km:
- flight to Linköping (Skyways)
- shuttle (flygbuss) to Stockholm central station (45 min) + direct train to Linköping (between 1 hour 45 min and 2.5 hours)
- bus to Linköping
- car (ca 2 - 2.5 hours, take E4, southbound)
- from Norrköping (served by SAS from Copenhagen or Stockholm) - 40 km
- taxi shuttle (280 sek per person) - needs a booking/conference organization can help you with this
- taxi (between 500 and 750 sek per car)
- from Gothenburg - 300 km
- flight to Linköping (Skyways)
- train (between 4 and 4.5 hours, not direct)
- car (ca 3 hours) (first to Jönköping, then E4 northbound)
- from Malmö - 450 km
- flight to Linköping (Skyways)
- train (between 3 and 4 hours, direct)
- car
- How to reach the conference site?
- from Linköping airport
- taxi shuttle (100 sek per person) - needs a booking/conference organization can help you with this
- taxi (between 100 and 150 sek per car)
- from Linköping station (Resecentrum)
- walk (15 - 20 min)
- bus 202 direction Ekholmen, closest stop to conference site: Tinnerbäcksbadet (5 min)
- taxi
- Swedish currency: Swedish Krona (SEK), 1 krona = 100 öre
- Traveling by train
- Electricity in Sweden
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