Travel Advisory Contact data: You can reach us at contact@syp­regensburg.de at any time. During the congress we will ​ also have a dedicated phone number you can call: +49 151 157 359 69 Language: German is the official language, but English is widely spoken and understood. Time Zone: Germany is in the time zone UTC+2. Credit Cards: All major credit cards, like Visa and Mastercard, are widely accepted. Normal purchases (especially below 10 Euro) are usually paid with cash. Currency / Money Exchange: The Euro (€) is the official currency in Germany. It is based on the decimal system. There are one hundred cents to each Euro. Euro notes come in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200. Coins come in denominations of 1, 2 Euro and 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 Eurocents. You can change the money in every bank with a bank counter. The open hours of a bank are usually Monday through Friday 09:00 AM to 12:30 PM and 01:30 PM to 04:00 PM in Germany. Saturday and Sunday only ATMs are available. Money exchange points and ATMs are also located at the airports. Voltage: The electric current in Germany is 220 volts 50 Hertz (in the US it is 110 volts, 50 Hertz cycles). A transformer is necessary to convert local power to U.S. standard. An adapter is needed for plugs, as European plugs are different from the ones in the U.S. and other countries. Please use the bathroom plug only for electric razors, hair dryers and irons. Telephone: You can use your mobile phone for calls. The cost for this depends on your provider. You can also use pay phone from the hotel. The costs for this depends on the hotel. If you want to make calls with your mobile phone to a German number, you need to add the country code +49 or 0049 in front of the number. If you call home you also need your own country code. (https://countrycode.org/) ​ ​ The emergency phone number is 112. Postal Information: The postal office is located among others at the main Train Station of Regensburg. It provides a full range of services: telephones, telegrams, fax and calling cards and it is open Monday through Friday from 8:00AM to 6:30PM and on Saturday from 8:00AM to 12:30 PM. Temperature: According to AccuWeather the weather in Regensburg will be quite nice during the congress, c.f. http://www.accuweather.com/de/de/regensburg/93047/august­weather/167556. The average ​ temperature is 23°C or 74° F. As the weather in Germany is changing quickly please be prepared for rain, and also for hotter/colder weather than expected. Tap water quality: The drinking water quality in Germany is excellent and safe to drink. Taxi: If you want to take a Taxi in Germany, you have a thing to keep in mind. You can’t negotiate about the price, the Taxi has a fixed rate. You can recognize a Taxi at the yellow sign on top of the car with “TAXI” on it. In Regensburg you need to call +49 941 52 05 2 for a taxi. At the airports Taxi stands are located at the exit of the terminals. Map of Regensburg: Map data © OpenStreetMap , CC­BY­SA ​ ​ ​ How to get to Regensburg: By bus: Flixbus (https://www.flixbus.com/) and Postbus (https://www.postbus.de/index.php?lang=1&) ​ ​ ​ ​ offer many bus services from several cities in Europe to Regensburg. By train: You can travel with the Deutsche Bahn ­ we suggest to buy a Bavaria Ticket (find more information about this ticket here: https://www.syp­regensburg.de/faq.html). Get more ​ ​ information about trains to Regensburg Hbf (Main train Station) at the homepage of ​ Deutsche Bahn: https://www.bahn.de/p_en/view/index.shtml. Please be sure to have the ​ ​ ​ ticket before you enter the train. Buying tickets in the train does not work. The tickets can be ​ paid in cash or with credit cards (MasterCard and Visa) at train information stands. Some vending machines do not support credit cards. Some Congress representatives will welcome you at Regensburg Hbf and inform you how to get to your hotel. By car: If you plan to come by car please use a navigation system that guides you to your hotel. Please note that the parking lots at the hotel will most likely cost something. By plane: Munich: You have to take the Bus 635 to Freising train station. Afterwards you have to take ​ the train to Regensburg. The Bus starts at the Terminal 2 and its first stop is at the Terminal 1. Tickets for this bus can be either bought at vending machines or at the train information stand at the airport. Please look at the “By Train” section above for more information about ​ the correct tickets. The homepage of the airport is also helpful: http://www.munich­airport.de/en/consumer/anab/bus/index.jsp. ​ The transportation hours range from 04:15 AM to 00:55 AM: http://efa.mvv­muenchen.de/ttb/mvv_11635___H_s16_1.pdf Map data © OpenStreetMap , CC­BY­SA ​ ​ ​ Nuremberg: Take the subway from the Nuremberg airport to the main train station (U2 ​ direction Röthenbach). The subway is located in front of the airport. Tickets for the subway can be either bought at vending machines or at the information stand at the airport. Please look at the “By Train” section above for more information about the correct tickets. The ​ airport homepage is helpful: https://www.airport­nuernberg.de/150602/Public_Transportation ​ The transportation hours range from 04:42 AM to 00:36 AM: http://www.vgn.de/efa10/efa103/vgn_www/AHF/00000bcc.pdf Map data © OpenStreetMap , CC­BY­SA ​ ​ ​ Linz: You can reach Hörsching station every hour with the train from Linz main station. ​ Journey time 11 minutes. The journeys take place between 05.00 and 22.00 o’clock. http://www.linz­airport.com/www/cm/en/passengers/approach/train.html http://fahrplan.oebb.at/bin/query.exe/en? Map data © OpenStreetMap , CC­BY­SA ​ ​ ​ Top Attractions around Regensburg Steinerne Brücke in Regensburg Foto: Guido Radig Lizenz: Creative Commons by­sa 3.0 de ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The Stone Bridge (Steinerne Brücke) in Regensburg, Germany, is a 12th­century bridge ​ ​ across the Danube linking the Old Town with Stadtamhof. For more than 800 years, until the 1930s, it was the city's only bridge across the river. It is a masterwork of medieval construction and an emblem of the city. https://tourismus.regensburg.de/en/about­regensburg/sightseeing/all­sightseeings/architectu ral­monuments/old­stone­bridge.html Schloss Thurn und Taxis in Regensburg St. Emmeram's Abbey (Kloster Sankt Emmeram or Reichsabtei Sankt Emmeram), now known as Schloss Thurn und Taxis, Schloss St. Emmeram, and St. Emmeram's Basilica, was a Benedictine monastery founded in about 739 in Regensburg in Bavaria (modern southern Germany) at the grave of the itinerant Frankish bishop Saint Emmeram.[1] ​ Foto: PeterBraun74 Lizenz: Creative Commons by­sa 3.0 de ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ PRICES (PER PERSON): Adults: €10 Children aged 4­18 and students: €8,50 http://www.thurnundtaxis.de/en/opening­times.html Walhalla ­ in Donaustauf bei Regensburg Foto: Avda Lizenz: Creative Commons by­sa 3.0 de ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The Walhalla is a hall of fame that honors laudable and distinguished people in German history – "politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue"; thus the celebrities honored are drawn from a wider area than today's Germany. The hall is a neo­classical building above the Danube River, east of Regensburg in Bavaria. The prices for the museum inside the Walhalla ­ the hall of fame ­ are: PRICES (PER PERSON): Adults: €4 Children aged 4­18 and students: €3 PARTIALLY HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE. http://www.schloesser.bayern.de/englisch/palace/objects/walhalla.htm Hall of Liberation at Kelheim The Befreiungshalle ("Hall of Liberation") is ​ ​ a Neoclassical monument on the hill Michelsberg above the town of Kelheim in ​ ​ Bavaria, Germany. It stands upstream of Regensburg on the river Danube at the confluence of the Danube and the Altmühl, i.e. the Rhine­Main­Danube Canal. It was commissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria to commemorate the victory over Napoleon in the Befreiungskriege of 1813­15. ​ ​ PRICES (PER PERSON): Foto: Va.sc. Lizenz: Creative Commons by­sa 3.0 de Adults: €3,50 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Children aged 4­18 and students: €3 http://www.schloesser.bayern.de/englisch/palace/objects/kelheim.htm Munich Residence Foto: MagentaGreen Lizenz: Creative Commons by­sa 3.0 de ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The Munich Residenz (Münchner Residenz, Munich Residence) is the former royal palace of the Bavarian monarchs of the House of Wittelsbach in the centre of the city of Munich, Germany. The Residenz is the largest city palace in Germany and is today open to visitors for its architecture, room decorations, and displays from the former royal collections. PRICES (PER PERSON): Adults: €7 Children aged 4­18 and students: €6 http://www.residenz­muenchen.de/englisch/tourist/index.htm Imperial Castle of Nuremberg Foto: ArtMechanic Lizenz: Creative Commons by­sa 3.0 de ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Nuremberg Castle (German: Nürnberger Burg) is a historical building on a sandstone rock in ​ ​ the north of the historical city of Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. It comprises three sections: the Imperial castle (Kaiserburg), some buildings of the Burgraves of Nuremberg, ​ ​ and the municipal buildings of the Imperial City at the eastern site. The castle, together with the city walls, is considered to be one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortifications. PRICES (PER PERSON): Adults: €7 Children aged 4­18 and students: €6 http://www.kaiserburg­nuernberg.de/englisch/castle/index.htm .