ESSLLI 2008

By plane

The nearest airport is Hamburg airport (HAM). Another convenient airport is Lübeck Airport (LBC) which has budget flights by Ryanair, Wizz and Jet2 to Leeds Bradford, Dublin, London Stansted, Barcelona Girona, Pisa, Milano Bergamo, Stockholm, and Gdansk. Lübeck Airport has a shuttle bus to the central bus station in Hamburg (ZOB) for € 8.

The official airline of ESSLLI 2008 is Lufthansa. For participants travelling on international Lufthansa services to ESSLLI 2008 special airfares are available. For more details please contact the Lufthansa sales or reservation office nearest you and refer to: Page in the Amadeus booking system: GGAIRLHCONGRESS Event code: LH08HAM007 You cannot take advantage of the special offers when you book online. To take advantage of this special offer you must have the official confirmation of your registration to the event or some other proof of attendance available. (If booking via a phone hotline, the representative may ask you to fax the registration to them.) Travel wholly within Germany not permitted.

Lufthansa flies from München, Nürnberg, Warsaw, Frankfurt/M., Zürich, Düsseldorf, Copenhagen, Vienna, Dresden, Köln/Bonn, Amsterdam, Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, Manchester, Geneva, Milan, Stuttgart, London, Helsinki, Prague, Lisbon, Budapest, Gothenburg, Rome, Nice, Barcelona, and Madrid.

A useful website to find the cheapest flights to Hamburg is opodo. The German opodo website (unfortunately in German) also has a tool for searching for budget airline flights (Abflugland = country of departure; Abflugregion = region of departure; Reiseziel = destination, i.e., "Hamburg, Deutschland").

Below are listed a number of budget airlines which serve the Hamburg airport, along with their origination cities:

By train

Hamburg can be conveniently reached from many European destinations by train. The central railway station is called Hauptbahnhof, the one closest to the ESSLLI site is Bahnhof Dammtor. Most trains stop at both stations, so it would be convient to buy your ticket to Dammtor. In case your train does not stop at Dammtor, you can take a suburban train ("S-Bahn") from Hauptbahnhof to Dammtor, but you need an extra ticket for this.

Please check the excellent web site of the Deutsche Bahn for details: