TRAVEL INFORMATION

To facilitate your travel, the organizing committee is making every effort to facilitate your travel arrangements to Pau, France. As you plan your travel, please check this page for latest updates. This page provides/will provide the following information:

1. Excursions and Hotel Special Rates
2. Visa Information
3. Venue
4. Travel Information
5. Accommodation

1. Excursions and Hotel Special Rates

• A local tourism agency here is providing us several interesting excursions and negotiated rates with some hotels.

  Excursions :
  

  Culture Day

  Pau city tour

  

  An Escape Day

  Pic du Midi

  

  Gourmet Day

  Indulgence is not a mortal sin!

  Hotel speical rates : http://sac2018.creasud.fr/en/

2. Visa Information

• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) does not issue formal invitation letters for visas to attend ACM sponsored conferences. However, ACM can issue a visa support letter. For visa support letters, please send all requests to the Office of SIG Services at supportletters@acm.org. Please be sure to include all of the following information in your original email:

  1. Your name as it appears on your passport
  2. Your current postal mailing address
  3. The name of the conference (ACM SAC 2018)
  4. Your Registration Confirmation number
  5. If you have any papers accepted for the conference, please provide the title and indicate whether you are the ‘sole author’ or a ‘co- author’

  All this information is necessary, and omitting any of it will delay the issuing of the support letter. Visa support letters are answered in the order they are received. You will receive a PDF letter by email within the 4-5 business days. Please note that ACM does not fax visa support letters. The PDF serves as a signed electronic version of the original letter which will be mailed to your current mailing address. If you do not receive the letter by post mail on time for your visa appointment, please print out your PDF letter and take it with you.

  Please plan accordingly.

3. Venue

4. Travel Information

• 

  By plane

  Pau airport (20 min. from the downtown) can be reached through many cities in Europe (Brussels, Rotterdam, Paris, London, Stockholm, Geneva, Dublin, Manchester and many other French cities):

  1 hour from Paris (9 flights / day) (Link: http://www.parisaeroport.fr/en/homepage)

  1 hour from Lyon (3 flights / day) (Link: https://www.lyonaeroports.com/en/)

  1 hour from Marseille (9 flights / week) (Link: https://www.marseille-airport.com)

  1h15 from Nantes (18 flights / week) (Link: https://www.nantes.aeroport.fr/fr)

  1h30 from Nice (2 flights / week) (Link: http://en.nice.aeroport.fr)

  BIARRITZ airport at 1 h (Link: http://biarritz.aeroport.fr/en/

  TARBES airport at 40 min (Link: http://www.tlp.aeroport.fr/home).

  By train

  Pau can be reached by train (SNCF). The railway station is located at 5 minutes' walk from the Congress Center (http://www.sncf.com)

  3 daily TGV trains (high speed train) from Paris (4 hours)

  By car

  Pau city lies on the A64 highway and on the main east-west rail route, with connections to Bayonne and Biarritz (100 km) and Spain (150 km) to the west, Lourdes (40 km) and Toulouse (200 km) to the east, as well as to Bordeaux (250km) and Paris (800km) to the north.

5. Accommodation

• 2,200 rooms are available in Pau, where 555 are within easy walking distance of the Palais Beaumont! Below are the nearest ones.
  More hotels can be found at Pau Pyrenees Toursim Center (http://www.pau-pyrenees.com/).

  5 Stars Hotels

  • Villa Navare
    Address: 59 Avenue Trespoey, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://www.villanavarre.fr/?lang=2
  • Hôtel Parc Beaumont
    Address: 1 Avenue Edouard VII, 64000 Pau
    Link: https://www.hotel-parc-beaumont.com

  4 Stars Hotels

  • Quality Hôtel
    Address: 80 Rue Emile Garet, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://quality-hotel-pau-centre.h-rzn.com/?lbl=ggl-rmk-ex

  3 Starts Hotels

  • Hôtel de Gramont
    Address: 3 Place Gramont, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://www.hotelgramont.com
  • Best Western Continental
    Address: 2 Rue Maréchal Foch, 64000 Pau
    Link: https://www.bestwestern.fr/en/hotel-Pau-Best-Western-Continental-93090
  • Ibis Centre
    Address: 26, Rue Samonzet, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://www.ibis.com/fr/hotel-1398-ibis-pau-centre/index.shtml
  • Hôtel Bristol
    Address: 3 rue Gambetta, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://www.hotelbristol-pau.com/
  • Appart’City
    Address: 9 rue du Maréchal Joffre, 64000 Pau
    Link: https://www.appartcity.com/en/destinations/aquitaine/pau/pau-centre.html
  • Inter-Hôtel Montpensier
    Address:36, rue Montpensier, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://www.hotel-montpensier-pau.com/en_index.php

  2 Starts Hotels

  • Hôtel Central
    Address: 15 Rue Léon Daran, 64000 Pau
    Link: https://www.hotelscombined.fr/Hotel/Hotel_Central_Pau.htm?languageCode=EN
  • Hôtel Bosquet
    Address: 11 Rue Valéry Meunier, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://www.hotel-bosquet.com
  • Hôtel Adour
    Address: 10 rue Valéry Meunier, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://www.hotel-adour-pau.com/en.php
  • Hôtel Le Bourbon
    Address: 12 place Clémenceau, 64000 Pau
    Link: https://www.hotel-lebourbon.com/en/
  • Hôtel Le Postillon
    Address: 10 crs Camou, 64000 Pau
    Link: http://www.hotel-le-postillon.com/
  • Victoria Garden
    Address: 5 rue Ronsard, 64000 Pau
    Link: https://www.victoriagarden.com/hotels/victoria-garden-pau/