 Access to the Cité Centre de Congrès de Lyon
The Lyon Convention Centre is situated at Lyon’s northeast Gateway, between the Tête d’Or Park, the Quai Charles de Gaulle and the Rhône, right on the edge of the city center, near the northern ring road and 5 minutes from a junction connecting with a major European motorway network
 By air
Lyon-Saint Exupéry is the French airport with the largest number of routes outside Paris, with 27 French towns and cities connected by daily scheduled flights, 43 scheduled international routes, 19 charter routes and 7 cargo routes (winter programme).
The Convention Centre is 25 minutes from the airport and Lyon-Saint Exupéry multimodal station.
Lyon Saint Exupéry International Airport
Tel: +33 (0)826 80 08 26
Web site: www.lyon.aeroport.fr
SATOBUS
Regular shuttles transport passengers from the airport to the city centre (Part-Dieu and Perrache railway stations)
Frequency: every 20 minutes (from 5 am to 11 pm 7 days a week).
Peak period: Every 10 minutes between 8 am and 9 am
45 minutes of transport
One-way: 8.40 euros – Return: 14.90 euros
Official carrier
Air France reference: SE 7187
Valid from 06/06/2007 to 19/06/2007
 By train
The Cité Centre de Congrès de Lyon is 10 minutes from Part-Dieu TGV station and 15 minutes from Perrache station. TGV trains run between Lyon and Paris every hour or every half hour.
Lyon - Paris : 1h55, Lyon - Marseille : 1h35, Lyon - Lille : 3h00, Lyon - Genève : 1h50, Lyon - Bruxelles : 3h50…
SNCF Enquiries:
Telephone from outside France: +33 (0)8 92 35 35 35
or within France: 3635
Web site: www.voyages-sncf.com
Part-Dieu Station is 12 minutes from the Cité Centre de Congrès : C1 : a fast trolley bus with a dedicated lane connect the Cité internationale with Part-Dieu in 12 mn or bus No. 47, destination "Cité Internationale".
Perrache Station is 30 minutes from the Cité Centre de Congrès de Lyon: Metro Line A, Foch station, then take bus line No. 4, destination "Cité Internationale".
We can provide you with SNCF French Rail vouchers entitling you to a travel reduction for the convention.
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French Railway) 20% discount vouchers can be obtained on request (via the registration form). |
 By road
Right at the city centre's north-east entrance, next to the motorway network and northern orbital road, Porte de Saint Clair exit, direction Cité internationale. By way of example, Lyon is 1h30 from Geneva, 3h from Turin, 4h from Paris, 4h30 from Milan, 5h from Barcelona...Our GPS reference is: 45°47.0829', 4°51.1488'
From Paris (A46 Motorway) and Geneva (Motorway A42)Toll-free route: exit 1b Tête d’Or – Le Tonkin follow signs for Part-Dieu-Tête d’Or then Boulevard Laurent Bonnevay to the Poincaré roundabout. Follow signs for Cité Internationale. Go along the Quai Charles de Gaulle.
Northern orbital road (Périphérique nord) – TEO (toll). Join at: Porte de Croix-Luizet. Exit: Porte de Saint-Clair. Follow signs for Tête d’Or to Poincaré roundabout. Take signs for Cité Internationale. Go along the Quai Charles de Gaulle.
From Chambéry-Grenoble (A43 motorway) or Saint-Etienne (A47 motorway) or Marseille (A7 motorway) by the Boulevard Laurent Bonnevay orbital road (Périphérique) Take the Boulevard Laurent Bonnevay in the direction of Bourg en Bresse.Exit Porte de Croix Luizet follow signs for Lyon Part-Dieu Tête d’Or. Follow signs for Tête d’Or to the Poincaré roundabout. Follow signs for Cité Internationale. Go along the Quai Charles de Gaulle.
 Visitor car park
A paying underground car park can be accessed via the quai Charles de Gaulle and accommodates 1150 cars.
Parking P0 & P2
Company administrator : Lyon Parc Auto (LPA)
Tél : + 33 (0)4 78 93 66 15 - Fax : + 33 (0)4 78 37 52 17
Car park covered with 1000 places (P0) and 1200 places (P2) situated at approximately 100 & 50 m of the Convention Centre, equipped with a CB system of payment, directly at entrance and exit gates.
Price per hour:
From 8:00 am till 8:00 pm: 0,50 € / 20 minutes
From 8:00 pm till 8:00 am: 4 €
Parking P1
Company administrator : Vinci Park
Tél : +33 (0)4 78 89 77 78 - Fax : + 33 (0)4 78 82 04 78
Car park covered with 1150 places situated in approximately 50 m of the convention
centre exit of elevators
Hourly price list:
From 8:00 am till 8:00 pm : 1,50 euros / hour
From 8:00 pm till 8:00 am : 1,50 euros / hour with a maximum to 4.50 euros
 Taxis
Taxi radio: +33 4 72 10 86 86
Allo taxi: +33 4 78 28 23 23
Taxis Lyonnais: +33 4 78 26 81 81
 TCL (Transport en commun Lyonnais) public transport system
TCL - public transports system - is huge and efficient :
The site is served by route 4, which connects with metro lines A and D at stops
Foch (A) and Saxe-Gambetta (D).
C1 : a fast trolley bus with a dedicated lane connect the Cité internationale with
Part-Dieu in 12 mn.
Buses No. 4 and 47 to get to the Cité Centre de Congrès de Lyon.
Other links with :
• line A to the Presqu'île and the Perrache train station (subway).
• line B to Part-Dieu (subway).
• line D to city centre and Vieux Lyon (subway).
• lines T1 and T2 to Universities and Perrache train station (tram).
 Vélo'v.
Since May 2005, The Grand Lyon (urban community) has made available to the public a bicycle hire system called Vélo'v.
Today there are over 4.000 Vélo'v on more than 340 bike stations. Free for the first 30 minutes, you can take a bicycle to go from one place to another. The Vélo'v service is available over 14 year old.
Where can you find vélo’v stations?
Located in Lyon and Villeurbanne, the stations are mainly near the metro and bus stations. The network was conceived to have a station every 300 metres on average and with less than 5 minutes on foot to between stations.
This service is available 7 days a week, 24 hours/day.
For more information: www.velov.grandlyon.com (website in French only)
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