Discounted Airfares Available for June Conference
Scandinavian Airlines Systems, (SAS) has been designated as the "Official Carrier" for the summer, 2001 WACRA Conference to be held in Lund, Sweden in June 2001.
Under this agreement, SAS in conjunction with Lyon Travel of Brattleboro, Vermont, will offer conference participants discounted coach and business class airfares from Washington, Newark, Chicago and Seattle. In addition, discounted fares from other cities across the US are available to participants who use United Airlines to connect to any Trans-Atlantic, SAS flight.
To help make the booking process easy and convenient, SAS has pre-reserved a limited number of seats from Washington, Newark, Chicago, and Seattle and reduced the minimum stay and the advanced purchase requirements on all tickets. The ever-popular Scandinavian Air Pass is also included under this agreement.
Please note that these discounts apply to all conference participants, their traveling companions and families.
For participants wishing to do additional travel in Scandinavia, before or after the conference, Lyon Travel offers a selection of City Stopover Packages in Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Helsinki, as well as cruise packages to St. Petersburg, Russia and along the coast of Norway, from Bergen to Kierkenes.
To take advantage of these discounted fares and reserve a seat, all participants are encouraged to make their air and tour bookings, as soon as possible. This can be done easily through Lyon Travel, the Conference Booking Agency for SAS. Lyon can make your air and tour arrangements and coordinate your travel and conference logistics.
Please note that conference registration and hotel bookings must be done directly with the conference organizer.
To book with Lyon Travel:
Call 1-800-639-3849 or email them at: conferences@lyontravel.com
Please identify yourself as a WACRA Conference attendee.
Copenhagen International Airport (CPH) is the closest large airport, from which Lund can then be reached by high-speed trains. Tickets cost 90 SEK and a change of trains in Malmö is necessary. If you want to save money, book your airline ticket all the way to Malmö, Sweden for the same price (or almost) as to Copenhagen. Thank you for the tip Maria! There is bus service every hour from Copenhagen airport to the hydrofoil (Flygbåtarna Terminal) in downtown Copenhagen. Travel time is about 20 minutes. Hydrofoils are very popular, therefore passengers would be advised to book tickets in advance (tel: +46 40 120484 or fax: +46 40 120484). Crossing time is approximately 45 minutes and costs 120 SEK which includes both the bus and hydrofoil.
Taxis in Sweden can be pre-ordered or found at Taxi stops often found just outside stations and harbors. Hailing them from the street works, but is not customary. Because the Swedish taxi-market has been made free, drivers set their own fees which, regrettably, can mean overpricing. Settle a price with the driver before accepting services. A trip from Malmö to Lund, is normally priced at 200-250 Kroner. Taxis normally accept all major credit cards.
From Malmö to Lund local trains depart approximately 4 times per hour during weekdays, somewhat less frequently in the evening and weekends. Tickets, costing about 30 SEK, are available from the ticket machines located on the train platform only. An hourly express train is available from Stockholm, and takes about 4 hours to get to Malmö. The Swedish State-owned Railway can be reached at tel: +46 (0)8 762 20 00. For travelers leaving Copenhagen for Lund, The Danish State-owned Railway can be reached at tel:+45 (0)70 13 14 15. The bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö is now open to motorists. Lund can be reached from roads E6 and E22. There are also car and passenger ferry connections to southern Sweden from Germany (Scandlines and TT-Line), and from Poland.