Venue and Travel Information

Venue

The workshop will take place in the beautiful Schloss Rheinfels hotel at St. Goar, Germany. Schloss Rheinfels is a castle at one of the nicest places within the Rhine valley, itself a world heritage site. Among a set of hotels focusing on wellness, the hotel is voted yearly as being part of the top 3 conference hotels in Germany. There is a beautiful view from the hotel onto the river Rhine. See http://www.schloss-rheinfels.de/englisch for more information about the hotel.

Travel

• By Plane
  St. Goar is located between the airports of Frankfurt, Frankfurt-Hahn, Köln-Bonn (Cologne), and (somewhat further away) Düsseldorf. Frankfurt-Hahn (served, for example, by Ryanair) is the closest airport (just 46 km away), but there is hardly any public transportation. From the airports, you can reach St. Goar by train or by car as indicated below.

• By train
  From Frankfurt: You have to change once at Mainz or Bingen. Travel time is between 1:04 and 1:36 hrs. From Cologne airport, you can go to the city of Cologne first, take a train to Koblenz and then to St. Goar. Travel time is between 1:50 and 2:30 hrs. Check http://www.bahn.de/ for details.

• By car
  By car from Frankfurt: you can head for Mainz, then take A 60 in the direction of Bingen and the continue on the A 61 until exit Pfalzfeld. From the Pfalzfeld exit, you can drive into the direction of St. Goar. You can see the castle just before coming to the city of St. Goar. The expected travel time from the airport is about 90 mins. From Frankfurt-Hahn, travel time is less than an hour (GPS or map recommended). From Cologne: you can head for the A 61 in the direction of Koblenz/Mainz, leave A61 at exit Pfalzfeld in the direction of St. Goar.