We have some
rooms at the UBC Conference Center's West
Coast
Suites set aside for conference attendees
who would like to book them.
Please
contact Lissa (lissad(at)interchange.ubc.ca)
before January 19, 2011 if you are interested in booking one of these
rooms.
Travel
Directions
To UBC
If you arrive in Vancouver by air, you will land at Vancouver
International
Airport. YVR is situated in
Richmond, across the Fraser River south
of the City of Vancouver. If you are driving to UBC, you can find directions
to the campus here.
To
get to UBC from the airport,
delegates may opt to take a taxi, a public transportation bus or to
rent a car.
Taxis will be queued outside of the domestic and international arrival
gates.
There are a number of car
rental
agenciessituated at the airport,
and arrangements can
be made prior to arrival via the web. Via bus, take bus #424 to Airport
Station, transfer to bus #98 B-Line, get off at Granville Street at
Broadway,
and transfer to either the #17 UBC or #99 UBC buses. To view the bus
schedules,
click here: www.translink.bc.ca.
Further
information on public transportation
can be found on the South Coast British Columbia Transportation
Authority, TransLink,
website
or
phone
604-953-3333.
Be
sure
to
utilize
the
trip
planning feature on the
TransLink
website.