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June 2012 TC/PC - Exeter, England
UK Met Office
FitzRoy Road
Exeter
Devon
EX1 3PB
United Kingdom
The Tentative Agenda for the OGC TC/PC meetings is now available. Please note that as the schedule fills up, we might be required to change times and locations of previously posted sessions.
On Friday, 22 June, OGC and AGI will host the Interoperability Day 2012 - Open Government and Open Standards.Seperate registration is required via AGI's website.
On-line Registration is now open:
- OGC Members Must register through the My Account section of the OGG Member Portal
- Non-members and Guest may register directly through the OGC Storefront.
There are Meeting Fees associated with the OGC TC/PC Meetings. Based upon your organization's OGC Membership Level, you will have at least one Complementary registration for each meeting.
The Wednesday evening Reception will be $55.00 USD per person.
| Meetings and Events | Earlybird Rate (Before 15 June) | On-Site (on or after 15 June) |
|---|---|---|
| OGC Member - Technical Committee (comp'd) | $0 | $50 |
| OGC Member - Technical Committee Meetings** | $225.00 | $275.00 |
| OGC Member - Technical Committee Meetings - Daily Rate | $100.00 | $150.00 |
| Non-Member - Technical Committee Meetings ** |
$325.00 | $375.00 |
| Non-Member - Technical Committee Meetings - Daily Rate | $200.00 |
$250.00 |
| Wednesday Reception Only | $55.00 | $55.00 |
** Use for two or more days of Technical Committee attendance.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/contact/exeter-hotels
The below list provides additional information regarding specific room blocks for the OGC TC/PC:
- Jurys Inn (http://exeterhotels.jurysinns.com/) 50 rooms available at £72 per night. When contacting the hotel use the booking reference METO170612
Call to book +44 1392 312400, and ask for individual reservation, then give them the above booking code.
- Mercure Southgate Hotel (http://www.mercure.com/gb/hotel-6624-mercure-exeter-southgate-hotel/index.shtml) 50 rooms available (30 rooms at £89 and 20 rooms at £99 per night). When contacting the hotel use the booking reference METO170612
+44 (0) 1392 412812
- Buckerell Lodge (http://www.akkeronhotels.com/Hotels/Southern-England/Buckerell-Lodge-Hotel) 10 rooms available at £75 per night. When contacting the hotel use the booking reference Met Office
+44 (0) 844 855 9141
- White Hart (http://www.whitehartpubexeter.co.uk/) 29 rooms available (15 doubles at £67.16 and 14 singles at £59.16 per night). When contacting the hotel let them know that you want to take up one of the rooms block booked by the Met Office
+44 (0) 1392 279897
- Thistle Hotel (http://www.thistle.com/en/hotels/united_kingdom/exeter/the_rougemont_hotel/index.html) 7 rooms available at £97 per night. When contacting the hotel let them know that you want to take up one of the rooms block booked by the Met Office.
+44 (0) 845 305 8318
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/contact/in-exeter
Below are some travel notes from one of our hosts:
There are only cheap holiday flights to holiday destinations from Exeter, like Murcia and generally only one per day or less.
Travel to and from Bristol has more international destinations, but generally you need a car to get there and back from Exeter. Public transport is possible but is not joined up.
I nearly always travel to/from London Heathrow. Terminal 5 is best. Terminals 1,2,3 OK too. Try to avoid Terminal 4 (30 mins away from others).
Then take RailAir bus, every 30 mins, to Reading train station. London Paddington trains pass through every hour to Exeter, takes 1 1/2 or 2 hours (300km). This is faster and cheaper then travelling into London and back out.
Flights to/from Gatwick are feasible too. Train hourly to Reading, takes 1 1/2 hours.
Travel to/from London City next in priority and inconvenience. Then London Stanstead, then Luton (never!).
Cheaper, but much slower, stopping trains, travel from London Waterloo to Exeter by a different route, 3 1/2 hours minimum.
Buy your train, and RailAir bus, tickets far in advance on the Web, say 2months, as possible - much cheaper, but fixed trains and seats.Too early though, say 3 months and one week, and cheap tickets will not have been posted.
Lots of web sites sell tickets - all basically the same, connected to the national infrastructure.
First Great Western http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/ run the Paddington trains and do not charge for debit/credit cards, but charge for an SMS message.
http://www.thetrainline.com is run by Virgin, but has identical tickets etc. Free SMS but charges for card transaction.
Transport reliability is good, except planes towards the end of the day may be late.
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