:: How to Reach the Conference Hotels from the Airport ::


The Marmara Pera Hotel where all of the Non-Student participants will be staying is located at Tepebasi Square, Beyoglu, Istanbul. It is a big, tall building impossible to miss. The hotel is 10-15 minutes walking distance from the Conference venue.

Our assistants will guide you from the hotel to the Conference building at 8.30 in the morning on the first day of the Conference.

  • The most convenient way to get to The Marmara Pera Hotel is to take a taxi at the airport, outside international arrivals terminal.

  • Please tell the driver : The Marmara Pera Hotel, Tepebasi, Beyoglu

  • The taxi ride should cost about 16-20 New Turkish Liras or 10-12 Euros.


    The Student participants will be staying at two hotels :

    The following will be staying at Galata Apart Hotel, within 3 minutes of the Conference venue. The address is : Bankalar Caddesi, Felek Sokak, Karaköy.

    Baltzer, Boerner, Chambers, Coppola, Gaillard, Jobst, Jung, Kauppila, Khoudour-Casteras, Kokkinen, Lehmann, Mora Sitja, Murphy, Viola, Van Der Beek - Gabay

  • The most convenient way to get to the Galata Apart Hotel is to take a taxi at the airport, outside international arrivals terminal.

    Please tell the driver : Karaköy Meydani (Karaköy Square) . The taxi ride should cost about 15-18 New Turkish Liras or 9-11 Euros.

    The Galata Apart Hotel is located at the street above Bankalar Caddesi , less than 100 meters away from Karaköy Square. It is not easy for taxis to reach the hotel from Karaköy Square, however.

    After you get off the taxi at Karaköy Square, walk away from the bridge towards Bankalar Caddesi (Bankalar Street) on the left. Go up the stairs next to Imar Bank. Felek Sokak is the second street on your left. Please see the map.

  • Alternatively, you can take the tram-metro line (same thing) from the airport. This ride will cost you less than 2 Euros.

    Find and get on the tram-metro line at the airport. Change at Zeytinburnu. Choose Findikli (same as Kabatas) as destination. Get off the tram at Karaköy station.

    After you get off the tram at Karaköy, walk away from the bridge towards Bankalar Caddesi (Bankalar Street) on the left. Go up the stairs next to Imar Bank. Felek Sokak is the second street on your left. Please see the map.

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    All other student participants will be staying at Hotel Yenisehir Palas, located at Tepebasi, next to the Marmara Pera Hotel where non-student participants of the conference will be staying.

    Our assistants will guide you from the hotel to the Conference building at 8.30 in the morning on the first day of the Conference.

    • The most convenient way to get to The Marmara Pera Hotel is to take a taxi at the airport, outside international arrivals terminal.
    • Please tell the driver : Hotel Yenisehir Palas, Tepebasi, Beyoglu.
    • The taxi ride should cost about 16-20 New Turkish Liras or 10-12 Euros.

    If you are interested in a place for dinner or a late night drink, enter the street between the Marmara Pera and Hotel Yenisehir Palas Hotels, take first left and then the first right. You will arrive at a neighborhood of on-the-street restaurants and bars which is very popular with tourists.

    A late night walk on the main avenue, "Istiklal Caddesi" which is one block from these two hotels is also recommended.