Hotel & travel information
Hotel
The EEHNC organisation has collaborated with Hotel Service Utrecht, who have provided us with a tool which offers our delegates competitive, set (non-fluctuating) rates with flexible cancellation policies, fully refundable within the cancellation period. They have selected a list of hotels in various price ranges at walking distance of the city centre congress location, the Academy hall.
Click Here to access the Hotel service Utrecht booking tool
We recommend booking a hotel in Utrecht City Center, close to the main railway/bus/tram station, Utrecht Centraal Station (CS). Direct train connections run from Schiphol Airport to Utrecht CS. From Utrecht CS, buses and trams are available to the Utrecht Science Park, home to the Equine Clinic of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. For up-to-date travel information and departure times for trains, trams, and buses, you can use the website 9292.nl. They also offer an app, called 9292, which is available for both Android and iPhone. The website is also available in English.
How to get there
By car to Utrecht
Congress dinner(Thursday evening) and Saturday programme
Utrecht University Hall
Domplein 29, 3512 JE Utrecht, Nederland
Thursday and Friday programme
Utrecht University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Equine Sciences Department.
Yalelaan 114, 3584 CM Utrecht, Nederland
Parking in the city centre (congress dinner & saturday programme)
Seeing as the congress dinner and saturday sessions will be held in the city centre, roadside parking will be limited.
Following parking garages are all at a 10 minutes or less walk from the congress venue(Utrecht University hall):
Interparking Springweg - Strosteeg 83, 351 VK Utrecht, Nederland
Interparking Hoog Catharijne P5 - Catharijnesingel 55, 3511 GD Utrecht, Nederland
If you are driving from P5 to the Utrecht Science park, take the south exit.
Parking Kruisstraat - Kruisstraat 2, 3581 GK Utrecht, Nederland
Parking at the Utrecht science park (Thursday and Friday sessions)
You can park at Utrecht University at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
Yalelaan parkeerterrein P11 - Yalelaan 116a, 3584 CM Utrecht, Nederland
The best app you can use to get there is: Waze or Google Maps.
By plane
Via Amsterdam Schiphol airport
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the main international airport of the Netherlands.
It's easy to travel from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Utrecht by train. You can take the Intercity train (runs every 15 minutes) directly to Utrecht, which takes about half an hour.
Via Rotterdam the Hague airport
The popular regional Rotterdam the Hague airport receives several low-cost flights on the daily from various cities and regions accross Europe. You can reach Utrecht from here by taking a bus to Rotterdam central train station where you can hop on the train to Utrecht.
Public Transport
Utrecht Centraal is the only train station in Utrecht. It's the largest and busiest train station in the Netherlands and has 16 platforms where more than 900 trains depart daily for various local and international destinations. There are two bus stations near the station, one of which is located on the city centre side of the station and the other on the western side, together with a tram stop.
Visit the dutch rails website here
We recommend you to download the following apps if you will be using public transport:
How to get to the Utrecht Science park by public transport
There are buses and a tram going from Utrecht central station to the science park. Get off at the Heidelberglaan stop.
Click here for a detailed explanation.
Taxi service & Taxi to Schiphol Airport
Click here for a detailed explanation.