Travel, Hotel, and Restaurant Information

Airport

The University Park Airport (also known as State College Airport, airport code: SCE) is about 10 minute driving distance from Penn State. For further information, consult http://www.phys.psu.edu/visitors/travel.html.

Driving Directions

Conference Hotel

Participants should make hotel reservations directly.

Rooms have been reserved from 6/12-6/17/07 in Atherton Hotel, which is right outside the campus. Information can be found at http://www.athertonhotel.net. When calling in to make the reservations, guests must request the rooms reserved under EPQHS-2. Guests must reserve rooms by 5/12/07 (one month prior to the conference). The nightly rates for the rooms are $95 for a single and $105 for a double.

Use this code when reserving your room at the Atherton online: EPQHS 120607.

In order to guarantee reservations, a deposit for one night's room and tax, payable by credit card will be required at the time the request is made, otherwise the room will be held until 6:00 PM on the date of arrival and subject to cancellation at that time. Individual reservations must be changed or canceled 72 hours prior to arrival or the reservation is subject to full charge of all nights' room and tax revenue. Early departure will result in an Early Departure Fee of $50.00.

Check-in time is 3:00 p.m.. If your schedule requires an early check-in time, please advise us. We will make every effort to honor your request; however, we cannot guarantee an early check-in. We will be happy to provide luggage storage.

Check-out is 12:00 Noon. Arrangements can be made for baggage storage after this time.

Other Hotels

Other hotels within 10 minutes walking distance: Nittany Lion Inn and Imperial Motor Inn; within 15-20 minutes: Sleep Inn, Roadway Inn, Days Inn, Comfort Suites.

Restaurants