Accommodation and Local Information

Accommodation for the conference is provided at a range of nearby hotels, guest houses, or rented apartments. You will also find a variety of local information on this page.

 

Accommodation on campus

Limited bed and breakfast accommodation with en-suite facilities is available at the conference park on campus. Singles cost around £64.50 per night and double/twin rooms around £85.00 per night (with these rates being subject to 17.5% VAT). Bookings cannot be taken until 12 weeks in advance of the event. Further information is available at: 

The Conference Office

University of Birmingham

University Centre

Edgbaston

Birmingham B15 2TT

Tel: +44 (0)121 415 8400

Fax: +44 (0) 121 415 8406 

www.conferencepark.bham.ac.uk 

Local Guest Houses

The Copperfield House Hotel offers reasonable rates of around £50.00 per night for a single occupancy room for August 31, Sept 1 & 2. (17 rooms). It is within walking distance of campus, in a pleasant part of Selly Oak. There are a limited number of rooms so please book early.

 

 www.copperfieldhousehotel.co.uk

 

Accommodation booked via the Birmingham Convention Bureau

Other hotel, guest house and rented apartment accommodation near to the conference venue can be found from £22 per night single occupancy (including full breakfast). These can be booked through the Birmingham Convention Bureau whose friendly and helpful staff will be pleased to give delegates further information. For on-line information, booking forms and a wealth of information about Birmingham follow this link for the dedicated Birmingham Convention Bureau portal for the Beyond the Book conference, giving details of special rates -

 

http://www.visitbirmingham.com/exec/beyondthebook07.

 

BCB can be reached by phone on +44 (0) 121 202 5115, they can provide a wider range of prices and locations by phone.

 

Delegates should specify attendance at the Beyond the Book Conference when booking.

 

Sharing Accommodation

Some delegates may wish to try to find someone to share accommodation with when they come to Birmingham for the conference.

To that end we have created an email list.

The purpose of this list is to enable you to make contact with other people who are attending the conference and have expressed interest in the possibility of sharing a room during their stay.

If you would like to join the list please email burrealz@adf.bham.ac.uk with 'Join Conference Accommodation Sharers' in the subject line.

Our Project Administrator, Anna, will then distribute your email address to everyone else who has requested to join the list, along with any information that you have sent, for example the dates of your stay in Birmingham, or the price range you are looking within.

Anna works part-time so details of new joiners will probably only be forwarded to other members of the list once a week.

We do not have any control over emails that are posted to this list, or over who joins the list.

Please use the list with care, any arrangements that you make to share accommodation are between yourself and the person who you have agreed to share with. The Beyond the Book Project and the University of Birmingham cannot accept responsibility for any such arrangements, or for any emails that are circulated between members of the list.

We hope that you all have success in finding someone to share with.

Childcare facilities:

Whilst the University is planning to offer a childcare service for conference delegates in the near future, this will not be in place by September. The best way to find out about childcare facilities during your stay in Birmingham is through the Childcare Information Bureau, which is a UK Government childcare information service:

Telephone: +44 (0)121 303 3521

Web address: http://www.childcarelink.gov.uk

Follow the link to 'Childcare Search', for facilities close to campus choose: WEST Birmingham. The areas that our campus is nearest to are: Edgbaston and Quinton & Harborne. Or choose SOUTH WEST Birmingham. The area nearest to our campus is Selly Oak.

Please see the 'Travel' section for information on how to get to campus from town.

Local Events, Attractions, Places to Eat ....

The Birmingham Tourist Board's pages at: www.visitbirmingham.com have a wealth of loacl information and are worth checking out! I will be posting more local info. here in the near future!

Weather in Birmingham

I have included a link below to the BBC's weather pages for Birmingham, for those of you coming from further afield. The pages will give you a 5 day forecast for the Birmingham area:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0002