28 - 30 October 2008
Convention Centre
Christchurch
New Zealand
The following three hotels have rooms block booked for conference delegates.
Please mention the Horizons Conference when you are enquiring about or making a booking.
Bookings for the Crowne Plaza and Rydges Hotels can be made directly through the preferred establishment link on the conference website.
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Cnr Durham & Kilmore Streets (opposite the Christchurch Convention Centre)
Hilary Little, Group Reservations Agent
Tel: 03 365 7799
Email: hilaryl@crowneplazachristchurch.co.nz
Prices range from $200-295 per night (includes GST)
Rydges Hotel
Cnr Oxford Terrace & Worcester Street
(5 minute walk to the Christchurch Convention Centre)
Tel: 03 379 4700 or 0800 654 994
Fax 03 379 5357
Email: reservations_christchurch@rydges.com
Prices range from $150-170 per night (includes GST)
Full breakfast available for $18
Fino Casementi Scenic Circle Apartments
87-89 Kilmore Street
(adjacent to the Christchurch Convention Centre)
Tel: +64 3 357 1915
or Freephone 0800 69 69 63 (NZ only)
One bedroom unit $185.62;
Two bedroom unit $208.12
It is recommended that international delegates contact their local travel agent for the best airfares and routes to New Zealand. Christchurch has an International Airport which you may be able to fly to directly or transfer to from Auckland or Wellington, depending on your country of origin and airline.
Most visitors to New Zealand arrive by commercial air travel. On arrival all international passengers are required to complete a New Zealand Passenger Arrival Card which is presented with their passport at Passport Control prior to baggage reclaim. The New Zealand Passenger Arrival Card has questions that relate to biosecurity, customs and immigration matters. New Zealand operates strict biosecurity procedures at airports and passengers are asked to declare all items in their possession described on the card. Such items include food of any kind, animals or animal products, plants or plant products, and other risk items. You are also asked to declare whether, in the past 30 days while outside New Zealand, you have been in contact with any animals, to a farm, abattoir, meat packing house, forest or hiking, camping, hunting in rural areas or parkland. A theme for those arriving for a visit is - if in doubt, declare it.
Further information can be obtained from www.biosecurity.govt.nz in the section Personal Travel, Belongings & Mail.