--May 2011 Itinerary --

Kent State University
College of Business International Business Experience

 

Following is the “final” itinerary for the May 2011 COB International Business Experience.  Past  classes have shown that we may need to be flexible during the trip as circumstances can change.

 

Saturday, May 14 – I will be at Cleveland Hopkins Airport by 1:00 for a 2.50 departure from Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Continental Airlines flight 50; arrive Newark at 4:34.  I leave Newark on Continental Airline at 6:50 pm on flight 80 arriving in Geneva on Sunday, May 15 at 8:30 a.m.  For your flight remember to have your ticket information and your passport in hand.

 

Sunday, May 15 –8:30 am arrive Geneva.  Pick up bags, go through customs

10.00 Check into rooms at KSU Geneva Hotel

11.30 Meet in the KSU lounge (some students will be arriving at the airport around then).

12.00 Lunch with group

13.30 Walking/bus tour of Geneva

19.00 Dinner with group

 

Monday, May 16

9:00 am Meet for walk to Gare Cornavin  (bring your EURAIL PASS and PASSPORT)

10:56 am Train IR 1425 from Geneva to Vevey, arriving 11.58 am

12.00 walking tour of              Vevey

13.00 Lunch [on own]

14.22 Train  S1 12147 (Platform 3) arrive Veytaux-Chillon 14:35

15.00 Tour Chillon Castle

Return train to Geneva -- possible times:  16.28 (arrive Lausanne 17.04, platform 8;  depart 17.17 IR 2528 platform 4, arrive Geneva 17.50 );   17.28 (arrive Lausanne 18.04,  platform 8; depart 18.17 IR 2530 platform 4, arrive Geneva 18.50 )

 

[Dinner on own]

 

Tuesday, May 17  

9.00 meet in lounge for briefing and bus to WIPO  [Bus 5, 8, F, V from Gare Cornavin to Nations or UIT], bring Passport and Eurail Pass.

10.00 World Intellectual Properties Organization 34, chemin des Colombettes;

 [Lunch on own ]

13.00 Gare Cornavin  leave 13.20 train RE 2629 platform 6, arrive Allaman 13.51 platform 1; leave 14.09 train S3 12349 (urban train line 3) platform 3, arrive Etoy 14.11.  Walk to company.

14.30  Parker-Hannifin Corporation, La Tuiliere 6,  1163 Etoy, Switzerland (Dan Whitman Ph:  +41 (0) 21 821 86 03).  (Potential returns:  17.11 Etoy-Morges-Geneva, 17.45 Etoy-Allaman-Geneva, 18.11 Etoy-Morges-Geneva)

[Dinner on own]

 

 

Wednesday, May 18

8.30  meet for briefing

--To Gare Cornavin for Bus 8 (9.11, 9.16) to International Red Cross -- check in by 9.45.

10.00-12.30 International Red Cross – Ave De La Paix - 1202 Geneva

 

[12.30 Lunch on own at cafeteria – museum tour ]  

 

15.00 U.N. (revised time)-- 14, avenue de la Paix (Buses: nos. 8, 11, 14, F, V and Z ;bus stop is "Appia")  Meet at the gate BY 14:45.

 

 [Dinner on own]

 

Thursday, May 19

8.00 meet for briefing

--To Gare Cornavin for Bus 8 (8.42 or 8.46)

9.15  International Labor Organization 4 route des Morillons Meeting at the reception of the ILO (R2 North)

 

[Lunch on own]

 

14.00  World Trade Organization, Centre William Rappard, Rue de Lausanne 154, -------From Gare Cornavin, take the Bus number 1 in the direction of Jardin Botanique, which is also the WTO stop and the last one on the bus line.  Or, from Nations take Bus 11 to Jardin Botanique

 

 [Dinner on own]

 

Friday, May 20 – Independent travel activities (on own) Suggestions: Geneva, Bern, Lausanne, Fribourg, Lucerne, Annecy (Fr), Chamonix, Vallais, Zermatt, Italy or Spain (plan on train reservations for Thursday night travel).

 

Saturday, May 21 -- Independent travel activities (on own)

 

Sunday, May 22  --Travel to Strasbourg (on own).  Note: check to see if you need advance reservation for the train to Strasbourg.

 

After 14.00 check in at Le Grand Hotel, 12 Place De La Gare; (optional, meet at 17.30 for walk to central city).

 

Monday, May 23  

8.45 Meet in lobby; walk to central city

10.00 Historic Boat Tour and walking tour of Petite France

[Lunch on own;]

14.00 Kronenbourg Breweries Tour

[Optional, tram/bus travel to Germany for dinner]

[Dinner on own]

 

Tuesday, May 24

7.45 checked out and ready to depart for Gare Central

8.16 train, TGV 9578, to Paris (fast train, we have the required reservations); arrive Paris-Est 10.34

Travel by metro to Hotel Edouard VI [lunch on own]

13.45 meet to metro to Paris Vision Tour of Paris at 14.45

20.00 Dinner at Restaurant --Chez Clement in Montparnasse

 

Wednesday, May 25

9.00 meet in lobby

9.30 Louvre

12.00  Meet for metro to La Defense

 [Lunch on own]

13.15 bus 178 to Moulin de Bruyeres stop or bus 275

14.00 IBM FRANCE--  , Avenue de l'Europe, Bois-Colombes.

IBM Forum Desk, and ask for Rosalie Ho.

 

[Dinner on own]

 

Thursday, May 26

9.00 Depart Hotel Edouard VI, for Versailles (via Gare Montparnasse)

[Lunch on own]

Afternoon – Sacre Coeur

[Dinner on own]

 

Friday, May 27

9.00 meet in lobby

9.30 Cultural Observation Exercise at Galeries Lafayette/Printemps

[Lunch on own]

[Dinner on own]

Prepare for next day departure.

 

Saturday, May 28

 7.00 --  Meet in Lobby ready to take cab/van to Aéroport de Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) for Continental Airlines flight 57 departing 10.00 to Cleveland (Have your ticket information and your passport in hand), arrive Newark 12.30 Go through customs.  Leave Newark 2.55 Continental flight 325, arrive CLE 4.14.
Hotel Information

 

1.                  KSU Hotel Rousseau

Rue Rousseau 13
1201 Geneva, Switzerland

Hotel Director – Sanda Puiu, cell 011.41.78 .944. 89. 59

 

2.         LE GRAND HOTEL

            12 PLACE DE LA GARE

            STRASBOURG

            FRANCE 67000

Phone: 011.33.3.88.52.84.84

Fax:     011.33.3.88.52.84.00

(http://www.le-grand-hotel.com/uk/index.html )

           

3.         Hotel Edouard VI

            61, boulevard du Montparnasse

            75006 Paris

            Phone:  011.33.1.45.48.94.99

            Fax:  011.33.1.45.44.09.25

(http://www.parisby.com/edouardvi/index.html)

            Email:  hotel-edouardvi@wanadoo.fr

            (http://www.hotel-paris-montparnasse.com/)

 

Area Codes: The country code for France is 33. The first two digits of French numbers are a prefix determined by zone: Paris and Ile-de-France, 01; the northwest, 02; the northeast, 03; the southeast, 04; and the southwest, 05. Numbers beginning with 08 can be either toll-free calls or calls that you are charged for (it depends on how the company has set up the number).

 

Calling France: When dialing France from abroad, begin with the international code (011), then the country code (33), then drop the initial 0 from the area code number. For instance, to call a telephone number in Paris from the United States, dial 011-33 plus the phone number minus the initial 0.  When dialing locally, use the full 10 digits, beginning with 0 and the area code.  To call France from the United Kingdom, dial 00-33, then dial the number in France minus the initial 0.

 

Calling Switzerland:  The same  logic applies to Switzerland, where the country code is 41.  Switzerland is divided into a number of geographical areas with different area codes. A phone number consists of the area code and a local phone number. The area code has either two or three digits and starts with a zero such as 22 for Geneva or 043 for Zurich. The local phone number has seven digits. When calling a number within the same area, the area code is not be dialed.

 

To call a number in Switzerland from abroad, dial the international access code applies (011 from the USA) then 41 (country code for Switzerland), then the area code without the leading zero plus the local phone number.

 

 


The address for our hotel in Geneva is Rue Rousseau 13
1201 Geneva, Switzerland. 

 

If you will be arriving at the airport in Geneva around 8:30 on Sunday, we will wait for you.  However, if you are getting in after 9:15 or 9:30, I will likely let you get to us on your own.  If cost is no matter, you can take a cab….but public transportation is available, easy, and (for the purposes of this part of the trip) free.

 

HOW TO GET TO OUR HOTEL IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME:

1.    If you are arriving on your own by public transportation, you would take the train from the airport to Gare Cornavin (the main train station in Geneva) using the free public transportation ticket that you would get near the luggage carousel at the airport. See GVA for some information on this.   The vending machines that provide the free tickets are inside the baggage claim area, before going through customs. They are near the machine that sells baggage cart tokens BEFORE you exit the baggage area.


This is a picture of the free vending machine.  Get the ticket, exit the baggage area, and walk to your left to find the train station at the airport.  The trains leave about every 12 minutes.

 

2.    When you exit at the main train station (Gare Cornavin or “Genève-Cornavin”), you would then look for the 9 bus going in the direction of Petit-Bel-Air.  You would take the 9 bus to the Chantepoulet stop (about a 2 minute ride), which is the first stop after you get on.

 

Get off at the Chantepoulet stop continue in the direction the bus was going to Rue Paul Bouchet (the next corner from the stop).  Turn right on  Rue Paul Bouchet and walk to where it ends (at Rue Rousseau).

 

Cross the street and turn left on Rue Rousseau.  Walk to the hotel, about a block.

 

 

3.    Or, to walk this in about 10 mins :

1. Start out going SOUTH on PLACE DE CORNAVIN/1 toward RUE DE CHANTEPOULET/PLACE DES VINGT-DEUX-CANTONS. 0.09 mi

 2. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto RUE DE CORNAVIN. 0.02 mi

 3. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto RUE ROUSSEAU. 0.1 mi

 4. RUE ROUSSEAU 13.

 


LE GRAND HOTEL

12 PLACE DE LA GARE

STRASBOURG

FRANCE 67000

 

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- The hotel faces the Strasbourg train station.  It is directly across the main plaza from the station, a 2 minute walk.


May 2011

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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14

IBE to Geneva lv CLE 2.50 pm lv Newark 4.34 pm

15

Arr GVA 8.30 am

13.30 Walking Tour

16

9 To train station for reservations

10.56 to Vevey

14.22 Chillon Castle

 

17

9 meet

10 WIPO

1 Gare Cornavin

2.30  Parker-Hannifin

18

8.30 meet

10-12.30  ICRC

3.00 UN

 

19

8 meet

9.15 ILO

2-5 pm WTO

20

Independent Travel

21

Independent Travel

22  Independent Travel meet in Strasbourg

17.30 for walking tour (optional)

23

8.45 Meet

10 Historic Boat ride

2 p.m. Kronenbourg

Dinner in Germany (Optional)

24

7.45 Checked out

8.16  am to Paris

13.45 meet

2.45 Paris Vision Tour

8 pm Dinner Chez Clement

 

25

9 meet

9.30 Louvre

12.30 meet

2-5 IBM FRANCE

26

9.00 Versailles

 

3.00 Sacre Coeur

27

9 meet

Cultural Observation Exercise at Galeries Lafayette/Printemps

28

IBE return lv CDG 10 arr Newark 12.30 lv Newark 2.55 arr CLE 4.14