Hi Andy,
With regards to the closest train station to alight for Park Royal Hotel on Beach Road, there are two, one slightly further than the other: Nicoll Highway MRT station (Circle line/Yellow, CC5) and Bugis MRT interchange (Downtown line/Blue|East-west line/Green, DT14/EW12).
To travel to the hotel via the MRT train service, you will have to take the train from Changi Airport heading towards Tanah Merah MRT interchange.
Pulling into Tenah Merah MRT interchange in the middle platform, you will have to alight and take the train going towards Tuas Link, Joo Koon, or Boon Lay MRT stations.
The train going towards Tuas Link, Joo Koon, or Boon Lay stations should be on the left of the train when pulling into Tanah Merah station.
Bugis MRT station is further from the hotel by a couple of hundred meters than Nicoll Highway MRT station.
It is an underground station.
However, it is on the line of the train service which you will be boarding at Tanah Merah station.
Therefore no further transfer is required.
If you take Exit B of the station, I suggest walking along Rochor Road, then Beach Road towards the hotel as there is currently road works at Ophir Road which may make the walking experience unpleasant along that road.
To shorten your exposure to the hot weather above ground, I suggest walking towards Exit E or F instead, which will bring you to a mixed residence development, Duo located on Beach Road.
As Exit E/F is in the middle of the development, I recommend that you ask a local for directions to the hotel, or at least Beach Road.
Nicoll Highway MRT station is a second option. However, it is one that I don't recommend if you are using a luggage and dislike using overhead pedestrian bridges.
Nicoll Highway MRT station requires a transfer at Paya Lebar MRT interchange, which is also on the East-west Line.
At Paya Lebar MRT station, you will have to walk from the above ground platform where you will alight from the train from the airport, then proceed to the underground platform for the Circle line.
Take the train service that is heading towards Dhoby Ghaut or Marina Bay MRT stations.
Alight at Nicoll Highway MRT station and take Exit A.
Walk onto the overhead bridge that will be right in front of you as that is the only way to get across the highway.
There is an upriding escalator, and also a lift as well.
Along the bridge, there is an exit, but that goes into the Concourse. Then there is another exit to the first floor.
There should be escalators in both directions, and also a lift. Take this exit.
Thereafter, walk along Java Road, then turn right on Beach Road towards the hotel.
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 5:06 AM
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) <wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Re: Arrival and travel to hotel
On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 20:41, effe iets anders <effeietsanders@gmail.com> wrote:
> In previous years, volunteer organizers went out of their way to
> describe in extreme detail how to get to the accommodation/venue
Indeed so - and such information has also in previous years been generously provided by Wikimedia volunteers who were not Wikimania organizers, but who were local to the event. Nobody complained when such questions were asked on this list.
An exemplary example is the thread archived here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/2XF5VNDYJYSSZXTRXM7HJUVCOBLD5BUN/#CUJKPB6XIMR5M32GXMXITHU3WLSVBZLZ > That was great, but should not set an expectation for future
> organizers to do the same
I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I have no such expectations.
The only pertinent expectation I have is that discourse on this and our other mailing lists will be conducted with more civility than I was shown today.
> Whenever there are specific questions, it's of course always welcome to ask people - for example through this list.
Recent evidence suggests, sadly, otherwise.
> It looks like a straight metro ride with a short walk along two streets.
Apparently not; the links provided suggest a change of trains is required.
> Andy, if there's anything specific that you need beyond that link,
> feel free to clarify what that is
I think my originally, carefully worded query was explicitly clear, as in the context of that query, which it quoted, was my follow-up.
[.Readers will note that it does not include a request for the location of any of the hotels to which I referred]
> Overall, I hope that as a community we can lower what we "expect" from
> the organizers to take care of
Again, I have no expectations such as those to which you refer.
My request was for "someone with local knowledge" to give an answer.
[.My only request to an organiser, when they said they would reply privately, was to do so here instead, so that others may benefit] _______________________________________________
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