Accommodations, Meals, & Travel Info

Accommodations

We aim to make CUWiP accessible to everyone. All meals and accommodation during the conference are organized and the costs are met by CUWiP. You do not need to book or arrange accommodation on Friday or Saturday night. Participants will be booked in one of the two hotels listed below. Participants will be assigned two to a room. Participants may specify roommate preferences on the registration; otherwise, roommates will be randomly assigned by the organizing committee. Shuttles will be provided to transport conference attendees between hotels and conference venues. 

• Hilton Garden Inn, Palo Alto 4216 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306

• Hyatt Centric, Mountain View 409 San Antonio Road, Mountain View, CA 94040

Unfortunately, there are no official on-site child care options at Stanford available for the conference. However, the following options are available for off-site child care and subsidized child care (off-site child care that is not offered through or managed by Stanford University):

• Off-Site Child Care Resources

• Child Care Resource & Referral Website

Meals

All meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch will be provided. We will request dietary restriction information on the registration form. 

Air Travel, Transit, & Parking

SLAC and Stanford are approximately equidistant from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and San Jose International Airport (SJC). Oakland International Airport (OAK) is within approximately an hour’s drive outside of rush hour (with traffic, the trip time can nearly double). 

Stanford's campus is adjacent to CalTrain's Palo Alto station, and can also be reached by various forms of public transit. Once on campus, on weekdays only the Stanford Marguerite bus system provides transportation around campus, to/from SLAC, and to the surrounding area. Both Uber and Lyft operate in the Bay Area. Both are generally reliable and easily available. Note that rideshare drivers may not be allowed past the SLAC security gate (the SLAC conference venues are a short walk from the gate).

See Stanford's transportation page and SLAC's transportation page for more details.

Parking for conference attendees at the hotels will be included. Parking on Stanford Campus is free after 3:00pm on weekdays and all day on weekends. Park in designated visitor areas (see the shaded purple regions in this map). Parking on SLAC site is always free.