Getting To and From Heriot-Watt University

The easiest way to get to Heriot-Watt is to get one of the following Lothian buses: 25, 34, 35 or 45. All of these buses end up at Heriot-Watt as the last stop and run fairly frequently from the main transit hubs of the city (Princes Street and Haymarket).

You can pay the bus fare using contactless or exact coin change. Trips are £1.80 each but if you use the same card, it is capped at £4.50 per day.

Buses are frequent throughout the day but most services stop around 00:30 (more or less). There are night buses but they are every hour or so and not all lines are covered. Bus lines 25 (N25) and 100 (from/to airport) run 24 hours a day.

From City Centre

Go to either Princes Street or Haymarket and get bus 25 (fastest), 34 or 45. The bus 35 goes through the old town (close to the Royal Mile) and also finishes at Heriot-Watt.

Lothian Road is another common place for buses and transport, with lines 34 and 35 stopping there on the way to/from the university.

From Waverley or Haymarket Train Stations

Buses stop frequently outside these stations, and you can get any of the lines above easily.

In Waverley, head towards the Princes Street exit and bus 25 stops in front of the station (there is a Costa Coffee opposite the stop).

In Haymarket, walk towards Dalry road (there is a huge building in progress) and take bus 25.

To City Centre

From Heriot-Watt, you can take any of the buses 25, 34, 35 and 45 to get to the city centre. Princes Street is the main shopping and transit hub. The old town, where we have the tour and restaurant, is a short walk away from there as well as the Royal Mile, one of the most iconic streets of Edinburgh, with the castle at the top and the Palace of Holyrood at the bottom end of it.

From anywhere else in the city, most buses pass through Princes Street and it is often easier to go there and then go to Heriot-Watt.

Airport

To get to Heriot-Watt from Edinburgh Airport, there are two options:

• (Easiest) By taxi (or Uber/Gett) to the university. It is a 10 minute car ride so it should be less than £15.

• By bus/tram, you can take the tram or bus (line 100) to Haymarket, and then change there to bus 25 towards Heriot-Watt. The bus costs £7.5 for a return ticket (contactless available, valid for 28 days) plus line 25 (£1.8), and the journey takes about an hour.

Similarly, to get to the airport, it is best to take either the bus 100 or tram from Haymarket/Princes Street. The bus runs 24 hours (every 10 minutes, less frequent at night).

Sunday Drinks and Ghost Tour

We will first have some drinks around 20:00 in a pub called “Cold Town House” in Grassmarket (https://goo.gl/maps/iUp9FjUrRcb5KuoVA).

The ghost tour starts at 21:30 at 'The Tree of The Dead’ by the roadside wall of St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile (https://w3w.co/scare.filed.tender ). The tour will take approximately 1.5 to 2 hours.

Please check your email for the WhatsApp invite link.

On Campus Directions

See below if you would prefer a Google pin to follow.

When you enter Heriot-Watt’s Main Reception, you want to head to the right - following signs for “Academic Buildings North”.

You will continue along a hallway and over a bridge with lots of windows. Once across this bridge, you want to head down the stairs - now following signs for “Earl Mountbatten Building 21” (we call it EM).

You continue past the shop and through many corridors until you arrive in the Earl Mountbatten Building. Once you enter this building going down some stairs and walking down a corridor, you will be in the EM Crush Area. If in doubt, go towards room EM 1.83. This is where the poster sessions will be held. The registration will be in the EM Robotarium (see below).

On Campus Event Rooms

All the sessions will be at the Earl Mountbatten (EM) building, but in different rooms:

• EM Robotarium: main room for registration, keynotes and breaks. This is located on the ground floor of the EM building and appears as “Robotarium West'' on Google Maps (https://goo.gl/maps/Xk2CaqHroktFBYrX7) . You can get here following the guide above from the main university reception or directly from the outside. The outside door is only a couple of minutes away from the Postgrad Centre building and a bus stop for the 34 and 35 lines.

• EM Crush Area: just above the EM Robotarium stairs, this is where you would arrive if coming from the main reception. We will have the poster sessions here. Note this is a public space and other people from the university may be around.

EM 3.06 and 3.07: roundtable rooms located on the 3rd floor of the building. You can take the lift or stairs next to the EM Crush Area, and then there are signs with directions to these rooms. They are close to the stairs/lift and Google Maps shows their location too.

Dinner

We will have dinner at David Bann (http://www.davidbann.co.uk/) at 19:00 on Monday. The easiest way to get there from Heriot-Watt University is to get bus number 35 for around 40 minutes (see directions below). Buses 25 and 34 also go from Heriot-Watt but you will have to walk 10-15 minutes to get to the restaurant.

Dinner is free to attend but participants will pay for their own drinks (tap water is free). See menu below.

Questions?

If you have any questions or get lost, please message one of the local organisers (Javier & Angus) on WhatsApp. Please check your email for the WhatsApp invite link.