Vila Galé Hotel

The eLex 2019 conference will take place at the Vila Galé Hotel in Sintra. The hotel is located on the outskirts of the city of Sintra, UNESCO heritage site, which has good links with Lisbon and other tourist attractions in the vicinity.

Address

Vila Galé Sintra Resort Hotel, Conference & Revival SPA
Rua Fonte da Granja, nº 30
2710-652 Sintra
Portugal

Accommodation options

Single room90 EUR (NO LONGER AVAILABLE)
Double room100 EUR (NO LONGER AVAILABLE)
Superior/Family Room (single or double use)125 EUR

Accommodation options are part of the registration form (they can also be added at a later stage, i.e. conference fee can be paid first, and accommodation later). The number of rooms available at the hotel is limited.

The special room rates for the conference are guaranteed (depending on the availability of the rooms in the hotel) till 30 June. This means that the payment for the rooms needs to be made by this date (reservation alone is not enough). After 30 June, room bookings will be on request and the prices can be different from currently advertised ones.

How to get to Vila Galé Hotel

The eLex 2019 venue, Vila Galé Sintra, is located 35 KM away from Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport. To get to eLex2019 from the Airport, you can:

  • get the subway from the Airport to the Oriente Station (Estação Oriente, two stops away, 6 minutes ride), from where trains to Sintra depart every 12 minutes (Linha de Sintra, a 47-minute trip with rather scenic stretches along the Lisbon coastline), an then get a short taxi ride to Vila Galé Sintra from the Sintra train station (10 min); expect to spend €10 for the entire trip, €4 for the travel card, metro and train rides, and 5 to 6€ for the taxi to the hotel;
  • get a taxi to Vila Galé Sintra directly at the Airport (30 minutes to 1h, depending on traffic, for €45-50, or €25-30 for app-based driving services).

To use Lisbon’s public transport system you need to buy a travel card (Viva Viagem, €0.5) which you can load with credit and use across every different provider within Greater Lisbon (bus, train, subway, trams, lifts). This is a quick and simple process that can be done on any of the widely available automatic vending machines on any subway station, with instructions available in a number of languages. If you plan to use public transport, we recommend buying a Viva Viagem card (€0,5) right at the Airport subway station and loading it with approx. 8 to 10 € of credit, which should be enough to get you from the Airport to Sintra and back. An additional €10 to €20 in cash should be enough for short taxi rides between the Sintra train station and the venue, and back.