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Logistics

The Guide for participants offers full information on meeting arrangements. 

Meeting venue

Forum 8 will be held at the Hotel Sheraton Centro Historico, Mexico City.
The meeting opens in the late afternoon of Tuesday 16 November and closes at lunchtime on Saturday 20 November.

Language

English is the working language of the meeting. Joint Forum 8/Summit plenary sessions will be interpreted in English and Spanish.

Visas

For details of visa requirements please consult the nearest Mexican consulate or embassy.


Travel and accommodation

Participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements.
Convention Center, the Global Forum's mandated agent for arrangements in Mexico City, handles participation fees, hotel reservation, sightseeing and local logistics:

Convention Center
Barrilaco 410
Lomas de Chapultepec
CP 11000 

Mexico DF
Tel. +52 55 5201-7930
Fax +52 55 5520-9284

E-mail forum8@convention-center.net
www.convention-center.net

 

The Global Forum for Health Research has made a block booking of rooms to ensure good prices for participants at the following four hotels. Reservations should be made through Convention Center to get the prices quoted. Reservations can be made at the time of on-line registration for Forum 8.


Sheraton Centro Histórico

$175 USD
Single Room

$195 USD
Double Room
María Isabel Sheraton
$175 USD
Single Room
$195 USD
Double Room
Fiesta Inn Centro Histórico
$152 USD
Single Room
$175 USD
Double Room
Fiesta Americana Reforma
$162 USD
Single Room
$185 USD
Double Room
 
  • Prices are per room per night and include: full breakfast, tips to bellmen and chambermaids, taxes

  • Value added tax exemption for international congress attendants, more information

 

Transfers between the airport in Mexico City and Forum 8 hotels

Included in the participation fee is a bus transfer from the airport and the Forum 8 hotels upon arrival and return (only on Friday 20 November, at the end of the meeting). Please inform Convention Center of your arrival/departure dates and times, carrier and flight number so that they can estimate demand and guarantee a place for you.