Transportation

Arriving by Air

1. Birmingham Airport (BHX)

The venues are a mere 9 miles from Birmingham Airport and a taxi journey should take approximately 20-30 minutes dependent on traffic. There are also trains from Birmingham International station to Birmingham New Street (approximately 5-10 minutes journey time) then follow the directions above for taxi journeys or walking to the venues.

2. London Heathrow Airport (LHR)

If you plan to come from London Heathrow Airport (LHR), you can rent a car driving to Birmingham. Or the best route by rail is to take the Heathrow Express to Paddington, then take the metro to London Euston, the fastest train from Euston to Birmingham New Street is Avanti West Coast Line. The whole journey will take approximately 2-3 hours dependent on peak hours or not.

Arriving by Train

Birmingham New Street, Snow Hill and Moor Street train stations are all available station if you come to Birmingham by rail, they are all within 10-15 minutes’ walk of the venue or a 5 minute taxi journey.

Please visit www.thetrainline.com for details of times and tickets.

On foot from the stations: We have developed interactive Google walking maps from the Birmingham New Street and Snow Hill train stations, available for downloading from: www.conferenceaston.co.uk/WalkWithGoogle

Arriving by Car

If you are going to rent a car from London Heathrow airport, you could please visit the website below for car rental assistance:

www.heathrow.com/transport-and-directions/by-car/renting-a-car#/searchcars

If you are going to rent a car from Birmingham Airport, you could please visit the website below for car rental assistance:

www.birminghamairport.co.uk/car-hire/

The car park for delegates that have pre-booked parking online, is Car Park 12. 

Car Park 12 Postcode: B4 7PS 

Street Name: Off Jennens Road 

Please ensure you have your access code, as Car Park 12 is barrier controlled. PLEASE NOTE that many GPS systems will not show that Aston Street is closed to through traffic, so access to Aston Street should be from Woodcock Street only and not from the James Watt Queensway. Please use the map overleaf to locate the car parks.

The venue has electric car charging points outside both of the conference centres and hotel.