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Hope you will enjoy your stay in Åre and Sweden. Please let us know if we<br />
can help you out with anything.<br />
Alcohol is served at bars and restaurants from 11.00.<br />
It is not accepted to drink alcohol bought outside the hotel<br />
in public places or at the hotel other than in your room.<br />
If you like to buy your own liquer Systembolaget is located<br />
in town. In Sweden you can´t buy alcohol in grocery stores.<br />
Avalanche day will start up at Monday 27 th with indoors<br />
sessions at 9 am at Holiday Club (the hotel by the lake).<br />
The fenicular will take you down and first departure is at<br />
08.15. Then it is a short walk down to Holiday Club.<br />
This session is compulsuary if you like to participate in<br />
the outdoor sessions at Tuesday 28 th . Please bring your<br />
own beacon, probe and showel if you got one. Especially<br />
the beacon is important. Also bring the avalanche rescue<br />
papers from the conference bag with you!<br />
Bergbanan, the fenicular, runs from outside the hotel and<br />
takes you down to the town square. Every day between<br />
09.00-16.30.<br />
Breakfast is served 07.00-09.00 at the hotel. Breakfast is<br />
included for all delegates staying at Hotel Fjällgården.<br />
Cash – It can be wise to have some Swedish crowns in cash,<br />
for culture day and kick off night if you like to use the bar.<br />
Credit cards are widely accepted in Sweden.<br />
Culture day – at Klocka Fjällgård, situated 40 km from Åre.<br />
You will get introduced to the Sami culture and Valborgsmässoafton,<br />
Walpurgis Night. Historically this night derives<br />
from various pagan spring customs. Bonfires were built to<br />
keep away the dead and chaotic spirits that were said to<br />
walk among the living then. Lately it became a celebration<br />
of the arrival of spring.<br />
This will be a night to remember – if you like to participate<br />
please sign up in the reception at Hotel Fjällgården. Please<br />
bring Swedish crowns in cash if you like to use the bar.<br />
Dinner will be served 19.00-20.00 at the hotel except<br />
Monday 27 th when it is served 20.00 and we will meet<br />
up with SLAO’s winter meeting, a meeting who gathers<br />
Swedish skiareas to sum up the season.<br />
If you have any special requests for your meals, if you are<br />
allergic or vegeterian, please let us know.<br />
Lunch will be served 12.00-13.00, except Monday 27 th<br />
when it is served 12.30-14.00. When the programme<br />
shows outdoor lunch there will not be any lunch served<br />
at the hotel, lunch will be served outdoor near congress<br />
activities. Lunch is included for all delegates.<br />
Shopping – Take the fenicular to the town square, shops in<br />
Åre are in general open 10.00-19.00.<br />
Smoking – In Sweden smoking is not allowed in public<br />
places like restaurants, bars, airports, hotels etc. Smoking<br />
is only accepted in special places and outdoors.<br />
Ski pass – Skiing from April 25 th to May 2 nd is included<br />
in the congress price. You will get your ski pass when you<br />
register on the congress.<br />
Ski rental – Rent your skis at Skistar Shop and you get<br />
25% reduced price. You find the nearest Skistar Shop at<br />
the town square. Take the fenicular and you find it next to<br />
the sport shop Stadium.<br />
Tourist information is situated in Åre Station, down in the<br />
village by the railway.<br />
Water in Sweden is clean and good tasting, you can drink<br />
it from the tap.<br />
Crister Löfgren<br />
Weather in April is usual nice and warm at daytime with<br />
cold nights, but the weather can be very unpredictily and<br />
change from warm and sunny to windy and snow/rain in<br />
no time. This is in Sweden well known as Aprilweather.<br />
Wireless network is available for free at Hotel Fjällgården.
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