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HOTEL GROUP RESERVATIONS

For information about hotel group reservations (minimum size of 10 participants), please contact the Official Housing Agency AIM GROUP INTERNATIONAL at: hotel-wco-iof-esceo@aimgroup.eu and TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DISCOUNTS FOR EARLY BOOKING.

Please take into account that hotels will be confirmed on a first-come first-served basis. We recommend booking your rooms at your earliest convenience. After February 10th 2017 availability of rooms cannot be guaranteed.


Warning: Please note that there are dubious platforms and agencies to be found on the internet, offering special rates and rooms which may not exist. IOF and ESCEO strongly recommend that you book via the Official Housing Agency which guarantees safe, reliable reservations and fair conditions.

RATES
A number of hotel rooms in different price categories have been blocked in Florence at preferential rates for the period of the WCO-IOF-ESCEO (March 23-26, 2017).
All rates are quoted in Euros (€).
Rates are per room and per night with breakfast and taxes included.
City tax is not included in the rates:

  • Euro 3,50 per person per night for guests staying at 4 star hotels
  • Euro 4,50 per person per night for guests staying at 3 star hotels

HOTEL LOCATIONS

HOTEL LIST

  HOTEL CAT DSU
(€)
DBL
(€)
TIME*
(min)
DIST.*
(Km)
1 AMBASCIATORI 4 € 250,00 € 265,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
2 ATHENAEUM 4 € 200,00 € 220,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
3 ATLANTIC PALACE 4 € 179,00 € 189,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
4 BEACCI TORNABUONI 4 € 240,00 € 260,00 30 min 🚶 1 Km
5 BOSCOLO ASTORIA 4 € 184,00 € 204,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
6 CLUB HOTEL 4 € 225,00 € 255,00 30 min 🚶 1 Km
7 CROCE DI MALTA 4 € 240,00 € 260,00 30 min 🚶 1 Km
8 DIPLOMAT 4 € 225,00 € 255,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
9 EMBASSY 4 € 219,00 € 239,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
10 EXECUTIVE 4 € 160,00 € 180,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
11 KRAFT 4 € 150,00 € 170,00 30 min 🚶 1,6 Km
12 PLAZA HOTEL LUCCHESI 4 € 259,00 € 269,00 30 min 🚶 1,6 Km
13 ROMA HOTEL 4 € 200,00 € 215,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
14 UNA HOTEL VITTORIA 4 € 200,00 € 220,00 30 min 🚶 1 Km
15 BOCCACCIO 3 € 170,00 € 170,00 30 min 🚶 1 Km
16 CORONA D'ITALIA 3 € 120,00 € 140,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
17 DELLE NAZIONI 3 € 154,00 € 174,00 30 min 🚶 1 Km
18 MACHIAVELLI PALACE 3 € 140,00 € 160,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km
19 PARIS 3 € 134,00 € 154,00 15 min 🚶 0,7 Km

*from the congress centre


HOTEL DESCRIPTION
1. HOTEL AMBASCIATORI ****
This hotel was established to be one of our most exclusive Florence locations. Its peculiarity is to successfully match our customers' need of family warmth and luxurious comfort. We will be able to surprise you with our especially tailored services made for dynamic and particularly demanding customers by welcoming you in our warm and comfortable location. Here nothing is done by chance: rooms and services are studied in the least details to create the perfect scenario for your holidays. And you will fill this picture with your presence in: elegantly furnished rooms are made to provide emotions without invading your space. In fact guests and accommodation must be for us on the same wavelength.

Double room for single use: € 250,00
Double room: € 265,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

2. HOTEL ATHENAEUM ****
Design, art and business in a 4-star Hotel in Florence. The Academy of Fine Art and the David statue are just round the corner! The ideal location for business or leisure visitors, Hotel Athenaeum in Florence is where contemporary design, modern style and classic materials skillfully combine with art and culture. Hotel Athenaeum’ strategic location in the heart of Florence is the perfect starting point for visitors willing to discover the town or business people alike. The Hotel offers a top international service and a warm welcome.

Hotel Athenaeum has 60 rooms, a conference room, a restaurant, a bar and a capacious private garage.

Double room for single use: € 200,00
Double room: € 220,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

3. ATLANTIC PALACE ****
Hotel Atlantic Palace, 4 stars hotel in Florence, located in the heart of the city, the ideal place where enjoy a relaxing holiday or a business stay, in a refined surrounding, rich of history and traditions, which, in the meantime, offers all type of comforts of a modern structure.

Completely renovated in the 2009, Atlantic Palace, near Florence Santa Maria Novella Train Station and the Congress Centre ; it is located just a few steps from the Duomo and the main museums and monuments.

Double room for single use: € 179,00
Double room: € 189,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

4. HOTEL BEACCI TORNABUONI ****
The Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci with its heirloom furnishings, refined elegance and modern comforts is a charming and enchanting location on Florence’s most elegant shopping street, the Via de’ Tornabuoni; The rooms, no two of which are the same, delight guests for the attention that has been given to every smallest detail, and the quality of the decor. There are various types of room, each one with its own unique atmosphere.

The Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci’s restaurant opens in the roof garden during the warmer months of the year and is also popular for cocktails, business dinners and events; the enchanting panoramic roof-garden, which overlooks many of Florence’s most famous monuments, is the ideal place to relax and enjoy the cafeteria, drinks and cocktails.

Double room for single use: € 240,00
Double room: € 260,00

Walking time: 30 min
Distance from the congress center: 1 Km

5. HOTEL BOSCOLO ASTORIA ****
The Boscolo Astoria is housed in the Renaissance Palazzo Gaddi, dating back to 1596 and boasting traditional Florentine Baroque halls. It is 400 m from Florence Cathedral and its rooftop terrace offers spectacular city views.

This elegantly renovated hotel features free WiFi throughout and rooms with frescoed walls and antique furniture. All rooms are air conditioned and offer a satellite TV, minibar and safe.

Breakfast is an extensive buffet served in the Giordano hall, with antique frescoes and stuccoes. Drinks and snacks are served on the terrace.

Double room for single use: € 184,00
Double room: € 204,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

6. HOTEL CLUB ****
This hotel was conceived for families or groups of friends. It is well furnished from the single until the four-bed room and it was studied to welcome all type of leisure and business travellers.

Wi-Fi is available in public areas and is free of charge. Private parking is possible at a location nearby (reservation is not needed) and charges are applicable. 24-hour front desk, Luggage storage, Babysitting/child services, Laundry, Ironing service, Currency exchange, Concierge service, Non-smoking rooms, Facilities for disabled guests, Lift/elevator, Soundproof rooms, Heating, Air conditioning, Bar, Breakfast in the room.

Double room for single use: € 225,00
Double room: € 255,00

Walking time: 30 min
Distance from the congress center: 1 Km

7. HOTEL CROCE DI MALTA ****
Hotel Croce di Malta is located only a few steps from both the Arno River and the Santa Maria Novella railway station. The church of the same name makes up one of the corners of an ideal triangle of works of art linking Piazza Santa Maria Novella, the Ponte Vecchio and Piazza Duomo, all of which only a few minutes’ walk away.

All 98 rooms are decorated according to the canons of classic elegance where the furniture is the result of meticulous handcrafted workmanship and the hand-painted panels are reminiscent of Tuscan works of art from the 15th and 16th centuries.

Double room for single use: € 240,00
Double room: € 260,00

Walking time: 30 min
Distance from the congress center: 1 Km

8. HOTEL DIPLOMAT ****
Hotel Diplomat is a mixture of discretion and classical minimalism. They are ready to welcome you in the heart of Florence for a very special Renaissance experience. You will always find here a particularly elegant setting, the best location to match your needs for a business or a leisure trip.

The new generation of Classic rooms has been designed according to the rules of the minimalistic style. The original together with the more functional pieces of furniture melt here by providing you the most comfortable environment during your staying.

Double room for single use: € 225,00
Double room: € 255,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

9. HOTEL EMBASSY ****
The Hotel Embassy has 38 rooms and suites; each room is unique and richly appointed. The rooms are situated in the main building, an aristocratic palace of the 19° century, in the dependance, where once were the stables of the main palace, and in the resort open in 2008. Thanks to the maintenance of their rich architectural history, some rooms have original frescoes, brick vaulted ceiling and worth friezes, in the perfect integration between the architectural beauty and the comfort of the finest technological facilities. All the rooms and the suites have a flat screen satellite television, a safe box enough wide to contain a laptop, wireless connection, outside phone line, a fully stocked mini bar. The bathrooms, made of marble, are equipped with bathtub or rain shower in glass box, a bidet, a plane with washbasin, WC, bath towels, hairdryer and bath's amenities. Each room is unique and has a different style according to the position. The rooms of the main building were realized in classic style, with damask fabrics and walnut bed head; the rooms of the dependance are richly appointed and characterized by Tuscany wooden ceilings and brickwork floor; the rooms of the resort are modern style rooms, wide and furnished with precious fabrics; some rooms have an equipped balconies.

Double room for single use: € 219,00
Double room: € 239,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

10. HOTEL EXECUTIVE ****
Located 100 m from the River Arno in Florence's historic centre, Hotel Executive is a noble residence dating back to the 18th century. It offers air-conditioned rooms with free Wi‑Fi.

Rooms at the Executive Hotel feature satellite TV, a minibar, and a private bathroom with hairdryer and courtesy set. You can admire original frescoes and antique furniture in the lobby and some of the rooms. All have been renovated in 2014/2015.

Double room for single use: € 160,00
Double room: € 180,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

11. HOTEL KRAFT ****
This peaceful and luminous hotel offers the most modern and technological services.

The Kraft Hotel has been recently renovated with the most modern energy saving techniques making use of energy from renewable sources. In the summer months you can sip a drink in total relaxation on the terrace while enjoying the extraordinary view over the rooftops, bell-towers, and historical palaces not forgetting Brunelleschi's Dome and Giotto's Bell-tower, all surrounded by the green hills of Florence and the Arno River.

All of the 77 rooms are different and elegantly furnished both with antique furnishings in style "maggiolini" and Luigi XV and XVI, as well as the most modern interior design.

They all include a direct telephone line, Satellite TV, Internet on TV, free WI-FI connection, frigo-bar and in room safe. The grandeur, connecting guests to the hotel’s prestigious past.

Double room for single use: € 150,00
Double room: € 170,00

Walking time: 30 min
Distance from the congress center: 1,6 Km

12. HOTEL PLAZA LUCCHESI ****
Set right on the bank of the Arno River, Plaza Hotel Lucchesi is 10 minutes’ walk from Piazza della Signoria. It boasts air-conditioned rooms, a 24-hour reception and traditional restaurant.

Offering free Wi-Fi, elegant rooms at the Lucchesi come with a satellite flat-screen TV and minibar. Some have a balcony and/or overlook the Arno River or the Church of Santa Croce.

Double room for single use: € 259,00
Double room: € 269,00

Walking time: 30 min
Distance from the congress center: 1,6 Km

13. HOTEL ROMA ****
Hotel Roma is a 4-star hotel in the Centre of Florence. It is housed in an ancient 18th-century palazzo overlooking Piazza Santa Maria Novella, one of the not-to-be-missed places for those visiting Florence. The hotel is the ideal place for every type of stay: for artistic and cultural tourism, business, fun and shopping. Hotel Roma of Florence is in an excellent location and has all the amenities while preserving the charm typical of historic Florence hotels. The staff at the front desk will always be happy to provide all the assistance you need for the best possible stay.

Double room for single use: € 200,00
Double room: € 215,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

14. UNA HOTEL VITTORIA ****
Located in the historical quarter of San Frediano, the ultra-modern UNA Hotel Vittoria offers unique, contemporary interiors and traditional Florentine hospitality. Rooms have designer bathrooms and 32-inch LCD TVs.

The Vittoria features comfortable guest rooms decorated with mosaics, luxurious fabrics and prints in bright colours. Each has a minibar and satellite TV channels, and comes with free WiFi.

Double room for single use: € 200,00
Double room: € 220,00

Walking time: 30 min
Distance from the congress center: 1 Km

15. HOTEL BOCCACCIO ***
The Boccaccio Hotel is right in the heart of Florence, between the Arno River and Santa Maria Novella Church. The station and bus terminal are just across the road.

Your guest room comes with wood floors, air conditioning, and satellite TV with international channels. The bathroom features either a bathtub or hydromassage shower. Wi-Fi is free throughout.

Double room for single use: € 170,00
Double room: € 170,00

Walking time: 30 min
Distance from the congress center: 1 Km

16. HOTEL CORONA D'ITALIA ***
Hotel Corona d’Italia 3 star, located in the historical city center of Florence, awaits you in an elegant early 19th-century palazzo.

The rooms, spacious and bright, are equipped with all modern comforts and decorated with precious materials, such as Florentine terracotta and Tuscan marble.

Located in the district of San Lorenzo, the heart of the historical center, and less than 200 meters from the Santa Maria Novella train station, you will enjoy the convenience of being near the monuments and museums of Florence and close to the Fortezza da Basso convention center, popular destination among our business clients.

Double room for single use: € 120,00
Double room: € 140,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

17. HOTEL DELLE NAZIONI ***
Hotel Delle Nazioni is 50 m from Florence Santa Maria Novella Station and a 10-minute walk from Florence Cathedral. Its attentive staff provide an extensive buffet breakfast, and free Wi-Fi is available.

Rooms at Delle Nazioni are air conditioned and offer satellite TV and a private bathroom. The apartments include a hideaway kitchenette.

Double room for single use: € 154,00
Double room: € 174,00

Walking time: 30 min
Distance from the congress center: 1 Km

18. HOTEL MACHIAVELLI PALACE ***
Situated in the heart of Florence and built on a Templar church, just a few hundred metres from Santa Maria Novella train station and the Fortezza da Basso.

The Hotel Machiavelli Palace has a total of 90 comfortable and elegant rooms that perfectly balance the atmosphere of ancient Florence with modern comforts and technology; Hotel guests can enjoy a panoramic view over the rooftops of Florence from the third floor terrace – relaxing with a drink or sunbathing during the summer season.

Double room for single use: € 140,00
Double room: € 160,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km

19. HOTEL PARIS ***
The Boutique Hotel Paris an authentic jewel in the historic centre of Florence, next to the pedestrian area, right between the city’s two most beautiful squares: Piazza Duomo and Piazza Santa Maria Novella.

Situated in the 14th century Via de’ Banchi, and housed in two prestigious renaissance palaces - Palazzo Venturi and Palazzo Mondragone - the hotel occupies a privileged location in Florence’s old city, allowing guests to reach all of the major sites on foot: the monuments and museums, as well as the exhibition and convention centre.

Double room for single use: € 134,00
Double room: € 154,00

Walking time: 15 min
Distance from the congress center: 0,7 Km


PAYMENT
  • By Credit Card: VISA / MASTERCARD / AMERICAN EXPRESS
For hotel bookings, full payment of the nights reserved is required.

CHECK IN - OUT
Please note that Congress Delegates will be able to do the check in from 03.00 p.m.
Check out should be made before 10:00 a.m.

CONFIRMATION
Your confirmation will be sent upon receipt of the hotel form and full payment.

CHANGES
All changes must be notified in writing to AIM GROUP INTERNATIONAL by e-mail:
hotel-wco-iof-esceo@aimgroup.eu

CANCELLATION POLICY
  • All changes or cancellations must be notified in writing to AIM GROUP by e-mail to:
    hotel-wco-iof-esceo@aimgroup.eu
  • Cancellation fees will be as follows:

    • For cancellations received before February 23rd 2017, the payment will be refunded except the first night.
    • From February 23rd 2017, any cancellation, reduction of nights booked or no-show will have no refund.
  • Refunds will be made after the congress.
  • No-show will have the 100% of the reservation as cancellation costs.

LIABILITY AND INSURANCE
The Congress organizer Sinklar Conference Management B.V. (under the auspices of IOF and ESCEO), the Congress Venue (Fortezza da Basso), its official appointed agencies for Registrations (AIM GROUP INTERNATIONAL) and the Congress Secretariat (Humacom SPRL) and any suppliers, representatives or agents linked to the organization of the Congress shall not be held liable by any person for any injury, damage, theft, loss, medical problem or inconvenience which may be suffered by any person while traveling to or from, or during such person’s presence in Italy in connection with this Congress. Participants are advised to purchase their own insurance against any such occurrences.

CANCELLATION OR MODIFICATION OF THE CONGRESS DUE TO FORCE MAJEURE
In case of force majeure, the Congress organizer have the right to alter or cancel the Congress without prior notice, however a notice of the occurrence shall be given by Sinklar Conference Management B.V. as soon as reasonably possible. Force majeure shall mean any circumstance beyond the reasonable control of Sinklar Conference Management B.V. which prevents or impedes the holding of the Congress, including, but not limited to, government action, war or hostilities, riot or civil commotion, plague or other epidemic such as SARS, bird flu, etc, earthquake, flood, hurricane, cyclone, fire or other natural physical disaster, explosion, accident or breakdown, strike, lack of the usual means of transportation or terrorism or due to events which are not attributable to wrongful intent or gross negligence of Sinklar Conference Management B.V. Sinklar Conference Management B.V. shall not be liable for any direct or indirect, incidental or consequential damages, losses, expenditures or any other inconveniences or costs caused by such modification or cancellation of the Congress. Furthermore, registration fees will not be reimbursed by Sinklar Conference Management B.V.

DISCLAIMER
All reasonable endeavours will be made to hold the Congress and to present its programme as scheduled under circumstances which assure the comfort and safety of all participants. However, Sinklar Conference Management B.V. reserve the right to modify the programme, unilaterally and without notice. Neither Sinklar Conference Management B.V. nor their officers, directors, employees, representatives or agents, shall be held liable by any person as a result of the cancellation of the Congress or any of the arrangements, programmes or plans connected therewith, or for any injury, damage or inconvenience which may be suffered by any person while traveling to or from, or during such person’s presence in Italy in connection with this Congress. Participants are advised to purchase their own insurance against any such occurrences.

Any litigation stemming from the above contract will be tried in Florence, Italy where the Italian law is exclusively applicable.