General Information — Housing

Meeting Location:

The 2009 APS Conference: ET-11: APS International Conference on Endothelin will be held at the Marriott Chateau Champlain hotel. The address for the hotel is: 1050 de la Gauchetiere West, Montréal, QC, H3B 4C9, Canada. To contact the hotel regarding amenities and housing, please telephone: 1-514-878-9000 or fax: 1-514-878-6161 or click here to visit the Marriott Chateau Champlain web site.

Housing Reservations:

APS has reserved lodging at the Marriott Chateau Champlain hotel. Hotel rooms have been reserved at a rate of $199 CAD for a single or double room.

To make reservations: call the property directly at: 1-800-200-5909 (within the US or Canada) or 1-514-878-9000 (outside the US) and ask for reservations. Be sure to identify yourself as an APS Conference Attendee and provide the meeting dates.  Or make your reservation online with a few quick and easy steps. Click here to make your reservation online. The property will require a valid major credit card when making your reservation. The property will provide you with a confirmation number and all cancellation and early departure policies and penalties. Please note that there is no charge for a change or cancellation if it is received at least 72 hours prior to arrival and a cancellation number is received. Cancellations received within 72 hours of arrival will be subject to a charge of 1 night’s room plus tax.

The deadline for making housing reservations is August 9, 2009. Please make your reservations early.

Housing Amenities:

Each guest room is equipped with coffee maker, data ports, wireless internet service (small charge), voicemail, hairdryer, ironing facilities, dry cleaning service, cable television, in-room movies and a refreshment center. All guest rooms in the hotel are 100% smoke free.

The hotel features three restaurants that are sure to delight your dining palate. The Restaurant Samuel de Champlain offers a casual dining experience of continental cuisine. Enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner in this stylish yet elegant restaurant. Unwind at the end of the day at the Bar Le Senateur that provides guests with the perfect location to catch-up with colleagues over cocktails. The Neufchatel is the perfect choice for fine dining. The intimate French restaurant serves typical French cuisine. The hotel also invites you to stop by Starbuck’s Coffee shop to catch up on your emails, while enjoying your favorite coffee.

There is also a small business center, dry-cleaning service, gift shop, vending machines, wireless Internet service (in the lobby only), local and toll free call access, health center, heated pool, and whirlpool. The hotel is close to hiking, jogging, and biking paths, a spa, golf courses and many of Montréal’s landmarks and attractions. Valet parking is available at the hotel for $24 CAD per day. Self-parking facilities are also available at an off-site location; please contact the hotel for more details.

Using the APS Room Block

There are always a lot of choices when selecting lodging while you are attending a meeting or conference. Making sure you have found the right selection at the right price is very important, especially with those on a budget.

Using a housing block is very important to both the attendee and the society. For the attendee it provides a discounted room rate that has already been negotiated by APS, and quick and easy access to the meeting/conference rooms and activities. For the society it provides valuable information on who is going to be attending the meeting, so enough seating is provided, food and beverages are adequate for the group size, and also to provide a history that can be used to better negotiate discounted sleeping room rates for future meetings and conferences.

Using a room block can also provide peace of mind during your stay at the meeting/conference location. Negotiated within the APS room block are obligations that the hotel must adhere to when providing a sleeping room to a guest. Including making sure that the guest who booked in the room block is provided a sleeping room, or if one isn’t available, to make sure that the guest is booked in another property that is of equal and/or comparable standards, and provide the necessary transportation to and from the new property to the meeting/conference venue each day the guest is displaced.