Travel information - 1st OMEGA Open Event 2009

Venue

The OMEGA Open Event will take place at the France Télécom Orange Labs facilities in Cesson-Sevigné, close to the city of Rennes.

Address

France Telecom, Orange Labs
4, rue du Clos Courtel
35512 Cesson-Sévigné
France

Traveling to Rennes

By train

- There are TGV trains from Paris Montparnasse station every hour. It takes about 2 hours from Paris to Rennes,
- There are also TGV trains directly from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport (only 3 trains per day), it takes about 3 hours.
For more information, see the SNCF Website

By plane

- Via Paris Charles de Gaulle airport - travel time to Rennes: about 1 hour.
- Via Lyon St-Exupéry airport - travel time to Rennes: about 75 minutes.

Traveling to France Télécom Orange Labs

From the train station

- 10 minutes by taxi (price: about 15 euros)

- Subway and bus (about 25 minutes, cost 1 euro): take the subway at the train station (there is only one line) until République station (direction J.F. Kennedy) then take the bus line 16 in the direction "Beaulieu Atalante" until the terminus; the bus stop is "Clos Courtel".

For more information on public transportation in Rennes see also the STAR website   which includes a map of Rennes' bus-line network (pdf)

From the Rennes Saint-Jacques airport:
15 to 20 minutes by taxi (price: about 25 euros).
No public transportation from the airport to the city centre, only taxis.

Exact location

If you come by taxi they usually enter the site and leave you in front of the building entrance. However, if you arrive by bus you need to enter via "rue de Belle Fontaine" (see map below).

Restaurants in Rennes

There is a variety of restaurants in the historical centre. If you are looking for a typical regional restaurants, try a "crêperie".