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Payment

Q Can I pay my summer school fee with my credit card?

A No, sorry, we are not set up for credit card payment. Please follow the payment instructions found on the website:
http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/ISSGC06/cost.htm

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Q Thank you for accepting me to the summer school. I’d like to register and pay the tuition fee but I need address of the bank.

A The address of the bank is:

San Paolo Banco di Napoli
Filiale 05100- Via Merliani,
19 – 80127- Napoli

Additional information about paying the fees can be found at http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/ISSGC06/cost.htm

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Q Does the price of the International Summer School on Grid Computing 2006 (1400 EUR) include the VAT (value added tax)?

A The Local Organising Committee is a non-profit entity, which means the participation fee is v.a.t. free.

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Q Is there any provision for financial support to participate in the ISSGC-06?

A I am afraid that there is no funding for support of students within our current project grants.

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Accommodation

Q The hotel seems rather expensive to me, so I'm wondering if there is an alternative. I can find a double room hotel on the same island for about 80 euros. I wonder if you can exclude my own accommodation from the registration fee so that I can arrange the hotel by myself.

A Unfortunately, we cannot exclude accommodation from the registration fee. The registration fee is an all-included price and we do not allow different accommodation solutions. Ischia is quite a large island, it has several cities and it takes one hour or more by bus to reach the other side of the island. The curriculum of ISSGC06 is very packed and the free time is organised for networking and making friends. It is important that everyone is on site.

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Q In the acceptance email I have received, it says I can request a single room in the hotel by paying additional fee. Could you provide me with some details on how much the extra fee will be and how I can proceed with booking a single room?

A It is possible for you to have a non-shared room, but there will be an additional charge of 15 Euros per night and there is limited availability of rooms.

The extra charge is paid by you directly to the hotel.

If you decide to ask for such extras, do NOT contact the hotel directly. Please fill in the Registration Form appropriately, send us a note with details about your request for confirmation and we will proceed to reserve the extras for you.

The prices refers to extra services confirmed by June,19th or until the end of availability. After this date you have to get in contact directly with the hotel and buy the desired services at list price.

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Q My partner is visiting for the middle weekend only. I have registered for a shared room for the summer school. Do I share with another student the rest of the time and move to a double room for the period of time my partner is there? Or do I have to pay for a single room for the whole two weeks plus the extra fee for the nights my guest will be there?

A Firstly, some facts. All of the rooms have two twin (single) beds. An extra bed can be arranged, so three people (for example 2 adults and 1 child) can occupy the room, but there are no rooms with only one single bed and no rooms with a “grand lit” ie, a double bed.

Now let’s look at some possible scenarios:

Scenario #1: If someone who has registered to share a room with another student wants to host a guest for a few days, he/she has to reserve a separate room for the guest’s use. The guest will pay €105 /night to the hotel (ie, not to the school!) for the single occupancy of a room.

Scenario #2: If the summer school student described above wishes to occupy the same room as his guest for the weekend, they will each have to pay the hotel €90 per night for that room. This is separate from, and in addition to, the normal double occupancy that is included in the summer school package for €1400.

Scenario #3: If the summer school student has indicated that he/she wishes to have a single-occupancy room and pay the surcharge of €15/night, and also wishes to host a guest for a few days in that same room, the guest will pay €90 for each night.

To sum up, if a student wishes a single room for the entire term, it is €15 x 12 nights = €180 in addition to the basic summer school all-inclusive fee of €1400 = total of €1580. If they have one guest staying in their room for 3 days, there will be an extra charge of € 90/night, thus € 270 + € 1580 = € 1850 in total. The extra charges are paid to the hotel, not to the school.

If they wish an additional room for a few days for visiting guest(s), it is €105 per guest per night for non-summer school students staying in the separate room.

If the student wishes to occupy a double room together with a guest only during a few days, and then return to their normal shared-occupancy room, they will pay €90 each for themselves and the guest for each night ie, €180/night for the extra room.

Unfortunately, the excellent package deal we have been given does not allow us to refund any part of the €1400 for nights spent in a different room.

Please note that even if you are booking for a single room, or a room for a visiting guest already now, that you must pay these extras directly to the hotel upon checking out. The extras do not affect the €1400 that is the summer school package price, which must be paid in advance to the summer school bank account. Details for payment are found on the website at http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/ISSGC06/cost.htm

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Q Would it be possible to arrange the accommodation so my wife and daughter (6 months old) can come with me? Please should I arrange this with the hotel myself or pay the difference with the registration?

A If you bring a guest with whom you wish to share your room, there is an additional charge of 90 Euros per night for your guest, which includes all the meals for the guest. Children under 3 may stay in the same room with their parents for no additional cost. The extra charge is paid by you directly to the hotel. If you decide to ask for such extra, do not contact the hotel directly. Please send us a note with details about your request and we will proceed to reserve the extra for you. The prices refer to extra services confirmed by June 19th or until the end of availability. After this date you have to get in contact directly with the hotel and buy the desired services at list price.

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Travel

Q My travel connections are a bit of a problem. I would probably arrive too late for the first lecture, and would be forced to leave before the final ceremony. Especially since I need to travel from and to the island as well.

Do you have any information on what the cost would be of staying one or two extra nights? I have already filled in the web form stating I would only stay from the 9th till the 21st, but I hadn't counted on such a significant amount of travel time from the airport to the hotel. Sorry about that.

A The lectures on the Sunday are not compulsory, as they are just refresher courses in Java and Unix. In any case, if you want to stay in your room from the day before to the day after the official dates of ISSGC-06, you can. We have a special agreement with the hotel: there is an additional charge of 105 Euros per extra night in a single room, which includes all the meals.

The extra charge is paid by you directly to the hotel.

If you decide to ask for extra nights, do NOT contact the hotel directly. Please send us a note with details about your request and we will reserve the extra nights for you. The prices refer to extra services confirmed by June 19th or until the end of availability. After this date you have to get in contact directly with the hotel and buy the desired services at list price.

I think you could be safe taking the hydrofoil which leaves at 12.00 from Ischia (the harbour is 5 minutes walk far from the hotel). We are prepared for people who will be leaving some minutes earlier than the planned ending of the School. It's also possible that later on some company will give you the opportunity for a later departure from Ischia, but at this time it is the only solution.

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