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2005 PIUG Northeast Meeting

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Travel Directions to the Hilton Woodbridge

Hotel Reservations

If you plan to stay overnight at the Woodbridge Hilton for the NE PIUG Meeting, please be sure to ask for the PIUG room rate. This will be a reduced rate for you of $139/night and it will also reduce our meeting room costs if we meet a minimum. The rate applies for September 26th-30th. You must mention "PIUG" when making reservations.

Reservations made on or before September 15th will qualify for the PIUG room rate.

Travel By car

Take the Garden State Parkway to exit 131A-hotel is on the right hand side as you exit.
From the New Jersey Turnpike: take exit 11 to the Garden State Parkway North to exit 131A-hotel is on the right hand side as you exit.

Travel By Train

New Jersey Transit (NJT) or Amtrak to Metropark Iselin station. Trains arrive here from Washington DC, Baltimore MD, Wilmington DE, Philadelphia PA, Trenton NJ, Princeton(1) NJ, Newark NJ, New York NY, Connecticut(2) and Boston(3) MA.

The Hilton Hotel is happy to send a shuttle to the Metropark. Please call in advance, 732-494-6200.

Need to stretch those legs after that long ride on the train? The Hilton is about 0.5 miles from the Metropark. As you exit the station, walk right (south or west ) to Wood Ave and then left onto Wood Ave.
The Hilton will be on your left.

Notes:
1. How do you get to Princeton? Study really hard.
2. How do you get to Yale? Study even harder!
3. How do you get to Harvard? Why would you want to go to Harvard?

Travel By Air

From Newark International Airport (17 miles)

By train from the airport

See http://www.amtrak.com/stations/ewr.html for details. The Newark International Airport Rail Station (EWR) is connected to the airport terminals by a monorail. The charge for this monorail is included in Amtrak and New Jersey Transit (NJT) fares for tickets sold to and from the Newark Airport Rail Station.
"To ride the monorail (or pass from the monorail to the rail platform), Amtrak guests must present their Amtrak ticket receipt showing Newark Airport as the destination or boarding point to the gate agent. (New Jersey Transit passengers will likewise need to have their NJT ticket to or from Newark Airport Rail Station.)".

Get off at Metropark Iselin station.
See "By Train" (above) for more details

By car from the airport

Take US 1+9 (NORTH) for about 1 mi.
MCCARTER HWY [HWY 21 (NORTH)]
US 22 (WEST) about 4.4 miles.
GARDEN STATE PKY (SOUTH) about 9 miles. Get off at exit 131, Route 27 (SOUTH).
Right turn onto Route 27 south. Go about 0.3 mi.
Turn left onto Wood Av. Go about 0.2 mi.

Other airports

La Guardia Airport, Flushing, NY 11371, 37 miles
John F Kennedy Intl Airport, Jamaica, NY 11430, 42 miles
Philadelphia International Airport, 79 miles
San Francisco Intl Airport, San Francisco, CA 94128, 2976 miles (not recommended)

Things to do Around Iselin

Visit New York City

Visit Philadelphia

Newark

Newark Museum, art
Ballantine House. Restored Victorian home of brewer John Ballantine. Art
New Jersey Historical Society

New Brunswick

New Jersey Museum of Agriculture
Rutgers Univ. Includes the Geology Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Gardens and Helyar Woods

Other Points of Interest

Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island. Best access for this trip is from Jersey City.
Morristown National Historic Park. George Washington slept here during the winter of 1779-80.
Edison National Historic Site, West Orange NJ. Edison had over 1,000 patents, but perhaps the most important thing he invented was industrial research. The first movies - including the first Westerns - were made from his studios near here.
Thomas A. Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum, Menlo Park NJ.

Malls

There is no sales tax on clothing in New Jersey.

Menlo Park Mall (ca. 1 mi from Hilton)
Woodbridge Mall (ca. 1 mi from Hilton)

Restaurants (distance from Iselin)

From listing on Switchborad

Chan's Chinese Food Takeout Shop
0.06miles
1163 Green St
Iselin, NJ 08830-2011 Phone: (732) 283-2350

American Grill Restaurant & Pubshrtn At Wdbrdge Pl
0.06 miles
515 Us Highway 1 S
Iselin, NJ 08830-3010 Phone: (732) 634-3600

Presto's At the Sheraton At Woodbridge Pl & Towers
0.06 miles
515 Us Highway 1 S
Iselin, NJ 08830-3010 Phone: (732) 634-3600

Red Lobster Restaurants
0.06 miles
Us 1 & Gills Ln
Iselin, NJ 08830 Phone: (732) 636-6230

Sheraton At Woodbridge Place
0.06 miles
515 Us Highway 1 S
Iselin, NJ 08830-3010 Phone: (732) 634-3600

Woodbridge Steak House
0.06 miles
515 Us Highway 1 S
Iselin, NJ 08830-3010 Phone: (732) 634-1805

Dosa Express
0.07 miles
1170 Green St
Iselin, NJ 08830-2012 Phone: (732) 404-9652

Luigi's Pizza
0.10 miles
1192 Green St
Iselin, NJ 08830-2012 Phone: (732) 283-2122

Rajdhani Restaurant
0.12 miles
1199 Green St
Iselin, NJ 08830-2037 Phone: (732) 404-9878

Allen's Fine Dining Restaurant
0.12 miles
515 Us Highway 1 S
Iselin, NJ 08830-3010 Phone: (732) 634-5407

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If you need help with travel, contact

Donald Walter, Ph.D.
Pharma-Chem Customer Training Manager
Thomson Scientific
Suite 250
1725 Duke Street
Alexandria VA 22314 USA
Tel: +1 703 706 4220 x 4820
Fax: +1 703 519 5838
Don Walter

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