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VENUE
SimTecT 2008 Health - Venue
Download Venue Maps (480KB PDF)The venue is the Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Education Centre / Queensland Health Skills Development Centre, at Brisbane Hospital.
The new Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Education Centre is located 200 metres from the state-of-the-art Queensland Health Skills Development Centre. Practical sessions, and tours of the Skills Development Centre will allow delegates to experience and interact with this major Simulation facility in Australia.
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Welcome to Brisbane
Brisbane is Australia’s sunniest capital city. With a population of 1.6 million people, it is Australia’s third largest city after Sydney and Melbourne. Brisbane is a place of character, style, excitement and entertainment for visitors and locals to enjoy. Built around the beautiful Brisbane River, the city offers parks, walks, restaurants and even a city beach. Close to hills and the coast, Brisbane also gives easy access to a number of attractions including the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast.
Accommodation
A list of selected accommodation is available here.
Banks
Generally 9.30am–4.00pm Monday to Thursday, and 9.30am–5pm Friday, however some banks offer extended hours and some are open on Saturday mornings. Travellers cheques are widely accepted, as are major credit cards VISA, MasterCard and (to a lesser extent) AMEX and Diners Card. Most banks will engage in foreign currency exchange.
Car Parking
There are various carparks on the Herston campus; however validated parking is only available at Wilson's Carpark on Herston Road. Metro Carpark tickets will not be validated. A discount rate of $9.00 per day is available for Conference delegates, who have their car parking ticket stamped at the Registration Desk located at the Education Centre. At Wilson's Carpark the booth is operated between 3:30pm to 6pm. During this time you are able to hand in the ticket to receive the discount for $9. Alternatively, there is parking across the road from the hospital in the RNA showgrounds. The price is $6 - pay as you enter. The entry to this parking area is from O'Connell Terrace. Due to on-going road works you need to enter O'Connell Terrace from Brookes Street and the car park entry is on your left towards Bowen Bridge Road.
Transport to and from the Airport
The Conference venue is a 40 minute drive from the airport and the approximate cost is $30.00 in a taxi.
Things to Do and See
Brisbane is both the place to play and the place to do business in Australia. An alive and bustling city of 1.6million people it features all the requisite offerings of the nation's fastest growing capital - world-class facilities and ever-expanding infrastructure, unparalleled support services, and remarkable recreational experiences that take you beyond your business program.
The world's largest hotel and tourism groups are also represented here and are located, along with an array of unique venues perfect for welcome receptions and gala functions, within close proximity to the city centre. Couple these with truly delectable dining experiences, shopping strips fit for the fashion faithful, award-winning bars and nightclubs and a sophisticated collection of artistic encounters and you have the ideal destination for business and leisure.
Downtown Brisbane itself is home to the state's premier shopping precinct - the open-air Queen Street Mall. Here local designer labels stand proudly alongside international fashion houses and have even the most nonchalant shoppers itching for a spending spree. Mere minutes away, on the Brisbane River's southern banks, lies South Bank. This award-winning people's precinct, most famous for housing Australia's only inner city beach, will soon also lay claim to owning the largest gallery of modern art in Australia - QGMA.
But there are things that set Brisbane even further apart. Year-round magnificent weather, floating river walkways, stunning riverside parks and the world's largest subtropical garden make it the ideal place to enjoy the outdoors. Indeed, Brisbane's urban landscape lends itself to a program of truly innovative adventure experiences.
And this is without even mentioning the trendy urban villages such as West End, Fortitude Valley and New Farm that surround the city centre, the quaint country townships, World Heritage-listed rainforests and stunning island escapes that lie beyond these - a mere hour or so from Brisbane's CBD.
With our prime position at the heart of the burgeoning South East Queensland region Brisbane is the perfect urban hub for easy day-trip explorations of the Gold and Sunshine Coasts. The Gold Coast lies one hour to the south, the Sunshine Coast lies one hour to the north, and just 45 minutes from Brisbane's city centre you'll find a premier collection of theme parks including Dreamworld, Warner Brothers Movie World, the Australian Outback Spectacular and Australia Zoo. A desirable, progressive and youthful leisure destination.
Things to Do and See
Coming from Overseas?
A Brisbane base means easy access to the rest of Australia and some of the world's greatest attractions. See Sydney with its stunning Harbour and world-famous Opera House, the famous wine producing regions of the Hunter and Barossa Valleys or Margaret River (New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia respectively), the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park and Uluru in the Northern Territory - Australia's rugged red centre, not to mention our capital territory Canberra - where visitors can take a stroll around Parliament House and the breathtakingly beautiful War Memorial.
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