Biel/Bienne
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ABOVE: Houses on the Bielersee.

Accommodations

Biel/Bienne has rooms in most price ranges, from youth hostels and campsites to four-star hotels. The Web links on pages 3 and 4 include hotel lists and pages for two of the more expensive hotels in Biel/Bienne. However, your best bet is to request a printed hotel list from the local tourist office or use the detailed listings in Lonely Planet's Switzerland Travel Survival Kit, which is the most useful all-around guidebook to Switzerland.

Getting to Biel/Bienne

By train. Biel/Bienne has hourly train service from Bern, Basel, Zürich, and Geneva.

By car. From Bern, head north on the N1 motorway and turn left when you reach the E27 road, which will take you the approximately 40 km (25 miles) to Biel/Bienne. The city is also on the main road between Neuchâtel and Solothurn.

By boat. Steamers connect Biel to Neuchâtel and Solothurn from late spring through early fall. (See next week's article for more information.)

Tourist office

To request literature before you leave home, contact:

Tourism Biel-Seeland (Main office)
Zentralstrasse 60
Postfach 124
CH-2502 BIEL, Switzerland
Tel. 032 322 75 76
Fax 032 323 77 57
E-mail: tbs@bielstar.ch

When you're in Biel/Bienne, visit or phone the Tourist Information office at the railroad station:

Bahnhofplatz 12
2502 Biel
Tel. 032 322 75 75

Tourist Information business hours are:

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