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Travel & Hotel Information
Accelerate ’08: The Riverbed Performance Summit will be held in the beautiful and luxurious Hotel Caravelle – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. The Caravelle Hotel offers a traditional ambiance that is welcoming, warm, and modern with understated elegant surroundings. Ho Chi Minh City captivates the imagination and also has a sense of history and tradition that is encompassed at the Caravelle Hotel.

Caravelle Hotel
19 Lam Son Square
District 1
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The Caravelle Hotel is centrally located in the midst of Ho Chi Minh City’s business, shopping, and entertainment district. The Tan Son Nhat International Airport is just 7km away. Please visit the hotel website for more information: www.caravellehotel.com

Hotel Rate & Accommodations
The Caravelle Hotel provides a wide array of accommodations to meet your business or leisure needs. Room amenities include coffee and tea maker, hair dryer, mini-bar, TV, work desk, high speed internet access, just to name a few.

COMPLIMENTARY HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PARTNERS*
Experience Accelerate '08 APJ at the beautiful Caravelle Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Make your complimentary hotel reservations once you register at http://events.meetingex.com/event/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x356669e8f3. *Please note, Riverbed will provide one complimentary room per Partner organization and availability is limited.

Additional rooms are available for Partner organizations, The Caravlle Hotel is offering Accelerate '08 conference attendees a special rate of:

Deluxe Single / per night | US $208.00
++ with breakfast
Deluxe Twin/Double / per night | US $228.00
++ with breakfast

To make additional reservations, please fill out the following form and fax back to +1 404 240 0998 or email to kgemmell@meetingexpectations.com.

Getting there
Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport host flights from many major international airports, as well as domestic flights from 11 centers. If you can’t travel directly to HCMC, the next best route is via Bangkok, Hong Kong, or Singapore.

Buses run to the city from Cambodia and Laos, while buses and trains also link Ho Chi Minh City to most major towns in the country.

Visa Procedure
Most visitors to Vietnam need a visa to enter the country. Visas are exempted for the citizens of the countries, which have signed a bilateral or unilateral visa exemption agreement with Vietnam, tourist visa may be valid for 15 to 30 days.

Visa Exemption
Vietnamese people that hold foreign passports and foreigners who are their husbands, wives and children are exempt from visa requirements to enter Vietnam and are allowed to stay for not more than 90 days. In order to be granted visa exemption certificates at Vietnamese representative offices abroad, overseas Vietnamese need conditions:

• Foreign-issued permanent residence certificate (PRC) with the validity of at least six months since the date of entrance.
• Visa exemption paper (VEP) is granted by Vietnamese appropriate authorities.

Bilateral Visa Exemption Agreement

• Citizens of Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Laos holding valid ordinary passports are exempt from visa requirements and are allowed to stay for not more than 30 days.
• Citizens of China, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, and Rumania holding valid ordinary passports for official mission and citizens of 52 countries holding valid diplomatic or official passports are exempt from visa requirements. The duration of staying is stipulated in certain cases. For more information, please visit le website of Ministry of Foreign Affaires.

Unilateral Visa Exemption

• Visa with 30-day validity is exempted for officials from ASEAN secretariat holding different kinds of passports.
• Citizens of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Japan and South Korea holding different kinds of passports are exempt from visa requirements and are allowed to stay for not more than 15 days.

Others who want to enter Vietnam must be provided with a visa.

• Tourist visa is valid in 30 days.
• Visa is issued at the Vietnamese diplomatic offices or consulates in foreign countries. Visa is possibly issued at the border gates to those who have written invitations by a Vietnamese competent agencies or tourists in the tours organized by Vietnamese international travel companies.
• Application files for visa: the entrance application (printed form); two 4x6 cm photos; passport and fee for the visa issuance.