Here you will find important information to prepare your stay at Schloss Dagstuhl, your check-in, your accommodation and the facilities on site.
Planning Your Visit
Booking and Registration
Please always use the DOOR guest portal to register for an event! - You need a DOOR registration to enter your room.
Note that entry to the center is not allowed for unregistered persons. To help enforce this, please visibly wear your name badge and do not open the center's doors for non-participants.
After Registration: The procedures differ depending on the event type. Please find detailed information below.
Travel Information
Address:
Schloss Dagstuhl
Oktavie-Allee
66687 Wadern
Germany
You will find detailed travel information on the following page: How to Get to Schloss Dagstuhl
Arrival and Departure / Check-In
- Access to buildings is only possible by entering your event's access code or with your room's key card.
- If you arrive outside the service hours or there is no one at the reception, please use the Self-Service-Check-In.
- Check-In at reception desk or self-service terminal
- Need accommodation for Saturday night? Please click here.
- Need to stay an extra night after the seminar? Please get in touch: service@dagstuhl.de
At Schloss Dagstuhl
Please finde below detailed information concerning...
Expenses and Methods of Payment
We accept:
Outside the center, it is possible that only cash will be accepted – especially in busses and taxis. ATMs are about 2.5 km away from the center.
Any Questions or Special Needs?
Be sure to notify Dagstuhl Office if you have any special needs, e.g. vegetarian diet, allergies, low-barrier premises, require a super-size bed, or if you need childcare assistance. Please contact us if you have further questions.
Booking and Registration
IMPORTANT! Please always use the DOOR guest portal to register for an event! - You need a DOOR registration to enter your room. Note that reservation and information exchange differ depending on the event type:
Dagstuhl Seminars and Perspectives Workshops
As participant of a Dagstuhl seminar or a Dagstuhl perspective workshop, please check the following:
- Have you received your booking confirmation? Should you not have received a booking confirmation a week after your registration, please contact us.
- Have you received your travel information? We usually send it 6 weeks before the start of the seminar to all registered participants by e-mail. It contains you event's "access code" for the entrance door.
Other Events
As participant of a GI-Dagstuhl-seminar, a summer school, a training program, a research group meeting, or a research stay, please mind the following:
- Program information and travel information as well as your event's "access code" for the entrance door will be send to you by the coordinator of your event. You have to register via the DOOR guest portal as well to be able to access your room.
- Regardless of your informing the organisers, please make sure to use the DOOR guest portal to inform us if you should not arrive or depart on the scheduled dates.
- Please inform the coordinator of your event should you wish to book a double room. The coordinator will pass it on to us. Please mind that accompanying persons you are planning to bring along must be announced well in advance.
Arrival and Departure / Check-In
Service hours at reception desk
- Access to buildings is only possible by entering your event's access code (code digits+‘F’, you will receive your event's code prior to your event), or with your room's key card. Inside the buildings, please wear your name badge clearly visible. Note that entry to the center is not allowed for unregistered persons. Do not open the center's doors for non-participants.
- If you arrive outside the service hours or there is no one at the reception, please use the Self-Service-Check-In.
| Sunday | 3pm – 7pm |
| Monday – Thursday | 7.30 am – 4pm |
| Friday | 7.30 am – 1pm |
| Hours may vary during bank holidays | |
Self-Service Check-In
- Entering through the front doors is only possible with the event's access code or your room's keycard.
- Near the reception in the newer main building you can log into the Self-Service Check-In terminal opposite the main entrance with your DOOR credentials:
- The terminal will show you your room's number.
- Take a blank keycard and authorise it for your room using the terminal. This keycard will then allow you to access your room and to enter the center's buildings.
- Please pick up the ‘additional costs’ leaflet. It will contain a plan of the building and further important information. You might want to write down your room number on this leaflet.
- Please pick up your name badge from the reception desk and wear it clearly visible during your stay. Note that entry to the center is not allowed for unregistered persons. Do not open the center's doors for non-participants.
Closing hours
The building is closed from Saturday morning 10.00 am to Sunday afternoon 3.00 pm. Guests who plan to arrive on Saturdays may find hotel recommendations here.
A stay from Friday to Saturday is only possible on exception and on request.
Beginning and End of Dagstuhl Seminars and Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops
Not all Dagstuhl Seminars and Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops last for the whole week or start at the same time – please always check with the travel information you received by e-mail.
Arrival is usually scheduled for Sundays from 3 pm. Seminars usually start Monday morning at 9 am. Some seminars start later than Monday and have a different arrival day – please always check with the travel information you received by e-mail.
Seminars are usually scheduled to end on Fridays, 12 noon. Departure is usually planned after lunch. Some seminars end before Friday – please always check with the travel information you received by e-mail.
Catering
| Breakfast | from 7.30 am – 8.45 am | (Mon–Fri) |
| Lunch | 12.15 pm | (Mon–Fri) |
| Coffee and Cake | between 3pm – 4pm | (Sun – Thu) |
| Dinner | 6pm | (Mon – Thu) |
| Self-service buffet from 6pm | (Sun) |
Be sure to notify us using DOOR, if you have any special needs, e.g. vegetarian diet, allergies,...
Accommodation
Our rooms are primarily single rooms. A double bed room, a family room, a room with an extra-large bed, or a low-barrier room can be prepared for you on request.
If capacity allows, it is possible for you to bring along companions and / or children: Accompanying persons and children must be registered, booked, and confirmed by Schloss Dagstuhl no later than 4 weeks before the start date of your event.
Please note that smoking is not permitted inside the buildings.
Room amenities
Your rooms are equipped with:
- A safe with the inside measurements of 32 cm x 42 cm x 15 cm (width x depth x height)
- Desk and chair
- Telephone
- Online guest information folder (available only on site)
- Curtains, jalousies, or shutters
Additional information:
- Windows in the rooms can be opened
- The heater can partly be regulated by you to your liking (to find out how, please check the online guest information folder (only available on site))
- Power outlet: 230V, 50Hz, two-pin earthed plug ‘Schuko’
Available on request:
- Kettle
- Baby bed and baby supplies
- Special pillows
- Allergy sensitive bed linen
You will find in your bathroom:
- Shower or bath tub
- Toilet
- Sink
- Mirror
- Blow dryer
- Towels
- Soap and shower gel for hair and skin.
- In Germany, tap water must fulfil drinking water quality standards.
Safety
- Smoke alarms in every room
- First-aid kits can be found in multiple places in the buildings
- Some members of staff receive regular training as first aiders
- Emergency information is displayed in every room
- Emergency exit plans
Facilities
- 71 guest rooms, 82 beds all together (plus 5 sleeping couches and 3 cots for babies and children each)
- 3 conference rooms including conference equipment (and equipment for hybrid meetings)
- 5 meeting rooms as well as at least 5 rooms that have a different primary function but can be used as additional meeting rooms
- Projectors on carts
- Flipcharts and poster boards
- Free Wifi (login with DOOR credentials, or use eduroam)
- Informatics specialized-library
- Computer work stations in the library
- Printer, scanner, and copy machine
- Print station for printing tickets or boarding passes
- You can use our washing machine, tumble dryer, electric iron, and ironing board
- Restaurant
- Cafeteria
- Wine cellar
- Kiosk with cold drinks: wine, beer, soft drinks, sparkling water, etc. (self-service)
- Kiosk with snacks, toiletries, etc. (self-service)
- Lounge
- German daily newspapers and magazines near the sofa in the foyer of the new building
- Access to german and international newspapers with pressreader (only available on site)
- Music room with piano (Young Chang G-185), 2 guitars (Karl Höfner HF-18, Yamaha CG-120-A), cello, violin, and a selection of sheet music
- Billiard table
- Board games and card games (in the wine cellar and the cafeteria), chess game (in the chess room in front of the music room)
- Tabletop soccer, table tennis, and darts
- Sauna (Monday: Women only, Tuesday: Men only)
- Fitness area with 2 indoor bike trainers (Kettler Racer 1), a recumbent bike (Life fitness 95 Ri), and a cross trainer (Life Fitness 95 Xi)
- Bikes
- During summer: volleyball, soccer
Service
- Coffee, tea, and water dispenser
- Information material on bike trails and jogging routes is available at the reception desk
- IT support (Mon–Fri from 8 am – 4 pm)
- Do you need to include someone in your event that cannot be on site? Check our Hybrid-Meeting facilities.
- Is your mobility reduced? Please inform us prior to your arrival!
- There is free parking available for guests.
- There are two public charging points for electric cars located on our parking lot. Fees apply.
- Available on request:
Schloss Dagstuhl and the Surrounding Area
- The area around Schloss Dagstuhl offers a variety of hiking and biking trails, as well as jogging routes. Appropriate shoes are recommended.
- Maps of hiking and biking trails are available at the reception desk
- Indoor (Closed until 2025) andoutdoor pool in Wadern (2.5 and 2.7 km away)
- There is a real informatics geocache nearby, and a mythological one (with more at the castle "Burg Dagstuhl" or the nearby bunker, albeit in German).
- Shopping facilities in Wadern (about 1.5 – 2.5 km away)
Please mind the local closing hours. - Gas stations (about 1.5 – 2.5 km away)
- Charging station for electric vehicles (2 public charging points are located on our parking lot. More are nearby at dm-drogerie markt, Poststraße 36, 66687 Wadern (1.9 km away); Im Brühl 2, 66687 Wadern (2 away); Öttingen-Sötern-Platz 1, 66687 Wadern (2.5 km); or search on goingelectric.de.)
Additional Information
for Dagstuhl Seminars and Perspectives Workshops
- Dagstuhl owns a comprehensive Informatics specialized library, which organizes a special book exhibition, showing all books of participants available in the library, during all Dagstuhl Seminars and Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops. Schloss Dagstuhl kindly requests the authors to sign their books.
- Many Dagstuhl Seminars and Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops organize an outing in one of the afternoons (usually Wednesday). Please be aware that some might cause additional costs which have to be paid in cash. Appropriate shoes are recommended.
