On Site

Accomodation

Users invited for experiments are accommodated at the Guesthouse provided the request for accommodation arrangement has been made through the electronic A Form. The Guesthouse is located on site, to the left to the main gate as you enter.

Note: Outside opening hours of the reception, your room key will be given to you at the site entrance.

Meal options

• Breakfast is served in the Guesthouse.
   

The EPN Science Campus offers several options for other meals:

• The joint ILL / ESRF restaurant on site offering self-service lunch (badge/canteen card) and dinner (badge/canteen card, credit card, cash).
• The onsite cafeteria is located in a satellite building next to the restaurant. Coffee, drinks and food must be consumed outsite.
• Take-away counter, offering a variety of sandwiches, salads, fruits and snacks, etc., from 11:00 am to 13:30 pm (badge/canteen card, or cash).
• Meals on trays at times when the restaurant is closed (by advance arrangement).
• Coffee and snack machines around the ring.
• Personal food items at the Guesthouse (limited number of locked, refrigerated boxes but no facilities for meal preparation).

Opening hours, menus, and other details are available from the restaurant website. 

How to pay for meals at the ILL/ESRF common restaurant?

Your site entrance badge is used for the payment of meals at the ILL/ESRF restaurant and at the 'take away counter' located in the cafeteria.

Go to the page Financial assistance for more details.

In the case that users miss the available opening times at the restaurant and sandwich counter, there are restaurants, bakeries and a supermarket on the Avenue des Martyrs (15mins walk or 1 tram stop away - 'Marie-Louise Paris CEA').

How to use the WiFi Network on the EPN Campus site (ESRF, ILL, EMBL and common buildings)

During your visit you may wish to connect a LAPTOP to the ESRF network on the beamlines.

Please consult the Charter for the use of the computing resources at the ESRF.

You are allowed to do so, provided that your computer has an up-to-date anti-virus program which has recently scanned your computer. Please get in touch with your Local Contact or with the Computing Services if you require help.

WiFi connection in EPN campus site

From 21 June 2021
New login and password to connect to EPN Visitors Network

• Via 'EPN Visitors' network available in EPN campus areas: ESRF, ILL, EMBL and common buildings
  
  using your ESRF User Portal Login and password

or

• Via Eduroam network: The ESRF, the ILL and the IBS are eduroam-compliant: users who have a valid account in another eduroam compliant institution can use this network

You are welcome to consult books and periodicals in the joint ILL/ESRF Library, which is located  in the Science Building, Room 410 and 418. You will not, however, be able to borrow documents.  Please restrict any photocopies to an absolute minimum.

Library opening hours: Monday to Friday from 08:00-17:00.

Use of the library outside opening hours:

Should you wish to use the library outside working hours (08:00-17:00), in the evenings and/or at weekends, please activate your badge on the badge update reader located on the ground floor of the Science Building.

Map of bus and tramway network in Grenoble

The Tram line "B" (timetable)

• It allows easy access - even at night - between downtown Grenoble and the ESRF.
• Its terminus - 'Grenoble Presqu'île' - is situated just 350 metres from the site entrance.
• It serves downtown Grenoble, including the bus and railway station.

Tickets for local buses and tram can be bought at the Guesthouse:

• one-way ticket (valid 1 hour, with connections) - Cost: 1,80€.
• 10-trips ticket - Cost: 15,10€.

Purchase of bus & tramway tickets for local public transport in town

You can can buy a pass for the tramway & bus network in Grenoble (TAG):

• in the “Agences de Mobilité” (the closest is Avenue Alsace Lorraine, not far from the railway station),
• in the newspapers and tobacco shops,
• and at ticket machines located on each tram stop (payment possible with cash or card)

A one-way ticket for local buses can also be purchased from the bus drivers for 2,00€ (note that the drivers will not accept banknote > 10 Euro).

Note that if an OURA card is purchased to buy multiple tickets (the card is not needed to purchase single journey tickets), it will only be reimbursed by the ESRF for 'reimbursed' users who were booked into a hotel in town by the ESRF.

For information on procedures on the EPN site concerning:

• the joint medical service and medical emergencies,
• the safety in case of technical incident, fire, etc...
• special medical conditions
• insurance for scientists from outside the European Union

please consult the information page Health and Safety Information (external link to EPN campus website).