Travel Information
The Westin Prince Toronto Hotel
900 York Mills Road
Toronto, Ontario
M3B 3H2
Toronto
If you live or work in the City of Toronto –including the former cities of North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, York and the borough of East York – OCASI will not reimburse your travel expenses.
Public Transportation
The Westin Prince Toronto Hotel is easily accessible by public transportation. It is located 10 minutes from the York Mills Subway Station, Yonge line. Buses 95 or 321 –eastbound-will leave you right at the hotel. You can also choose the Don Mills Subway Station, Sheppard line. Bus 25 Southbound will leave you at the corner of the hotel. Visit the Toronto Transit Commission, TTC at http://www3.ttc.ca/ for further information.
Other Regions
OCASI will reimburse car, bus, train or air expenses to ED Forum participants. Participants must use the cheapest means of transportation. You may choose to:
- Take a bus or train to Toronto. OCASI will reimburse taxi expenses or public transportation –TTC fare- from the bus or train station or airport to the hotel. Keep receipts.
- Drive. For environmental and financial purposes, OCASI encourages participants to carpool with colleagues. If you expressed an interest in carpooling, please check carpool board about possible opportunities to travel with other forum participants. Please contact Paulina Maciulis at pmaciulis@ocasi.org if you need information regarding participants from your city or if you can’t find someone to share a ride and need to drive alone.
- Fly. Air travel may be the best alternative to participants from the Northern Region, including Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Kenora and Sault Ste Marie. However, participants from other cities such as Ottawa and Windsor may want to check if flying is a more economic option instead of taking the bus or driving. We recommend using the Toronto Island Airport and flying Porter Airlines. Visit Porter Flight for more information. Please consider that a taxi fare from this airport to the hotel is approximately $45.00. Contact Paulina Maciulis to discuss your options.
Whether flying or travelling by train or bus, please book your ticket as early as possible to get the best price. If this is not possible, please contact Paulina Maciulis at pmaciulis@ocasi.org for approval.
For driving direction and map, please click here to get more information.
Claim Form for Travel Expenses Reimbursement will be distributed at the Conference and is available here.
Accommodation
If you live between the boundaries of Highway 427 in the west, Highway 407 in the north and Brock Rd in the east (see map below) you are not eligible for overnight stay at the hotel. Please contact Paulina Maciulis at pmaciulis@ocasi.org if this rule will impede your participation at the Conference.
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Eligible Participants of other regions of the province will be offered single accommodation at the hotel for the night of Thursday November 10.
For more information on accomodations check out the Questions and Answers section.
If you come from outside of Toronto and you are unable to arrive in time for the Opening Plenary (9:30 AM on Thursday November 10), you may request to arrive one day early – the evening of Wednesday November 9. Please indicate your request on the online Registration Form.
The approval of your additional overnight stay at the hotel for Wednesday November 9 will be identified on the final confirmation letter you will receive by October 14. We will contact you prior to this date if additional information is required.
No Smoking
There is a No Smoking policy in all indoor spaces at the Westin Prince Toronto Hotel, including private bedrooms.
