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Booking information
The Box Office opens for booking
at 10am on Friday 20 June.
Book your tickets using one of the methods below.
Please note: for the first 3 days of booking only
(Fri 20 – Sun 22 June) tickets will be limited to
4 per event per booking.
Online
From 10am on 20 June: www.edbookfest.co.uk
By phone 0845 373 5888
Open 10am – 5pm daily from Fri 20 – Sat 28 June,
then Mon to Sat only from Mon 30 June to Fri 8 Aug.
Once the Book Festival has started on 9 Aug, the
telephone lines are open from 9.30am – 8.30pm daily.
Please be aware that the first few days of booking are extremely busy.
We will do our best to deal with calls quickly, however you may not get
through immediately. Calls from BT landlines are charged at the local
rate, regardless of where you are calling from. Charges will vary from
other phone networks – please check with your phone provider.
By post
Please fill in the booking form opposite and post it to
PO BOX 23835, Edinburgh, EH2 4WS. Please fill in all
required sections and write clearly so we are able to
process your booking.
NEW FOR 2008!
In person
As we have no year-round public building of our own
and therefore no Box Office counter, we provide a
temporary Box Office counter before the Book
Festival starts so those who prefer to book in person
can. Please note our Box Office counter can only
process in-person bookings.
• For the first 3 days of booking only,
Fri 20 Jun – Sun 22 Jun from 10am – 5pm:
Edinburgh International Conference Centre,
150 Morrison Street, Edinburgh.
• After the first 3 days of booking,
Mon 23 Jun – Fri 8 Aug from 10am – 5pm,
Mon to Sat: Waterstones, 83 George Street,
Edinburgh.
• Once the Book Festival has opened on
9 August our Box Office counter is on site in
Charlotte Square Gardens in the Entrance Tent.
Open 9.30am – 8.30pm daily.
Payment
You may pay by Visa / Delta / Maestro / Mastercard.
Cheques should be made payable to Edinburgh
International Book Festival. Bookings are subject to a
£1 booking fee unless tickets are purchased in person
(this is applied to each transaction, not each ticket booked).
Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded. Where
ticket demand is high for sold out events, we may offer a
refund subject to a £1 handling fee.
Concession ticket prices
Concession ticket prices are marked in italics and
are available to students, over 60s, Young Scot
cardholders, under 16s, registered unemployed and
disabled visitors (carer goes free – see details below).
Visitors with disabilities
See page 72 for details of our facilities. Please ask
our Box Office staff for information or advice for your
particular needs when booking. If your disability
requires that you need a carer in order to attend our
events, the carer is entitled to a free ticket which
should be booked at the same time as your own.
Free tickets for carers are not available online.
Parking
During August Edinburgh is extremely busy; traffic
is heavy and vacant parking spaces are scarce. We
would advise the use of public transport wherever
possible. If you do need to come by car, there are
metered parking spaces around Charlotte Square
and along George Street, including some bays for
disabled drivers. There is a multi-storey car park in
Castle Terrace, about a ten minute walk away from
Charlotte Square.
Latecomers
Please be considerate and arrive in good time for
your event. Latecomers are hugely disruptive to
audience members and authors and will not be
admitted after the beginning of events. Refunds will
not be given to latecomers. We recommend you do
not book back-to-back events (where one event
finishes at the same time the other starts) as it is
extremely unlikely you will get to the second event in
time for the start. Please note that leaving an event
early can also be disruptive to fellow audience
members and authors.
Events and seating
Events are 1 hour long unless otherwise specified
in the event listing. All our seating is unreserved
(seats don’t have numbers) and therefore you can
sit anywhere in the auditorium you wish.
Dogs
We welcome guide dogs and hearing dogs into events
and the gardens. We do not admit other dogs.
All information is correct at the time of going
to print. We reserve the right to change or
cancel any event in unforeseen circumstances.
Please check our website for event updates
www.edbookfest.co.uk.
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