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Useful tips

Your accreditation badge (Festival, Marché or Press) gives you access to the Festival zone and to the screenings (Official Selection, parallel events and/or Marché du Film depending on your accreditation category). Badges are nominative, non-transferable and must be worn so as to be visible in order to facilitate ID checks. In the event of loss or theft, please contact the late accreditation office.

Opening hours

The Festival zone is accessible for accreditation badge-holders via all entrances from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm.

Exceptions:

►Mediterranean Entrance: accessible to accreditation badge-holders from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm.

Main Entrance (14 to 25 May): accessible to all accreditation badge-holders
• from 8:15 am for screenings scheduled at the Palais before 9:00 am (door on the right).
• until 10:30 pm for access to screenings in the Buñuel Theatre or the Press Room and for the Marché theatres. Access to the exhibition zone closes at 6:30 pm.

Riviera Entrance (14 to 23 May) for Marché badge-holders.
• from 9:00 am to 10:45 pm for Marché badge-holders..
• from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm for exhibitors.
• until 10:45 pm for Lérins and Riviera screenings.
• from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm for Festival and Press badge-holders.

►Village International (Pantiero and Riviera)
• from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm for Pavillon exhibitors from 14 to 25 May (from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm on 25 May)
• from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm for Professionnal badge-holder (from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on the 16 May)
Practical information on the Festival

Storage rooms

Left Luggage
Barrière Bistinguo (on the Casino Croisette side)
From 12 to 15 May, 9.00 am to 7.00 pm
Monday 12: 9.00 am to 7.00 pm
Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15: 8.00 am to 8.30 pm
Friday 16 to Thursday 22 May: 9.00 am to 7.00 pm
Friday 23: 8.00 am to 7.00 pm
Saturday 24: 8.00 am to 5.00 pm
Sunday 25: 9.00 am to 7.00 pm

Cloakroom (bags not accepted)
Opening hours: From 15 to 26 May, from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm
Location: Level 01, aisle 01

Office facilities: Internet & Printing

Internet access is available at the following locations:
– Business Centre: accessible for all badge-holders (pay service)
– Lérins Web Corner: Lérins(unlimited and free access for Marché du Film participants)
– Purple Lounge: accessible for Marché badge-holders (mauve stripe)
– Web points:Internet terminals reserved for badge-holders Marché exhibition areas
– WiFi Café, reserved for Press badge-holders (Palais, Level 3)
– Press Room, reserved for Press badge-holders (Palais F+1)

A wireless network is available throughout the Palais
– Pay service (pay on-line): €15 per hour or €95 for the 10 days
– Free in the Marché du Film zone for Marché badge-holders with codes

Business Centre
Pay services: photocopying and document binding, DTP and printing, fax, word processing, computer rental etc.
Location: level 01, aisle 07
Opening hours: 9:00 am to 6:30 pm from 14 May to 25 May and 9:00 am to 1:00 pm on 26 May.

Purple Lounge
Internet, printing, DVD screening room
Location: level 01, aisle 20
Opening hours: 9:00 am to 6:30 pm
Access: Marché badge (mauve stripe)

Doc Corner
Space dedicated to documentary cinema : exhibitors, roundtables and digital video library.
Opening hours: 14 to 23 May 2014: 9.00 am to 6.00 pm
Location: Level 01, Aisle 21
Access: Market badges

Communications

CELLHIRE
Mobile phones can be hired from the Cellhire booth located in the accreditation area (Level 01)
Tel: +33 (0)6 07 25 74 07

Phone booths
The phone booths are located near the lifts in the centre and near the bars in the Palais des Festivals

TNT
Global express services for freight and documents.
Tel: +33 (0)6 73 00 77 76
www.tnt.fr/

Practical information about Cannes

Bus
€1 per trip. Maps and timetables available on www.busazur.info
Bus E-lo (electric shuttle €0.60 per ticket, valid all day (journey follows a blue line painted on the road)

Bicycle hire
Holiday Bikes – 44 bd de Lorraine / + 33 (0) 4 97 06 30 63
Mistral location – 4, rue Georges Clémenceau / + 33 (0)4 93 39 33 60 / 06 20 33 87 64
Daniel Location – 7, rue de Suffren / + 33 (0)4 93 99 90 30
Elite Rent a Bike – 32, avenue Maréchal Juin / + 33 (0)4 93 94 30 34

Parking
Parking du Palais des Festivals (entrance to the right of the Palais)
Day ticket (8 hours) €18.50, open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day
www.interparking-france.com

Taxi -Allô Taxi Cannes
Email: contact@taxi-cannes.net
Tel.: +33 (0)890 712 227 (Standard téléphonique 24h/24)
From an international mobile phone: + 33 4 92 993 923
Reservation: 0899 563 356
www.taxi-cannes.net

Car, scooter and van hire
Europcar
3, rue du Cdt Vidal
www.europcar.fr
Tel. +33 (0)4 93 06 26 30 and 0825 358 358

Post Office
22 Rue Bivouac Napoléon
Telehone number: 3631
Opening hours: 9.00 am to 1.00 pm and 2.00 to 6.00 pm (Saturday from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm, closed on Sunday)

Bureaux de change
-Au change Miramar
57 bd de la Croisette – 06400 Cannes – Tel.: +33 (0) 4 93 94 45 20
-European Exchange Office
65 bd de la Croisette – 06400 Cannes – Tel.:+ 33 (0) 4 93 94 45 20
-Travelex
8 rue d’Antibes – 06400 Cannes – Tel.: +33 (0) 4 93 39 41 45
-American Express
8 rue des Belges 06400 CANNES – AMEXCO 470786 F

Hôtel de Ville
1, Place Cornut-Gentille
Tel. : +33 (0)4 97 06 40 00
Opening hours: 7.30 am to 7.30 pm (closed on Saturday and Sunday)
www.cannes.com

Tourist Office
Palais des festivals, Croisette Entrance, Marches Debussy side
Tel. +33(0)4 92 99 84 22
Open 7 days a week from 7 :00am to 8 :00 pm
www.cannes-destination.fr

Your health and safety

Hotel mediator
In the event of problems with a Cannes hotel, please contact Eliane Revel at the Palais des Festivals
From 14 to 25 May and then by email until 6 June.
Location: Main entrance, Level 0 near the lift
Contact: Eliane Revel +33(0)4 92 99 82 06
hotelsmediator@festival-cannes.fr

Useful numbers in case of loss or theft
– Bank cards: 0 892 705 705
– Cheque books: 0892 683 208
– Mobile phones:
Orange: 3970
SFR: 06 1000 1900
Bouygues: 0800 29 10 00

Lost Property
Opening hours: from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Tel. +33 (0)4 92 98 72 24
Location: Gare maritime

Medical care:
Allo Médecins de Garde: Tel. +33 (0)810 850 505
SOS Médecins: Tel. +33 (0)825 005 004
SAMU: Tel. 15 (emergency only)
SMUR: Tel. +33(0)4 93 69 71 50
CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CANNES – URGENCES, 15 Ave des Broussailles, 06400 Cannes -T:+33 (0)4 93 69 71 50 (emergency only)

Emergency assistance
Fire: Tel. 18 (emergency only)
Police: Tel. 17 (emergency only)
Palais des Festivals internal emergency number from a Palais phone: 2528

Accident, emergency, fire
In the event of an emergency call +33(0)4 92 99 26 26 or 2528

Central Police station
1, avenue de Grasse
Tel. +33(0)4 93 06 22 22

Suspect packages
Please signal the presence of any suspect package to +33(0)4 92 99 26 26 or 2528

Vigipirate
Security chacks are in operation at the entrances to the Palais and the Riviera in application of the French Vigiprate plan.