Getting Around Bethlehem

Getting to the Conference Venues

Lehigh is providing buses to and from the conference venues on each day of the conference. These buses are brown and white and sport Lehigh's logo. Each bus will have a placard with the ISWC logo and a color code indicating which hotels it stops at. Buses with a red sign take Sands Hotel guests to and from conference venues, while buses with a yellow sign take Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem, and Comfort Suites guests to and from venues. Some buses will be coded with both red and yellow, indicating that they go to all four conference hotels. The buses coded with blue will loop from Rauch Business Center to the University Center for lunch.

You can see live updates of the location of these buses at bus.lehigh.edu (ISWC buses will be identified as “charter”).”

The schedule of buses is below:

  • Sunday, Oct. 11
    • 6:30am-9:30am: Yellow - Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites to Rauch Business Center
    • 6:30am-9:30am: Red - Sands Bethlehem Hotel to Rauch Business Center
    • 9:30am – 4:30pm: Red&Yellow - Rauch Business Center to Sands Bethlehem Hotel, Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites
    • 12:00pm – 2:30pm: Blue -  Rauch Business Center to University Center Every 10 minutes
    • 4:30pm-7:30pm Red&Yellow - Rauch to Sands Bethlehem Hotel, Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites
  • Monday, Oct. 12
    • 6:30am-9:30am: Yellow - Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites to Rauch Business Center
    • 6:30am-9:30am: Red - Sands Bethlehem Hotel to Rauch Business Center
    • 9:30am – 4:30pm: Red&Yellow - Rauch Business Center to Sands Bethlehem Hotel, Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites
    • 12:00pm – 2:30pm: Blue - Rauch Business Center to University Center Every 10 minutes
    • 4:30pm-6:00pm: Yellow - Rauch Business Center to Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites
    • 4:30pm-6:00pm: Red - Rauch Business Center to Sands Bethlehem Hotel
    • 6:00pm-10:30pm: Yellow - Rauch Business Center to Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites
    • 6:00pm-10:30pm: Red - Rauch Business Center to Sands Bethlehem Hotel
  • Tuesday, Oct. 13
    • 6:30am-9:30am: Yellow - Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites to Sands Event Center
    • 5:00pm-10pm: Yellow - Sands Event Center to Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites
  • Wednesday, Oct. 14
    • 7:30am-10:30am: Yellow - Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites to Sands Event Center
    • 4:00pm-12am: Yellow - Sands Event Center to Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites
  • Thursday, Oct. 15
    • 7:30am-10:30am: Yellow - Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites to Sands Event Center
    • 12:00pm-6pm: Yellow - Sands Event Center to Hyatt Place, Hotel Bethlehem and Comfort Suites

Going Elsewhere in Town

Although some travelers may find that renting a car gives them the most flexibility, you do not need a car in order to travel around Bethlehem. Here are some options:

  • Local buses: Buses within the Lehigh Valley are provided by LANta. The two routes most likely to be of interest to ISWC attendees are the 102 and 105. Here's a map of all of the routes.
  • Hotel shuttle: Some hotels offer complimentary shuttle service to locations within town
  • Anytime Taxi by J&J: Call 1-800-726-5466 for rides anywhere within the Lehigh Valley.
  • Uber: Uber now services the Lehigh Valley. You can use your smart phone to connect to a driver and pay your fare.
  • Walk: All of the conference hotels are located near restaurants and shops, and no conference hotel is more than a 45 minutes walk from the conference venues. Please use common sense when walking: stick to busy, well-lit streets, and travel in groups if possible.

ISWC and Lehigh provide the above as resources only.  The provision of these resources does not constitute an endorsement by ISWC and Lehigh, nor does ISWC or Lehigh take responsibility or assume liability for any use thereof.