Venue & travel / The venue

Aboard the SS Rotterdam.

CAETS 2027 gathers aboard the SS Rotterdam, the city’s historic ocean liner turned hotel and congress venue, permanently moored on the Maas.

Location

A conference base in the heart of the city.

CAETS 2027 takes place aboard the SS Rotterdam, the 1959 flagship ocean liner of the Holland America Line, now permanently docked on the Maas as a hotel, congress and event venue. Its grand ballrooms and theatre give the conference a fitting stage: a piece of maritime engineering history, repurposed rather than retired, echoing the very theme of turning water from foe to friend.

SS Rotterdam: Wilhelminakade 333, 3072 AP Rotterdam. A short water-taxi or tram ride from Rotterdam Centraal station and the city’s main hotel district.

City centre

Central Rotterdam, close to hotels, restaurants and transit.

Rail-connected

Minutes from Rotterdam Centraal, with direct trains across the Netherlands and Belgium.

SS Rotterdam interior
SS Rotterdam
SS Rotterdam event
SS Rotterdam Odyssee Room

Getting there

Reaching Rotterdam from abroad.

By air

Fly into Rotterdam The Hague Airport, or Amsterdam Schiphol with a direct train onward (roughly 40 minutes to Rotterdam Centraal).

By rail

Rotterdam Centraal sits on the high-speed network, with direct services from Brussels, Paris and across the Netherlands.

Within the city

Rotterdam’s metro, tram and water-taxi network connect the station, venue, hotels and technical-tour sites.