The Atrium Hotel is located directly across the street from the John Wayne Airport in Irvine.

The hotel is offering a special group rate of $94 per night, single or double occupancy (plus a 10% hotel tax). The rate is good for the nights of April 27-29 (Thursday-Saturday), 2006. In order to ensure that you receive a room at this rate, please contact the hotel as soon as possible, and be sure to request the special group price for the 12th Annual Mexican Conference sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCI.

Please reserve your room by calling the hotel at (800) 854-3012. You can also fax a reservation request to (949) 757-1228 or email reservations@atriumhotel.com

Complimentary shuttle service will be provided for guests to and from the hotel to the John Wayne Airport, as well as to and from the UC Irvine campus.

Conference Events
All conference events for the 12th Annual Mexican Conference will be held in the Humanities Instructional Building (Room 135) on the University of California Irvine campus. The Humanities Instructional Building is listed as Building #610 on the map of the UCI campus.

Parking
Parking is available in the the Student Center Stucture (located on Pereira Drive, near the Campus Drive/West Peltason Drive entrance into UCI) or in the Mesa Parking Structure (near the Bren Events Center at the corner of Mesa and West Peltason). There are information booths at both of these parking structures where you can ask for directions to the Humanities Instructional Building. Please have exact change ($1/half hour or $7 one day).

• Interactive Parking Map of UCI (click on "Humanities" or "Mesa Court Housing" for nearest parking structure)
• UCI Campus Maps

UCI Campus
UCI is conveniently located near John Wayne International Airport and can be reached from several major freeways. The airport is conveniently located ten minutes from campus and just across the street from the Atrium Hotel. Here are directions to the UCI campus from different area freeways:

5 Freeway | 405 Freeway | 73 Freeway | 91 Freeway |

5 Freeway from the north: (Driving from L.A.)
Take 5 south to 55 south to 405 south
Exit at Jamboree Road
Right on Jamboree Road
Left on Campus Drive
Right on West Peltason Drive into UCI
Left at Pereira Drive or continue straight to Mesa

5 Freeway from the south: (Driving from San Diego)
Take 5 north to 405 north
Exit at Culver Drive
Left on Culver Drive
Right on Campus Drive
Left on West Peltason Drive into UCI
Left at Pereira Drive or continue straight to Mesa

405 Freeway from the north:
Exit at Jamboree Road
Right on Jamboree Road
Left on Campus Drive
Right on West Peltason Drive into UCI
Left on Pereira Drive or continue straight to Mesa

405 Freeway from the south:
Exit at Culver Drive
Left on Culver Drive
Right on Campus Drive
Left on West Peltason Drive into UCI
Left on Periera Drive or continue straight to Mesa

73 Freeway from the north:
Take 405 south to 73 south (this portion is not a tollroad)
Exit at University Drive
Left on University Drive
Right on California Avenue into UCI
Left on West Peltason Drive
Right on Periera Drive or Left onto Mesa

73 Freeway from the south:
Take 5 north to 73 north (this is a tollroad)
Exit at Bison Avenue
Right on Bison Avenue into UCI
Left on West Peltason Drive at stoplight (stay on West Peltason, turning right at the next stop sign)
Right on Periera Drive or Left onto Mesa

91 Freeway
Take the 91 west to the 55 south
Merge onto 405 south
Exit at Jamboree Road
Right on Jamboree Road
Left on Campus Drive
Right on West Peltason Drive into UCI
Left on Pereira Drive or continue straight to Mesa