This page is a guide only . It contains recommendations from either TMs, Referees or Parents from previous seasons. Venues or official hotels may change for the current season so we recommend that you check the reglement’s before confirming any travel arrangements. If you are booking hotels before the reglement is out we advise you may want to consider booking with free cancellation as it is not guaranteed that competition details will stay the same.
Background Info
Leszno is a town in western Poland with 64,197 inhabitants (2017) and is the seventh-largest town in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Since 1999 it has been in the southern part of the new voivodeship. Previously it was the capital of the Leszno Voivodeship (1975–1998). The town has county status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszno
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Visa Requirements
None (as at 30/4/2020).
(Athletes are responsible for getting any required Visas)
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/poland/entry-requirements
Local Emergency Numbers
Central emergency number 112
Ambulance 999
Police 997
Fire Service 998
Venue
Salle de Sport et de Spectacle ‘Trapez’
Nearby Supermarket (to venue)
Lidl
Hotels
Apartamenty Leszno – official hotel
Hotel Wieniawa – official hotel
Flights
Flights can be booked to Poznan and Wroclaw (the travel time to Leszno from both is similar).
NOTE: Not to confuse destination with Lezno near Gdansk. Typing in Lezno in google maps gives wrong destination.
Transfers
There are no official transfers offered
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