Access, opening hours and services
- OPENING DAYS AND HOURS
- Parking
- services
OPENING DAYS AND HOURS
Mineral & Gem is open to professional visitors from Wednesday, June 26 to Sunday, June 30, 2024. Access to the event on Wednesday 26th is only granted to visitors with a PRO Early Access pass.
The event is open to the general public on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June.
From Wednesday to Sunday, the show is open from 9 AM to 6 PM.
The last tickets are sold at the ticket desks one hour before closing time.
Opening hours:
9am to 6pm, every day.
Ticket sales:
Tickets are available in presale and on site, at the same prices.
For Wednesday June 26, a PASS PRO Early Access is required and is the only valid admission ticket.
On site, the last ticket sale takes place one hour before the daily closing time.
On Sunday, after 1 PM, the reduced rate will be applied to all tickets sold on site.
Access and Parking
Getting to Mineral & Gem
By car
From Mulhouse or Strasbourg, take highway A35, leave it at exit 17, then take road RN59 to Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines.
From Nancy or Saint-Dié, take road RN59 and take the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines pass or go through the Maurice Lemaire Tunnel (toll applies).
By car, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines is:
– 1h from Freiburg (D)
– 1h10 from Basel (CH)
– 2h30 from Luxembourg (L)
– 4h00 from Lyon (FR)
– 4h30 from Paris (FR)
– 4h30 from Milan (IT)
– 4h30 from Brussels (BE)
By public transportation
By bus, take a TER bus from Sélestat or Saint-Dié-des-Vosges: see the timetables here. The Super U and Café de la Marne stops will be the only bus stops available during the event.
By train + bus: reach Sélestat station or Saint-Dié-des-Vosges station, then take the TER bus from the train station.
By plane, via the international airports of Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (1h15), Strasbourg (1h) or Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (1h30).
Parkings
The official parking lots of the event, open from 8 AM to 7 PM, have 5,000 parking spaces in total. A parking fee of €5 per vehicle and €10 for campers and vehicles with a trailer applies. Follow the arrows when you reach Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines.
Parking lots in the lower part of town are served by shuttles that take visitors to the town center, to Place Keufer. From the parking lots in the higher part of town, you can reach the Zone MINERAL on foot (a 5 to 15 minutes walk depending on where you are parked). Check the interactive map or the parking map to efficiently locate the parking lots.
Campers may park on the PM and PEg parkings lot for €10 during daytime. Overnight stay is not allowed.
FIRST AID AND INFIRMARY
There are 2 aid stations on site, the Red Cross and the FFSS (French first aid federation):
Zone MINERAL: in Pavillon Osmont (Zone PO, close to entrance 4)
Zone GEM: outside, on the Place des Tisserands, at the right of Salle Prestige (SP)
If you need help, all members of the organizing team can assist you.
DISABLED VISITORS
Dedicated toilets and parking spaces are available to disabled visitors.
Accessible locations are indicated.
Wheelchairs can be loaned.
LOADING AREA
A loading area (Zone de Chargement or ZC on the map) is accessible to light vehicles in Zone MINERAL (close to entrance 1) to load bulky purchases.
- Rate: €10/hour.
- Deposit: €100.
There is no luggage storage inside the event.
To send your purchases by carrier, a logistics area is operated by our partners Alpha Cargo and Heppner.
The logistics area is outside the event, in Zone MINERAL, next to entrance 3, in front of the number 15 of Rue Kroeber Imlin.
LOST OBJECT
If you lost or found an item, head to the exhibitors desk of the concerned area: CE courtyard in Zone MINERAL (entrance to the Prestige Exhibition) and SP room in Zone GEM. If you are no longer at the event, contact us!
