Lodging and Travel

Hotel information

The conference is planned as a primarily in-person event. The planning committee has arranged hotel room reservations in Holiday Inn at special rates for the conference attendees. APS has two blocks of rooms reserved at Holiday Inn. Please go to the link below to book reserved hotel rooms for your visit.

Holiday Inn Hotel Link

Please contact the hotel if you have questions or problems with reservations.

For other Lodging and Dining information around URI, please visit URI Dining and Lodging page

Parking information

Parking at the Kingston Campus is available to registered attendees. All cars must be registered with URI’s Public Safety- Transportation & Parking to avoid ticketing. Event parking is available at “85 Briar Ln Parking”.  Follow the signs to the meeting locations.

Instructions for registering and receiving a free parking permit for the APS meeting.

  • Go to the link to register: uri.aimsparking.com on the URI transportation and parking services website.
  • Click on Event Permits and agree to the terms of service
  • Click on Physics
  • Click on APS Meeting Oct 20-21, 2023
  • Voucher code is APS23! (very important to include this for the free permit)
  • Click APS Meeting Oct 20-21, 2023 again
  • Click Fine Arts South
  • Click Add Vehicle on left-hand side
  • Complete vehicle information (state is very important here because the system defaults to RI)
  • Click Add on the right-hand side
  • Click Continue in red on the right-hand side (enter will not work)
  • On the next page, enter your email and click checkout