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Mariners’ Landing Resort Conference Center (view PDF ad)
1217 Graves Harbor Trail
Huddleston, VA 24104
(540) 497-4900
www.marinerslanding.com
Contact: Leslie King, group sales manager
lesliek@marinerslanding.com

Hold your meeting or conference against the backdrop of a 22,000-acre lake. The Mariners Landing Resort and Conference Center in Southwest Virginia includes 7,500 square feet of meeting space in three connected buildings. All feature a magnificent view of Smith Mountain Lake.

The resort’s flexible meeting space can hold up to 250 people, and 150 people can fit into the largest room when arranged in a banquet-style setting. The rooms offer high-tech audiovisual equipment and high-speed Internet throughout the conference center. The resort recently opened a new building, with 40 brand-new condominiums and 4,000 square feet of meeting space.

The resort offers 155 condominiums. The rooms offer fully equipped kitchens, decks with mountain and lake views, washers and dryers, satellite televisions and gas-log fireplaces.

A conference at Mariners Landing will be a refreshing retreat from stresses back home. Conference goers will have plenty of exploring to do on their free time. Guests can play on the resort’s par-72 golf course, which was designed by Robert Trent Jones. They can also relax at the resort’s Spaaahh, swim in three pools, stay fit at the tennis courts, walking trails or fitness centers, ride horses or relax at the private swimming beach. The award-winning Pointe Restaurant offers fine dining with spectacular views of the lake.

Mariners Landing’s location also gives guests easy access to many activities at and near Smith Mountain Lake, including Virginia Dare cruises, five wineries, the Booker T. Washington National Monument, the D-Day Memorial in Bedford and Bridgewater Plaza’s shops and restaurants.

Wintergreen Resort (view PDF ad)
Route 664
P.O. Box 706
Wintergreen, VA 22958
(434) 325-2200
www.wintergreenresort.com
Contact: (800) 276-3390

Let your team grow together on a scenic retreat from the office. Wintergreen Resort is an 11,000-acre resort located 4,000 feet above sea level. This peaceful vacation and conference spot provides employees with a hideaway in the serenity of the Blue Ridge Mountains — creating the ideal spot for creativity.

The resort offers 40,000 square feet of flexible meeting space. It also provides a full professional staff to ensure meetings and conferences go off smoothly. The conference center offers high-speed Internet and the latest audiovisual equipment for presentations. Menus can be customized for each event, and a convenient airport shuttle brings guests to the resort. The largest ballroom can seat 500 people for a banquet and 600 in a theater-style setting.

Wintergreen offers spacious, com¬fortable accommodations with more than 300 studios, mountain villas and condominiums. They range up to seven-bedroom homes with fully equipped kitchens and balconies or decks. All rooms that have at least one bedroom include a cozy fireplace.

Wintergreen’s natural setting means nonstop activity for any downtime during the conference. The resort offers snowboarding and tubing on the mountain, an award-winning tennis program, a spa and fitness center, four restaurants, six swimming pools, a 20-acre lake and park, fly fishing, horseback riding and a nature center.

The resort features 45 holes of championship golf at two golf courses. The Devils Knob Golf Course is the highest golf course in the state at 3,850 feet above sea level. Stoney Creek Golf Course is a year-round golf course with 27 holes.