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Hampton Convention & Visitor Bureau | Hampton Roads Convention Center
Embassy Suites

Meet in the ‘City of Firsts’
Treat your meeting delegates to a city where there’s never a lack of things to do. Hampton, located in the center of the Hampton Roads region, offers more than 100 attractions within minutes of downtown. See why this city’s nickname is the “City of Firsts,” (hint: it was the birthplace of NASA, site of the first English-style Christmas in the American colony and the first training ground for America’s astronauts.)

Take a look at the city’s nearly 400 year-history at the Hampton History Museum, see a 3 billion-year-old moon rock at the Virginia Air and Space Center, cruise the beautiful harbor on the Miss Hampton II, or trace African-American history at the oldest African-American museum in the U.S., the Hampton University Museum.

The Hampton Roads Convention Center opened in 2005 and is located among one of the city’s best dining and entertainment locations. The Power Plant of Hampton Roads, a retail and entertainment development; is anchored by the Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World. Hampton is also a convenient location for any side trips to Colonial Williamsburg and the shoreline of Virginia Beach.

Hampton Convention & Visitor Bureau
1919 Commerce Drive, Suite 290
Hampton, VA 23666
(800) 487-8778
(757) 722-1222
www.visithampton.com
Contact: Lacy Gibson, director of sales
sales@hamptoncvb.com

Convention center

Hampton Roads Convention Center (view PDF ad)
1610 Coliseum Drive
Hampton, VA 23666
(757) 315-1610
(866) 484-4722
www.thehrcc.com
Contact: Lacy Gibson, director of sales
sales@hamptoncvb.com

No two meetings are exactly the same. And the Hampton Roads Convention Center offers the high-tech equipment, helpful staff and media that you need to pull off successful events. The center offers more than 160,000 square feet of flexible meeting and exhibition space, capable of handling conferences, small meetings, and large consumer and trade shows.

The center, which opened in 2005, has a 108,000-square-foot exhibition hall that can be divided into three sections and oversized freight doors make it easy to move exhibits in and out of the facility. The 28,000-square-foot ballroom can seat up to 2,000 people in a banquet setting.

The center is equipped with state-of-the-art audiovisual services, including multi-media projection and plasma screens, cameras, high-speed Internet and a wired Cyber café, computerized teleprompter systems, adjustable lighting and all the conference technology needed to host a high-class event.

The center’s location is convenient. It has 3,000 free parking spaces and is within walking distance of 2,500 hotel rooms. The center is adjacent to the Hampton Coliseum, which features an open arena floor that can hold 11,000 people. Also, a $200 million Crossroads Development project will bring another full-service hotel and 2,000-seat theater to the convention center area. Just blocks away from the convention center, the Peninsula Town Center is being built. That will bring unique shopping and dining to Hampton.

Convention Hotel

Embassy Suites at Hampton Roads (view PDF ad)
1700 Coliseum Drive
Hampton, VA 23666
(757) 827-8200
www.embassysuites.com
Contact: Neil Christian, director of catering
(757) 213-8518; neil.christian@jqh.com

Designed with the business traveler in mind, the Embassy Suites Hampton Roads offers 295 spacious two-room suites. The hotel is the perfect partner for the Hampton Roads Convention Center. Guests can walk to the convention center via covered walkways.

The suites offer a separate living room and bedroom, and each suite includes two televisions, a sleeper sofa, microwave and refrigerator to make hotel stays convenient. Business travelers can also enjoy two dual-line phones, coffee makers, high-speed Internet and well-lit, large desks. Guests also receive a complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast and end each evening with the nightly manager’s reception.

But the hotel also offers a chance to escape. The Spa Botanica offers refreshing body wraps and relaxing massages. The hotel also offers an indoor pool and whirlpool and a fitness center. The hotel has two restaurants and is located in Hampton’s central district, where 70 restaurants are nearby.

The hotel has 3,500 square feet of its own meeting space. Its largest room can hold 150 people for a banquet and its business center offers the necessary Internet, faxing and printing services.

Room Report

There are more than 2,500 hotel rooms in the area around the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Airports

Hampton is 30 minutes from both Norfolk International Airport and the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport.

Top attractions

Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe
Hampton History Museum
Hampton University Museum
Langley Speedway
Miss Hampton II Harbor Cruises
The Cousteau Society
Virginia Air and Space Center