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ADVERTISING SECTION
Meeting
and Conference Destinations:
Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach Convention Center
| Virginia Beach Resort Hotel &
Conference Center | The Founders
Inn and Spa | Hilton Virginia Beach
Oceanfront
Meet among the sun and sand
With 35 miles of waterfront property on the Atlantic
Ocean and Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach offers a meeting
venue your delegates will appreciate and enjoy. The
city offers a classy metropolitan feel against the dramatic
backdrop of ocean and bay. After long days in meetings
or planning sessions, your guests can relax on the city’s
300-foot-wide beach or stroll along the three-mile,
28-foot wide boardwalk. The boardwalk also features
a separate bike path for cruising along the shoreline.
The beach allows guests ample opportunity to swim, boat
and fish.
Beyond the beachfront, Virginia Beach
is packed with entertainment opportunities. Visitors
can walk through wildlife refuges, watch sharks, jellyfish
and sea turtles at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine
Science Center, climb the historic Cape Henry Lighthouse,
listen to music at the Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach
Amphitheater, view art at the Contemporary Art Center
or view the latest jets at Oceana Naval Air Station.
The city also includes some unique meeting or entertainment
opportunities, including the city’s luxury dining
yacht Virginia’s Jewel, the Association for Research
and Enlightenment and the Contemporary Art Center of
Virginia.
Virginia Beach Convention
and Visitors Bureau
2101 Parks Ave.
Suite 500
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
(800) 700-7702
www.vbfun.com
Convention center
Virginia Beach Convention
Center (view
PDF ad)
1000 19th St.
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
(757) 385-2000
http://www.vbfun.com/conventioncenter/
The $202.5 million Virginia Beach Convention Center
has helped Virginia Beach make its mark as a convention
and conference center. Completed in January 2007, the
Virginia Beach Convention Center features a 150,000-square-foot
exhibit hall free of columns (and larger than three
football fields) and 28,929 square feet of meeting space.
The 31,029-square-foot ballroom features programmable
LED lighting to capture the specific tone of any event.
The exhibit hall can be divided into four sections,
and each section is supported by meeting room suites,
pre-function area, registration areas and storage. The
exhibit hall includes 21 easy-to-use loading docks and
four street-level ramps. The center includes an on-site
caterer to prepare specialized meals and snacks for
conference attendees.
The convention center features the latest in technology,
including a video wall panel in pre-function areas to
provide guests with information. The center is equipped
with high-speed Internet, and the latest in audiovisual
equipment is used to make professional presentations.
The center also offers PassKey, the industry leader
in online group reservations management. The technology
allows meeting planners to create customized event Web
pages, run reports of rooming data, up-to-the-minute
tracking of event reservations and databases of information
for the event.
Conference Hotels
The Founders Inn and Spa
(view PDF ad)
5641 Indian River Road
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
(757) 366-5716
www.foundersinn.com
Contact: Tade Allen
(757) 366-5805
tallen@benchmarkmanagement.com
Meeting planners can blanket their conference attendees
in luxury while setting up in one of the most technologically
advanced conference facilities at The Founders Inn and
Spa. Located near the Virginia Beach oceanfront, this
inn exudes Southern charm in its Colonial-style design
and architecture.
The conference center offers 25,000 square feet of
meeting space in 20 rooms including an 80-seat amphitheatre
and a ballroom that can seat 1,000 people for a banquet
and 1,400 when set up in a theater style. The center’s
high-tech features include computerized custom lighting
for six stages in the ballroom, ergonomic chairs, video
teleconferencing capabilities, multilingual translation
booths including one for the hearing impaired, drop-down
screens and 78 data connection stations in the amphitheatre.
The inn was listed on “The Best of the South”
by Meetings South Magazine in 2007.
Guests will love the comfort of 240 spacious and well-appointed
guest rooms and suites and the amenities the spa has
to offer. The 10,000-square-foot Flowering Almond Spa
was added in 2005, along with an aquatic center with
an indoor pool and Jacuzzi, an outdoor pool, a 25-foot
spiral slide and interactive fountains. Guests can also
stay active at the fitness center or by walking or jogging
trails around the inn’s lake, colonial gardens
and 26 picturesque acres.
Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront
(view PDF ad)
3001 Atlantic Ave.
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
(757) 213-3001
www.hiltonvb.com
Contact: Mary Kelly, director of group sales
(757) 213-2332
mary_kelly@hiltonvb.com
Indulge your guests directly on the Virginia Beach
oceanfront. The new Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront
offers guests panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean
and the Norfolk cityscape. Guests are spoiled in their
rooms, which are all appointed with 32-inch flat-screen
televisions, high-speed Internet access and ergonomic
chairs at work desks. The hotel’s 290 rooms include
nine suites offering spacious parlors and bedrooms.
For those who want ultimate lavishness, the Empyrean
Club levels, designed with executives in mind, offer
the best views and include continental breakfast, evening
hors d’oeuvres, a 42-inch plasma screen TV and
bathrooms with their own televisions, cordless telephones
and clock radios.
The Hilton offers 12,000 square feet of flexible meeting
space. Its ballroom can hold 540 people in a banquet
setting, or 832 theater style. The Hilton offers meeting
planners a customized Web site so conference goers can
keep up to date and communicate with other attendees.
The hotel features a fitness center, a full-service
concierge floor, a 1,000-space covered parking garage,
a rooftop zero-edge infinity pool, fine cuisine at two
award-winning restaurants, a rooftop “Sky Bar,”
spa services and a climate-controlled walkway above
Atlantic Avenue to access shopping.
Virginia Beach Resort Hotel
& Conference Center (view
PDF ad)
2800 Shore Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
(757) 481-9000
www.virginiabeachresort.com
Contact: Stacey Patrick general manager
spatrick@virginiabeachresort.com
Business and pleasure mix perfectly at the Virginia
Beach Resort Hotel & Conference Center, where the
Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay meet. This stunning
295-room hotel offers the ultimate business spot for
guests in a place where they’ll have plenty to
do in their spare time. Each suite includes a stunning
view of the Chesapeake Bay and the hotel’s private
beach and a private balcony.
The conference facility can handle everything from a
top-level meeting in the hotel’s Executive Boardroom
to a banquet for 275 people in its Chesapeake Ballroom.
The hotel offers a full-service business center and
its welcoming staff can handle all the details for you.
The hotel is conveniently located close to hundreds
of attractions in Hampton Roads, but guests don’t
need to leave the hotel to find plenty to do. The hotel’s
private beach provides an ideal location for volleyball,
wave running or simply sunbathing. Guests can also use
the hotel’s bicycles to cruise around the city
or the boardwalk.
Health-conscious guests can enjoy the indoor-outdoor
pool, sauna whirlpool and health club. The club allows
guests to unwind in the HydroSonic Infrasound Relaxation
System and receive a professional massage. The Virginia
Beach Resort Hotel has also started a partnership with
The Spa and Laser Center located across Shore Drive.
For competitive conference goers, hotel guests can use
the tennis courts at the Virginia Beach Tennis &
Country Club, which includes 30 outdoor and six indoor
courts, for an hour and a half each night they stay
at the hotel.
Room Report
Virginia Beach includes almost 12,000 hotel rooms,
with about 8,000 rooms along the oceanfront and 3,500
rooms within a two-mile radius of the Virginia Beach
Convention Center.
Airports
Norfolk International Airport is located just 20 minutes
from Virginia Beach. The airport offers nonstop flights
to 22 cities.
Attractions
Adam Thoroughgood House
Association for Research and Enlightenment
Bay Back National Wildlife Refuge
Cape Henry Lighthouse
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
False Cape State Park
First Landing State Park
Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center\
Shopping
Hilltop Area
Hilton Retail Shops
Lynnhaven Mall
Pembroke Mall
Resort Area
Town Center
Golf courses
Hell’s Point Golf Course
(757) 721-3400
Heron Ridge of Virginia Beach
(757) 426-3800
Kempsville Greens Municipal Golf
(757) 474-8441
Red Wing Lake Golf Course
(757) 437-4845
Virginia Beach National
(757) 563-9440
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