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Theme Park Resort is Universally Appealing
by Chad Emerson | Published in August 2006 Departments
If you’re considering Orlando, Fla., as the location for your next event, there’s one unique option that combines the services and amenities of a world-class meeting venue with the excitement of a theme park resort into a single, cohesive package. Indeed, while Orlando abounds with options, the Universal Orlando Resort is becoming an increasingly popular destination with meeting planners for several reasons.
The Universal Orlando Resort can accommodate a variety of meeting sizes at its three on-property Loews hotels, including the Portofino Bay Hotel with its luxuriously appointed meeting and breakout spaces and the Royal Pacific Resort with its over 40,000-square-foot Pacifica Ballroom.
Best of all, each resort is only a short walk or boat ride away from Universal’s two theme parks and its on-site dining and entertainment district known as CityWalk, which means that for an event at Universal Orlando, you don’t need to worry about bus transportation.
Another appealing aspect of the Universal Orlando event package is that both of the theme parks and all of the CityWalk venues — ranging from intimate VIP rooms to the 2,500-person Hard Rock Live theater — are available for rental and buy-outs.
After a day’s worth of meetings, your attendees can enjoy specially themed events inside the parks, ranging from a Marvel Superhero Island party to a New York street party at Universal’s studio theme park, where guests interact with live character entertainment while enjoying numerous dining choices and access to popular attractions and shows.
Indeed, the wide variety of options and high-quality service is what led Shawn Quish of Plano, Texas-based RX Worldwide Meetings Inc. to schedule a recent event there. “Our event at Universal was so much more than expected and our attendees are still talking about the evening,” he says. “The Universal team took care of all the details and pulled off one of the best events I have ever seen.”
For more information, visit
www.uomeetingsandevents.com.