SANTA FE, N.M.
The AAA Four-Diamond Eldorado Hotel & Spa, located in the heart of Santa Fe, N.M., will be undergoing extensive updates including the addition of a wedding chapel, a new 7,000-square-foot, indoor ballroom and new lobby bar. The project will also include a refreshed room design and new artwork in the hotel's 219 guest rooms and suites.
Heritage Hotels & Resorts acquired the historic Eldorado Hotel in May 2014, making it the eighth hotel in the company's portfolio of New Mexico properties.
The hotel's new wedding chapel will feature a 13-foot-tall, hand-carved altar that will be gilded in gold leaf with Spanish colonial design influences. Additionally, upon entering the lobby of the Eldorado, a rustic, Spanish ox cart and a simple, sabino wood bench signifying the arrival of the Spanish, will be contrasted with two six foot, gilded gold floor candelabras that will welcome guests into the Eldorado.
The renovation plan is currently underway and slated for completion in the spring of 2015. The architect on the project is Wayne S. Lloyd of Lloyd & Associates Architects in Santa Fe, the original architect of The Eldorado Hotel & Spa.
Currently offering a total of 22,000 square feet of meeting and event space, the Eldorado's existing outdoor Pavilion will be transformed into a fully enclosed 7,000-square-foot ballroom with 18-foot ceilings. The new Eldorado Grand Ballroom, appropriately named after the historical legend, will be adorned in regionally influenced shades of desert browns and greys with elements of gold, and will be divisible into two separate meeting rooms by sound proof air walls. The Eldorado Grand Ballroom will also feature beamed and coffered ceilings, large, multi-paned doors, traditional wainscoting and custom lighting fixtures. Additionally, it will feature a high-tech LED lighting system in the ceiling. The Eldorado Grand Ballroom will be able to host 900 guests reception-style and 550 banquet style.
