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Latest + Greatest: Florida Keys & Key West

  • Coming in August to Key Largo, Playa Largo Resort & Spa, Autograph Collection will offer 155 rooms, including private bungalows, extensive beachfront watersports, a spa/salon and 40,000 square feet of meeting space with multiple indoor/outdoor venues.
  • Key Largo’s Ocean Reef Club recently unveiled a new meeting facility, Carysfort Hall, with a 5,700-square-foot ballroom, five meeting rooms, covered patios for outdoor functions and a state-of-the-art cooking school. It joins the resort’s 30,000 square feet of flexible meeting space.
  • The newly renovated Amara Cay Resort in Islamorada features 110 guest rooms, a private beach with a hammock and the intimate “Glass Bowl” meeting room that can accommodate 50 and has a boardroom for 14.
  • Following recent renovations of its 63 stylish rooms and suites, Pelican Cove Resort in Islamorada touts itself as the ideal corporate retreat, with teambuilding programs and a newly remodeled meeting room dubbed “The Nest,” with a flat-screen TV, Wi-Fi and conference-style seating for 12. Sliding glass doors open onto a beachside patio.
  • The recently opened Courtyard Marathon Florida Keys includes 95 guest rooms, an infinity pool with a spa pool and 14,000 square feet of versatile meeting and event space.
  • Centrally located in Key West’s Historic Seaport, the Marker Waterfront Resort added new indoor meeting space encompassing 1,400 square feet, with floor-to-ceiling views of the surrounding Old Town neighborhood.
  • Now part of Starwood’s Luxury Collection, Sunset Key Cottages, A Luxury Collection Resort boasts newly renovated two-bedroom cottages and the new afternoon “rum ration,” featuring locally distilled and custom-branded rum at the resort’s Latitudes bar. The island resort is seven minutes by launch from Key West.
  • Once hosting the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, Key West’s historic La Concha Hotel & Spa is celebrating its 90th anniversary throughout 2016 with a variety of events and guest experiences, including a series of culinary and cocktail happenings at Wine-O, the resort’s casual wine bar and lounge, whose menu now includes classic 1930s cocktails.
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Lisa Simundson