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.