The Orlando World Center Marriott has opened a new event space, Magnolia. The expansion creates additional flexibility and more options for a variety of meetings, conventions and events.
“We are excited to add the Magnolia meeting rooms to our meeting space footprint, bringing us to over 500,000 square feet of flexible event space. This addition launches during a time when demand for meetings and conventions has returned,” said Robert Bray, GM at the hotel. “We listened to the needs of meeting planners to design this new space with one goal in mind: more flexibility.”
Magnolia has eight 3,600-square-foot meeting rooms that can be broken down to create 24 1,200-square-foot rooms.
The space also has:
- Floor-to-ceiling windows in six of the rooms
- 15-foot-high ceilings
- Foyer space with natural light
- Additional outdoor lawn space
- Additional outdoor patio space
With the new Magnolia space, the hotel now has up to 104 meeting rooms of various sizes, including five ballrooms with dedicated loading docks, registration desks and foyer spaces. These ballrooms range from 8,000 square feet to the 105,000 square-foot Cypress Ballroom. There are also seven boardrooms on property and various options for outdoor events.
The entire resort has undergone several renovations over the past three years. All 2,010 rooms and suites got new color palettes, hard-surface flooring and new furniture. Seventy-five percent of the rooms now have walk-in showers. One of the nine on-site dining options, Mikado’s Japanese Steakhouse, reopened following renovations in December 2021.