The Renaissance World Golf Village Resort and Convention Center In St. Augustine Captures Meetings & Conventions’ “Gold Tee Award” (United States)
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The Renaissance World Golf Village Resort and Convention Center In St. Augustine Captures Meetings & Conventions’ “Gold Tee Award” (United States)
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Category: North America & West Indies / Carribean islands - United States - Events -
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This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2011-06-23
The Renaissance World Golf Village Resort and Convention Center has captured Meetings & Conventions magazine’s prestigious “2011 Gold Tee Award,” which is given annually to the finest golf/meeting properties in the world, as selected by the magazine’s readers. This marks the seventh consecutive year that the resort has captured the award. Together with the adjacent World Golf Hall of Fame, the 301-room Northeast Florida resort is the largest combination hotel and convention center between Atlanta and Orlando, with 86,000 square feet of meeting and event space.
Winners of the highly-respected award were nominated and selected by the readers of the magazine, which consists of corporate, incentive and association meeting planners. Selections were based on overall staff attitude, quality of guest service, range of recreation facilities, quality of the guest rooms and meeting facilities, proficiency of handling reservations, and availability of technical/support equipment. All winning hotels and resorts will be highlighted in Meetings & Conventions’ special Golf supplement in its July 2011 issue.
Jeffrey Oliasami, general manager of The Renaissance World Golf Village Resort and Convention Center, said, “We are very pleased that our resort and exceptional staff are again recognized with this prestigious honor. It shows what an outstanding choice The Renaissance Resort is for meetings, incentive programs, and conventions. Not only does the resort have an array of wonderful recreational offerings to appeal to any group, but we have a beautifully-renovated resort, and are consistently recognized for providing first-class service too.”
This award follows two other prominent honors recently given to the resort: Successful Meetings magazine’s prestigious “Pinnacle Award,” and the highly coveted AAA Four-Diamond rating, The resort is the only Northeast Florida resort and convention center to receive the prestigious AAA Four Diamond rating. The honor is achieved by less than 4% of the AAA approved properties.
Located within the lush 6,300-acre World Golf Village, the resort completed a $10 million resort-wide renovation in 2008, which included the complete remodeling of guest rooms and suites, a dramatically-renovated lobby, newly-remodeled guest room corridors, an expanded fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment, enhanced meeting space, and the opening of 500 South Restaurant & Bar.
As part of the renovation guest rooms and suites received new furniture, soft goods, window treatments, lighting, 37” flat-panel screen LCD HDTV televisions, and the Marriott JackPack, which provides complete connectivity to the guests for laptops, MP3 players, digital cameras, and video game players. The rooms and suites feature a contemporary design with an Asian feel, which includes rich red bed coverings, crisp white linens, along with a color scheme of warm neutral gold. In-room offerings also include high-speed Internet access, two telephones with data ports, a wet bar and refrigerator, an in-room safe, and in-room coffee.
The resort also boasts a dramatically remodeled 10-story atrium lobby, featuring a Colonial/Asian theme with lush foliage and a colorful 7-story modern hanging sculpture that is reminiscent of open Florida skies.
Recreational offerings at the resort include two championship golf courses, the popular Slammer & Squire (just steps from The Renaissance Resort), and the renowned King & Bear (co-designed by Arnold “The King” Palmer and Jack “The Bear” Nicklaus). Guests also have access to four additional golf courses within 15 minutes of the resort, for a total of 108 holes of golf. Additional offerings at the resort include a sauna, pool, hot tub, and full-service concierge.
Guests also are an easy walk to The World Golf Hall of Fame’s 18-hole real grass putting course, a 132-yard Island Challenge Hole, an IMAX® 3D Theater, and the Walk of Champions. In addition, guests can take golf lessons at the renowned PGA TOUR Golf Academy.
When visiting the resort, guests and groups have the opportunity to visit nearby pristine Atlantic beaches, take fun eco-tours and chartered fishing trips, enjoy exceptional shopping at two large outlet malls, and explore historic St. Augustine.
To make it easy for its guests to enjoy area offerings, The Renaissance World Golf Village Resort is now offering a complimentary shuttle for individual guests (based on availability) to and from historic downtown St. Augustine. This new service enables guests to easily visit such sites in St. Augustine, which was founded in 1565, as the historic Castillo de San Marcos fortress, The Fountain of Youth, and the popular shopping on the charming, brick-paved St. George Street. Additional options in downtown St. Augustine include the Old Town Trolley Tour, The Old Jail, The St. Augustine History Museum, The Spanish Quarter, The Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, Carriage Rides, Whetstone’s Chocolate Factory, Lightner Museum, Flagler College, and a Scenic Cruise.
In addition, the resort’s White Glove Meeting Services include complimentary transportation to and from Jacksonville International Airport for new group business booked in 2011 and beyond. To qualify for the complimentary airport transportation a group is required to contract for a minimum of 50 rooms per night for 2 nights and 2 banquet meals daily.
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