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What is
Opal Hotel Collection?
The hotels and resorts included for your review are . . .
not cookie cutter, not slab hotels in parking lots.
They are all independently owned.
They are idiosyncratic
and have the qualities of joy, of welcome.
Our team at Opal Hotel Collection is intimately familiar with the hotels.
We have stayed and do stay at these hotels.
We chose them.
We stay at them.
We talk with them.
And who are we?
We are a group of mature, dedicated travel professionals.
Our small collection has fine management who value training and taking care of their staff. Hence, their teams are dedicated.
Our Community Involvement
5% of Opal Hotel Collection’s revenue is donated to panetière partners - our own charity that is dedicated to improving the lives of disenfranchised children in India through empowerment & education, combined with an awareness and engagement campaign for American youth to encourage them to be cross culturally aware and create volunteers of the future.
:: see our values in action with volunteers for India www.panetierepartners.org
Our Hotels and Resorts
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Urban | Mountains | Lakeside |
Seascape - Beach | High Desert
Urban
New York City Hotels
New York East Side Hotel - Luxury - 4 Stars, near Park Ave, Near the Waldorf Astoria
The Benjamin Hotel - Lexington and 50th
Refined, polished, under-stated luxury boutique meetings hotel without the implications of a luxury brand name.
Useful for:
Residential feel at 50th and Lexington Ave.
Non-showy, low-key, refined.
One block from Lexington Ave Line Subway stop. Families needing lots of space and central East Side location, even kitchens.
Business travelers wanting lots of space and residential feel.
Event and Party Spaces for New York East Side:
2000 sq ft > 3 spaces or 7 with airwalls| one with 1200 sf can be split into 4 - with natural light - airy with mezzanine moon windows | 1 boardroom with 276 sf| PLUS large mezzanine lobby adjacent - isolated and private with 576 sf - with natural light moon windows.
110 ppl max
New York Murray Hill Hotel - Luxury Boutique - 3.5 Stars
Affinia Shelburne - Lexington and 38th - sleek modern | 2009 renovated 1920’s apartment building - sense of living in NYC
Useful for:
Residential feel in Murray Hill. Families needing looking for luxury at a reasonable cost with an East Side location, even galley kitchens.
Business travelers wanting residential feel. Travelers on a budget but with an expectation of high style and large rooms (for New York, at least).
Event and Party Spaces for Murray Hill New York:
1,950 sq ft total | space one is 1275 sq ft | space two is 675 | plus another 900 sq ft rooftop event space with garden - views of Chrysler Building - rumor has it that Fred Astaire had a miniature golf course here.
60 ppl max
New York West Side Hotel - Madison Sq. Garden & Penn Station Hotel - 3 Stars
Affinia Manhattan - 7th Ave - directly opposite Penn Station and Madison Sq. Garden
Affordable, prime location
Useful for:
Super large rooms and suites with full kitchens
Long Term Stay for Business and Families.
Cost effective.
Travelers using Penn Station - right opposite.
Travelers using Madison Sq Garden - right opposite.
Event and Party Spaces for New York West Side:
9,000 total sq ft | 3,154 sq ft ballroom with small pre function but adjacent section of large lobby is able to be isolated for group | 8 smaller rooms on mezzanine and another floor.
300 ppl max
Chicago Meetings Hotel
Chicago Hotel - Luxury Boutique - 4 Stars
The James Chicago - with sleek, modern flare | uncluttered simplicity | residential feel | ideal central location | “World’s Best Hotel 2009” by Travel + Leisure
Useful for:
Easy to get to all downtown.
Leisure travelers wanting sleek flare and central location, boutique luxury. Business travelers looking for the same , yet without the negative connotations of a luxury brand name.
Event and Party Spaces for Chicago:
7,000 sq ft total > 5 to 7 spaces depending on air wall use | 2,650 sq ft ballroom with 14 ft ceiling | then from 1200 sq ft to 450 sq ft |
220 pp max
Houston Meetings Hotel
Houston Hotel - Boutique Luxury with 1920's sensibility - 4 Stars
Hotel ICON - downtown Houston | 1911 Historic Landmark reborn as The ICON in 2004
Useful for:
Easy to get to all downtown. Travelers who desire an historic, boutique experience Business travelers looking for the same , yet without the negative connotations of a luxury brand name.
Event and Party Spaces for Houston:
Total of 5 - 8,000 SF | 4 Meeting Rms | 1 Ball Rm 2,363 SF - all unique and private
90 ppl max in ballroom - best size group 50 ppl
Austin Meetings Hotel
Austin Hotel - Luxury Historic Hotel in Austin - Living History - 4 Stars plus
The Driskill - heart of the city| 1886 Historic Landmark with classic renovation 2005
Useful for:
Travelers who desire the most historic hotel experience of all Texas.
Easy to get to all downtown, the capitol buildings.
A hotel for all "politicos ", where the state government sits down to chat.
A place too be "seen".
Event and Party Spaces for Austin:
total of 12 - 18,080 SF | Boardroom | 9 Meeting Rms - 364 to 1500 SF | 2 Ball Rms 2,500 & 1,875 SF | all Victorian historic in character
340 ppl max
Mountains
Jackson Hole Hotel - Resort - WY
Teton Village Jackson Hole Resort Snake River Lodge and Spa, a RockResort - overlooks horse meadows at base of ski hill - views across the valley
Useful for:
Access to all the outdoor activities of the Grand Tetons.
Park is 3.5 miles away.
Downhill skiing is right there, a 500 yard walk to the tramway. The summer classical concerts are a 500 yard walk.
Horseback riding is in the meadow at the front of the hotel.
Boutique Luxury - a cross of Austrian lodge with a western mountain lodge - all without the negative connotations of "luxury brand".
Event and Party Spaces for Jackson Hole - Teton Village:
3 plus prefunction area > 5,500 sq feet total | ballroom - 2,350 square feet | natural light
100 ppl max
Grand Tetons National Park Hotel - Lodge
Jackson Lake Lodge - all about the mountains & the wildlife with hotel rooms and cottages |
the elk out-number the people | grizzlies, wolves, moose are visible from lodge.
Useful for:
Access to all the outdoor activities of the Grand Tetons.
The traveler is living the park. Modest, finely maintained 1950's cottage lay-out with soaring grand lodge in 1950's international modern as conceived by the Rockefeller family to focus on the wild world.
Party and Event Spaces - National Park, Jackson Hole:
17,000 sq feet | 17 breakouts; Ballroom; 4,380 square ft | terraces | outdoor BBQ on river | buy-outs for high security meetings - beginning & end of season
350 ppl max
Lakeside
Seascape - Beach
Caribbean - Puerto Rico Resort Beachfront
Aguadilla Puerto Rico Resort Hotel - direct access from US mainland
Villa Montana Beach Resort - on 3 miles of deserted beach with jungle | 15 mins from USA direct flights | Aguadilla is the airport & town
Useful for:
Sense of the "laid-back" Caribbean of 50 years ago - isolation. Deserted beaches for miles.
19 activities from the terrace
Family feeling and family freedom on 35 acres.
Relaxation and activities.
Real "down-time".
Destination Weddings on the Caribbean beachfront.
Serious surfing and scuba.
Party and Event Spaces for Puerto Rico:
1500 sq feet with lots of added possibilities >break-outs and conferences in villa living rooms, additional tenting is easily done on 35 acres of gardens: 2 actual spaces available > the 2 restaurants
50 ppl max
South Carolina - Beach
Meetings Resort Next to Charleston, South Carolina Meetings Hotel - Resort at Isle of Palms
Wild Dunes - a village on the beach| beachfront resort village set within 1600 acres | golf courses
Useful for:
Beach action with plenty of peace and quiet.
Strong golf program.
Sense of a family enclave.
Easy to get to - just outside Charleston.
Party and Event Spaces - South Carolina Beach:
10,000 SF Pavilion > breaks into 15 spaces + prefunction | 5,400 SF Outdoor Tented Pavilion | 2000 SF Boardwalk Inn > 4 spaces | largest Ballroom 5800 SF | warm mahogany furniture, terraces & conversation vignettes
185 ppl max
High Desert & Mountains
Santa Fe - heart of the town
Santa Fe Hotel - Luxury Boutique in Heart of Town
La Posada, a Rock Resort -southwest adobe architecture - typical Santa Fe, abundant
art - painting, sculpture
Useful for:
Boutique "Spanish" Luxury - adobe in the heart of Santa Fe
Action - from mountain biking, rafting , mountain climbing to skiing.
Art and history - 7 living native pueblos, 2 historic Anasazi pueblos, and the world to paint and sculpt. Arts to watch and partake of: galleries forever and all through the surrounding mountains, lessons, seminars, concerts and the Santa Fe Opera. Gourmet Cuisine: so, so, so many superior restaurants with a rich cuisine to plow.
Party and Event Spaces for Santa Fe:
total: 4,500 SF Conference Center | 2,950 Outdoor Event
space | Ball Room 2,048 SF
85 ppl max
Santa Fe - Family Getaway - Retreat for Santa Fe
Rancho Jacona | an Oasis in Adobe | adobe 1700's farmhouse and small houses -“casitas” on 35 acres of a Spanish land grant farm | with local art & sculpture | suitable for casual buy-out | no F&B on premises | superior family experience and enrichment | goats, donkeys, geese, chickens, peacocks
Useful for:
Complete escape in self- catering cottages - "casitas" that are all adobe.
Family getaways with farm-yard animals, "oasis" environment on 35 acres.
Retreats for artists, writers, educational groups.
Event and Party Spaces:
Variously sized living rooms through the houses and the great room of the original rancho - suitable for 40 with all furnishing and art in place | tenting can be done in and around the gardens
30 ppl max
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