With 44 hotels and over 200,000 square feet of ballrooms, MetroWest Boston has all the traditional meeting space you need. It also has venues that make your conference something entirely more memorable, from museums and historic properties to zoos. These spaces offer meeting planners the ability to hold events in unique environments that spur original thinking, creative problem solving, strong team building, and more, creating a conference that is not only productive but unforgettable.
Equidistant from airports in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, as well as Providence’s airport in Rhode Island, MetroWest is a half hour from the big city but a fraction of the price, with a hotel average daily rate of $142 per night. With trains, buses, and airport shuttles available, getting to the region is easy as well.
From boardrooms to ballrooms, there is a wealth of traditional meeting space in the area:
- The newly renovated Renaissance Framingham Hotel & Conference Center offers 200 rooms and 25,000 square feet of event space, also connected to the 95-room TownePlace Suites by Marriott Framingham and the 75-room Fairfield Inn by Marriott Inn & Suites Framingham.
- The Verve Hotel Boston Natick, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, showcases unique decor highlighting American pop culture from the 1960s through ’90s, 17,000 square feet of event space spread among 12 meeting rooms, and 251 luxury guest rooms.
- The Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center in Marlborough offers 69,500 square feet of space, including 22,000 square feet of newly renovated meeting rooms and an additional 47,500 square feet of highly customizable space in the adjacent trade center—all with ample parking and 307 guest rooms.
- The Warren Conference Center and Inn is set on 100 acres in Ashland and includes over 11,000 square feet of state-of-the-art meeting space, plus outdoor tented areas and lawns, a lake, and woods for team-building activities, making for a truly memorable conference that will get attendees’ blood pumping.
- Additional conference hotels offer up to 13,000 square feet each.
The region has more to offer than traditional hotel meeting space. Consider a conference at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, with 26,000 square feet of space, including a hangar full of antique planes and a museum floor filled with artifacts. Or, host at The Wayside Inn in Sudbury, the oldest inn in America, with 12 meeting rooms and on-site catering. In Mendon, Southwick’s Zoo, the largest zoo in New England, offers unusual meeting and event spaces, as well as team-building activities and opportunities for animal encounters. Explore these and many other venues in MetroWest Boston by downloading the free Group & Event Planning Guide.
The MetroWest Boston Visitors Bureau happily serves as a resource, recommending hotels, group dining spots, or team-building activities; shopping requests for proposals; supplying visitors guides; and more—just ask!
