With 44 hotels and over 200,000 square feet of meeting space—including a trade center and several large conference hotels—MetroWest Boston has all the traditional meeting room you could need. But it also has venues that can make your conference something entirely more memorable, from museums to historic properties to amusement parks. These spaces offer meeting planners the ability to hold events in a unique environment that spurs original thinking, creative problem solving, strong team building, and more, creating a conference that is not only productive, but unforgettable.
MetroWest Boston is equidistant from the major airports in Boston; Worcester, Massachusetts; and Providence, Rhode Island. The region is just a half hour from Boston but offers venues for a fraction of the price, with a hotel average daily rate of just $142 per night (with free parking), making this region an affordable location for meetings, conferences, and conventions. With a variety of transportation options, including trains, buses, and airport shuttles, getting to the region is easy as well.
From boardrooms to ballrooms, there is a wealth of traditional meeting space in the area. The Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center offers 67,500 square feet of space, including 22 meeting rooms within the hotel and an additional 47,500 square feet of highly customizable space in the adjacent trade center. With ample parking and 307 guest rooms, this property—currently being renovated—has a lot to offer.
The Framingham Collection is finishing its transformation into a Marriott tri-brand destination, offering a 200-room full-service hotel, a 95-room TownePlace Suites, and a 75-room Fairfield Inn, all connected to 25,000 square feet of event space with 23 flexible breakout rooms.
The Verve Hotel Boston Natick, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, offers not only unique decor highlighting American pop culture from the 1960s to ’90s, but also 12 meeting rooms with 17,000 square feet of space and 251 luxury guest rooms.
Warren Conference Center and Inn is set on 100 lakeside acres and includes over 11,000 square feet of state-of-the-art meeting space. In season, it also provides outdoor tented areas, lawns for games, team-building activities on the lake, and ropes courses in the woods, making for a truly memorable conference that will get attendees’ blood pumping.
Additional conference hotels offer 7,500 to 13,000 square feet of event space each. But the region has a lot more to offer than just traditional hotel meeting space. Consider staying in MetroWest Boston and holding your conference at the American Heritage Museum, with 26,000 square feet of event space including a hangar full of antique planes; museum floor surrounded by one-of-a-kind tanks, planes, and cars; and beautiful outdoor space. Host at The Wayside Inn, one of the oldest inns in America, with 12 meeting rooms and on-site catering, or perhaps at Hopkinton Center for the Arts, with over 6,000 square feet of theater and gallery space plus a beautiful outdoor amphitheater. Interested in communing with the animals at Southwick’s Zoo? The largest zoo in New England has a wide variety of meetings-and-events spaces, as well as team-building activities and animal encounters. Explore these and many other venues for your meeting in MetroWest Boston by downloading the free “Group & Event Planning Guide” from metrowestvisitors.org/meet.
The MetroWest Boston Visitors Bureau happily serves as a resource to meeting and convention planners. Its team can recommend hotels, group dining, or team-building activities; shop requests for proposals to contacts; supply free visitors guides to your attendees; and more. Just ask!
MetroWest Boston Visitors Bureau
508-434-4433
metrowestvisitors.org/meet
Stacey David, Executive Director
sdavid@metrowestvisitors.org
