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Marriott's Orlando World Center 
Location Orlando, Florida Coordinates Coordinates: 28°21′39″N 81°30′34″W / 28.36083°N 81.50944°W Opening date May 15, 1986 Owner Marriott Rooms 1503 Suites 101 Restaurants 11 Total floor area 1.3 million ft² Floors 27 Website Orlando Marriott World Center The Marriott's Orlando World Center Resort is a hotel and convention center near Orlando, Florida. The resort, which is close by to Walt Disney World, is located off of World Center Drive, which was renamed from International Drive to the resort's namesake after the southern extension of I-Drive was built.
Resort property
Marriott's Orlando World Center opened on March 24, 1986, which at the time was the largest hotel in Florida, and is now the largest Marriott in the World.[1] The 2,004-room, 28-story building contains a nine-story lobby atrium, 38,000-square-foot (3,500 m2)and also has the largest pillar free ballroom in the world featuring 450 square feet (42 m2) of meeting space}, six swimming pools (the main lagoon pool is the largest and best rated in all of Orlando), and 10 restaurants and lounges.[2] The 200-acre (0.81 km2) resort property is also home to the 18-hole Hawk's Landing Golf Course, and the Marriott Vacation Club resorts of Marriott's Sabal Palms, Marriott's Royal Palms and Marriott's Imperial Palm Villas.
In 2002, the hotel completed building a brand new 500 room tower which made the hotel the World's Largest Marriott.
In 2007, The hotel 105 extra square feet of meeting space called the Cypress Ballroom which now connects with the Convention Center.
In 2008, the resort was awarded Green Lodging certification by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.[3]
As of March 2011, Of the hotel's 2,000 rooms, all were upgraded (beginning in 2009 and ending in early 2011) with new carpets, furniture and flat-screen TVs. The new rooms are bright and spotless and are true luxury.
In the Nickelodeon show Get the Picture, winning contestants could win trips to the Orlando Marriott World Center. Photos of the resort circa 1991-1993 can be seen on the show.
References
- ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-4242732.html
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ePILAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qlkDAAAAIBAJ&dq=orlando%20marriott%20world%20center&pg=5437%2C607263
- ^ http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1405763/environmentallyfriendly_orlando_world_center_marriott_resort__convention_center_receives/
External links
Categories:- Hotels in Orlando, Florida
- Convention centers in Florida
- Resorts in Florida
- Marriott International
- Skyscrapers in Florida
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