Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando Celebrates Award-Winning Year
Leading to Fifteenth Anniversary In 2006
ORLANDO, FL, November 29, 2005. Rosen Plaza Hotel, located in the heart of the International Drive resort area and ideally situated next to the Orange County Convention Center, ends the year enjoying industry accolades and looking forward to a fifteenth anniversary celebration in 2006.
Rosen Plaza captured numerous prestigious industry awards this past year including Meetings & Conventions magazine's Gold Key Award, Successful Meetings magazine's Pinnacle Award, Meeting News' Planner's Choice Award, Corporate & Incentive Travel's Award of Excellence and Association Meetings' Inner Circle Award and Convention South's Reader's Choice Award.
"It's wonderful to end the year knowing you've received these wonderful accolades, especially since these awards are based on support from our peers who have been so important to our longevity and success over the past 14 years," said Victoria Hall, the hotel's Director of Sales and Marketing. "As we enter our fifteenth anniversary year, we're just as proud today as the first year we won each of these awards. We're grateful for our long-term clients, as well as the new relationships we've developed, and look forward to continuing to provide award-winning service for many more years to come."
Rosen Plaza was nominated and selected for these numerous awards based on the hotel's superior service, meeting facilities, hotel offerings and the quality of its food and beverage.
The multi award-winning Rosen Plaza Hotel, ideally located across from the Pointe Orlando shopping and dining complex, features 800 deluxe guest rooms. In addition, it offers 60,000 square feet of flexible meeting space that includes a 26,000 square-foot Grand Ballroom and 22 individual meeting rooms. Rosen Plaza features an innovative off-site airport check-in service that it is offering called BAGS Inc. (Baggage Airline Guest Services). Approved by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, BAGS allows guests to obtain their boarding passes and check bags at the hotel for a small fee. Bags are scanned by TSA representatives, and then transferred to a secure vehicle and routed to the airport.
Four on-site restaurants include Jack's Place with casual fine dining. Caf'e Matisse offers buffets as well as full breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. Rossini's Pizza serves fresh pizza and Italian specialties to go. The Lite Bite is open 24 hours a day and serves deli sandwiches and snacks.
Rosen Plaza guests receive preferred tee times at Shingle Creek Golf Club, recently named one of the "Top 40 New Courses" by Golfweek magazine. The par 72, David Harman-designed championship course is just minutes from the hotel and lies along historic Shingle Creek - headwaters of the Florida Everglades. Rosen Plaza guests receive complimentary transportation to the golf club, can host tournaments on the course, and can arrange corporate group programs with The Brad Brewer Golf Academy.