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Hampton

Hampton Convention & Visitor Bureau | Hampton Roads Convention Center
Embassy Suites

The “City of Firsts”
The birthplace of the NASA space program, the nation’s first English-style Christmas and the first training ground for America’s astronauts. It’s no wonder Hampton is sometimes referred to as “The City of Firsts.” Hampton, located in the center of the Hampton Roads region, offers a dynamic waterfront with shores on the Chesapeake Bay, the Hampton River and the Hampton Roads harbor. The city offers unique historic attractions, art festivals and a variety of museums for visitors. Guests can see America’s largest stone fort at the Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe, tour the oldest African-American museum in the United States (the Hampton University museum), take a cruise of the harbor and bay on Miss Hampton II Harbor Cruises, and examine space and air exploration at the Virginia Air & Space Center.

The 344,000 square-foot Hampton Roads Convention Center opened last year and is among some of the city’s best shopping and entertainment locations. The center is adjacent to The Power Plant of Hampton Roads, a mixed-use retail and entertainment development anchored by Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World. The center’s in-store, interactive exhibits include a 19,000-gallon aquarium.

Hampton Convention & Visitor Bureau
1919 Commerce Drive
Suite 290
Hampton, VA 23666
(800) 487-8778
(757) 722-1222
Contact: Lacy Gibson, director of sales
sales@hamptoncvb.com

Convention Facility

Hampton Roads Convention Center (view PDF ad)
1610 Coliseum Drive
Hampton, VA 23666
(757) 315-1610
(866) 484-4722
www.thehrcc.com
Contact: Lacy Gibson, director of sales
sales@hamptoncvb.com

The 344,000-square-foot Hampton Roads Convention Center offers 160,000 square feet of high-tech meeting and exhibition space for conferences, meetings, and trade and consumer shows. The CAT 5e network cable and television distribution system, offering secure and fast connection, is installed throughout the convention center, along with telephone service and wireless Internet. Data ports are available in the center’s 35 meeting rooms and its exhibit hall.

The center’s 108,000-square-foot exhibit hall can divide into three sections, and the oversized freight-loading doors move exhibits in and out of the center easily. The 28,000-square-foot ballroom can seat 2,000 people in a banquet setting or be separated into seven halls. The center, which opened in 2005, can handle 14,000 people at a time.

Conference delegates can relax in the convention center’s Cyber Café, which offers free wireless Internet access, or take a break outside on the center’s terrace, which can also be used for an evening reception.

The Hampton Coliseum is adjacent to the convention center and features an open arena floor that can hold 11,000 people. The arena provides 26,263 square feet of meeting space, including banquet space for 2,000 and two exhibition areas.

Convention Hotel

Embassy Suites at Hampton Roads (view PDF ad)
Convention Center
1700 Coliseum Drive
Hampton, VA 23666
(757) 827-8200
www.embassysuites.com
Contact: Becky Vealey, director of sales and marketing
becky.vealey@JQH.com

The perfect partner to the Hampton Roads Convention Center, conference attendees can use a covered walkway to travel from the convention center to the deluxe new Embassy Suites. The hotel offers 295 spacious, two-room suites designed with comfort for the conference-goer in mind. The rooms offer high-speed Internet access, two dual-line phones, voicemail, data ports, two televisions, a wet bar, microwave and refrigerator. The hotel’s 10-story atrium creates an elegant atmosphere.

Guests can enjoy casual dining at lunch and dinner, a complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast, a nightly manager’s reception and coffee and espresso at Caffeina’s Marketplace. The hotel also includes a full-service Spa Botanica day spa, where guests can ease their minds and bodies with soothing massages, body wraps, facials, manicures and pedicures. Guests also can use a fitness center, indoor pool and whirlpool.

Although designed to support meeting conference delegates at the convention center, the hotel also offers some meeting space, including four meeting rooms totaling 3,500 square feet. Its largest room can hold 150 for a banquet, and the hotel’s on-site business center offers audiovisual equipment for rent and copying, printing and faxing services.

Room Report

There are 3,000 rooms around Hampton, including 2,500 close to the Hampton Roads Convention Center.

Airports

Hampton is 30 minutes from both Norfolk International Airport and the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport.

Attractions

The American Theatre
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
The Casemate Museum at Fort Monroe
Cousteau Society
Hampton University Museum
Hampton History Museum
St. John’s Church
Virginia Air & Space Center and Riverside IMAX Theater

Shopping

Power Plant of Hampton Roads
Queens Way District
Phoebus Area
Coliseum Central
Coliseum Mall

Golf Courses

The Hamptons
(757) 766-9148

The Woodlands
(757) 727-1195