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Meeting and Conference Destinations:
Newport News

Unforgettable Meetings
In addition to the city’s four conference hotels, Newport News offers meeting facilities through its museums and golf courses. The Virginia Living Museum recently underwent a 62,000-square-foot expansion, offering a serene, interesting and unique setting for a meeting. A new Hilton Garden Inn opened this year, as well as many new restaurants. Just minutes from the historical triangle of Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, Newport News is only a short drive to Virginia Beach.

Newport News Tourism Development Office
Fountain Plaza Two
700 Town Center Drive, Suite 320
Newport News, VA 23606
757-926-1440
www.newport-news.org
Contact: Judy Hare Winslow, group marketing manager
jhare@nngov.com

ROOM REPORT
Approximately 3,122 hotel rooms are available in Newport News between its four convention hotels, 28 budget and extended-stay hotels. Room rates range from $59 to $189 per night.

AIRPORTS
Newport News / Williamsburg International Airport
Newport News / Williamsburg International Airport provides direct flights to Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, New York (LaGuardia), Orlando and Philadelphia, with connecting flights to all major U.S. cities. Major carriers include Air Tran Airways, US Airways and US Airways Express.

Norfolk International Airport
Norfolk International Airport is served by 18 airlines and handles more than 200 daily flights.

ATTRACTIONS
Endview Plantation
Built in 1769, the Georgian plantation home at Endview was used by soldiers during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

Lee Hall Mansion
Confederate forces used this home as their headquarters during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. The mansion includes Civil War-era furnishings and an exhibit highlighting the Peninsula Campaign.

The Mariners’ Museum
One of the largest international maritime museums in the world, the impressive collection of more than 35,000 items includes ship models, figureheads, decorative arts, scrimshaw, working steam engines, maritime paintings and other maritime artifacts. Many items from the wreck of the USS Monitor are also displayed.

The Newsome House Museum & Cultural Center
This restored 1899 Victorian landmark was the home of prominent civil rights lawyer J. Thomas Newsome.

Newport News Park

Peninsula Fine Arts Center

SPCA Petting Zoo

U.S. Army Transportation Museum
A display of nearly all modes of military transportation are featured at this museum located at Fort Eustis.

Virginia Living Museum
A delightful family attraction, animals native to Virginia swim, slither, roam and fly in natural habitats. A new exhibit building is slated to open in the Spring of 2004.

Virginia War Museum
This museum focuses on U.S. military history from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf War.

PUBLIC GOLF COURSES
Newport News Golf Club
757-886-7925

Kiln Creek Golf and Country Club
757-988-3220

SHOPPING
Historic Hilton Village
Museum Shops
Patrick Henry Mall
Port Warwick