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Omni Opens New Nashville Hotel
Combine brand new meeting space and traditional Southern themes
The 800-room Omni Nashville Hotel opens
on September 30 between the new 2.1-millionsf Music City Center convention facility and
the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum.
“Groups are able to walk right from our
lobby into the museum,” says Tod Roadarmel,
director of sales/marketing. On the second
level, where the 25,000-sf Broadway Ballroom
and 15,000-sf Legends Ballroom are located,
attendees can walk from meetings directly
into the museum’s 800-seat theater. From the
hotel’s rooftop pool, groups directly access the
museum’s 5,400-sf outdoor rooftop terrace.
The new Omni hotel includes 54 suites, a
signature Mokara Spa and live entertainment
venue. There’s also extensive retail featuring
Tennessee companies such as Bongo Java
coffee, Bang Candy Company, Colonel Littleton
fine leathers, and organic chocolates from Olive
& Sinclair Chocolate Company.
Country music and other Southern themes
play a heavy role in the hotel’s decor. About 4,000 pieces of
local Tennessee art will adorn the public areas, including over
80,000 sf of meeting and event space. Planners will be able to
organize art tours with an onsite art curator.
Groups can also participate in Southern cooking classes
at Kitchen Notes restaurant. Don’t miss tasting oven-fresh
biscuits served every 15 minutes on Kitchen Notes’ exhibit
cooking bar.
For fine-dining events, Bob’s Steak & Chophouse is a
nationally renowned steak house specializing in the finest cornfed, Midwestern prime beef.
Theme parties include a Taste of Nashville featuring
Nashville sushi made with grits or Tennessee bass. Or, there’s
Moonshine Parties serving classic moonshine in mason jars,
apple pie and cotton candy moonshine.
“We tell people to dress their best Southern,” says
Roadarmel. “It’s fun to see what that means to them, from
large hats to cowboy boots to a piece of straw hanging from
someone’s mouth.”
And this sounds fun. A Singer-Songwriter event divides
attendees into teams up to 20 and pairs them with a pro
Nashville songwriter. Each subgroup creates a song and then
performs it before the entire group.
“That is our best unique-to-Nashville program, especially
when starring Brett James,” says Roadarmel. James introduces
himself with a story about a night that was so stormy he had
to pull off the side of the road with his 3-year-old daughter. He
eventually wrote a song about that night.
“Then he starts singing Jesus, Take The Wheel, made
famous by Carrie Underwood,” says Roadarmel. “There’s not a
dry eye in the house.”
With just under 60 hotels under one owner, Roadarmel
says planners can expect great value and consistency. Omni
Hotels offers planners multi-year deals as an incentive, whether
they’re staying at one hotel or rotating among the group.
Roadarmel explains, “Most of our hotels are 4-star and
4-diamond, so groups always receive the personalized luxury
service and accommodations that they expect.”
Two blocks from Omni Nashville, the 2,362-seat Ryman
Auditorium hosted the Grand Ole Opry for 31 years until 1974.
It’s open for tours and private rental. Also popular with groups,
Broadway Street is home to over 20 honkytonks offering
outstanding country music and a casual, fun environment for
unwinding after the meetings are over.—Karen Kuzsel
omnihotels.com; visitmusiccity.com
“We tell people to dress their best Southern.”
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Prevue September-October 2013
Planner's Pick: Orlando
Fresh Meets: Omni Nashville
Bureau Buzz: Puerto Rico
Good Business: Prevue Visionary Awards
Sea Shores: Crystal Cruises
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Special Section: The West USA
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