BETHESDA, Maryland — The long-awaited Palmetto Marriott Resort and Spa in Palmetto, Florida, is set to open this month. Officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new hotel in late May, and though the opening date was pushed back from mid-June, the hotel is now accepting reservations for stays beginning July 16.
The eight-story hotel has 252 guest rooms and will connect via walkway to the Bradenton Area Convention Center, which is undergoing a $48 million renovation and expansion. Community leaders have long worked to bring a hotel to the convention center.
“We will do our job to bring first-time visitors, first-time corporate visitors to this beautiful urban core,” Elliott Falcione, executive director of the Bradenton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, said during the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “It will feed the urban core so it can continue to develop.”
The resort has eight event rooms and more than 8,850 square feet of event space. The largest venue is the 7,330-square-foot West Coast Ballroom that can be separated into five smaller rooms. For outdoor events, groups can use The Yard, an expansive event lawn and amphitheater in front of the hotel.
Convention center renovations include plans for an additional 14,000 square feet of ballroom space that can be divided into two smaller rooms, as well as two additional outdoor event spaces. When that renovation project wraps up next year, the convention center and hotel will offer a combined 140,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting and event space.
The Palmetto Marriott also boasts multiple food and beverage options, including The Social, a full-service restaurant serving American fare; Revive, a health-and-wellness-inspired option for lunch and dinner; and Oyster River, a rooftop, reservation-only restaurant dishing up “everything Florida fresh with a Mediterranean twist” along with views of the Manatee River. The resort also offers the Revive Pool, Revive Spa, and Revive Fitness Center.
The hotel overlooks the Manatee River, and although the resort is not beachfront, it will have a beach club. The $3 million beach club sits just behind the hotel, and includes a 5,000-square-foot pool surrounded by sand, as well as a beach volleyball court, six pickleball courts, a 9-hole golf course and waterfront area with cabanas and loungers.
For more information or to make a reservation, visit marriott.com.
