Runway Stars - Airport hotels are taking off in new directions
The Sheraton BWI and Westin BWI, sister Starwood properties under LTD Management near Baltimore-Washington International Airport, both opened last year with extensive meetings amenities.
Sheraton BWI has 203 guest rooms, a full-service restaurant and lounge, and 4,600 square feet of function space, including an executive boardroom. The Westin BWI has 260 rooms, a full-service restaurant and lounge, and 7,300 square feet of function space, including an executive boardroom and an outdoor area with garden and water features.
“We collaborate a lot on group business,” says Heinz Woschitz, general manager of Sheraton BWI, “because we are across from each other. Our combined meeting space amounts to 14,000 square feet.”
Both properties are participating in a Starwood incentive for meetings that are booked by the end of December and occur during 2009.
“Planners get 3 percent off master bill charges and this includes room rates, F&B and the meeting space. We also have a Starpoints singing bonus for up to 100,000 bonus points based on the buy,” Woschitz says.
Both hotels are located about two miles from the airport, with complimentary airport shuttle service. For drivers, they offer easy access from both Baltimore and Washington, D.C., via interstates I-95 and I-295. An array of popular attractions is in all directions, including Baltimore’s famed Inner Harbor, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Annapolis and Arundel Mills Mall.
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