Meeting facts at the Biltmore Hotel Miami/Plan Your Meetings in our Classic Luxury Hotel
Locale – Meetings Hotel – Miami
- On 125 acres, in a quiet, tropical enclave of Coral Gables, in Miami. Located only 9 miles from the beach.
- Only a 12 minute drive from Miami International Airport, yet the flights are never heard at the hotel and seldom even seen.
- Transport is easily arranged with our town cars or through our on-property transport company.
Style of the Miami Meetings Hotel and Meeting Rooms
& Miami Conference Center
- Classic Florida “Grand Hotel” Mediterranean design - iconic and legendary - the Biltmore was built in 1926 as the gem of Miami and Coral Gables.
- Refined, finely restored historic grandeur with 110 million dollars invested in renovations to ensure our hotel has the latest in hospitality excellence, while keeping our classic touch.
- 76,000 sq. ft. of function space are available to accommodate extensive meeting programs and conferences in Miami yet with no sense of a “big box” or conference center.
- Small enough in look and feel for targeted group retreats.
Access our daily activities & programming
- Natural gathering areas for attendees to network and brainstorm as if at a full CMP IACC center.
- Exclusive, private and secure areas for important business meetings.
- Located in the tropics, 12 minutes away from Miami International Airport, yet secluded and focused.
- Creating successful business is the Biltmore Hotel's first priority, yet we carry plenty of activities and are located near luxury shopping destinations.
- No sense of South Beach - although we can provide transportation to shop, dine and enjoy Miami Beach.
Meeting Spaces at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami, Florida
Two Separate Spaces "Where the Americas Meet"
Self Contained with Exclusivity Available
Purpose built Miami’s Conference Center of the Americas within an iconic 1926 country club building with terraces, loggias and fountains that promote networking and informal discussions.
- Each meeting space is self-contained for secure meetings. Our terraces are surrounded by palms, gardens and fountains. These settings are perfect for team-building and programming.
- 2 fully wired auditoria
- 16 rooms, includes one classic ballroom – 6,500 sq. ft., 48’ ceiling, spills onto terraces with over 10,400 sq. ft. in space.
Within the main hotel structure
Able to be exclusive and private
Meeting room wing including ballroom
- 12 rooms including 2 classic ballrooms, 3700 sq. ft. each with 28 ft. ceilings, 3 terraces.
Guest rooms - at our Meetings in Miami Hotel
- 275 guest rooms - all with views of our tropical enclave: palms and reaches of the golf course or the allée of palms leading to the steepled Spanish style church and surrounding community of Coral Gables.
- 37 suites including two Presidential level suites – high in our steeple tower.
Meeting Spaces – Miami - “Where the Americas Meet”
Two separate facilities – allowing for two simultaneous, secure private conferences.
- 76,000 sq. ft. of indoor/outdoor space
- 26 Function rooms plus 1 Boardroom
- 3 Grand Ballrooms – with 25 ft. to 46 ft. ceilings
- 2 auditoria, completely wired (suitable for United Nations-style sessions). Previously IACC Certified - Miami Conference Center of the Americas. Seating is no longer to 2011 IACC standards.
Airport Access to Miami Meetings Hotel
- Miami International Airport – just five miles away. Only a 12 minute drive
- Ft. Lauderdale Airport – 25 miles, 35 to 60 minutes (rush hour).
Sales Team, Conference Services, Event Design and Banquet Services
Our sales team is headed by Joyce Gomez who has been with the hotel for eleven years. Her team of eleven has been with us for a collective thirty-four years.
We have our own Event Creation team for Meeting Planners; the team is headed by Bruce Barbaree.
Our concierge team consists of three experts; Ernesto Aragon, who is a member of Les Clefs d'Or and as been our head concierge for 17 years, as has our hotel general manager, Dennis Doucette.
We have 550 staff looking after 275 guestrooms, meeting space, four restaurants, and our activities.
Key Values to a Meeting Planner
- Privacy, exclusivity, a strong, consistent team to service.
- Focused tropical enclave where “Where the Americas Meet”, sense of peace combined with the space to breath, to expand.
- Personal care and a passionate culinary team.
- Unique – the antithesis of a modern box property. Historic preservation a core value.
Location Benefits at-a-Glance
- Private, focused atmosphere in Miami, yet only 12 minutes from airport.
- 25 minutes from the action of South Beach.
- A classic experience with up-to-date facilities and equipment
- 36 Suites – including two Presidential-plus level overlooking picturesque Coral Gables
Unique Features for Meetings in Miami
- One of a kind experience – none other in Miami; the sensibility is similar in character to other classic hotel experiences.
- Meeting and banquet spaces that are like mansion event sites rather than a “hotel” – all part of our National Historic Landmark design.
Cuisine – Food and Menus for Miami meetings
Chef Rolando is our Banquets Chef will accommodate tastes that range from modest to exuberant, from CMPs to stylish Latin Miami events.
CMPs are available, the unique is our standard, and unique is our Chefs’ and CS standard as well.
- Our culinary academy hosts interactives with food making/dining and team building with our own French master patissier, Chef Olivier, who will create desserts and pastries just for your group.
- Classic restaurant cuisine – northern Italian 4 Star and 5 Star French style -
#1 Zagat Rated in all of South Florida for service décor and food.
Activities & Programming for Miami Meetings & Retreats
- Cooking/culinary team building in dedicated Culinary Academy.
- Golf lessons and team building camps led by our Justin Bruton, who founded Total Performance Golf – nutrition, physical therapy, and body kinesthetics.
- Tennis and tennis Camps, round robins.
- Golfing - our classic Donald Ross 1926 course tropical golf, canals –completely renovated in 2007 | neighbor golf courses available, Riviera, Doral.
- Team Building Programs on site.
- Lagoon size pool (largest hotel pool in the continental US), water aerobics, surrounded by loggia and palms with birdsong, and parrot chatter.
- Fitness Center – personal training programs.
- Physical Therapists, rehab programming
- Yoga (beginning to advanced), Zumba, Meditation (available as a special program).
- Tango Classes
- Spa – a whole floor worth, corridors are fringed with water and bamboo
- Live Theater – stage is in our hotel, shows usually Wednesday through Sunday.
- Shopping on Coral Gables’ Miracle Mile of boutiques, full up-scale mall, Village of Merrick Park, nearby.
- National Historic Landmark tours – the design and restorations of our hotel.
- Horticultural Garden – Fairchild Botanic Gardens.
- South Beach – on the beach at our own beach spot.
- Everglades eco-excursions.
- Museum excursions – Miami has built a big reputation in the arts, helped along by the Art Basel extravaganza in December.
- Orchestras, concerts, and dance performances.
Event Design Specialist on Property
Bruce Barbaree has been an event planner and off premises caterer before joining us in 2007. He and his associate, Deborah,will design, craft, run and then stand-by for the unknown.
Audio/Visual Team
Our on-property team, provided by Southern Audio Visual, know everything about the Biltmore and everything about how to tackle the unforeseen. Southern AV is our dedicated partner and has been working with us for 5 years.
Destination Management and Transport Teams
At the hotel, we have our own DMC– our Event Design Team along with a dedicated transport company, Majestic, which has been with us for 17 years.
Restaurants – our Culinary Program Infuses your Meetings
Four restaurants, two casual – one around the pool, one overlooking golf, one four-star Northern Italian surrounding the 14 foot high courtyard fountain – like being on a piazza in Rome, except with palms and hibiscus fringing the columns and shielding the sun - with head Chef Betania who has risen through our kitchen to this role.
Sunday Brunch, if attendees care to stay over the weekend, is a renowned culinary extravaganza, reputed by many kind reviewers as the most resplendent in Miami.
Pre- and Post-Meeting Stays
Our Sales team will arrange your advantaged rate for pre and post stays so as to enrich your attendees travel to Florida and spouse arrivals.
Eco-environment
The Biltmore is a proud member of Florida's Green Lodging program for Florida Reuse and conserving practices.
Community Social Responsibility
Care and upkeep of this National Historic Monument along with our historic, carefully preserved Donald Ross Golf Course.
- We exist for the benefit and pleasure of Miami and Coral Gables residents and visitors as a heritage site for the community.
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