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A Resort for Your Meetings Ocean City is an ideal venue for conventions and trade shows. Meeting and convention planners and those booking trade shows and group tours, all take advantage of Ocean City's beautiful fall and spring seasons along with year-round hotel/motel, restaurant and entertainment facilities, to book their groups in Ocean City at very attractive, discounted, realistic rates. And Ocean City is closer than you think. We're just 153 miles from Washington D.C., 225 miles from Richmond and 159 miles from Philadelphia. There's always something to do in Ocean City and we are prepared to keep your attendants happy with ample free parking, shuttle services, 10 championship golf courses, more than 150 restaurants with many featuring delicious fresh seafood, outlet shopping, 10 miles of clean, white-sand beaches, three miles of world-famous Boardwalk, amusements for all ages, live entertainment at any number of clubs and restaurants around town, water sports and a safe, secure family atmosphere. The town's 10,000 hotel/motel rooms provide a variety of comfortable, well-appointed, convention-quality rooms.
Throughout the year, Ocean City hosts an array of fishing tournaments, golf outings, eco-cruises, concerts and festivals the whole family will enjoy. Springfest celebrates the arrival of the summer with four fun-filled days of food, art and music in May; Arts Atlantica is a celebration of the arts in June. Ocean City's Fourth of July bursts with two celebrations; Sunfest shines in September with four days of delicious food, arts, crafts and music on the beach. Winterfest of Lights concludes the year more than 800,000 dazzling lights and nightly train rides through an animated Winter Wonderland.
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With Ocean City's invigorating salt air and sparkling ocean, conventions and trade shows that book their events in the Convention Center find themselves returning year after year.
Our venue offers a multi-purpose convention/meeting/conference/trade show facility with 68,000 square feet of exhibit space; 28,000 square feet of new and renovated breakout rooms; a beautiful 25,000-square-foot ballroom and 61,200 square feet pre-function space.
Incentive groups find Ocean City a first-class mecca of sports and entertainment. Board meetings, brainstorming committees and executive planning sessions are able to seclude themselves in executive rooms in the Convention Center or in executive suites in hotels with every amenity at hand. Government agencies save money when they meet in Ocean City with low room rates and restaurant specials that keep expense account tabs down. And parking is always free!
Rental fees for meetings and exhibits include the cost of labor for set-up, take-down, room rearranging and state-of-the-art audio and sound reinforcement, equipment and operators. Of course, constant daily custodial services are included. An added bonus for booking the Convention Center is its in-house decorating services complete with a variety of colors for pipe and drape, plus carpeting.
Maryland's only beach resort, Ocean City is now a year-round destination. Couple the Convention Center with 10,000 hotel rooms, 22,000 restaurant seats, a regional airport with connections through Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, and you begin to understand why so many groups keep coming back. Call now before the best dates at the Mid-Atlantic's best beach are gone.
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 The Ocean City Public Relations Office \ Local: 410-289-2800 \ 1-800-OC-OCEAN (1-800-626-2326) HOME / About OC / Recreation / Our Seasons / Our History / Facilities / Level One / Level Two / Information Request
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