TWA Hotel offers event spaces
Looking for a retro, aviationthemed spot for your next big event? New York’s TWA Hotel is accepting bookings for its 50,000 square feet of event space and outdoor terraces ahead of its spring 2019 opening.
Options will include the “Starstream” and “Flight Center” ballrooms as well as a promised “one-of-a-kind event space” to be unveiled this fall.
Officials say the event spaces can accommodate anything from conferences to wedding and bar mitzvahs.
Anchored around the landmark TWA Flight Center that opened in 1962, the 512-room facility will be the only hotel on the grounds of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The airport property features two new six-story towers that flank the old TWA terminal’s “head house,” an architectural masterpiece designed by Eero Saarinen. The terminal is being converted into a 200,000-square-foot lobby the hotel claims will be the world’s largest.
The TWA Hotel will include six restaurants and eight bars. One cocktail bar will be housed in a refurbished Lockheed “Constellation” aircraft that was a staple of the TWA fleet in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A rooftop pool will afford views of the airfield.
The TWA Hotel says it expects rooms will be available for booking in December.