Is your group exploring the top convention and conference venues in Massachusetts for your upcoming gathering and event? Consider Stonehill College Conference & Event Services! This stately campus, set amidst the sylvan splendor of Easton, Massachusetts, is both elegant and convenient. A mere 22 minutes to Boston, 30 minutes from Cape Cod and Providence, RI, and just 25 minutes from Logan International, few conference facility locations combine so much of the wealth of the region in one picturesque place. You’ll find beaches, golf courses, points of historical and cultural interest, fine cuisine, and several wonderful shopping opportunities, all within a short distance of the campus itself.

The banquet and conference space is available throughout the year, while overnight on-campus lodgings are only available during the summer months. Local hotels are available the rest of the year. The conference and event services department at Stonehill can welcome as many as 1200 guests in any of a dozen meeting and event rooms. Up to 340 can be seated theatre-style, while the largest classroom seats 84.

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Food and beverage services include catering professionals and chefs who are happy to create a menu that serves your budget and needs. You and your guests can enjoy anything from basic coffee service and snacks to sit-down fine dining. The goal at Stonehill is to expand your options, to provide everything necessary for a successful and memorable event.

The technologies available at Stonehill are impressive. Computer labs, WiFi throughout the campus, and a vast array of AV equipment all conspire towards your success as well! They even have video taping services. They can provide you and your guests and affiliates with a DVD copy of the events. Streaming media is also available.

When looking for an event venue for a gathering of any kind, the details are the first thing to look for. In short, Stonehill holds all the pieces, the keys to the success. Contact their Conference Center now, tell them about your needs, and let them design a package that’s just right for you and your guests, at this extraordinary and unique venue.

Is your group considering top university conference centers on the East Coast for your next event? When it comes to academia in the States, the Ivy League is the cream of the crop, and Yale’s soaring Gothic and Georgian architecture does much to lend it a premier place on that august list. What could possibly be more impressive than hosting a conference, meeting or other non-profit educational program than to host the event at the venerable Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut?

Located just 40 miles from Hartford, 60 miles from New York and 140 miles from Boston, the campus is very convenient for local and fly-in guests alike. The Bradley International Airport in Hartford makes the Yale Campus easily accessible to the entire world.

Needless to say, this Ivy League school affords state-of-the-art technology. You’ll find advanced AV facilities in meeting rooms, computer lab space within the residence halls, both internet and phones (with voicemail) for lodging guests, as well as high-tech security throughout the event facilities and campus. Lecture halls, theatre-style seating, and movable seating rooms, each with its own unique layout and styling, make it easy to find the right feel and mood for your presentation.

Dining facilities are another of the many things that make Yale University a unique venue. The President’s Room can be hired out for small dining parties, and there’s a reception hall for formal (or casual) dining in this amazing special event space. Or choose the Peabody Museum of Natural History for receptions and dinners both large and small – with a full-sized dinosaur as centerpiece, and a color prehistoric mural for the background! The traditional and commons dining halls are also available. Even there, nothing is common about such a venerable institution! Catering services provide coffee service, snacks, receptions, banquets and business lunches. Attendees’ regular daily meals can be had by cafeteria service to reduce costs. If being at Yale isn’t already exciting enough, consider a dining sail on one of the two resident tallships, or just head off campus to enjoy some of the many eclectic international restaurants found just down the street in downtown New Haven.

Classroom space is available from mid-May to mid-August; campus housing begins a month later and ends in the first week of August. Rooms each have private baths. As many as five hundred attendees can be hosted, 180 of them overnight. Special package rates are available on a daily and weekly basis, to include housing, lodgings and meals. All of these elements help make Yale one of the top East Coast conference centers.

The reputation of the Ivy League schools is well earned. Yale has a longstanding history that speaks for itself. This is just a very small overview of the many features of the Yale university conference center, which also includes museums, art collections, a huge gymnasium, and health center, cultural events and much more! Contact Yale University now to arrange for your non-profit educational gathering to be held at this most impressive and decidedly unique venue!

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Nestled on private forest land at the edge of a state forest, this stunning and fully renovated country inn enjoys scores of hiking trails and a pair of lakes for their guests to enjoy. The rooms are expansive, and feature private baths. The cooking is exquisite, and the staff is sincerely dedicated to providing you with exactly what you need to unwind, relax and focus on what you need to get done, whatever that might be.

As gorgeous as the inn and surrounding woodlands are, the hustle and bustle of the city will seem like it’s a million miles away… but the Guest House is actually a lot more convenient than that! Just about halfway between New York and Boston, (a couple of hours) or just 35 miles from Hartford, CT (even less from New Haven or New London), this magnificent retreat location is far more conveniently located than one could ever hope for! Fly in to Hartford and you’ll be unpacking your bags in under an hour!

Whether you want to explore during the summer, wax introspective in the fall, enjoy the snow of winter, or revel in the wondrous springtime, Guest House will be there for you, all year around. But of course, it’s too good a place to keep all to yourself. You can invite up to 90 of your closest friends or associates to stay overnight. The theatre-style event room seats 100, while the largest of the classrooms seats 40. In all, there are 4 meeting chambers, and then there are the rooms and lodge areas, of course.

Technology? Wifi throughout the buildings, LCD projectors where appropriate. Didn’t bring your laptop? No problem. There’s a PC available for guests. The Guest House is truly one of the top East Coast business retreat locations.

Here’s one of the best parts: The meals are all delicious, home made – from scratch – with locally grown organic ingredients whenever possible! Not just basics either, but mouth-watering taste treats from a very capable and creative kitchen! Vegetarians and vegans, don’t worry. The cook will prepare meals especially for you as well! After the meal is over, enjoy your dessert while sipping on a freshly brewed cup of fair-trade coffee.

One of the great things about this sylvan retreat is that it is so versatile! You can spend the entire time indulging in R&R, have think-tank meetings, do team-building, or develop a new gameplan. Whatever your desire or need, Guest House Retreat & Conference Center exists to help you make it happen.

Venues this ideal and unique aren’t at all common. It may be one of the newest Connecticut retreat facilities, but you can count on it becoming very popular very fast! Give them a call now, check on availability and schedule your group’s gathering. A place this splendid is just too awesome to keep it all to yourself!

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What makes Assumption College such an ideal event venue is that everything is there, handled for you without you having to think about it, from air conditioning and parking to easy highway accessibility from the entire Northeast region. When you choose Assumption, all you and your guests need to do is arrive at their beautiful 175 acre campus. Everything else is there already, waiting for you!.

Convenience is the watchword, along with tranquility. If your group is looking for convenient East Coast meeting facilities, Assumption is perfect. Just 50 miles from Boston, even less from Providence, Rhode Island, and an hour from Hartford, Connecticut, you and your guests will have ample options for transportation as well! Logan Airport is just 60 miles away; Even getting there is easy!

The technology available on campus includes a full range of Audio and Video equipment, voice access, and even a satellite downlink! Office services are also available. Assumption College has you covered! If you’re still not sure they’ll have what you need, contact them! They’ll either have it, or be able to arrange for most technologies and equipment for your event!

During the summer months, up to 200 overnight guests can be accommodated right there on campus. Of course lodging is available for attendees at nearby hotels as well. The largest group that can be hosted is 350 people, making weekend or longer conferences manageable between the on-campus residence suites and nearby hotels. There are forty total meeting and event rooms. Three hundred and fifty can be seated in the theatre. Fifty people at a time will be welcome in the largest of the classroom-style meeting facilities.

Full catering services are available from Assumption College. Cafeteria food services are also made available to guests of the venue, as you prefer. If you’d like, coffee and snack services can be provided in meeting rooms, so you don’t have to leave the meeting area for breaks.

Assumption College does offer special rates and package prices. Standard discounts are CMP and DMP. Additionally, a group-specific rate can be negotiated. Contact Assumption’s Conference Services department to discuss your needs.

In the overall, Assumption College’s campus is both modern and aesthetically pleasing. The conveniences and technologies, accommodations and catering combine with a helpful staff to ensure that your gathering is a complete success. Contact Assumption College today, to arrange for your group and event!

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The conference facilities are atypical.  One of the first things visitors notice is that the campus architecture is unusual.  Concepts of geometric symmetry are taken nearly to their logical extreme in forming the buildings.  On top of the usual classroom and lecture presentation environments, U of Mass, Dartmouth also offers conferences the opportunity to utilize less conventional spaces, nooks and alcoves and courtyards that are often seen as public or off-limits at other venues.  In all, some 80 areas are made available all year long.  Like most East Coast university meeting venues, overnight housing is only available during the summer months, from June through August.  Twenty-two hundred can sleep on campus in a combination of residence hall quarters, and apartment-style suites during those summer months. During the school year, the largest group would be 800, which is the capacity of their largest theatre-style environment.

Internet connections are available in conventional spaces.  Teleconferencing and videoconferencing facilities are also at your disposal, as are computer labs.  From a technological standpoint, the U of Mass, Dartmouth is pretty much state-of-the-art.  Of course, the sound systems in the theatres are state-of-the-art as well.  Just about anything you might ask — any media or presentation format — for can be made available for your event.

Group dining facilities are found in the residence halls, as well as the Commuter Cafeteria near the Main Quad, by the Main Auditorium.  Additionally, the Faculty Dining Room, a more intimate and flexible table & chair space, and the Sky Ranch Grill and Garden Toss, as well as the Birch, Maple Ridge and Oak Glen Grills, are pleased to accommodate a more personal approach to meals.

It’s easy to see that the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth provides an extraordinary choice making in on of the top East Coast conference center facilities. This venue affords your conference, meeting, awards ceremony, union, reunion (or almost any other event,) unique opportunities to utilize the wonderful, modern facilities amidst a riot of natural beauty.  Book the U of Mass, Dartmouth for a gathering they’ll remember both long and fondly.

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Norwood is as picturesque and comfortable a place as one can imagine. Sylvan tranquility surrounds you. Yet in the heart of this sylvan tranquility, we find the Four Points Sheraton Conference Center, as evolved and high-tech a meeting place as one could ever hope for! All the details point to that the Four Points is dedicated to earning the attention of business and professional meetings. Ergonomic seating is just one sign of that. T-8 lighting, high-speed internet, hotel quality lodgings for your guests — up to 400 of them overnight, and 800 all-told can be seated in the theatre room, 500 in classroom seating within the Tiffany ballroom. The facilities are IACC approved — all 30,000 square feet of them! The Four Points Sheraton also provides some of the top Boston event facilities for wedding receptions, social events and banquets.

There are two restaurants, Zachariah’s and the ONEBistro, which can cater your event. Zachariah’s also offers daily breakfast buffet and lunch buffets, allowing your guests additional choices. Aiming to please, your event can be a combined package if you prefer, or each aspect can be elected separately. Discounts are available, as well as weekend specials.

Convenience? Boston is a mere 18 miles away, Providence only 30 miles. The Logan-Boston airport is just 20 minutes’ drive. And the surrounding town? Norwood has three concert series events a week, all summer long! The town itself, incorporated in 1872, remains a fascinating historical treasure as well. And with Beantown so nearby, there’s literally no limit to the attractions and interesting places to visit. You may want to encourage guests to take a detour and enjoy the local brews and pizzas at the birthplace of America’s freedom and the Boston Tea Party! Then return to the conference center refreshed, and continue taking care of business.

The Four Points makes for an extraordinary event facility, in that it provides so many desirable factors, bringing them all together in one place. Their staff of professionals will do whatever it takes to gain your satisfaction. Give them the opportunity to prove their worth, for a very pleasant and memorable event!

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Or would I? Normally, anything as touristy as a driven tour — duck or otherwise – would send me running in the other direction. But there’s something unique about seeing these places from the water, and that difference is the start of a surprisingly exceptionally good time. The “Think Unique” selection this time is the Boston Duck Tours.

While the Charles River portion of the tour is only 20 minutes, the remaining hour is also a surprisingly enlightening experience. Amongst stops are the Scientology headquarters, the city’s public gardens, the Robert Gould Shaw Civil War Memorial, the Beacon Hill area, where Paul Revere and Sam Adams laid the cornerstone for the nation’s oldest State building in 1795. The Museum of Science is always good for the grey cells. Then we pass onto the water, and a spectacular view of the Boston and Cambridge Skylines. Then back to land, to visit the U.S. S. Constitution, a triple-mast tallship launched in 1797, and the oldest warship still afloat in the world. You’ll see the beautiful and amazing Bunker Hill Bridge, the Old North Church (“Two if by sea!”), the Quincy Market, with a wealth of stores for shopping… What makes this unique isn’t just the richness of history, but also the style with which the tours are conducted. A little zany, a lot fun, it’s a great way to get Beantown under your belt in an hour and a half. From there, you can pick the areas you’d like to go back to and explore in greater depth. Visiting a place so steeped in national history, your time may be best spent exploring those places, taking them in and making them your own.

The North side of town being the oldest, when it was time for dinner, a few of us managed to sneak off and explore, ending up at the WaterFront Cafe. This Italian restaurant and pizza joint may not be your first choice (and there are more formal restaurants in the area,) but for a relaxed good time with great music and awesome food, WaterFront Cafe is the place for a unique Boston evening. If you’re still feeling adventurous, hit up one of the more formal restaurants (or an Irish establishment) for coffee and desert.

As conference towns go, Boston is a good one. It was relatively easy to get around, and if you flag down a cabbie, you’ll even be able to ask him to say “pahk ya kahr.” Yeah, he’ll have heard it before, but that won’t make it any less fun, and it seems appropriately rebellious to be just a little irreverent in the place where the U.S. patriots first showed us how to do so.

Photo: Down the river on a Duck Tour

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