Located in the heart of downtown Lakeland, the Terrace Hotel is a historic getaway near popular Orlando attractions. The luxury hotel provides fine on-site dining experience, picturesque views around Lake Mirror and beautiful surroundings that are perfect for walking or jogging. Guests get to stay in spacious guest rooms which offer complimentary wireless Internet access, valet parking, a business center and many more world class amenities and services.
The Terrace Hotel has been Florida favorite since it first opened in 1924. Seen as quite the novel concept during its time, the hotel was deemed one of Florida’s finest inns when it first opened because it was open all year round – a stark contrast to other inns that opened for a season and closed during summer back when they didn’t use air-conditioning yet. Back then, when trainloads of tourists and travelers were attracted by the warm weather and booming real estate market, the inn was already providing a restful environment matched only by the fine on-site dining experience it offered.
Today, guests continue to stay at the Terrace Hotel for its exceptional beauty, historic charm and famous hospitality. Many people also go there for its signature restaurant and bar, The Terrace Grille and The Terrace Bar, respectively, while others seek its venues that are perfect for banquets, meetings and events, big or small.
1. Terrace Hotel Rooms & Suites
The Terrace Hotel is home to stylish guest rooms that live up to the expectations of the most discerning traveler. The rooms are divided into three types. The Deluxe Double Room features a large double bed that comes with 200 thread count sheets as well as goose down pillows. The Deluxe King Room offers a more spacious room with a king size bed matched with 100% cotton mattress and goose down pillows. Finally, the largest of them is the One Bedroom Suite where there’s a separate living area from the bedroom. The living room also comes with a sofa bed while the bedroom has a king size bed. In all three room types, guests can opt for hypo-allergenic pillows.
For those who are celebrating an event or hosting a gathering, the Terrace Hotel offers group accommodations to make sure that everyone is given a comfortable space during their stay. The hotel is ready to accommodate groups in any one of their 15 oversized suites that are quite spacious and have extra queen size beds.
2. Dining at the Terrace Hotel
There’s good reason why the Terrace Hotel’s signature restaurant, The Terrace Grille, is considered as among the top restaurants of Central Florida. This fine dining restaurant offers a refined and relaxing atmosphere within the hotel’s premises where guests can choose from a diverse savory menu.
Guests can come to the Terrace Grille for breakfast, lunch, brunch and even dinner. They can also stop by for some cocktails, with each moment spent savoring their food and beverages in a charming environment. Each meal of the day offers a different menu and there’s also a separate wine list. Many of the dishes available fall under American favorites, such as smoked salmon, crab bisque soup, stuffed chicken breast, frittata and meatloaf.
Guests who love to dine at the Terrace Hotel’s restaurant often can get themselves a dining card which offers special discounts and other benefits for regular guests. Those who sign up for this card can save on their meals.
3. Weddings & Conferences
Being a place that has preserved its historical charm, the Terrace Hotel is quite a unique place to get married. With its beautiful architecture, this luxury hotel has been considered to be a great backdrop for weddings of any size. With the help of its attentive staff, an on-site fine dining restaurant and some luxurious amenities, every wedding event hosted at Terrace Hotel becomes a memorable one.
Weddings can be held either as an indoor or outdoor affair. There are enough customizable venues within the hotel to accommodate the requests of guests’ right down to the last detail. Size won’t be an issue either, since the hotel and their staffs is ready to take on gatherings with large guest lists.
Holding the reception in the hotel means that guests will be able to choose from a wide selection of reception choices, from items on the buffet to the kind of hors d’oeuvres to be passed around by the butler. For those looking to have more options, the hotel is pretty much within walking distance from many venues that are in demand for receptions and after parties.
The Terrace Hotel is as much the destination of choice of many business individuals and groups as it is of family and friends. The hotel offers five different full-day meeting packages for groups who want to work with their colleagues in the Terrace Hotel.
These packages were formulated to accommodate a group of more than thirty people. They start with a big continental breakfast to give everyone the energy they need to get the ball rolling with a bit of mid-morning coffee in between. As the day goes on, participants will be given a lunch buffet and dessert in the end. There will also be afternoon snacks before the day ends.
Those who are setting up these meetings will be able to choose the contents of their breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner menus, as well as their hors d’oeuvres, carving stations and other items on the menu.
As for venues, meetings and other events can be held in the ballroom, boardroom or the Lake Mirror Room. The ballroom can hold between 85 to 130 guests depending on the seating arrangement. The boardroom can accommodate a board of 12 members while the Lake Mirror Room can hold up to 35.
Every event proposed to the Terrace Hotel comes with event consultation for both the venue and menu. The staff will take care of most of the arrangements during the event such as the breakdown of the rooms. Meanwhile guests will have their own private wait staff.
4. Special Packages
The Terrace Hotel also offers special perks for their preferred guests. They can choose from a wide selection of special packages that help maximize their stay according to their needs.
The iPrefere Exclusive Package provides deluxe accommodations, complimentary breakfast, a $100 credit and twice as much iPrefer points when guests stay for at least two nights. There’s also the Preferred Bed & Breakfast Package for two. Meanwhile, those who fly to the Terrace Hotel on any of the hotel’s participating airlines will get double miles with the Double Miles Offer. There’s also a Visa Worlds Offer that gives 10% off the hotel’s rates with complimentary breakfast.
Guests who stay at the Terrace Hotel will find themselves in driving distance from many of Orlando’s major theme parks. This includes the famous Disney World, which is just an hour drive from the hotel. Other attractions include the marine-themed Sea World, the famous Universal Studios, the colorful Legoland Florida and Islands of Adventure. This is why the hotel is called the gateway to Disney.
Guests should check out the hotel’s online calendar of events to know if they’ll arrive in time for any of its scheduled celebrations.
The Terrace Hotel is located on the corner between Main Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Upon arrival, guests of Terrace Hotel enjoy complimentary valet parking just at the main entrance along Massachusetts Avenue.
329 East Main St., Lakeland, Florida 33801, Phone: 863-688-0800
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