The Oriental is conveniently located in Singapore’s Marina centre, and is within walking distance to the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Suntec City. Fully renovated and re-opened in 2005, the hotel is ideal for meetings or banquet of 200-250 people. The interior décor of the main ballroom and pre-function areas are modern with a touch of class. The ballroom is fitted with built-in ceiling mount LCD projector and boasts state-of-the-art sound system. Due to the architecture of the building, the ballroom is in a curved shape, hence poses some challenge in conference seating layout and in optimizing viewing angles of projection screens. But in the hands of experienced event managers, this should not be a major problem. The other issue is that the ceiling height is somewhat low, hence the ballroom set-up tends to lack ‘grandeur’. However, this problem is also an advantage for the hotel, as past conference organizers and speakers alike had commented that the shape and height of the ballroom resulted in more intimacy and connection between speakers on stage and the audience.
If a conference group fills up the capacity of the main ballroom to the maximum, then finding a suitable private lunch venue for the delegates may require some creativity on the part of the hotel and event managers. This is because the pre-function area is not quite large enough to fit over 200 people for even a standing buffet lunch. Having said that, the hotel does have several smaller rooms and F&B outlets, which, depending on availability, the creativity of the event manager and the flexibility of the organizer, may be turned into venues for lunch receptions. Especially the function rooms on the fifth floor, they offer good view, natural daylight and a cozy atmosphere. Although it does not have sufficient space for larger conference and exhibition, The Oriental is a beautiful and classy venue for prestigious, up-market conferences, product launches and gala dinners. Comments are closed.
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