Overview
- The hotel held a ribbon-cutting and welcomed first guests on Dec. 18, opening as Broward County’s third-largest hotel.
- The property offers 801 rooms, including 82 suites, seven dining venues, a Mokara Spa, and over 120,000 square feet of meeting and event space.
- Its 30,000-square-foot Waterway Ballroom is billed as the largest in Greater Fort Lauderdale, complemented by the 15,000-square-foot Port Everglades Ballroom and 47 meeting spaces.
- The development is a collaboration among Omni Hotels & Resorts, Broward County, Visit Lauderdale, and Matthews Southwest, with officials noting county capital funds were used without tapping general revenue.
- Set on the Intracoastal Waterway with direct convention center access, the site features a new shortcut road from State Road 84 and shuttle service to the beach and airport to ease traffic.