Originally Posted by
MarkOK
I've seen this hotel sell out (or nearly so) many times before. They have some rather large meeting spaces -- It's a great place for a corporate 'retreat' or highly specialized conventions where you need to globally fly in lots of corporate bigwigs. Not unusual if you go to the lobby at 8PM and run into a large crowd of people dressed in well-pressed suits (and other corporate wear) getting sloshed on martinis.
This type of event is back.
Domestically, maybe. But sadly it's still quite a big pain to travel internationally to the US so I don't think they're really seeing much "global" business travel right now. Hopefully in the next few weeks it will be more practical to travel from/to the UK and Europe for business. I'm planning a trip right now and it is, to put it mildly, a major headache and fraught with uncertainty.