Garden City Hotel

The Garden City Hotel attracts an exclusive clientele to Garden City, New York, as it has since 1874 —right up to the Kennedys and the Clintons. Today’s Long Island legend continues to offer classic elegance and old-fashioned service along with such guest amenities as oversized antique desks, laptop safes, and wireless Internet access. It also offers some of the most prestigious meeting facilities in the state.

Conference spaces range from the Grand Ballroom, Rotunda, and Salon to meeting suites on the Conference Level and the Executive Boardroom on the penthouse floor. Meeting planners may also book the Posh Ultra Lounge or the refined Polo Wine Room for social events. Catering draws on the talent at the Polo Restaurant, ranked No. 1 for dining on Long Island by the Zagat survey. There are no packages available at this time. There are no hot dates at this time. Posted May 2, 2008 by Elite Concierge
View RSS Feed (Garden City, LI, NY . . . November 2007) The Garden City Hotel (45 Seventh Street, Garden City, NY [516] 747-3000 or www.gardencityhotel.com) has been voted by Long Island Business News (www.libn.com) readers as the regions number one hotel and number one conference/meeting facility in the business papers first reader poll, 2007 Best of Long Island Business. A total of 14,474 votes from business leaders and decision-makers across Long Island were cast on-line for a spectrum of regional companies across 77 categories.

Voted the Best Hotel in the region, Long Island Business News notes, The hotel has hosted prominent guests such as the Vanderbilts, Astors and Belmonts, John F. Kennedy and his wife Jaqueline, New York State Senator Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Voted the Best Conference/Meeting Facility in the region, the paper adds, These elegant Long Island facilities feature 25,000 square feet of flexible meeting, banquet and convention space that can accommodate up to 600 guests in one room.

The Garden City Hotel is no stranger to #1 ratings. Top rankings from the Zagat Survey, from best food to best service, are given year-on-year to the Polo Restaurant and Rein Bar & Bistro recognizing them as leaders on the Long Island dining scene. The restaurants are under the direction of award-winning Executive Chef Steven De Bruyn who in 2007 was inducted into the Belgian society of master chefs. The luxury hotel property is also one of 120 members, internationally, of the Preferred Hotels and Resorts group having met the highest standards of quality and extraordinary service earning it Preferred Standard of Excellence status. Prominent galas have been held at the luxury property for heads of state convening to discuss global events and leading not-for-profit organizations hosting grand-scale fundraisers. From family affairs " spectacular weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs " to affairs of business or state " corporate or political conferences " the Garden City Hotel has always been a sought-after location for important events.

The luxury hotel has been a centerpiece of Garden City, attracting the great and good, since 1874. The hotel was originally designated as the focal point of Garden City -- 7,000 acres of land 20 miles from New York City -- by Alexander Turney Stewart to attract a famous and wealthy clientele from around the world. One of the most notable visitors, Charles Lindbergh, slept here in 1927 on the night before his trans-Atlantic flight. The hotel remains popular with todays high-flyers from the worlds of business, sport and entertainment.

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