Crown Conference Centre

Australia's conference and exhibition scene has a new shining star with the recent launch of the purpose-built Crown Conference Centre in Melbourne's Southbank precinct.

Linked to the existing Crown infrastructure, the new conference and events centre is able to offer delegates booked into the centre an existing range of restaurant, function spaces and other entertainment options including shopping and a cinema.

Also attached to the Conference Centre is three hotel offerings, the five-star Crown Towers, the four-and-a-half star Crown Promenade and the soon to open Crown Metropol.  Together the three properties offer just over 1,600 rooms and suites.

The conference centre itself features an exhibition hall on the ground floor, a conference hall on the upper level and a collective of 19 concurrent rooms all on one floor.  Conference producers are event treated to their own suite of rooms, including two offices or break-rooms as well as a small meeting room and a private bathroom.

Crown's 19 concurrent rooms include 16 meeting rooms as well as one large Promenade Room which in turn can be split into three different rooms, or joined to cater to another 600 delegates in theatre-style.

One of the main features of the conference centre is that each and every room can boast natural lighting in some shape or form, adding brightness to the site that many other rivals cannot attest to.

Aiming to bring greener meetings to their clients, the conference centre offers a "naked conferencing" option, which sees tables left unadorned with tablecloths saving on laundry needs.

With this brand new complex, Crown and Melbourne can now boast of being home to Australia's only purpose-built hotel conference facility.