JW Marriott Tampa

The JW Marriott Tampa Water Street is a cornerstone of the city’s new 56-acre Water Street neighborhood, offering 519 guest rooms and a new tier of luxury for corporate events. This 26-story tower redefines the large-scale event experience in Tampa. Its single most powerful feature for planners is its strategic integration with the city’s convention infrastructure. The hotel is physically connected by a glass skybridge to its sister property, the Tampa Marriott Water Street, and it also stands directly across the street from the Tampa Convention Center. This connectivity creates a seamless “event campus,” allowing groups to host exceptionally large, multi-venue conferences using the inventory of all three properties.

The event spaces within the JW Marriott itself are impressive, totaling over 100,000 square feet of combined indoor and outdoor function space. The hotel is home to the largest hotel ballroom in Tampa Bay, the 29,930-square-foot Tampa Bay Ballroom, which can host a general session for nearly 3,000 attendees. This is complemented by a 10,656-square-foot junior ballroom and an additional 21 breakout rooms, providing a high degree of flexibility for complex conference agendas. The hotel also features a 4,200-square-foot outdoor terrace on the 6th floor, perfect for open-air receptions.

Managing a multi-property room block or a city-wide convention is one of the most complex tasks in event planning. This is where Engine’s group service excels. We are built for this type of operational challenge. Our dedicated trip managers can source and contract rooms across both Marriott properties, handling the complex rooming lists and ensuring your attendees are placed correctly. We can manage the entire venue contract, providing a single point of contact for a multi-venue event.

When not in sessions, attendees will experience a true luxury resort. The 519 rooms feature floor-to-ceiling windows with expansive views of the bay or city skyline. The sixth-floor resort-style pool deck is a destination in itself, featuring two pools, private cabanas, and the outdoor Six restaurant. Guests can also utilize the full-service Spa by JW, a state-of-the-art fitness center, and multiple signature dining concepts, including the Driftlight restaurant.

For a finance department, an event of this scale can mean a flood of expenses from multiple properties and hundreds of attendees. Engine simplifies this by consolidating all travel costs, even from different hotels, under a single project code or job number. Our Direct Bill feature can cover all the upfront lodging costs, providing your company with one, clear monthly invoice. This eliminates the need to track down individual receipts, giving your project managers perfect visibility into the event’s budget.