One block outside of downtown Cooperstown, The Otesaga Resort Hotel is just a short walk to three world class museums: The Baseball Hall of Fame Museum; Fenimore Art Museum; and the Farmers’ Museum.
the inn features a lobby with a two-story atrium and natural stone fireplace, as well as a pro shop and locker room, 135-seat restaurant and cocktail lounge, 18 guest rooms and two executive suites. The resort’s cottages offer four interconnect- ing bedrooms that link to two twin rooms and provide virtually every amenity imag- inable.
Meeting and event planners can enjoy this year-round destination, which offers plenty of recreational opportunities in every season. The winter months feature downhill and cross-country skiing, ice skating, snowshoeing, sledding and tobog- ganing, while the warmer weather pro- vides opportunities for award-winning golf, more than 30 miles of hiking trails, fishing, shooting (skeet and sporting clays), scenic views, three sets of water- falls, mountain biking, tennis, lawn bowl- ing, archery, rock climbing and paintball. Indoor and outdoor swimming pools, lake swimming and an exercise room add to the resort’s offerings.
Skyview Spa offers a complete menu of spa treatments and massages, plus facials, wraps, manicures and pedicures,
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whirlpool and more. Guests also can relax in the spa’s Quiet Room while taking in scenic mountain views.
Another group option is the Adventure Center at Skytop and the Tree Top Adventure Course at Skytop, which offers excitement for team building. This elevat- ed obstacle course is suspended securely between trees at heights from 10-feet to 50-feet off the ground. The course includes zip lines, suspension bridges, swings, slides, nets and more.
A resort destination offering an abun- dance of outdoor activities in upstate New York is The Otesaga Resort Hotel in Cooperstown.
“The resort was built in 1909 and has been open for 102 years, owned and operated
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by the Clark family (heir to the Singer Sewing machine fortune),” notes Robert Faller, director of sales and marketing for The Otesaga. “Located along the shores of Lake Otsego, our site takes up about 120 acres. Our Leatherstocking golf course goes right around the lake.”
One block outside of downtown Cooperstown, The Otesaga Resort Hotel is just a short walk to three world class museums: The Baseball Hall of Fame Museum; Fenimore Art Museum; and the Farmers’ Museum, a working 18th century farm growing heirloom vegetables with an on site apothecary, general store, a church and more.
There are many wonderful recreational opportunities available to guests of The Otesaga, such as the Clark Sports Center in town, which Faller notes is a great option for meeting planners looking for activities or team building.
“We do quite a bit of learning and training there,” says Faller. “We do indoor and out- door high ropes, and all kinds of team building exercises with corporate clients. Doubleday Field is just three blocks away. I had a meeting there that did a pick-up game of baseball and we hired Major League Baseball alum, Phil Niekro. He pitched to both sides and we had shirts made that said 'I got struck out by Phil Niekro’ or 'I got a hit off Phil Niekro.’ We had a comedian announcer and an Abbot & Costello style 'Who's on First’ skit. It was a hoot!”
Faller adds that they are often able to bring in baseball Hall of Fames as speak- ers for events, or to make appearances at corporate meetings and other functions.
An abundance of meeting and event spaces are available at The Otesaga Resort Hotel, and Faller notes that, although the hotel has only 150 sleeping rooms, it is able to accommodate events for more than 400 people.
“We have 17,000-square feet of meeting space, 11 meeting rooms, a beautiful ball- room for social affairs, plus a main dining room that is 4,000-square feet,” says Faller. “We do quite a bit of weddings and social events, and the convention market is fab- ulous here.”
Other activities available to planners and guests of Otesaga who are looking for things to do during conference downtime include batting practice, a lake for fishing that is full of trout and salmon, as well as tennis, lake swimming, swimming pools and more.
“We try to utilize the beautiful environ- ment around us,” Faller adds. The Otesaga Resort incorporates the history of their facility into many of the events it plays host to, reflected through such offerings as “old-fashioned” sit-down meals and old world hospitality.
“We’re 102 years old, and your attendees can still eat in the main dining room, pick their appetizer, salad, entrée, and dessert right off the menu,” says Faller. “We do that every day so you don’t have to order ban- quet chicken or prime rib for everyone in your group. All get to make their own choices. It is a banquet with an a la carte experience!”
Planners throughout the region will find numerous ways to infuse relaxation and recreation into their meetings and events at resort and spa facilities.
By providing their groups with opportuni- ties to include spa treatments, golfing, swimming and team building activities into their itineraries, they will help to keep attendees relaxed so they can remain committed, focused and productive when it comes to the business of the day.
Kristin Zeller is a freelance writer, and works in the Special Events Office for the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.
kzeller@phillies.com
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