Hold your next conference, business function or sporting event in Armidale, Australia’s highest city.
What’s so appealing about Armidale is that it’s a cosmopolitan and sophisticated urban centre located in a picturesque rural setting on the doorstep of some of the most scenic national parks in Australia. This means that it ticks a lot of boxes as a perfect change of scene for jaded conference organisers looking for a bit of inspiration and somewhere ‘different’.
Armidale is the first city in mainland Australia to be fully fibred under the National Broadband Network (NBN). Your next conference will benefit from a world-leading communications infrastructure. Armidale can provide you with a wide range of activities for your conference from city tours to paintball, national parks to goat farms. Whether you would like to fill in an hour or a whole day, there is something for everyone.
For further information please contact the Armidale Visitor Information Centre on 02 6770 3888 or email us.
Armidale conference venues
Rydges Armidale
Contemporary venue options ideal for private dinners, meetings and interviews to large conferences, networking events and weddings. Options include a private dining room for 8, a boardroom for 18, a spacious function room for 150 and Ottoman Restaurant. There are also stylish hotel accommodation for up to 162 delegates.
Offers 5 renovated function areas from smaller board rooms to an Auditorium (300 guests). Updating services and audio-visual equipment in order to provide you with professional and modern facilities for your next event.
The centre consists of a state-of-the-art theatre, rehearsal rooms, exhibition space and a large, light-filled foyer. The 230 seat theatre is perfect for conferences, lectures, film screenings, presentations and performances. The centre has two open drama rooms that can seat 20-40 people in which workshops, presentations and small gatherings can take place. The foyer with bar facilities can act as a central area between all rooms and has been used for exhibitions, trade events, dinners and fundraisers.
Caters for all corporate events, conferences, meetings, weddings and special events. With five versatile event spaces to choose from and a variety of food and beverage packages to suit any budget. Features include dance floors; audio visual systems with fixed data projector and screen; private fully equipped bar; internet facility and wireless access available on request; stage and extendable catwalk with adjoining dressing rooms and private amenities; theatrical light fixtures; audio and sound control room; private outdoor entertainment area. All functions rooms are accessed via the upstairs foyer, which makes for the ideal pre-reception drinks.
Set within the picturesque grounds of the University of New England with an 856 seat proscenium arch semiraked auditorium with limited winched fly lines. Arts Lecture Theatre also available.
There are plenty of reasons to choose Australia’s highest city for your next sporting camp or event; premium facilities, great climate, altitude training and an active sports community with a high level expertise and experience.
For a city with a population of approximately 30,000 Armidale’s list of facilities is particularly impressive. Eight turf cricket ovals, a state of the art indoor arena, twenty two outdoor bitumen and grass net ball courts, fifty all weather tennis courts, a 50 metre Olympic pool plus a warm down 50 metre pool, hectares of playing fields and a state of the art indoor gymnastics centre.
These facilities are maintained to a high standard with a progressive policy of development as witnessed by the recent addition of lights to the main sporting field – lights that are a standard to allow International day/night cricket matches. As a result of theses facilities Armidale is regularly chosen to host regional, state and national sporting events.
For further information please contact the Armidale Visitor Information Centre on 02 6770 3888 or email us.
