At Marriott Hotels and Resorts, our mission is to make every business trip a pleasure and every vacation the trip of a lifetime. Enjoy amenity-filled accommodations, exemplary meeting facilities, superb dining and our time-honored spirit to serve. Relax and get ready for the day ahead in one of our deluxe guest rooms and suites featuring cable television with free HBO premium channel, hairdryer, in-room coffee and tea service, iron and board, large well-lit work desk, pay movies and video games, two-line telephones with dataport, speaker and voicemail plus Marriott's luxurious new bedding package. Wireless high speed Internet access is available throughout the hotel. Enjoy a meal in one of our two restaurants or your favorite beverage in the lounge or sports bar. The Hampton Street Vineyard features six hundred fifty wine selections. Self-parking is USD 10 per night in adjacent city-owned garage with valet service additional.

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The recently renovated Marriott is ideally located in newly revitalized downtown Columbia within one mile of the convention center, financial offices, historic homes, museums, performing arts venues, the South Carolina state capitol building and state government offices and the University of South Carolina campus. The hotel is close to all major Interstate highways: I-20/I-26/I-77. Complimentary airport transportation is provided upon request with limited service throughout the downtown area also available. The Columbia Marriott features twenty-seven thousand square feet of flexible banquet, exhibition and meeting space including a ten thousand square foot atrium, fifteen meeting rooms and three ballrooms. The hotel also has a dedicated conference area for eight to ten people donated to the University of South Carolina alumni association and reserved through the association.