Gaylord National

An Expectation of Excellence

At Gaylord Hotels award-winning service is more than a goal; it's an expectation. Gaylord National is the newest member of Gaylord's "best in class" line of hotels that also includes Gaylord Opryland, Gaylord Palms and Gaylord Texan. Our hotels continually set the benchmark for extraordinary meeting facilities, plus world-class dining and entertainment experiences.

Meetings Related Awards

Inner Circle Award
Association Meetings
Awarded August 2009
Association Meetings readers choose hotel winners for this annual award. Properties are selected for their high level of service, flexible function space, quality of food and beverage and room rate value.

“Best of the East” Award
Meetings East
Awarded July 2009
Meetings East annual “Best of the East” Awards program honors the top hotels, resorts, and conference centers chosen by their readers for merit and distinction in serving the needs of event planners, meetings and conventions. Readers were asked to vote for the hosts that best handled their meetings or conventions in the previous 12 months.

“M&D Award” Award
Medical Meetings
Awarded July 2009
Medical Meetings' Annual M&D Awards program honors the 40 hotels, resorts, and conference centers chosen by our readers for merit and distinction in serving the needs of planners of continuing medical education seminars and medical conventions. Readers were asked to vote for the hosts that best handled their meetings or conventions in the previous 12 months. Choices were based on each property's guest room quality, meeting rooms, catering and convention services, and audiovisual/technical support.

“Gold Key” Award
Meetings & Conventions
Awarded June 2009
All winners of this award of excellence were nominated and selected by the readers of Meetings & Conventions (professional meeting and event planners), who nominate and select their winning hotel properties based on strict industry criteria including: staff attitude; quality of meeting rooms; quality of guest services; food and beverage service; proficiency of handling reservations; availability of technical/support equipment and range of recreational facilities

Best of 2008 – Best Convention Center Hotel
Hotel Interactive
Awarded March 2009
"The Gaylord National outside Washington, D.C. represents everything that a convention hotel should be. It's smartly built and features a well-constructed environment that makes you forget you're staying inside for days at a time. It's also the largest combined hotel and convention center on the east coast with 470,000 square feet of meeting space and 2,000 guestrooms." –Hotel Interactive

Gaylord Hotels continuously win the highest honors awarded in the meeting and convention industry, including:

Voted #1 Overall in the Upper-Upscale Brands category in the 2005 MeetingNews magazine Planners' Hotel Preference Poll
29 Pinnacle Awards from Successful Meetings magazine
Multiple Paragon Awards from Corporate Meetings & Incentives magazine
Multiple Gold Key ELITE, Gold Platter ELITE, Gold Key Hall of Fame and Gold Platter Hall of Fame Awards from Meetings & Conventions magazine.
Multiple Inner Circle Awards from Association Meetings magazine.
Readers Choice Award from ConventionSouth magazine
Best of the South Award from MeetingSouth magazine

Food Related Awards

DC’s 50 Hottest Restaurants of 2009: Cheesiest Sensation – Old Hickory Steakhouse
DC Modern Luxury
Awarded August 2009
DC Modern’s Luxury’s annual “Best of DC Dining” issue honors the Beltway’s hottest restaurants, chefs, dishes, dining experiences, bakers and cocktail masters for 2009. Old Hickory Steakhouse and specifically, Maitre d’ Fromage Carolyn Stromberg, are cited for leading the restaurant artisanal cheese trend in the DC region.

Best New Restaurant of the Year Nominee – Old Hickory Steakhouse
Restaurant Association of Maryland (RAM)
Awarded March 2009
Old Hickory Steakhouse was nominated among the top 5 “Best New Restaurants of the Year” for the state of Maryland. Chef Wolfgang Birk and his team were nominated based on the high quality of the food and overall experience.

Our focus on delivering the highest-caliber cuisine has garnered Gaylord Hotels numerous awards, such as:

Multiple DiRōNA Awards from Distinguished Restaurants of North America
Multiple Awards of Excellence from Wine Spectator
Multiple Best Dining Awards from Best of Citysearch

Media Room Resources

Gaylord Hotels continuously win the highest honors awarded in the meeting and convention industry.