TWA Hotel

All-inclusive venue

The venue takes care of it all - food and beverage, rentals, the works!

Full wedding (ceremony and reception) pricing

Starting at $20,000

Catering services pricing

$185 per person for off-peak dates, with a minimum total spend of $19,999

Guest capacity

Up to 350 seated guests

About this venue

Fully restored to its original glory, the TWA Flight Center offers 200,000 square feet of flexible space including outdoor terraces. Original details — the Vulcain clock, sparkling white penny tile and plush Chili Pepper Red carpets — exude Jet Age glamour. Saarinen’s iconic Flight Tubes (made famous by the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can) lead to guestrooms and museum exhibits, as well as provide a premium photo opp. The nostalgic clacking sound of two authentic Solari split-flap boards — and the view of the 1958 Lockheed Constellation on the tarmac just outside — fully transport visitors back to the golden age of travel.

Seated guest capacity

  • 75-350

Venue type

  • Ballrooms, Banquet Halls
  • Historic Estates, Mansions
  • Hotels, Inns, Resorts
  • Urban Locations

Venue setting

  • Indoor
  • Outdoor
1 Idlewild Dr, New York, NY 11430

Our event spaces

Constellation Ballroom

Spacious

The 7,000-square-foot ballroom with 21-foot ceilings is ideal for galas, trade shows, cultural events, and more. Divisible in half, the room connects with 7,000 square feet of pre-function space. Onsite logistics experts help avoid any planning turbulence.

Square footage

7,000

Ideal for

Wedding ceremony, Elopement, Wedding reception, Rehearsal dinner, Wedding shower, Engagement party, Welcome party, After party, Farewell brunch, Couples luncheon, Other, Cocktail hour, Luxurious and chic, Warm and cozy

The 1962 Room

Chic retro

Looking out onto the landmark former TWA terminal, the 4,200-square-foot ballroom with 15-foot ceilings rolls out the red carpet for weddings and celebrations of all kinds. Authentic penny tile flooring welcomes revelers ready to dance the night away.

Square footage

4,200

Ideal for

Wedding ceremony, Elopement, Wedding reception, Rehearsal dinner, Wedding shower, Engagement party, Welcome party, After party, Farewell brunch, Couples luncheon, Other, Cocktail hour, Luxurious and chic, Warm and cozy

Constellation Ballroom

Spacious

The 7,000-square-foot ballroom with 21-foot ceilings is ideal for galas, trade shows, cultural events, and more. Divisible in half, the room connects with 7,000 square feet of pre-function space. Onsite logistics experts help avoid any planning turbulence.

Square footage

7,000

Ideal for

Wedding ceremony, Elopement, Wedding reception, Rehearsal dinner, Wedding shower, Engagement party, Welcome party, After party, Farewell brunch, Couples luncheon, Other, Cocktail hour, Luxurious and chic, Warm and cozy

Available services that can be provided by TWA Hotel

Services & amenities

  • Bar services
  • Catering services
  • Clean up
  • Dance floor
  • Dressing room / Bridal Suite
  • Event rentals
  • Event staff
  • On-site accommodations
  • Pet friendly
  • Service staff
  • Set up
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Wifi

Transportation & access

  • Self parking - paid
  • Valet - paid
  • Wheelchair accessible

Rentals

  • China
  • Flatware
  • Glassware
  • Linens
  • Standard Chairs

Accommodations

  • Room blocks offered
  • Single king rooms
  • Twin bed rooms

Reviews

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4.5 out of 5

2 reviews

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  • AMAZING VENUE & STAFF!

    •Verified review
    •Adelle H.•Aug 3, 2024

    My husband and I had a combination event at the TWA hotel ballroom. We celebrated our wedding reception and my husband's 50th birthday there and had a blast! Francisco Taveras is the best!

  • Don't rain on our parade

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    •Olivia•Jul 2, 2023

    Our wedding turned out to be incredibly beautiful, thanks to a unique venue and execution by its staff. However, that perfect day was almost derailed by the unacceptable pressure campaign to change ceremony locations due to concerns over furniture getting wet. We wanted this review to capture our nearly 20 months of planning with the TWA Hotel. PLANNING PROS: -Variety of spaces -Responsiveness -Flexibility for storing supplies CONS: -No FAQ document -Frustrating room block system -Forgotten menu tasting notification -Lack of communication and contradictory info from the Paris Cafe for rehearsal dinner THE WEDDING PROS: -Organized and accommodating staff -The food, especially the pastrami station and red velvet cake for dessert CONS: -Wrong display with typo on Solaris board in the Sunken Lounge -Our tiered wedding cake wasn’t cut and served even tho there clearly wasn’t enough sheet cake to pass around -The weather “policy”: We were told that we could make a final decision on an outdoor ceremony up until the morning of our wedding, and our point of contact reassured us of this during our final walkthru 2 weeks out. Our contract also secured the Sunken Lounge as the backup option if we chose to move indoors. However, in the final days and hours before our wedding, we were pressured to move our ceremony indoors, despite nearly all weather reports showing clear skies for our 5-6pm ceremony and rain only after 9pm. Our point of contact started questioning our outdoor plans 4-5 days before the wedding, and even met with us multiple times - first in the lobby while we were dropping off supplies 2 days before our wedding, again when we were checking in the next day, and yet again when we were at the pool before our rehearsal dinner, where we had to brush off our guests in order to have a serious meeting. Each time, they told us we needed to make a "final call" now, not the morning-of as we had been told before. After listing their reasons to move the ceremony indoors (which included threatening to release the Sunken Lounge from our backup option, despite what our contract said), the point of contact mentioned that the head manager was concerned about the rain damaging the leather chairs, and then proposed a “solution” of having the ceremony outside, but not setting up any chairs so that our guests would stand for the entire ceremony. It was clear to us that the real reason why we were being pressured was that the manager didn’t want their leather chairs to get wet! We asserted that, unless we were explicitly told we couldn't have our ceremony outside, we would stick with the outdoor option. The morning of our wedding, our day-of coordinator informed us that the venue was insisting they now had a “50% chance of rain policy”, giving them the “right” to change ceremony locations. We immediately forwarded reports from 10 weather sites that all had a chance of rain between 5-7pm at 0-30%. We finally saw chairs being set up outside in the mid-afternoon, and when our ceremony got underway, the clouds parted ways and the sun started shining. CONCLUSION: The TWA Hotel is such a special place to celebrate your wedding! Before you sign the contract, however, understand that you’ll have to stay on top of the planning process, and in cases like ours, fight for what you envision. Make sure the contract spells out any and all promises — there were items that we made sure they honored as it was clear the hotel’s policies had changed since the signing.

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