Austin’s first JW Marriott opened
Friday as the largest hotel in the Texas capital.
The JW Marriott Austin has 1,012
rooms and 112,000 square feet of meetings space. The property, which
takes up a square block in downtown Austin and is three blocks from the Austin
Convention Center, also has a fifth-floor pool deck as well as three
restaurants.
The hotel will be supplanted as
Austin’s largest in 2017 when the 1,066-room Fairmont Austin is due to open four blocks
away.