Seminars and company events
Chessington World of Adventures Resort can host meetings and conferences for up to 300 delegates across six meeting rooms, with 219 hotel bedrooms on the same site. The resort is in Chessington, on the southwest edge of London, and brings together a theme park, a zoo with more than 1,000 animals and a SEA LIFE center.
The largest room, the Serengeti Suite, is used for full-day conferences, annual reviews, training sessions and evening parties. Smaller boardrooms suit leadership meetings, and a coffee lounge gives delegates somewhere to sit between sessions. Room hire comes with a dedicated events host for the day, AV, audio and projection equipment, Wi-Fi throughout the resort and free parking. Flip charts and conference stationery are supplied on request.
The resort sells several formats beyond the meeting room. Corporate away days can combine a morning session with park tickets for the zoo, SEA LIFE and the rides, animal encounters, a giraffe safari or a VIP after-hours tour. Companies can also book corporate family fun days for staff, departments and business partners, or hire the whole theme park and zoo on an exclusive basis to reward a team. Gala dinners, barbecues and Christmas parties are among the event types the team handles, and social events such as anniversaries and birthdays are booked too.
Rooms and capacities
The site states six meeting rooms with a combined capacity of 300 delegates. The Serengeti Suite is the main plenary room. The resort does not publish room-by-room layouts as text, so ask the events team for theater, cabaret and banquet figures for each space before you shortlist. Lunch for meeting groups can be served in the meeting room itself or in the Zafari restaurant, which looks out over the Wanyama Reserve, where giraffes and zebras roam.
Accommodation
Two hotels on site provide 219 bedrooms, including the Safari Resort Hotel. Some rooms face the Wanyama Reserve, others are themed, and accessible rooms are available. Every bedroom has a desk, an LG smart TV, air conditioning, tea and coffee facilities and an en suite bathroom with a bath, a power shower or both. A 24-hour delegate package with an overnight stay in the Safari hotel is offered, subject to availability, and corporate rates apply for groups.
Catering
Catering is in-house. The chefs prepare food fresh on site and can work on bespoke menus with the organizer. The boardroom package includes unlimited tea and coffee, fresh fruit or pastries, bottled water and a working lunch.
Getting there
The resort is about 15 miles from Waterloo and within 35 minutes of central London by train. Chessington South station is a five-minute taxi ride away. By road, the A3 and junctions 9 and 10 of the M25 are close, and Heathrow and Gatwick airports are each about 25 miles from the site. Parking is free for event guests, which helps when delegates drive in from across the southeast.
