La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa hosts meetings, presentations, product demonstrations, board sessions, receptions and weddings for up to 300 guests. Its 4,500 square feet of indoor rooms sit alongside lawns and patios for outdoor events, on six acres in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, a short walk from the Historic Plaza.
Seminars and company events
The Montana Ballroom is the main room for plenary sessions, and the Mesilla Board Room and the Canyon room handle board meetings and breakouts. All rooms have audiovisual and teleconferencing equipment, and a group sales team plans each event with the client. The resort publishes meeting packages, value dates and banquet menus, and follows sustainable meeting practices on request. After a working day, groups can move to the bar in the Staab House or to dinner at Julia.
Weddings and receptions
Ceremonies and receptions take place in the ballrooms, on the lawns and in the garden and patio, with smaller ceremonies in the historic Library, Salon and Rose Room of the original mansion. The wedding team quotes up to 300 guests for a reception. The resort has its own wedding banquet menus and wedding specials, and couples and guests can stay on site.
Rooms and capacities
Montana A and B together measure 2,048 square feet and take up to 200 theater-style, 130 classroom, 150 at a banquet or 225 for a reception. Each half, Montana A and Montana B, covers 1,024 square feet for groups of about 50 to 120. Canyon (609 square feet) takes up to 50 theater-style, 24 classroom or 40 at a banquet. Mesilla, the board room, seats 20. In the mansion, the Library takes up to 40 for a reception, the Salon up to 40 at a banquet and the Rose Room 8 at a private table. The Baca Suite hosts receptions of up to 60. Outdoors, the Lawn and Patio together are listed for several hundred guests, and a separate lawn takes up to 250 for a reception.
Accommodation
Guests stay on site in Pueblo Revival adobe casitas and rooms spread through the grounds. The resort has added Pure Wellness rooms, a fitness center and Spa Sage, its full-service spa and salon.
Catering
Banquets for meetings and weddings come from the resort's own kitchens, with set banquet menus for each type of event. Julia, a Spirited Restaurant and Bar, serves dinner, the Patio Restaurant is also on site, and the Staab House bar offers cocktails and light Southwestern dishes.
History and setting
The site was farmed by Pueblo people long before Spanish settlement. In 1882 the merchant Abraham Staab built a three-story brick mansion in French Second Empire style here, and he and his wife Julia received Santa Fe society in it. In the 1930s R.H. and Eulalia Nason added adobe casitas around the house and named the inn La Posada. A renovation in the late 1990s added lodging, the spa and the conference center. The resort is a member of Historic Hotels of America.
Getting there
The resort is at 330 East Palace Avenue. Santa Fe Airport is about 20 minutes away by car, and Albuquerque International Sunport about one hour via I-25. Taos is about 90 minutes north.
