The 189-room Marriott Renaissance in midtown Boca Raton, with the Meat Market steakhouse and WET Pool Bar that the locals book on weekends, a workable mid-city stay with strong on-property dining.
“The 189-room Marriott Renaissance in midtown Boca Raton, with the Meat Market steakhouse and WET Pool Bar that the locals book on weekends, a workable mid-city stay with strong on-property dining.”
The Renaissance Boca Raton sits on the southern edge of midtown Boca Raton, immediately south of the Town Center at Boca Raton mall (one of South Florida's strongest luxury retail centres, anchored by Neiman Marcus, Saks, and Nordstrom) and a short walk to the Glades Road corporate corridor. The eight-storey, 189-room property opened in the mid-1990s as a Wyndham, transferred to Renaissance (Marriott's premium full-service brand) in 2005, and has been refurbished in stages over the last decade with the most recent guest-room renovation completed in 2023. The property's strongest non-room asset is the Meat Market steakhouse, the Sergio Navarro South Florida import that opened on the lobby level in 2018 and rapidly became the property's draw-the-locals dinner reservation.
The 189 rooms are arranged across the Renaissance's eight-storey envelope, with the south-facing upper-floor rooms looking toward the Mizner Park canopy and the east-facing rooms toward the office park and the Atlantic beyond. The 2023 renovation modernised every guest room with new soft furnishings, the current Marriott granite-private-bathroom programme, 50-inch smart televisions, USB-C bedside charging, refrigerators in every room, and the updated Sealy bedding programme. The Junior Suites add a separate sitting area; the Renaissance Suite (the top-floor headline unit) adds a wrap-around configuration with a separate dining area. The work-desk-and-task-chair configuration handles a full working day, the standard Marriott corporate-traveller proposition.
Meat Market on the lobby level is the property's culinary anchor and is one of the only restaurants at a midtown Boca corporate hotel that genuinely draws non-guests. The Sergio Navarro programme combines dry-aged steaks, a comprehensive raw bar, contemporary Asian-and-Mediterranean inflections on the sides, and the most polished cocktail-bar operation in midtown Boca. WET Pool Bar (the Meat Market satellite on the pool deck) handles daytime poolside dining, the property's most popular weekend operation, and a refreshed Marriott Bonvoy Renaissance club lounge handles the morning coffee, the early-evening drinks, and the tier-status traveller's brief.
Public spaces include the outdoor pool with cabanas, a fitness centre with cardio and strength equipment, over 10,000 square feet of meeting-and-event space, free uncovered self-parking (the rare amenity at a four-star Boca hotel), and a complimentary scheduled-shuttle programme to Mizner Park, the Atlantic beach, and the nearby office concentration. The property handles the small-group business meeting, the Saturday-night dinner-and-stay (Meat Market reservations book up two weeks out), the Town Center weekend shopping trip, and the working family weekend reflexively. For midtown Boca Raton stays where strong on-property dining is the differentiator, the Renaissance is the answer.
Renaissance handles the Boca business stay where the meeting venue, the Town Center mall, the Glades Road office concentration, and a strong on-property restaurant for the closing dinner are all required. The 10,000+ square feet of meeting space, the Renaissance club lounge, the post-meeting Meat Market dinner reservation, and the free self-parking add up to an operationally correct mid-city business proposition. The Marriott at Boca Center is the alternative for stays anchored further west toward the Military Trail office park.
Quieter midtown-Boca anniversaries that want a strong dinner reservation as the centrepiece should book the Renaissance and let Meat Market do the work. A Premier Room or Junior Suite for the night, the lobby-level steakhouse reservation, the WET Pool Bar nightcap, and the Town Center shopping walk the next morning. The property handles the brief without the resort-scale staging that The Boca Raton requires.
Working family weekends that need a midtown Boca base for Town Center shopping, Mizner Park entertainment, and the FAU stadium calendar should book the Renaissance. The outdoor pool with cabanas handles the daytime, the WET Pool Bar handles the family lunch, the connecting-room categories handle the multi-room booking, and the central position handles the rest of the city in five to fifteen minutes. The most workable non-resort family hotel in the city.
2000 Northwest 19th Street
Boca Raton, FL 33431
United States
In midtown Boca near Town Center mall; 8 minutes to Mizner Park; 15 minutes to the Atlantic beach; 30 minutes to FLL airport
189 rooms (including 14 suites)
Deluxe Rooms from USD 159/night
Premier Rooms from USD 229/night
Junior Suites from USD 349/night
Renaissance Suite from USD 799/night
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Renovated in stages through 2023; current generation of Marriott Renaissance design programme; Meat Market on the lobby level since 2018
Meat Market steakhouse (Sergio Navarro)
WET Pool Bar by Meat Market
Outdoor pool with cabanas
Marriott Bonvoy Renaissance club
10,000+ sq ft of meeting space
Free uncovered self-parking
Walking distance to Town Center mall
From $159/night. Reservations book three to four weeks ahead in the December to April winter-season window; one to two weeks for summer and shoulder. Holiday weekends (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Presidents' Day) book three months ahead.
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