Experience Newport Beach!

Come early or stay a few days after the convention and enjoy the many options available at one of the premier destinations in the United States. The Marriott, Newport Beach Hotel & Spa is close to everything!

Located midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, Newport Beach offers families, couples and individuals unlimited opportunities for entertainment and cultural activities. Just minutes away from spectacular coastal splendor, yachting, water sports, championship golf and some of the finest shopping in the world, Newport Beach offers unmatched opportunities to suit anyone's idea of high-end adventure. Encounter the ultimate expression of the Southern California lifestyle: casually elegant, exhilarating and supremely accessbile. Favorite nearby attractions include: 

	Aquarium of the Pacific - (25 miles) Take a journey of discovery through the world's largest ocean at the Aquarium of the Pacific Long Beach, California. Come face-to-face with, and even touch, the ocean's ultimate predators in Shark Lagoon. Hand feed lorikeet birds and join us on a behind the sceens tour.
	Balboa Island - (1 mile) Balboa Island is a man made island. The island, which was once just a sandpit, was actually dredged and filled right before World War I.
	Catalina Island - (26 miles) Welcome to Santa Catalina Island, an oasis of romance and adventure, where the pressures of everyday life melt away, replaced by warm memories and cherished experiences. Sheltered from development and protected from urban sprawl, Catalina Island offers dramatic vistas and native flora and fauna, crystal clear waters teeming with marine life and sweeping vistas of rolling hills and steep cliffs. The charming village of Avalon, Catalina's only city, provides fine dining, shopping and day spas along with accommodations that include boutique hotels, quaint bed and breakfasts and vacation homes.
	Disneyland (15 miles) From the charm of Main Street, to the whimsy of Mickey's Toontown, explore eight fantastic "lands" of nostalgia, color and delight. Let your imagination run free in a magic kingdom where life is a fairy tale and dreams really do come true.
	Queen Mary (15 miles) - Come aboard the legendary Queen Mary. Book the Behind the Scenes Guided Tour of the historic ocean liner and World War II troopship, and see restored areas that have been under wraps since the final voyage in 1967, including the Isolation Wards and the aft Machine Rooms.

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