Margaritaville Hotel Nashville sits on Rep. John Lewis Way in SoBro, a short walk from Bridgestone Arena and the heart of downtown. The hotel has carved out a real foothold in the Nashville convention market, with flexible meeting rooms that can handle everything from intimate boardroom sessions to full multi-day programs. The event spaces have a distinct look: blue and white ocean-patterned carpet, warm pendant lighting, and clean wall treatments that hold up well on camera.

For this tech convention, we worked across what the photos show as two distinct configurations. One larger ballroom-style space included a raised stage with black drape, a projection screen, and rows of chairs arranged in classroom style facing the front. A separate, smaller room was set in a U-shape around long black-draped tables, with a projector on a center table throwing an image onto a video wall at the front of the room.

What we brought in

We supplied three 6x10 projection screens, three 6,000-lumen projectors, and 50 feet of gray pipe and drape. The drape served two purposes: it masked the backstage area in the larger room and gave the front wall in each space a finished, professional look behind the screens. The projectors were matched across rooms so presenters moving from session to session saw consistent brightness and image size.

The larger room also included a podium and steps leading up to the stage, visible in the photos. The U-shape room used the projector on a draped round table centered in the open end of the configuration, keeping the sightline clean from every seat.

Planning a convention at this venue

Margaritaville's meeting rooms are well-proportioned for mid-size conventions. The ceilings are high enough for rear-projection clearance if needed, and the carpet pattern can compete visually with a weak image, so spec your projectors for the room size and ambient light rather than cutting corners on lumens. If you are running breakout sessions in the smaller U-shape room alongside a general session next door, account for load-in logistics early. The corridor access is straightforward, but coordinating multiple room flips on the same day requires a clear schedule with venue ops from the start.