Introducing the New UCF Celeste Hotel

Introducing the New UCF Celeste Hotel

In our very own corner of East Orlando, located on the campus of the University of Central Florida, comes the new The Celeste Hotel. The Celeste Hotel’s identity as a Tribute Portfolio hotel fits perfectly with the Orlando aesthetic, and guests of Marriott Hotels can use and gain Bonvoy points at The Celeste. Both similar to and different from other boutique hotels, The Celeste is like a human whose pulsing center, whose heart, craves not only to connect, but to belong. You seek out The Celeste, and The Celeste invites you in; two old friends meeting for the first time. And The Celeste knows you can’t spell heart without art, so this is how The Celeste proves it: colorful like a rainbow, quirky in the same ways you are, intertwined with UCF’s School of Visual Art and Design: a luxury museum you can sleep in. A hotel. A home.

Here’s a day in The Celeste: you order in-room dining for breakfast and admire the paintings as you wait, as you eat, as you put on your swimsuit, as you float in the pool and almost mistake the sky for another painting. At Aurora, the on-site restaurant, you order your favorite meal, but it’s 4 P.M., so you order a craft cocktail, and then another, because happy hour ends at 6, and then guitars, a voice, music that is both live and alive. You return upstairs, shower in your suite, or your king room, because it’s almost time for the gathering on the event lawn, and you come back downstairs, and the people greet you, and the music is alive, and so are you, so you have another cocktail, rent a cabana for tomorrow, and you feel it in the art, in your heart, in the band’s cover of Talking Heads: “This Must Be the Place.” And you are right, because The Celeste is the place, the outer space to your inner, and please, come in, stay a while.

With 179 total rooms, a restaurant, a bar, a pool, a fitness center, a private dining room, and the capacity for indoor and outdoor events all centered in the art, the heart, of Orlando, there is only one question left to ask: when will you be checking in?

By: Raven Halle