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Alternative meeting destination spotlight: Santa Monica bring holiday festivities back to the beach.


Each holiday season, meeting and event planners are faced with the same challenge; finding a unique location to hold a memorable, and most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent"
above all, most especially
, fun holiday event. While beaches and piers usually elicit visions of summer, Pacific Park's Events Pavilion and Amusement Park amusement park, a commercially operated park offering various forms of entertainment, such as arcade games, carousels, roller coasters, and performers, as well as food, drink, and souvenirs.  can transform into a magical winter wonderland - the perfect venue for a one-of-a-kind holiday event or private party.

In addition to being a unique venue itself, complete with Pacific Park's attractions offer opportunities for creative and sometimes competitive activities and games, including mini golf tournaments at Pirates' Pier mini golf and midway games Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) (formerly Midway Manufacturing) is an American video game publisher. Midway's legacy includes landmark titles such as Ms. Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Mortal Kombat, and NBA Jam.  challenges. For corporate event planners looking to enhance company morale, Pacific Park also offers packages and opportunities focused on teambuilding.

With all the games and activity, guests are sure to work up an appetite, and Pacific Park provides both custom catering and traditional theme park fare to meet their needs, along with beer, wine, and full service bar options. The 4,500 square foot Pier Pavilion is the perfect site for holiday parties, corporate cocktail receptions and mixers, business luncheons, film wrap parties, sales incentive gatherings, and full-service banquets.

Planning any event--especially a holiday one--can be stressful. That is why Pacific Park provides an experienced event staff that can manage it all. From food and rides to games and prizes, the park's event team helps to take the hassle out of the holidays so that every get together can be an outstanding one.

Located on the historic Santa Monica Pier The Santa Monica Pier is located at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California and is a prominent landmark. Attractions
The pier contains Pacific Park, a family amusement park with a large ferris wheel.
, the oceanfront, two-acre theme park is home to 12 rides including the Park's signature Pacific Wheel, the world's first solar powered Ferris Wheel. In 2004, the Park also introduced Inkie's Scrambler A device or software program that encrypts data for security purposes. See scramble. , a 12 car, fast-paced swirling ride that takes riders on a series of roundabout moves and rotations at a speed of more than 11 revolutions per minute, and Pacific Plunge, a 45-foot tall tower ride that propels seated-riders 45-feet into the air over the Pacific Ocean. Pacific Park also offers an over-the-ocean food terrace, 20 midway games, and for swashbucklers, an all-new, nine-hole Pirates' Pier mini golf course complete with palm trees, maritime relics, cannons and a shipwreck shipwreck, complete or partial destruction of a vessel as a result of collision, fire, grounding, storm, explosion, or other mishap. In the ancient world sea travel was hazardous, but in modern times the number of shipwrecks due to nonhostile causes has steadily .

No matter the size of the event, Pacific Park can create a custom event package that accommodates any need. From tented tent·ed  
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1. Covered with tents.

2. Sheltered in tents.

3. Resembling a tent.
, intimate areas in the Pier Pavilion and Seaside Cabanas for groups as small as 20, to use of the entire park for up to 2,500 guests, Pacific Park is truly a one-of-a-kind venue that ensures the success of any holiday event. Satisfied customers, including McDonald's, Special Olympics, Microsoft, and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
 Children's Hospital, are a testament to the service and success that a Pacific Park event can guarantee.

Information for this article was provided by Pacific Park. For more information call 310.260.8744 or visit www.pacpark.com.
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Title Annotation:Meeting & Event Guide; Pacific Park's Events Pavilion and Amusement Park
Comment:Alternative meeting destination spotlight: Santa Monica bring holiday festivities back to the beach.(Meeting & Event Guide)(Pacific Park's Events Pavilion and Amusement Park )
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Geographic Code:1U9CA
Date:Oct 25, 2004
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