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JW Marriott Austin
Austin, Texas, United States · JW Marriott · Core Luxury
The JW Marriott Austin opened in 2015 one mile from the Texas State Capitol and was the largest JW Marriott in the world at its debut, with 1,012 rooms and 115,000 square feet of meeting space built to capture South by Southwest, Austin City Limits and corporate conventions, so its ballrooms and lobbies fill each festival week.
- 1,012 rooms
- Opened 2015
- Neighborhood: Downtown
- Rooms from 411 sq ft (38 m²)
About JW Marriott Austin
- Its 115,000 square feet of meeting and event space was built explicitly to capture the South by Southwest, Austin City Limits, and corporate convention business the city had previously been unable to accommodate.
History
Austin was not always a city that needed a thousand-room luxury hotel. Through most of the twentieth century the Texas capital remained a university town with a genteel but relatively modest hospitality infrastructure. The live-music renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s began shifting that calculus, and the technology boom that gathered force through the 1990s and accelerated dramatically in the 2000s transformed Austin into one of the fastest-growing major cities in the United States. By the early 2010s the city's convention and corporate travel market had outpaced its supply of large-format luxury rooms by a significant margin.
The JW Marriott Austin was conceived to close that gap decisively. When it opened in 2015 at 110 East Second Street, it stood as the largest JW Marriott hotel in the world at the time of its opening, with 1,012 guest rooms spread across a contemporary high-rise tower in the heart of downtown. The property sits a single mile from the Texas State Capitol, placing it at the geographic and symbolic center of the state's political and commercial life. Its 115,000 square feet of meeting and event space positioned it immediately as Austin's foremost destination for major conventions and corporate conferences.
The hotel opened just as Austin's profile as a global destination for technology, music, and culture was reaching a peak. South by Southwest, the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and a steady stream of corporate relocations had created year-round demand for luxury accommodations that could accommodate both the touring executive and the leisure traveler drawn by the city's singular creative energy. The JW Marriott Austin's rooftop pool and bar became a quick social fixture, offering views of the downtown skyline that had itself been transformed almost beyond recognition in the years leading up to the hotel's debut.
The property earned AAA Four Diamond status and has maintained it continuously, placing it among the elite tier of Austin hotel offerings alongside properties that preceded it by decades. In a city where the skyline seems to acquire a new tower almost monthly, the JW Marriott Austin remains the address of reference for travelers seeking the combination of scale, service, and central position that defines the best convention-era luxury hotels.
The setting
JW Marriott Austin anchors the corner of Congress Avenue and East 2nd Street at 110 East 2nd Street, occupying a formerly vacant block along Austin's ceremonial main thoroughfare, which runs from the Capitol to the Colorado River. The 34-story tower, completed in 2015, transformed a parking gap into a landmark connecting the Second Street District to Congress Avenue's retail and cultural corridor. The Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge is a five-minute walk south, and the Texas State Capitol 19 minutes on foot or 12 by transit. Several major luxury properties share the same half-mile radius, solidifying the Congress-2nd intersection as Austin's premier luxury accommodation node.
Restaurants and bars
- Corner Restaurant — Bar · Bar
- Dean's Italian Steakhouse — Bar · Bar
- Burger Bar Congress — Restaurant · Hamburger
Amenities
- Outdoor swimming pool
- Non-smoking rooms
- Parking
- Facilities for disabled guests
- Fitness center
- Room service
- Restaurant
- Internet
- Tea/Coffee maker
- Bar
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
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