A planner holding 20 to 60 rooms in Austin works around one closed venue and a revenue drop in the hotels nearest it. That window runs to 2029.
The Austin Convention Center is closed for construction. Its operator states the $1.6 billion replacement grows rentable space from 365,000 to 620,000 square feet, with completion expected in 2028 and proposals accepted for 2029 and beyond. The Palmer Events Center at 900 Barton Springs Road stays open, with 131,000 total square feet and 70,000 square feet of divisible exhibit space, per Visit Austin.
How this list is ordered
These ten properties are ordered by guest room count as filed in state hotel occupancy tax returns. That table is the only published per-property room count for the whole market. It lists 336 Austin hotels and 37,013 registry rooms, up 596 rooms or about 1.6 percent from the year before.
Filed room counts can lag a renovation, so treat each number as the filed value and confirm it in the contract. Addresses come from the groupRooms city directory, which lists 472 properties in Austin.
1. Fairmont Austin — 1,048 rooms
The largest block ceiling in the market sits next door to the convention center site at 101 Red River Street. A 1,000-person programme can be housed under one roof without splitting across buildings. Filings show $68.4 million in trailing receipts, down 10.5 percent. Ask how much of the block can be held on adjacent floors.
2. JW Marriott Austin — 1,012 rooms
110 East 2nd Street, 1,012 rooms, and more than 100,000 square feet of its own meeting space. The filing table reports $88.4 million in trailing receipts, up 12.6 percent, the market's largest earner. Its own breakout capacity lets the block and the sessions sit in one building.
3. Hilton Austin — 800 rooms
500 East 4th Street, across Fourth Street from the convention center site. State filings list 800 rooms and $42.6 million in trailing receipts against $54.5 million the year before, a drop of 21.9 percent. TexasHotelSearch lists a report of up to $38 million in city loans for this hotel through the closure.
4. Austin Marriott Downtown — 613 rooms
304 East Cesar Chavez Street. Filings show $47.3 million in trailing receipts, down 5.2 percent. The room count suits a mid-size block that wants downtown walkability, under the same ownership family as the JW Marriott.
5. Omni Barton Creek Resort & Club — 514 rooms
8212 Barton Club Drive, west of downtown. Trailing receipts of $45.6 million, up 1.5 percent, the strongest performance among the convention-dependent group. A resort setting costs a shuttle ride and buys meeting space plus outdoor function areas on one site.
6. The LINE Hotel Austin — 428 rooms
111 E Cesar Chavez St, on the south edge of downtown. The filing table flags two implausible single months here, so read the room count and the location rather than the revenue line.
7. Westin Austin Downtown — 366 rooms
310 East 5th Street, three blocks from the convention center site. Trailing receipts of $26.8 million, up 2.1 percent. This is the smallest full-service property within walking distance, so it works as spillover for a group that has filled a larger house.
8. Omni Austin Hotel — 314 rooms
700 San Jacinto, listed in the filings as Omni Austin Hotel At Fic Centre. Trailing receipts of $33.9 million with no comparable prior-year figure published. Confirm the trading name and the room count in the contract.
9. Four Seasons Hotel Austin — 291 rooms
98 San Jacinto Blvd, on Lady Bird Lake. Trailing receipts of $43.5 million, up 3.7 percent, or $150,000 per key, the highest yield in the filing table. Small block ceiling, high spend per delegate.
10. Austin Proper Hotel and Residences — 244 rooms
600 West 2nd Street. Trailing receipts of $40.0 million, up 5.3 percent. The smallest block on this list and the one closest to the Second Street restaurant district.
Dates that collide with demand
October runs on two events. TexasHotelSearch reports that the F1 United States Grand Prix and the Austin City Limits Festival make October roughly 13 percent of annual receipts, so an October block competes with the city's heaviest leisure demand. SXSW 2026 ran compressed to a single week and dispersed into downtown hotels.
New supply lands in August 2026, when the 252-room 1 Hotel Austin opens in the 74-story Waterline tower.
Contract terms to set in this market
Blocks, a room-block software vendor, publishes a guide to the terms. The guide describes a group-favourable floor at 80 percent or below, measured at arrival on a cumulative room-night basis, with damages net of the hotel's saved variable cost and credit for rooms the hotel resells. Its glossary defines the cutoff date as the deadline for the final rooming list, typically 21 to 30 days before the event, and states that attrition is calculated per night rather than in aggregate. The glossary's rolling-attrition entry releases 20 percent of a block at 90 days, another 10 percent at 60 days and locks the remainder at 30 days.
Ask each property for the rate, the deposit schedule, the minimum-stay rule and the release dates in writing. No Austin source publishes those terms for any single hotel, so treat everything above as a question to put to the sales office.
Comparing rates across the ten
groupRooms advertises 103,857 hotels across 46 states, no fees to the group, a 15 to 40 percent band off rack rates, 50 or more hotels per request and a 24 to 72 hour response window. Those are platform marketing figures.
The platform names two restricted-state lists of its own. Its home page FAQ reads Florida, Hawaii, Iowa and Washington, and its help page adds California. The Austin directory lists 472 properties. Send one request and set the quotes side by side before signing.
