I frequently have to locate venues(hotel halls, school auditoriums,
retreat places) for events we host in the MD, DC, VA area.

We host 20 people events to 2000 people events.

I currently use a resource www.eventective.com. But its not that comprehensive.

What would be the most stressfree and painless way to locate venues?
Since we are a nonprofit and on a constrained budget, we usually
attempt to do the venue searching on our own. Any service that can do
it for us at a very modest fee would also be useful.

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 09 Apr 2006 05:59 PDT

Are these on the right track?

LocalCatering.com - EVENT LOCATIONS
http://www.localcatering.com/Event-Locations.asp
Receive estimates from venues, hotels & banquet halls. Looks good but
there's a lot of variables, I'll leave it to you to try out.

VenueGuide
http://venueguide.com/

Searched for:
locate venues hotel halls, school auditoriums MD, DC, VA


I have got a site here that would give very wide choice.
Please see their main page.

http://www.uniquevenues.com/sitemap.cfm

One of the option I have found in this site is an offer for 75 cities, California.

It looks ideal for staging programmes etc.

http://uniquevenues.com/facil.detail.rfi.cfm?facil_id=15229

quote
General Description 
CineMeetings offers meeting and events services in a unique movie
theatre environment. With ultra modern A/V, catered meals, comfortable
seating, and plenty of meeting accessories, our meeting packages are
easy to budget, book and coordinate.

Location 
Nearby Cities & Number of Miles:
CineMeetings has theatres in all major cities throughout California. 
Unquote

Like this site has many information.

Hope this will be of use to you.

Regards

This site looks like it could be useful:
http://www.washington.org/index.cfm?blnNavView=True&idContentType=431&idCurrentPage=32