20th WORLD GOLDEN OLDIES RUGBY FESTIVAL
Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, General Pueyrredón Partido, Argentina
Welcoming Reception
DAY 1d
Sunday September 21st, 2014
At 77,500 square metres (834,000 sq ft) of floor space, the NH Gran Hotel Provincial easily accomodated the rugby festivals 3,500 participents, comprising 132 teams from 17 countries.
The Welcoming Reception would have been a whole lot more enjoyable if they had (a) seating, (b) tables to put your drinks and food on, and (c) served the "finger food" in petite bite sized portions. Other than that, it was a pretty good night. 
I picked up this obscure fact about our hotel from one of the staff members - the NH Gran Hotel Provincial was completed in 1948 and was long the largest in Argentina. While the neighboring Casino Central, which opened in 1939, was the largest casino in the world by floor space, until the 1990 opening of Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, in Atlantic City
