Las Vegas convention centers and trade show venues

Three buildings have real exhibit halls: the Las Vegas Convention Center on Paradise Road, the Venetian Expo (the former Sands Expo) and the Mandalay Bay Convention Center at the south end of the Strip. Nine more venues in our guides run expos in ballrooms: Caesars Forum, Caesars Palace, Paris Las Vegas, MGM Grand, ARIA, Wynn, Resorts World, Fontainebleau and Westgate. The ballroom venues are mostly carpeted, which changes flooring, lifts and freight handling.

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The Las Vegas Convention Center. The LVCVA lists over 2.5 million sq ft of exhibit space in a 4.6 million sq ft building, split into the West, Central, North and South halls on a 200-acre campus. Central Hall alone is 623,058 sq ft. The Venetian Expo is next, at up to 1.035 million sq ft combined, and Mandalay Bay has more than 900,000 sq ft of contiguous halls on one level.

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Yes, for show labor. Nevada is a right-to-work state, but at every venue in our guides the work runs under the general contractor's union agreements. Teamsters Local 631 handles truck unloading, forklifts, empty crates and booth labor not done by your own staff. Electricians and stagehands cover power, lighting and AV. Most resorts also keep electrical, internet and rigging with an in-house provider such as Encore or Edlen.

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At most venues, yes, if the people building it are your full-time employees carrying company ID such as a payroll stub. Recent kits allow it at the LVCC, the Venetian Expo, Mandalay Bay, Caesars Palace, MGM Grand, Wynn and Fontainebleau. Tool and ladder rules vary: NAB 2025 at the LVCC banned exhibitor ladders, while MGM Grand's 2025 manual allowed power tools. At Paris Las Vegas, LVE's 2026 kit allowed only 10 × 10 and 10 × 20 pop-ups. Agency temps never count as staff.

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Our planning rates run from about $165 per hundredweight at Paris Las Vegas and $170 at Caesars Palace and Resorts World to about $195 at the Venetian Expo and Caesars Forum, with the LVCC, Mandalay Bay, ARIA, Wynn and Fontainebleau at about $185. These are Purple planning numbers, not published tariffs. CES 2027 publishes its own: a flat $0.71 per pound in the LVCC and Venetian halls and $1.16 in Venetian suites and meeting rooms. LVE's 2026 kit for a show at Paris listed $126 per hundredweight.

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Use the advance warehouse unless your kit says otherwise. Caesars Palace and Paris Las Vegas will not accept exhibit freight before the show, a 2025 GES show at MGM Grand banned direct shipments, and GES shows at the Westgate have refused them. Direct trucks at the LVCC, the Venetian and Mandalay Bay check in at a marshaling yard and can wait hours for their target time. At Fontainebleau there is no yard, only booked dock slots.

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January and February are the busiest, when CES, World of Concrete, SHOT Show and Design & Construction Week run within a few weeks of each other, and labor and hotels are tightest. October and early November come next, with SupplySide Global at Mandalay Bay, then SEMA at the LVCC and AAPEX at the Venetian. Spring carries NAB Show, ISC West, CinemaCon and JCK.

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The Venetian and Palazzo put more than 7,000 suites above the Venetian Expo. Mandalay Bay, Delano and Four Seasons are attached to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Westgate links to the LVCC North Hall by skywalk, and the ballroom resorts, including Caesars Palace, Paris, MGM Grand, ARIA, Wynn and Encore, Resorts World and Fontainebleau, have their rooms in the same building as the expo. Paris also connects indoors to Horseshoe.

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Harry Reid International (LAS) is about 3 to 5 miles from every venue in our guides. Mandalay Bay is the closest, about 10 minutes by car. The LVCC is about 3.5 miles away, Caesars Forum about 3 miles, the Venetian Expo about 4 miles and Wynn about 5 miles, or 10 to 20 minutes depending on traffic. Allow longer in CES week.

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The resort ballrooms. Wynn's Cristal Ballroom is 83,187 pillarless sq ft under 28 ft, with up to 336 10×10 booths on the venue's chart. MGM Grand's Marquee Ballroom is 92,000 sq ft, the Paris Ballroom 85,204 sq ft under 30–34 ft, ARIA's Bristlecone about 51,500 sq ft, Resorts World's Complex 70,000 sq ft and Westgate's Paradise Event Center 70,000 sq ft. Check ceilings: Caesars Palace's Milano Ballroom is listed at only 17 ft.

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Book dock time where the venue asks: Resorts World gives each truck up to two hours, and Fontainebleau books slots online with no truck staging on property. The LVCC lists more than 5,000 parking spaces, but exhibitor lots vary by show. The Las Vegas Grand Prix runs around November 19–21 in 2026, and Koval Lane, behind Caesars Forum, is part of the circuit, so ship early near race week.

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The Vegas Loop is free between the LVCC's campus stations and ticketed to resort stations such as Resorts World, Westgate and Encore. Resorts World's ride takes 2 to 5 minutes. The Monorail links the LVCC to Westgate, Harrah's/LINQ (next to Caesars Forum) and MGM Grand. Mandalay Bay has no Monorail stop, so plan about 20 minutes by car in a normal week.

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