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| - LOVE Las Vegas Convention Center. It's HUGE, though, so be sure you know what hall your trade show/convention is in before you park! Unless it's CES, of course, since that takes up the whole thing! I've been coming here for years and have attended many shows, Amusement Expo (in all its incarnations), CES, Pizza Expo, Bar & NIghtclub Expo, etc... Yeah, I'm a weird trade show junkie.
I usually park across the street and walk across the skybridge to get inside. That lot is usually $10, but for CES, it might be more - because we all get ripped off when CES is rolling. We used to park on Debbie Reynolds for free, but I get lazier as I get older. You can also park over at LVH for free.
Okay, enough about parking. On the inside, it's really clean and nice. Every show is a little different and the configuration always seems to change up. It's awesome that they can actually do so many different configurations. There are lots of bathrooms, and even a food court of sorts on the North end with snack bar and Starbucks. For some reason that place can close early, like 3pm, though, so definitely check on that if you're counting on it for your food! Right across from there is a Harley Davidson store. I don't know why. That is a strange one. I like that since you're in Vegas, you can just bring your beer with you everywhere, too, so we run out to the car and grab some cold ones for walking around beers while we're enjoying a show!
Like someone else said here, if you take a taxi here, fuggedaboudit.. you will wait in a hellacious line to get out of there.
If you want to stay close to the convention center, there are plenty of hotels around it... as mentioned the LVH is right next door, across the street you have several Marriott properties and there are some others in a short radius around the convention center. The closest strip hotels are the Wynn/Encore and the Riviera. They are walkable, but it's a longish walk!
Anyway, great convention center, clean, fun, lots of great shows going on there.
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