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| - I've been to this convention center for 4 or 5 trade shows over the past 7 years. While it gets the job done, and it's got a monorail station across the parking lot from the main entrance so you can get here from most of the hotels on the strip without driving or taking a taxi (albeit with a bit of walking to get to/from the monorail stations from the various hotels and the convention center itself) it could use some updating both inside and outside as its looking a bit dated.
What's always killed this convention center for me, however, are the lack of restaurant and food options once you arrive here. Your options in the central lobby are a Starbucks, Sbarro and a generic restaurant where they have some OK food options, but seating is horribly lacking, even during smaller conventions. It's especially bad because you can't go there anytime around peak lunch time with more than a few business associates and expect to sit together, and even if you're a party of two, you can't really discuss business because chances are you're stuck sitting with other groups of people at a table for 4 or 6.
They have a smaller restaurant (same generic offering as they have in the lobby, but much smaller) inside the exhibit hall itself, and it's not much better. Your options are chicken tenders and fries, a burger and fries, or a chicken breast sandwich and fries...The chicken breasts are pre-cooked, and as you order the sandwich, they're plucked from a bath of what looks like thin, watery chicken broth to place them in the sandwich - the broth then soaks into the bun, turning it into a soggy mess. Burgers aren't much better.
While they're at it, it'd also be nice to see them add additional restrooms just inside the entrances to the exhibit halls. As it is now, when nature calls you either need to exit the exhibit halls and go out into the main lobby area, or to one of the restrooms at the far ends of the hall, which, depending on the convention or trade show, can be hidden behind booths and vendor displays.
If this convention center would make the effort to update the place a little and add some more viable restaurant options, which might not be exceedingly expensive to do, the difference it would make would be huge.
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