Atlantic City Convention Center

I worked a booth at the 2015 Food Fanatics show in the Atlantic City Convention Center and thought this was a great spot to hold an event. The convention center is connected to the Atlantic City Rail Terminal and is adjacent to the Sheraton hotel so it is easy to get around without a car.
The service elevator is located nearby the parking garage so it was fairly easy to load and unload our show equipment. Vendors had full access to the kitchen so we were able to cook our crab cakes throughout the show. I really appreciated the wash station located on the show floor. Separating the dish washing area prevented chaos in the kitchen
Check out the gardens outside the Atlantic City Convention Center. There is a bronze statue of Bert Parks holding the Miss America crown. When you place your head inside the crown a recorded message plays through the hidden speakers «There She Is, Miss America».

I am not a convention type person. Yet, I attend conventions from time to time. I loathe the floor where everyone hawks their products. That is why I shun these things. I have no desire to leave with a bag full of useless stuff.
Nevertheless, I was assigned to attend a convention for a training session. This convention center is easy to access, park, and attend. The place is clean and easy to navigate. I suppose nothing lacked in accommodations.
I will be back because this is the closest «real» convention center to me and I sometimes have to attend these things.
FWIW, parking is less expensive outside the center by at least $ 10.

I came here for AC Boardwalk Con and have nothing but good things to say about the center. Parking is easy and the staff are all helpful. Can’t really ask for more from a convention center

It’s HUGE; came to an event here with a friend. There was room to spare here. I wished I’d had some rollerbades on my feet to get around. The food they had here was okay but very pricey. Ladies rooms were all right & there was ample seating space here, which you don’t always get in places (including the Javitz Center in NYC). Close to public transit as well.

Place is HUGE. It’s nice that the NJ Transit train terminal from 30^th St Station in Philly is attached. There is also a huge parking garage attached. I was just there for AC Beer Fest. The entrance corridors, will call windows and exhibition hall doors are plentiful. The place is lacking character and uniqueness, but it does get the job done.

Simply put… This place needs a complete overhaul. A facelift. It needs to completely come out of the 80’s and find its place in the 21^st century.

This is a fairly decent convention center. It’s close to shopping and only a 10 minute walk to hotels like Bally’s and Caesar’s.
The inside was clean and the staff directing people were very nice.
The hall that I was in for the beer festival was huge! I actually appreciated that it had a concrete floor because there was food and beer being spilled.
There were actually plenty of restrooms, although I saw all these women waiting in line for one when they could have walked about 15 yards to another one where there was no line.

I was here for a beerfest and there were not enough ladies restrooms. I probably spent about a quarter of the night in line for the ladies room. The place is huge and is overall a nice facility. I like that you can’t smoke inside and they have a designated smoking section outside. But I went outside to the smoking section to accompany one of my friends and they make you go through this opening in the back that has large plastic things that resemble what smacks your car in a car wash. I guess this is where trucks pull in to unload. The hanging plastic objects that you had to push out of the way were pretty dirty and gross. And the outside smoking section was packed. They did a good job of making smokers feel like dirty outcasts. And getting a cab at the end of the event to the Borgata was impossible. I stopped 3 cabs and none of them were willing to drive to the Borgata. We had to hang around at a nearby bar for over an hour until the crowd leaving the event let up.

Went here for a beer fest, this place is HUGE, easy to get in and fairly well structured
Bathrooms were clean. Nice and spacious a few complaints though.
No coat check, this is a failure on the facilities end AND for the event organizers.
Coat checks pay for them selves there is no reason, there WAS TONS of open space, even if you had a ropped off area with free standing racks it would do well.
Hire 4 people and a guard or two and charge $ 3 — 5 bucks for the coat check it will pay for itself at big events and make money!!! there is no reason for this on a cold day cause its nice and warm inside.
Problem 2. Cell phone reception you will not get ANY no one in my group could get a signal inside. (At&T, Verizon and Virgin mobile in my group)
It was terrible if your at an event you want people posting about it taking pics showing off the event and the convention center, basic marketing 101… get the word out. you take peoples cells away and your just losing out on free marketing .
Get a cell phones booster /​repeater most major centers have them if not a deal with carriers to have them put them in for free in exchange for using your roof as a tower.
Do something because it was TERRIBLE!

It was a pretty good midsize convention center. Actually, it was a relief that it was not one of those colossally sized venues that take a half hour to walk from one end to the other. The facilities were relatively modern and very clean.
My only complaint is that the coffee service was not modern, I would be sure to pick up something from the Starbucks a block away on the way in. Since I am working/​presenting at a convention I need a little more than a cup of joe pumped out of an industrial sized container — this is 2012, there should be an actual espresso machine in a facility like this. It was nice to have free wifi though.

This is one gigantic warehouse of a convention center. It’s most stellar feature must be the included train station. Leave the car behind and ride the rails to Atlantic City.

We were recently vendors at the auto auction at the convention center. Overall, the place is very clean and modern. Our experience is probably different than for most other events going on here in that they had to leave the bay doors open to allow cars to enter/​exit the entire weekend so it was FREEZING inside. Being on concrete floors the whole time did not help at all. However, they kept the place very clean despite the large number of people coming in and out over the 4 days. The food was over-​priced ($ 19 for a cheesesteak, hotdog, and two 20 oz sodas, ugh), but it was actually pretty good.
The only complaint I have about our experience is that the wifi network went down on Friday morning and never came back up. Now, I get it — there were a lot of people there who were probably trying to get on the network at the same time. However, IT’S A CONVENTION CENTER! Shouldn’t they anticipate these things? With the wifi down, it meant that the center’s food vendors couldn’t accept credit card payments. We as vendors had counted on the wifi so we could place direct orders on our webistes and lost business because we couldn’t.
However, even with this problem, our experience as a whole was quite nice. The staff was very helpful and pleasant, the restrooms were all clean and in good repair, and it was very easy to get to/​from the convention center. We are looking forward to our next event there.

Over the years I have been here a few times for conventions that my company has participated at. The convention center itself is clean and modern, is easy to get to, and is connected to a very nice Sheraton hotel. The Tun Tavern is across the street and is a good place to grab lunch as with most conv centers the food options are pretty lame inside. There are also constant taxis and jitney service running right outside of the entrance to take people to the casinos or hotels in the area. There is also a NJ Transit rail station here.
The center itself is large and well air conditioned too.

The AC Convention Center is huge and modern. It seems like it would be a great space for any of the usual types of conventions housing sober, suit-​clad participants. My experience at the Center was for the 2011 Beer Festival, and may have been a bit different.
I give them props because the center was clean when we arrived; I’m sure it was no small feat to get it that way, as they had Session 1 of the festival just a couple short hours prior. However, as Session 2 charged on, the floor became more and more covered in spilled brews, dropped food, and let’s-just-hope-that’s-not-pee-in-the-corner. And don’t even get me started on the ladies’ room. The lines aside (I mean, it’s a festival for drinking, so yes, the queue is going to be long), the stalls were the worst I’ve ever seen at a public event. There were wet floors and wet toilet seats, TP everywhere except where it should be: on the roll, and a lack of paper towels at the sinks.
When you’re an attendee at an event like this, the actual space can only really be judged by its size and its cleanliness. It seems to me it would have been well worth it to stick a couple extra workers on those cleaning carts that sat idly outside the bathroom doors.

This place is large and in charge! I have only gone here for the Atlantic City Car shows in February. It’s the perfect size to house the hundreds of cars and vendors they receive. It’s also in close proximity to the casinos, so you sold me!

Participated in an Expo/​Show at the Convention Center for a couple of days this past week. The Convention Center is a pretty darn big building. We were in only one the halls — and each hall is huge!
Thank goodness the AC works well in the building. During set up the first day, the doors were open for all of the stuff they were bringing in — it was very uncomfortable in the building during set up. But for the two days of the show it was cool and comfortable throughout the show.
The Convention Center also has a rail station for the the NJ Transit system.