Reno-Sparks Convention Center

Very nice facility, everything we needed for the show. This is a great place to hold large and small events. I stayed at the Atlantis Hotel which is just a bridge walk away, others stayed at local hotels in the area and found it easy to park and enter the event center. The catering was excellent, the service was wonderful and For the record I highly recommend this place.

Great venue, ample parking at Atlantis, good space, lots if workers, great set up for volleyball tournament. Coffee is a favorite item but they only have one coffee spot? Smh! Lots of food courts but for athletic venue I can’t see why they have so much FRIED foods as well as SUGARY items.

This convention center is a very large complex and a great venue for sporting activities and tournaments. There are lots of spaces for competitions, games, vendors, and food. Also, the parking is pretty good for the large number of people that can attend. The parking rate is reasonable and there are even some surrounding areas that are free if you don’t mind a short walk.

It’s horrible here. Drinks and food are over priced. Had to walk to McDonald’s to get a drink. Parking is horrible it’s always so packed. I had to walk a few blocks to get there and parking costs $ 8. I am not coming here again even if I have too. I wouldn’t come here if I were you.

This venue seems to have no structure or plan at all. Booths are set up all over the place in the middle of walkways and there are no tables to sit anywhere! Also none of the auditoriums were labeled so it was difficult to find where to go.
Was here three days in a row for a volleyball tournament and while I enjoyed watching all the teams get ‘er done I was thoroughly frustrated at the lay out. The courts were spaced 10 feet from each other, leaving barely enough room for one row of seats (not enough for all the family members of a team to sit) and a tiny walkway behind causing a lot of difficulty for everyone needing to get by. Pushing, shoving, fighting over seats, spilled drinks, balls flying everywhere; not fun.
Of course I can’t forget to mention them charging an arm and leg for EVERYTHING. You’re not allowed to bring food or drinks inside and this is how they get away with charging $ 7 for a shitty slice of pizza and $ 3 for a snickers. Yeah f-​ing right! They also do not have water in their soda machines just so you’ll have to buy their $ 3 – 4 bottle. Luckily we were allowed to set up tents outside the building and supply our own food. I was also very appreciative of the venue being connected to the Atlantis Hotel and Casino so we were able to walk over and eat there without having to amputate ourselves.
I’ve heard other shows and tournaments have gone just as «well» too. I was sad to find out the next tournament will be held at the same location, uhhg.

I attended all 3 days of the recent 40^th annual Spring Home & Garden Show. The exhibitors were AWESOME! This review is for the building and staff. They started letting exhibitors in at 10 but they had no list of who was registered at the door! They called 4 times on the radio after I patiently told them the name of the organization I was with and each time the reply was «There is no Brian on the US Forestry list.» I never claimed to be with the US Forestry and have no idea where they came up with that multiple times? Eventually, someone walked us back into the building to the registration table. You need to register and get your badge to get in the building but to get your badge you needed to get in the building!!! Crazy. On Sunday I noticed they moved the registration desk to the north entrance. There was no map of the vendors which made finding things difficult. When I did find my group’s booth I sat down fired up my tablet. There was an Exhibitor Internet source and I tried to connect. For one device for one day of internet it costs $ 79.99!!! Are you kidding me?! Unbelievable! Bottled water was $ 4 and a bag of chips was $ 3. Parking is $ 8. There were 4 events going on at the same time yet they didn’t open the permanent food locations. I have been to lots of convention centers and this one felt like this was their very first event. Not impressed at all.

GREAT Facility. Plenty of food stops, lots of space for special events. It was good enough to get WizardCon to say they will be back next year, so you KNOW I am coming!

Still an unattractive building, hell they have had plenty of time to fancy it up since I last complained about it. Does nothing I say have any meaning?
But on to the current auto show, more to the point the toilet.
Good god it was like walking in a swimming pool of urine, do they have no one who checks on these things and keeps the floor up to a certain standard. Man it was gross.
Oh and guys learn to aim a bit better, quit being such pigs.

A large building with a number of rooms for pretty much any kind of convention or event. Nothing to get excited about. Parking is a pain as all they have is surface lots around it. I see a lot of people parking in the Atlantis casino lots and in the shopping center next door to avoid having to pay the parking fee at the convention center.

Eh… it’s fine. Lots of space in there but the food choices are just meh.

I heard parking was a pain, so we decided to just cab it during our trade show. That made the entire experience SO much easier.
I like that the main entrance led right into the showroom, so there were no stairs or hard-​to-​navigate endless corridors or anything. This makes an enormous difference when you are carrying lots of very heavy equipment. We were dropped off out front and were setting up our booth in minutes.
My main complaint is the terrible Wi-​Fi. We wasted an entire day unable to get on the internet. They also had the big coffee cart out for about 10 minutes before it disappeared for the rest of the day, which sucked!

Very nice, clean and open convention center. Save yourself the parking fee and park along the surrounding streets.

I went for a bowling event and the seating was so terrible! If it wasn’t for the seating I would’ve gave it 5 stars!

Nice venue overall. Large open halls/​lobbies with uncomfortable benches. Some outlets available for charging devices.
You aren’t supposed to bring in any food or drink, so even if you sneak some stuff in, you are most likely going to be stuck with the food stands. There are some healthy offerings, burgers looked good, chicken strips were meh. Lemonade stands have refreshing fresh-​squeezed lemonade.
My real gripe with this place is the free WiFi. It is HORRIBLE. The log-​in page says to use it for «light web browsing and checking email,» but it is almost unusable even for that. Apparently you can purchase faster internet for $ 70 A DAY!!! I have never heard of such a blatant ripoff. I would purchase it if it was reasonable, say $ 5 a day. Just writing this is making me angry, so I’m knocking off another star.

This is a good place for all the events. The only thing I would recommend is do not get the burger from the concession stand. My stomach hurt so bad after eating it. The wrap and nachoes and sandwiches are much better. They do charge a lot for thier food which is the other down side.

Cool place. Big. Clean. Never a line in the ladies’ restroom because the design team must have been smart enough to place more than 20 stalls in the ladies’ room… lol. Wait. Maybe there was no line since I attended a gun show here. Hmmm. Either way… it was a win-​win.

I have spent a lot of time at this convention center for some ridiculously odd reason. I think it is one of the nicest that I have been to for all kinds of random events.
My favorite events here are the Gun Shows. They have immensely large rooms and can configure them as needed.
The exterior is pretty much no frills compared to the the Los Angeles CC or Anaheim CC. Heck a bunch of the ones in Vegas are much more flashy as well. Who needs all that crap though. I think this is as good or better and its a much cheaper and better proposition.
The facilities are always totally clean. The food is pretty whatever just like all of the other convention centers.
There is a massive amount of parking available here. It is also adjacent to the Atlantis casino and not far from the airport and numerous other Reno landmarks as well as downtown.

This place is huge! I’m not kidding when I say that I got a lot of exercise when I visited. I broke up my walk though this place with knee jumps and lunges and was barely able to squat for days. It was awesome!
The food here wasn’t impressive. The taco salad was probably the most eye-​catching thing there. I tried to do most of my eating before arriving.
The Atlantis discourages convention center parking on their property (with signs threatening to tow you), so if you’re not keen on paying for parking in the convention center lot, you can take a stab at finding a spot along the side streets or along the big empty field across the street.

The place is Ginormous!!! I keep trying to think of negatives, but the only one is also the main benefit — size. You couldn’t hold a small, intimate relaxicon at the Reno-​Sparks Convention Center, but it;s a great place to hold a huge one.

I’m not wild about this barely adequate convention center, but I do love its location.
Parking for events — like Antique Roadshow, or the Homeshow — isn’t great, but it’s doable.
On the inside of this somewhat outdated facility, they do what they can to capitalize on your captivity. Still, I have found the overpriced food and beverage offerings to be sorely lacking.
What Reno needed to increase tourism was a truly updated, large convention center. What we got was a mini-​me version downtown.