Alex Madonna Expo Center

Best large indoor venue within many, many miles. Great team to work with.

Awsome Christmas tradition a must for everyone come and enjoy the Christmas spirit grab a drink at the fabulous bar or a yummy dinner at the cooper kettle

Several of us gals went to the Devil Makes Three concert last Friday night. The tickets said the concert started at 6pm. Nothing about an opening act. They lined us up in the parking lot and didn’t let us in the building until after six. The opening act came on after 7pm with the DMT coming on after another long wait. They let in all ages and sold hard alcohol with no way of controlling who was drinking it in spite of the wrist bands. No air, no place to sit at all, no food and water was $ 2 a bottle. The smoking section was a joke outside. Someone clearly dropped the ball on this one. Very unsafe and many people were so drunk they were passing out where they stood. The DMT band was great but we had to leave early due to the crowd and all that it created. I suggest you rethink how to put on another concert as this was a nightmare! Not coming back.

Attended the «Devil Makes 3» concert last night. Spent two hours trying to maintain a space close to the stage and when the band finally came out people started pushing their way to the stage in front of all those people who’d been waiting. I resisted one group of three young men and one them attacked me from behind, hitting me numerous times on the head. My wife and neighbors pulled the guy off me. Two «Event Staff» were within 8 feet of us and did nothing. Naturally we decided to leave (my wife actually decided; I was too shocked to make any decisions). As we got to the back of the room the three sheriff deputies who were standing there when we arrived were still standing in the same spot, grouped together. My wife reported that I’d been assaulted and they just stared at us like we were aliens. I just wanted out of there, and realized these guys were not going to help us, so I grabbed my wife’s hand and pulled her out of the building. Once home I began to get my wits about me and called the sheriff to make a formal complaint.
If anyone saw any of this, up at the left front of the stage during DM3’s first song, please let me know here on Unilocal.I need witnesses because I intend to pursue this. This should not have happened. The sheriffs were useless, as was the «Event Staff». They should’ve been up at the front when the music started because that’s where the problems were, not at the back of the room.
Earlier when I went to the restroom a woman was in the men’s room. An Event Staff person was in front of me and told her if he saw her in there again he’d «throw her out of the building». Seriously? How about escorting her out right then and there. She remained long enough to wash her hands while men were urinating behind her. Insane. I thought about the reverse: a man in the ladies room… wonder what that would’ve been like.
The whole situation at this place is ridiculous, or at least it was last night. People should feel safe at a concert. We didn’t see anyone «patted down», which is either good or bad, but what if one of those guys had a knife? I was lucky to escape with three lumps on the back of my head but I can still hear the fists hitting my skull.

My husband and I went to the Devil Makes Three concert last night. Music and crowd were great but the venue was unsafe. It was incredibly hot and humid with no ventilation. The band was forced to constantly swap instruments because the heat + humidity were causing them to go out of tune. I can not imagine how miserable it would be in the summer. In addition, there was no security and poor lighting in the field parking. No bag searches or pat downs. It seems like a dangerous combination. Unfortunately, people could not drink much alcohol because the lines to both the bar and the restroom was incredibly long.
I hope the Expo Center can make some changes so that our area can have more concerts in the future.

Came here to see The Postal Service (SO worth the 3 hour drive from LA… they were AMAZING). Since this place is an Expo Center and not a concert venue, it was just standing room with an elevated stage. The sound system was surprisingly good.
Maybe because they are really serious about patting down people as they enter the venue, I didn’t see the usual cloud of smoke on the concert floor or inhaled that much 2^nd hand weed. I believe they have a smoking area outside.
The venue is located on the grounds of the Madonna Inn. Once you see the Madonna Inn, you still have drive about half a mile down to the Expo Center. The traffic is only 2 lane so getting out of the venue can be a pain the butt. Plenty of parking on the Expo ground (it was free for us… but they can definitely be jerky and charge for it).

It has been a long time, since I WAS TREATED LIKE A FARM ANIMAL by a business but somehow the Madonna Expo Centers staff has accomplished this. I went to a REGGAE concert last night obviously not the most volatile crowd so I expected the staff to be orderly but polite, not the case at all. To start off the parking was incredibly far. I don’t understand why they could not have hired local bike peddlers to have at least an option if one is wearing heels/​wedges as I was. When I finally arrived to the building I had to wait in an unassigned line for over 30 minutes. As we got closer to the opening a staff member would yell at the crowd like a ravaged gorilla to move over! The yelling was not necessary at all since the majority of the crowd was sober, peaceful and cooperative. THEY THEN SEPARATED THE BOYS FROM THE GIRLS in to two lines! I felt like a I was in some sort of BOOT CAMP! No one had a clue as of what was next, but I figured at some point we would be searched and that was why they must have «separated» us! Once we made it in, I attempted to use the restroom, I then had to wait another 15 minutes. Inside the bathroom was a female staff member YELLING AT ALL THE WOMEN TO HURRY UP AND PEE so she could move the line along… really, really! Some sort of fight broke out in the bathroom! Three male staff members rampaged in. Why couldn’t they hire more female security so the women didn’t feel so exposed. I doubt the understaffing and ill equipped event was not due to a lack of profit as some fellow patrons payed upwards of 75 $ for their ticket! The drinks where awful and cost an upwards of 8 dollars. The bartenders where rude too. It was a alarming, that such a «sophisticated» venue could allow this to happen. Although I live less than 15 minutes away from this venue I WILL NEVER ATTEND ANOTHER EVENT AT THE MADONNA EXPO CENTER AGAIN! and BTW the venue inside is rundown and hideous I have been to better Expo centers in impovrished towns in Mexico!