Neal S. Blaisdell Center

Neal S. Blaisdell Center sits in urban Honolulu, minutes from the downtown business district, major shopping areas and Waikiki hotels. Its Exhibition Hall offers 65,000 square feet of air-conditioned exhibit space, expandable to about 85,000 square feet with adjoining areas, and regularly hosts consumer expos, specialty shows and private wholesale events. An exhibitor entrance and a 14-foot by 13-foot sliding truck door at street level handle load-in and load-out. Other spaces include the Arena, the Concert Hall, the Carla Coray Galleria, the Hawaii Suites, which divide into twelve breakout rooms, and the Pikake, Maui, Oahu and Kauai rooms. Concerts and exhibitions seat up to 8,000 guests. The center also includes the Tom Moffatt Waikiki Shell, an outdoor amphitheater in Kapiolani Regional Park whose lawn holds up to 6,000 guests. On-site parking, in-house catering and equipment rentals for audiovisual needs are available, and on some event dates parking is for event guests only. Rated 4.3 from 2,688 Google reviews, 1,412 of them five stars.