Came for the SoCal Gaming Expo this year. I was impressed with how organized it was to get in compared to prior events I have attended. They had someone directing the line and multiple people checking tickets so we got inside way faster. The gaming expo itself was exactly as expected. Tons of different vendors selling old/new games, consoles, and collectibles. I had a good time. read more

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I attended America's Got Talent live at the Pasadena Convention Center, courtesy of an invitation from James Glen, Manager of Customer Service. He ensured that I had a great experience with good seats & exceptional service, making me feel valued. The talent show was enjoyable. I appreciated the care provided by James. It was a fun day! read more

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This convention center is surrounded by different parking structures, restaurants, and office buildings. Parking is best in their structures. The parking fee for the convention center is $25, but depending on how long you stay, the surrounding lots may be cheaper. Inside the convention center, they have multiple water stations where you can fill your own bottle or they have some disposable cups for you to drink from. I've only seen one charging station for your electronics by the door im the foyer of the main conference hall. Bathrooms were plentiful and the staff are nice. At the back of the conference hall, there is a food concession area where you can purchase food and drinks. Throughout the halls, they have small satellite vendors that sold drinks and snacks. I advise you to bring a handheld fan, neck fan, or shirt fan to get you through the conference floor. It gets pretty warm. I know I will be back for further conventions. read more

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I am from Pasadena and I love all the events at the convention center ever since I was a child! I came this past Saturday for the Pasadena Education Expo that my amazing friend invited me to. It was very nice and I really admired how organized it was. The workshop rooms were very nice and clean and very spacious! This is a great venue for many things because of the size and conference rooms. The parking lot are close so it's convenience. They have handicap accessibility as well and restrooms on each level. I will forever come back to the Pasadena Convention Center! I had a good time and no hassle. read more

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The small business expo was hosted at the Pasadena Convention Center. The venue for the business expo was great, very spacious even though there was alot of people at the event. Each break out rooms was set up where you didn't hear noise from the outside. The large lunch and table venue room was very spacious and the lunch was good. There was a fals fire alarm that confused people, but the convention center staff handled with quickly where people didn't have to evacuate. read more

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Always had a nice experience at the Pasadena Convention Center. We attended a few events, conventions over the years and had a good time. I love the location, in the middle of all Pasadena, easy to find, nice building, big, it can be crowded based on the event you attend here, but that comes with the territory. Clean restrooms, water fountains around, although sometimes you need to hunt for one! Many restaurants around. I used to park here, but lately we've been taking the subway since Del Mar stop is very close by. read more

I never thought I would leave a yelp review for somebody at a parking station, but Alex absolutely deserves it. I think people really forget about appreciating hospitality wherever they go. I'm trying to change that by noticing people's interpersonal skills wherever I go. Personally, I think he could be an excellent manager! read more

The Pasadena Convention Center is a nice venue overall, but there are a few things worth noting for anyone planning to visit. The facility itself is clean and well-maintained, but the air conditioning could definitely be stronger. I have been here several times for the Front Row Card Show and it tends to get stuffy inside, which can make it uncomfortable especially since this event tends to get crowded. There's only one concession stand, so lines can get long if the event is packed. I have never tried the food, but last event, they were selling burgers and chicken tenders with fries and they look pretty good. They were resonably priced too for $13-$14, which is good for a convention center. Parking is pretty straightforward. There's a lot across the street for $12, which is convenient and within a short walking distance to the entrance. All in all, the convention center works well for shows and expos but a stronger AC system and a few more food options would make the experience much better. read more

Came here for a speaker series event for the first time and was wonderfully surprised by the service, atmosphere and size. The auditorium is 3 levels and I decided to forgo my 2 level seats for a third level that was empty. I still got to see and hear the speaker. Getting in and out was easy as was the parking nearby. read more

Move over, clunky and too-big LA Convention Center, with nowhere to eat or park. The smaller (but still huge) Pasadena Convention Center is ready to serve. Located in friendly Old Town Pasadena, here are some Convention Center highlights: 1. Easy parking! Located across the street on Green is the Paseo Colorado mall and parking lot (enter on Green, 90 minutes free with validation, $12 max). Further east on Green is one of Pasadena's cheapie city lots (enter on Green, two hours $2, $12 maximum). 2. Easy shop and grub. The adjacent (literally across the street) Paseo Colorado mall has a dozen eateries, from the low budget (Rubios) to the fancier (Great Maple). A zillion other places to eat on and off Green Street. 3. Overnight? The sleepy Pasadena Sheraton adjoins the Convention Center, complete with friendly pool, small bar and restaurant. Check out the funky first-floor rooms with stairs in the room! There is also a new Hyatt Place one block east on Green. I help administer the California Bar Exam, which fills the Convention Center twice a year. Convention staff do a great job keeping the facility clean and are very responsive. Also, CatCon is here! My cat gives four paws. read more

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Have been on an AGT (Americas Got Talent) kick and filming season 19 currently. The venue is quite nice, located conveniently across from a mini outdoor mall that has an antique store, food, and coffee! The venue is quite small, yet big at the same time. The seats were super comfy, and the seat location was optimal for seeing the entire stage. The bathroom stalls were clean and well stocked. We were the first audience of the day, and things were running quite behind. The doors were heavy for entrance, the carpet was well cleaned, and the staff was all busy but nice. First time visiting the auditorium, and they do not allow food or drinks (aside from bottled water) There were a few events (3 in total) that day, and parking was simply $15 flat which is cheaper than a baseball game parking, by half! The parking structure is a bit weird, but most of the parking is underground. read more

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I was at the Pasadena Convention Centre for a market research job. This was my first time here. The grounds were clean and the employees friendly and informative. The attendant told me the best spot to park, event was at the top of a flight of stairs. Restroom was clean. It was a weekday without any other events there so parking was a quick and easy exit. Looks like a fantastic venue for events like ComicCon. Parking was free for the event I was there for, so not sure how much the fee normally is. read more

This was my 2nd yeat attending the front row card show here . Its well ventilated, very bright and parking structures located and 3 of 4 corners mean no long walks. All day parking is only $12 which is a steal for events . The bathrooms were cleaned frequently & its really easy to navigate once inside . If you attend events here its pretty care free . read more

This place is a mess came here for the anime convention and wtf 2 hour wait to get in !!! not even the MUCH bigger LA convention center is this disorganized what a joke this place SUCKS !!! read more

The convention center has a lot of history. Michael Jackson first performed the moonwalk here. I have been to several concerts here, and attending a ABA conference. I have never had any issues, and there are several restaurants in the nearby area. It is very helpful that everything is within walking distance. read more

The Pasadena convention center is located near nice hotels and restaurants in the area making it a good conference location. The actual facility though has one major fault. Some of the conference rooms are located in the basement of the concrete building resulting in no cell service from pretty much every provider. On top of that, the Wi-Fi costs $11 for 4 hrs or $17 for all day and it's only 3 mbps up/down (that's slow). With no cell service, I had to pay it since I needed to stay connected for work, as did most of the other attendees. One positive, the food provided for breakfast was very good, especially the tator tots. read more

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The event at the Pasadena Convention Center was near by the Exhibit Hall and Ballroom to host the GMis Conference read more

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Attended a conference here. The grounds were clean, the civic theatre is very pretty, easy to get around, and plenty of parking.

I was here for multiple occasions either a Horror Con or Power Rangers Morphicon or something smaller like Pasadena Comic Con itself, the price has gone up since then, much smoother to get here compared to LA convention center, easier to find parking, staffs were nicer here depending on the events, they got more celebrity guests to come all the time because it's easy to get away from LA traffic, looking forward to get more stuffs signed and pictures taken in the future. read more

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I rate the Pasadena Convention Center a solid five stars. It is very well organized, located in a safe, low-key area, tons of affordable parking and restaurants nearby, friendly staff and I am happy with the fact that they host AlienCon. We will be back. read more

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We went here one day for a live taping of Americas Got Talent! It's very spacious and they have plenty of parking relatively close for a reasonable price. There are two levels of seating inside and the stage is decently sized. They didn't allow us to bring in food or drink so eat beforehand. I found the restrooms to be pretty clean as well. read more

I went to the Pasadena Convention Center for the first time this past weekend. I attended Season's Screamings. I had a good experience. The convention center is nice and was easy to navigate. I parked at the Del Mar station's underground parking garage for my visit. read more

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Last Sunday I attended Monsterlapaloosa 2024. It was Awesome. Autographs and selfie pics were very expensive for some celebs.Others let you take a freebie(Doug Bradley) very cool guy.lots of costumed people walking around outside and inside. Many booths with all kinds of interesting items for sale. read more

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Here for Yoga Expo and think it's a great venue. The issue is the speed of checking people in. I wish that moved faster and that's on the event organizer. They only had 2 people scanning people in on their phones. The digital signage outside the ballroom/meeting rooms are helpful. Space seems clean. They don't really have chairs or benches outside the meeting spaces for you to rest. There should be better communication between the staff and the meeting organizer. I heard a staff person say they were told events are first come first served but when I mentioned people need a reservation ticket for this specific event they said that's the first they heard of it. No issues with staff but meeting organizer should have told them earlier that ticket reservations are needed so there are no surprises. The staff should get a rundown of all the events in each room. read more

Visited for Anime Con and *mostly* it seemed well-laid out and organized. Place was clean and spacious. Downsides were the parking situation which was a million cars funneled through like 1 staff member. I think it took us an hour just to get from the street into the lot. Just completely unreasonable. Unable to unload near the elevators even though I'd been told we would have that option. Difficult to carry all our vendor stuff by hand up stairs and around buildings. :( At the time we visited, covid vaccinations were a requirement to entering but when I mine was checked, I noticed the staff member didn't really check the person in front of me. It was overall an okay experience, but there are definitely things that could have been better organized in a couple situations. read more

Been here over the years for different reasons, several times, for training and a few times, due to sports competitions. On each event, parking was easy and convenient. Finding a place to eat was never an issue either. The parking is so close to any room or hall you need to be in. read more

Great venue overall, definitely no frills and downright plain & Simplistic. Acoustics were well received and definitely gets some brownie points just from that alone. The inconsistent pounding from a dated furnace yields a lost star; pretty annoying from time to time - you never knew when it was gonna hit! Temperature was spot on perfect with nice flow of air. Seats and view-ability to the speaker was awesome! Starbucks is in same conference center, which is certainly a plus! Overall really great experience coming here for your next conference or workshop that you need to attend! read more

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Attended the Pasadena Half Marathon Race Expo as well as the California Science Teachers Association Conference at the Pasadena Convention Center. 3 stars!!! The Pasadena Convention Center was added on to the Pasadena Civic Auditorium about 10 years ago, but it still looks brand spanking new! Kudos to the staff who keep making it look like it was just built a couple of years ago. There are 3 huge ballrooms for exhibit space as well as a good number of good size meeting rooms. I've had plenty of time inside Ballrooms A and B for the race expo for the Pasadena Half Marathon, but it was nice to finally get to experience being inside a few of the meeting rooms when I attended the California Science Teachers Conference. Yes, it's an okay place to attend a conference or convention, but there's definitely room for improvement. For a lot of the workshops for the science teachers conference, most meeting rooms ran out of seats, and a good number of attendees ended up standing up in the back or sitting on the floor. Definitely more seats could have fit in the meeting rooms if only smaller sized tables were used instead of giant tables which took up too much space. Also, I had so much trouble logging in to the free wifi. My phone could not even find the wifi depending on where you are in the convention center. Didn't mind at all using my own data, but unfortunately TMobile service did not really work on the first floor area of the conference center. Concessions are available inside the ballrooms where one can buy snacks and drinks, but there's also a Starbucks northwest corner of the convention center at Marengo and Green Street. There's also so many food places to choose from by simply walking across the street to Paseo Mall or walking 10 minutes or less to Old Town Pasadena. Park at the Paseo Mall and get your parking validated at one of the restaurants to get a little price break on the all day parking price. The all day parking price for a Friday was $9, but it was only $6 with restaurant validation. read more

I was there for the "Awaken the spirits" function. I had a good time. Everything was cool. Not sure how to review this place but I'm giving 4 stars because i don't have complaints. read more

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Once a year sometime in late September or early October, Mutual Trading Company sponsors a Japanese Food & Restaurant Expo where different food & Sakè (sah keh) vendors are invited to show, demonstrate their restaurant related products as well as giving out different samples of food & Sake for the restaurant trade. This event is not open to the general public, but only open to restaurant owners & their associated employees. Chefs' knives, food products to enhance & stream line restaurant food production, freezers, refrigerator units that chill Sashimi & Sushi display cases, fish venders giving out samples of Maguro & Hamachi, there is a plethora of products catering to the Japanese restaurant trade. For many years, this trade show was on the grounds of Mutual Trading Company's warehouse & office on Crocker in downtown Los Angeles. However, in the last seven years, the Japanese Food & Restaurant Expo has been at the Pasadena Convention Center on Green Street. Large, adequate space so that there is no place where it gets too overly crowded. I was impressed with the number & quality of Sakè vendors bring with them samples of Sakè, Plum Wine, Sparkling Sakè (The new darling of novelty in the Sakè world). Representatives were from Dassai, Kubota, Born to name a few of the premier Sake producers as well as other extremely competent but less well known Sakè brewers. These representatives know their Sakè, so they are capable of answering technical and culinary related topics relative to the restaurant perspective. This is a must for the owners of Japanese Restaurants & their employees since it allows them to keep au currant on different aspects of Japanese food technology & restaurant associated products & equipment. Save the date: September 28, 2019 read more

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Came here for a convention. It's big it does have a balcony. At the balcony it's like an opera scene which is cool. The ceiling art is pretty. There's also an ice rink next to it. Also the Sheraton is probably the closest hotel. We parked across the street for the convention and Friday it was $6 and Saturday & Sunday it was $9 unless you validate your ticket it will be $6. read more

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Pros: 1. Good for smaller conventions 2. Conveniently next to Paseo Colorado (shopping) and several restaurants 3. The parking structure has free charging for electric vehicles Cons: 1. Limited parking and signs to find it are not that clear/visible read more

This is the cutest little convention center I've ever visited! We were here for the 2019 SoCal Retro Gaming Convention, and when we arrived on Day 1 (Saturday), the line to get in wrapped around the corner, clear down the block. They managed the flow of people well, though, ensuring that the line moved at a decent clip and that the lobby wasn't too overrun with lost attendees. The convention took over a good number of the smaller ballrooms, as well as two exhibit halls. The halls were split into exhibit and vendor space and had a spot sectioned off for gaming. The other hall had the arcade, which was crowded and overrun with gaming enthusiasts (free arcade games will do that), but it never got to feel Comic Con-crowded. The staff was friendly and helpful, and did a good job of corraling the attendees that wanted to stand in a 3-hour line for a limited-edition POP! The restrooms were clean (at least, the women's restrooms were; my husband had grody stories from the men's restrooms), and the Starbucks flowed right into the center, which was convenient. The one strange thing that still confuses me is that the only had one door available for entry and exit. It never got clogged, but I expected to have a few more options to get on and off the floor. I can't speak to parking, as our first day there, we walked over from the hotel, and the second day, we were lucky enough to find street parking (and parking is free on Sundays). read more

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Attended Cat Con in 2018 and more recently Brick Fest on Saturday, August 24, 2019. Restrooms could use a little overhaul. So could some of the attitudes of some of the workers. My husband suggested that they could be volunteers. It doesn't matter. He agreed. We're still married. ;) Concession stand was open for Brick Fest. It's nice to have it open, but honestly we had our sight on other places nearby... which there are plenty of eateries within walking distance of only a few blocks. I suggest that you park at Paseo Colorado shopping center just across the street. If you park at the Convention Center, it's $15 daily. At the Paseo Colorado, the "first 90 minutes are free with validation at participating stores. The daily max without validation is $9. Happy conventioning! :) read more

They have a good mix of large ballrooms and smaller meeting rooms, all with comfortable seating. The parking within the building is sooo expensive and kind of confusing but I didn't know where else to park. The facilities are all very clean and the location is great - there are plenty of places within walking distance to go for lunch or to grab a drink after your convention. It would be nice if they had a small cafe on-site to grab a quick lunch if you don't have time to go to the restaurants nearby or to buy coffee (the line at Starbucks is always crazy long). read more

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My organization has an event here this week. It's very disappointing that we paid thousands of dollars to use their facility and catering and they didn't have any gluten-free or vegan items for food and coffee. They only had whole milk and oatmeal for vegans. Everything else was inedible for the celiacs and vegans. It's quite ridiculous they fumbled on our request for gluten free and vegan lunch plates. Their reading was they didn't get enough request. So what?!!make some anyway. They had ONE vegetable stir fry that was overlooked and their fried rice had egg. You literally could've done without it. I mean, get creative, innovative, and accommodating. They also placed the buffet table close to their kitchen so it would be "easy for them to take the food out". We're not paying you to be convenient and easy for yourself. We're paying you to serve us well and that we're satisfied. Find another convention center and save your money. read more

Been here for Anime Pasadena and Morphicon. The venue is good. There's food within walking distance. My biggest gripe is finding parking. There will be "event parking" signs around, but when you follow them the lots are full. If you know where to park it's all good, but if not, you'll get caught. read more

I've been here twice for makeup shows which were Phamexpo and IMATS I would say both experiences were great here. The staff is very helpful and if you have a question regarding the location of a booth they actually search a map and walk you to it which is very important for me because I am not a map reader and tend to get lost and confused very easily. There are bathrooms and an atm inside which is convenient and also concession stands. The food at the concession stands I will say are mediocre and for the most part meh....but what concession stand do you know that is considered gourmet? What bothers me about this place is the parking. You must scour for parking either on the street which is impossible or park either in the Sheraton hotel around the way or another public parking spot that will be designated as event parking which can run from 15 to 20$ depending on the parking structure. Overall, I like this convention center, it's always clean and exceeds my expectations of all my makeup shows. No wonder Phamexpo and IMATS keep coming back to this spot:) read more

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This is a good venue in general due to the location and proximity to outside food options for dining, snacking and places to visit when taking a break. I went to the VTN/D-CON a.k.a. Designer Con here for many years as it's been the host convention center for that event. read more

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This was my first time visiting Pasadena convention center.. came here to be an audience for AGT!!! This is a really good convention center, well organized, clean and professional. The parking was really easy to find literally across from the convention center. However the audience line for the GA was wrapped around the corner, but overall the wait time wasn't too bad.. can't really complaint when you get free tickets to be an audience at AGT right! We were there for about 4-5 hours because the producers kept lagging it.. and they were fixing the lights and all the little stuff that needed to be fix prior to letting people in.. Overall it's a great little venue, I wouldn't mind coming back here for another AGT recording! Pretty fun experience! But if you're ever in old town Pasadena, you should Explorer around because there's so much to see and so many options for food.. read more

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