Austin Convention Center

The convention center has two parking garages nearby. They have comic cons here and we have been to a couple. The way that the building is set up is really easy to find all the «ballrooms» and they have plenty of restrooms for everyone. I have never seen a convention center so clean and well maintained. I hope this place gains more popularity for future events that we may want to attend!

Attended the Supercomputing 2015 conference here in November 2015.
The conference included lunch and it was wonderful each day. The serving staff was also very helpful and courteous.
The best part of the whole conference was the chairs — a lot of people take this for granted but when you attend a 5 day conference for 8 hours each day, it really matters. The cushion on the chairs was very thick and comfortable. The chairs also had a slight ability to recline a bit when you sit back.
Very happy with the overall experience!

Came here for Lego fest. Even with the extremely large crowd that showed up for Lego fest, the convention was a great location for this event. The space provided was just right. Kids and adults were able to check out many demos, challenges, build and much more without getting stomped on or pushed away. We had an awesome time at the fest.

Too much construction going on! Hard to navigate and find parking… etc.
The interior really needs a make over, it’s quite dated.
Heck, other than that it just another home show venue.

I feel like Convention Center designers have a sadistic streak in that the location of meeting rooms is somewhat nonsensical. Why aren’t rooms with consecutive numbers next to each other? ANNOYING.
The convention center is huge and offers small meeting rooms to enormous auditoriums. I found the space comfortable and with a learning curve navigatable.
The restrooms on the 1^st floor often needed freshening and there weren’t enough snack or drink choices inside the convention center. The ATM didn’t work.
I did like the balconies and the plantings outside as you went up the escalators.

Big center for conventions. There isn’t anything super special here. The surrounding areas have some nice restaurants but it’s not in a cool part of town for Austin. As far as convention centers go it’s decent.

Austin Convention Center is pretty nice I think. They have a beautiful entrance with cool lighting and art at the South entrance at the stairwell. Everything here seemed clean and well organized.
The restrooms were clean and the building was air conditioned nicely. Definitely a great place to hold all types of events that come to the city.
During the SXSW festival my fiancé and I stopped in here to go to the Flatstock show, which was totally awesome.

Clean venue with the cheapest parking in reasonable distance from I-​35. Not sure about regular parking rates but no more than $ 20 during SXSW.
Oh, I also had a Cobb salad from here. It was a great portion for the price and fresh ingredients. They also had vegan choices for a friend of mine.

What is there bad to say really?
I’ve been to enough conventions to save my life, but they are just conventions at a convention hall.
Easy parking, clean restrooms, huge open spaces for exhibits.
The food directly around the convention center is lacking for sure, but that’s not their fault.

Here for a seminar, fourth level ballrooms E through G are spacious and conducive to presentations. Great location!

I am in town for the Austin Home & Garden Show, after having to deal with the folks with the convention center who are running traffic and security there. I have come to the conclusion that being an @sshole must be a job requirement. What rude, inconsiderate, unprofessional service they provide. They think they are the TSA or something. I am thoroughly disgusted and I am reconsidering attending the show again as a vendor.

Always a great venue for just about any tradeshow or convention.

Good: Large, airy, lots of windows, clean, free wifi.
Bad: Small bathrooms, café has no soy, no atm.

Beautiful, spacious, excellent meeting rooms but DA-​HAM was it COLD in there. And I mean ARTIC cold. We had to wear sweaters/​jackets during our general sessions in the main hall it was so cold. Now normally people wouldn’t complain about that but it was to the point of just obnoxious.
But, overall, this is a very nice facility with lots of restrooms, friendly staff, super clean that is well thought out. They offer free wifi but it was really hard to navigate and gain access to use.
Definitely recommend this facility for your future events. They hold SXSW there so they really know how to host and manage an event. We were very pleased with everything but the ridiculously cold ac.

HUGE event space with free wifi! It’s a little hard to navigate at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s not bad at all. The thing I like best about it, though, is that unlike so many convention centers or conference hotels, it’s near affordable, cool, trendy Austin restaurants. It’s walking distance from 6^th street and the Austin bats, and even the little burger shack across the street is a treat. You don’t feel at the end of your trip that you’ve seen just a tiny, financial district, chunk of the city… You can get a good sense of some really fun parts of Austin, even if you’re listening to papers from 8 am to 5 pm!

No bells or whistles. Large space, bland, concrete, adequate for events. Two parking garages nearby. $ 10, a block away, no issues. Restrooms in need of a little repair. Meh… it works for me.

The Austin Convention Center is a great place to meet new people, especially during events such as SXSW.
The convention center is very spacious which means there’s a lot of people during conferences. I like how the restrooms are spaced out throughout the building. There are also water jug dispensers in case you get thirsty. And if your phone or laptop battery is low, feel free to plug it in the several outlets along the walls. They have food stands and coffee shops, but the items are kind of pricey.
What I really like about the convention center is that they always have signs to direct you to the correct place. This is really helpful when I’m lost and need to get to a meeting quickly.

One star taken away because of inadequate parking. 1,600 parking spaces is NOT enough parking for even an unpopular event. If I could add back a half star for the streetcar station directly outside, however, I would.
One star taken away because of inadequate entrace/​exit throughput capability. It’s called a «fatal funnel» for a reason. This is magnified exponentially when the people moving in/​out of the doors are fat nerds in huge styrofoam costumes.
One star taken away because NOT EVERYBODY IS IN LOVE WITH FOUR-​STORY DROPS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE FRICKIN’ ESCALATOR! What is this stupid architectural trend about? It doesn’t «look cool» but instead just makes me angry that going to one of the ballrooms makes me extremely anxious. As if two tours in Iraq didn’t make me anxious enough. Instead of a pleasant day listening to William Shatner and Scott Bakula, I have to endure an unreasonably high, free-​floating escalator ride to get there and back. This is stupid.
Except for those not irrational «problems» everything else was good.

This convention center is pretty standard — large, cold, overly air-​conditioned, spacious, and not-​so-​welcoming. BUT it is a great location for a huge conference like SXSWeco which hosted about 5,000 people in Austin last week!
There are plenty of dinner options around the convention center, but not too many quick grab-​n-​go lunch spots. Since my recent conference didn’t factor lunch into the admission, we were forced to find quick bites. The coffee stands in the convention center are NOT the place you want to eat. I paid $ 7 for a small coffee and a stale pastry.
Overall, the place is very clean and well-​lit with natural lighting as well as fluorescents. There are water coolers spaced around the place which is an added bonus. Plenty of patio and outdoor seating with beautiful views, too. Overall: on the pleasant side of standard.

Huge! Bring your walking shoes! I recently attended a conference at this convention center and was there off and on for 4 days. The facilities were very good. There was never a line for the bathrooms, the whole building was comfortably air conditioned, there were balconies for fresh air on the top floors, seating in the common areas for relaxing… Overall a great experience. I also liked that the upkeep was really great and it felt as if the place must be regularly spruced up.
WiFi: This was an issue during the conference. Yes, the conference had arranged for WiFi, but because it was a technology conference, each person had several devices on using WiFi. Unfortunately, even the presenters were hindered by the overuse of the WiFi. I wish the convention center was equipped for the level of WiFi use.
I would definitely attend a conference here again. The Hilton across the street was super convenient. The train drops you off right in front. There are several food options within walking distance. Good venue for a conference.