The Greater Philadelphia Expo Center At Oaks

This place is a nice size, decent parking and the staff is very friendly and hard working. The place does look warehouse-​ish but that doesn’t matter. It does the job. It is a large space to attend an event. We always enjoy every event that we attend here. Thanks!!!

Yikes.
Their ticketing system is absolutely terrible. There were three different conventions going on the day I came here, and good luck finding the one you’re looking for. When you step through the main doors there are three booths for tickets, but there’s a chance you might have to go to a separate hall to get the tickets you need. Even if you can stay in the main ticketing area, it’s a complete disaster since they don’t indicate which line is cash only and which is credit only. Once they finally announced it to the crowd some havoc ensued as multiple people tried to jump lines. Did you buy your ticket ahead of time? Too bad, since will call is just as crazy.
It’s all very industrial looking and not at all welcoming. The halls in which the restrooms are located smell like garbage and sewage. There’s no food vending machines and only a sad looking (and of course over priced) machine that vends drinks. Mercifully the day I came there was ample parking, but I can see the parking lot becoming quite crazy on a crowded day.
The whole thing is just set up poorly. Will I come back if there’s a convention here that I’m interested in? Yeah. Will I enjoy coming here again? Definitely not.

Warehouse style convention center, no frills and no ambiance, so it’s a matter of what event your attending. It’s a big space and I’ve been here for a few events ranging from one room to all three rooms.
Best for trade shows and events that need a big open showroom to layout as needed.

It’s a former tire factory complex with fresh paint and not much else. «Enjoy» the parking and signage, as each are dreadful.

Let the birthday festivities commence!
We went here on Saturday for the Coffee & Tea festival.
Parking was as crazy as it always is at convention centers. But we lucked out and found a space super close to the entrance for the event. Unfortunately due to lack of signage we did not realize this and ended walking all the way around in the opposite direction only to end up about 100 feet from where we started. Oh well that was mostly our goof but signs pointing to the Coffee Tea fest like they had for the guitar show & craft show would have helped. So we made it inside and there was a lot of vendors for it only being the second year. We arrived later so we missed out on the goodie bag but no worries we quickly found lots of things to buy. We had a good time and the venue organized the vendors well and it wasn’t hard to navigate from booth to booth. All in all a good convention experience.

The 2^nd Annual Coffee/​Tea Festival brought me out to Oaks last weekend. The center itself is sparse and warehouse-​y, as most expo centers are. A number of different halls means that multiple events can be going on at once here. Some of the halls have carpeting laid down, but the inside is all cinderblocks and concrete. Adequate and serves the needs of a diverse number of events.
The expo center is also located fairly far outside of the city, so it can be a trek if you’re living in Philly, but it is well-​located off of 422 (literally right off the highway).
Parking was very difficult to find, as there were a bunch of other events going on at the expo center that day. You have to be prepared to drive around a while and you might have to park on the gravel if the spots near the entrance are blocked off. If there had been more direction from parking attendants (I saw maybe one person who looked like they might have been responsible for directing traffic), that would have made finding a spot easier, so that is something that the expo center could definitely improve on.

Bleh! This is a dreadful convention center. Not much more than a warehouse, really. No curb appeal and no ambiance. Perplexing how they manage to book shows here because the facility is utterly charmless and amenity-​free. One would have expected more in this relatively posh area of suburbia.

I like the Expo Center; it has some of the greatest event and the biggest flops. It’s a huge place with several different Halls. There could be one show running the whole place or many different little events’ going on at once. They have an easy to read on-​line calendar.
This is located just off of 422, making it an easy to get to, with plenty of parking.
There hotels, shops, and other fun places close by.

The Kennel Club of Philadelphia’s National Dog Show brought me to the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks last weekend. I’ve been to this event a handful times in the past few years and it logistically it seems like they’ve got a well oiled machine.
What’s not too love about a giant space filled with hundreds of thousands of dogs?!? I’m sure the space looks completely different for each event and each event is a totally different experience.
I have no real complaints about my times at this expo center. I really do wish they’d fix up the parking lot though. There are many uneven parts and someone is bound to get hurt if they aren’t careful. Perhaps they should restock the toilet paper and clean the restrooms a little more frequently. No real raves either. Overall, I’ve just had some generally good experiences.
I wouldn’t rush out to an event here but I wouldn’t avoid one either. There’s a good chance I’ll be back for next year’s dog show.

Went for the the Philadelphia wine and food festival. Wouldn’t do the festival again as the wine and liquor area was too small but cool place lots of room.

I went here for the gun show. THIS PLACE IS HUGE!
Its well lit, spacious, and… well…a convention center. Not much else can really be said about it, but I dont agree with the other posters points. Its a pretty cool place to see an event.

Totally agree with Doug. The floors were dirty and after this tradeshow, I had to wipe down everything that touched the floor. If you want a pretzel or a hotdog for a mid-​day meal, that is all that is offered. Terrible PA system that sounds like a megaphone, and blow dryers in the bathrooms that sound like jets taking off interrupting any kind of discussion at the booths that were nearby.

You would have to be really desperate to hold your event here. The facilities are sad, cold, uninviting and remote. The owners and staff will treat you like a leper once they get your money. The tables, chairs and other stuff they provide is bargain basement and shoddy. There isn’t a single thing I can say that is positive about these empty shells. A tent in a field surrounded by pig farms would be more inviting than these parking challenged metal and concrete nightmares. Hope you don’t have to use the restroom during your event either. The ratio of stalls and urinals to attendees makes you want to scream. I wish I never had to return there for work again.