San Jose Convention Center-South Hall

Decent convention center in downtown SJ. The space is well lit, well ventelated, connected to two hotels and a large parking garage.
The downsides: lack of elevators to the parking garage, lack of free parking in the neighborhood, lack of inexpensive food in the neighborhood. Also the loading dock is waaaaaaaaaaaay to small for the size of the place.
The upsides: listed in sentence #2…
I’ll be back, cuz there is no alternative.

First time coming to San Jose convention center. It is hosting 2015 WOW comic convention. Most comic stores bring there best stuff for sale. If you like comic and pop arts this is the place. It’s not as big as San Diego Comic Con which usually runs in July but it’s large enough for the Bay Area. Bathroom aren’t very well label and confusing. You will need an entrance ticket just to use the bathroom. Convention parking is alway full so parking was a hassle. Rate 3 star

This review is for the facility for the ramen yokocho event.
The south hall is large and spacious. There is close parking but $ 7 for all day seems steep to me considering space is ample in San Jose not like SF. It was cool inside, considering the food vendors were all outside in the 90degree heat, it was a nice relief.
The south hall is like the step child of the convention center. It looks like a hanger, unfinished and cement floors. Not much to the look so I guess people can make it how they want when the use it.

This is a review about the South Hall parking lot at the corner of Viola and Market, right next to the San Jose Convention Center.
Tired of getting ripped off for $ 20+ a day weekdays to park in downtown San Jose? Have I got a parking lot for you! I need to attend a WUSS (Western Users of SAS Software conference) Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at the Fairmont Hotel across from the Tech Museum, and didn’t want to pay through the nose. Yes a WUSS conference, but don’t be a wuss and pay too much for parking!
I got off at the Vine and Almaden Blvd exit, from 280 south, and took a left to get onto Almaden Blvd. There are 3 lanes here, and I take a right at Balbach, and a left into the South Hall parking lot, right next to the Convention center parking lot.
The parking lot has 152 spots, each with a number on it. I park closest to Market, but the diagonal spots next to Market are inevitably taken by early arrivals –early birds get the worm!
Most of the parking lot is taken by the South Hall building, a blue and white half cylinder structure –kind of like those temporary WWII structures built by the Army at UC Berkeley and other areas — a real eye sore, but you aren’t here for the scenery!
The spots farthest from Market are in the shade most of the day, behind the building adjacent to the Convention Center.
The parking lot has at least two self pay electronic machines -$ 7 per weekday, cash or credit card, paying by parking space number. The electronic machine will ask you the number of days you want to park. If you reply 1, then your time expires at 3am the next day. ²⁴⁄₇ parking. Some cars were parked the entire three days in the exact same parking place. You receive a receipt for expense purposes, and put it on the dashboard.
No hassles of broken or balky parking lot gates, and no rude, stubborn, nitwit parking lot attendants who speak broken English, to deal with!
Granted the neighborhood is not the best, but there is sufficient lighting at night, and my pristine 1998 Honda Civic, among the most stolen cars in America, was still there every night for 3 consecutive days there! Of course it was a stick shift car, and the young generation of car thieves don’t know how to drive stick shifts!
And only a 9 minute walk to the Fairmont Hotel!

SAN JOSE CONVENTION CENTER
Great place in downtown San Jose for conventions. I’ve come here quite a few times for many events, ranging from the Big Wow Comicfest to Fanime to Bridal Fairs. Parking is available if you’re willing to pay an hourly rate for it, but on Sundays, there’s plenty of street parking available.

Not as great as Anaheim Convention Center or San Diego Convention Center. It is a smaller convention center, yet it is clean and houses a lot of conventions. As long as the convention entices me, I’ll go.

It’ s clean and parking is $ 20.

As convention centers go, small. expantion in the works. Has every thing you want. Pay for events, some take credit cards, some are free. Endup going here 5 to 6 times a year.

This place is extremely huge you cannot miss it. After working the Hemp Convention a few weeks ago I became a little bit more familiar with the building after getting lost in the past. I think that it can be a little more organized

You can’t miss this place, it’s a big building that looks like a blue and white tent.
When I found out that my graduation, (SJSU School of Nursing c/​o 2008) was going to be held here, I literally had tears in my eyes. This is not a very pretty looking building inside and out.
I was thinking, instead of them playing pomp and circumstance while walking in, they would be playing circus music instead.
I would have rather have our graduation on campus like everyone else.
I gave it 3 stars because a significant end of an era took place in here and I accepted that we were going to have our graduation here. Otherwise, this building is a complete embarrassment to downtown SJ.