Trade Show Booth Rentals at the Las Vegas Convention Center

Exhibiting at the LVCC

The Las Vegas Convention Center is the largest exhibition facility in North America and the venue most exhibitors mean when they say they are showing in Las Vegas. It is also not one building in any practical sense — it is the West Hall, the Central Hall and the North Hall, and they do not behave the same way.

If you have a booth number and a hall assignment, that assignment determines what you can build. Getting this right at the design stage rather than at the approval stage is the difference between a smooth project and an expensive redesign three weeks before move-in.

The LVCC hosts CES across all three halls plus the West Hall expansion, along with NAB Show, SEMA and most of the largest shows in the city. If you are exhibiting at CES, your hall assignment matters more than at almost any other show — West Hall has the highest clear ceiling and the most capable rigging grid, while Central and North have more location-dependent rigging availability.

The Three Halls

West Hall

The West Hall is the newest space at the LVCC and the most capable. It has the highest clear ceiling in the complex and the most modern rigging grid, which means it comfortably supports large hanging structures, heavy suspended signage and double-deck builds.

If your exhibit carries significant weight above the floor — a large truss box, a substantial LED array overhead, or a second level — the West Hall is where that is most straightforward. It is also the hall where the most ambitious builds on the floor tend to be, which raises the visual baseline. A conservative booth in the West Hall reads as smaller than it is.

Central Hall

The Central Hall is the traditional heart of the LVCC and hosts many of the largest shows in the city. Rigging is supported, but available points and permitted loads vary by exact location on the floor rather than being uniform across the hall. If you are planning a hanging element, your specific booth coordinates matter and need to be confirmed before the structure is engineered.

North Hall

The North Hall is older and its rigging capability is more constrained than the West. It remains fully capable for standard island builds with conventional hanging signs, but for unusually tall or heavy suspended elements, confirm feasibility at your specific location early.

Booth Height and Sightline Rules

Standard show regulations apply across all three halls, and they are enforced.

Inline booths are capped at eight feet on the back wall, with three-foot side rails for the front portion of the booth so your neighbours retain sightlines to the aisle. That three-foot rule is the constraint most first-time exhibitors design around unsuccessfully — you cannot place a tall element at the aisle end of an inline booth.

Island booths are permitted substantially higher, with the exact ceiling set by the show organizer and the hall. Fire clearance requirements, aisle-line compliance and rules governing covered ceilings within a booth all apply.

We prepare and submit the full drawing package for organizer and venue approval as part of every rental. You do not need to interpret the rules yourself.

Hanging Signs and Rigging

If your booth is an island and your show permits it, a hanging sign is the single most effective way to be found in a hall this size. At ground level in the Central Hall you are competing with every other booth's furniture. At height you are competing with a handful.

Rigging involves three separate cost and process components. The sign itself is fabricated — fabric, printed panels or a structural truss element. Engineered drawings are produced and submitted for organizer approval, and these have a firm deadline. Rigging labor is then ordered through the show's official general contractor, billed by weight, with its own advance-order deadline.

Ordering rigging after the advance deadline costs materially more for identical work. We handle the drawings, the submission and the advance order.

Freight, Marshalling and Target Move-In Times

This is where LVCC projects succeed or fail operationally.

Freight arriving at the Las Vegas Convention Center routes through a marshalling yard and is released to the dock on an assigned target time. If your shipment arrives outside its window, it waits — and while it waits, your install crew is standing on the floor with nothing to build.

The knock-on effect is expensive. A missed target compresses the install into fewer hours, which pushes work into overtime rates, which raises labor cost on a job where the crew size was already fixed.

We plan the target window into the project schedule from the day the job starts, not the week of the show. Freight is routed to hit it and the paperwork is managed with the official contractor.

Material Handling and Drayage

Drayage — material handling — is the charge for moving your freight from the dock to your booth space and back out again at the end of the show. It is billed by the show's official general contractor by weight, at published per-hundredweight rates, and it is unavoidable.

It is also the line item that surprises exhibitors most, because it is not charged by your exhibit house. We reduce it where it can legitimately be reduced — engineering crate weights down, consolidating shipments so you are not paying minimum charges repeatedly, and ordering against the advance rate rather than the show-site rate. What we will not do is leave it off the quote and let it appear on your final invoice.

Booth Sizes That Work at the LVCC

The LVCC floor is enormous, and scale reads differently here than in a mid-size hall.

A 10x10 works, but it needs to be lit and it needs a single readable message. In a hall this size, a 10x10 with a paragraph on the back wall is invisible.

A 10x20 gives you enough back wall to be legible from down the aisle and enough floor for a demo without blocking your own entrance.

A 20x20 island is the first footprint that reads from across a hall rather than from down one aisle, and it is the first that permits a hanging sign. In the LVCC specifically, that height advantage matters more than it does anywhere else, because the sightlines are so long.

20x40 and larger support private meeting rooms, presentation areas with seating and separate staff circulation. At this scale a hanging structure is effectively mandatory.

Install and Dismantle

Our own crews install and dismantle at the LVCC. Install is scheduled against the show's move-in window and coordinated directly with the official general contractor — Freeman, GES or Shepard depending on the show. We work within union jurisdiction where it applies and manage that relationship as part of the job.

On the floor we handle the structure, graphics, flooring, lighting, furniture placement and final dress, and we do not leave until the booth is show-ready and you have walked it with us. We stay reachable through show days for damaged panels, failed lighting or anything that needs moving.

Dismantle begins when the show closes. We strike, pack and manage outbound freight so your team leaves when the show ends.

What Your LVCC Rental Includes

Every rental is quoted turnkey: the complete engineered structure pre-fit in our shop before shipping, all printed graphics produced in house, flooring, lighting, furniture appropriate to the design, delivery to the venue, coordination with the general contractor, professional install and dismantle, on-call support through show days, and full removal.

Show-charged services — electrical, rigging labor, material handling, cleaning and internet — are itemized separately as estimates against published advance rates and reconciled at actual cost.

Get a Quote for Your LVCC Booth

Tell us your show, your hall and your booth number. We will confirm what that specific location permits, what your rigging options are, what your realistic install timeline looks like, and what the booth costs delivered and installed.