CES brings roughly 140,000 attendees and more than 4,000 exhibiting companies to the Las Vegas Convention Center campus, the Venetian Expo, Mandalay Bay and Strip hotel space, and Las Vegas Exhibit House rents and builds the exhibits that go into it. We are a Las Vegas trade show exhibit house with our own facility here, a mile from the convention center, and we work January 4–9, 2027, with exhibits open January 6–9.
CES is organized by the Consumer Technology Association and runs January 4–9, 2027, with exhibits open January 6–9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center campus, the Venetian Expo, Mandalay Bay and Strip hotel space. Dates confirmed with the organizer. We are an exhibit house, not a broker: our own facility is here in Las Vegas, so the exhibit you rent for CES ships across town instead of across the country, and the crew that installs it works this building all year.
What actually wins on the CES floor
CES is the one show where your neighbors are spending eight figures on their booth and the aisle judges you in three seconds. Lighting quality, screen resolution and the cleanliness of the cable run do more for credibility here than square footage does.
There is a real difference between an exhibit designed for CES and a generic exhibit shipped to CES. We see the second kind on this floor every year. We would rather build you the first.
Las Vegas Convention Center logistics for CES exhibitors
The Las Vegas Convention Center’s official overview describes approximately 2.9 million square feet of exhibit space and 225 meeting rooms. Use the current facility guide and your assigned hall plan to confirm usable space, access, rigging and floor requirements for the exhibit.Las Vegas Convention Center official facility information
CES move-in is the tightest in the industry because the show takes the entire campus at once and the freight queue on Paradise Road backs up for hours. Targeted freight windows are assigned, they are enforced, and a missed window becomes an overtime install.
Ceiling clearance is not uniform and it decides whether your hanging sign flies: North Halls 1 and 2 reach 35 feet, North 3 and 4 reach 33 feet, the North air-wall track drops to 28 feet and the area below the second level to 12 feet; Central 1 is 25 feet, Central 2 is 20 feet, Central 3 through 5 reach 35 feet and the Central 3 concourse 31 feet; South 1 is 25 feet, South 2 is 30 feet and South 4 is 25 feet. Ground-level halls are rated at 450 pounds per square foot; the South Hall upper level is rated at 300 pounds per square foot, which is the number that governs heavy machinery, vehicles and double-deck footings up there.
Labor and exhibitor-performed work rules depend on the show, venue, task and current exhibitor manual. Review the permitted work, contractor arrangements and move-in procedures for your assigned space before scheduling the installation.
Exhibit rental sizes for your CES space
We rent every standard footprint for CES, and every one of them can carry your graphics, your product, your LED content and your meeting space:
10x10 exhibit rental — 100 square feet. An inline space where the backwall is the entire brand statement and the counter has to do double duty as demo surface and storage.
10x20 exhibit rental — 200 square feet. The most common inline upgrade, with room for a demo station on one side and a seated conversation on the other.
10x30 exhibit rental — 300 square feet. A long inline run that lets you sequence the visit — attract, demonstrate, then close — along the aisle.
20x20 exhibit rental — 400 square feet. The first true island, open on four sides, where the center structure carries the brand and the corners carry the conversations.
20x30 exhibit rental — 600 square feet. An island with enough depth for an enclosed meeting room without giving up the open corners.
20x40 exhibit rental — 800 square feet. Room for a full demonstration theater plus private meeting space on the same footprint.
30x30 exhibit rental — 900 square feet. A square island that reads from every aisle, typically built around a central tower and a hanging sign.
30x40 exhibit rental — 1,200 square feet. A major presence with separate zones for demonstration, hospitality and closed-door meetings.
40x40 exhibit rental — 1,600 square feet. A headline footprint where structure, rigging and labor planning become as important as the design.
Custom builds, double-deck structures and LED-led designs are all available for CES as well. If your space is an odd shape or an odd size, we build to it rather than forcing a stock kit into it.
Who is walking your aisle at CES
The aisle at CES is retail buyers, OEM partners, press and investors moving fast with a list. They are deciding in seconds whether your product is real, so the exhibit has to put a working demonstration at eye level within the first six feet of the booth.
Frequently asked questions about exhibiting at CES
Can I rent a trade show exhibit for CES instead of buying one?
Yes, and for most CES exhibitors renting is the better decision. A rental exhibit gives you the same finished appearance as a purchased booth without the capital outlay, the storage cost between shows or the refurbishment bill when the design ages. You get new graphics every time, you can change footprint from one year to the next, and the crate never sits in a warehouse you are paying for. We rent everything from a 10x10 inline to a 40x40 island for CES, and the rental includes the structure, the graphics, the delivery to Las Vegas Convention Center, the installation, the dismantle and the return.
How much does a trade show booth cost at CES?
The honest answer is that the exhibit is one line of five. Budget for the space you bought from the Consumer Technology Association, the exhibit itself, the graphics, the material handling and drayage, and the labor to install and dismantle it at Las Vegas Convention Center. A 10x10 rental with graphics lands in a very different range than a 20x20 island with LED and a hanging sign, and Las Vegas labor rates and drayage move the total more than most exhibitors expect. We quote all five lines together so you see the real number before you commit, not after the show services invoice arrives.
How far in advance do I need to book an exhibit for CES?
Book as early as you can, and at minimum work backward from the deadlines rather than forward from today. Graphics need artwork approval before output, freight needs a targeted move-in window, rigging and electrical orders carry discount deadlines that close weeks ahead, and hanging signs at Las Vegas Convention Center need approved drawings. Exhibitors who come to us three or four months out get the best result and the best price. We take projects much later than that and still deliver, but late work costs more because everything moves to expedited rates.
Do you handle installation and dismantle at Las Vegas Convention Center?
Labor and exhibitor-performed work rules depend on the show, venue, task and current exhibitor manual. Review the permitted work, contractor arrangements and move-in procedures for your assigned space before scheduling the installation.
We are shipping from out of state. How does freight to CES work?
Most exhibitors ship either to the advance warehouse or direct to show site, and the right choice depends on your move-in date and your tolerance for risk. Advance warehouse shipping gets the crate into Las Vegas early and delivered to your space by the general contractor; direct-to-show requires hitting a targeted window at Las Vegas Convention Center, and missing it is expensive. Either way, material handling is charged by weight and it is one of the largest and least-predicted lines on a show budget. We plan the route, the packaging and the weight with that in mind, and if you rent from us the freight originates here in Las Vegas and a lot of that cost disappears.
Get your CES exhibit quoted
Tell us the show, the booth number, the square footage and what you need the exhibit to do. We will come back with a design direction and a quote that covers the exhibit, the graphics, the freight, the labor and the show services — one number, not six invoices from six vendors.
Call (702) 760-4036 or start a quote. Las Vegas Exhibit House — trade show exhibit rentals, custom exhibits, graphics, LED, freight, installation and dismantle, from a Las Vegas facility, since 2014.