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PSA: Spent 5 hours building a booth display only to realize it didn't fit the venue door
Last month I was prepping for a tradeshow in Austin and measured everything twice for our 10x10 booth. Got to the venue at 7am, and the loading dock door was 4 inches too short for my custom frame. Had to disassemble the whole thing in the parking lot while the show manager watched. Took another 2 hours to get it through a side door and reassemble. Next time I'm calling the venue ahead and asking for exact dock dimensions, not just trusting the floor plan. Has anyone else run into a weird venue size issue that threw off their whole setup?
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the_patricia25d ago
Did you check any online forums before you went? I read a post on a tradeshow subreddit about this exact problem, said to always call the venue directly.
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Yikes, sounds like a rough morning but I gotta say this feels a little overblown. A few hours of disassembly and reassembly is annoying but not exactly a crisis. I've had booth stuff fall short of expectations before and you just adjust on the fly. Did you at least have coffee or a power drill handy to speed things up?
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robin_roberts8414d ago
Is it possible you're underestimating how bad it can get when the booth parts are literally warped from shipping, @jamesfox? I had a friend who spent six hours at a show just trying to get a display wall to stand straight, and by the end, he was using duct tape and swearing. A power drill would've just stripped the screws faster, so sometimes it's more about the little things piling up than the big picture.
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