Why Choose Our Destination?
A dynamic city located less than 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena is an enticing combination of accessibility and culture. This cosmopolitan city offers easy access from Los Angeles International, Burbank, Long Beach, and Ontario airports. Shuttles, buses and light rail take you anywhere in the city and the greater Los Angeles area.
Accommodations
Pasadena offers 2,600 guest rooms, more than 1,500 of which are within walking distance of the Pasadena Convention Center. A broad range of accommodations are available at Pasadena’s 8 full-service hotels and 18 motels and inns.
Meeting Facilities
The state-of-the-art Pasadena Convention Center features 55,000 square feet of exhibit space (expandable to 80,000 square feet), a 17,000-square-foot historic exhibition hall, 25,000-square-foot ballroom, 25,000 square feet of pre-function space, 25 breakout rooms, and the renowned 3,000-seat Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Eight major hotels offer additional meeting space. Planners seeking a unique venue will find a host of spectacular gardens, stately educational institutions, museums, and theaters.
Safety and Sanitation
The Pasadena Convention Center has been awarded the Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation, the gold standard for prepared facilities. As the cleaning industry’s only outbreak prevention, response and recovery accreditation, GBAC STAR™ helps organizations establish protocols and procedures, offers expert-led training and assesses a facility’s readiness for biorisk situations. The program verifies that the Pasadena Convention Center implements best practices to prepare for, respond to and recover from outbreaks and pandemics.
Green Meetings
As a leader in the meetings and events industry, Pasadena Convention Center has implemented a host of sustainable initiatives. Because of its commitment to responsible environmental practices, the facility is Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified by the United States Green Building Council, making it one of the greenest convention centers in North America.
Food & Wine
The birthplace of Julia Child, Pasadena is a foodie’s paradise with over 600 restaurants. The city is also home to the California School of Culinary Arts, an affiliate institution of Paris’ Le Cordon Bleu. Many of our restaurants welcome special events.
Shopping & Entertainment
Within Pasadena’s 1.5-mile downtown core, visitors will find most retail areas, cobblestone courtyards, sidewalk bistros and nightlife within three alluring shopping and entertainment districts: Old Pasadena, the Playhouse District and South Lake Avenue. Pasadena is also home to the famous Rose Bowl Flea Market and two notable shopping centers, Paseo Colorado and One Colorado. Entertainment options include sophisticated jazz clubs, Broadway-style theatre, comedy clubs, and sports bars.
Art & Culture
Pasadena is alive with remarkable art collections, architecture, literature and entertainment offered by 14 museums and 11 performing arts organizations.
Venue Details
Hotels25
Convention center130,000 sq. ft.
Guest Rooms2,600
Guest rooms at 1 hotel250
Special event venues37
Average room rate$199
Occupancy rate80%
Restaurants600
Daily food cost$75
Tax rate10.25%
Venue typeCVB
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Getting Here
Pasadena is easy to get to, and to get around. Four airports provide for convenient flights in and out: Hollywood Burbank (BUR) is just 16 miles away. Los Angeles (LAX) is just 29 miles away. Ontario and Long Beach Airports are about an hour's drive. Upon arrival, you will quickly see and feel why Pasadena is convenient. Unlike other major cities, you do not need to rent a car or grab a taxi to get around; here you can walk, take a bus or train, or ride a bike day or night.
Distance from airport
16 mi from Hollywood Burbank Airport
Distance from Hollywood Burbank Airport airport 16 mi
29 mi from Los Angeles International Airport
Distance from Los Angeles International Airport airport 29 mi
Location
Local Attractions
Pasadena City Hall
Historical landmark
2 blks
100 North Garfield Ave.
Pasadena, CA, US 91101
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The Gamble House
Historical landmark
2 mins
Built in 1908 during the American Arts and Crafts movement, this masterpiece is the best preserved example of work from internationally recognized architects Charles and Henry Greene.
Docent tours: Tuesday – Sunday, noon–3 p.m.
4 Westmoreland Pl.
Pasadena, CA 91105
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Pacific Asia Museum
Museum
2 mins
Housed in the historic Grace Nicholson mansion, the museum is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and understanding of the arts and culture of Asia and the Pacific. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
46 N. Los Robles Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101
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Paseo Colorado
Shopping
1 min
Located in the Civic Center along historic Colorado Boulevard, Paseo Colorado is an open-air marketplace featuring shops, restaurants, an upscale grocery store, a movie theater, and trendy lofts. (Located across the street from the Pasadena Convention Center).
280 East Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91101
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Pasadena Playhouse
Theater
2 mins
Anchoring the Playhouse District and build in 1917, the Playhouse is the Official State Theatre of California and a National Historic Landmark, and features Tony and Pulitzer award-winning plays
39 S. El Molino Ave.
pasadena, CA 91101
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Pasadena Rose Bowl
Recreation
2 mi
The stadium is the proud home of the Tournament of Roses Football Game, UCLA Bruin Football, Fourth of July celebrations, concerts, religious services, filmings and the World's Largest Flea Market (R.G. Canning).
A National Historic Landmark built in 1922 and known mainly for the New Year's Tournament of Roses Football Game, the Rose Bowl Stadium has also earned its World-Class Reputation by hosting five NFL Super Bowl Games, the 1984 Olympic Soccer Matches, the 1994 Men's World Cup, the 1999 Women's World Cup, the 2002 and 2006 BCS National College Football Championship Games and numerous other memorable events over the past eighty plus years.
For general Rose Bowl Stadium information call: (626) 577-3101
1001 Rose Bowl Drive
Pasadena, CA 91103
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Old Pasadena (District)
Shopping
3 mins
The city’s original commercial hub in the 19th century, Old Pasadena today is a bustling urban center with top-rated restaurants, boutiques, exclusive national retailers, and exciting nightlife filling itsVictorian-, Mission Revival-, and Art Deco-era buildings.
Pasadena, CA 91105
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Norton Simon Museum
1 mi
The Norton Simon Museum is known around the world as one of the most remarkable private art collections ever assembled. Over a thirty-year period 20th-century industrialist Norton Simon (1907–1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years. Among the most celebrated works he collected are Branchini Madonna, 1427, by Giovanni di Paolo; Madonna and Child with Book, c. 1502-03, by Raphael; Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633, by Francisco de Zurbarán; Portrait of a Boy, c. 1655-60, by Rembrandt van Rijn; Mulberry Tree, 1889, by Vincent van Gogh; Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1878-81, by Edgar Degas; and Woman with a Book, 1932, by Pablo Picasso. Highlights from the Asian collection include the bronze sculptures Buddha Shakyamuni, c. 550, India: Bihar, Gupta period, and Shiva as King of Dance, c. 1000, India: Tamil Nadu; and the gilt bronze Indra, 13th century, Nepal.
Approximately 1,000 works from the permanent collection of 12,000 objects are on view in the Norton Simon Museum’s galleries and sculpture garden throughout the year. There are three temporary exhibition spaces within the Museum; the curatorial department mounts three to six exhibitions centered on the collection per year. To extend the impact of these exhibitions and to explore genres and themes within the permanent collection, the Museum offers six to ten free public programs per month, including scholarly lectures and symposia, adult education courses, music and dance performances and hands-on activities for children. Private tours are available by reservation.
411 W. Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91105-1825
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Pasadena Civic Auditorium
Long considered to be one of the finest performance halls in the nation, the 3,000-seat Pasadena Civic Auditorium is perfect for general sessions, benefits and special events. The resplendent Gold Room accommodates 250 for a banquet.
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
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Pasadena Convention Center
Convention center
With its $150 million expansion complete, the state-of-the-art Pasadena Convention Center features 55,000 square feet of new exhibit space (expandable to 80,000 square feet), a new 25,000-square-foot ballroom, 25,000 square feet of pre-function space, 29 breakout rooms, and the renowned 3,000-seat Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Five major hotels offer additional meeting space. Planners seeking a unique venue will find a host of spectacular gardens, stately educational institutions, museums, and theaters.
300 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
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Rose Bowl Aquatic Center
Recreation
5 mins
The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center is a world-class aquatics facility located in Pasadena’s beautiful Brookside Park, just south of the famous Rose Bowl Stadium. The Center offers year round programming for the young to the young-at-heart, including programs benefiting special needs and at-risk youth.
360 North Arroyo Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91103
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The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Museum
10 mins
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is a delight for any visitor passing through Pasadena.
The Botanical Gardens cover 120 acres and contain more than a dozen specialized gardens arranged within a park-like landscape of rolling lawns.
The Huntington Art Gallery, originally the Huntington residence, contains one of the most comprehensive collections in this country of 18th- and 19th-century British and French art. It serves as home to Gainsborough’s Blue Boy and Lawrence’s Pinkie.
The Library’s collection of rare books and manuscripts includes the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a Gutenberg Bible, the double-elephant folio edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, and a world-class collection of the early editions of Shakespeare’s works.
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Kidspace Children's Museum
Museum
5 mins
The mission of Kidspace Children's Museum is to provide creative environments that inspire learning through self-directed, interactive experiences and play in the arts, sciences and humanities that enrich children, families and the community.
The new museum opened in 2004, featuring world-class exhibitry and 2.2 acres of outdoor learning environments designed to encourage children to discover the excitement of learning while engaging in the creativity of play. Children can unleash an earthquake, feed giant bugs, craft art through nature and climb raindrops 40 feet into the air. Today, Kidspace welcomes nearly 250,000 guests annually.
480 N. Arroyo Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91103
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Convention Centers
Pasadena Convention CenterThe state-of-the-art Pasadena Convention Center offers a 55,000-square-foot Exhibit Hall, 25,000-square-foot Ballroom and 29 Meeting Rooms. The Pasadena Convention Center is the ideal spot for meetings, events and weddings.
Exhibit Space80,000 sq. ft.
Total meeting space268,587 sq. ft.
Additional Information
Additional details
For specific information on meetings in Pasadena, please visit www.pasadenameetings.com
Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau Frequently Asked Questions
Explore frequently asked questions from the Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau regarding Health and Safety, Sustainability, and Diversity and Inclusion.
Sustainable Practices
Please provide comments or a link to any publicly communicated Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau's sustainability or social impact goals/strategy.
No response.
Does Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau have a strategy that focuses on the elimination and diversion of waste (i.e. plastics, papers, cardboard, etc.)? If yes, please elaborate on your strategy of elimination and diversion of waste.
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Diversity and Inclusion
For US hotels only, is Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau and/or parent company certified as a 51% diverse owned business enterprise (BE)? If yes, please indicate which one of the following you are certified as:
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If applicable, could you please provide a link to Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau's public report on their commitments and initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion?
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Health and Safety
Were practices at Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau developed based on health service recommendations from public governmental entities or private organizations? If Yes, please list which organizations were used to develop these practices.
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Does Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau clean and sanitize public areas and publicly accessible facilities (i.e. meeting rooms, restaurants, elevator banks, etc.)? If yes, describe any new measures that are taken.
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Please explain, if applicable, the carbon offsetting options you offer to corporations.
Please provide, if applicable, an e-mail address for a contact who can address any follow up questions relating to sustainability and social impact goals and initiatives.
Has your hotel taken steps to reduce single-use plastics, such as removing plastic straws (except upon request for guests with disabilities), stirrers and cotton buds? If yes, please provide detail as to the steps you have taken to reduce single use plastics?
Does your hotel generate (onsite) or purchase (offsite) renewable energy (beyond your utility's standard offerings)? If yes, please describe your practices for generating or purchasing renewable energy.
Does your hotel engage in activities to protect & restore the natural environment in which it is located (i.e. trees planted, coral reef restored, etc.)?
What measures are in place to allow for social distancing in fitness centers (e.g. equipment configuration, staggered usage times)? If no fitness center, please put N/A.
Has the fitness room cleaning routine been adjusted/increased? If yes, what new measures are included? If no fitness center, please put N/A.
Will your hotel be imposing any additional fees for cleaning services? If yes, please specify those fees.
Are specific cleaning/disinfection routines in place for pillows, duvets and their covers, headboard, bathrobe etc.? If yes, please describe.
Does the property limit number of guests in restaurant, bar, or dining areas due to COVID19 or other pandemics? If yes, please provide details of how restaurant, bar, or dining areas limits capacity? If no restaurant or bar, please put N/A.
Has the public bathroom cleaning routine been adjusted/increased? If yes, what new measures are included?
Please include a link to your public report on community impact if applicable.
Please provide any other comments you wish to make regarding your efforts/initiatives to obtain certification in these programs.
Please provide, if applicable, an e-mail address for a contact who can address any follow up questions relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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