Bayside Expo Center

Attended the Phantom Gourmet Wine & Food Festival at the Expo Center on Saturday. The festival was alot of fun! There was a large array of wines to taste. This was fabulous because I can’t stand it when you want to try a new wine and you have no idea what it tastes like so you spend the money, get the new wine, open it and realize you don’t like it at all! Now what do you do with the rest??? The food that they had was good but I thought there should have been more to choose from-​very limited in the area of food. I recommend the Barefoot Champagne. Loved it!!! There was a great crowd of friendly, good natured people in attendance and they set up a special floor for dancing. This was my first year attending and I will go back again next year. The festival was great but the Expo Center needs work… the only thing I have to say is to the architect who designed the building… who in their right mind designs a conference center as large as this one with two stalls in each ladies room!!! This is ridiculous with the number of people this place was built to accomodate for functions. I waited in line for 20 minutes! I hope next year the Phantom Gourmet finds a better venue.

PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE BAYSIDE EXPO !!!
After spending and wasting ton of your time it is NOT worth visiting the Expo. Entrance fee is $ 12 for each and there are NO bargains and above place is a filthy place.
thank you.

I’m literlly amazed. Are pigs flying? I CAN NOT believe that people have already written reviews about the Bayside Expo Center… SERIOUSLY. If I didn’t work in the building and therefore feel compelled to write about it, then I wouldn’t even consider it review worthy…
So… based on my previous statement you are probably wondering why I’m giving it TWO whole shiny starts. well — here’s my thought process. I work there = one star. My office has a view of the water, the T-​stop is close and I like the security staff = one star. Other than that — it is a sort of weird place. Its sort of just by itself and parts of it aren’t that well taken care of and the warehouse space is just plain run down. I can’t even imagine going to an actual even there — although i hear it happens.
It has been a happy place for me I suppose — and I DO love having a view of the water from my window. I think that the potential of the expo center lies with the person/​company that rents it. It is HUGE and someone with the creativity and money could a pretty awesome event. However, its definitely not a turn key situation.

this place is huge and can definitely host an event. Doesn’t mean that that event is going to be good, but nevertheless, i’m reviewing the place, not the possibilites and events.
It’s nice, and organized, and cool, but it’s nothing I go crazy over.
Ok, now i will review the Ski/​Snowboard Expo, it was kind of boring. There were so many vendors and ski companies and resorts just looking to get you to give them your email address and Burton and Ski Market all over the place. I bought goggles for pretty cheap, but the selection of Boots and Boards is highly lacking. There are tons of Ski’s and stuff for those people, but I don’t ski, i snowboard. We did get some really good «deals» signing up for weekend trips to Sugarloaf and Sunday River early season, and I won a free Lift Ticket, but still, I bet I could have found those deals without even going to this expo. I probably would never come back to this expo even if it was free.

The bayside expo center is like most other expo centers: big, spacious, and boring when empty. Bayside does get some pretty cool things. Some of my favorites are the dog and cat shows, the ski and snowboard show, and the circus. It’s worth keeping half an ear open to find out what will be coming in the future. They also have some pretty funky things there like the RV show, etc. that I’m not really interested in. Parking costs money, but I’m not sure how much since I live close enough to walk.