Exhibitions and Trade Shows
Mystery Creek Events Centre has been a trusted venue for exhibitions, trade shows and expos since 1970.
Our modern and adaptable venues provide a comfortable and convenient location for your next event. Just two minutes from Hamilton Airport and central to many accommodation options suitable for every budget. Our prime location offers easy access to renowned attractions such as Hobbiton, Waitomo Caves, and Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, providing your attendees with exciting activities to complement their overall experience at your event.
Hosting larger events at Mystery Creek Events Centre is seamless with our array of venues including the Pavilion, Convention Centre, and the Bledisloe, complemented by expansive outdoor spaces. As a customer, you're able to utilise the established connections we have with preferred suppliers for catering, audiovisual equipment, panel setups, and additional carpeting as required.
With versatile indoor spaces, vast outdoor areas, and abundant parking, we offer a seamless venue for events of any scale.
Spaces for Exhibitions and Trade Shows
Pavilion
Centre stage at Mystery Creek Events Centre, the Pavilion is a premier space for exhibitions, large machinery and industry shows, conventions and concerts.
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Convention Centre
Able to accommodate large numbers, this event space is suitable for gala dinners, conferences, exhibitions, performances, and theatre-style events. Adjoining spaces (Convention Centre Suites and the Pavilion) provide further options.
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Bledisloe
The ideal venue for hosting special family and corporate events, memorials, conferences, meetings, or product launches. The facility can also be scaled to host smaller functions in a more intimate atmosphere.
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Gallagher
The modern Gallagher building is a multi-purpose space ideal for conferences, meetings and dinners and where a breakout space is desirable.
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Green Spaces
With 114 hectares, our vast green spaces offer the ideal platform for outdoor events including heavy machinery and vehicle demonstrations, concerts and festivals, and jamboree, along with the capacity for large-scale on-site camping.
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Mystery Creek Events Centre is at 125 Mystery Creek Road, Ōhaupō, New Zealand.
As a general rule, events that attract over 5000 visitors or stops, delays, or increases road and/or pedestrian traffic are legally required to have a registered traffic management plan. If you are unsure if you will need one, local Police may be able to offer initial advice, before being referred to a registered traffic management provider (TMP). Mystery Creek Events Centre work with several TMPs, and can refer our event clients to these services.
We have three preferred suppliers that you must use for catering who are familiar with our venue and have a range of customisable menu options available. These are:
- Off The Track
- Montana Food & Events
- Kerr & Ladbrook
We also allow food vendors onsite by arrangement, provided they have a current EWOF (Electrical Warrant of Fitness) if plugging into power and must be registered with their local council.
As a venue, Mystery Creek Events Centre is responsible for providing a safe working environment, as well as establishing and educating users on venue use protocols including those that manage hazards, and minimise risks and emergencies. As venue users you are responsible for any introduced hazards, this includes notifying us of your intent, and providing risk management processes to reduce or remove the likelihood of harm in the form of a Hazard ID.
We can provide you with our venue Hazard ID with existing hazards that you can add-to with your own event-specific details.