Olympia London Review

A great place to visit for events. Easy access to the railway.

We visited the Ideal Home Exhibition. Set up was will presented. It was the connecting train to Earls Court that was the challenge. In short getting to Olympic is not easy...

Great venue but food is awful and very high priced. Been to better roadside stands that serve better burgers and fries.

Incredibly difficult to get to this venue as it isn't connected to anything via public transport, but they do host some good events, and the beer festival is fun and has a good atmosphere. Think most complaints about this venue should really be directed at the event as I imagine Olympia just provide the building.

A good size event venue, but hard to get to unless you are on the overground route. I usually go to the Allergy and Free From show each year, free entry and a fantastic event to sample new products and buy at 'cheaper than in the shops' prices. Venue is just the right size for this event.

Massive Arena for any events.. easily accessible from Kensington Olympia Rail Station...

Easy to navigate and get around. Convenient parking. Great venue.

It's an exhibition centre that hold a variety of shows over the year from horse shows to the destinations holiday show we visited

Let me start by saying this place is just opposite Kensington Olympia Overground Rail Station. You literally come out of the station , cross the road and enter. So fantastic for public transport. You are allowed to carry your own food inside. Don't know if they will allow you with a big picnic basket for a family of ten. I carried couple of sandwiches and they were ok. Plenty of spaces outside the main arena to sit and have a bite. This was my first visit and I was mighty impressed with the Horse Show. Very colourful experience. Loved the Dog race. It was quite amusing. Special mention for the cute Shetland ponies. Loved everything they were involved with. Must visit place. I will definately make plans to visit sometime next year.

Big place with not many places to just sit down to rest. Toilets are horrible and the WiFi is slow. Quite accessible situated near Hammersmith station in West London.

Coffee shops all have different prices so be careful.

Ideal home exhibition not as it use to be. Far too many stalls want to sell you far too expensive items by tell everyone that it on sale

Went to Olympia for a technology conference. Some of the key notes were a bit over crowded but overall was a great experience.

I went there for an exhibition and a conference. Giant place in good seeing. Very accessible by public transport.

Great exhibition venue. I have been here for the great British beer festival.

Easy to get to, plenty of essential facilities, food and drink prices aren't monstrous and a fab venue for big conference/show events. I was there for the ideal home show which always has great vendors and things to see or do.

Went to knitting and switching show very good plenty of amenities

Always Great for the Beer festival plus other events

Great exhibition centre and easy to get location. Also the neighbourhood is great and has many cool things to do nearby.

Went to see the international horse show and found the seats were very cramped and my legs were touching the seat in front. The vendee were pretty good and the show was amazing.

Good place to visit a show. Food and drink quite expensive

Fantastic, spent a great day there with my friend, so much to see and do, would recommend a visit

Went to the Ideal Home show when it was here. Venue was easy to get through from the local train stop, lots of toilet facilities. Huge venue with a beautiful vaulted ceiling in parts.

Went to the Christmas Ideal Home. Good day out, plenty of shopping for gifts & decorations at reasonable prices. Also lots of free samples of food & drink! Food to buy a bit pricey but otherwise a good day to get you in the Christmas spirit.

Brilliant shopping good variety of stalls and items amazed

Great if you're looking for different events that could be happening at Olympia. Look on their website.

Great conference space with essy access from overground and underground trains.
Having attended a weekend here during the heatwave, I was impressed with the level of temperature control although as expected, the heat was almost unbearable on the upper floors.
The food choices are as expected for a venue of this caliber, way below standards for what would class as good food at extremely high prices.

Welcome to the London sale show, pathetic display of overpriced poncy tat, totally boring it's an auction not a car show totally misleading

Good place for a trade show type of a venue. Good floor layout

For the events it is used for it's a great place. Only wish that there was more ways to get to the top floor.

Went there for a fashion trade show called Pure London. Venue is a very short distance to the overground station Kesignton Olympia. Inside the venue it held over 700 exhibitors so very large. Rest rooms very clean and security staff very friend. A great experience no complaints at all.

Old building, very hot when Sun beats in through glass roof. Very expensive food and drink. Location in London not ideal for easy access.

I've been to this venue several times. Its very easily accessible by both public transport or car. Plenty of parking available close to the venue. It's very well equipped with lovely facilities. Great place to visit.

Excellent exhibition though missing some of the major companies. Olympia is looking very tired though, e.g. left overs from other exhibitions and chewing gum stuck to pillars not to mention the dirty smelly toilets downstairs.

Totally enjoyable horse of the year show Christmas easy access and close parking and trains

I came here for the Ideal Home show but I have also been here for other shows, such a good Venus and when they use all the space it can be a bit of a maze to find things but you seem to enjoy that. Enough toilets and food places. It even has a Pizza Express built into it

Great location, very close to the train station, good management of the event. Though, as it was quite busy and there were events at every level, we had to wait lots for the elevators to come. And, as a minus, there wasn't any place to change a nappy, or if there was such place, there weren't any signs towards it, which was a shame, because there were many people with young children, including myself.

Ideal Christmas home show was Fantastic and had a warm friendly Christmas atmosphere!

Large venue for big events with good transport connections since the Overground started up, although the Tube only comes here on Saturdays.

It is one very large hall, good for trade shows but less than ideal for conferences as the acoustics are poor and there is no facility for proper breakout rooms (10ft high partitions in a huge hall don't count as meeting rooms IMO).

Great venue and always something going on. Went to the allergy free event and some some great stuff on show.

bbf was on ,my first visit and hopefully not the last, didn't find a beer I didn't like,thought the food a little expensive

Absolutely amazing venue for events. Easy to get to with plenty of bus routes.

We went to the fair called "Spirit of Christmas" and it was fantastic!

Great wine, vintage Champagne, beautiful woman's sommelier interested story behind the making of the wine from producers.

We went to Vegfest a vegan and vegetarian food and product exhibition.
Had the best time tasting lots of seriously delicious food. Such a wonderful atmosphere with friendly people with a passion for what they make

It's Olympia! A historic building, plenty of natural light and easy to navigate my way around.

Ideal Home Exhibition - something for everyone here to enjoy and browse. For those looking seriously to add or improve the home it is all here. If like me you prefer the food and drink alternative, there is an array of all things lovely and delightful

Went for the annual horse show and thought the building was decorated will, everything was planned out and very well organised, lots of food choices and market stalls for clothes gifts, etc.
Easy to get to on the train, staff were very friendly.

Great venue. Shame access by public transport is not so easy

Great service but crowded the visit was for comic con had the essentials but a bit cramped. If I was to give a suggestion it would be to get a better layout for everything because it isn't easy to get around.

This large, multi-level exhibition space is light and airy with plenty of places to get food and drink. Trains only visit direct (from Earls Court) at the weekend so if you are visiting during the week, you'll need to find an alternative route.

Very nice venue for exibition, close to the station and many bars around and inside

Drove around trying to find the right car park for the event. Ended up the opposite end to the right hall. Sign posts should be clearer. Definitely easier to come by train

Always enjoy my visits, not easy to work a planned route around the exhibitors

Large exhibition and events centre. An OK place. It's a bit dated. There is nowhere to sit-down to recover from looking at all the exhibits. Unless the floor appeals. Limited overpriced refreshments are available. There is disabled access More

It's a good venue which has a lot of character but the event I attended did not have much seating for those who are less mobile. The tube service for Olympia is so infrequent they actually give you directions from West Kensington and Barons Court to walk it now.

It's well served by buses and it is in walking distance of several stations. The place can be very expensive depending on the event, but the staff are friendly and helpful.

Visited Olympia for the Interior design expo. Absolutely huge venue that can get a little confusing.

Brilliant venue well organised for GBBF. Would go back for sure.

Well organised huge venue for exhibition and trade shows. The building is magnificent, Victorian. Depending on your reason tho go there, check out its structure. All well sign posted, good security and plenty of staff around . Very conveniently located by the tube station and nearby pubs are, as one can expect, fuller than full, after exhibitions.

Wonderful venue, they look after local residents with Friends of Olynpia scheme. Good collection of exhibitions.

It's an exhibition centre. Not much more to say. Nothing to get excited about. Alexandra Palace it isn't!

Venue held up well despite the incredibly high tenperatures

Visited for an exhibition. Efficient staff and good facilities.

A great central venue for large multinational events. Just a pity the Wi-Fi is a little unreliable, but it's a small thing and to be honest, not everywhere even offers it!

Great event location, large enough for 1500 people. Good acocustics

Ideal Home Show was a little disappointing. Not at all what I expected