VR Hire Solihull
A ballroom seating two thousand, a lakeside conference hotel, and a football ground with hospitality suites — all within a few minutes of Birmingham Airport. Solihull's venue list is really the NEC campus wearing a different postcode.
We know Solihull's venues
Everything on this campus lives or dies by junction 6 of the M42. On a big show day the A45 and the airport approaches gridlock together, and NEC-side deliveries need pre-booked timed gate access rather than turning up and asking nicely. We book the slot, check what's on in the halls that week, and set the arrival accordingly. Get that right and this is one of the smoothest places in England to build; get it wrong and you spend the afternoon in a queue.
The hotels here are conference infrastructure rather than places to sleep. The Metropole's Monarch suite seats two thousand, the Crowne Plaza looks out over Pendigo Lake with eleven rooms, and both are geared to exhibitors in a way ordinary hotels never are. Away from the campus, Solihull proper has the ARMCO Arena at Damson Park and a college conference centre, plus the sort of business-park space for four bays and no need to anyone moving a desk.
33 rooms, Monarch suite seats 2,000
11 rooms overlooking Pendigo Lake
Solihull Moors, Damson Park hospitality
Campus conference and event hire
Blythe Valley and Birmingham Business Park floors
Rooms we work in around Solihull and the NEC campus. Damson Park now trades as The ARMCO Arena, which is its third name in recent years — listings are predictably inconsistent.
What we bring to Solihull events
VR Racing
Wheel, pedals and a timing board — the exhibition-stand format that stops footfall dead.
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VR Golf
Championship holes for an evening that betters another lakeside dinner.
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Virtual Sports Day
Group stages and a final; a Monarch-suite build has room for a genuine crowd.
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Travel
Nothing is added for travel across Solihull and the NEC campus. Timed gate access is booked ahead for anything campus-side, and arrival times are set against whatever the halls are hosting that week.
Booking
The exhibition calendar governs this diary completely. When a major show is in, book early and expect hotels to be gone; when the halls are quiet, availability is excellent.
Good questions, straight answers
Can you work on our stand at an NEC-campus show?
How badly does show traffic affect a build?
Is this different from booking your Birmingham service?
What space does a business-park office need?
How far ahead should we book?
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Planning a Solihull event?
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day, with Solihull travel and logistics already priced in.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 07306 803 133 — lines answered weekdays 9am to 6pm.
Get your Solihull quote
Tell us the date and headcount — quotes back within one working day. Prefer to talk? Call 07306 803 133.