For exhibitors & sponsors · 15 minutes from the Kentucky Expo Center
Host Your Show's Clients at a Private Cigar Lounge
You spent real money on the booth, the badges, and the travel. Don't let the best conversations end when the show floor closes. Reserve our upstairs lounge for the evening and give your clients, dealers, and prospects a night they'll actually remember — a full humidor, big screens, comfortable chairs, and a door you can close behind your group.
The After-Show Move Smart Exhibitors Already Make
The Kentucky Exposition Center is one of the busiest show venues in the country — 1.2 million square feet that fills up week after week with some of the largest trade shows in the world. But the floor goes dark in the late afternoon, and that's exactly when the relationship-building should keep going.
The hotel bar is loud, generic, and full of your competitors. A steakhouse means a reservation, a check, and a clock. We're a different kind of room: a premium cigar lounge fifteen minutes across the river in New Albany, Indiana, where a handshake on the show floor turns into a two-hour conversation — the kind that closes deals long after the badges come off.
Built for the Show Crowd
The groups we host during show weeks come in for all of it:
- Client appreciation nights — thank the customers who came to see your booth
- Sponsor & VIP hospitality — give your top accounts a reason to remember your name
- Dealer & distributor entertaining — the relationship work that doesn't happen on the floor
- Sales-team unwind — reward the crew after a long day of standing and pitching
- Prospect closers — move the conversation somewhere quiet enough to actually talk numbers
- Booth-staff thank-yous — the people who worked the show deserve the good chairs
Plan around your show
The Big Kentucky Expo Center Shows
If your company exhibits at any of these, we're the after-hours room your clients will thank you for.
- February National Farm Machinery Show & Championship Tractor Pull — KEC
- March Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) — KEC
- August NSRA Street Rod Nationals — KEC
- August Kentucky State Fair — KEC
- October Equip Exposition — KEC
- November North American International Livestock Expo (NAILE) — KEC
Exact dates move year to year — see the full show & event calendar for what's coming up, then call us to lock in your night.
Your Own Private Floor
When you book the upstairs, the entire second floor is yours for the night — fully private, doors closed, no walk-in traffic. That includes:
- A reserved, private room for your group alone — no shared seating, no strangers
- Comfortable lounge seating and tables built for conversation
- Big-screen TVs — put the game on, or your company's highlight reel
- The full walk-in humidor downstairs — every cigar we carry, including the complete Fuente family and our OPUS X selection
- Cutters, lighters, and ashtrays provided — first-timers welcome, we'll walk them through it
- Free Wi-Fi, a sound system, and a private office upstairs for a quick call between cigars
No liquor license means we don't serve alcohol — but plenty of groups bring their own bottle to share with their cigars. Ask us how it works.
How to Book
The fastest way is the OCL Booking & Search Tool — pick your show dates, check availability, and reserve. Or call us at 812-786-7477 and we'll plan the night with you, from group size to a flight of cigars matched to your crowd. Out-of-town and not sure what your people smoke? That's our favorite kind of conversation.