For sponsors, vendors & teams · 15 minutes from the Kentucky Expo Center

Host Clients During the Kentucky State Fair

The Kentucky State Fair runs eleven days at the Kentucky Exposition Center every August — and for sponsors, vendors, and the teams working it, that's eleven long days on the grounds. Give your clients and your crew a quiet place to land. Reserve our private upstairs lounge, fifteen minutes across the river, for a night that feels like a reward instead of another shift.

The private upstairs VIP cigar lounge at The Office Cigar Lounge in New Albany, IN

Kentucky Expo Center · August

The Kentucky State Fair — Eleven Days

  • When Each August — August 20–30, 2026 (dates shift year to year)
  • Show Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, KY
  • Our room The Office Cigar Lounge — 2702 Paoli Pike, New Albany, IN 47150 · 15 minutes from the KEC

For more than a century the Kentucky State Fair has been the state's biggest annual gathering — agriculture, livestock, concerts, and hundreds of thousands of visitors across its eleven-day run. Behind the scenes it's a working event for a small army of sponsors, vendors, and corporate partners, all in Louisville at the same time.

The After-Hours Move for Fair Sponsors

When you sponsor or vend at the fair, the days are long and the grounds are loud. The relationships — with partners, with sponsors, with the team that's been working the booth — get built after hours, somewhere you can actually hear each other. A hotel bar won't cut it. We're a different kind of room: a premium cigar lounge fifteen minutes across the river in New Albany, Indiana, with a door you can close behind your group.

Because the fair runs almost two weeks, there's plenty of room to pick the right night — a sponsor-appreciation evening, a partner dinner's natural second act, or simply a thank-you for the people who showed up and worked every day. The upstairs lounge turns a long fair into a night worth remembering.

Your Own Private Floor

Book the upstairs and the entire second floor is yours for the night — fully private, doors closed, no walk-in traffic. That includes:

We keep the focus on cigars and good company. Plenty of groups bring their own food to enjoy alongside their cigars — just ask us how it works.

Plan your fair night

Pick a Night From the Eleven-Day Run

With the fair stretching across two weekends, you've got options — but the best nights still go first. Pick your date now and we'll have the room ready, from group size to a flight of cigars matched to your crowd.

Getting here

Fifteen Minutes From the Kentucky Expo Center

An easy ride for the whole group — straight up I-264 and over the Sherman Minton Bridge, or I-265 to State Street (Exit 1), turn right and head up the hill. 2702 Paoli Pike, New Albany, IN 47150. Free parking out front. Hours & map →