A Two-Day Buying Show in Exhibit Hall J-K
The Indiana Convention Center lists Core-Mark Expo as a two-day event on February 10 and 11, 2027. The venue page carries three lines of detail: Venue: Indiana Convention Center, Location: Exhibit Hall J-K, and Forecast Attendance: 1,500. February 10 falls on a Wednesday and February 11 on a Thursday.
The page publishes no door time and no session times. For a local retailer or supplier representative who drives in for one floor day, the two-day span is the useful fact and the one-day room is the product.
Core-Mark describes itself as a member of the Performance Food Group family of companies and the largest marketer of consumer goods in North America, serving customers from independent stores to large chain-operators.
One Floor Day, One Day-Use Slot
hotelSlots rents rooms by the daytime block. The platform sells four slots: Morning 6AM to 12PM, Afternoon 12PM to 6PM, Evening 6PM to 12AM and Overnight 12AM to 6AM. A reader can book one slot or combine several for full-day coverage. The platform states a day-use room typically runs 6 to 8 hours.
A show day that starts in the morning and runs into the afternoon sits inside a morning slot plus an afternoon slot, or inside a single full-day combination. The booking replaces a second hotel night with the hours actually spent in the building.
A Workspace Instead of a Second Night
The platform markets day-use rooms to people who need a working space rather than a bed. Its remote-work page offers a quiet, professional space with reliable Wi-Fi, business-grade internet, a desk and ergonomic seating, and privacy for calls, with gym, coffee and restaurant breaks between calls.
For a buyer or a supplier representative taking calls between appointments on the floor, the room covers the daytime hours and ends when the floor does.
The Shower, the Gym and the Pool
hotelSlots states on its day-use page that full hotel amenities apply, with pool, gym, Wi-Fi and shower access included.
What February Costs in Indianapolis
February is the lowest month of the year in this market, which suits a show dated inside it. Engine puts the Indianapolis average nightly rate at $128 across 1.2 million public rate observations from May 2024 to April 2026, with February at $107, or 16 percent below that average. May is the peak at $158, 23 percent above. Engine measures rates swinging 32 percent across the year and ranks Indianapolis 39 of 50 major markets, 14 percent below the $148 median of its set. Engine states these are par rates, the cheapest public price at the time of each search rather than a negotiated or booked rate.
hotelSlots publishes 30 to 75 percent less than nightly rates on its home page and 40 to 60 percent less than overnight on its day-use page. Its rates guide puts a day slot at roughly 40 to 60 percent of the nightly figure.
Downtown Indianapolis on Foot
The venue counts 7,100 hotel rooms in downtown Indianapolis, 4,700 of them connected to the Convention Center by skywalks, plus 200 downtown restaurants within walking distance and 15 minutes to Indianapolis International Airport. Its hotels page states that more than half of the 7,100 rooms sit within blocks of the Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium. The hotelSlots directory lists 273 hotels in Indianapolis.
The skywalk window is not fixed. The venue states that closing and opening times are event-dependent, with a rule of thumb of roughly 11:00 p.m. for lock down and roughly 6:00 a.m. for reopening.
A New Headquarters Hotel Opens Before the Show
The venue announced on April 21, 2026 that the Signia by Hilton Indianapolis is accepting reservations for stays beginning February 1, 2027, nine days before the Core-Mark Expo opens. The venue describes it as an 800-room new-build, the city's tallest hotel and the Convention Center's newest headquarters hotel, with direct skywalk access, seven dining experiences, a premium wellness and fitness center and a ballroom it calls the largest in Indiana. It sits along the Georgia Street pedestrian promenade in the Wholesale District. The city owns it, and the Capital Improvement Board of Managers of Marion County leads operations. The venue calls it the first Signia property in the Midwest and in Indiana.
What to Confirm Before Booking
The venue publishes no door time and no session times, so no arrival hour should be assumed. Day rates move with the slot and the date, so confirm the rate and the slot times on the offer before paying.
The platform states that Florida, Hawaii, Iowa and Washington restrict day-use bookings under state travel laws. Indiana is not among the four.
