Seminars and company events
VAZ St. Pölten is a large event center in the Greenpark area of St. Pölten, Lower Austria, hired for congresses, fairs, balls, concerts, festivals and sports events as well as seminars. For seminars the venue offers two upper floors with room for up to 500 participants: 100 on the first floor and 400 on the second. Usage plans for both floors can be downloaded from the site. The venue also lists services from equipment to marketing and ticketing for organizers.
Congresses can use the halls themselves. Halls A and B together give 3,995 seats or about 7,000 standing places, hall C gives 2,240 seats, and with the warehouse and the upper floors the venue counts 7,395 people indoors.
Rooms and capacities
The venue gives figures by type of event, so organizers should check which layout applies. For balls, hall A takes 2,000 people with 568 chairs at 71 tables, hall B takes 4,000 with 1,590 chairs at 187 tables, and hall C takes 3,000 with 608 chairs at 76 tables. The warehouse holds 560 people, the restaurant 300 with 244 chairs, and a handling room 300. The total for a ball is 10,660 people, of whom 3,010 are seated.
For concerts and shows, halls A and B offer 3,601 seats or about 7,000 standing places, hall C has 2,078 seats and the warehouse 560 standing places. For fairs and festivals, halls A, B and C together hold 12,000 standing, and the indoor total is 13,060. The outdoor grounds add standing room for up to 49,900 in and outdoors combined.
Catering
The in-house catering service is run by Wutzl Gastro. The site lists coffee breaks, lunch or dinner buffets in several variants and price categories, an à la carte restaurant and room decoration. The offer ranges from rustic buffets to formal menus. The site does not mention outside caterers.
History and setting
The VAZ opened in 1992. It is operated by the NXP Entertainment Group, and about 500,000 guests come each year. The venue has 1,000 free parking spaces at the building, and the grounds have been used for large festivals. It sits in the Greenpark area of St. Pölten.
Getting there
St. Pölten is a rail junction, and nearly all long-distance and regional trains stop at the main station. A bus takes about 10 minutes from the station to the VAZ, and a taxi takes 10 to 15 minutes. By road, the A1 exit St. Pölten Süd is about five minutes away. Vienna-Schwechat airport is about 95 km away, less than an hour by car, and Linz is about 120 km away. The venue also has an accommodation page for visitors.
