One weekend, two prices
Crafty Wonderland sells two tickets for the Holiday Art + Craft Market. General admission timed entry costs $4 total. The First Pick Pre-Show Party costs $25 total. Both run at the Oregon Convention Center in Hall D, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Portland.
What the $4 ticket buys
The $4 ticket covers Saturday, December 12 or Sunday, December 13. Entry is limited every hour from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. A buyer picks an entry hour and arrives at any point inside it. Once inside, the buyer stays as long as they want. The Eventbrite listing prices the timed entry at $4 total and names both days. It does not say whether one $4 purchase covers both days.
What the $25 ticket buys
The $25 ticket covers the First Pick Pre-Show Party on Friday, December 11 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. The organisers sell a limited number of these tickets. The ticket is not timed. A holder arrives at any point between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m. The ticket includes one free drink at the cash bar, which the organiser values at $15.
Subtract that drink. The $25 ticket buys $10 of access and a $15 drink. The $10 is two and a half times the $4 general admission price.
The arithmetic for four people
Four Friday tickets cost $100. The organiser's drink valuation puts $60 of that on drinks. The access portion is $40. Four Saturday tickets cost $16. The Friday preview costs $24 more for the same four people, and it buys the one evening when the floor is closed to the public.
Add parking either way. The venue garage holds 800 spaces and charges a dynamic $15 to $25 at entry during events. Up to 18 hours costs $15 with no in and out privileges. Overnight parking is prohibited. The convention center sits eight miles from Portland International Airport, on the MAX Light Rail, the Portland Streetcar and local bus routes. Bicycle parking is free, with 32 spaces on level P1 and 14 on level P2. The venue is cashless.
Which night a flexible arrival should target
The Friday preview starts at 5:00 p.m. A two-night stay from Friday, December 11 covers the preview and the first public day. A two-night stay from Saturday, December 12 covers both public days and drops the preview.
Friday is the night that carries published value. It holds the only access before the public opening, and the organiser prices that access on the record. Ask the property what it charges for Friday, December 11 and what it charges for Saturday, December 12 as separate nights. A weekend rate that averages the two hides the premium on one of them.
Pin the checkout time next. The market closes at 5:00 p.m. Sunday. A noon checkout leaves five hours before the floor closes, and a held bag for those hours changes what the room is worth.
No hotel rate is published for this weekend
None of the three pages read for this article publishes a nightly hotel rate. The market runs two public days with a Friday preview, and the leverage sits in the ticket ladder. Ask for the rate, the cancellation date and the total with tax in writing, then hold the answer against the $25 and the $4 the organiser publishes.
The ticket terms, as written
Tickets are non-refundable. A buyer may change the name on a ticket and pass it to another person. A buyer may switch the entry time slot. Children five and under attend free, and anyone six and older needs a ticket. Eventbrite handles sales. A select number of tickets may be available at the door for slots that have not sold out, and the organisers advise buying ahead because slots sell out.
Sales opened on October 7, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific.
Where the publishers disagree
The vendor count differs across three pages. The convention center page reads over 250 artists. The organiser home page reads over 200 booths. The Eventbrite listing reads over 275 makers. The convention center page also reads "Tickets on Sale - Fall 2026", while Eventbrite has shown sales open since October 7, 2026.
Eventbrite is the live sales record. Read the counts as estimates and price the weekend off the ticket ladder.
Access and parking details
The venue is wheelchair accessible and lends wheelchairs and mobility scooters at no charge, first come, first served. A reservation runs through guestexperience@oregoncc.org or 503-731-7800, within 30 days of the event. Garage levels carry 10 accessible spaces on P1 and 11 on P2. A cash bar runs at the market. The venue prohibits all animals except those trained to assist a person with a disability.
What to settle before the booking
Confirm whether one $4 ticket covers Saturday and Sunday. Confirm the checkout time against the 5:00 p.m. close. Ask whether the $15 drink value converts for a guest who does not drink. Get the nightly rate for Friday, December 11 and for Saturday, December 12 separately, with tax and the cancellation date, in writing.
Then book the night the ticket arithmetic supports. Friday carries the published premium and the only preview access. Saturday carries the lower-priced entry.
