The pass sets the price floor
Fair Park lists the Dallas Home Show for January 23 and 24, 2027 with the line “Get Your Free Passes Today or $10 at the Door.” The organiser's pass page reads “Admission is free with online registration or $10 at the door.” The pass is valid for the recipient and all of their guests. The form asks for a first name, a ZIP code, an email and a birth year, and the pass arrives by email or prints from the page.
Claim it before the show. Adults pay $10 at the door and children enter free.
Two days, two nights
The organiser publishes the clocks: Saturday, January 23 runs 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, January 24 runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ten hours on Saturday, seven on Sunday.
That split decides which night to buy. Saturday runs to 8 p.m. and the Sunday open follows at 10 a.m., so the Saturday night covers both ends. The Sunday night catches the 5 p.m. close and leaves Monday morning free, and it is the night to price first.
Seventeen names inside three miles
Fair Park publishes a Where to Stay page that lists lodging within 3 miles. It names 17 properties with street addresses across 15 buildings, because two pairs share an address: AC Hotel and Residence Inn at 1712 Commerce Street, and Fairfield Inn & Suites and TownePlace Suites at 555 Evergreen Street.
Seventeen names is the leverage. A front desk that holds a rate can be answered by the same building under the other brand, and by fourteen other addresses inside the ring. No property on the list publishes a rate on the venue page, and the list carries no per-property distance beyond the three-mile promise.
On a straight line from Centennial Hall, Element at 4005 Gaston Avenue sits 1.15 miles out, Home2 Suites at 3301 Gaston Avenue 1.22 miles, and the Kimpton Pittman Hotel at 2551 Elm Street 1.41 miles.
Open on the Sunday
Start with one night. Check in Sunday, January 24, check out Monday, January 25, and ask for late checkout as a term of the rate. A single-night request is one decision for a revenue manager.
Then price Saturday. Ask what the property charges for the Saturday night added to a confirmed Sunday booking. That figure is the incremental night, and the desk prices it on the demand for that date.
If the desk answers with a package, ask for the Sunday night on its own and treat that figure as the floor. Walk the same question to the sibling brand at the same address. Two desks in one building answer to two revenue managers.
When the pass beats the door
The pass wins when it is claimed before arrival. The saving is $10 an adult and it costs one form. The door price is a flat $10 with no published tier.
Ten dollars is a small share of a room night. Offer the hotel the door-equivalent spend as an upgrade, a parking charge or the Sunday late checkout. The buyer gives up nothing and the desk gains a reason to agree.
Parking is the tiebreaker
Fair Park counts more than 14,000 parking spaces and publishes no event rate for this show. It bars overnight parking and states that a vehicle left overnight is subject to towing at the owner's expense. General parking is free on a non-event day and event fees vary by event.
Ask each property what it charges for self-parking across both nights. The show closes at 5 p.m. on Sunday, and that figure sits beside the room rate in any two-night comparison.
The questions, in order
One: one night, Sunday, January 24, late checkout included. Two: the Saturday night priced as an add-on to that booking. Three: the walk-in rate at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Four: self-parking across both nights. Five, for a group booking: the RFP desk, where hotelhaggle sends one request to 50+ hotels at no cost to submit and returns responses within 24 to 72 hours. The site's FAQ puts the room count at 10+ rooms a night for most hotels, with discounts from five rooms depending on season and availability.
The platform covers 46 states. Florida, Hawaii, Iowa and Washington restrict name-your-price bookings under state travel laws, and Texas sits outside that group.
