Conference venues in Newport Beach
This guide covers 4 mapped venues in Newport Beach, California, what each one holds, and how attendees get to them. Regency Lido Theatre is the best-documented room in the set.
Venues in Newport Beach, by what they are for
Newport Beach has a recorded population of 82,970 (2024), inside the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area of about 13 million people.
Across the city the dataset records 2 dedicated conference and function spaces, 1 theatre or concert hall and 1 independent event space.
By type that is 2 conference centres, 1 theatre and 1 event space.
Conference and function space (2)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoag Neurosciences Institute and Conference Center | conference centre | not published | 0.5 km (0.3 mi) |
| P5 Conference Center Parking | conference centre | not published | 0.4 km (0.2 mi) |
Theatres and concert halls (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regency Lido Theatre | theatre | not published | 0.1 km (0.1 mi) |
Independent event spaces (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balboa Village Theatre | event space | not published | 3.3 km (2.1 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Newport Beach appears above. The ones with enough published detail to be worth reading have their own guide and are linked; the rest are named here, which is honest about what the record holds without giving each of them a page made of three facts.
Flights, time and distance
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is 57 km (35 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
Newport Beach keeps Los Angeles time (America/Los_Angeles), which matters most for the remote speakers you are dialling in.
Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Newport Beach has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- LAX
- Los Angeles International Airport, 57 km (35 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−7
- America/Los_Angeles, in September
- City population, 2024
- 82,970
- 13 million across the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area
Who else books Newport Beach
Recurring shows on the Newport Beach calendar include Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade. Check your dates against them: hotel rates and venue availability both move.
- Newport Beach Christmas Boat Paradeannual event
Recorded in Wikidata, which covers event series with an encyclopaedia entry. It is a floor rather than a full calendar for Newport Beach, and it is not a listing service — check dates with the organiser.
Before you hold a date
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Newport Beach dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre, so a trade floor needs either an arena floor, a fairground, or a nearby city. Check the arena listings above before you promise exhibitors a booth plan.
No published capacities
Not one Newport Beach venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page. Every room on the list will quote you a number directly, but you cannot compare them before you call, so build a fortnight of venue calls into the plan.
Arrival is a half-day
57 km (35 mi) from LAX means most attendees lose a morning to travel. Open registration the evening before and put nothing you care about in the first slot.
The city is smaller than the market
82,970 people live in Newport Beach itself, but about 13 million live in the wider Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
A worked example, sized to Newport Beach
Suppose 240 attendees claim their invite and open the app at a Newport Beach event a mid-sized Newport Beach programme, since no Newport Beach venue publishes a capacity in open data. Here is exactly what event67 charges, with the free 50 taken off the top.
- activated attendees
- 240activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 190billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $950for the whole event, at $5 each
You are billed for people, not for the venue, so the room you choose in Newport Beach does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
Which kind of event this suits
No capacity is published for any Newport Beach venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- award ceremonies
1 fixed-seat house gives you a stage, lighting and sightlines without building any of it.
- training days and workshops
2 purpose-built function spaces are the easiest kind of room to run a workshop in — the power and the load-in already assume it.
- leadership retreats
Smaller rooms suit a retreat better than a hall does, and Newport Beach has them.
Where this data comes from
- GeoNames, CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates
- Wikidata, CC0
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- US population figures are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
What does an event app cost for a 240-person event in Newport Beach?
240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. The price is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
How big an event can Newport Beach hold?
No Newport Beach venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 4 venues are mapped here and each will quote a capacity directly. Ask for the seated, theatre and reception figures separately — they differ by a factor of two or more in the same room.
Can you run a trade show in Newport Beach?
Nothing in the Newport Beach dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre. A trade floor here means an arena floor, a fairground or a venue in a nearby city such as Costa Mesa. For a conference without an exhibition, the 4 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Newport Beach?
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), about 57 km (35 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/Los_Angeles; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.
What happens under 50 attendees?
One live event with up to 50 activated attendees costs nothing. Beyond that it is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
What events already happen in Newport Beach?
Recurring shows recorded for Newport Beach include Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade. This list comes from Wikidata and covers series with an encyclopaedia entry, so it is a floor rather than a full calendar. Check your dates against it: hotel rates and venue availability both move around a returning show.
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Running something in Newport Beach?
Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.