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Two Hotels Named, No Rate Posted for Nine March Days

Marketplace Events names two northeast hotels for a nine-day Indianapolis show and publishes no rate, block or cut-off, against an 85-property preferred list.

Two Properties Named and No Rate Stored

The Indiana Flower + Patio Show runs Saturday 13 to Sunday 21 March 2027 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center, 1202 E. 38th St., Indianapolis. The organiser, Marketplace Events, books Expo Hall and West Pavilion and sells 80 hours of show floor across the nine days.

Its Accommodations block names two hotels. Hampton Inn NE Castleton Indianapolis sits at 6817 East 82nd Street, Indianapolis, IN 46250. Candlewood Suites Indianapolis NE sits at 8111 Bash Street, Indianapolis, IN 46250. Each entry carries a street address and a Website link.

The block states no rate, no room count, no block size and no cut-off date.

What the Two Links Carry

The Hampton link is a Hilton reservation URL. Its query string reads ctyhocn=INDNEHX, arrivalDate=2026-03-26, departureDate=2026-03-27 and room1NumAdults=1. The window is one night in March 2026, a year before the run opens, and the URL carries no group code.

The Candlewood link is an IHG hotel-detail URL. It carries the property code INDBS, a destination string reading 8111 Bash Street, Indianapolis, IN, US, and no dates.

A third entry, Lazy Sunday Rentals, is a local, women-owned Indianapolis vacation rental company. It publishes 10 percent off a direct booking under code LAZYINDYFLOWERSHOW.

The Campground Rate the Block Publishes

The block's one price is the RV campgrounds at the State Fairgrounds: $40 plus tax per day with hook-up, booked at 317-927-7500.

The venue's camping page dates full hook-up sites to April through October and electric-only hook-ups to November through March. It closes the dump station inside that window. A mid-March stay sits in the electric-only season, and the page asks for the reservation before arrival.

Eighty-Five Properties and No Stored Rate

The Fairgrounds' own Hotel Information page carries a single instruction: "Click Here to make a reservation with one of our Preferred Hotels, in partnership with Visit Indy!" It names no property.

The link runs to reservations.visitindy.com/hotel/list/14431/i5622. Read on 25 September 2026, that list carries 85 properties, each with a distance field measured from the Fairgrounds and stamped "*Actual driving distance may vary".

The nearest is Bottleworks Hotel at 3.20 miles. The farthest is Hotel Carmichael, Autograph Collection at 9.97 miles. Four properties sit inside 4 miles, 38 sit between 4 and 6, 18 between 6 and 8, and 25 between 8 and 10.

Every record also stores a null rate. Every card reads "PLEASE ENTER DATES TO SEE RATES" until a guest enters a date pair. On the same read with 13 to 14 March 2027 entered, the first 20 rendered cards produced figures from $189 to $799 for the night. The page carries 800-350-6181 as its assistance line.

The list's Candlewood record, named Candlewood Suites Indianapolis by IHG, sits at 7.02 miles and stores a null rate. The list carries no record at 6817 East 82nd Street, the Hampton's published address, which measures 6.73 miles from the venue's street address in a straight line.

The Promoter Behind the Run

Marketplace Events publishes its own scale in two places on its home page. The show band counts "more than 100+ shows in 54 markets". The company block counts more than 135 business-to-consumer and trade shows in North America across 60 markets: 67 home and garden shows, 23 holiday shopping shows, 16 sport and outdoor shows, 10 travel shows and 22 regional trade shows. The same block counts 35,000-plus exhibitors, more than 2.3 million attendees and 6 million unique web visitors a year.

The show's own scale figures are two. The organiser's About Us page counts 300-plus booths. The venue's event page counts more than 350 experts in remodeling, kitchens and baths, landscaping, decor and flooring.

What the File Leaves Open

The published record carries no block rate, no room count, no cut-off date and no pickup pace at either named property. It carries no group ticket rate for the show. It carries no attendance forecast from the organiser or from the venue.

A property weighing this nine-day run works from a distance figure, an address and a one-night deeplink dated to the year before. A rate arrives when a guest supplies dates to a third-party booking page.

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