San Jose Reptile Show (June 13 & 14)

This was my first Reptile Show. The parking is $20, if you live locally just ride the bus there. I was disappointed on how they handled the lines on Saturday (6/22/24). I wish they start using QR codes for their online purchased passes since everyone uses their cellphones anyway. There was also a heat advisory that day and it was really unpleasant. I loved how they checked each attendee for contrabands since there were a lot of children present. There is proper air conditioning once inside. The prices from the sellers were great, better than online stores minus the fees and shipping! You can also observe and choose the animals before purchasing. The only thing I can suggest is to bring cash with you, some of them don't take credit cards and are very limited to e-payment options. A lot of attendees have folding carts with them to carry their purchases back to their cars.

Got to hold a ton of lizards and snakes . So much fun

Unpleasant experience of getting into the show. Long lines of security checks followed by another insanely long lines of getting inside for online purchased tickets. Ridiculously the lines for onsite tickets purchases are 10 times shorter. Unfair experience. They could have generated QR code for each online purchased ticket to fasten the process

This show has more supplies than the one in pleasnton and seems to have more reptiles to in my opinion.

Due to the Covid 19 variant they cancelled 2021 show Sorry for that. I really wanted to go.