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Real rooms, real problems

Rooms that exist, at the dimensions their venues publish, with an evening that has to happen in them. Decide what you would do before you read what the arithmetic says.

Square footage is the number everybody quotes and the one that hides the most. These are the cases where it hides something.

Eighteen Feet Wide

The venue publishes 300 for a room you cannot get two people past each other in

The room
105 × 18 ft · 12 ft ceiling · 1,890 sq ft
The evening
250 guests · 2 bars
Where the geometry comes from
Sheraton Agoura Hills, Grand Foyer — read 2026-09-19. Published as 105 × 18 × 12 ft, 1,890 sq ft. Reception 300, banquet 120.

A 250-person conference reception. Registration, a sponsor table, two bars, six cocktail tables, one food station, and the ballroom doors at one end.

105 ft18 ft
EntryExitBar

What comes out of the plan first?

There is rarely one right answer. Decide yours, then read what the arithmetic makes of the room.

Geometry read from the venue's own published event specifications on the date shown. The event scenario is written by Tangled Thistle for planning education. Nothing here is a criticism of the property, and no floor plan is reproduced.