The Do it Best Corp. Fall Market runs September 25 to 28, 2026 at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis. The venue forecasts 12,000 attendees. A store or franchise group of five to thirty people has one constraint: downtown blocks fill early in a show week.
What the market publishes
The venue lists the Indiana Convention Center at 100 South Capitol Avenue, Indianapolis. The published dates are Friday, September 25 through Monday, September 28, 2026.
The market publishes its own floor hours. Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday 7 a.m. to noon.
Set the group's departure times against those hours. The Monday floor closes at noon, so the return leg belongs in the early afternoon.
One hotel for the group
Indianapolis publishes 7,100 hotel rooms downtown and 200 restaurants within walking distance of the convention center. It publishes 4,700 rooms connected to the building by skywalk.
Ask every property on the shortlist one question: how many minutes under cover from the lobby to the convention center entrance? A skywalk link gives the group one front door, one meeting point and one trip in the morning.
The room count a budget holder signs
Work the block off the headcount. Thirty people in double occupancy need fifteen rooms. The published window is three nights, Friday to Monday.
- Thirty people: 15 rooms, 45 room-nights, 1.5 room-nights per person.
- Fifteen people: 8 rooms, 24 room-nights, 1.6 room-nights per person.
- Five people: 3 rooms, 9 room-nights, 1.8 room-nights per person.
bookMyTeam publishes a group rate as a block of ten or more rooms, a saving of 15 to 40 percent off rack rates and no fee to submit a request. At an example rate of 200 dollars a night, the 45 room-night block is 9,000 dollars before any saving, 7,650 dollars at the low end of the band and 5,400 dollars at the high end. That is 255 dollars and 180 dollars per person for the rooms. Replace the example rate with the quote before the number goes into an approval request.
The free shuttle
The market runs a free shuttle from seven hotels. Holiday Inn Select at 410 S. Missouri St., Holiday Inn Indianapolis Downtown at 515 S. West St., Staybridge Suites at 535 S. West St., Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre at 31 W. Ohio St., Aloft Indianapolis Downtown at 136 E. Market St., Tru by Hilton at 601 Russell Ave. and the InterContinental at 17 W. Market St.
The pickup and drop-off point is the convention center entrance near the Maryland Street Canopy, across from the Westin. Buses run about every 30 minutes. Friday 7 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Saturday 5:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Sunday 6:30 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. Monday 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
A block inside that list leaves the airport leg as the only transfer to arrange. Collect flight numbers at the point you collect the room list, then run the airport shuttle twice, once after the first cluster of landings and once after the second.
The daily roll call
Run a roll call in the hotel lobby 20 minutes before departure. Name one person per crew as the checkpoint, and let that person report the count. Run the same roll call at the show floor meeting point at the close of each day.
Pair each roll call with a printed card. The card carries the hotel address, the shuttle window and two contact numbers. Give the group the lobby as the fallback meeting point.
Three answers to collect
The event page publishes no bed configuration for the room types and no statement on whether a property holds a group floor. Ask the hotel for both. Ask the organiser for the registration cut-off date.
The group rate calculator turns the headcount and the nights into a block size. The request form sends it to competing hotels. The Indianapolis directory lists properties with street addresses for the shortlist. Start with how it works for a first block.
