Reminder - FurcoNZ Camp 2025 registration opens from 6pm NZDT on the 2nd of January!
You can find the registration page here:
https://furconz.org.nz/camp-2025/registration
Just like in previous years, accommodation is included with your registration and, different options have staggered opening times:
6:00pm: Lakeside Villas (very limited!)
6:15pm: Lodge rooms (2-3 beds per room)
6:30pm: Bunkrooms (7-9 beds per room)
Other options, including Youth bunkrooms, Accessible/Carer passes and registration-only (staying offsite) all open at 6:30pm.
During registration and pre-fill, you’ll be able to select upgrades, including sponsorship tier, transport options and activities.
You can also pre-fill your registration and add your payment method in advance to save time when rego opens. To add a payment method, select the relevant option when prompted for payment at the end of registration.
It’s been a few weeks since New Zealand’s first hotel furry convention wrapped up, and I’m here with a post-event report. This isn’t going to be anything close to a full overview of everything that happened over the weekend - if I did this article would be a few thousand words long!
First off, I highly recommend you check out the amazing video Steferd put together for the event. I think it does a great job of capturing the weekend. So stop reading, and enjoy.
From the start of the event, the open common spaces of the Holiday Inn were bustling from the morning until late in the night. For most of the weekend, the weather was clear and warm, with a few short bursts of rain. There were usually a few groups of people sitting outside around the pool (or taking a dip!). There was a constant flow of people heading to and from panels and the hotel bar to get food and drinks.
Including day passes, there were 380 attendees in total – easily smashing the previous record of 181 for a New Zealand event set by FurcoNZ Camp 2022.
The Dealer’s Den was busy throughout the event, with FurcoNZ merch also on offer. There were several international dealers with one (Gaius) even making the journey from Canada! On offer were socks, collars and tags, dice (a lot of dice), fursuits, commissions, art prints, props and accessories, stickers, and quite frankly a lot of other things that would be far too much to list.
A list of dealers has been included below for anyone looking to grab any goods that they missed out on at con.
The dances were all streamed online on Twitch and to the FurcoNZ custom world in VRChat. There was also a two-way portal set up, so those in VR could chat with and see attendees at the event.
Photo: @Ember_Atawhai.
The fursuit parade was held on Sunday evening, and the weather was perfect, with a breeze and blue skies. The short parade ran though the hotel corridors…
…and ended with a gathering outside for a group photo. There was (by a big margin) the largest group of fursuits I have ever seen in one place in New Zealand. In total, we counted 109 fursuits.
There were so many other events and panels over the weekend that I wasn’t able to find time to attend (or couldn’t find photos of to share). FurcoNZ Hotel this year was an amazing event and I’ll definitely be back next time!
FurcoNZ Camp is returning in 2025 with this years theme being Howloween! The event will be returning to the Forest Lakes camp in Ōtaki, the same venue as previous recent camp events. The event is scheduled for May 8-11th (not halloween). The event will be held from a Thursday to a Sunday instead of the Friday to Monday of previous FurcoNZ Camp events.
The event was annouced with a spooky video during the closing ceremony of this years hotel event. Details are still limited, but registration will be opening just over two weeks from now, on the 15th of December.
With just over two weeks to go, FurcoNZ Hotel 2024 is growing closer and closer. If you haven’t registered already, registration for Premium is still open for a few more days, so get in quick!
Day passes will also be available during the event.
As a reminder, FurcoNZ recommends you join the FurcoNZ News channel on Telegram for updates during the event!
Southern Paws has announced that they will be running their second event this year, running from the 30th of April to the 3rd of May. This event will be held at the same location as in 2019 — the Waipara Adventure Center about 40 minutes north of Christchurch. The event has been extended by one night, now operating as a three-night convention (like FurCoNZ)
The theme for this years event is Space Westerns. Bascially, think Firefly. Both spacecraft and cowboy hats!
Registration isn’t open yet, but details can be found on the Southern Paws website. There’s also an official Telegram group, which you can join by following the link in the big purple box on the website.
With less than one month left to go, FurCoNZ 2020 is coming up quickly! FurCoNZ will be held from January 30th – February 2nd, 2020.
Though all sponsor and premium-tier tickets are sold out, FurCoNZ still has plenty of regular tickets remaining (and a handful of day passes). Regular ticket registration should be open until the 16th of January. So, if you’re interested in going, you still have a chance to make it.
FurDU is excited to announce that their main hotel has been fully booked out, and the neighboring ones are filling up fast! You may need to book ASAP to avoid missing out. Registration is also close to selling out with under 180 left so get in NOW!
The day has come, and registration for FurCoNZ 2020 is now open! The event this year will be running for three nights at the Forest Lakes campsite, in Ōtaki. If you’d like to register or learn more, you can head to the FurCoNZ website using the link below and register RIGHT NOW.
