What to Expect When Hotels Open
On Friday, February 2nd, 2018 general hotel reservations will open at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time (GMT -0500). If we were to post the link on this website at 11 AM, the website would quickly become overwhelmed with all the requests. So instead, we will once again post the link on our various social media channels. Shortly after 11 AM (as shown by the service at https://time.is/), the link to reserve hotel rooms will be posted in the following social media channels, in order:
Announcing Our 2018 Charity: South Hills Pet Rescue
Anthrocon is pleased to announce that South Hills Pet Rescue will be our beneficiary for 2018’s charity efforts. The following is a summary from South Hills Pet Rescue that summarizes their mission and efforts: Nick Ferraro ran South Hills Pet Resort, a boarding and training facility, and purchased it in 2012. Ashley Rittle was having a hard time with her dog, and called Nick to request his training services. Little did they know the adventure ahead; they were married in June 2013, and that August, they were asked to help a local animal rescue that had been overwhelmed with dogs pulled from high-kill shelters set to be euthanized for behavioral issues.
Westin Suites Now Available
General hotel reservations open on February 2, 2018, along with corner suites in the Westin. However, at this time reservations for Suites in the Westin Hotel are now available! To request a suite, please fill out this form. Information from that form will be passed onto the Convention Services Department at the Westin, who will begin contacting people as suites become available. Also note that a one-might deposit of room and tax will be required at the time of renting.
Did You Pre-Register Yet?
As 2017 comes to a close, why not purchase a membership for Anthrocon? Prices go up on January 1st, so you until the end of the month to purchase a membership for Anthrocon 2018. That URL is: https://www.anthrocon.org/registration
2017 Fursuit Photos
Many thanks this year go to Warphammer and Kyreeth, for taking the fursuit photos, including the group photo during Saturday’sparade. The big picture can be found here. The photo is kinda big, and may cause problems in some browsers, so here are some smaller versions of the photo: 1,920 pixels wide 5,000 pixels wide 21,000 pixels wide A preview of the above photos. Were you looking for the rest of the fursuit photos?
Hello world!
New year, new con, new website. Thanks to the efforts of our webmaster leopard Giza and our (mostly) tame graphics artist Cuprohastes, we have a thrilling new website to show off! Why a new site if the old one works? The old one works… kind of. Essentially it was getting harder to maintain, and with the rise in mobile web browsing was starting to become unwieldy and fall behind. With over half of all internet activity performed on phones or tablets, the existing website was re-evaluated: The old website on a 1080x1920 display is at the bottom of this post.