For those who may have not recieved the letter directly, here is the situation.

The booking software that was used for handling our reservations was discovered to have a bug that allowed the overbooking of our room block, particularly double queens. This bug was discovered due to the intensity of the traffic against the booking site, but the damage was not fully realized until we did a manual audit of the bookings.

This has resulted in the need to shift people to different room types or an overflow hotel. This is not a situation we take lightly, the Chair themselves is handling the logistics around this, and will be taking steps in the future to avoid this situation repeating.

If you recieved a letter asking if you would shift room types, from a queen to a king, it is important that you RESPOND AS SOON A POSSIBLE to hotel@vancoufur.org regarding your decision.

Approximately 12 bookings will be required to be moved to an overflow. 

In compensation, the con will offer a free sponsorship upgrade to the person who made the reservation and their listed guests. We will also offer priorty booking for 2025 to guaruntee you get a room in the 2025 hotel.  If you did not get the email, but have a room in the main hotel and are willing to voluntarily shift to an overflow, please email hotel@vancoufur.org.

If no one comes forward to voluntarily move, we will have to move the individuals who booked after the room block was full.

Please understand we do not want to have to do this, but the reality is, there’s simply not enough rooms. We will make sure everyone who booked HAS a room, but it just may not be in the main hotel. It’s the best we can do under the circumstances. If you do have a room, and want to help, you can voluntarily move to an overflow and recieve the above compensation. Note that it will not cost you anything to move due to the issue. We will assist with the rebooking/moving of reservations.

If you are willing to move, please send an email with your room booking # to hotel@vancoufur.org as soon as possible. 

If you have questions, also send them to the email above, or join our discord or telegram for live assistance.

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“This donation means a lot to Qmunity. We don’t get these big donations often, and it provides much needed funding for several of our programs.” Gill commented, “Programs such as our Queer Prom, Youth drop-in spaces, councelling for youth and families, as well as our youth trans clothing program will directly benefit from this donation.”

“The Furry community is so amazing, and we are thrilled we get to continue this relationship into 2024. Everytime we visit the convention, we learn something new, and we hope that we can continue to extend support to members of the furry community who may benefit from our programs.” Robach said while the group was waiting for everyone to arrive for the photo.

As one of the larger donations Qmunity has recieved in 2023, Vancoufur’s donation matched the Vancouver Canuck’s donation of 20k earlier this year.

” We’re going to do bigger and better for VF2024.” said Orzevia, the charity lead for VF2023, and also VF2024. “We’re aiming to raise $30,000 in 2024. As a smaller group, this will be a challenge, but I’m sure we can do it if we work together.”

If you have items you would like to donate to the Vancoufur charity auction to help us reach our fundraising goals for our charity, please email charity@vancoufur.org to arrange your donation of arts, crafts, gently used collectibles, fursuit, or other items for our silent and live auctions.

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Please note that cancelation policies have changed and there are now fees for cancelation and transfers! See our hotel page for full information.

If you are disabled with a moderate to severe mobility issue, please contact hotel@vancoufur.org BEFORE the Oct 15th opening to speak with us about your needs. This is not a guarantee of a room, but we will try our best to work with you. 

Be sure to coordinate well in advance with your friend groups so people do not double book and have to cancel rooms to avoid fees. After Oct 15th, and rooms are sold out, there is likely nothing we can do. Standard Queens and kings are $155 CAD + tax per night base rate. Queen rates vary based on occupancy, kings do not. There are also club rooms as well.

Please note that if you intend to apply for party block, you will need to have an existing reservation! Volunteers from last year who want access to staff block must be hired and onboarded before this date, so if you are previous staff who have not yet signed up, make sure you fill out the volunteer form so we can get you on board!

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If you can’t make it, just fill out your volunteer form and someone will be in touch with you.

Fill out your volunteer form here.

Join us on discord here.

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The only caveat is that you MUST RSVP in order to get food and there is an upward limit of spots available due to changes with how Burnaby parks handles reservations/events at the parks. So be sure to RSVP early in order to ensure your spot.

The event will be happening July 2, 2023 at Confederation Park in Site 2 from 11am-6pm! Bring your own chair or blanket!

Food will be served from 12pm to 4pm. There will also additional fun activities including:

• Fursuit Games
• Face Painting
• Nerf War
• Social/icebreaker Games
• Hang out with other local furs/ponies

Remember to get food you MUST RSVP! Because of Park rules we cannot give food to anyone who has not RSVPed with us!

Cost is FREE! RSVP by June 29 to get your spot and come hang out with the community on July 2!

RSVP NOW!

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• $145 ($168.20 total/night)
• 13373 King George Blvd, Surrey, BC V3T 2T5 | +16045852300 | 9 minutes drive
• Lowest Rate guarantee
• Free breakfast and parking
• Free in room WiFi and access to fitness room

We do realize its a little further from the main hotel than some would like, but that’s why we will be providing Uber vouchers for use to get you to and from the main hotel each day! These vouchers will be sent to the email of the person who’s reserved the hotel room in this particular hotel closer to the con date.

Questions? use our contact form here, or email hotel@vancoufur.org for more information. You can also join our Discord or telegram chat and get help in real time!

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Rahne is dancer, DJ, writer and Twitch streamer, from northern California.

An avid fursuiter, Rahne has been dancing and performing on stage for years across multiple conventions, as well as concerts and music festivals for artists including Arty, Dillon Francis, Showtek, Diplo, Adventure Club, Steve Angello and more.

In addition to DJing at cons, Rahne has played multiple fanclub sets on Anjunabeats’ Twitch channel, as well as the ABGT Weekender music festival at the Gorge Ampitheatre. From the onset of the pandemic, he began regularly livestreaming on Twitch, with long DJ streams and his Barking With podcast, where he has interviewed multiple dancers, photographers, DJs and more, including several artists from Anjunabeats. On his social media, he regularly posts dance videos, skits, and video essays on various topics surrounding the fandom.

See our GOH page for socials and more info.

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We are doing our best to get things back on track for you all as soon as possible and apologize for the inconvenience. We will announce a new date as soon as possible. If you wish to sign up for an email notification of the change, sign up for our newsletter here.

We will promote the new date for at least a week, so we anticipate there will be enough time for everyone to be ready to snag a room again. Again, we are very sorry for this change, but it was out of our hands and we’re doing our best to get things back on track.

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Community Spotlight: Temrin!

We are pleased to welcome TEMRIN as our community spotlight for VF2023!

Temrin is a nonbinary illustrator from Canada who is also a well known event volunteer and event runner in the BC furry community. They are passionate about character design and collaborative projects and responsible for founding Cozycon and Wild Element Studios.

Learn more about our community spotlight here.

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VF2023 will be returning to the Vancouver Sheraton Guildford Hotel this year for an in-person convention as well as continuing to offer a digital experience for those unable to attend physically!

If you are hoping to snag a room at the main hotel to be in the middle of the action, be sure you make note of the time and date in your time zone! The opening will be Oct 15 at noon pacific time! So be ready! We do anticipate the rooms to sell out extremely quickly, especially the elusive double queens. You will need a credit card to register. Please note that Visa Debit is not typically accepted, so be sure the person with the credit card is ready to reserve.

For Volunteers: Volunteer block can be applied for now if you’ve signed up to volunteer and have been hired to a position. Please contact hotel@vancoufur.org if you did not get the newsletter with the link to the form.

For Dealers: If you are a paid and confirmed Dealer for our Dealer’s Den, Dixie should be sending you an email shortly. If you have not received it, please contact vendors@vancoufur.org to get the link.

For room prices and types, please visit our hotel page. Note that room rate does not include taxes and fees.

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