We have been working hard over the last 24 hours to ensure hotel rooms are available at Furnal Equinox 2013. After numerous discussions with staff at the Sheraton Toronto Airport, we are able to announce the following:

• There are limited rooms available on Friday and Saturday night, including a small selection of rooms with two queen beds. More rooms with a king-size bed are available.
  Once those rooms sell out, there will be no further rooms available at the con block rate of $119 per night. Some others may go up for sale, but they will be at a higher price.
• There are no rooms available on Sunday night. You may be able to get rooms with a king bed online on Expedia or other sites, but you will pay a lot more money for doing so — the cheapest rate we found was $180 per night. The hotel is experiencing some high demand that evening, and not just from us!

We recommend that attendees consider booking or changing your reservation to a king size room if it would meet your needs. Most of the king rooms contain sofabeds, and for those that don't, the hotel will provide cots at no charge. If you can, we also recommend setting Sunday as your checkout day when you book (otherwise, the hotel reservation system will report no rooms available).

Our room block with the Sheraton closes on February 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm. After that point, hotel rooms will only be available through general sale.

If you are unable to book a room at the Sheraton before the block closes on February 14, please e-mail info@furnalequinox.com as soon as possible and we will provide you with further recommendations.

We'll continue to post updates as we get more information over the next week and a half.

Photo credit: Xzion Dragon, FE 2012

Furnal Equinox always has an amazing fursuiter turnout, and we're proud to bring more fun to fuzzy critters this year! Here's a quick overview of what's available for you at the con.

Many of our features and services are returning from last year, including our well-stocked fursuit lounge to rest and relax in, the group photo and the parade, and a fursuit-friendly dance early in the evening. We're also working with panelists to put together additional programming, including a fursuit dance competition!

The fursuit games will be held Saturday around noon, with three new challenging and exciting games for our teams to conquer! Signups are being accepted immediately by e-mailing fursuit@furnalequinox.com. Capacity will be the same as last year — three teams of 12 suiters — and signups are on a first-come first-serve basis. We'll accept signups at the con too if there's space, but once we're full, we're full!

Finally, the fursuit group photo will be taking place before the parade again this year, around 3-4 pm Saturday afternoon. We will gather indoors for the group photo inside the Muskoka Ballroom. This is also when we'll be handing out ear tags for suiters, so be sure to arrive on time if you want to get your tag and get your photo taken! If you want some more one-on-one time with the camera, individual photos will also be available in the Dealers Den.

If you have any questions, just send an e-mail to fursuit@furnalequinox.com and you'll get a response as soon as possible. We're looking forward to seeing you all there!

It's almost time! Can you make our troops break formation and dance through the night while off duty?

This is the last call for DJs to play our dances each night of the convention! We're looking for DJs in a variety of music styles and genres, so whatever your favourite type of music to play is, we'd love to hear from you. The most important thing is that you keep the dance floor moving!

To apply to be a DJ, send us an e-mail at dance@furnalequinox.com. Include a brief mix of the type of music that you plan to play at the convention (MP3 format, please!). Note you should be prepared to play a minimum time slot of one hour.

So apply today! We're looking forward to hearing you!