Questions I have!!! please answer .............or I will explode

This was my first con ever-I absolutely loved it. Everyone is really friendly and the con seemed to go smoothly.

I went alone, but I met up with friends there. Trust me, you'll make friends.

You can talk, of course, but the reason to have a spotter is to asist you in not running people over.

This is something I do not know.

I went thru approx. $450. This included parking, food, registration, and stuff I bought. I was able to crash with a friend, so if you need a hotel room, you'll go thru a bit more.

There are several hotels close, however STAY AT THE WESTIN. You can go straight from the hotel to the convention center without going outside (unless you want to-I personally don't recommend it because it DID rain and it WAS quite humid).

LOL the days began right around 10am-ish and went to 2am +. You can crash whenever you want, tho.

You can go back to the hotel and "unsuit". But there is the headless lounge where you can take off your head and/or suit and cool down. I don't recommend leaving the suit in the room tho, because accidents CAN happen.

Um, I would spend quite a bit on a suit, but that's because I know what I want and it would cost me quite a bit lol.

Suit at the hotel. Easier than carrying your suit.

Again, stay at the Westin. Save yourself a lot of trouble.

If you go to the FAQ's, these are actually answered there, along with a bunch of others. Uncle Kage is really good with his FAQ's. Hope to see you next year! Look for me-I'm one of the few skunks ^^

If Your not looking to go alone I'm planning on going my first time next year was going to go this year but I'm also in the military and got extended so had to miss this year

this was my first con as well. it was total fun and i plan to do it again.
staying at the westin is helpful but i didnt' cause i didnt' get con price 199$ a night was crazy. i stayed 3.7 miles or so away which by taxi was only liek arudh 8$ to get back. i went all day saturday from 10am til umm 1:30am wanted to stay later but ;( the family (wife and kids) left earlier and i needed to go back to sleep for the drive home ;(

anyway next year i'm so can't wait for but will hehe. lots of work to do til then ^_^

Since other people skipped mentioning it, there are some "fursuit floors" at the Westin. If you're a suitor, definitely get a room at Westin and request those floors. They're basically the lower floors to minimize the amount of transit time where you'll be in elevator and are low enough that you may be able to take stairs if you're in reasonably good condition.

Side note, you will climb a LOT of stairs at the con. Suit or no suit, you'll be up and down stairs a lot more than most people are used to. For the weeks leading up to con, take the stairs at work as often as possible, otherwise you may have really sore calves by the end. I take my dog on a several mile hike everyday but I don't live anywhere with stairs so after several days of up and down stairs, it starts to wear on you.

Keep in mind the 2007 messageboard will be deleted to make way for the 2008 messageboard any day now. (Note the other sections already vanished.) So save the good answers for later.

Ok, then, answering in order:

Lots of fun.
Much hanging out with friends, and many, many things on the schedule.
You can download schedule PDFs here:
http://www.anthrocon.org/schedule
The pocket guide is the schedule, the program guide explains each event.

If you look at the "non-fur reviews of Anthrocon" thread
http://www.anthrocon.org/node/1353
and click all of the Mark Evanier links,
you'll get a detailed look from a non-furry.

Unless you have someone travelling with you, you'll travel alone. I've done that each time and done fine. Follow normal precautions for travelling by car, plain, train or bus. Once on the con "grounds", security is EVERYWHERE. It is wise to go OFF con "grounds" with friends, so make some friends there for lunch, or meet some there like we did.

About 90% of us don't have fursuits. They're something else to pack, cost $1000.00 or more, and are hot
in Summer. If you want one, best to direct questions in the "fursuiter" forum once the new board is up.
Some fursuiters don't speak in fursuit and use hand-signals.
"Spotters" SPOT for you. They see what you can't, and protect you from the people who would love to run up and hug a person who has no peripheral vision and get knocked over. They also are there in case you forgot to take in fluids and cool off, and keep you from passing out. They help you through crowds.

Subtract your travel, hotel, and registration expenses. Figure $25 a day for food if you're frugal (you can work it cheaper if you try hard), or $50 a day when you're going all-out. What you spend in the Dealer's Room is up to you.

It's strongly recommended that the main or overflow hotel be used. AC gets a low rate because we guarantee filling rooms, and so we need to fill the rooms. That means the Westin and the Omni William Penn. There's a Courtyard by Marriott across the street from the Westin with reasonable prices as well, if the convention blocks are full and can't be expanded further. As far as I know, we've not completely filled the Courtyard plus both blocks yet.
And the blocks fill up many months early. So keep checking in.

Check the schedule that's online!
Events usually start no earlier than a few at 10am, if any. Most will pick up by Noon. (Fri, Sat, Sun. Thu evening, there's a few light social events.) By 11pm, events tend to begin thinning out. AFAIK, 2am is when just about everything has to stop.

If you've got brains, you'll get out before you collapse. If you lack brains, you will collapse and the paramedics will cut the suit off you. Either way, you won't be in the suit for more than a few hours.

Since I worry about money, I spend $0 on a suit.

If you really want, you can arrive in a fursuit, but I would wait until I was in the Westin, and suit up in my hotel room.

The Westin is the main hotel. It's across the street from the convention center. The Omni is a short walk away. The Courtyard is across the other street from the convention center.

Well I found out today that even though Im still unskilled in my job(even though its unlikely) I could still be deployed somewhere. Id say 50/50 chance
I just hope I can make it to Anthrocon.

But I still plan to get my suit. I have commissioned someone to do it for me. -Silver from Furrhappens.com-
Lokks like good quality and the price is better then other places that I found.

Sucks bein an Airman though T-T I dont get paid enough yet until I rank up

Ok this may be a stupid question but I just dont care

How soon will we be able to reserve hotel rooms?
(And anything else that needs reserving)

(I never reserved a hotel room before so I honsetly dont know the right times)

Hey Vega guy. Your first con experience is going to be overwhelming. It's best for Anthrocon to go ahead and plan to get your hotel from Wednesday-Monday in the Westin or Courtyard Marriot(across the street and vending). Wednesday night and Thursday are sort of meet and greet and informal gatherings. When you get your event schedule, highlight all the panels you'll want to attend. Of course go to "So This Is Your First Furry Con". That will keep you busy enough. Also before the con, talk to some others online who will be there and plan on meeting up with them. When you first get there, you'll have this sense of "OMG, What am I doing here, I feel like I don't belong". By Monday morning you'll break down in tears and not want to leave what feels like family. By yourself, hotel will be around 700 and be sure to get the SuperSponser. It's only $90 more than a regular registration and you get so many benefits that it easily makes up for the extra money that you would spend on stuff anyway. Free con Tshirt. Free artwork by the GOH. Free finger food, soda and water in the con suite. Free upscale luncheon with the GOH. Front row seating at the major events. Not only that, but you'll help to support an event that is there for you and in your interest. If you're worried about the cost then shave the Wednesday night stay from your itenerary and that pays for the upgrade and you don't sacrifice much. You could still get there Wednesday night/Thursday early morning. The hotel let me check in at 11AM to my room. I'm really surprised that out of nearly 3,000 attendees that only 202 people got the supersponsorship. We don't need more attendees to earn the bigger halls, that are much closer to the hotel we just need more supersponsors to help to purchase them.

As far as fursuits go, there is no rule for what you have to do. You can talk in them if you like if you feel that's what your character would do. A fursuit is for YOUR enjoyment. Being in a fursuit is torture, but the fun you get out of it by playing an endless game of charades and getting many, many scritches and hugs more than makes up for it. You could even be in the middle of doing fursuit games and have to leave if you feel too hot.

I hope I didn't overwhelm you with information. Don't be nervous about going. The con is there for YOU to be yourself and have fun.

THE fursuit suit meet and greet.
Thats when all fursuiters introduce themselves to others?

THat usually in the beggining?

(IM asking cause this computer cant pull up the shedule with the small desc.)

OMG
THe more I see the con vids the more anxious I get
It looks so much fun
^0^

ARe there protesters there every AC?

Thats annoying to us and a waist of time for them.