Dutch FurCon (DFC)

Dutch FurCon (DFC) is a furry convention for the Netherlands furry community and its neighbours, held each summer at a holiday park near Groesbeek in Gelderland. It is run by volunteers and deliberately kept small, and its format keeps the convention, accommodation, meals, and activities on one site.

Why Attend?

Dutch FurCon exists for people who cannot or would rather not travel to a large convention abroad. The organisers say so directly: it is built for those who want a great convention experience in a smaller group, and everything about the format follows from that.

The all-inclusive format used by DFC 11 was the clearest expression of it. At most conventions a badge is the start of your spending, with the hotel, every meal and often the parking still to come. For DFC 11, one payment covered the room, all nine meals and the activities, which made the weekend unusually easy to budget.

The site does the rest. Because everyone sleeps, eats and socialises inside the same grounds, there is no split between the convention and the hotel bar, and no walk back to somewhere else at 2am. With three bar halls, a pool, a sauna and a cinema on site, it reads as a group holiday with a furry programme rather than a convention floor. The venue supports roughly 120 people according to the organizer; that capacity is separate from the final attendance count.

What Are the Highlights of Dutch FurCon?

• DFC 11's all-inclusive price covered three nights, nine meals including a BBQ, snacks, drinks and every activity on the grounds.
• A holiday park to itself, with three bar halls, two activity halls, a swimming pool, a sauna, a cinema, a tennis court and an outdoor terrace.
• Deliberately intimate, with an organizer-stated venue capacity of roughly 120 people rather than a convention hall.
• Proper rooms rather than bunks, in two to six person configurations with boxspring beds, a TV and bedding included.
• A themed edition each year, with 2026's "Primal Origins" prehistory concept encouraging costumes beyond fursuits.
• Accessible by design, aimed at furries who cannot travel to the larger conventions abroad.

How Do I Get to Dutch FurCon?

The venue address is Wylerbaan 2b, 6561 KR Groesbeek, in the east of the Netherlands near Nijmegen and close to the German border.

By public transport: there is a bus stop directly outside the venue, "De Oude Molen, Groesbeek", so the site is genuinely reachable without a car. Route to Nijmegen by train and take the local bus from there; the convention points attendees at 9292.nl for current routes and times.

By car: the convention notes that Google Maps recognises both the venue name and the address, so navigation is straightforward. One warning from the organisers: on arrival you may need a fairly sharp left turn, or a gentle right, across the cycle path, and it is easy to miss. Parking on site is free, partly beside the building and partly on the field.

By air: the nearest major airports are Eindhoven (EIN) and Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), with Weeze (NRN) and Düsseldorf (DUS) practical from the German side. From any of them, continue by train to Nijmegen and then on to Groesbeek.

Where Should I Stay for Dutch FurCon?

On site, and it was included in DFC 11's registration. Accommodation was not a separate booking at Dutch FurCon 11: the €200 registration included a room for three nights, so there was no hotel block to chase.

The rooms are better than the holiday-park label suggests. They come in two, three, four and six person configurations with boxspring beds and a TV in each, and all but four are en-suite; only those four share a bathroom. Bedding is provided, which the convention states explicitly, so you do not need to pack any.

The grounds are the reason to stay put rather than commute. Three bar halls, two activity halls, a swimming pool, a sauna, an outdoor terrace, a tennis court and a cinema are all inside the site, and with the whole weekend catered there is little practical reason to leave between Friday evening and Monday morning.

If you would rather have a hotel room to yourself, Nijmegen is the nearest city with a proper range of options and sits a short drive away. Be aware that you would be paying for that on top of a registration fee that already includes a bed and every meal, and that the bus back into town stops running long before the evening programming does.

Plan Your Trip

If Dutch FurCon is your first convention, our first convention survival guide covers the social side that no schedule prints, and its compact, all-inclusive format can be a forgiving place to start. The convention budgeting guide is worth reading here mostly as a contrast: DFC folds the room and the meals into one price, so the usual hidden costs it warns about largely do not apply.

For a sense of the wider European calendar, Eurofurence in Hamburg is the continent's largest furry convention and about as far from this format as it is possible to get, while Furvana keeps a similar small, everyone-on-one-site character.