More than 200 All Access Passes have already been sold for next year’s 25^th Anniversary edition of Florida Fetish Weekend, the celebration hosted each May by Fetish Factory.

To be held at venues around Fort Lauderdale over five days from May 20 to 24, the 2020 weekend will again host a programme of nine parties. Performers already lined-up include Jean Bardot, Miss Crash and Natasha Nebula.

The $210 all-access passes, which allow rooms to be booked in the host hotel and include shuttle transport to all the venues, went on sale on July 1 and will continue at this price until the end of July. 

On August 1 the price increases to $240, and will continue at that rate until main host hotel, the Westin Fort Lauderdale, is completely sold out — which Fetish Factory boss Glenn Catapano predicts will be by December or earlier.

“We will then take another hotel for overflow,” he adds, “and will take a huge block so that anyone at the second hotel will be with fetish folk on pure fetish floors.” 

Finally when that block is sold out, sale of à la carte tickets (for individual events in the five-day programme) will begin.

The strict four-day minimum booking for Westin rooms will not apply to the second hotel, where there will be a minimum two-day requirement.

Glenn says Westin room bookings for the 2020 FFW dates will not be possible via travel sites, central reservations or any other of the usual means. 

“No one can book anywhere except through FF, where I personally book every guest in style — with a fun conversation like no other hotel reservation you will make, ever!” he promises.

From chatting with Glenn, it’s clear that the commitment people have already made to next year’s Florida Fetish Weekend has exceeded his expectations, prompting him to add more features to a programme that was originally more or less a straight repeat of the 2019 schedule.

He had made a point of putting his first tickets for 2020 on sale earlier than usual this year, after Facebook unhelpfully removed the newly rebadged 2019 Florida Fetish Weekend from its events listings during FFW’s final pre-sale weeks.  

Thanks to a big last-minute promotional effort, all the rooms at the Westin were still sold in time. So Florida Fetish Weekend 2019 went ahead as planned with its promised full hotel takeover.

But Facebook’s intervention emphasised the danger of relying on a social media site whose policies regarding anything ‘fetish’ can be capricious to say the least. However, Glenn’s response to it seems to have paid off in bucketloads.

For Fetish Factory (also famous for its long-running Alter Ego parties and its Fort Lauderdale fetish store), the anniversary weekend’s full hotel takeover has been a much-vaunted feature for many years.

Among European events that are specifically fetish weekends (ie not BDSM conventions), only Fetish Evolution had been able to make the same boast on a regular basis — until this year when it lost its partner hotel, resulting in cancellation of the whole 2019 FE event.

Even the German Fetish Ball Weekend has yet to achieve a full fetish takeover of a Berlin