Which UK/European festivals/marathons/encuentros would you recommend?

My calendar shows the following for the next three months:

Luna XXL/Regensburg/Germany
Chained Salon/Nijmegen/Netherlands
Selys Milonguero/Liége/Belgium
Ronda Elmijra/Goch/Germany
 
And the journey continues:

Tangosause/Bremen/Germany
La Cadena/Nijmegen/Netherlands
Abrazos Festival/Metz/France
Sydfyn Embrace/Fyn/Denmark
TangGogh/Leiden/Netherlands
 
everythings pretty close togther in Europe with fast trains. Fortunate folks.
Yeah I love that there’s a high density of dancers, dance events, and cities there compared to where I live in the US. My events planned so far for this coming spring/summer are:
Basel (Switzerland),
Innsbruck (Austria), and
Baden-Baden (Germany).

All reachable within 2-4 hours stunning (but not fast) train rides from my place. (Along the upper Rhine, through the Alps, and through the Black Forest.
And beautiful cities.
Can’t wait.
 
Miradamiranda.. are you just visiting in Europe.. or do you reside there now. Are you in Germany? Or? if I may ask..
I split my time 50-50 US/Germany although I’m from neither of those countries. I used to just visit family during the summer, for longer and longer stints each year BECAUSE of the tango scene. Now I wish I could live there full time.

Has anyone else here made a significant move to be closer to a good dance scene? I possibly wouldn’t have left NY when I did, if I at that time had been as deeply into salsa as I later became. But that’s over two decades ago.
 
By way of my introduction on this site my calendar for the next few months (up to August anyway) is:

Tango Frostbite, Helsinki, Finland
ChampagneTango Marathon, Dresden, Germany
Vinyl Mania: Warsaw Vinyl Tango Marathon, Warsaw, Poland
Riga Embrace Milonguero Meeting, Riga, Latvia
Desde el Alma & Nochero Soy, Prague, Czechia (this is 11 straight days of tango!)
Osito Encuentro Milonguero, Berlin, Germany
Encuentro Milonguero Luz del Norte, Stockholm, Sweden
Cheltenham International Tango Festathon, Cheltenham, UK
 
Yep, that's one of my regular festivals. Top tip: If you haven't yet booked your accommodation, do so now! I booked my hotel room before festival bookings even opened.
I loved it last year and added it to my list for this year for a repeat visit. So it will only be my second visit - not sure if that counts as regular :cool:. But.... I also booked my hotel before registration opened!
 
booked my hotel room before festival bookings even opened.
I book even before the date has been announced if it’s in an expensive area. Mostly I get it right, but this year I got caught with the wrong weekend. A favorite event has been the first weekend of May every year, I got a good deal on a hotel, and then when it was formally announced, it was shifted to the second weekend. Of course no longer the same prices were available. But at least I had a refundable booking.

Welcome, @Eleven!
 
I book even before the date has been announced if it’s in an expensive area. Mostly I get it right, but this year I got caught with the wrong weekend. A favourite event has been the first weekend of May every year, I got a good deal on a hotel, and then when it was formally announced, it was shifted to the second weekend. Of course no longer the same prices were available. But at least I had a refundable booking.
I'm not quite that hardcore as I wait until the dates are advertised!

Having said that, I actually apply as soon as the dates are advertised for events I have been to before. But wait until accepted for new events - as even as a solo leader I get put on waiting lists.

I have been caught out once where the event was cancelled after I was accepted (and so had paid for flights and hotel) but they had never asked for payment and then cancelled the whole event (hence why they didn't ask for payment I suppose!) without me receiving final confirmation. But...... I don't bother with refundable bookings as over the last 3 years the extra costs for refundable bookings over all of the events are significantly larger than my loss for the single cancelled one.
 

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