By what means do you go to salsa events?

[Ron Obvious]

I was just curious how peole go to salsa events, like clubs, classes etc.

Personally I go mostly by bike or bus.

 

[chrisk]

It depends on where I go to. For local events, they are often in walking distance for me. For other events, I might travel by car with some friends or by train, if nobody wants to come with me of it's further away.

 

[tj]

It's too spread-out here. You're pretty much forced to go by car

 

[JonesNikka]

Here in Montreal everything is close to an underground "métro" station. Ans parking is so expensive.... it's just not worth it to drive.

 

[PropriedadDeClubDenbow]

Most clubs are situated in the downtown, and very easy to reach by underground. Many people go by car, cause they leave clubs after 2AM or later, and the underground works only till 1 AM.

 

[Jolinia]

It depends on the venue and weather. When it is nice, I go by bike, it's usually a 15-minute-trip at most. When the weather is bad, I take the tram because there's no parking space and parking is expensive in Heidelberg. Sometimes I go to Mannheim, which is a 20 minute drive by car. And when I travel to congresses or events out of my local scene I also take the car, and sometimes carpool with other people from my scene.

 

[MacMoto]

For all but one Edinburgh venues I go to, I walk. If I'm going to one at the other end of town and the weather's bad, I might take a bus. The one exception is the Merlin, which is still in walking distance, but since hubby DJs there and needs to take the CDs and mixer with him, he gets a lift in someone's car and I go along with them (we don't have a car).
Glasgow and Manchester venues, I go by train.
Bannockburn nights (and theoretically Dundee, though I haven't been there for ages), I get a lift.
Congresses -- usually need to fly, except one in Blackpool, which is reachable by train.

 

[AndrewD]

Bus, the tube and walk (I work in centralish London and there are at least 3 venues within 15 minutes).

Sometimes I'm lucky enough to get a lift home.

 

[Ron Obvious]

This turns out interesting. To make it really scientific it would have been better to make multiple choices available, but sadly polls don't have that option. Also, maybe a distinction should have been made between classes and clubs.

Wonder what option I forgot, that's behind the "other" option. Aeroplane? Taxi?

 

[tj]

Wonder what option I forgot, that's behind the "other" option. Aeroplane? Taxi?

Cannon!

For those of you taking public transportation, how late do the buses and trains go? Are you ever in danger of missing the last one? Just curious.

 

[MacMoto]

For those of you taking public transportation, how late do the buses and trains go? Are you ever in danger of missing the last one? Just curious.

Buses run later than trains. I'm on one of the Edinburgh night bus routes so it would be an option for some of the venues if I needed a bus.

When I go to Glasgow I usually leave early, but there is a bus that goes to Edinburgh from Glasgow at 1.30am and also 3am on weekends, and I have used those services before (not always a pleasant experience though -- can be rowdy ).

Manchester needs to be an overnight stay. Same for York.

 

[AndrewD]

For those of you taking public transportation, how late do the buses and trains go? Are you ever in danger of missing the last one? Just curious.

Unsurprisingly London has a 24 hours a day bus network. For a North Londoner the number 29 bus is a godsend, it goes through Leicester Square and Camden (a fair proportion of London’s nightclubs are close to this route) and all the way up to a bus stop about a minute from where I live. They arrive every 15 minutes, even at 4am

The last underground train is at about 12:20, I think – but as I have to get a bus when I get off the train anyway, I just catch a bus from central London – doesn’t take much longer at that time of night. I dislike the Tube.