Has Brexit affected your travel plans for Salsa congresses abroad?

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anonymous987

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Just wondered for people in the UK, whether thoughts about brexit had factored into your plans to go to any events.

Also, for people in other countries has the weak pound encouraged you to visit the UK to sample any of the weekend Salsa events?
 
Last time I was in U.K. was probably 2005. No great desire to go there. I also tend to avoid heathrow. Heathrow and LA are worst airports for transit imo. JFK being closed second.
 
We were considering going to London for a long weekend museum trip (not salsa and unrelated to the value of the pound) but decided against it because of the Brexit uncertainty. If I had the opportunity to go by myself for a salsa trip I would go if I can do it last minute for a reasonable price (which is unlikely). But if I had the choice I might choose Paris instead - less uncertainty, easier trip with the high-speed train, probably not cheaper but good salsa presumably.
 
UK is still too expensive for me. London has great scene, and there is live music that I want to go to, but it's still not worth it to leave Europe. I go there for salsa, if I visit friends or for work or as a transit stop. Basically need another reason as well. And agree with Offbeat about airports.
I started to go to Russia after rubble dropped 40%, but don't think this will happen to pound.
 
Smejmoon said:
UK is still too expensive for me. London has great scene, and there is live music that I want to go to, but it's still not worth it to leave Europe. I go there for salsa, if I visit friends or for work or as a transit stop. Basically need another reason as well. And agree with Offbeat about airports.
I started to go to Russia after rubble dropped 40%, but don't think this will happen to pound.
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When leaving UK, the British govt charges a departure tax per airline ticket, which is fairly high (26 pounds to 150 pounds per economic class ticket). So return flight from UK is costlier than elsewhere. It is included in your airline ticket price. I am not sure how the low fare airlines maintain low price out of UK. So the air tickets tend to be more expensive when departing UK than elsewhere. Doesn’t apply to transit less than 24 hours. Only when your ticket has UK airport as departure/start of journey.

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There have been some stories run in the UK press on how flying to Europe is cheaper than some domestic train journeys. These stories usually involve cherry-picking data to fit a particular story (what else is new?) and I think these beliefs are what keeps the air fares high through the APD. Probably higher if the UK and the EU do not come to terms with the divorce settlement. If there is a divorce settlement.
 
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