Tango in Turin at International Tango Festival - 5 nights
Immerse yourself in the sensual world of Tango at one of Italy's most glamorous Tango Festivals. Enjoy up to nine hours Festival tango workshops, dancing with tangueros from all over the world at the four Festival Milongas (tango parties), sightseeing in one of the capitals of Baroque art and enjoying Italian restaurants where you can taste the delicious Italian cuisine.
Dates and Prices 20 March to 24 March - £495.00
Unique Features Turin International Tango Festival 2008
Now in its eigth year, the Turin International Tango Festival is a truly international festival taking place in one of Italy’s most majestic cities. It focuses on well attended tango courses taught by the biggest names in tango and elegant Milongas attended by high level Tangueros from Europe. It starts on Thursday and finishes on Monday night. The Festival features:
*4 x Milongas with live music (included in your holiday)
*Festival courses (included in your holiday): each course is nine hours *Special classes (optional extras): two hours each class.
Your Holiday Immerse yourself in the sensual world of Tango at one of Italy's most glamorous Tango Festivals. Enjoy up to nine hours Festival tango workshops, dancing with your teachers and the local tangueros, sightseeing in one of the capitals of Baroque art and enjoy any of the carefully suggested Italian restaurants where to taste the delicious Italian cuisine. Included in your holiday are 4 Festival Milongas as well.
What's Included
4 nights accommodation and breakfast in the four star Hotel Lingotto based on sharing 9 hours of the Turin Tango Festival classes
4 nights of the Turin Tango Festival Tango Milongas with the "Ensembre Hyperion" and "Color Tango"
orquestras.
Dance Holidays Tour Host
Time to relax and enjoy the local sights Welcome Drink
Orientation Pack on arrival
Is this holiday for
me? This trip is for anyone with a passion for Tango. Whilst the tuition is offered at all levels (Complete Beginners to Advanced) we would recommend beginners have at least 1 or 2 classes before they go so as not to be perhaps intimidated by attending the milongas at night.
Your Destination,
includes sightseeing Turin will astonish you with daring styles that, from the late 17th century, transformed Turin into one of the capitals of Baroque art. You also can discover the history of Italy by visiting a city that became, from Roman camp and medieval town, the first capital of Italy, in 1861. Turin is the capital of the wines, both red and white, that perfectly match its traditional dishes. Discover the pleasure of coffee in all its forms - cappuccino, marocchino and above all the bicerin, a characteristic Turinese drink- while comfortably enveloped in the warm atmosphere of the city's historic cafés. And what to say about romanticism. Turin will delight you with its romantic corners and evocative angles, so special for passing unforgettable moments, together with the lights of the city night: the lights of the moon and the lights of the candles illuminating restaurant tables on the hill or along the river.
Sights: Let the magic atmosphere of a city with a great past and an exciting future captivate you...Discover the
masterpieces of Baroque Turin, of the home of Italian cinema...Satisfy your desire for art and music...Turin, the first capital city of Italy, shows to visitors masterpieces of architecture in its monuments and squares. Have fun, discovering lovely places by waking around the city: culture is everywhere! Inside the Cathedral, Turin conserves one of the most important items for the Christian religion, the Holy Shroud, or sheet that is thought to have been wound around the body of Christ.
Climate and
weather Turin enjoys pleasant tempeartures throughout the year. Average temperatures as follows: Jan 6º celsius
Feb 6º celsius March 13º celsius April 17º celsius May 21º celsius June 25º celsius July 28º celsius August 27º celsius Sept 23º celsius Oct 17º celsius Nov 11º celsius Dec 7º celsius Your
Accommodation Meridien Lingotto - Hotel**** (Bed & Breakfast) (Included) The four star Hotel Le Meridien Lingotto, open in October 2003, is located within the 'Lingotto Centre'. The hotel is situated in one of the most important buildings of Turin, the old Lingotto car factory expertly renovated and modernised by Renzo Piano, an undeniably genial architect of international fame. All the rooms and suites of Le Meridien Lingotto are beautifully appointed, spacious and artfully illuminated. Its facilites are individually controlled air conditioning, two direct-dial, telephone lines for connections to fax, PC modem, TV with satellite link and in house movies, Mini-bar and Electronic safe. A full buffet breakfast is included in your holiday.
Classes and
Workshops Festival tuition:
There are nine hours of Festival classes (three hours a day over the three days of the weekend) included in your holiday.
Dance Levels: There will be Festival courses of nine hours offered at Beginners, Intermediates and Advanced levels. Dance Spaces: The tango classes commonly take place in spaces within the Hotel Lingotto. The floors are made of terracotta and marble.
Language: Since the majority of those attending these classes are Italian, the classes are given in Italian. Some of the guest teachers have a reasonable level of English and so depending on the size of the English speaking contingency, they may also teach in English.
Daily Itinerary Sample Itinerary
This is a provisional itinerary aiming to give you an idea of what your holiday will look like. There will be some elements which will change:
(OP) indicates an optional extra for which a charge will be made in advance.
DAY 1
Arrival and check in at the hotel
Afternoon - Activity suggestion: Wander around the city centre getting a feel for Turin city and lunch at any of the restaurants in the city centre.
Evening - Overview of the week. Opening night of the Tango Festival.
DAY 2
Morning - Activity suggestion: Sleeping or shopping in the city of Fashion! Afternoon suggestion - Lunch and free time in Piazza Castello shopping area!
Evening - Tango Festival workshops with the best tango Masters in the world! Tango Festival Milonga
DAY 3
Morning and Afternoon - Tango Festival workshops with the best tango Masters in the world! Evening - Tango Festival Milonga
DAY 4
Morning and Afternoon - Tango Festival workshops with the best tango Masters in the world! Evening - Tango Festival Milonga
DAY 5
Nightlife Four Festival Tango Milongas (Tango dance parties) are included in your holiday. These Milongas are attended by hundreds (literally) of Tango aficionados.
Your Teachers The Festival teachers for 2008 will be Sebastian Arce and Mariana Monles, Esteban Moreno and Claudia Codega, Javier rodríguez and Andrea Missé, Chicho M. Frumboli and Juana Sepulveda, Sergio Natario and Alejandra Arrué. As special guests we will be honoured by the presence of Miguel angel Zotto and Daiana Guspero
Food and Meals Turin cuisine: Turin invites you to taste the unexpected combination of natural products and ancient traditions, the
basis of an inimitable gastronomic culture. Some examples? The agnolotti, fresh pasta filled with meat or vegetables; the bollito, seven different slices of boiled meat to enjoy with spicy sauces. Treat yourself with a dessert, clearly made of chocolate, or miniature pastries for small or big sins of gluttony: a unique experience for your palate, your sense of smell and your sight! There are plenty of restaurants in which to indulge in these dishes all over the city, as well as any number of cheaper eating places serving the kind of food you can find anywhere in the country. For food on the run, there are snack bars and takeaways on Via Nizza, some tempting delicatessens on Via Lagrange and a superb rosticceria on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II for DIY lunches. For a drink, a snack, a pastry or an ice cream, you should also look in on one of the city's fin de siècle cafés, which are a Turin institution. The prices are a bit high, but the
atmosphere more than compensates.
Optional Extras What are optional extras? In addition to your holiday we also offer you a variety of optional extras to make your
holiday even richer and add some local colour. You can buy your optional extras at the welcome meeting at the beginning of your holiday. We will ask you to pay in cash and fill out a form. These are the optional extras that we anticipate running – actual details and prices will be confirmed on arrival. Some may require minimum numbers.
Festival Extra classes: These extra classes are additional to the nine hours of classes that are included in your
holiday. They are usually in styling or technique. Prices yet to be announced by the Festival.
Theatre show on 20 March : 17GBP
Single Room Supplements, Upgrades and Budget Options
Option 1 - Included
Meridien Lingotto - Hotel**** Bed & Breakfast - (20/03/2008 to 24/03/2008 - 4 nights)
Twin Room (Single Occp.) (1 Person) 132.00 GBP
Twin Room (Based on 2 sharing) Included
Extra Nights
Triple Room (Per Room) 0 GBP per night
Twin Room (Single Occp.) (Based on 1 sharing) 189 GBP per night
Twin Room (Based on 2 sharing) 189 GBP per night
Flights and
Transfers Flights: This holiday is flight exclusive in order for you to be able to fly from the aiport of your choice at a time which best suits you. NB Please make sure we have confirmed your holiday before you buy your flights. It may be possible for us to arrange a private transfer for you at extra cost. Please ask our client care team.
Information on how to make your own way to the hotel is set out below. Please call us if it's not clear or if you need any further information. We are here to help you.
Remember you can extend your holiday by a few days at either end to fit almost any flying pattern from any departure point.
Making you own way to the hotel for ground only package
Making Your Own Way to Turin: For those whose flights don't coincide with our Airport coach transfer, we
recommend the following modes of transport: By bus: Turin Airport - Turin
town or vice versa. It takes about 40 minutes from and to the airport and the ticket costs euro 4,13. If you buy the ticket on the bus you pay euro 0,52 extra.
Airport-city centre
· Airport Terminal: Arrival level in front of national/E.U. flight gate · Ticket vending machine on Arrival level (national/E.U flights lounge)
City centre-Airport
· City Terminal: Railway station Porta Nuova, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II / Via Sacchi · Ticket purchase points: Cafés near Terminal on bus.
By Taxi
The airport taxi stand is located on the Arrivals level in front of the gate of national/E.U. flights. It takes about 30 minutes to reach the centre of Turin or vice versa and the trip approximately costs euro 27 euros.
What to Expect in terms of
Organisation
On Arrival: You will receive a detailed itinerary and annotated map, details of any optional extras we are running. We
also include information on the local sights and recommended restaurants and other helpful tips.
Independence within the social activities: Your holiday is hosted in the evenings. We also believe our guests like
to be free to do what they want whenever they want. So we give you quality information and an itinerary including a map and all the addresses of where we have organised social and dancing activities. You can decide for yourself if and when you want to turn up. You are fully independent on these holidays. If you are travelling on your own the evening tour host will be at all the meeting points on the itinerary in the evenings and there is always company and normally the chance say to share a taxi back the hotel.
Evening Tour Host: Over your holiday you will have an evening tour host who will be available to help you with any
questions that you may have during the activities run in the evenings.
Overview of the Holiday and Welcome Drink: At the beginning of the week there is an Overview of the Week
where your evening tour host will tell you about all details of your holiday and answer any questions you might have. At the Overview of the Week you can buy your optional extras. Also at the start of the week, Dance Holidays will invite you to a drink.
Getting Around: You are responsible for making your own way to the dance classes and meeting points on the
itinerary. Turin is sizeable city. You can cover the town centre easily by foot. You may wish to take taxis to the dance studios and to the Tango Festival events. You also may wish to share taxis at night.
Before Your Go Books on Turin and Italy: It may be worth your while reading up on your destination before you go.
'The Shroud of Turin': The Most Up-To-Date Analysis of All the Facts Regarding the Church's Controversial Relic. 'Milan & Turin - The Heritage Guide from Touring Club Italiano' is one of the best local guide and has a big section in Turin.
Another suggestions are: 'The Italian Food Guide: The Ultimate Guide to the Regional Foods of Italy' and 'Italy - The Heritage Guide' both from Touring Club Italiano.
Budgeting for your holiday: Here are some guidelines on prices, to help you do your own calculations. Please
refer to the optional extra section of the fact sheet for the prices of the optional extras. Three course meal including drinks in the centre of town: 25-35 euros
Taxi ride across town: 7 - 10 euros Rum and coke in a nightclub: 6 euros Beer in a bar/cafe: 3 euros
Coffee in a bar/cafe: 1.50 euros
Entrance to a monument or museum: 5 euros.
Health and Fitness: There are no particular health requirements for a dance holiday. However you should be able to
dance for at least two hours a day in order to be able to enjoy the dance classes.
Insurance, Visa and Passport Requirements: Refer to the information supplement for full details. In brief,
Insurance is a condition of booking. Visas may be required for non EU citizens. British nationals need a full passport to travel to Italy.
Travel Documents: You receive these when you have paid for your holiday in full and we have received your airline
tickets. In some cases the airlines do not release the tickets until five days before the departure date. We also confirm the address and phone number of the hotel and the emergency contact numbers.
Essential equipment and clothing to bring
Useful Things to Bring
Camera
Shoes suitable for spending a long time walking around the streets Dance shoes
Spring clothing for day Light weight coat for evenings
This fact sheet and Joining Instructions Passport, money, plane ticket.
What to wear for dancing: We recommend that you bring shoes with a leather sole for the dance classes. You may
also be wise to bring shoes with a rubber sole as the floors in the evenings might be somewhat “fast” and they will give you an alternative. Your shoes should be comfortable and supportive. Wear lightweight cotton socks to avoid sweaty and blistered feet! It is probable that you may get through quite a few clothes in the classes and dancing at night so bring a variety of outfits. Wear comfortable loose clothing for the classes. Some of the Festival events will be quite smart – do bring some smart outfits with you for the evenings.
At Your Destination Banks and Money: The easiest way to buy obtain euros is by using a credit card at one of the numerous cash points. You can buy small amounts, as often as you like, at any time, without queuing. You will need to know your P.I.N. Bank opening hours are normally 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. Banks will change cash, travellers cheques and will sell you currency on your credit card providing the lines are open. You will always need to show your passport at a bank.
Tipping is not generally common in Italy as in Britain. There is no need to tip taxis but it is usual to leave a 5 - 10% tip
at a restaurant if you are particularly pleased with your dinner/lunch.
We feel our tour hosts work hard to give you an exceptional holiday and sometimes you may find that they add some special touches which are beyond the call of duty. If you agree with us, you might wish to show your appreciation by way of a tip. You can do this by putting money in an envelope on your own or by getting together with other guests. This evidently is entirely at your discretion.
Making friends with the locals and people not on the holiday: If you make friends with a local and would like
them to come along to the activities organised by us, then just ask your Tour Host and except for the dance classes and provided they pay their way there should not be a problem. We are here after all to interact with the locals. Generally, however, we discourage people who are not on the holiday from coming out with us or joining the activities and we ask for your discretion is this respect.
