tangophilia festival

For questions and registration: Contact Gulden at (919)423-7681 or gulden@tangophilia.com.

Payments

Please contact Tangophilia at gulden@tangophilia.com before sending in any payments! We will do our best to maintain gender balance at our events. Registrations are not completed until you receive confirmation from us!

Credit Card payments possible ONLY through www.tangophilia.com, we cannot accept cards over the phone or at the door! Checks should be made out to Jason LAUGHLIN and mailed to: 5814 Henner Place, Durham, NC 27713.

Refund Policy

• Before the early registration deadline: We can refund 80% of the full payment.
• Before the date of the event (class, practica or milonga): We can refund 50% of the payment for events that you will not be able to attend.

For a refund, you must contact us at Tangophilia at 919-361-5145 or 919-423-7681 24 hours before the date of the event. NO REFUNDS will be given if you cannot attend the event but tell us on or after the date of the event.

Accommodation

Local tangueros: Please let us know if you'd like to host any tango travelers during the weekend.

Our out-of-town guests: We have limited availability for accommodations with the local tangueros. First come, first serve. Please contact us ASAP if you'd like to stay with a local.

Hotels

Get a special "Tangophilia group rate" for only $69.00 + tax per night at the Wingate Inn, Raleigh-Durham Airport/RTP, Phone: 1-866-800-1441 or 919-941-2854. Mention Tangophilia for the discount! Transportation for our out-of-town guests will be provided by Tangophilia between the hotel Wingate Inn Raleigh Durham Airport RTP and the dance studios (Triangle Dance Studios) where the workshops, practicas and most milongas will be held.

Hotel's address:
5223 Page Road
Raleigh-Durham, NC 27703

• Rates expire Jan 12 Special rates are still available!.
• Airport shuttle available.
• Free hot breakfast.

Good prices for hotels can be found at Priceline.com, and you can probably find a good rate by using "Name Your Own Price" feature in the $40-50 range for 2.5 - 3 star hotels.

Any hotel located on South Miami Blvd., Durham, NC is close to the dance studio, at ~5 mins driving distance. Here's a list of hotels near Triangle Dance Studio.

Notes about the pricing below:

• "Workshop Pass" is for unlimited access to all 22 workshops. It is NOT a pass for all the festival events!
• "Milonga Pass" is for unlimited access to 6 milongas during the festival including the "milonga only" part of Saturday night's event at Cafe Parizade. For "Live Music Milonga" on Friday and for the "Group Dinner and Milonga" at Cafe Parizade on Saturday, you will need to buy separate tickets.
• "Teacher's Training and Networking Workshops" are designed by Brigitta Winkler and Tomas Howlin to contribute to increasing the quality of teaching in the communities by local instructors or aspiring instructors. Those who are currently teaching will find this workshop as an insightful and enriching experience for their teaching philosophies and strategies whereas those who are just starting to teach or thinking about becoming tango instructors will definitely benefit from this experience in building up their teaching metodology and exploring ways to attract and retain new students.
• Individual Workshops: If 22 classes are just too much for you to choose from on-site, make your decision ahead of time and sign up for particular individual workshops.
• "Group Dinner RSVP" is secured by payment in advance. There is no other way to RSVP for the festival's family style group dinner. If you want to attend this event later only for the milonga and performances, then you may choose to pay only for the milonga or get a "Milonga Pass" that also covers the "Milonga only" part of this event. However, those who have reserved seats for the dinner will have priority to keep their seats for the performances.
• Events that are not listed as individual events here as a separate payment option are either covered in one of the passes or they can be paid for at the door depending on availability. All the Milongas and Practicas have prices listed right next to event title on our festival web page. Those events with early registration option as a single event have two prices listed; the first one is the early registration price and the second one is the price at the door (depending on availability).
• For those who have "Workshop Pass" AND "Milonga Pass" BOTH, the Festival Practicas are FREE of charge.