A holiday does not have to be to far flung places or even very expensive.
Get a group of mates together and go camping.
Hire a cabin somewhere with some friends.
Go visit someone and take a mini-holiday staying at thier place.
If you are looking at far flung - build up some frequent flyer points, by getting a credit card that offers frequent flyer points - pay for everything with it and pay it off each month.
Go to a far flung place where there are other dancers or people you know, who will put you up for free - so the only overhead is the flight.
If you are packing bags for New Zealand - go over in October when the mega weekender is on - get some dancing in and also a lot of the locals will be happy to offer accomadation.
If you are looking at Australia - again a lot of the local dancers are happy to put people up. [quick plug - dance weekender and champs in September in Queensland]
One of the places I go about 6 times a year is Thailand... the only real overhead being the flight, as I have friends there and I stay with them, and when we do travel around a decent hotel is about 11 pounds a night, a good meal from the street cafe's about 50p.
I would not do "package deals" are there are far better options. Often I book the flight, turn up and then go find my own accomadation locally - which is far cheaper.
Having just looked it up - flights to New Zealand for the October bash = 833 pounds
Flights to Aussie for the Sept bash = 981 pounds
[source - flight centre]
So it ain't "thousands" considering locals will be happy to offer accomadation, so all you pay for is food and entry to dancing stuff (if that is what you want to do)
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