I set out on a journey to learn Salsa exactly 2 years ago…read more My first lesson learned: If you want to learn salsa, you have to go to a salsa school. Don't go to a ballroom dancing studio to learn salsa. It's not real salsa, and they'll pressure you pretty hard to learn ballroom even though you just want to learn salsa. Ballroom studios will try to get hundreds of dollars from you for a couple of weeks of lessons. You should never pay more than $15 for a group class from a salsa school. With groupons, introductory classes are about $8 or less per class. Two months later and $600 burnt, I luckily find Salsa Caliente. Erika and her staff jump start the beginner class by teaching dancing technique. First we learn about "tension" which in my opinion is the most important lesson in Salsa. Tension is the foundation of lead and follow technique. With it, you can lead the follower through a salsa pattern without her knowing the pattern. It also help you conserve energy so you can dance longer. For example, instead of stepping out a turn, you can use the rubber band effect from each other's arms to sling shot you around super fast. Using tension, you can do this turn all day long. If you stepped the turn out, you'd be tired in about 5 turns. Next we learn the NY Salsa standard patterns and shines. I never knew how exceptional their teaching and expertise was until I went to my first Salsa Congress in Orlando last summer. A congress is a dance convention where all the serious and expert dancers gather. With my dance foundation from Salsa Caliente, I was able to learn the advanced partner and shine routines faster than most people in the Congress Workshops, because their routines were built by chaining up Salsa Caliente standard patterns and shines. In one of the workshops with about 40 intermediate/advanced dancers, the instructor asked us to do a "basic" (the standard steps for salsa). He immediately pointed to me and said I was the only one doing it correctly. Why? Because Erika teaches us that we should be moving back and forth with a smooth walking motion, and not a "step step STOP, step step STOP" motion. Is this a gauge of how great Salsa Caliente is? In my opinion it is. Am I a great dancer? No, but I'm probably as good as I can be. Am I good enough to show most girls in my arms a great time while dancing? HECK YEAAAAA !!!!!!! That's why I give Salsa Caliente 5 Stars :-)

Hands down the best class I've taken. Very good attention to detail and perfecting your style no…read morematter what level you are. I highly recommend this studio and its instructors.

This was such an awesome experience. Have done the one in Belfast a couple times now as that's…read morewhere the boat was built. This one was good to. Very well detailed experience. Loved the virtual DR at the end as well. Great limited time experience.

What a sham. We thought this might be an exhibit in a Tampa museum but it was instead staged in…read moresome nondescript building near the Buccaneers' stadium. Most of the parking lot was off limits and people arriving had to work through a maze of turns in the hopes of getting close to the entrance--not clearly marked either. The usher seemed to have been trained just days earlier and separated people into "VIP" and "Normal" ticketholders. It turns out the difference is if you pay an addition $10 you can experience some room with a VR headset. We declined. The exhibit was lame and not worth the time getting there. Most of the exhibit consisted of large photographs depicting various rooms and such. You're basically told you an wander around on a self-guided tour, but when we got to what we thought was the last room, we exited into what looked like a storage area. Figuring that was wrong, we doubled back to the front desk to ask similarly poorly-trained gift shop personnel if we missed something. Turns out there was a white cloth draped over another exit--unmarked--and that is where you could up the passenger's name on a card you were handed when you walked in (and after dodging the obligatory green screen photography hustle). You could at that time pay $10 to do the VR, but we were so disappointed we just left. This is a highly-hyped cash grab and definitely not worth the 25 minutes it takes to see the exhibits. Avoid at all costs and go to Ybor City 15 minutes away and grab lunch or dinner.

Great act provided by the Tampa Shakespeare Festival and the Hat Trick Theater. It took place at…read morethe Tampa Waterworks Park Downtown Rotary Pavilion. This open air theater is drawing more people to be interested in the play. The play is no mic. All sound projection is from the actors or actresses. This is very challenging when you have an open air theater that close to the I-275 highway and Hillsborough River with motor boat activities. I would like congratulate the actors have done a good job to project their voice and dialogue. This is my first attendance of Shakespeare play. I like it the have the costume and facial expressions.

AMAZING!!! The…read moreperformance of "Much Ado About Nothing" was awesome! The actors projected well being that there is no mics and used not only the stage but the surrounding area so creatively. What a fantastic experience thank you so much I can't wait until next time!

High quality entertainment. Never a bad performance, ever! Small intimate theatre at affordable…read moreprice for any budget. Love this theatre

Just saw Annie, and what a thrill. Anny DePolis is an amazing Annie! Culver Casson is a…read morecaptivating Miss Hannigan. Christy Adam's performed brilliantly. Thank you for a wonderful afternoon that made me feel like I was in New York. As a matter of fact, the whole cast is amazingly talented. Production, players, all of you, bravo! See you again soon

in 3 months it is back! I love Howl-O-Scream here at Busch Gardens they do an absolute great job…read moreevery year. The Haunted houses and scare zones are so much fun. People always compare to Universal and it is so annoying when it is totally different spectrums. I will always come back here every year forever! The food and spooky drinks are excellent too. Very affordable compared to other Halloween type events. Oh and the shows are great too the cirque acrobatic type stuff. The roller coasters at night are to die for

I'm obsessed with Halloween and always looking for new haunted houses to go to. This was my first…read moreyear going to Howl-O-Scream and I didn't know what to expect, and it was great! I got my tickets early bird so they were pretty cheap (I think like $35 each), which is definitely the way to go. I went in the beginning/middle of September and it wasn't crowded at all; we waited at most 15 minutes, and walked straight into some of the houses. There were 5 houses, and I would say the actual set designs are surprisingly almost as good as HHN. They do such a great job with movie-level sets and themes. The acting and scare zones weren't as great. Some of the scare zones were minimally decorated, to where you couldn't even tell you were in them. While some of the actors were really into it, a lot of them were so low energy that my husband even joked that they may be normal daytime Busch Gardens employees that they just threw costumes on. We went to both shows. The circus one was absolutely mind-blowing! It was creative and impressive, and kind of like a dark Cirque du Soleil show with different crazy stunts. The other show was more of a play, and was kind of cheesy. If you only have time for one, I'd definitely recommend the circus one. Overall, I think Howl-O-Scream is a great value for the price, and definitely worth going.

Charming little venue! We went to see The Wanderers and very much enjoyed the show! We'll be…read moreback!!

This is community theater at its best! We've been to many shows…read moreover the years, and have never been disappointed. Great range and variety of plays, wonderful acting and atmosphere, I would give it more than 5 stars if I could.

Most definitely as good as it gets. I signed up my 12-year-old niece for a private Hawaiian dance…read morelesson for her birthday present. We went in while she was on spring break and visiting from the Chicago area. I can't say enough about the instructor and the lesson my niece received. Anyone looking for an out-of-the ordinary -- make that extraordinary -- adventure here, should consider the studio. I expect we'll make an annual spring visit.

Great venue to see a small theater company play. My only complaint is the way the seats were set up…read morefor Twelfth Night. I was in the 2nd row very close to the floor stage and had to keep leaning to the left and right because of a tall guy in front of me.