Amsterdam Salsa Festival 2027 dates, tickets, programme

What the festival is

The Amsterdam International Salsa Festival (AISF) is a four-day salsa weekend with workshops during the day, shows in the evening and socials that run through the night. The organiser, Extremos Dance in Amsterdam, calls it 100% salsa in every room.

The 2027 festival is the fourteenth edition and carries the title Roaring 20's Edition. Each night the shows are staged as one programme, with the dancers coming down a staircase onto a red carpet.

When and where

The festival runs from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 February 2027. Thursday is a social dancing night from 21:00 to 03:00; the workshops start on Friday.

The main venue is De Koning Party & Event Centre at Isolatorweg 29 in Amsterdam West, where the shows and the night parties are held. Candance Studios, one minute away across the street, holds workshops and the daytime socials. During the day the workshops use five rooms; the night party uses two rooms of De Koning: Mambo (Maxima hall, ground floor) and Salsa Romantica (K3, first floor). You can move between them all night.

Tickets and prices

The Full Pass covers all workshops, the daytime socials at Candance, the parties on all four nights and the shows. The Performance Bootcamp and master classes are not part of it. It costs €190 plus a €0.99 service fee in November 2026 and rises by €10 on the 1st of each month: €200 from 1 December 2026, €210 from 1 January 2027 and €220 from 1 February 2027. At the door it is €230.

The Social Dance Pass is meant for the parties and socials, without workshops: it covers the evening parties, the daytime socials and the shows. It is on sale from 1 January 2027 at €100, then €110 in February and €120 at the door.

Day passes (that day's workshops plus its party) go on sale from January at the earliest, and only if the passes have not filled the day: Friday €110, Saturday €130, Sunday €100. A party ticket for a single evening can only be bought at the door on the night itself, while there is room: Friday €40, Saturday €45, Sunday €35.

The online shop closes on Tuesday 23 February 2027 at 23:59; after that the passes are sold only at the door while room lasts. The Performance Bootcamp with Fernando Sosa and Marco Ferrigno is a separate €175 ticket and does not include the festival.

The programme day by day

Registration opens half an hour before the first workshop of the day: 11:30 on Friday, 10:30 on Saturday and 11:30 on Sunday. Workshops run 12:00 to 19:50 on Friday, 11:00 to 19:50 on Saturday and 12:00 to 17:50 on Sunday. The schedule can be filtered by level and by timing (ON1, ON2 or Cuban); the organiser calls it a concept schedule and will add each workshop's style and level when it is complete.

Every afternoon from 16:00 to 20:00 there is a daytime social at Candance. At 18:00 the Stargate competition starts: couples on Friday, groups on Saturday, solo dancers on Sunday. The winners dance on the main stage in that evening's show.

Doors open at 21:30, the shows run from 22:00 to 23:15 and the social dancing continues until 06:00. The shows are seated, and until 22:30 the seats are kept for Full Pass holders; from then on anyone can take an empty one.

Line-up

The organiser's line-up page names, among others, Johnny Vazquez, Fernando Sosa, Marco Ferrigno, Terry & Cecile, Sasha Phillips, Luis Vazquez and Victor Ortega, and says more names are still being added. The DJ page lists the DJs who keep the socials going from Friday night.

The line-up and the workshop schedule change until the festival; the organiser's own pages are the place to check the current version before you book your workshops.

Getting there and where to stay

Isolatorweg, the last stop of metro 50, is three minutes on foot from De Koning. From Schiphol, take a train to Amsterdam Sloterdijk and change to metro 50. From Amsterdam Centraal the organiser recommends bus 22 towards Sloterdijk to the stop Kabelweg, and after the parties the night bus N81 goes the same way. A contactless bank card or your phone works as a ticket on the whole Dutch network. If you drive, the Ibis car park is free at weekends from Friday 19:00.

The organiser has a festival rate at two hotels. Hotel Ibis Amsterdam City West, next to the venue, is booked through the link on the festival's hotel page. Park Inn by Radisson City West is booked with the code SALSA27, and its festival rooms return to general sale in two steps: half on 26 January 2027 and the rest on 5 February 2027.

At the festival

Bars and lockers run on the PartyPay app, which you should install before you arrive. The only place for cash is the registration desk, where you load money into the app.

Bring your own snacks and drinks to the workshops if you like, but not to the parties. Taking photos and video for yourself is allowed; making footage to sell to dancers needs the organiser's permission. If you lose your ticket, it can be sent again on the CM.com resend page by entering your booking email and the festival date.