Dinner dance

Does sound rather lacking in organisation and the menu is hardly inspiring is it? I think I'd give it a miss too.

You might loose your deposit but look at it as saving money. If you had gone you would have been buying drinks?

I would also cancel Nina
Part of the going out experience is looking forward to the event not worrying about what its going to be like
Agree menu doesn't live up to Dinner Dance expectations

Weary sounding menu...would cancel for sure and just go out for a 'good' meal ?

In this day and age, I think everyone would expect a better meal choice than casserole or fish cakes! It isn't very inspiring. That is the sort of everyday fare that a mediocre cook could make.
You did the right thing in cancelling, I would too.

I would cancel but tell them exactly why!

I used to organise charity events, including dinner dance functions, I would never have come up with this menu - totally uninspiring. Cancel and go to a good restaurant instead.

I don't know how anyone can dance after eating a big dinner. It's either eating or dancing.
I'm always surprised how much the rural french like dancing. About 9pm they have something to eat, usually just a buffet and plenty of wine. Then a small band arrives and they start dancing for hours, until the small hours of the morning. There's always a big turnout, but far too late for me. Husband won't dance anyway. I hear about it from my friend who lives over the road from the hall.

Welshwife I did tell them the reason.
I had a phone call yesterday, the guy who called said he agreed with me !
I'm pleased to say we have been offered a full refund of our deposit, without even asking. So they have redeemed themselves slightly.

Tricia we wouldn't have been dancing either. It was the tribute act that attracted us.

Good outcome, nina, what will you do instead?

I thought (hoped) that the formal Dinner Dance had died out. I think I'd be more inclined to go to something like a Barn Dance or a Ceilidh- much more fun and less stuffy.

Yes, I think the dances they have here are more like barn dances. I remember going to those in my youth!