Dance Off the Inches Latin Party Pack! - Thoughts

Dance Off The Inches Latin Party Pack! was a Christmas Gift. In the box came 4 workouts on three DVDs, a 30-Day rotational calendar and Salsa Sculpting Bars. The bars are pink and solid. They do not shake or rattle.
So the workouts are:
Red Hot Cardio Party
Sizzling Salsa
Total Body Tone with a Twist
Slim & Sexy Dancer's Abs.

I will start in the order I did the workouts
Total Body Tone with a Twist. This DVD consist of two workouts. Both workouts are led by Desiree Bartlett. Toning with a Twist is 21 minutes and Slim & Sexy Dancer's Abs is 17 minutes. If you select play all, it will play both back to back and that clock in at around 36 minutes. Both of
these workouts have a warm up and cool down and both used the Salsa Sculpting Bars.
In Toning with a Twist, you are doing plies, lunges, dips, squats, biceps, triceps, overhead press. This workout is very basic. In between the different sculpting sets you do basic dance movement, merengue or cha cha. I did not particularly like this workout.

Slim& Sexy Dancer's Abs I liked a little bit more than Total Body Tone with a Twist. All the toning is done from the standing position. There is lots of oblique work. The warm up and cool down in this workout are quite lengthy for such a short workout. I did like the cool down.
Overall, I felt that I didn't get a lot out of both workouts. Desiree is pleasant. Beyond being able to select one of the two workouts and play all, the workouts are not chaptered.

Sizzling Salsa is an old Dancing Off The Inches workout. I have seen several clips of this workout but always pass because the clip left me with the impression that the workout is dull. And out of all the DOTI workouts I have done, this is probably going to be my least favorite. There was no oomph in the dance.

However, the soundtrack, I thought awesome. It was mostly familiar music but some of my favorite Latin tunes. With the exception of the cool down, I was really disappointed in the combinations.

The workout is led by Stella Sandoval. She is pleasant and cues well. I did not feel any energy coming from her. It was like she was saying the words but it really did not translate into a Sizzling workout.
Sometimes with dance workouts, I feel they try to make the moves so precise and thus easy/clear to teach that they loose the dance; and it feels stiff and unnatural.
One thing to note is if you have trouble learning the samba, this is a good workout to get the basics of the movement. Stella teaches it in the Latin Lime Twist sections and I thought she did a good job in demonstrating the rhythm.

Speaking of sections, the breakdown is:
The Breakdown:
Warm up
Spicy Salsa Mix
Latin Lime Twist
Mucho Mambo combo
Cool Down
This workout does feature the dance guide. The moves are quite simple.
Approximate workout time - 37 minutes.

Red Hot Cardio Party features Desiree Bartlet. It is about 40 minutes long and follows the standard Dancing Off The Inches workout design.
The Chapter Breakdown:
Warm Up
Cardio Carnivale
South of the Border
Spanish Fire
Cool Down.

Desiree has a based step that she uses throughout all the combinations. It is a merengue with a clap to the side. I thought the clap to the side very babyish. It felt force and other than that and a little too much repetition, I really like the combos in this workout.
The first dance represented Carnival in Rio De Janiero. This dance is cute and bubbly.
South of the Border featured Salsa dances from Mexico and Spanish Fire feature Flamenco steps from Spain.
Other Notes:
Desiree cues well. She also teaches you Spanish. She will tell you something in Spanish and then follow with the English translation. So I got to learn a few Spanish words that I didn't know.
The music fits the dances.

The cast:
I normally only talk about the cast if there is a beginner or advance modifier or if they are really good or really bad. I thought these ladies really good. I was trying to emulate them more than I was Desiree.

Toning With A Twist - 2 1/2 stars
Slim & Sexy Dancer's Abs - 2 1/2 stars
Sizzling Salsa - 2 1/4 stars
Red Hot Cardio Party - 3 3/4 stars