I love Whitby and find it very friendly as a rule. However, I've also had trouble with the callers. On the Friday last year, despite being a pretty experienced dancer, I had to give up on one dance before the music started, as the caller just wanted to rush through the whole walk-through and just assumed everyone would be OK. I don't expect them to treat everyone as beginners, but treating everyone as experts/mind-readers isn't really very good either.