Well, my Salute this year was fairly bizarre and a bit of a let down. I basically spent about 400 odd euros for 3 hours of attendance. It was a one off due to special circumstances of my mate, and me wanting to show a bit of solidarity, but I won't do that again.
We arrived at Excel around 0930 or so from St. Pancras, then waited an hour to get in. The queue just crawled in. By the time I had dropped off chocs it was almost 1100. We made one full circuit of the hall, had some lunch, and left at 1400 to go back to St. Pancras to get the train back to Brussels.
I bought the princely sum of 26 quid worth of stuff. A very unsatisfying state of affairs to be sure.