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Beginners' Bridge Weekend in Yorkshire
3 days from £350pp
Your Tour Includes
- 2 nights half-board accommodation
- Introduction and learn to play bridge with Dom Rayner
- Welcome drink
Your Team
Holiday Overview
Join our teacher Dom Rayner for a fantastic weekend of learning bridge. Alongside like-minded others, you will be introduced to this fascinating game of cards, enthusiastically guided step by step to ensure that you enjoy your experience and get a good understanding of how to play.
Enjoy the weekend, take time to meet new people and relax in pleasant surroundings. Saturday afternoon is free for you to relax into the welcoming ambience of the award-winning Rendezvous Hotel with its panoramic canal and Dales views. Take a stroll along the banks of the canal into the traditional, market town of Skipton, beautifully surrounded by the Yorkshire Dales. By the end of the weekend, you will return home eager to practice your new skills and be ready to learn more new tricks and techniques!
If you are keen to learn more, please go to Dom Rayner's website.
Partners who do not wish to play bridge but would like to join are welcome. You can enjoy the impressive leisure facilities the hotel has to offer, including an indoor swimming pool. There is a £50 reduction for non-playing partners that share a room with a bridge participant.
Alternatively, if you have already mastered the basics of minibridge, join us for Beginners' Bridge Bidding Weekend at Makeney Hall Hotel.
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Itinerary
Please choose your preferred 3 day itinerary
Your Bridge Programme
Learn to play bridge with our fantastic collection of Beginners’ Bridge Breaks. Dom Rayner will introduce you to bridge, learning the basics of how to play minibridge and how to score as a declarer or a defender. He will enthusiastically guide you step by step to ensure you not only enjoy the experience, but that you get a good understanding of how to play this fascinating game of cards. By the end of your break, you will return home eager to practice your new skills, tricks and techniques!
Bridge Sessions
2pm – 4:30pm – An introduction to minibridge, learning the basics.
7:30pm – 10pm – Counting to 13! We learn how to take more tricks, seeing how easy it is with the powerful ability of counting up to 13.
Rooms will be available for check-in from 4:30pm.
Join us for a welcome drink and dinner this evening.
Included Meals
- Dinner
Enjoy breakfast this morning.
Bridge Sessions
10am – 12:30pm – Today we learn how points are scored as a declarer or a defender. This is the key to being the best!
7:30pm – 10pm – Learn the important art of being a defender and how to stop the opponents from scoring points. By the end, you will know the key techniques to use.
Today, your afternoon at leisure. Your hotel is ideally situated overlooking the Leeds & Liverpool canal, and conveniently located close to the lovely market town of Skipton. This is a perfect base from which to explore the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, take canalside strolls, and explore the town of Skipton.
We enjoy dinner this evening.
Included Meals
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Highlights
- Bridge
After breakfast, check out of your room.
Bridge Sessions
10am – 12:30pm – The finesse is a clever way to play your cards as a declarer to make extra tricks by trapping your opponents.
Depart the hotel at leisure for your journey home.
Included Meals
- Breakfast
Highlights
- Bridge
Accommodation
You will stay for two nights at the Rendezvous Hotel in Skipton.
Hotel Rendezvous
The 3-star family-run Rendezvous Hotel is conveniently located close to the town of Skipton, known as the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales. Overlooking the canal, the hotel offers stunning views, as well as fantastic facilities including a bar, restaurant, indoor swimming pool, sauna, steam room and gym. Complimentary car parking is available on site, and Skipton railway station is just less than two miles from the hotel.
Hotel Facilities
- 3 Star
- Bar
- Restaurant
- Indoor Swimming Pool (Seasonal)
- Lift
- Disabled Rooms Available
- Room Service Available
- Ground Floor Rooms on Request
- 24 Hour Front Desk
Room Facilities
- TV
- Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
- Shower and Bath
- Telephone
- Free Wifi
Single Room Supplement from £75.00
