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Festive and New Year Breaks

Overview

Spread the cheer and enjoy an experience like no other this Christmas or New Year with our magical array of festive breaks. Stay closer to home on a UK staycation and play your favourite card game amid beautiful winter scenery or head further afield to the warmer climes of Europe and celebrate with newfound friends. With seasonal added extras included on many holidays, you're sure to make unforgettable memories.

5 Holidays available from £380pp

Premier Bridge
Festive Bridge
New Tour

On this yuletide bridge holiday in Oxfordshire, welcome in the festive season with visits to Blenheim Palace and Windsor Castle.

  • Services of an EBU-qualified director and friendly hosts
  • Varied bridge sessions with Masterpoints and prizes awarded
  • 1 seminar
  • 4 nights half-board accommodation
  • Welcome drink
  • Excursions and visits as described in the itinerary
  • Coach travel for excursions
  • Excursions
    Included
  • Half
    Board

Availability:

  • 2025 30th November
Travel
  • Join Direct
Premier Bridge
Festive Bridge
New Tour

Join us at the beautiful Vila Gale Lagos resort hotel, ideally located on the seafront, for an overseas Christmas bridge holiday to remember!

  • Services of an EBU-qualified director and friendly hosts
  • Varied bridge programme with Masterpoints and prizes awarded
  • 10 nights half-board accommodation
  • Return airport transfers between Faro airport and the hotel
  • A Christmas Day buffet lunch
  • Welcome drink
  • Excursion as described in the itinerary

Availability:

  • 2025 18th December
Travel
  • By Air
  • Join Direct
Premier Bridge
Festive Bridge
New Tour

Staying at the 4-star Cadbury House Hotel, nestled in the rolling North Somerset countryside, this Christmas bridge holiday is sure to be merry!

  • Services of an EBU-qualified director and friendly hosts
  • Varied bridge sessions with Masterpoints and prizes
  • 1 seminar
  • 4 nights half-board accommodation
  • Welcome drink
  • A light lunch on Christmas Eve
  • Christmas lunch with a glass of Prosecco and an evening buffet
  • Canapés and a buffet finger sandwich lunch on Boxing Day
  • New
    Venue

Availability:

  • 2025 23rd December
Travel
  • Join Direct
Premier Bridge
Festive Bridge
New Tour

Join our Twixmas holiday on the edge of the stunning Cotswolds, surrounded by rolling countryside and a charming backdrop of the Cotswold Hills!

  • Services of an EBU-qualified director and friendly hosts
  • Varied bridge programme with Masterpoints and prizes awarded
  • 1 seminar
  • 3 nights half-board accommodation
  • Welcome drink
  • Half
    Board

Availability:

  • 2025 27th December
Travel
  • Join Direct
Premier Bridge
Festive Bridge
New Tour

Situated in the Derbyshire countryside, elegant Makeney Hall has all the special ingredients needed for the perfect New Year bridge holiday.

  • Services of an EBU-qualified director and friendly hosts
  • Varied bridge sessions with Masterpoints and prizes awarded
  • 4 nights half-board accommodation
  • 4 evening meals with a glass of house wine
  • Prosecco and canapés on New Year's Eve
  • A light lunch on New Year's Day
  • Coaching for the excursion
  • Excursions
    Included
  • Half
    Board

Availability:

  • 2025 29th December
Travel
  • Join Direct

Meet the
Team

We’ve assembled a fantastic team of directors, hosts and teachers, all dedicated to providing an engaging and supportive bridge-playing environment.

Meet the Team
Anne Wright

Anne Wright

Anne is a host who works alongside our directors with the aim of ensuring that everyone enjoys their bridge holiday. She is friendly and approachable and enjoys her bridge, playing in several competitions near her home in Leicestershire. Anne is a qualified bridge director, and she looks forward to welcoming players of all standards.
Gary and Lesley Conrad

Gary and Lesley Conrad

Gary is a Senior EBU Panel Director and Chief Tournament Director for Hertfordshire. He’s also a trainer for EBED, having helped over 200 players gain the skills to direct bridge in their own clubs. Lesley is the team’s social expert, always on hand to support solo travellers, keep the bridge room beautifully prepared, and handle all scoring and hand preparation.
Mark Hooper

Mark Hooper

Mark learned the basics of bridge in his early teens from his father, and later played informally at school. It wasn’t until university that he began playing regularly in clubs. Remarkably, Mark is entirely self-taught, having never taken formal lessons – instead learning through books and conversations with fellow enthusiasts. With over 50 years of experience at the bridge table, he has played continuously since university, including at EBU congress level and as part of his county team.
Maggie Pyner

Maggie Pyner

Maggie started learning bridge in 1980. She played with my future husband, John Pyner, at Congress level for several years and reached the level of Life Master – and will hopefully become a Premier Life Master.
Christine and Stewart MacFarlane

Christine and Stewart MacFarlane

Christine and Stewart MacFarlane started their own Bridge School and Club in Bath. Together, they have taught and introduced many people to this wonderful game and started running weekends away for their students in 2009. This progressed to running bridge holidays and working on cruise ships as the bridge instructors.
Gary Conrad

Gary Conrad

Gary is a Senior EBU Panel Director, Chief Tournament Director for Hertfordshire, and a dedicated trainer for EBED.
Hilary and David Powell

Hilary and David Powell

Married for over 50 years, Hilary and David are bridge duo with a shared love for the game and a passion for creating memorable holidays. Welcoming, approachable, and always ready with a smile, the couple are dedicated to making your bridge holiday as enjoyable and memorable as possible.
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