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Beginners' Bridge Bidding Weekend at Makeney Hall Hotel
3 days from £350pp
Your Tour Includes
- 2 nights half-board accommodation
- Introduction and learn to bid with Dom Rayner
- Welcome drink
Your Team
Holiday Overview
Join our bridge teacher Dom Rayner for a fantastic weekend of learning bridge bidding. You'll take your first steps into the auction, using your existing knowledge of trick playing games (like whist or minibridge). Dom enthusiastically guide you step by step to ensure that you have a great experience and get a good understanding of how to bid. Enjoy the weekend, take time to meet new people and relax in pleasant surroundings and, 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 need to catch up on the card play, find further information on Dom Rayner's website.
Alternatively, if you need to learn the basics of minibridge before moving onto bidding, join us for a Beginners' Bridge break: Beginners' Bridge Weekend in Yorkshire and Beginners' Bridge Weekend near Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Itinerary
Please choose your preferred 3 day itinerary
Make your own way to Makeney Hall Hotel.
Bridge Sessions
2pm – 4:30pm – Opening balanced hands. This is your first look at the bidding, with a view as to how we deal with having a balanced hand as the opener.
7:30pm – 10pm – Opening unbalanced hands. Learn to deal with all other hands that we may come across as the first player to bid.
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 in the hotel.
Bridge Sessions
10am – 12:30pm – Responding to 1 of a suit. Learn how to reply to your partner when they have opened the bidding with a suit bid.
2pm – 4pm – Enjoy a relaxed optional practice session for those who want to come along and play some random dealt hands.
Dinner in the hotel is included this evening.
Included Meals
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Highlights
- Bridge
After breakfast, check out of your room.
Bridge Sessions
10am – 12:30pm – Overcalling and Vulnerability. Learn how to intervene as the opponents to the opener, and when it is right to get involved and why.
Depart the hotel at leisure for your journey home.
Included Meals
- Breakfast
Highlights
- Bridge
Accommodation
You will stay for two nights on a half-board basis at the Makeney Hall Hotel.
Makeney Hall Hotel
Originally built as a Victorian country mansion, Makeney Hall has many charming original period features, remaining intact. The impressive conservatory restaurant is situated in the picturesque rear gardens. Set in six acres of landscaped gardens, this Victorian hotel has striking countryside views and a conservatory restaurant. Makeney Hall Hotel is just 15 minutes' drive from the city of Derby, and close to the village of Belper.
Room Facilities
- TV
- Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
- Hairdryer
- Free Wifi
- Iron or Trouser Press
- Ensuite Facilities
Single Room Supplement from £30.00
