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bridge room Health & Safety

01656 747-700

Open Mon-Fri 9am-5.15pm & Sat 9am-1pm

We are fortunate that all our customers booking our holidays have had both their vaccine and booster jabs and so have our holiday hosts and bridge directors running our holidays. Our bridge rooms are a safe place to enjoy playing friendly duplicate bridge. We will continue with some of our protocols outlined below to ensure the safety of our customers and staff. If you would like to discuss this further please do not hesitate to contact us.

UK Bridge Holidays

Your Bridge Director and Holiday Hosts look forward to meeting you at the drinks reception in the bridge room, along with our Holiday Event manager and a representative from the hotel. You will already have been sent details of the itinerary and protocols put in place by the Hotel and Guaranteed Events to best ensure a safe and enjoyable bridge holiday. We will however take this opportunity to discuss these again and your Bridge Director and Hosts will introduce themselves to you and make sure any single travellers are paired up with a suitable playing partner for the first evening bridge session.

Equipment

We will ensure the card tables will be spaced further apart than is normal as well as limiting the number of tables in play in each bridge room so we comply with the hotels and government regulations at the time.

Only brand new or sanitised equipment will be used, supplied by PlayBridgeShop, and we will give everyone their very own new bidding box at the start of the holiday. Either Pre-dealt boards with new boards and new cards will be used for the main evening sessions, and we may be using a curtain card or own hand record system so that you can use your own playing cards for morning sessions. Tablecloths will also be brand new or professionally cleaned and delivered sealed and replaced for each and every session. We may have a dealer machine and all new equipment in the bridge room so we have a controlled environment. We will have electronic scoring for all UK and Overseas holidays, so no need for pens and paper and only one person on each table will have to use the scoring tablets or bridgemates.

IN THE BRIDGE ROOM

There will be freely available face masks and shields, disposable gloves as well as small hand sanitiser bottles that you can help yourself to during the holiday. These will be in the bridge room. We might need you to be a little more tolerant with the processes we have put in place. This may mean we play slightly less boards per session, but the Directors will do his or her best and we will make sure we have more than enough space in the bridge room to move around whilst maintaining a good social distance and we will only need to ask players to wear face coverings when entering and moving around the bridge room. The bridge room will be also sanitised after morning and evening sessions.

UK hotels are operating at no more than 80% occupancy, and some a lot less than that. There is social distancing in place in all public areas, and face masks must be worn in the public areas. There is now table service in the bars and restaurant and you do not have to wear masks.

So, we are expecting some slight inconvenience but also a higher level of personal service. At our first holiday back at held The White House Hotel in Salisbury we were very well looked after, they simply could not do enough for us on the day.

SAFETY FIRST

If there is any escalation in the virus numbers or other factors that impact our ability to deliver a safe and enjoyable holiday prior to our expected arrival, we will not hesitate to cancel the holiday. If we believe the hotels procedures are not fit for our purpose then the holiday will not take place. Our new and unique group booking system will allow us to do this without financial penalty or significant aggravation to you.

If you have any questions, concerns or wish to discuss this further you can contact us on the usual numbers six days a week as you always have been able to.

We hope to see you soon.