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Masterpoints Awarded

Masterpoints Awarded

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Awarded

Gain Masterpoints on the majority of holidays

No Half Tables

No Half Tables

No Half
Tables

Partners are always found in the bridge room on Premier Bridge holidays

Expertly Planned Holidays

Expertly Planned Holidays

Expertly Planned
Holidays

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Protection

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Protection

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Play Bridge & Explore the French Château & Alps

Play Bridge & Explore the French Château & Alps

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£1,269pp
Bridge & the Charming Cotswolds

Bridge & the Charming Cotswolds

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£595pp
Play Bridge & Explore the Lake District

Play Bridge & Explore the Lake District

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£675pp
Bridge at La Quinta Menorca by Portblue Boutique

Bridge at La Quinta Menorca by Portblue Boutique

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£1,099pp
Bridge at the Raga Side, Turkey

Bridge at the Raga Side, Turkey

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£1,295pp
Bridge in Malta & Gozo

Bridge in Malta & Gozo

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£695pp
Bridge & Bowls in Paphos

Bridge & Bowls in Paphos

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£1,029pp
Bridge in Sicily at the Acacia Resort

Bridge in Sicily at the Acacia Resort

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£1,315pp

Meet the Team

Featuring friendly hosts and EBU-qualified directors, someone is with you every step of the way on a First for Bridge holiday...

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.

Anne Wright

Anne Wright

Chris and Linda Benneworth

Chris and Linda Benneworth

Chris learned bridge from his mother at the age of nine, first playing Nottingham Club before moving to Acol at university and has been directing at his club since the mid-1980s. Linda started playing bridge at college, after growing up with family card games, and went on to become a county-qualified tournament director and bridge host in the mid-1990s.

Chris and Linda Benneworth

Chris and Linda Benneworth

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.

Christine and Stewart MacFarlane

Christine and Stewart MacFarlane

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.

Gary and Lesley Conrad

Gary and Lesley Conrad

Gary Conrad

Gary Conrad

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

Gary Conrad

Gary Conrad

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.

Hilary and David Powell

Hilary and David Powell

Ilona Buttinger

Ilona Buttinger

Ilona learnt to play bridge as a child round the kitchen table, but really started to adopt conventions during lockdown. She went on her first bridge holiday in March 2024, which was the Majorcan Congress.

Ilona Buttinger

Ilona Buttinger

James and Jane Tullett

James and Jane Tullett

Jane brings her organisational and interpersonal skills to the forefront to make an excellent hosting team with her husband James. James has been playing bridge for over 30 years and is regularly picked for his county. Jane and James have travelled extensively in recent years to explore exotic parts of the world, such as Peru, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

James and Jane Tullett

James and Jane Tullett

Julia Brown

Julia Brown

Julia teaches bridge to beginners and runs a supervised play session once a week. It is important to her that people learn in a friendly, welcoming environment at the pace they feel happy with.

Julia Brown

Julia Brown

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.

Maggie Pyner

Maggie Pyner

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.

Mark Hooper

Mark Hooper

Masuma Knevitt

Masuma Knevitt

Masuma's professional career as a secondary school chemistry eased her into qualifying as an EBU bridge tutor. She has also qualified as a bridge director and ran and directed at the Wensum Bridge club.

Masuma Knevitt

Masuma Knevitt

Blog Posts

Posted by Amy at First for Bridge James and Jane Tullett's Holiday to the Azores Friday 25th April 2025

"Our Play & Explore holiday to the Azores in April totally exceeded our expectations. If I was to imagine paradise or the Garden of Eden, it would be the island of Sao Miguel..."

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Azores

Posted by Madeleine at First for Bridge The Ins and Outs of the EBU Venetian Congress with Chris Benneworth Tuesday 6th February 2024

First for Bridge run a range of different bridge holidays, from holidays for beginners to English Bridge Union overseas congresses where the bridge is more serious but played in friendly setting. This is the story of the most recent EBU overseas congress, held near Venice in October 2023.

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