Gill's Cruise Centre

The English Bridge Union joins forces with one of the most experienced cruise retailers in the UK, Gill’s Cruise Centre to offer ‘Learn to Play Bridge’ courses on board Fred Olsen cruise ships.

The EBU sees the partnership with the family-owned business as a new and innovative way of providing a different type of learning opportunity.

Designed for absolute beginners the classes have been arranged around the ships own schedule to combine a holiday with learning a new hobby.

In addition to on-board ‘Learn to Play Bridge’ courses there are plans to offer ‘Improve your Game’ courses to the many thousands of social players who wish to consolidate and develop their game.

The combination of the English Bridge Union’s top class tutors with Gill’s Cruise Centre inspires the confidence that clients will be looked after by one of the UK’s leading cruise specialists whilst learning a game that will bring lifelong enjoyment.

Click here to view the bridge cruises and here to link to Gill's Cruise Centre website.

Scam

Warning to bridge teachers, an email is currently being sent around, and is a scam.

The email is as follows:

"Hi ,I'm , My son would be coming for 2 months holiday in the United Kingdom () and I want him to use the period of his holiday to learn the fundamentals of Bridge Card Game from . Could you please provide me with your rates, Location and Qualifications and then we can move on from there. I await your quick response as soon as possible, Thanks. "

The scam would work as follows:

1. Supply details of bank account so a large ‘overpayment’ for lessons can be made.
2. A request to refund the amount of the overpayment leaving the actual amount for tuition or else make the payment to a 3rd party for ‘services’.
3. You make the refund only to find the original amount isn’t there after all. Fraud / money laundering.

So, please make sure you ignore the email.