Entertainment
2009 Christmas Entertainment
Wednesday 23rd December
Arrive today or tomorrow and you will be welcomed with a pot of tea or coffee and a hot mince pie with lashings of Devon clotted cream.
Thursday 24th December – Christmas Eve
For those already with us breakfast will be served from 7.30am to 9.30am.
From 6.00pm a cocktail reception will be hosted by the Management and staff in the lounge.
Dinner will be served in the Regency Room from 7.00pm, followed by traditional Carol singing lead by members of the Torridge Male Voice Choir.
For those wishing to attend Midnight Mass, information will be available at Reception.
Friday 25th December – Christmas Day
Start the day bright and early with a traditional English or a light breakfast.
Coffee will be available in the lounge from 10.00am where there will be various competitions for you to participate in.
Join other guests for cocktails from 11.45am before feasting on a splendid five course luncheon with all the traditional Christmas trimmings.
Afternoon tea will be available in the lounge at 4.30pm.
A Christmas buffet will be served at 7.30pm in the Regency Room after which the management will be organising your fun and entertainment for the evening and giving away prizes including a hotel break.
Saturday 26th December – Boxing Day
Take a leisurely breakfast this morning between 8.30am and 9.30am.
Pick up a copy of the Royal Hotel treasure hunt and fill in the answers as you take a stroll around Bideford or venture further and enjoy the glorious scenery of North Devon or Cornwall.
Tonight there will be a Gala Dinner followed by “A night at the races”.
Sunday 27th December
Again, take a leisurely breakfast between 8.30am and 9.30am.
Dinner will be served from 7.00pm after which Ashley “Music for all Occasions” will be here to entertain you.
Monday 28th December
After breakfast today we may say goodbye to some of you and for others it’s a day of leisure before Dinner is served from 7.00pm this evening.
New Year Entertainment
Wednesday 30th December
Arrive at your leisure and be greeted with a traditional Devon cream Tea.
In the Regency Room this evening your tables for Dinner will be reserved from 7.30pm after which there will be a quiz evening.
Thursday 31st December - New Years Eve
Breakfast will be served between 8.00am and 9.00am allowing you plenty of time for a leisurely day to prepare to see the New Year in.
Champagne cocktails will be available in the lounge from 7.00pm before a Gala Dinner which will be served from 7.30pm in the Regency Room.
At midnight celebrate the arrival of the New Year in the Hotel traditionally with Auld Lang Syne. Bideford has a wonderful display of fireworks which can be seen from the hotel or take in the atmosphere by strolling along the historical Bideford Bridge. (Closed to traffic from 10.30pm).
We will continue to welcome the New Year with music and dancing until the early hours of the morning.
Friday 1st January - New Years Day
To allow you a lie in, breakfast this morning will be served between 9.00am and 10.00am in the Regency Room.
The day is left for relaxation and leisure.
Tonight dinner in the Regency Room is served from 7.00pm, during and after which Ashley “Music for all Occasions” will be here to entertain you.
Saturday 2nd January
Should you need to set off home this morning breakfast is served from 7.30am.
Those who are staying over may like to explore Bideford or take a visit to Clovelly with its famous cobbled street or one of the many other places of interest in this area.
A quiet dinner will this evening be served from 7.00pm.
Sunday 3rd January
Breakfast can be taken from 7.30am to enable you to depart at ease.
The management reserve the right to alter this programme without prior notice.