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Albena is a Blue Flag winning resort, located in a picturesque and ecologically clean gulf on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, close to Varna international airport (~30 km). Temperate continental climate, vast sand beach, clean sea without any dangerous animals - your guarantee of wonderful conditions for seaside holidays from May through October.  The weather is soft and dry with minimum rainfalls and the average temperature is ~27°C but often reaching 30-33°C. The sea water is hot and calm with average temperature in the Summer 24°C - 26°C. This is a beautiful place on the Black Sea Coast with good location, high standard accommodation and a variety of amenities. The resort hotels are located in a natural environment, either right on the beach or on the nearby hills with a splendid views of the sea.

WiFi technology has granted in Albena for you to be connected to the internet directly from your hotel room, the restaurant, while you rest on the beach or the pools, or while you attend events in the conference halls.

The International Bridge Festival "Albena" is one of the best Bulgarian bridge events. The resort affords excelent conditions of play in Conference hall of Flamingo Grand hotel*****. In all tourmanents screens are in use as well as bridgemates and duplimate mashine.

Affordable and cosy accommodaton is arranged. You can get accommodation from 12€ person/day. Villas are perfect for those who come with their families and desire a domestic atmosphere. If you prefer to stay in a hotel, you can choose from a long list with different prices.

Sport Center Albena offers to our guests one of the biggest sportandrecreationalpossibilities in this part of the world. The wonderful combination ofprofessionalsport facilities, modern hotels, top class service, SPA and incredible nature make Albena a favorite destination for all sport fans from different countries, of all agesduringall seasons. Many different sport facilities as yachting clubs, horse-riding club,football field, windsurfing, 8 tennis courts, paragliding, bowling alley, water skiing, boat-driving, scuba-diving, banana and other sport entertainments are availible, as well as swimming and sunbathing on the beach and swimming pools.

Various possibilities for entertainment as excursions, culture ivents, variete theatre, restaurants, folk pubs, casino, night clubs and discos are availible. The organizers of IBF "Albena are included in the program a boat party for thosewho like marine adventures. A visit at "Bulgarian fiesta" restaurant is another possibility, where you can spend a lovely evening tasting traditional bulgarian cuisine as well as seeing the only one of its kind fire-dancing. For those who like poker passion is arranged a tourney in casino in "Golden Sands" resort.

• Highly unusual methods (HUM) and Brown Sticker (BS) conventions are not allowed

• In pairs the psyching of any conventional opening bid is prohibited. Systemic psyching of any kind is not permitted

• 1NT openings with less then 10 HPC are not allowed

• 1NT opening bids out of range of 14-18HPC should be alerted as well as 1 NT bids containing singleton(A or K will be tolerated), void and 5+ card major

• Smoking is not permited in playing areas

• Players are prohibited from leaving the playing room during sessions in order to smoke

• Mobile phones should be turned off in the playing areas

• The use of mobile phones during play is strictly prohibited and will be penalized without warning