Derwent Hotel, TLH Leisure Resort, Belgrave Road, Torquay TQ2 5HL
Booking enquiries (Tor) 07971 911973
Hotel enquiries (TLH) 01803 400100
Hi everyone.
We hope you are looking forward to our Lindy Hop Rock Bottoms event in Torquay. Here are some details we have compiled to help you plan your weekend. Please make sure everyone in your booking gets to see this info.
- Fancy dress for Saturday night – theme is
- Pyjamas and slippers for Sunday morning
- Swimming cozzies, so you can make use of the fantastic hotel pools
- Towels for the swimming pool (hotel provides towels for your room only).
- Cheque book or cash for purchasing T-shirts and DVDs, or for booking future events
- Credit card to buy essential dance shoes and clothes at the on-site shop
- Diaries to check out which future Rock Bottoms you can come along to.
Check in is anytime after 3pm Friday. You may arrive earlier to use the hotel facilities, but your room won’t be available till 3. Dinner on arrival day will be served up until 8:30pm, after which a salad bar will be available until 9:30. Don’t worry about arriving really late – reception is manned 24 hours.
You must check out of your room by 10:30 on Monday, though hotel facilities are still available to you throughout the day. If you need to get away at the crack of nuts on Monday, please let the reception know when you check in, or before 11am Saturday, so they can be prepared for you.
Maps for the Derwent Hotel can be found on their website www.tlh.co.uk, or links to internet maps can be found on the hotel pages of our website www.rockbottoms.com
Take the A380 past Newton Abbot to Torquay, and follow signs for the SEA FRONT. At the traffic lights at the junction of Newton Road and Avenue Road take the right hand fork to the SEA FRONT. Continue along Avenue Road and at the second set of traffic lights, turn sharp left up Falkland Road.
During our Rock Bottoms weekends the Derwent Hotel car park usually fills up by Friday evening. You are allowed to park In any of the car parks in the complex (Carlton, Victoria, Toorak).
Your package includes breakfast and evening meals for the 3 nights of your stay. All meals are served in the hotel dining room, where you may choose to sit with friends or meet some new people.
To easily meet new people, try our "Meet & Eat" tables – one or two large group tables identified by a balloon or two (door staff can guide you to these tables).
If you are a group wanting to sit together then get down to dinner early, or put your own reserved sign on the table of your choice
Watch out for our photographer at dinner on Friday. - another friendly feature we have at Rock Bottoms is a photo board where we write all your first names by your pictures.
People with special dietary requirements need to let the heads of dining room know who they are and where they are sitting. We will have already advised them of your requests if they were mentioned on your booking (vegetarian no notice required).
Dancing starts at 9pm each night and runs through until 2, 3, 4am. Extra entertainment includes Teacher Introductions on Friday, Teacher Cabaret Saturday and Class Cabarets Sunday. The main ballroom during our Lindy event will feature Swing music most of the night. There’ll be plenty of Balboa in the second venue, and later on (about 1am it’ll turn into Blues. DJ schedules will be on the doors to the main ballroom each night – this should include any suspicious goings on down in the second venue.
Full timetable issued on arrival.
Please note that all the Lindy and Balboa lessons have levels. In the interests of all the people you dance with in the classes, please stick to your appropriate level.
As a rough guide, for Lindy Hop:
Level 1 is for those in their first year of regular Lindy lessons
Level 2 is for those in their second year of regular Lindy lessons
Level 3 is for those in their 3rd/4th year of regular Lindy lessons
Level 4 is for people who have done 4yrs+ of regular Lindy
As a rough guide: For Balboa
Level 1 is for those in their first 6 months of regular Balboa lessons
Level 2 is for those with 6 to 18 months Balboa experience
Level 3 is for those with 18 months+ Balboa experience
We are very lucky to have the entire hotel (including the main ballroom) to ourselves, so security is not a big issue. All we have to do is identify anyone at a glance who shouldn’t be there. For this reason we issue wrist bands on arrival. Please put this on immediately and keep it on for the entire weekend. This wristband will also entitle you to a 10% discount on your lunch at the hotel Bistro.
You may brink your own soft drinks into the workshops during the day, but please use the hotel bars for drinks in the evenings. Water fountains will be provided at all venues for use day and night – if water bottles at these fountains run out, check under table for reserve bottle before asking hotel staff.
You can bring your own wine into dinner but there is a corkage charge per bottle. So we advise ordering at your table, we’ve had their house white and red, just for research you understand, and they are both excellent.
The hotel offer massage amongst many other treatments in their Aztec Spa, but if you would like a quality massage at a cheaper price then get in quick to book a session with one of our own masseurs. Book at the Rock Bottoms shop, and please pay in advance (£25 for an hour).
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