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Narrowboat Holiday Hire - Canal Barge Holidays
Norfolk Broads Cruiser Boat Hire
 If you've ever thought of taking an inland waterways, canal barge or river
boating holiday, but wanted to know more, then you've come to the right place.
Be sure to hire your waterways holiday boat from a licensed operator as this
is the only way you can be sure you are covered for support in the case of a
breakdown or other emergency and have the relevant insurance cover for your holiday.
There is nothing
quite like a canal boating holiday. Being restricted to cruising along at no
more than 4 miles per hour with occasional enforced activity for some of your
crew as you come to a lock or flight of locks.
Due to the nature of the British waterways economy we cannot be sure to have
listed every feature along the navigable canals and rivers but what is listed
should help you have a great holiday.
Enjoy the camaraderie when you meet other canal boaters, whether they are
boat owners or other canal boating holiday makers. The welcome with friendliness
when you moor up at a canalside restaurant or pub for a drink or a meal.
This canal boating holiday guide contains information but if you are making
plans to visit a particular establishment it is always advisable to check in
advance for availability.
Canal boating holidays are holidays full of contrasts, taken at a slow pace
through a variety of cityscape, township, canalside village and fantastic countryside
bursting with wildlife.
Whether it's a wide canal or narrow canal, every bend in the canal brings
forth some new vista; canal bridges, aqueducts, weirs, tunnels. In fact every
mile delivers some new and interesting feature.
You can never see it all, no matter how many times you take a canal boating
holiday. And guess what? If you turn around and cruise back to where you started
from, it all looks different and new. Even taking a cruise during a different
season of the year on the same canal is noticeably different!
No worries - Canal boating holidays were made for relaxation, for unwinding
from normal everyday pressures. Canal boating holidays are for doing what you
like, when you like. There is no timetable!
Find your ideal canal or river boating holiday.
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Free advice about boating holidays, where to go and what to do.
Free advice on how to choose a suitable canal boat for a holiday.
Frequently
Asked Questions - Where can we stop at night? - What's included
in the price? - How far can we travel? - Do I need any kind of licence? - How
do I find a suitable boating holiday? - What happens when I reserve a boat? -
What types of canal boat holidays are there? - What's a canal boating holiday
like? - Do I need any experience? - What should we take with us?
There are good reasons to choose to take a holiday with Hoseasons or one of the
global independent operators featured on CanalBoatingHolidays.com as many are
Regional Tourist Board Gold & Silver award winning companies.
If you've hired a boat in the past, and aren't sure whether you would find
it fun to try again, then its is time to look at the boats on offer. Modern canal
boating holidays hire boats are right up to date and very easy to use. Many of
the waterways have improved for the better too. Most of the navigable waterway's
towpaths are in good repair and easy to walk. Many more miles of canal have been
opened up and the channels are much improved too.
There are also lots of new and exciting recreational developments and attractions
accessible from the waterways.
The companies within CanalBoatingHolidays.com have great ranges of modern
boats that we are proud to recommend.
Ring Cruises
Minimum 1 Week (recommend 2 weeks)
Birmingham Cruise Ring - Starting at Brewood (Shropshire
Union Canal), Penkridge (Staffs and Worcs Canal),
Autherley
Junction (Shropshire Union Canal), Gailey
(Staffs and Worcs Canal) MAP, Alvechurch
(Worcester & Birmingham Canal) or
Tardebigge
(Worcester & Birmingham Canal)
Black Country Cruise Ring - Starting at Kings Bromley, Barton
Under Needwood, Alvechurch, Tardebigge
(Worcester & Birmingham Canal), Brewood, Great Haywood (Trent and Mersey/Staffs
and Worcs Canals), Penkridge, Autherley
Junction (Shropshire Union Canal) or Gailey
(Staffs and Worcs Canal) MAP.
Cheshire Cruise Ring - Starting at Wrenbury, Ashton under
Lyne, Sandbach, Macclesfield, Congleton, Anderton, Middlewich
(Trent & Mersey Canal), Church Minshull, Acton Bridge, Stone, Stoke-on-Trent
(Trent & Mersey
Canal), Caldon Canal, Preston Brook or Bunbury (Shropshire
Union Canal).
Four Counties Cruise Ring - Starting at Sandbach, Macclesfield,
Congleton, Market Drayton, Middlewich
(Trent & Mersey Canal), Church Minshull, Stoke-on-Trent, Caldon Canal, Stone,
Bunbury, Great Haywood, Autherley
Junction (Shropshire Union Canal), Gailey
(Staffs and Worcs Canal) MAP, Penkridge
(Staffs and Worcs Canal), Brewood, Norbury or Wrenbury
Lee Cruise Valley
London Cruise Ring
Stourport Cruise Ring - Starting at Autherley
Junction (Shropshire Union Canal), Alvechurch
(Worcester & Birmingham Canal), Tardebigge
(Worcester & Birmingham Canal), Stoke Prior
or Worcester
Warwickshire
Cruising Ring - Starting at Nuneaton, Napton,
Hillmorton, Rugby, Wootton Wawen, Warstock, Clifton-on-Dunsmore, Warwick, Stretton
or Cathiron
2 Weeks (recommend 3/4 weeks)
Avon Cruise Ring - Starting at Bristol, Worcester, Wootton Wawen, Anglo Welsh - Tardebigge (Worcester & Birmingham Canal - Midlands), Stoke
Prior or Alvechurch
(Worcester & Birmingham Canal)
Leicester Cruise Ring - Starting at Market Harborough, Nuneaton, Napton
(Junction) or Napton
(Marina), Clifton-on-Dunsmore,
Hillmorton, Rugby, Warwick, Stockton, Stretton or Cathiron
Four Counties Cruise Ring - Starting at Anderton, Whitchurch,
Wrenbury, Kings Bromley, Barton Under Needwood, Sandbach, Macclesfield, Congleton,
Market Drayton, Middlewich
(Trent & Mersey Canal),
Stoke-on-Trent, Caldon Canal, Great Haywood, Penkridge (Staffs and Worcs Canal), Autherley
Junction (Shropshire Union Canal), Gailey
(Staffs and Worcs Canal) MAP, Brewood
or Norbury
Pennine Cruise Circuit - Starting at Barnoldswick, Burnley, Barden Mill, Macclesfield,
Congleton, Great Haywood, Silsden (Leeds & Liverpool Canal), Stoke-on-Trent or Riley Green
Thames Cruise Ring - Starting at Napton
(Junction) or Napton
(Marina), Whilton, Gayton, Oxford, Lower
Heyford,
Stowe Hill, Radcot on Thames or Linslade
Warwickshire Cruise Ring - Starting at Nuneaton, Napton
(Junction) or Napton
(Marina), Hillmorton, Rugby, Wootton Wawen, Warstock, Clifton-on-Dunsmore,
Warwick, Stretton or Cathiron
Avon Ring Boating Holiday (River Avon - River Severn - Worcester and Birmingham
Canal - Stratford-on-Avon Canal)
Cheshire Ring Cruise (Trent and Mersey Canal - Bridgewater Canal - Rochdale
Canal - Macclesfield Canal)
Four Counties Ring Narrowboating (Shropshire
Union Canal - Middlewich
Branch - Trent
and Mersey Canal - Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal)
Grand Union Canal Barge Holiday
Kennet and Avon Canal Holiday
Leeds-Liverpool Canal Boat Hire
Leicester Ring Narrowboating (Trent and Mersey Canal - River Soar - Leicester
Grand Union - Oxford Canal [Northern Section] - Coventry Canal)
Llangollen Canal
London Ring
Monmouth and Brecon Canal
Oxford Canal
Pennine Canals
Scotland Canals
Stourport Ring Cruise - Stourport
Ring takes in the Worcester and Birmingham Canal - River Severn - Staffordshire
and Worcestershire Canal - Birmingham Canal Navigations [Main
Line].
Thames Ring (Grand Union Canal - River Thames - Oxford Canal [Southern Section])
Trent and Mersey Canal)
Warwickshire Ring (Stratford-on-Avon Canal [Northern
Section] - Grand Union Canal
- Oxford Canal [Northern Section] - Coventry Canal - Birmingham and Fazeley Canal)
Spring Narrowboat Cruise, Easter Canal Boat Break UK, Whitsuntide Narrow
Boat Trips in England, Summer Canal Boat Family Holidays, Autumn British Canal
and River Boat Hire, School Holiday Scottish Loch and Canal Boat Rental.
Full Week Canal Boat Hire Holidays, Weekend Break Canal Boat Rental Holidays,
Hire a Midweek Break Canal Boat.
Narrowboat or Motor Cruiser
Widebeam Canal Boat Hire UK
Wherry or Sailing Yacht (Broads Only)
Norfolk Broads Canal Boat Holidays - Starting at Potter Heigham, Martham,
Womack, Upton Yacht Station, Hickling, Horning, Acle, Stalham, Brundall or Wroxham
Canal and Riverside Holiday Cottages
Llangollen
Canal, Narrowboat Holidays, Whittington, Wales - Llangollen
Canal Boat Hire
Leeds & Liverpool
Canal, Narrowboat Holidays - Silsden Boats -
Silsden, West Yorkshire
Shropshire
Union Canal, Narrowboat Holidays - Napton Narrowboats, Autherley Junction, Near
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Trent & Mersey
Canal, Narrowboat Holidays - Andersen Narrowboats, Middlewich, Cheshire
Norfolk Broads Sailing Boat
Narrow Boat on North Oxford Canal
Norfolk Sailing Wherry
Canals Thames and Norfolk Broads
Narrowboat holiday
Norfolk Motor Cruiser
Central England Canal Boat Holidays - Starting from any of
the following hire centres:
Kings Bromley, Stowe Hill,
Barton
Under Needwood - Barton Marina (Trent & Mersey Canal),
North Kilworth, Market Harborough,
Nuneaton, Whilton,
Calcutt
Boats - Napton
(Junction - Oxford Canal [Southern] and Grand Union Canal),
Congleton, Hillmorton,
Oxfordshire
Narrowboats -Lower Heyford (Oxford Canal [Southern],
Radcot on Thames, Linslade, Stone,
Anglo Welsh - Tardebigge (Worcester & Birmingham Canal - Midlands),
Clifton
on Dunsmore (Oxford Canal - North),
Norbury, Warwick, Stockton,
Great Haywood, Wootton Wawen, Warstock, Stoke Heath, Oxford, Worcester,
Rugby
(Oxford Canal - North),
Stowehill
- Oxfordshire
Narrowboats (Grand Union Canal - Midlands),
Stretton,
Alvechurch
Boats, Alvechurch (Worcester & Birmingham Canal),
Gayton, Brewood, Cambridge, Stoke on Trent, Caldon Canal, Stoke Prior, Autherley,
Gailey
(Staffs & Worcs Canal),
Market Drayton or Cathiron
(Central England Canals: Ashby Canal - Coventry Canal -
North
Oxford Canal - South
Oxford Canal
Staffs & Worcs
Canal - Rivers Severn & Avon - River
Soar -
Worcester & Birmingham
Canal)
Northern England Canal Boat Holidays - Starting from the
following hire centres
Autherley
Junction (Shropshire Union Canal),
Foulridge, Swanley Bridge,
Sowerby/Ashton, Sowerby/Burnley, Sowerby/Foulridge, Barnoldswick, Burnley, Sandbach,
Barden Mill, Macclesfield,
Congleton (Macclesfield Canal),
Silsden
(Leeds & Liverpool Canal),
Acton bridge, Stoke-on-Trent,
Stone, Sowerby Bridge, Bunbury, Ashton under Lyne, Preston Brook, Caldon Canal,
Middlewich
(Trent & Mersey),
Anderton, Acton Bridge, Riley Green or Church Minshull
(NORTHERN CANALS - Caldon Canal - Huddersfield Narrow Canal - Lancaster Canal
- Leeds & Liverpool Canal - Macclesfield Canal - Rochdale Canal - Shropshire
Union Canal - Trent and Mersey Canal - Yorkshire Waterways)
UK One Way Canal Boating Holidays - Starting from the
following hire centres:
Stowe Hill, Sowerby/Ashton,
Sowerby/Burnley, Sowerby/Foulridge or Ashton under Lyne
 River
Thames Boat Holidays -
Starting from the following hire centres:
Windsor, Oxford, Radcot on Thames
or Reading
On the London Cruise Ring and Thames Cruise Ring
River
Thames Cruise Guide - Oxford To Lechlade
Southern England Canal Boat Holidays including River Barge
Holidays in the South West of England - Starting from Starting from the
following hire centres:
Bradford on Avon, Lee
Valley, Lower
Heyford, Radcot on Thames, Linslade, Hilperton, Oxford, Windsor,
River Wey, Hampshire, Monkton Combe, Bath, Sydney, Reading - Southern English
canals
(Southern England Canals -
Basingstoke Canal - Cambridgeshire
Waterways - East Coast Rivers - Grand Union Canal -
Kennet & Avon See
some of the hire boats available on the Kennet and Avon Canal -
Rivers Lee & Stort
Navigations - River Nene - South
Oxford Canal)
France Canal Boat Holidays - Burgundy, Vermenton, Champagne,
Anjou, Canal du Midi, Meilhan, Charente, Nievre, Midi-Aquitaine, Brittany, Carmargue
or Midi - French canal holidays
Ireland (Eire) Canal Boat Holidays - Starting from River
Shannon - Irish canal boat holidays
Lough Erne
Scotland Canal Boat Holidays
Scottish
Lochs Boating Holidays - Starting from Falkirk, Laggan
Locks or Lochrin - See
some of the starting points now.
Caley
Cruisers, Inverness - Close to the northern end of the navigation
Le Boat Laggan (formerly known as Connoisseur Laggan) - Le Boat, Laggan,
Loch Oich See
available Le Boat hire craft
Scottish Lowland Canals - Scottish canal cruising one way
UK Boat Hire - Falkirk Marina, Scotland, Canals and Rivers, UK - See available UK Boat Hire narrowboats
Wales Canal Boat Holidays - Swanley Bridge, Goytre, Whittington,
Pencelli, Whitchurch, Wrenbury, Chirk, Bunbury or Trevor - Welsh canal cruising
(Wales Canals - Llangollen
Canal - Montgomery
Canal - Monmouthshire
and Brecon Canal )
 Holiday Hotel Narrowboats - Canal hotel boats are generally
paired as a motorised boat and an unpowered 'butty'. They cruise together in
tandem and sometimes 'breast up' at night.
Which hotel
boat cruise should you choose? Hotel
Boat or Charter Boat - This is the most
difficult decision for a prospective guest to make as every cruise has its own
special attractions; each canal and river has its own particular charm.
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