These are UK-based canalboat operators and boat hire companies featuring self-drive canal & river boat holidays on British waterways. |
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| Alvechurch Boats |
0121 445 2909 |
One of the largest boat hire companies in the UK with over 100 boats available from locations in Cheshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Northamptonshire. |
| Black Prince |
01527 575115 |
Traditional narrowboat operator with five bases in the Midlands and Northern England, and a base at the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland. One thing they pride themselves in is the modernity of their fleet. They only operate boats for 3 years maximum. With 30 new boats being added this year (2004), over 75% of the fleet will be less than one year old. |
| Blakes |
0870 2202 498 |
Long-established boating holiday company (now part of the Holiday Cottages Group) offering riverboats, sailing boats and narrowboats in Scotland, the Norfolk Broads, the Thames and on the canal network. |
| Boating Holidays |
01756 701200 |
Modern cruisers and narrowboats in England, Scotland & Wales. |
| GoBoatingUK.com |
01603 783311 |
Brand owned & operated by long-established family-owned company, Moore & Co, based at Wroxham in the Norfolk Broads where they have a fleet of modern cruisers. |
| Caley Cruisers |
01463 236328 |
Operator with 40 motor cruisers on Caledonian Canal (links Loch Lochy, Loch Oich, Loch Ness & Loch Dochfour). |
| Canal Holidays |
01756 701199 |
Sells traditional narrowboat holidays from a number of boat operators offering over five hundred boats in fifty locations throughout the UK |
| Crown Blue Line |
0870 240 8393 |
Holiday rental boats in the UK & Europe in partnership with Connoisseur. |
| Drifters |
01905 721300 |
Drifters is a collective marketing & direct bookings agency for seven traditional narrowboat operators in the UK, including Black Prince, Viking & Alvechurch. |
| Exclusively Gay Cruising Company, The |
0161 367 0055 |
Canalboat holidays for gay and lesbian couples/families in traditional narrowboats. |
| Fox Boats |
01354 652770 |
Narrowboat holidays in Cambridgeshire. |
| Hoseasons |
01502 502588 |
Boating holidays on Scotland's Lochs, the Norfolk Broads, Cambridgeshire waterways, River Thames, and the canals of England & Wales. |
| Kate Boats |
01926 492968 |
Narrowboat cruising holidays on the Grand Union Canal, from bases at Warwick and Stockton |
| Kingdom Tours |
01296 433999 |
Kingdom organise group canal boat tours and canal study tours of the UK waterways. |
| New Horizons |
01692 581081 |
A large fleet of modern boats on the Norfolk Broads. |
| Tillerman Boats |
0800 389 8004 |
Narrowboat operator with boats on the Llangollen canal, Coventry Canal, and Grand Union Canal (Leicester Line). They claim to be the 'largest independent boat company in the UK' but we hadn't heard of them before (not that that proves anything! ed). |
| Viking Afloat |
01905 610660 |
Large operator with bases on the Llangollen canal, Oxford Canal, Worcester/Birmingham canal, and the Staffs/Worcester canal. |
| Waterways Holidays.com |
0870 747 2934 |
Online booking service offering boats from 17 boat operators in the UK, Ireland and France. |
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