Booking your Narrowboat Holiday or Short Break
Booking Online
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Booking By Phone
To check availability or to book by phone call:
A £100 deposit (plus cancellation scheme fee, if applicable) secures your booking, with the balance due 30 days before your holiday start date. If you are booking for a start date less than 30 days away, please be prepared to pay the full amount at the time of booking.
Booking information
Short breaks and Last minute deals
A short break is a great way to ‘dip your toes in the water’ so to speak! This year, as we operate seven days a week, we are offering you the flexibility to hire any of our Narrowboats for an any day departure or return. There are choices of many varied routes from our base, all of which will give you a great introduction to boating on the Great British Canal Network.
Still unsure that a canal boating holiday is for you?
See our Narrowboats for yourself
The boatyard at Calcutt is open to visitors everyday, including Saturday and Sunday, all year round (except Christmas week!).
There’s no substitute for seeing the canal boats first hand and we’d be delighted to show you around and answer any questions you may have.
For viewing the boat interiors we suggest you visit between March and October. If there is a particular boat you wish to view, please call ahead to check it will be here.
Holiday Cancellation Scheme
If you have to cancel your holiday once you have booked – and haven’t taken out insurance through our Cancellation Scheme – you will be liable for the full amount of the hire fee.
Please see our Terms and Conditions for full details of the scheme.
Narrowboat Hire FAQs
We run an any day, any time and any length booking system with a minimum of 2 nights so this means you can start when ever you want for how ever long you want with a minimum of 2 nights.
This depends on the length of boat you hire have a look at our boats page and it will show you the layouts and how many the boats sleep.
We take a £100 fuel deposit when you book, when you arrive your boat has a full tank of diesel after your hire is complete and you return the boat, we top the tank back up to the full mark and then charge for the fuel at a 60/40 split. If you use less than the £100 deposit, you will get some money back if you use more then there will be a charge. All fuel is charged at our current prices see the wharf services page.
Yes bedding is provided you will be asked how many berths you are going to use, and the bedding will be provided accordingly to suit these berths, Towels are also provided you will get one small bath towel and a hand towel per berth booked if you require anything different then please bring these with you.
Yes, it has standard UK mains sockets that will provide you with 240v up to 2000w.