Narrowboat holiday hire firms

Narrowboat holiday hire of a self-drive canal narrowboat is the most popular canal holiday.

Narrowboat holiday hire of a self drive narrowboat is the most popular form of canal holiday. Canal Junction has everything you need to plan your narrowboat holiday hire. If you are new to the canals, check our FAQs first!

We have direct links to the websites of over 60 family run narrowboat hire firms, and contact details for over 50 more. We've organised the firms by area and by the canal they are based on because that is the best way to plan your holiday. Click on the area or the canal in the panels right. When you find a firm that interests you just click on the firm's logo button to go directly to their individual web site.

Our links will take you to the complete independent web sites belonging to those firms. We recommend family owned and run narrowboat holiday hire firms. Their on-line brochures make fascinating reading with full details of boats, recommended cruising routes, hints and prices - everything that is in the printed versions. But we don't have a brochure or offer any holidays of our own!

	NORTHERN CANALS Click for hire firms on the: Caldon Canal Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lancaster Canal Leeds & Liverpool Canal Macclesfield Canal Rochdale Canal Scottish Lowland Canals Shropshire Union Canal Trent and Mersey Canal Yorkshire Waterways
	MIDLAND & WELSH CANALS Click for hire firms on the: Ashby Canal Coventry Canal Llangollen Canal Mon & Brec Canal North Oxford Canal Staffs & Worcs Canal Rivers Severn & Avon River Soar Worcester & Birmingham Canal
	SOUTHERN CANALS Click for hire firms on the: Basingstoke Canal Cambridgeshire Waterways East Coast Rivers Grand Union Canal Kennet & Avon Rivers Lee & Stort River Nene River Thames South Oxford Canal

	You can pick your narrowboat hire company from our Canal Guides & maps. Look for the hireboat icons.
	Our canal boat holiday hire route selector helps you find the canal route that suits you and your party best.
	Narrow boat holiday hire, who enjoys it most, what to expect and how to organise it yourself.
	Self drive canalboat holiday hire is the most popular canal holiday. We tell you what to expect on your holiday hire boat.
	We answer questions that Overseas visitors ask about British inland waterways holidays.
	What canal boating holiday skills do you need to master to take charge of your own self drive hire boat.
	Canal Locks, one of the scariest features of canals for new boaters, but with good instruction and practice you may even come to love them!
	See our Hotel Boat Cruises website if you would rather have the hard work done for you, maybe at least on your first trip.
	Right through the year you can find Late Booking Holidays at Hireboats2go or use our BoatSeeker Service.
	Take a look at our Day Hire Boats if you want to hire a canal boat for a few hours or a day.
	Winter & out of season canal cruising is loads of fun too, especially with centrally heated boats & room by the pub fire!

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