Canal Holiday Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

What is a canal holiday really like? How do we find the best canal holidays for us? At Canal Junction we get asked lots of questions like this, so we've put together some background information to help you start exploring this new landscape.

A canal holiday is the ideal way to get away from it all, leave workplace worries behind and enjoy yourself in beautiful and interesting surroundings, discovering the countryside behind the hedgerows. With the family or a group of friends you can enjoy real quality time on the canals together. If you are travelling singly you can enjoy new friendships. Avoid the airport queues, reduce your carbon footprints, enjoy your countryside and heritage!

If you are visiting Britain you could join those 'savvy' travellers discovering the delights of UK Canal Holidays. You could be amazed to find 2000 miles of leisure waterways still weaving their unhurried way through a two centuries old landscape, rich in customs and culture, natural beauty and history, engineering marvels and a unique folk art. Avoid the tourist traps with their queues & stage managed attractions, meet the real people and places.