Stoke Sentinel, 12 October 2022
‘Autumn Breaks – Boating to Bath’
Entries by Debbie Ludford
Coventry Telegraph, 12 October 2022
Autumn Breaks – Boating to Bath
Western Mail (Cardiff), 12 October 2022
‘Autumn Breaks – Boating to Bath’
Choice magazine, 1 October 2022
‘A quintet of castles…by canal boat’ explores the top five castles to visit on a canal boat holiday in 2022
DownieLive Travels by Boat
Canadian Youtuber Michael Downie has made a series of films about the canals and canal boat holidays. In the first episode, he sets off from our canal boat hire base at Goytre Wharf and travels along the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal. In episode two, he leaves from our Acton Bridge base in Cheshire and navigates […]
Top 8 canalside events to visit by boat in 2023
Britain’s canals and rivers host hundreds of exciting events each year, bringing people to the waterways and celebrating the things that make them special. These events make great destinations for canal boat holiday-makers, so we’ve put together our top eight events for 2023, along with information about our nearest canal boat hire bases: 1. Easter […]
Narrowboating on the River Thames
Marion Collinson, of Love Travelling enjoyed a Drifters’ press trip on the River Thames earlier this month, describing it as one of their ‘best family holidays ever’ I’d spent many a happy hour strolling along canal towpaths and riverbanks enjoying watching narrowboats pass by, and now the time had come to experience a boating holiday […]
Visit a Christmas Market by canal boat
Winter cruising* on the canals offers the chance to enjoy a narrowboat holiday, visiting a Christmas market in a waterside town or city. All our boats have central heating and hot water, and some also have multi-fuel stoves. So, whatever the weather, it’s always nice and cosy on board. Here’s a guide to our Top […]
Eccentric England, 22 September 2022
Elaine Wilson – of the award-winning Eccentric England blog – enjoyed an autumn narrowboat holiday press trip from Drifters’ canal boat hire base on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal at Gailey https://eccentricengland.co.uk/home/canal-holiday-drifters/
Top 6 winter canal boat holiday destinations
We offer winter cruising from eight of our canal boat hire bases, with boats ranging from snug narrowboats for two, to larger boats for up to 12 people. It’s free to moor almost anywhere on the network, so a narrowboat provides a base for a floating self-catering holiday, with the choice of dozens of historic […]