‘Take 5 – TV location holidays’ includes visiting the Peaky Blinders at the Black Country Living Museum by canal boat

‘Family Travel Ideas – Drifters Waterway Holidays’

Describe their ‘Narrowboat canal holiday from Anderton in Cheshire’

‘Quids in as Kids go back’ suggests cruising through the Shropshire Lake District

‘Lates ‘n’ breaks – West Midlands boating break’

‘Lates ‘n’ breaks – West Midlands boating break’

‘Cruise across the UK on a canal holiday and you’ll see the country in a new light’

Martin Symington lists ‘8 of the best UK canal holidays’

‘Get out 10 about’ – Trisha Harbord lists 10 Great Outdoors activities including ‘Canal Boating’

Alison Phillips reviews her family holiday on the Grand Union Canal ‘Having a Go Slow’

Kerstin Rodgers describes ‘Slow Food on a Staffordshire Canal’

Travel section ‘Cruise Llangollen Canal in North Wales’

‘Try a day out on the canals’ promotes Drifters National Open Day event

‘Barge in for free’

‘Messing about on boats’ describes Drifters National Open Day event

‘Best Easter Family Breaks’

‘Relax, rest & reinvent yourself! – Breaks for the mind and body’ – including ‘Calming Canals’

in ‘Family Holiday Finder 50 Fantastic Family Breaks’ Catherine Cooper rounded up the best beach, active and adventure holidays for children of all ages, including No.22 ‘Canal Cruising’ with Drifters

Victoria Lissaman includes ‘Float through the Brecon Beacons to Talybont-on-Usk’ in her ‘Eight Awesome Autumn Haunts’ article

Nigel Thompson lists ‘Boating in the Midlands’ setting off from our Warwick canal boat hire base as one of ‘11 Top half term hols’

Sarah Baxter lists ‘Cruise the canals like you are in Venice’ setting off from our canal boat hire base at Tardebigge on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal as one of a list of ’30 amazing weekend breaks to extend the British Summer’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/articles/trips-on-your-doorstep/

put together a list of ‘The best waterside pubs’ and referenced Drifters for more information

a ‘Canal Trip Through Shakespeare Country’ setting off from our canal boat hire base at Wootton Wawen on the Stratford Canal in Warwickshire is listed as part of a ’30 great British mini-breaks’ feature

Amanda Vlietstra describes her canal boat holiday on the Grand Union Canal, setting off from Drifters canal boat hire base at Gayton in her article ‘Whatever floats your boat’

Keith Austin described his Drifters canal boat holiday, setting off from our canal boat hire base at Chirk on the Llangollen Canal in North Wales in his feature ‘Canal boat: an alternative way to see England and Wales’ http://www.traveller.com.au/canal-boat-an-alternative-way-to-see-england-and-wales-h0w14u

Juliet Rix says ‘Britain’s real-life canals are as mystical and marvellous as Philip Pullman’s books’ in her article which followed a Drifters canal boat holiday from our canal boat hire base on the Grand Union Canal at Stockton https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/britains-real-life-canals-are-as-mystical-and-marvellous-as-philip-pullmans-books/

listed ‘Drifters’ National Open Day’ in its ‘Book Ahead’ section.

The Waterways of Middle England, Mark Whitley, editor of Countryman Magazine reviewed his trip around the Stourport Ring, departing from our Stoke Prior base. Mark says the 76-mile Stourport Ring circuit ‘visits some of the most beautiful and interesting places in Middle England, via the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Birmingham Canal Navigation, Dudley and Stourbridge canals, the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, and a stretch of the River Severn’ and he relates stories from the people he meets along the way, including Canal & River Trust volunteer lock keepers on the Tardebigge Flight.

Trisha Harbord’s top ten late deal ideas included a canal boat holiday on the Llangollen Canal in North Wales, gliding across the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.

In her article ‘An Unforgettable Avon’, Sarah Henshaw reviewed her Drifters narrowboat holiday, departing from our canal boat hire base at Stratford upon Avon aboard the 63ft four-berth ‘Roman Valley’ to explore the Warwickshire Avon. Describing both the journey and the destinations, Sarah visits Stratford upon Avon, Evesham, Pershore and Tewkesbury along the way.