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Canal boating holidays and short breaks – from holidays cruising the stunning Norfolk Broads to narrowboat holidays throughout the UK canal and river network of England, Wales and Scotland. With more boat holidays in Europe too. Select boat holidays in Ireland to boating holidays in France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Belgium.
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Valley Cruises, Luxury Narrowboat Hire Warwickshire
Tel: 02476 393333
Springwood Haven Narrowboat Holidays
Mancetter Road
Springwood Haven
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV10 0RZ
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About
Quality Afloat at Valley Cruises is a small family operated luxury narrowboat hire company offering the highest standards of service and accommodation for canal boat holidays. We pride ourselves on our friendly and helpful approach, providing attention to every detail for your canal holiday.
| Prices from: | £319 per boat short break |
| Prices to: | £1725 per boat weekly |
Facilities & Information
Owners of 12 narrow boats and all with the maximum Visit Britain Star rating that their layout allows. All hire boats have fully equipped galleys, sprung matresses and central heating. Our hire boats range in size from a 32 foot two berth tug, through five star luxurious four to six berth 58 footers, our 70 foot craft will berth up to ten people. Pets are welcome at a small additional cost. Additional Information
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Local Information
Famous canal landmarks such as the impressive flight of eleven locks at Atherstone, the intriguing paired locks at Hillmorton and the ‘stairway to heaven' better known as the somewhat intimidating flight of 21 double locks at Hatton viaducts, aqueducts, bridges, including the follyesque Drayton Manor footbridge, Hawkesbury Junction/ Sutton Stop established in the early 19th Century and a well established meeting place for ‘boat folk', Braunston Marina not to be missed by any canal romanticist, many tunnels including Braunston Tunnel, the seventh largest on the canal system and Newbold, one of the most magical, Birmingham, boasting more miles of canal than Venice and steeped in canal history with innumerable points of interest for historians and canal enthusiasts alike with the ultra modern Gas Street Basin, Brindleyplace and the Mailbox.
Museums and galleries such as Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne, the Transport Museum at Coventry, Hinckley and District Museum Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby School Museum, Rugby Football Museum, Warwick Museum, Museum of the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, The Black Country Museum in Dudley, the contemporary Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, The Coors Visitor Centre in Burton-upon-Trent, the Motor Museum at King's Norton and the five and a half mile Coventry Canal Art Trail.
Sports and concert facilities such as River Drive Snowdrome in Tamworth, the Indoor Arena in Birmingham and the open air swimming pool at Daventry.
Castles and historic buildings such as Tamworth Castle, Coventry Cathedral, Warwick Castle, the Bosworth Battlefield, and several grand houses owned by the National Trust.
Parks, theme parks, zoos and gardens including Bosworth Water Trust offering windsurfing and canoeing, Jephson Gardens in Leamington, Hatton Country World Craft Centre and Rare Breeds Farm, Kingsbury Water Park, Cadbury World at Bourneville, Drayton Manor Theme Park and Zoo and the National Sea Life Centre.
Shopping at such places as the second hand book shops in Atherstone, the enormous indoor market and precinct at Coventry, the Royal Priors upmarket shopping mall in Leamington, and the Bull Ring in Birmingham.
And lots and lots of fantastic canal side pubs, restaurants, bistros and cafes offering tasty and reasonably priced food including our local The Anchor Inn at Atherstone, the famous canal themed Greyhound Pub at Hawkesbury Junction, the pretty canal side Rose and Castle at Ansty, the award winning Badsey's Bistro at Hillmorton, the much recommended Cape of Good Hope at Warwick, the trendy waterside bars and cafes of Brindleyplace in Birmingham and many more. |
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