Canal Trips - Excursion, Charter, and Restaurant Boats - UK & Ireland

• Passenger Boat Association - list of members

• Boatdistrict - Website defunct - listing of boat trips in the UK

• NOTE: for horse-drawn boat trips, use your brower's page search ability (usually "Ctrl-f") and search for "horse" on this page.

  London area

• Jason's Trip - 1 hr, 30 min excursion on the Regent's Canal in London
• Boat Trips on London's Canals - list from London Canal Museum
• Walker's Quay (Cambden)
• French Brothers - Riverboats on the Thames
• Salters Steamers - passenger boat services
• Thames Rivercruise - charter
• Turk Launches - River Thames
• Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle - Has moved location - now cruises river Dart between Dartmouth and Totnes, Devon
• London Waterbus Company - boat trips on the Regents Canal
• London Canal Cruises - Website defunct - charter daytrips on London's Regents Canal aboard narrowboat 'Helix'
• River Lee Cruises
• Lee Valley Boat Centre (North East London, on R. Lee)
• London Ducktours
• Annie's Launch - private charter on R. Stort; on-board catering by chef Annie (Harlow, n. of London)
• Silver Fleet - corporate events, private parties, public cruises; London, on R. Thames
• London RIB Voyages
• Thames Rib Experience - London
• Kentish Lady - public and charter trips on River Medway in Kent
• Henley Sales & Charter - traditional river boat brokerage and charter (Henley-on-Thames)
• John Pinkerton - public cruises and charter hire on the Basingstoke Canal
• Wey & Arun Canal Trust - runs three trip boats
• The Floating Boater - boat charters on Regents Canal, Little Venice, London (W2 6NE)
• Godalming Packetboat Company - horse-drawn trip boat; public trips; charters; Godalming, Surrey, on R. Wey Navigation
• Our Delilah - website defunct - 57' narrowboat; hire and also skippered day excursions; base between Marlowe and Henley on R. Thames

  Southwest

• Hythe - Southampton Ferry
• Kennet and Avon Canal Trust - trips from Hungerford, Newbury, Devizes, Bradford-on-Avon
• Bath Narrowboats - broad beam "John Rennie" for private parties; Bath, on Kennet and Avon Canal
• The Penny Lane - Bath; for private parties and corporate events
• Bristol Packet - public and charter boat trips on the river Avon between Bath and the Bristol Channel
• Inglesham - Lechlade-on-Thames; public trips; private trips; weddings; on behalf of the Cotswold Canals Trust
• Boat Trips at Saul Junction on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal; public trips; includes a trip along the Stroudwater arm - the start of the Cotswold Canals. Operated by volunteers from the Cotswold Canals Trust
• Tiverton Canal Horse Drawn Barge - also day boat hire, rowing boats, canadian canoes, gift shop, cafe bar (Tiverton, Devon)
• Maunsel Lock Canal Centre - boat trips; tea shop; Somerset Space Walk Bank Newton, Somerset (Bridgwater and Taunton Canal)
• Kennet Horse Boat Company - horse-drawn trip boat; day boat; Kintbury, Berks., on K&A
• Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle - river Dart between Dartmouth and Totnes, Devon
• Dragonfly - scheduled trips, charters; on restored sections of Wilts & Berks Canal

  Midlands

• City Centre Cruises - Manchester
• Mersey Ferries (vic. Liverpool)
• Leighton Lady Cruises - Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
• Dudley Tunnel Trips
• Grebe Canal Cruises - Pitstone on GU
• Cosgrove Narrowboat Company - Cosgrove on GU
• Avon Boating - (Stratford-upon-Avon)
• Judith Mary II - 72 foot restaurant narrowboat; in operation for 36 years; cruises on Upper Peak Forest Canal, from Whaley Bridge, High Peak (SK23 7LS)
• Away2dine - a "canal cruising restaurant modelled from the dinner boats in Paris"; Birmingham
• Weaver Valley Cruises - boat trips on the River Weaver in Cheshire to the historic Anderton Boat Lift
• Chesterfield Canal Trust - four different boats sailing from four different locations on the Chesterfield Canal; public trips and private charters
• Bancroft Cruisers - private, charter and sightseeing cruises on the River Avon (Stratford-upon-Avon)
• Tooley's Boatyard - day boats; boat trips (Banbury, on Oxford Canal)
• White Nancy Cruising Restaurant and Canalside Cafe - Website defunct - (Bollington, on Macclesfield Canal)
• The Bell Marple - Website defunct - public trips and charters, on the Macclesfield and the Peak Forest canals
• Mill Hotel Restaurant Cruiser - "roman high tea cruises" and other types of cruises (Chester)
• Wandering Duck - 2 night trips between Manchester and Macclesfield; charters also available
• Bywater Horsedrawn Cruises - one-hour public trips on Montgomery Canal - charters also (Oswestry, Salop.)
• Sherborne Wharf - public boat trips; waterbus; charters (Birmingham)
• Manchester Cruises - scheduled sightseeing trips around Salford Quays and the Manchester Ship Canal; also, party charters (M50 3AL)
• narrowboat Birdswood - operated by Friends of the Cromford Canal; trips begin during Aug 2013; scheduled passenger trips; horsedrawn trips on special occasions; charters; school trips
• Canal trips from Stoke Bruerne - public trips, chartered and school trips, evening cruises
• Trent Cruises - cruises on the River Trent
• Stone Canal Trips - narrowboat canalside cafe & bar; also trips, dinner cruises, charters (on T&M at Stone, Staffs.)

  East Anglia

• Blackwater Boats (on the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, in Essex)
• Paper Mill Lock - passenger trips, plus canoe trips (Chelmsford, Essex, on Chelmer and Blackwater navigation)
• Riverboat Georgina - River Cam; public cruises and private charters; 110 passengers
• Boston Belle - boat trips on the River Witham, or "out to sea" (Boston, Lincs.)
• Camboats - public and group trips on River Cam in Cambridge
• Charlie Ward Traditional Boats - charter of cruising sailing barge
  
• Spalding Water Taxi - along R. Welland and Coronation Channel (Spalding, Lincs.)
• Broads Tours - scheduled trips and charters; day boats; Hoveton, Norfolk (NR12 8RX)

  North

• Pennine Cruisers of Skipton - 30 minute trips (Skipton, N. Yorks., on L&L)
• Pennine Boat Trips of Skipton - public trips, private cruises, catering - on L&L
• Bronte Boats (Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, on Rochdale Canal) has moved and become Leeds City Cruisers - Website defunct
• Saddleworth Canal Cruises - (Huddersfield Narrow Canal)
• ChesterBoat - public cruises and private charters on River Dee
• Leeds City Cruisers - Website defunct
• YorkBoat - scheduled and private cruises (York)
• Ripon Scenic Cruises - scheduled and group cruises (Ripon Canal and R. Ure)
• Canal Boat Cruises - Riley Green, on L&L; trip and restaurant boat - [was "Romance Restaurant Boat"]
• Lancaster Canal Cruises by Budgie Transport - scheduled waterbus and cruises, themed cruises, charter
• Foulridge Canal Cruises - public trips and group charters on L&L
• Kirkstall Flyboat - 50 passenger restaurant boat - charters only (Leeds)

  Scotland

• Linlithgow Union Canal Society
• Bridge Inn Ratho - Edinburgh Canal Centre
• Seagull Trust - free canal cruising for disabled people
• Jacobite - Loch Ness Cruises (some trips include the northern portion of the Caledonian Canal)

  Wales

• Jones the Boats - public and charter trips on Llangollen Canal, traversing the famous Pontcysyllte aqueduct
• Llangollen Wharf - horse-drawn and motorized trips; Llangollen Canal, N. Wales

  Ireland

• Canal Boat Restaurant - dinner cruises; charters; Dublin
• La Peniche - restaurant boat and charters; Dublin
• Dublin Discovered Boat Tours - tour boat; Dublin; was "River Liffey Cruises"