HOME PAGE:
Willow is a fully licensed hotel narrowboat, providing a true private charter service, cruising the English canal system. If you come with us, you will be exclusively chartering Willow, along with your crew and hosts. There will be no other guests aboard. The guest accommodation is fully en-suite and all meals are included in the tariff - there are no hidden extras.
Willow is a fully licensed hotel narrowboat, providing a true private charter service, cruising the English canal system. If you come with us, you will be exclusively chartering Willow, along with your crew and hosts. There will be no other guests aboard. The guest accommodation is fully en-suite and all meals are included in the tariff - there are no hidden extras.
This ‘Private Charter’ service
is a very different
service to traditional Hotel Narrowboating. Different because,
rather than inviting customers to join a pre-defined cruise, we design
each cruise to each client's own private requirements -
whether the cruise charter is a full canal holiday or a relaxing short
break
- and when you compare
our prices with those of our competitors,
you will see that this extra service doesn't cost you any more.
In the past a canal cruising
holiday on a narrowboat meant either a....
- Hired Narrowboat - 'self catering' and 'self drive' - If you are happy to do all the boat handling yourselves (as well as all the cooking and washing up) then hiring a narrowboat could still be the answer.; or
- Traditional
Hotel Narrowboat -'full board' and 'professionally crewed'
-
with up to 8 other guests on board; If you want all
the
catering to be done for you as well as having a
professional crew to move the boat, then a traditional hotel narrowboat
cruise may suit better - but with all those other guests and crew
occupying a 70ft narrowboat (some are shorter) - will it be cramped?
(and what if you 'don't get on' with another guest?).
We offer the innovative third
option
of Private
Charter. We believe our private charter service
encompasses
the benefits of both Hiring AND
Traditional Hotel Narrowboating holidays, but without the pitfalls. We
discuss the ‘pros and cons’ of hiring a narrowboat vs traditional hotel
Narrowboating, and then highlight the advantages
of private charter, via the following page link - 'What
is Charter'
Most people already know how
beautiful our canals can be - how peaceful
- how interesting (particularly the ‘narrowbeam canals’). Such
beauty, peace and interest are irrefutable. We have tried to make this
website a 'descriptive work' that goes further than just selling our
narrowboat
holidays. We invite visitors to take some time to fully browse our
website to obtain an insight into the descriptions of the canals we
cruise; their history; and flora & fauna - we hope that the
'About
our Canals' link provides some interest in this respect, whether or not
you become charter clients. At
any stage clicking the (albeit small) link 'Site Map' at the bottom of
each page will reveal an easy to follow plan of this site.
AND NEW for those visitors from abroad - the opportunity to stay in our holiday flat in Scotland. If your visit to the UK takes in more than a cruise on Willow, we can provide comfortable, quality, holiday accommodation in Scotland. Our fully furnished flat is about 10 miles east of Stirling, at Devonside at the base of the Ochil Hills. A central base? - Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, The Trossachs and Loch Lomond, are all less than 40 miles away by road. Click for details of our central Scottish Holiday Let.
AND NEW for those visitors from abroad - the opportunity to stay in our holiday flat in Scotland. If your visit to the UK takes in more than a cruise on Willow, we can provide comfortable, quality, holiday accommodation in Scotland. Our fully furnished flat is about 10 miles east of Stirling, at Devonside at the base of the Ochil Hills. A central base? - Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, The Trossachs and Loch Lomond, are all less than 40 miles away by road. Click for details of our central Scottish Holiday Let.
WILLOW
IS A NON-SMOKING BOAT.
Home • Charter • Routes • About Willow • Your Crew • About Canals & Wildlife
• Costs & Booking
• Contact • Site Map • 
Copyright © Scott Marine
Services 2009