Award winning,  canal holiday boat hire... Tel. 01455 212671

Discover Britain in style, with carefree boating ... Tel. 01455 212671

INTRODUCING ASHBY BOAT COMPANY LTD. FOR YOUR CANAL NARROWBOAT HOLIDAY, OR SHORT BREAK
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Book a Canal Holiday in a narrowboat on hire from the Ashby Boat Company and enjoy all that's best in canal boat holiday cruising. The carefully designed interiors are extremely comfortable and superbly equipped.  The independent Ashby Boat Company take great pride in their narrowboats, both inside and out, with many people returning year after year for a canal holiday.  The Ashby Boat Company does not employ booking agents so you will find that our hire prices are up to 15% lower than average, for comparable high quality narrowboat hire.

Please browse this website to appreciate the quality of the narrowboats we have for hire and learn all that we can offer you to ensure that rewarding canal boat cruising holiday, or short break. All our boats can be individually viewed by accessing the specific boat page in "Boat Details". The build quality of our boats can be browsed by looking at our web pages recording the fitting out of the boats, Carlton and Measham, both recent additions to our fleet of luxury narrowboats. Click here, Hawkesbury, if you wish to follow the fitting out of the latest boat added to our fleet, in 2010.

NARROWBOAT LATE AVAILABILITY - SPECIAL OFFER PRICES - THROUGHOUT THE YEAR We at the Ashby Boat company wish to point out that we continue to be open for business throughout the whole of the year, including Christmas and the New Year. Throughout the Autumn, Winter and early Spring periods we can often be more flexible on the start and return day and the length of hire period of your narrowboat, i.e. not remaining rigidly with the stated brochure hire periods. Please note that all our boats have gas central heating systems, so you will always be warm inside the boat. Late availability price discounts will still apply to any party hiring a boat within 7 days of their initial inquiry. If you wish to discuss a none brochure period boat hire please telephone the boatyard on 01455 212671. The boatyard is open from 8:00am. to 5:00pm. Monday to Saturday. Click to the right for any current,  SPECIAL OFFERS

2012 CANAL HOLIDAY BROCHURE, AND PRICES Copies of our  brochure are available on request. If you would like a copy of this brochure please email or telephone the boatyard giving us your full postal address. If you wish you are now able to download a copy of the brochure as a .pdf file (3.5mb.) by clicking on the brochure image to the right. The up to date the price information (2012) is here. The brochure has 36 pages, and hopefully covers all aspects of narrowboat hire that you wish information about. It includes information on the Ashby Canal and its surrounding attractions that are within walking distance of the canal. The brochure is in a self contained, A5 landscape format for handy browsing. If you wish to download a booking form directly from the Booking web-page, please first check availability of the boat that you have chosen by telephoning the boatyard on 01455 212671. The prices in our 2012 brochure show an unavoidable increase, but we remain very competitively priced compared with other boatyards considering the high quality of our narrowboats. We can do this because we are a small private hire company who do not use the services of any booking agency.   THE ASHBY CANAL The Ashby Canal is an unspoilt and lock-free rural canal winding its way through picturesque countryside. Travel north past the Battle of Bosworth Field to Snarestone, or south to Marston Junction, and the Coventry Canal, from where you are able to join the Oxford and Grand Union canals with a wide choice of canal and waterways cruising. To the south it is possible to visit Rugby, Braunston, Warwick and Leamington, and to the north Tamworth, Great Heywood, Stoke on Trent and Birmingham.  The Ashby Canal is ideal for your first canal narrow boat experience, or for the more "relaxed" holidaymaker.  However for the more energetic, the "Ashby" is a good starting point for such trips as the Warwickshire Ring, or the Leicestershire Loop. Early morning and the boat Golding moored up on "Stoke Bend" with the the village of Stoke Golding and the parish church seen in the background. "Stoke Bend" is a popular mooring point to access the amenities of the village, i.e. three public houses, a village shop, and a post office.

QUALITY IN TOURISM" ASSESSMENT RATING Our narrowboats underwent our annual inspection for the  "Quality in Tourism" ratings in April 2010. The thirteen narrowboats were assessed during the visit made by the assessor. We are proud to announce that eleven of the thirteen boats put forward for assessment achieved a four star rating, full details of the assessment of our boats can be accessed by clicking on the "Quality in Tourism" logo.

STOKE GOLDING
 Stoke Golding is a picturesque village situated in the heart of the English countryside but with excellent access by both road and rail. 
Collection from Nuneaton railway station can be provided subject to prior arrangement. 
Stoke Golding has a 13th Century church, three good pubs of different character, a post office and a grocery store. 
For a larger "shop" prior to your holiday there is a Morrisons supermarket just two miles from the boatyard.

  Whether you are returning year after year to the canals and waterways of England, or are less experienced, we promise you a friendly and helpful service. 
We welcome many newcomers to our narrowboats each year, and we take pride in passing on all the necessary tuition you could possibly need for that first canal boat holiday experience.

HIRERS RECEIVING INSTRUCTION PRIOR TO SETTING OFF ON HOLIDAY

New boat "crews"  receiving instruction prior to leaving on their canal boat holiday.  A member of the Ashby Boat Company team will instruct them on the few but necessary technical aspects of the narrowboat to ensure that they have a carefree and enjoyable narrowboat holiday and canal cruising experience.  And, a few tips on competent steering is always a good idea. Comprehensive manuals on the working of the boats are provided so that you do not have to remember everthing all at once.
	ENJOYING THE HOLIDAY A family group enjoying their waterways holiday relaxing aboard their canal narrowboat.  If a local hostelry is not available you have all the convenience of a fully fitted galley to prepare a meal of your own choosing. Look out the window, or sit on the canal bank and the English countryside can be your restaurant.  If you have decided to undertake some serious canal cruising on your holiday, meals can be prepared and eaten while you are on the move if you have a big enough crew. Narrowboat holidays need to be experienced to be fully appreciated, and can be cruised in the manner you most enjoy.

The Ashby Boat Company Limited is a member of the British Marine Federation.	The Ashby Boat Company limited has approved procedures  for the hand over of boats to hirers.
Ashby Boat Company Limited, Canal Wharf, Stoke Golding, NUNEATON, Warwickshire CV13 6EY Company Registration No. 05760492 VAT No. 565912321	Tel. 01455 212671 Email - sales@ashbyboats.co.uk Top