Reed Hotel Boats



		Your Floating Hotel on the Canals and Rivers of the UK *Our cruises for 2010.*

Cruises 6 to 10.

6 - A Lift to the Weaver. A 'One Centre cruise' Nantwich to Northwich . Saturday 24th April to Saturday 1st May. 7 nights. £665 per berth. Now 20% off this cruise only pay £532. Join us at Natwich and cruise over to Northwich. We spend two days on the narrow canals of Cheshire in areas where cows are more common that people! Then we travel down the Anderton Lift, a recently restored wonder of Victorian engineering, for two days cruising on the River Weaver. We then come back up the Anderton Lift to cruise through the countryside back to Nantwich. Saturday night at Nantwich; Sunday Middlewich; Monday Anderton; Tuesday Northwich; Wednesday Anderton; Thursday Middlewich; Friday Nantwich.
Highlights > Two trips on the Anderton lift, a Victorian wonder of the canals. > Cruising on the River Weaver. > Rural isolation on the Middlewich branch. > Narrow, broad and river locks. > Mooring on Nantwich embankment near the aqueduct.



6A-Short Break Sat. 24th April to Tues. 28th April 3 nights for £345. Join the boats in Nantwich in time for dinner on Saturday, cruise with us over to the Anderton Lift and travel down to the River Weaver and spend a day cruising on the river before leaving us by taxi back to Nantwich when we moor up at Northwich at teatime on the Tuesday. 6B-Short Break Tues. 28th April to Sat 1st May 4 nights for £435. Be collect by taxi from Nantwich to join us on the boats at Northwich in time for dinner on the Tuesday. Enjoy a day on the River Weaver before riding up the Anderton Lift. Then have two days cruising back to Nantwich. Leave us after Breakfast on the Satuirday. Return to the list of all our cruises.
7 - Rural Isolation and past Industry. Nantwich to Birmingham. Saturday 1st May to Saturday 8th May. 7 nights for £665 per berth. We start in the heart of rural Shropshire to explore a canal built in the first decades of the 19th century. We pass over high embankments and through deep tree lined cuttings. The locks are set in three delightful flights. We then spend our final two days contrasting the rural Shropie with the post industrial canals of the Black Country as we climb up the Wolverhampton 21 locks and wind through the 'back streets' of Birmingham. Saturday night at Nantwich; Sunday Audlem; Monday Market Drayton; Tuesday Norbury; Wednesday Autherley; Thursday Wolverhampton; Friday Birmingham.
Highlights. > The high embankments and deep tree lined cuttings of the Shropie. > Two short tunnels. > Three rural narrow lock flights, and one set in Wolverhampton. > A fascinating day seeing the Black Country from a 'different' view. > Mooring right in the centre of Birmingham.



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8 - City & Country. Birmingham to Warwick and the Black Country Museum. Saturday 8th May to Saturday 15th May. 7 nights for £665 per berth. An unusual way to see Birmingham, you get a whole new view of this historic city. We spend three days exploring the Black Country travelling through the Netherton Tunnel twice. We also include a half day at the Black Country Museum with free entry provided by us. After mooring for a second night in the centre of Birmingham we travel out of the city on the Worcester and Birmingham canal before descending the great lock flights at Lapworth and Hatton on our way to finish at Warwick. Here of course you can leave your bags on the boat while you visit the world famous castle before going off home. Saturday night at Birmingham; Sunday Windmill Hill; Monday Dudley; Tuesday Birmingham; Wednesday Hockley Heath; Thursday Lapworth; Friday Warwick.
Highlights. > Travelling the loops of the 'old' Birmingham canal > A visit to the Black Country Museum is included in this cruise. > Moring right in the centre of Birmingham. > Three lift bridges. > The broad lock flight of Hatton > The narrow lock flight of Lapworth. > Three tunnels all different, one we go through twice. >An unusual Guillotine Lock.



8A-Short Break Sat. 8th May to Tues. 11th May 3 nights for £345. Join us in the centre of Birmingham on the Saturday night in time for dinner. Spend the next three days exploring some of the canals of the Black Country including a visit to the Black Country Museum. Then leave us when we moor up back in Birmingham centre on the Tuesday at tea time. 8B-Short Break -Tues. 11th May to Sat 15th May 4 nights for £435. Join us in the centre of Birmingham on the Tuesday in time for dinner. Cruise with us down Lapworth and Hatton locks to leave us in Warwick after Breakfast on the Saturday morning. If you wish we will pick you up by taxi from Warwick on the Tuesday to bring you up to Birmingham, this would allow you to leave your car in Warwick. Return to the list of all our cruises.
9 - Canal History Galore. Warwick to Leighton Buzzard. Saturday 22nd May to Saturday 29th May. 7 nights for £665 per berth. The wonders of the Grand Union Canal set in the English Countryside. One of the last sections of the canals of the UK to experience cargo carrying pairs of narrow boats. Some of these historic boats are now moored along our route. You will also see many traces of their passage. We go through tunnels and up and down great broad locks. You will see history brought to life not only in the great canal centres of Braunston and Stoke Brunere but also in the way our boats, themselves a motor and butty pair like the cargo carrying boats, are worked. Above all however you see the English Countryside slowly slide by. Saturday night at Warwick; Sunday Long Itchington; Monday Braunston; Tuesday Weedon; Wednesday Stoke Bruerne; Thursday Milton Keynes; Friday Leighton Buzzard.
Highlights. > A chance to arrive early and explore Warwick. > Two of the longest canal tunnels in the UK >Opportunities to explore the canal centres of Braunston and Stoke Bruerne. > The Broad locks of the Grand Union. Stockton, Calcutt, Braunston, and Buckby flights > Many individual Broad locks. > The Broad staircase lock at Bascotte. > A spectacular Iron trough Aqueduct.



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10 - History Alive. Leighton Buzzard to Market Harborough. Saturday 29th May to Saturday 5th June. 7 nights for £665 per berth. Now 10% off this cruise only pay £600. History lives on this very varied scenic route. Slip through the quiet back waters of the new city of Milton Keynes, cut deep through the hills of the midlands in three spectacular long tunnels and cruise on quiet isolated rural waterways. Then there are the lock flights! We start with broad locks, sometimes isolated, sometimes in flights climbing up the hillside. We then turn up the Leicester branch and the locks are narrow and arranged in two great staircases at Watford and at Foxton, which is one of the great spectacles of the UK waterways. You however do not just go to look at it, you become part of it as we work our boats down Foxton. Saturday night at Leighton Buzzard; Sunday Milton Keynes; Monday Stoke Bruerne; Tuesday Weedon; Wednesday Crick; Thursday Husband Bosworth; Friday Market Harborough.
Highlights. > Retrace the travels of the last cargo boats on the UK canals. > Three of the longest canal tunnels in the UK > Chance to explore canal centre of Stoke Bruerne. > The Broad locks of the Grand Union. > The Narrow staircase locks at Watford and Foxton. > A spectacular Iron trough Aqueduct.