Reed Hotel Boats



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

Cruises 21 to 25.

21- Stratford's Hidden Canal. Stratford to Warwick Saturday 21st August to Friday 27th August. 6 nights for £575 per berth. The Stratford canal is a hidden jewel of the Warwickshire countryside. Often forgotten in the attention paid to Stratford and Warwick which we slowly travel between. It has delightful lock flights, iron trough aqueducts, unusual bridges and charming lock cottages all set in the countryside. We then finish the cruise with a short trip on the Grand Union canal giving us a tunnel and a massive flight of broad locks. Saturday night at Stratford; Sunday Stratford; Monday Wilmcote; Tuesday Lowsonford; Wednesday Knowle; Thursday Warwick.
Highlights. > A Sunday cruise on the River Avon. > A canal hidden away in the countryside. > The longest aqueduct in the UK, over a river, road and railway. > Narrow locks galore, plus the 21 broad locks at Hatton. > A short tunnel, with a special horse tunnel alongside. > Shakespeare's Stratford and Warwick with its Castle.



## Why not combine cruises 19, 20 and 21 to make a splendid One Centre Cruise' around the Avon Ring for £1,750 per berth. ?? ## Return to the list of all our cruises.
22 - Warwickshire Circular. A 'One Centre cruise' Warwick to Birmingham and back to Warwick a different way. Friday 27th August to Friday 3rd September. 7 nights for £665 per berth. Climb up to Birmingham and come back to Warwick a different way. Over 90 locks. Country and city. A spectacular journey. You have broad locks and narrow locks. You have locks set in the country and locks right under towering city office blocks! You have tunnels wide enough for two boats and tunnels so narrow that we can only just fit through! You have the fantastic waterscape at the heart of Birmingham and isolated country moorings. Friday night at Warwick; ; Saturday Lapworth; Sunday Hockley Heath; Monday Birmingham; Tuesday Camp Hill; Wednesday Knowle; Thursday Warwick.
Highlights > Hatton Broad locks, done twice! > Lapworth 19 narrow locks set out in the Warwickshire countryside. > Farmer's bridge locks, passing under Birmingham's offices! > Four short tunnels, one with a tunnel for the horse, that we do twice. > Three lift bridges. > Magnificent contrasts between isolated rural canals and inner city waterscapes.



22A-Short Break Fri. 27th Aug. to Mon. 30th Aug. 3 nights for £345. Join the boats in Warwick in time for dinner on Friday, cruise with us up Hatton and Lapworth locks and into the centre of Birmingham before leaving us at teatime on the Monday by taxi back to Warwick. 22B-Short Break Mon. 30th Aug. to Fri. 3rd Sept. 4 nights for £435. Be collected by taxi from Warwick to join the boats at Birmingham in time for dinner on the Monday. Travel with us down Farmers bridge, Aston and up Camp Hilll locks under the offices of Birmingham, then cruise out into the country to finish with Knowle and Hatton locks. Leave after Breakfast on the Friday in Warwick.. Return to the list of all our cruises.
23- Half a Dozen Tunnels- Nearly one hundred locks. Warwick to Worcester Wednesday 8th September to Wednesday 15th September 7 nights for £665 per berth. From the ancient town of Warwick, to the cathedral city of Worcester through the English countryside. Nearly one hundred locks mainly in three tremendous flights, but plenty spread out over the days to keep you amused! Tunnels of all shapes and sixes; broad with a separate tunnel for the horse, short and long. brick lined and rock cut, and even one complete with a ghost! Explore the English countryside slowly so you do not miss any. Wednesday night at Warwick; Thursday Lapworth; Friday Hockley Heath; Saturday Tardebigge; Sunday Stoke Wharf; Monday Offerton;Tuesday Worcester.
Highlights. > Three major flights of locks, Hatton, Lapworth and Tardebigge. > A chance to explore the old canal wharfs at Tardebigge. > Three lift bridges. > Six tunnels. Including one of the longest in the UK. > A unique Guillotine Lock. > Plenty to see at both start and ending points.



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24 - River, cuttings and embankments. Worcester to Market Drayton . Wednesday 15th September to Wednesday 22nd September. 7 nights for £665 per berth. Now 10% off this cruise only pay £600. A great mixture. A day on the River Severn with its large keeper operated locks and high river bridges. Then the tiny Staff. and Worcs. canal with all its curiosities. Tunnels under houses, locks in staircases and the canal cut into the side of a cliff. It seems to twist and squeeze its way up the valley. Finally a couple of days on the Shropshire Union passing over high embankments with the tree tops below, and through deep rock cut cuttings lined with trees. Wednesday night at Worcester; Thursday Stourport; Friday Kinver; Saturday Bratch; Sunday Autherley; Monday Norbury; Tuesday Market Drayton.
Highlights. > Cruising up the River Severn. > Stourport an ancient canal port. > The twisty course of the Staff. and Worcs. Canal. > Three short tunnels. > Staircase locks and the unique locks at Bratch. > High embankments on the Shropie. > Deep rock lined cuttings.



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25 - Gingerbread Men to Bottle Kilns. Market Drayton to Stoke Wednesday 22nd September to Wednesday September 29th. 7 nights for £665 per berth. Now 10% off this cruise only pay £600. Start in the narrow lock flights of the Shropshire Union. Then over the Nantwich embankment and aqueduct onto the broad Cheshire Canal. Across the rural middlewich branch. Up the paired Cheshire locks before finaally plunging through Harecastle Tunnel to Stoke. Wednesday night at Market Drayton; Thursday Audlem; Friday Nantwich; Saturday Middlewich; Sunday Malins Bank; Monday Church Lawrence; Tuesday Stoke.
Highlights. > The lock flights of the Shropie. > The embankment and aqueduct at Nantwich. > The rural isolation of the Middlewich branch. > The paired locks climbing up from the Cheshire plain. > Harecastle tunnel, one of the longest on the canals of the UK.