Charter Hotelboat Willow

Overview

Or take a 'short break' or day trip from the Falkirk Wheel to Edinburgh. All meals and a professionally qualified crew are included in the price.

A fully licensed hotel boat, the unique narrowboat Willow offers you a choice of options for your holiday cruise. Sit back and enjoy the canal as the professional crew take you through cities and countryside, help take the boat through the locks, or get on land to explore the area surrounding the canals. The Lowland Scottish canals are quiet - with no queues at locks. They take us across Scotland, 'coast to coast', and link Glasgow and Edinburgh city centres - but in between the canals are largely rural, and often very scenic. Sometimes 'river like', wildlife abounds - we frequently see Roe Deer, Kingfishers, and Dipper. This 'Cross Scotland' canal network consists of two canals - the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Union Canal, with the two routes linked together by the spectacular Falkirk Wheel. The routes are described only very briefly on this page, but described in proper detail, with maps and photos, further into this web site.

Charter Hotelboat Willow provides true private charter hotel boat holidays cruising on Scotland's lowland canals. 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 and cruise costs are included in the tariff - there are no hidden extras - so if you have a 'fall out' with another guest it's more likely to be a 'marital' rather than 'social' dispute.

Hotel Boat Willow's Guest Accommodation:

On Hotel Boat Willow our guests have the exclusive use of our centrally heated guest suite. This consists of bedroom area with en-suite, and dining area with adjacent split level lounge. This guest suite is approx 30ft long occupying the whole of the front half of the vessel - with separate galley and crew quarters to the rear.

Have a look at our leather seated, all weather, glazed bow observation deck - it is pretty well unique (see the photos below the right marginal 'twitter panel'). So, even if it 'chucks it down with rain' or gets a bit chilly - guests can be comfortably seated in the dry and warmth whilst they watch the canalscape glide by. But in hot weather the bow observation cabin's side doors and overhead hatches can be opened to provide that 'airy feel'.

Of course the guest suite on Willow has 240v power (facilities for charging laptop, phones etc), TV, DVD, a quadraphonic music system, GPS mapping, and even wi-fi (for those that need email contact).

Before booking a canal based hotel boat holiday do check the facilities available and the accommodation offered (and compare it with the number of guests carried). We have a detailed layout plan of our guest suite (with linked detailed photographs) on our page 'About Willow'.