Skipton Boat Tours
Skipton Boat Tours is based in Skipton, North Yorkshire, and offers a professional and friendly team to help you have a great time and enjoy the experiences available.
What makes our boat trips the best? Some people say it’s how peaceful they feel as we drift by the lush green Yorkshire Dales on our gentle canal cruises. But everyone agrees it’s the efforts of our thoughtful crew that really brings them back.
With almost 30 years of running of boat trips, we’ve helped put the fun back into planning the perfect day out. We would love to help you plan your perfect day in Skipton aboard one of our comfortable canal boats, whether it’s a chartered cruise or you want to be your own skipper on one of our day boats.
We take extra care before, during, and after your booking to make your experience more enjoyable!
Activities at Skipton Boat Tours include:
- 1-hr Public Trips
- Self-Drive Day Boats
- Public Roast Dinner Cruise
- Public Afternoon Tea Cruise
We have also included their opening times and contact details. If you have any questions, you can contact the venue directly.
Facilities
Activities available in this location
Gallery
Self-Drive Day Boats
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
Before you know it you’ll be tootling along seventeen miles of quiet lock-free water like a true captain of the Leeds & Liverpool canal. Your canal trip is a restful way to explore Skipton’s lush green dales at your own effortless pace, where nature’s so close that you can reach out and touch it.
We launch your small group with all the skills you need to keep your family and friends safe and happy on your day-long Skipton canal trip. Your boat comes with all the home comforts you expect too, like a cooker to serve up picnics, comfy seats to admire the scenery from and a proper flushing toilet.
While you’re cruising through our serene countryside we’re always ready if you need help or just some friendly advice on your perfect day in Skipton.
Useful Information
- Duration: 6 Hours and 30 Minutes (10:00am - 4:30pm)
- The tour end time varies and is based on when the sun goes down.
Public Afternoon Tea Cruise
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
Come aboard our luxury Dalesman canal boat and relax as we take care of everything for you! With a fully-stocked bar, you might want to start your cruise with a drink served by our friendly staff. We leave at noon or 2:45pm and for the next 2-hours, sit back and enjoy the beautiful scenery outside your window.
You will enjoy a 2-hour cruise on the Leeds and Liverpool canal with delicious food served at your table. Afternoon tea includes a delicious selection of sandwiches, fruit scone with strawberry jam and clotted cream, and decadent desserts. All served with a pot of tea or coffee.
There is a fully licensed bar onboard, serving alcoholic and soft drinks, including excellent draught beers.
Useful Information
- Duration: 2 hours
Public Roast Dinner Cruise
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
A FLOATING RESTAURANT WITH MAGNIFICENT VIEWS
Cruise along the Canal with a hot roast dinner being served to you on board. Makes a wonderful gift voucher, and even better as a surprise!
Sailing at 11am, sit at the tables, order bar drinks, and have them brought to you from our bar staff. Smell the scents from the galley, and get ready for a wonderful dinner to be served to you. Hand-carved Roast Beef, New potatoes, Roast potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding, and a duo of vegetables. With a jug of delicious gravy. Superb!
A delicious dessert is then served to you, before you sit back, full up, and content!
There is a fully licensed bar onboard, serving alcoholic & soft drinks, spirits, wine, Prosecco, including excellent local bottled beer.
Useful Information
- Duration: 3 hours
- Delicious Roast Dinner
- Fully Licensed Bar Onboard
1-hr Public Trips
Age Appropriate
- Children
- Teenagers
- Adults
Location
- Outdoor
The best sixty minutes of rib-tickling historic escapism you’ll find in Skipton. Our canal trip promises you a guided tour that’s fun whatever the weather with the finest countryside views you can get without moving your feet.
Your guide for the canal tour is award-winning comedian Dave Spikey of Phoenix Nights and 8 Out of 10 Cats fame. With his characteristic Northern patter, Dave takes you on a whistle-stop tour of Skipton and canal history that’s refreshingly different to your average commentary.
Above the jokes and laughter, you’ll hear points of interest and fascinating stories of how the Leeds & Liverpool canal delivered the lifeblood of the industrial revolution through Yorkshire. There’s food and drink on board too so it’s a fun twist on your lunchtime break.
Useful Information
- Duration: 1 hour
- Booking a minimum of 2 tickets is required!