KACT - Bruce Accessible Canal Boats

Brief description:

Canal boat holidays for disabled, disadvantaged or elderly people in specially-designed, purpose-built, wide-beam canal boats sleeping between 4 and 12 people. The Bruce Branch of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust offers affordable canal holidays to disabled, disadvantaged or older people €“ along with their family, friends or carers. We also offer day trips, crewed by our voluntary helpers, when we have a boat available.

Organisation name:

The Bruce Trust

Type of break:

Accessible Self Catering Accommodation

Ages catered for:

Children, Young People, Adults, Older Adults

How do people access your service:

Once you have decided which boat you would like to hire and checked that it is available, please call the office number (01380 721279) to speak to the Bookings Manager directly. If you have any questions about hiring the boats, you can also email us at bookings@katrust.org.uk

Type of accommodation:

The Trust has a fleet of four boats. Hannah is 12 berth, Diana and Rebecca are 10 berth and Rachel is 6 berth. Each boat has the highest quality accommodation and the ultimate flexibility for people with a wide variety of special needs. They all have a fully equipped galley with cooker and fridge, central heating and flushing W.C. The extra width of the boats provides excellent maneuverability for wheelchair users and they all have special built-in facilities including wide-access boarding ramps, hydraulic lifts to the rear and fore decks, low-level bunks and wet rooms with specially-fitted showers and WC's.

Full service description:

Our purpose-built, wheel-chair-accessible boats are based at Great Bedwyn Wharf, near Hungerford. We’re ideally situated for a pleasant cruise east towards Hungerford, Newbury and Reading, or westward through Bruce Tunnel and Honeystreet and on to the Caen Hill Flight at Devizes. The boats are available for weekly hire for self-catering, self-steer holidays. We ask that the Team Leader for your group has had at least one week of previous canal boat experience €“ otherwise we ask you to join us on one of our training weekends in the Spring. The Bruce Trust is a registered charity providing specially-designed, purpose-built, wide-beam canal boats, for hire for self-catering, self-steer holidays or crewed day trips by disabled, disadvantaged or elderly people along with their family, friends or carers.

Price information:

£1025 - £1400 per week depending on the boat and time of year.

What is included/not included in the price of the break:

The price is for the hire of the boat including any fuel and gas used during the week.

Organisation providing this information:

The Bruce Trust

Bedroom accessibility:

Electric bed, Manual height adjustable bed, Manual hoist, Bedrails, Level entry wet floor shower, Drop down shower chair, Manual shower chair, Grab rails in shower

General accessibility:

Level entry to premises or ramp available, Designated disabled parking spaces, Parking available by premises, Accessible bedroom(s) on the ground floor

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