Featured Routes - 7 nights +

Cambridge & Return

7 nights • 10 locks • Cruising time per day: 7 hrs • Total: 30 hrs

Travel through Marmont Priory lock, Salter's Lode Lock, Denver Tidal Sluice and back. Experience landscapes full of sky, and skies full of birds, along this route that communes with nature. The journey also takes you travelling through time to touch some of Britain's most potent history. You'll cruise across a place described as the "Holy Land of the English" because of its cathedrals.

Heading along the River Cam, amongst the silent echoes of Geoffry Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, you pass through some locks and then reach Cambridge, world-famous of its university founded in 1209. The city is bursting with places to eat, shop, and enjoy the cerebral culture of museums and art galleries.

Whilst sightseeing in the city you may hear the seats of the church and choirs of Kings College Chapel descanting to the fens - and in the stillness, you'll know a feeling of remoteness and tranquillity is calling for your return journey.

Huntingdon & Return

7 nights • 14 locks • Cruising time per day: 6.5 hrs • Total: 36 hrs

Travel through wide-open landscapes that expand with nature's free will, yet steer along waterways that have been managed by the tenacity of man.

Your cruise tempts you to enjoy anything from bird watching to visiting the remains of a 17th-century fort, and there's even a chance to see the bones of giant reptiles that stomped around in this region over one hundred million years ago.

Arriving in Huntingdon the traveller bumps into the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, and the town is home to the Cromwell Museum, where you can discover what life was like during the Civil War. Every secret corner in Huntingdon whispers of Oliver Cromwell's life - his place of baptism, his grammar school, and his headquarters in the Civil War. But the town has other famous residents too, including Samuel Pepys, John Major and John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich (without whose invention, goodness knows what we would do every lunchtime).

The return journey retraces your route from Huntingdon back to March, with the chance to relax on the decks or, if you have time, to explore more along the way.

Short Breaks - 3/4 nights

Ely & Return

3/4 nights • 6 locks • Cruising time per day: 8.5/6 hrs • Total: 18 hrs

This route takes the water traveller on a journey bursting at its banks with history and wildlife - from the town that was once an island, following tranquil waters and wide skies, adventuring through the mighty Denver Tidal Sluice and reaching Cromwell's home territory in Ely.

Wansford & Return

3/4 nights • 10 locks • Cruising time per day: 8/5.5 hrs • Total: 20 hrs

An idyllic journey through wide countryside bursting with wildlife and quintessentially English charms. As well as mingling with geese, swans and precious species of endangered wildlife, this route screams in the company of two Tudor queens and a little blue tank engine called Thomas.