Blakes Holiday Boating Review

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pam thompson's Review of Blakes Holiday Boating

7th Jul 2009

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    2.5 stars
Good Points

Fantastic scenery. Fantastic weather. Brilliant way to holiday.


Bad Points

Tatty, smelly, dirty boat.


General Comments

This was our first experience of boating holidays. We hired an Osprey craft through Blakes Boating which was supposed to be a 4 star boat but seemed more like 1/2 star to us.

The boat was disappointing to say the least. The cleanliness of the boat in general left a lot to be desired. The windows were filthy. The crockery needed washing before we could use it.

The furniture and woodwork were tatty and battered. The outside of the boat was just as bad. It was the worst looking boat on the water.

The boat also smelled damp and fusty. We purchased air fresheners for both toilets and bedrooms to make things a bit more pleasant.

We saw lots of boats from Caley Cruisers which appeared to be much nicer with extras like microwaves, toasters etc included. On pricing them up when we came home they were not much more expensive. Le Boat also had boats moored at the same boatyard as ours but were not featured in Blakes brochures. They were also much nicer.

Al in all a brilliant holiday but we would be more selective about who we hired out boat from. If you want to go to the Scottish lochs/Caledonian canal try Caley Cruisers (Inverness) or Le Boat.com.

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