Broads Boat Hire

Ever get the feeling upon returning home from the annual holiday in Spain that you need a holiday just to get over the damn thing. You arrive home after endless airport queues, excess baggage fees and late night drinking sessions feeling even worse than you did before you left the UK. Holidays are supposed to be relaxing but somewhere along the line, they became just as busy and fast paced as our every day lives. If you agree with this assertion than I think that you may be interested in what I did last year. Instead of heading off to Spain as usual, I looked into broads boat hire. What I found out and subsequently experienced was very surprising.

Turns out it is incredibly relaxing to wake up on board a boat in the Broads. The countryside for a start is stunning and you are literally right in the middle of it. In all my holidays in Spain, I have not once found the same sense of relaxation that I found that first morning that I drank my coffee on deck, breathing in the fresh country air. The next advantage is how much you actually get to see. When on holiday in Spain, I generally just laze about by the pool by day, before heading to the same part of town night after night. But with a broads boat hire you are constantly moving therefore you constantly see new villages and cosy countryside bars. The bars in this area are also nothing like the bars found in most UK cities, they are just so relaxing and welcoming. There also surprisingly reasonably priced for UK establishments.

Then there are all the minor advantages. Should you head down to Norfolk, no matter where you live in the UK, there's no need to board a plane. This removes all the queuing and paranoia over security and immediately your holiday is offer to a more relaxing start. Also if you have pets, then you will be pleased to know that if you choose broads boat hire, the majority of companies offering the service allow you to take your beloved pet on board, therefore no more leaving your dog in the kennels for two weeks. Another advantage is that you tend to spend a lot less. Why would you want to be eating out every night in restaurants when you could be relaxing on the deck of your very own boat, eating some good home made food underneath the stars?

Of course, sitting on the deck of your Broads boat hire isn't all that much fun when it is raining outside and before I took my first boat trip in the UK, I had this horrible vision of rainy days spent sitting in a cramped uncomfortable boat staring out at the clouds. But the fact is that while it does of course rain sometimes, this isn't really a problem because the boats offered by broad's boat hire companies tend to be pretty cosy. On rainy days me and my wife simply drank wine, played cards and slowly floated down the river, sure that when the sun came out again, we'd be somewhere new. All in all, I have to say, if you haven't already tried broads boat hire, then you really should give it a go. Just because it's cheaper than a trip to Spain, surprisingly does not mean that it's an inferior way to spend the annual vacation. Far from it in fact.