Castle Narrowboats

Welcome to the most relaxing holiday you'll probably ever have!

How often do you come back from holiday feeling that you needed another? Have you ever felt the need for a spell of peace and tranquility? For a break that offers real relaxation, try cruising the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal with Castle Narrowboats.

Castle Narrowboats hire (rent) diesel and quiet electric powered comfortable narrowboats on the beautiful and peaceful Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (the Mon and Brec) in South Wales

For two hundred years the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal has wended its way through some of the most beautiful scenery in Wales. Now it's industrial life is over, it offers the opportunity to see the countryside from a unique perspective.

Castle Narrowboats offers you the choice of our fleet of modem, comfortable canal boats in which you can enjoy as much - or as little - of the canal as you please. With no set itinerary or schedule, your time really is your own to enjoy as you see fit. Enjoying yourself was never so easy!

We are a small independent, family run business having 14 years hiring experience. We take pride in our boats and maintain them to a very high standard. Rigorous checks are carried out every week to ensure the boats are in the best possible working order. Each boat is thoroughly cleaned after every hiring, ensuring everything is immaculate and ready to use.

The Monmouthshire and Brecon canal covers 33 navigable miles from Brecon to Pontypool. With an average cruising speed of 2-3 miles per hour you will need at least a week to appreciate everything this beautiful canal has to offer...
Brecon - Theatre, Brecknock & Regimental Museums, leisure centre with indoor swimming pool, shopping centre, numerous public houses and eating places.
Talybont - offers convenient canalside store/post office and public houses. Superb walking area including reservoir
Llangynidr - award winning flight of locks, general store and public houses. Crickhowell - is a delightful country town with much to offer the visitor Well worth the walk from Liangattock.
Gilwern - our hire base location, a small village offering a variety of shops and several public houses.
Abergavenny - 'The Gateway to Wales' I mile from the canal. The town has a good selection of shops, castle and museum of childhood. Market day is on a Tuesday
Goytre Wharf- has a heritage and activity centre with historic limekilns, visitors ' centre and children 'splay area.
Pontypool - The town offers a shopping centre, museum and leisure centre with swimming pool and water slides.

Named after some of Wales' most spectacular castles, our narrowboats offer a choice of sizes, number of berths and even propulsion. We have fourteen years experience of running electrically powered boats, which can be recharged at various points up and down the canal. Electric power makes for a quieter and more environmentally friendly holiday.

Each of our canal boats have plenty of storage space, good size airing cupboard, efficient heating, radio cassette player, television, running hot and cold water to the shower, basin and sink. Sealed efficient toilet system eliminates chemical smells. The galley area has full size cooker, fridge, sink and comprehensive inventory.

Hire Base
Our base at Gilwern is ideally situated near to the centre of the canal, enabling our customers to travel in either direction and to have access to their cars mid-week if they wish to travel further afield. We live on site and our private wharf allows for easy loading/unloading and car parking.

Gift Shop
The gift shop at our site sells guide hooks, maps, postcards, ice-creams, films, batteries and, of course, Welsh gifts and canalware. Open 7 days a week throughout the season 9am-6pm. Visitors are always welcome -whether to browse through the shop or inspect the boats.

We offer:

• Canal boat holidays
• Boat hire