Welcome to The Lady Teal Hotel Boat
Lady Teal THE Premier Five Star Gold Hotel Boat Experience
“Wherever you go from and to the journey is the experience”
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Lady Teal Five Star Gold 
“Great trip, company and facilities. Gina & Nick are the best & most enjoyable hosts – the food is incredible. Many thanks”.
Lady Teal is an impressive Five Star hotel boat with one single and two twin cabins, all en-suite. Lady Teal provides fully crewed and catered breaks on Northern England’s canals and rivers. We pride ourselves on providing a truly luxurious experience with fully en-suite cabins and all-inclusive pricing that covers all food, drinks, parking, and chauffeur limousines to or from our parking.
Cruising through the scenic Yorkshire dales, the Lancashire countryside, and beyond is a joy. As owner operators, we feel privileged to share this experience.
Nick offers fascinating insights ( he thinks they are) into the history and sayings of the canals.
Life along the canal is vibrant, and our guests often comment that they don’t like to leave the lounge in case they miss something.
A day’s cruising might involve helping with swing bridges and locks or relaxing in the lounge or on the upper deck. For walkers, the towpath offers both short and extended walking options.
We focus on providing an immersive canal experience with stunning architecture, structures, and nature. Lady Teal cruises the Leeds and Liverpool canal, offering a highly recommended and enjoyable experience.
The picture shows us soon after starting, in 2009, we have aged a bit and , sadly, lost Lady our lovely dog.
Lady Teal offers catered, fully crewed, canal holidays with added luxury. As a wide beam boat, we provide more space than a narrow boat, including en-suite cabins with all modern amenities. Guests enjoy sprung mattresses, TV’s, and full en-suites in their cabins, ensuring home-like comfort.
Food & Drink is an important part of any cruise.
Start your day with a cooked to order breakfast, with leaf tea or fresh coffee, or a simple cereal before we set off. Mid morning have a hot drink, leaf tea, bean to cup coffee or the luxury of a Hotel Chocolat hot chocolate, maybe fortified with something, you are on holiday after all. Of course this is accompanied by homemade cookies.
Lunch is 2 courses, all freshly cooked on board, even the bread, maybe with a beer or wine.
Afternoon tea echoes the mid-morning break, but with homemade cake instead of cookies.
Moored for the night you can have pre-dinner drinks followed by a four course meal, eight-courses on Skippers night.
While you relax, Nick skippers the boat, and Gina prepares the outstanding food. All food and drinks (with the exception of Champagne) are included even Prosecco.
Chauffeur Service
Our cruises often start and end at different locations. We offer a chauffeur-driven car to or from your parked vehicle, using top-of-the-line vehicles and smartly dressed drivers, enhancing our five-star service.
Along the canal
Wildlife along the canal is enchanting, with ducklings, cygnets, curlews, oyster catchers, kingfishers, birds of prey, owls, bats and deer, the list goes on and can even include the occasional turtle!
Sitting on top or in the lounge , with its panoramic windows, guests have ample time to appreciate the natural beauty and great scenery.
Of course some cruises also pass through some towns and cities with incredible industrial architecture, including World Heritage sites, Saltaire and Liverpool docks.
Guest Testimonials
Our guests have said; “..best break ever”, “..see you again next year” (they had already booked), “..we feel so rejuvenated.”
“We have travelled a lot and had a lot of holidays around the world, none beat our time on Lady Teal, that’s why we come back again and again.”
We are very proud that two-thirds of our guests are repeat visitors, indicating our success in creating an enchanting and memorable home on the water.
Join us on Lady Teal to escape the hustle and bustle of modern life.
Please note that we can only accommodate adult guests and do not accept children under 16, or pets.
What will you do on Lady Teal? Here are some of the things our guests do:
- Walking
- Playing games
- Reading books
- Taking photos
- Knitting
- Looking at wildlife
- Looking at the heritage structures
- Listening to Nicks “lectures” on the history of canals
- Eating
- Drinking
- Even having a nap.
People always say that they struggle to describe how they spend their time, but they all say that the holiday is over far too soon!.
