hazzer111

I hired bronze this year and it had bow thrusters! I then asked the question when looking at white emblem and was told it also has them.. Which is also not advertised.

The bizarre thing about the Ferry Marina discount is... it isn't advertised anywhere, whereas HW are very on the ball with advertising on the website and social media. The website also has some really poor images and out of date information on some of the boats. All of them have bow thrusters, but the website doesn't say that. Looking to next year Ferry Marina prices are dramatically higher than this years (about £300) more, comically the prices increased a day before I was going to make a booking. For less money at another I can get an equally nice boat which is what I will end up doing.

Early booking discounts absolutely seem to be the way to go, as opposed to pricing people out of hiring and then dropping prices at the last minute. As you say you then cannot have a reliable income as everything is impossible to predict.

This is my point, the cost increase just seems to price people out of the holidays.. Then they end up with boats left over, then high discounts putting them at a slightly more reasonable price. If the prices were no so dramatically increased then people would be more inlinced to hire. I still plan on it, just will have to have a rather in depth search!

Absolutely, now we will be debating whether to book in advanced or just see what's available at the time. Which obviously isn't great practice, but if thats when costs become cheaper.. Yeah the all inclusive part is obviously a factor. However the fact the price has jumped up over £300 (for the same dates) just seems a bit crazy. Understand costs are high for boat operation, but from this year to next it can't be that much surely!

I have been on the broads quite a few times and this year went with them (plus decided to go for a winter cruise as well)! We have become big fans of the broads and enjoy taking the dog as well. Next year we wanted a dual helm boat to try it out (and maybe enjoy the one rare sunny day we get)! But it seems we may try going with someone else instead.

Well we have been looking at next year's holiday and was looking at Silver Emblem from Ferry Marina. The prices seem to have been updated and are now £328 more expensive for 2024 (July before summer holidays). Quite the price hike, which has now priced me out of a holiday next year.