College Cruisers is the place to go with all your boating dilemmas.  We hire narrow boats for holidays and we also provide services for the local canal community and visiting boaters. Located just above the Isis Lock and near the visitors moorings we are a good stopping point on the Oxford Canal for entering or leaving the River Thames upstream or down. So do call in and say hello, we are the canal hub for the Oxford waterways and are happy to help with our practical local knowledge.

NARROWBOAT SERVICES

  • Pump out services @ £20 inc blue
  • Red diesel
  • Rubbish Disposal
  • Gas (13kg Calor propane only)
  • Coal

SPARES & SUNDRIES

We don’t have a “chandlery” on site but are well stocked with spares and sundries or we can order in most items with free postage.

NARROWBOAT “BABYSITTING”

We offer a narrowboat “babysitting” service for short term mooring in central Oxford if you need to leave your boat safe and secure or car parking equivalent.

MARINE ENGINEER ONSITE

We have an engineer on site, give us a ring to book in, offering a call out service to the local area.

INSTALATION, SERVICING & PAINTING

While we can no longer take boats out the water we do almost everything else on site from a new stove installation, servicing your engine to painting a boat.

MAINTENANCE & ADVICE

We’ve fitted out many of our own boats and all maintenance is in house so you can always pop in to pick our brains or just give us a ring.

Labour prices from £35-£50 an hour and quote depending on the length and size of the the job.

Our Customer Reviews

All excellent including instruction from James

- Ashok and Crew

22/07/2024

The team was very nice and friendly , very happy with everything

- Kjersti and Family Norway

16/07/2024

Lovely boat . Had a very enjoyable time and a comfortable 4 nights on Keble

- Elizabeth and Maurice

15/07/2024

Great handover from Nick , clear , sensible instruction for a couple of total novices . Thanks

- Andrew and Katy

15/07/2024

Cracking weekend and perfect location , we’ve had a great time !

- Josh , Graham

15/07/2024

We had a wonderful trip , staff were exceptionally friendly and informative , everything was fabulous —— thank you

- Louise and family

13/07/2024

Thankyou for a great experience , James was amazing , thank you for helping with the key .

- Kirsten and family

09/07/2024

We had a really great time the boat came up to all expectations and along with great weather we would use college cruisers again any time

- Brian and Jane

24/06/2024

excellent holiday , beautiful boat

- David and Gaynor

18/06/2024

We had an amazing time , hopefully we will do it again … thankyou

- Warwick and Melanie, SA

17/06/2024

Wilf gave a very informative handover , good communication , lovely clean boat and easy to use equipment

- Michael and Helen

15/06/2024

We felt like welcome guests from the time of booking until our return. Will was awesome at showing us around the boat and giving us instructions. We can’t wait to...

- Trinity

24/05/2024

If there was an excellent box, instruction, reliability and staff would get a tick.

- Jamie & Nikki

04/05/2024

Absolutely loved our time on Nuffield, a very relaxing way to meet people and see sights.

- The Gray family

03/05/2024

Excellent service… special shout out to James for advice on where to moor… lovely team.

- Edmund & Yaiza

03/05/2024

We enjoyed every moment of it, thank you. ☺

- Edmund & Yaiza

04/05/2024

An incredible weekend away. Cary’s and her team were very knowledgeable and helpful when planning our trip. I couldn’t recommend more and looking forward to returning

- Lauren D.

05/03/2024

My partner and I just spent a week on Magdalen. It was clean, comfortable and well equipped. It was lovely having the log burner as it was late October. Cary’s...

- Jane O.

05/11/2023

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the...

- Chris G.

31/10/2023

We spent a week on the Exeter. Very comfortable boat. A special thanks to James who explained how everything worked and made us feel comfortable hanlding the Exeter (one of...

- Kees v.

22/10/2023

We had such a good time! Such a lovely team to help you off on your holiday. We were a couple with a 7-month-old. Tricky first day learning how to...

- Edmond O.

17/10/2023

Julesa lovely holiday. Big thanks

- Jules

31/07/2023

Piroska we have had a wonderful trip on this boat. Thank you

- Piroska

25/07/2023

Lucy lovely trip on the river Thames, lovely staff, lovely boat. Thank you

- Lucy

25/07/2023
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