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Hire prices
All our hire prices at a glance! Click on the corresponding link to see or download our price lists for cruises of one week, 10/11 days, 2 weeks, 17/18 days, week-ends or mini-weeks. Please note that the reduction for extended cruises is already deducted, when applicable. To see the price lists you will need the Acrobat Reader.
- Hire prices (PDF) All our hire prices at a glance! Click on the corresponding link to see or download our price lists for cruises of one week, 10/11 days, 2 weeks, 17/18 days...
- Booking Conditions You can read and save the booking conditions in a PDF document as well. Click on the symbol to download the PDF file.
- Extra charges
Special Offers
- Special offers You will find here all our special offers. All these offers are unique, so don't hesitate too long! Click on "Reservation" at the offer you are interested in and make a direct reservation for that cruise.
- Special week-end offers Easter egg hunt on the Pénichette? Ask us about our offers for extended week-ends and mini-weeks. * Offer can be rented from 30th January 2013** Offer can be rented from 1st May 2013*** Offer can be rented from 1st June...
- Permanent offers Whether you want to travel with your partner or with the whole family, if you want to travel for several weeks, here are our special offers for everyone.
- Family offers Throughout all seasons Locaboat offers to families to cruise for a great price in France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Ireland and Poland.
Request Reservation
- How to book?
- Availability request
- Online booking Indicate the country, the region of your choice. A liste of departure bases will be submitted to you. In the next step you can make your reservation.
- Reservation slip If you have got a file number (option), pleasefill in the field "your file number". If not, take the file number 999999.
- Online Payment You will needyour booking reference number to finalise your payment
Info Locaboat
- F.A.Q. Here, all the question that you ask yourself concerning a boating holiday will be answered. We made four topics so that you can find more easy what you are looking for.
- Info bases All you have to know about the Locaboat bases is here. A table with the distances between our bases and large European cities can be downloaded as PDF document here
- Essential information
- Service at the base You can find here all our additional services for your cruiseyou can order directly at the departure base.
- Navigation guide
Short trips
Our basic short breaks BASIC WEEK-END from friday (between 2 pm and 6 pm) to sunday (6 pm) or monday (9 am) See basic Week-end prices BASIC MINI WEEK from monday (between 2 pm and 6 pm) to friday (9 am) See basic Mini Week prices
- Long week-ends Our offers for long week-ends! Locaboat offers long week-ends around public holidays. Benefit from the best offers for your short break!
- Green breaks FROM 2 TO 5 DAYS, BENEFIT FROM OUR 'GREEN BREAKS' OFFERS For a week-end or longer, take advantage of our 'Green Breaks' offers and escape for a short break. Two possible options : Basic and Premium as you wish !
Southern Burgundy - Franche-Comté
Châlon-sur-Saône
A boat trip with the Pénichette in Southern Burgundy gives you the chance to discover the Canal du Centre, next to famous Chalonnais vineyards as Mercurey, Santenay or Montrachet. The Saône and the Seille offer many bathing opportunities. The Petite Saône at Gray and the Canal du Rhône au Rhin at Besançon (a new Locaboat-base for one-way cruise) are beautiful waterways with only a few locks. Going upstream the Canal de Vosges in direction Fontenoy-le-Château and Epinal, you pass the superb forests of the Vosges.
Select on the map below your base of departure from which you want to start your trip with the Pénichette. You will receive practical information to organise your boating holiday in the region of Southern Burgundy – Franche-Comté starting from our bases in Scey-sur-Saône, Saint-Léger-sur-Dheune and Loisy.
The base at St-Léger-sur-Dheune is ideally located: cruising the Canal du Centre you pass through some of the most renowned vineyards of the Côte Chalonnaise. Along the twisting valley of the Dheune sparkle the varnished tile roofs of charming villages. At the foot of the Côte Chalonnaise are world-famous wine producing villages: Mercurey, Santenay with its 13th century church of St-Jean-de-Naroise standing amid the vines, Montrachet, synonymous with fine whites, and Rully with its 12th century castle.
Further south, the Saône and the Seille offer a voyage of discovery and many possibilities for swimming. Sights like Tournus and Mâcon with an interesting architectural heritage and Romanic churches, that remember the wealthy days of these cities in the Middle Ages. The Roman tiles of the houses give the feeling that the South of France is approaching. Upstream, the Saône crosses green meadows. One of the most beautiful milestones is Verdun-sur-le-Doubs on an island at the estuary of the Doubs. This river offers a very attractive, 10 km long track until Pontoux. St-Symphorien and Seurre with a local museum in a beautiful building are worth a stop, too.
Saône Franche-Comté
Petite Saône, Saône, Canal des Vosges, Canal du Rhône au Rhin (Doubs)
The Saône is one of France's most attractive rivers, with few locks, rural scenery, and generously proportioned farmhouses, their windowboxes gay with flowers. On the forest floor too, the earth brings forth a generous offering of mushrooms. The well-preserved villages in the Maçonnais and the Dôle region are a constant delight. Climbing north on the Canal des Vosges through the forests of the Vosges you glide through an amphitheatre of ash, silver birch and other trees. The towns of Fontenoy-le-Château and Epinal reveal their many charms.
From Dôle to Besançon the Canal du Rhone au Rhin follows the course of the River Doubs past rocky cliffs and between wooded slopes. The arrival in Besançon is truly dramatic: A 394m long tunnel allows you to pass right underneath the great fortress built by Vauban in the 17th century and to make a complete circuit of the city by water.
The idyllic river Seille leads through a landscape of ponds and pastures to Louhans. The village is classed as "the prettiest detour in France" and "outstanding site for taste" for its famous Bresse poultry. The arcades and facades from 15th and 16th century are well worth seeing.
Direction South the lovely Saône flows to the Rhône and passes Tournus with its splendid Romanic abbey. Many excellent wines flourish in the hilly landscape of Mâconnais and Beaujolais, which follows on the cruise. They are worthy companions to the numerous culinary specialities for which this region is renowned since the Middle Ages. Take some time to stroll through the animated cities of Mâcon and Villefranche. The detour on a short canal to Pont-de-Vaux is also recommendable: A touristic gem with medieval loam frame houses of the Pierres-Dorées area.
The cruise continues on the gentle loops of the Saône until Lyon. The hills of Fourvière and Croix-Rousse on the picuresque island Barbre create a marvellous entry port. Afterwards the old town of Lyon, UNESCO World Heritage Site, attracts with colourful renaissance facades, the tight passages between the buildings called "Traboules" and of course the typical cosy restaurants, called "Bouchon"