1 hr 30 minutes Belle of the Broads Boat Trip – 1 pm start

Including a hot drink and treat – it doesn’t get better than that 😉

Free time to explore Wroxham ‘Roys of Wroxham’

Wroxham is considered the capital of the Norfolk Broads and has been frequented by holidaymakers since the late 1800’s. It is especially popular with those seeking a boating holiday, with its numerous boat hire companies offering a vast range of vessel.

Situated 8 miles from Norwich and 20 miles from Great Yarmouth and Cromer, Wroxham is an ideal place to stay and explore Norfolk.

In recent years it has become quite commercialised with the building of hotels, gift shops and tea-rooms, a far cry from the days when the locals would meet the London train at Wroxham station and carry the passengers’ luggage to the boatyards for two pence.

There is a good selection of shops in Wroxham, the most famous one being Roys of Wroxham, probably the largest village store in the country. It offers a huge range of merchandise from clothes, toys, garden equipment, plants, books, home-ware, electrical goods, as well as an excellent supermarket, and is open seven days a week. It also has a McDonalds restaurant within the store.

Down by the river there is the Hotel Wroxham, along with many boatyards, holiday homes and apartments. During the summer months the waters are full of holidaymakers enjoying the peace and tranquillity a boating holiday offer.

Interesting facts about Wroxham

George Formby, OBE (1904 – 1961), an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian famous for playing the ukulele or banjolele, once owned a riverside home in Wroxham

English author and journalist Arthur Ransome (1884 – 1967), best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, visited Wroxham in the 1930s and made reference to the town in his book Coot Club (1934).