The Boat Show

This weekend we are having a bit of a different weekend of boating. We have some tickets for the Southampton boat show so we are going to spend the weekend there.

It will be an early start on Saturday morning. We plan to leave home at about 6am so we will be awake by at least 5.30am. The plan is to reach our hotel in Hythe by 10am (pre-arranged with the hotel) , dump our bags and then board the ferry to takes us across the river to Town Quay, Southampton.

Quite by accident we have picked the ideal hotel for the boat show. The prices at the Boathouse are very reasonable and the reviews are very promising. The Boathouse is a small ten bedroom hotel situated in Hythe Marina right on the banks of the river and directly adjacent the Hythe Ferry terminal. The ferries run half hourly between Hythe and Southampton and the drop off point on the Southampton side is directly adjacent the boat show. The ferry is also very reasonably priced at £5 per person return fare. We must make sure we board the last ferry back to Hythe though, at 10.30pm, otherwise it is a long and expensive taxi ride back to the hotel.

We are meeting up with the Sealine Forum again whilst in Southampton. We have the Sealine stand to ourselves for an hour or so from 2pm. It will be nice to meet up with some new friends again and later in the evening we will be meeting up for dinner in TGI’s, with one eye on the clock of course.

It should be another great weekend, let’s just hope that the weather is reasonable.