Calypso

Benson - Boat hire on the Thames, River Thames & Wey

🚆 Nearest station: · 1.8 mi

🌊 Wallingford Beach, River Thames: Sufficient bathing water 1.4 mi · Environment Agency

Calypso offers a boating holiday on the River Thames from Benson, with berths for up to eight, making it well suited to a larger group or extended family cruising this stretch of water. You'll find a bus stop nearby too, useful for getting about when you're not on the move.

Wallingford is close at hand, with the Wallingford Phone Box Museum just 1.1 miles away and Wallingford Museum at 1.4 miles, alongside Wallingford Beach on the River Thames for a riverside break, though water quality there is rated Sufficient. Dorchester Abbey Museum and Gift Shop is a little further at 2.7 miles, and Cholsey station, 3.9 miles away, offers a rail connection nearby.

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Sleeps: 8
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🏖️ Nearest beaches

Wallingford Beach, River Thames Sufficient1.4 mi
Pangbourne Meadow, River Thames —9.3 mi

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Cholsey 3.9 miles
Didcot Parkway 5.5 miles
Appleford 5.6 miles

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