Gift Vouchers

Boat trips and events

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Use your gift voucher for anything booked through the Tyg online booking service - normally all bookable events and services from London Canal Museum reached through this website. This page offers shortcuts to the things you can buy with a gift voucher that someone has kindly given you.

Impportant reminder

You cannot use a gift voucher to enter the museum, ride on a boat, or attend an event. The gift voucher has to be exchanged for a ticket first, and this has to be done online.

Exchange your voucher for boat trip tickets

Cream Tea Cruise

Scone with pots of jam and cream and cup of teaWeekly cream tea cruises in the season leave the museum at 1500 on Thursdays and take about 90 minutes, passing through Islington Tunnel and City Road Lock before returning. Tea in a tunnel is a unique experience! A guide tells you about the history of the canal and tunnel.

Details on main boat trips page

Long Boat Trips

Boat in wide canal with brick high building behindEvery Friday in the summer season se set off at 11 or 1130 to Little Venice or Victoria Park. These long trips take around 4 hours or more. Coffee/tea and biscuits are served on board. A guide tells you about the history of the route.

Details on main boat trips page

Tunnel Trips

Passenger boat emerging from canal tunnelOur most most popular boat trip. Details on main boat trips page

Historic Boat Cruise

Red bow of boat TarporleyOn selected Saturdays at 1130 we have arranged for the 1930s working narrowboat Tarporley to offer trips lasting about an hour and a half in each direction, alternately going east or west from the museum. This is a rare opportunity to experience a genuine histoic canal boat passing through London.

Details on Historic Boat Trips page

Short Boat Trips

Boat on canal with greenery to the rearOn some Wednesdays we are offering short trips from the museum lasting about 25 minutes, to/from St. Pancras Lock, but not entering the lock. There is no guide or refreshments on these trips.

Details on main boat trips page

Exchange your vouchers for Family Fun

Children wearing home made hats On selected dates during school holidays our Education Team offer themed activities for children, comprising a craft activity in the museum, a short boat trip (that must be pre-booked) and other activities in the museum

Details on Family Fun Days page

Exchange your vouchers for special event tickets

Music hall performers in costume Special events include

For special event dates see the What's On page

How to use your voucher to buy a ticket

  1. Go to the website page for the trip or event you want to book and proceed as if you were buying with a credit card
  2. When you get to the shopping basket, look for the Promotional Code box. It looks like the picture below.
  3. Enter the code from the top right corner of your gift voucher in the promotional code box
  4. Your balance to pay will be reduced by the value of the voucher. There may be something more to pay if the voucher did not match the amount due. If the voucher is worth more than the amount payable the balance remains on your account and can be used later.

Example of a promotional code box - this is what to look for

Promotional code box