Named a klotok, this is a quaint wooden Indonesian houseboat that comfortably sleeps four people.
Find an Amsterdam Houseboat lists 40 boats, ranging from the rustic to the space age.
For a vacationing family that would need two hotel rooms, the houseboat is vastly cheaper.
Take Pearl, a houseboat that features a clear dome-shaped topper and a teak ring-shaped deck.
Steven Bore, 31, was arrested on 17 February at a houseboat at Smallgains Marina in Canvey Island, Essex.
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Some members of the houseboat community on the River Lee enjoy a fire on a chilly spring evening.
Less luxurious than a houseboat but more intimate, it comfortably held four people.
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At that point, Congressman Cunningham was still living happily aboard his houseboat, the Dukester, which a defense contractor had bought for him.
According to press reports at the time, he spent the appointed hour on a 68-foot houseboat owned by the charity.
Designed by Orhan Cileli, the sleek floating home, which would house up to five occupants, explores alternatives to conventional houseboat engineering.
"Home, " by the way, applies to any durable structure with a toilet, kitchen and bed, such as a mobile home or houseboat.
For excitement, instead of whitewater rafting down the Colorado River, he takes his family on a houseboat ride through the Erie Canal.
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When in London, he lives on a Chelsea houseboat or at Claridge's.
She had been staying on the houseboat for two months, the owner told the television station, adding that she had been "like her daughter".
An Arkansas law dictates that children under 13 must wear a life jacket when riding in a moving boat, unless it is a houseboat.
"The day India launched air strikes in Kargil, 20% of our bookings were canceled, " says Haji Gulam Qadir Khar, president of Srinagar's Houseboat Owners Association.
The Pearl houseboat also addresses pressing concerns about the marine environment.
Although the rental agency might have a daytime reception desk and an emergency phone number, there's no houseboat concierge to get you tickets to the Concertgebouw.
There's even a houseboat museum on the Prinsengracht canal, where visitors can tour the converted 1914 sailboat Hendrika Maria to see how a houseboat-dwelling family lives.
She lived in London with her partner, musical director David White, and the couple were in the process of building a houseboat when she fell ill.
Police in Miami Beach found the body of Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of Gianni Versace and four other men, after a five-hour siege of a houseboat.
Your principal residence, for purposes of the credit, is defined where you live most of the time and can include a house, houseboat, mobile home, co-op, condo and a manufactured home.
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The SouthWild Jaguar Camp, a floating houseboat moored on the Cuiaba River, is currently the closest visitors can get to the Encontro das Aguas while retaining a modicum of comfort.
In addition to offering canal-side camping and houseboat rentals, John and Paula host pontoon excursions to the lakes, and have a wide range of activities on their property, including pottery, painting and radio-controlled car racing.
De Waal upped the ante in 1996 when he rescued Velsheda, originally built for the owner of the British Woolworths chain, from a river in England where she had been grounded and serving as a houseboat.
We had been in our rented, deceptively spacious houseboat in Amsterdam for about the same amount of time, and we were given a first-hand glimpse of what living half-submerged in water was like during the moderate yet wet Dutch winters.
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Versace was shot to death on the doorstep of his home in 1997, and spree killer Andrew Cunanan is believed to have killed him and four others before Cunanan shot himself in the head on the upper floor of a houseboat in Miami Beach, where he was holed up to avoid police after the Versace shooting.
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