Archive: 2015

From New York to Beijing, Paris to Moscow, visitors from across the globe have been booking tickets online with Windermere Lake Cruises over the past 12 months. End-of-year analysis from thousands of bookings during 2014 reveals that passengers from 34 countries around the world…

Hot on the heels of a Lake District trade mission to Beijing, staff from Windermere Lake Cruises have been brushing up on some basic Chinese language and customs to help make visitors from China feel more at home. 16 staff members from Windermere Lake Cruises have taken part in a special…

For the first time in more than ten years, Windermere Lake Cruises has increased the number of its daily winter sailings – thanks to a significant upturn in passengers during the traditionally quieter months. The company has just swapped over to its winter timetable, but has made…

Congratulations to The National Trust on all their hard work in restoring Claife Viewing Station and bringing it back to public use. This building has a fascinating history and was a top tourist location in the 1800s. Victorians could admire the stunning views across Windermere through a…

Ahead of the new academic year, Windermere Lake Cruises is extending its popular Resident’s Pass scheme to include students from two regional universities. There are already 22,500 Residents Passes in circulation across Cumbria and North Lancashire, and now students studying at either…

Lakeland Waterways celebrates a history of travel in the English Lake District, including Windermere, Coniston, Ullswater and Derwentwater. With a wealth of archive photography and previously unpublished research, it gives an insight into sailing on the lakes from the Romans and Vikings…

New figures released today, Wednesday 5 August 2015, confirm that Windermere Lake Cruises is officially one of England’s top ten ‘paid for’ visitor attractions. For 2014, it topped the table in the North West region, with sister attraction, the Lakeland Motor Museum also making the regional top…

The wonders of Windermere will soon be beamed to millions of people across the globe, thanks to a flurry of international TV crews descending on England’s longest lake. In the last few weeks alone, broadcasters from China, Australia and Japan have been among those to jump on board…

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Visitors can see a different side to the Lake District this summer, with the newly extended ‘Cross Lakes Experience’ – a flexible bus and boat ticket providing a unique ‘hop on, hop off’ service which spans Windermere, Coniston and the spectacular Lakeland scenery in-between. With daily…