Archive: 2024

A poignant tribute will take place onboard one of Windermere’s historic cruise vessels as Cumbria commemorates the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. At 8am on the morning of Wednesday, June 5, the day before national D-Day commemorations, a lone piper will play on the deck of MV Swan.

Cumbria’s leading paid for visitor attraction, Windermere Lake Cruises, is hoping to attract more tourists from China’s biggest city Shanghai thanks to new direct airlinks with the north of England. One of the company’s leading executives has flown to Shanghai to meet Chinese tour…

Windermere Lake Cruises is launching a new service to help support businesses and communities as the Windermere Ferry, which is operated by Westmorland and Furness Council between Ferry Nab and Ferry House, goes out of action for approximately five weeks for its mandatory out of water inspection…

Countrystride podcast #120 explores the fascinating history of England's largest lake, Windermere, with local author and our Windermere Lake Cruises skipper, Robert Beale. Listeners journey from Roman times to the tourist age, uncovering the lake's earliest users, its importance to…

They may look slightly sunk but Windermere’s historic wooden row boats are actually undergoing an age-old process to prepare them for carrying passenger later this month! Windermere Lake Cruises has a fleet of around 55 wooden row boats and many of the craft date back to the 1930s.…

The beauty of the English Lake District is being promoted to brand new travel markets in some of the world’s biggest cities thanks to popular Cumbrian tourist attraction Windermere Lake Cruises. For the first time ever it’s meeting hundreds of travel operators in Jakarta…

Most people consider themselves lucky to find one dream job - but Jon Bennett is in the enviable position of having two at once! He spends much of his working week sailing some of the most spectacular scenery in England – as a Boatmaster with

At 11:55 am today, Wednesday 3 January, smoke was detected coming from the engine room of MV Swift as the vessel approached Brockhole Pier. The Master deployed the ship’s on board fire suppression system and Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service attended the vessel as a precautionary…