Service Status

 | 🍃 Advance warning - Windy Weather Sunday 23 February 2025 Possible disruption to all cruises and self-drives. No booking currently available.
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Today's service status
🕑: We are now running to our off-peak season timetable (autumn/winter/spring). More routes and services available after 4 April 2025.
Special Circular Cruises - services may change if weather conditions worsen.
🕑 45 minutes in length
🔄 Non-landing circular i.e. Ambleside to Ambleside (we don't want to leave anyone stranded at another pier if the weather worsens this afternoon)
🎫 Tickets Adult £13.50 Child £6.75 (buy at the pier ticket offices)
🛳️ Ambleside Waterhead Pier (LA22 0EY) - Ambleside to Ambleside
⚠️ Currently too windy - no services today
🛳️ Bowness Pier (LA23 3HQ) - Bowness to Bowness only
♿10:30 | 11:15 | ♿11:45 | 12:15 | ♿12:45 | 13:15 | 13:45 | ♿14:15 | 14:45 | ♿15:15 | 15:45 | ♿16:15
🛳️ Lakeside Pier (LA12 8AS) - Lakeside to Lakeside only
11:20 | 13:05 | 14:50
Access and Facilities
♿ Disabled Access
Four different types of vessels operate our services with varying accessibility.
- ♿ MV Swift - (marked with a green wheelchair icon on our timetables): our most accessible vessel - step-free access from pier to indoor/outdoor seating & accessible toilet
- ♿ 'Steamers' MV Swan/Teal - (marked with black wheelchair icon on our timetables) - step-free access from pier to indoor/outdoor seating. Toilets down steep steps.
- ❌ 'Steamer' Tern & modern launches like Miss Cumbria/Miss Lakeland - are not recommended for customers with limited mobility
- ❌ Traditional wooden launches like Queen of the Lake - are not recommended for customers with limited mobility
Please visit our Accessibility section for more information.
Wheelchair users are strongly advised to call us to confirm which vessel is operating on which service, particularly in poor weather conditions. As on rare occasions, the vessels operating each route can change.