Freedom of the Lake, Steam Train & Motor Museum
Spend a day exploring the lake and visit two local attractions | ⚓ Unlimited boats + 🚂 Steam Train + 🚗 Museum 🕑 5 hours +
Your ticket includes:
Have the freedom to explore all of Lake Windermere by boat. This Freedom of the Lake ™ ticket is valid for 24 hours unlimited travel on all of our cruises including:
Red Cruise (Bowness → Brockhole → Ambleside → Bowness)
Yellow Cruise (Bowness ↔ Lakeside)*
Islands Cruise (Bowness → Windermere Jetty - Museum → Bowness)
A visit to the Lakeland Motor Museum (within 5 days of your cruise) - home to a collection of over 30,000 cars, motorcycles, scooters, cycles and auto memorabilia. Please make your own way to the museum.
Highlights include a Campbell Bluebird exhibition, a World War tribute and an Isle of Man TT display.
There's something for the whole family with a riverside cafe, giftshop and local heritage and period shopping displays.
Find out more on their website.
Adults | Children | Families |
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£31.50 | £16.70 | £86.00 |
Your Journey
Our 'Freedom of the Lake' ticket is valid on all our scheduled sailings (includes red, yellow and islands cruises) for a period of 24 hours. We are unable to show all the timetable options for this ticket in this one page, please see our cruises page to see all of the sailings.
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🍃 WINDY WEATHER - Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 December (page updated -21/12/25 9:40am) Strong winds are forecast for this weekend. As a precaution, we have suspended all cruise and self-drive bookings. Please keep checking back as weather conditions can change. |
🔴 RED CRUISE | Bowness → Brockhole → Ambleside Waterhead → Bowness | ⚠️ Services OK this morning |
🟡 YELLOW CRUISE | Bowness ↔ Lakeside | ⚠️ Services OK this morning |
🔵 ISLANDS CRUISE | Bowness → W'Mere Jetty Museum → Bowness | ✔️ Services OK |
🚤 MOTOR BOAT HIRE | Bowness Beach only | ⚠️ Just turn up today. 1 hour bookings only. |
🕑: We are now running to our off-peak season timetable (autumn/winter/spring).
Four different types of vessels operate our services with varying accessibility.
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.
Did you know that you can make more of your cruise by upgrading it? Why not combine your cruise with a trip to two local attractions? You can view all of our cruise and two attraction tickets here.