National Trust - Steam Yacht Gondola

There is nothing–absolutely nothing–half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

We spent an enormously enjoyable afternoon on the SY Gondola, on a cold, wet and very windy day. We had first visited Gondola many years ago when our two boys were young (so young they had forgotten t...

Relaxing once onboard.

Boarding was farcical. We stood on the jetty for a dogs age, whilst non existent storm Agnes decided to rear her ugly head and blow us into the lake. We were the best part of 10 minutes late, starting...

Engineer for the day.. a day to remember for a Long time

The steam launch hosts “engineer for a day” for one person as an experience of the steam launch, on lake Coniston. I did it and am still smiling a week later. For anyone interested in steam it’s a fa...

A beautiful trip full of interesting stories

We did the full lake tour on Gondola, worth every penny for the views of Lake and fell, but a particularly interesting commentary with stories of places and people, including Arthur Ransome, John Rusk...

Lovely experience

Great trip on the Gondola informative very friendly crew. Three very happy excited Children who got to steer the Gondola . Booked online really good price worth a trip .