Lakeside Hotel
✓ Set on the shore of Lake Windermere with direct lake access
🏖️ 0.34 miles from Windermere, Fellfoot (Excellent water quality)
Newby Bridge
Aquariums · Windermere
Lakes Aquarium
📍 LA12 8AT
Photo: Darrin Antrobus (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
- Daily otter talk and feeding session
- Can arrive by boat or train
- Explore conservation and creature displays
- Groups, coaches and education visits catered for
Lakes Aquarium sits in Colton, in the Lake District, and is open daily from 10am. You can catch the Otter Talk and Feed, held daily, and explore exhibits covering conservation, creatures and displays, with options to arrive by boat or train. There's plenty to discover beyond the tanks, with areas dedicated to groups, coaches and education visits, plus accessibility information for those who need it. Children under three are free, and tickets can be bought online in advance. The nearest beach, Windermere's Fellfoot beach, is just 0.3 miles away, and with 77 bookable places to stay within 5 miles, it makes an easy addition to a longer Lake District break.
Practical details
- Open
- Open daily from 10am
- Booking
- Tickets can be bought online
- Accessibility
- Accessibility information is provided
From the attraction's own website on 2 Oct 2026 — check before you travel.
Facilities
- ✓ Cafe
- ✓ Toilets
- ✓ Gift Shop
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Make a proper break of it — these stays are all within 25 miles.
0.1 mi
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Fell Foot Wood Campsite
✓ Set in managed woodland with a compelling, enchanting ambience
🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Windermere, Fellfoot (Excellent water quality)
Newby Bridge
0.7 mi
Sandfold Farm
🏖️ 0.44 miles from Windermere, Fellfoot (Excellent water quality)
Bowness-on-Windermere, North West England
Sleeps 6
£857 per break
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0.7 mi
April Cottage
🏖️ 0.47 miles from Windermere, Fellfoot (Excellent water quality)
Cartmel, North West England
Sleeps 4
£363 per break
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0.8 mi
The Swan Hotel (Newby Bridge Ltd)- The Mallard
🏖️ 0.74 miles from Windermere, Fellfoot (Excellent water quality)
Lowick, North West England
Sleeps 8
£1,027 per break
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0.8 mi
The Swan Hotel (Newby Bridge Ltd)- The Hedgehog
🏖️ 0.74 miles from Windermere, Fellfoot (Excellent water quality)
Lowick, North West England
Sleeps 8
£1,106 per break
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Turn a visit to Lakes Aquarium into a proper getaway — ready-made plans, and the drive worked out with fuel, EV charging and the best stops.
🚆 Or come by train
- Grange-Over-Sands 6.1 miles
- Cark 7 miles
- Arnside 7.3 miles
Straight-line distances · live departures on each station page