Rowing & Canoeing

General Rowing Sessions at Dorney Lake

are available to pre-book throughout the year.

Make a booking |    Session Prices |   Session Timings |   Hiring the Return Lake

Making a Booking 

To make a booking for our General Rowing & Canoe Sessions, please contact our Reception Team:

Give us a call: 01753 832756

Drop us an email: rowing@dorneylake.co.uk

Download a PDF version of our session information and safety guidelines. We ask that this is read and understood before you attend your session.

Download our 2025 Session Information & Safety Guidelines

Bookings are available for established rowing or canoeing clubs for training. We are unable to take session bookings for individuals not part of a club or for recreational purposes.

We request that only the Coach makes the booking, where we will ask for a contact telephone number should we need to contact the coach on the day of your booking as well as information on the number of athletes, boats, and trailers expected.

Weekday Rowing Sessions

Our Weekday Winter Rowing Session timings run from Monday 28th October 2024 until Friday 28th March 2025, and are as follows- 

Morning Session - 8.00am to 12.00pm

Afternoon Session - 12.00pm to 4.00pm 

Our Weekday Summer Rowing Session timings run from Monday 31st March 2025 until Friday 24th October 2025, and are as follows- 

Morning Session - 8.00am to 12.30pm

Afternoon Session - 12.30pm to 4.30pm 

Weekend Rowing Sessions

Where availability allows and we are not closed for a sports event, morning-only sessions will be taken as a provisional booking and confirmed on the Thursday before if the minimum requirements for opening are met.

When making our decision, we require a minimum number of 60 rowers per morning session or an agreed payment of the opening fee of £590 (for 2025).

Weekend Rowing Session times are as follows- 

Morning Session - 8.00am to 12.30pm

Session Prices 2025

Adult - £9.80 per athlete, per session

Junior (under 18) - £6.20 per athlete, per session

We do not charge for Coxes 

Session Prices 2026

To be confirmed

We take many methods of payment including cash, credit card (except American Express), debit card, and invoice. Any clubs that would like to have an account set up for invoicing purposes will need to contact the reception team.

 Please note that all invoices are on a thirty-day payment term and any late payments may result in restricting the clubs access to the lake for training purposes. 

Hiring the Return Lake

We offer the option to hire the return lake, where you and any club you choose to invite will have entire use away from the main lake. 

2025 Entire use of the Return Lake pricing:

£485 per session

The ‘per athlete’ charge is payable in addition to the hire fee

• Hiring the Return Lake Hiring the return lake is only possible within our normal lake operating hours, and dependant on availability. Our normal operating safety policies, weekday and weekend session timings; all still apply when hiring the return lake.
• The maximum number of boats, in total on the return lake at any one time, is 50 boats.
• Novice and inexperienced crews in small boats are not permitted, under cold water guidelines.
• You are welcome to invite other clubs to join you, however, they must pre-book with us as per the usual process and we cannot guarantee availability for them due to, for example, available trailer parking.
• Each club's coach should report to Reception to book in all athletes, note the lake circulation plan (navigation plan), and be made aware of any safety information by the Reception Team before any athlete from their club goes afloat.
• No person shall access the water until this has been completed and bow numbers have been issued. This applies to each individual club training in the return lake. Any crews without a Dorney Lake issued bow number and/or have not booked in at Reception, and/or are not following the circulation plan (navigation plan) will be asked to leave the water immediately.