Size
Six to twelve is the sweet spot
Big enough to feel like a proper trip, small enough that a country pub can seat you all on one table. We take group bookings from four upwards; anything larger than sixteen we split across two adjacent hotels.
Who's coming · Group
The trip
you finally book
together.
The stag-do-that-isn't, the fortieth, the reunion, the running club's summer week. Trails with enough beds in the right villages to keep six, eight or twelve people in the same pub each night.
Walking as a group
The whole thing works
because everyone
sleeps in the same place.
Group long-distance walking lives or dies on one thing: whether the whole group ends up at the same table every evening. That means picking trails where the overnight villages have enough beds, of the right kind, in one place — not a mixed bag of B&Bs strung out along a valley road.
The trails on this page all have real villages at the end of every stage — the sort with a pub big enough for a group of ten, and a hotel or inn that can hold that many rooms on one booking. That's what makes them work for reunions, birthday trips, stag and hen weeks, running clubs, and everything in between.
We handle the group booking with one point of contact — but nobody has to front the money. Your group gets its own private trip page where each walker pays their own deposit by card and fills in their own details, so the organiser never collects a single bank transfer. We can also split you into pace groups on the trail: faster group ahead, slower group behind, everyone in the same bar at six.
Group bookings
One organiser. Everyone pays their own share.
The hardest part of a group trip isn't the walking — it's the money. So we took it off the organiser. You agree the trip with us once, then each walker pays their own deposit on your group's own private page.
- You tell us the plan
- One organiser — the lead booker — gives us the trail, the dates, roughly how many of you there are, and how fast the group wants to walk. We plan it and quote a fixed price per person.
- We build a private trip page
- Your group gets its own page with the itinerary, what's included, the price per person and the deposit. It's private — only people with the access code you share can see it.
- Everyone pays their own share
- No collecting money, no bank transfers, no spreadsheet. Each walker opens the page, picks their name, pays their own deposit by card, and adds their own dietary and emergency details.
- You can see who's paid
- The page shows the whole group and who's still outstanding, so the organiser can chase the last two without asking anyone awkward questions.
Private group trip
Your group's own page — one fixed price, agreed up front.
- Price per person
- £640
- Deposit per person
- £128
- Balance due
- 23/03/27
Prices can be fixed in pounds sterling exactly as quoted, so the rate doesn't move between agreeing the trip and everyone paying.
What the organiser doesn't have to do
- Front the whole deposit on their own card.
- Collect ten separate bank transfers.
- Keep a spreadsheet of who has and hasn't paid.
- Chase people for dietary requirements and emergency contacts.
- Explain the itinerary ten times over WhatsApp.
The lead booker still holds the booking with us and makes the decisions for the group — one point of contact, one set of arrangements. Deposits are non-refundable and any refund due is returned to the lead booker.
Trails to walk together
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Every trail is walked and re-walked before we open it. We'd rather do four brilliantly than forty badly.
Booking nowScotland
West Highland Way
154 km · 6–8 days
The Scottish long walk. Loch Lomond, Rannoch Moor, Glen Coe — big villages at the end of every stage and a hotel bar built for a group of ten.
Booking nowEngland
Coast to Coast
309 km · 12–16 days
Wainwright's line across northern England. A fortnight, three national parks, and a pub finish in every village — the classic big-group walk.
Booking nowEngland
Cotswold Way
164 km · 7–10 days
Honey-stone market towns every night, big country pubs with tables of ten and rooms upstairs. Made for a birthday or reunion trip.
Booking nowScotland
Great Glen Way
127 km · 5–7 days
Fort William to Inverness on flat towpaths or the high line above the loch. Two paces on the trail, one table at dinner.
Booking nowEngland
Dales Way
130 km · 5–8 days
Yorkshire Dales into the Lake District along river valleys — the sort of week where every night is a pub with a big table and a bigger fire.
Booking nowEngland
Cumbria Way
116 km · 5–7 days
South to north through the Lake District. Coniston, Langdale and Borrowdale — three of the best group-hotel villages in England.
Booking nowEngland
Hadrian's Wall Path
135 km · 6–8 days
Ninety miles of Roman wall from coast to coast. A trail with a shared subject to talk about all week — natural for a reunion or work group.
Booking nowMallorca, Spain
GR221 Dry Stone Route
138 km · 6–8 days
The Serra de Tramuntana end to end. Mountain refuges and small hotels that suit a group booking — and a warm week in the Med either side.
Booking nowMenorca, Spain
Camí de Cavalls
184 km · 7–8 days
A full loop of Menorca's coast — turquoise coves, whitewashed fishing villages, and finca-style hotels that hold a group under one roof.
Where to walk as a group
Trails with real
villages at the end
of every stage.
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How to plan a group trip
One booking,
two paces,
one bar at six.
Pace
Two speeds, same finish
Nobody wants to walk at the pace of the slowest OR the fastest of ten friends. We plan for two paces on the trail — early starters and later starters — with the same day's finish. Everyone in the bar at six.
Booking
One invoice, one point of contact
You give us the list of walkers; we send the itinerary to each of them, take deposits when you're ready, and invoice the whole trip to a single lead booker or split it however you want. No awkward group WhatsApp about who owes what.
Extras
Rest days, dinner tables, transfers
Group trips work better with a rest day or two in the middle — usually somewhere with a bigger town, a boat trip, or a distillery. We can book group dinner tables, private transfers to the start, and left-luggage at the finish.
From the journal
Notes for group trips.
Coast to Coast
Advice From Other Hikers: The Coast to Coast
Coast to Coast finishers on footwear, light packs, rest days, unpredictable food stops and the small practical choices that make a crossing.
13 September 20265 min read
West Highland Way
Advice From Other Hikers: The West Highland Way
We asked our Facebook community of West Highland Way finishers one question: what single piece of advice would you give somebody setting off tomorrow?
20 August 20266 min read
West Highland Way
Someone Has to Carry the Bottles Out
Richard Newsome has been looking after bothies on the West Highland Way for 12 years. This once meant carrying 42 glass bottles four and a half miles back to his car. He moved to Scotland because of the West Highland Way and has never once walked into a bothy and thought about quitting.
12 May 20266 min read