Why eight is the number

Eight fits one guide, one long table and one vehicle. Past that we would need a second of each, and the week stops being the thing we set out to run.

At twelve you get sub-groups. People pair off, the slow walkers stop talking to the fast ones, and the guide spends the day counting heads instead of showing you anything.

So we cap it at eight and we do not move the number, even when a ninth person offers to pay more. We have turned that down more than once.

It is the single most expensive decision we make, and the one we would defend hardest.