Your Group. Your Adventure. Built from the Ground Up.
WAI designs private walking tours for groups of 20 or more — with the same expert guides, built-from-scratch itineraries, and close-to-the-ground philosophy as every WAI adventure.
Tell Us About Your GroupPlanning a Group Trip Is Hard. Finding One Worth Taking Is Harder.
Most group travel falls into one of two traps. Either you book a generic tour and hope it works for your group — only to find yourself on a bus with strangers, following a guide holding an umbrella, visiting the same twelve stops as every other tour that week. Or you try to plan something yourself and quickly discover that coordinating flights, hotels, activities, and logistics for twenty people is a part-time job.
There's a third option: a trip designed specifically for your group, by guides who've spent decades building walking adventures that people talk about for years. A trip where the itinerary reflects your group's interests, not a cookie-cutter template. Where the walking pace and daily rhythm are calibrated to your travelers. Where someone else handles every logistical detail so you can focus on being present.
That's what a private WAI adventure looks like.
We Don't Adapt an Existing Tour. We Build Yours.
Every WAI private adventure starts with a conversation — about your group, your destination interests, your travelers' walking abilities, and what you want everyone to take home from the experience. From there, our guides build a custom itinerary from the ground up: routes they've walked themselves, stops that tell the right stories for your group, a pace and rhythm that fits your travelers rather than forcing them to fit ours.
Two WAI guides lead every private trip. On international itineraries, we add local expert guides who bring the culture, history, and hidden stories of their home to life in ways no outside guide ever could. You get the depth of a WAI scheduled adventure — without sharing it with anyone else.
Private WAI Adventures Are a Good Fit For…
Family reunions and multigenerational trips.
Walking is one of the best ways to travel across generations — it scales to different fitness levels, creates natural time for conversation, and produces the kind of shared memories that outlast any resort stay. A private WAI adventure lets the family experience a destination together at a pace that works for everyone from the youngest adult to the most seasoned traveler.
Faith communities and church groups.
Many of WAI's most beloved destinations carry deep spiritual and historical significance — the ancient pathways of the Holy Land, the pilgrimage routes of Ireland and Portugal, the living history of Egypt and Greece. A faith community traveling together brings a layer of shared meaning to these places that an individual traveler simply doesn't have. We build itineraries that honor that — and welcome groups from all traditions.
55+ communities, senior centers, and lifelong learning programs.
WAI was built for active adults who refuse to slow down. Our scheduled tours draw heavily from the 55–75 demographic because our pace, our group culture, and our focus on depth over distance match what this generation wants from travel. Private groups from retirement communities, OLLI programs, senior centers, and similar organizations are a natural fit — and we're experienced at calibrating itineraries to the fitness and mobility range of an active older group.
Friend groups and travel circles.
Sometimes the best reason to take a private trip is the simplest one: you have people you love to travel with and a destination you've all been talking about. A private WAI adventure means you control who's in the group, the pace fits your collective fitness level, and every experience is designed for you — not for the average traveler.
How a Private WAI Adventure Comes Together
A Few Things Worth Knowing Upfront
We're genuinely excited to work with private groups — and we want to be honest about what makes for a great fit so we don't waste your time.
WAI private adventures work best when the destination and travel style align with what our guides do well: walking-based cultural and historical itineraries, built around the kind of meaningful, close-to-the-ground travel that WAI is known for. We're not the right partner for beach resort packages, cruise add-ons, or high-adrenaline adventure tours.
Timing also matters. Our guides have commitments to WAI's scheduled tour calendar, which means private trip availability is real — certain seasons and dates will be more flexible than others. We'll be upfront about this from the first conversation.
And if we don't think we're the right fit for what you're describing, we'll tell you — kindly and quickly. We'd rather point you in the right direction than build something that doesn't deliver what your group deserves.
Let's Talk About Your Group
Tell us a little about what you have in mind. We'll be in touch within two business days to set up a conversation with one of our guides.
Prefer to call? We're available Monday through Friday, 7–10am Pacific.
360.260.9393 · fun@walkingadventures.com
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