What you are actually paying for
Aldervale Walking Tours started as one route Rosalind wrote out for a friend visiting from out of town, then wrote out again for the next friend, then decided to just start charging for it. Every tour still gets rewritten as we learn something better - a stop drops off the route if it stops being worth the ten minutes it takes.
We run rain or shine. Cancelling for weather would mean cancelling most of the winter, so instead we tell you what to bring: a jacket that handles wind for Lantern Hill, grippy shoes for the market floor, and a rain layer the other three months of the year. If conditions turn genuinely unsafe - lightning, flooding on the lower docks - we call it on site and you get a full refund or a rebooking, your choice.
Every group is capped for a reason specific to that tour, never a round number picked for marketing - the market stalls, the foundry catwalk, the van seats, or simply how far a voice carries outdoors. If a tour falls below six people booked by 48 hours out, we cancel it, tell you as soon as the decision is made, and refund in full; we would rather cancel early than run a walk too small to be worth your afternoon or too rushed to do the route justice.
