Rishikesh for Groups of Thirty and Up

Rafting is split into waves across the morning. Your group will not be on the water simultaneously and should not expect to be; the realistic shape is two or three departures with the rest at the camp or in town.

The jumping activities are worse and need deciding early: either a subset of the group jumps while the others do something else, or you accept a long rotation. Pretending fifty people will all jump in a morning is how a schedule collapses.

First, is the camp dry and vegetarian, and is that acceptable to this group. On a large college or corporate booking this is the single most frequent cause of a bad weekend, and it is a one-line question at the enquiry stage.

Second, is the group doing everything together or splitting. A group that is willing to split into activity bands fits far more into the same two days, and costs less, than one that insists on moving as a block.

Camps with thirty-plus beds in one place are limited, and the good ones go weeks ahead for weekends, long weekends and the Christmas–New Year window. Rafting slots for multiple rafts on the same morning need the same notice.

Last-minute large bookings are possible and usually mean splitting across two camps, which is workable but is not what the group pictured. Tell us the headcount early even if the dates are soft.