You could book the pieces yourselves, and plenty of people do. What three browser tabs can’t show you is what happens when they meet a real group over a real weekend.
Lunch is brilliant. Everyone is finally deep in the conversation. Another bottle has just arrived. Nobody wants to move. Except the next booking is across town in forty minutes.
Nothing failed. The design was wrong.
My Ultimate has been learning from real group experiences since 2011: what deserves a whole afternoon, what should come first, where the weekend needs room, and when the smarter call is leaving something out. That judgement is built into every package.
So the long lunch gets to become the long lunch.