The Waitlist facility in the booking system allows members to register their interest in weekend or other non-standard bookings earlier than when bookings open 19 days prior to the start date.

To make it easier and fairer to make weekend and other non-standard bookings, procedures for the Waitlist facility in the booking system has been reviewed.

1. Waitlist requests cannot be submitted until after 18 March.  
2. Each member will be allowed to submit up to 3 waitlist requests for the season. The booking officer will delete surplus requests.
3. Use the comments field in the booking to express any priority between your bookings, eg if one is more important because it is for a special event.
4. If a booking includes multiple members, it will count as a waitlist request for each individual member (eg if a couple who are members request a weekend, it counts as a waitlist request for each of them).
5. Payment is due immediately when a waitlist request is approved.
6. If your waitlist request cannot be met, you will be eligible to make another waitlist request.
7. The booking officer will allocate waitlist bookings according to these criteria, in this order
   1. member priority rules (ie bookings with highest proportion of members take precedence)
   2. maximise lodge occupancy
   3. a fair go for all members (eg favour someone who has not had a waitlist granted over someone who has, some consideration of reasons cited in comments for specific dates requested)
   4. early date of submitting the request

For more information see the Waitlist Request booking policy

Trial of early approval of eligible waitlist bookings

On a trial basiss, eligible waitlist requests will be approved from 1 April (previously 1 June), where eligible means

• only members, spouse and their children, and
• the preceding midweek is full, and
• the booking is paid for immediately on request from the booking officer.