It’s November 1st and our new website-based reservation system is officially launching!  With our old site and reservation platform currently unsupported with more modern systems and generally well past its usable life we needed to commit to a new platform and move to a better supported system.

There are many more capabilities in this new system and we’re excited for all members to sign up.

Some differences as follows:

More capabilities:

You can still pay by cash, check, Venmo, and now PayPal which allows payment by credit card

You can reserve bunks in specific rooms automatically, so if you prefer rooms you can reserve them. The system will give you a bunk in that room, not necessarily the specific bunk in a room.

You can see how many bunks are remaining on any given date, so you can judge how busy that day will be.

You can login and reserve anywhere using mobile phones, iPads, and laptops.

Differences:

You can now pay for your stay through this system.

After you book you will receive an email confirming your booking, providing a link to cancel, and reminder emails if you did not pay for your stay.

How to get started:

You will need to create a new profile to use the system. Your old website account unfortunately does not carryover. Members can head over to the Membership page; choose “Login (Current Members)” then “Claim your FREE new-website account” (or just click the preceding link).  Since we only want to extend this FREE invitation to current/paid members, you will need to login with a password.  To pick something memorable we chose the lodge WiFi password.  Look for that password in your most recent newsletter.  After entering that password, you will be asked basic questions for creating your account. This information will also be used to populate our new and upcoming online membership directory.  This private directory will be be behind the membership wall, and once launched will help to better connect members in addition to our usual Yellow Pages). You can even upload a profile photo and we encourage you to do so (eventually).

As for booking a reservation; you will be greeted with a how to video so consult that for the specifics.  The whole process is pretty intuitive, but of course we always anticipate some growing pains. You can document (screen-shot/record and provide notes) of any issues you encounter and we’ll do our best to get everything in full working order. Bug Reports can be submitted on the Connect page of our website. You may also include any attachments with your report. Additional training videos can be made up if required and they will be put into the member section as needed.