Florida State Parks Early Reservation
We’ve been camping for over 30 years, so not a newbie here, but apparently I still have not learned the tricks for Florida state park reservations. Back in the day (pre-COVID) we could almost alwa...
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Dutch Oven Man wrote:
snip...I just don’t see how it’s possible that every single site for every single day on a one day reservation in the middle of the week can be snatched up so quickly.
Is there some trick I’m missing, or a bot running in the background that is grabbing all these sites? Forget a holiday weekend, I never see reservations open for those. I’ve been running a “test” getting on at exactly 8:00 AM 11months+14 days to book a site preparing for a holiday weekend in 2023, and even just random dates I can’t seem to get a site quick enough. What gives?
People are booking far ahead, and then modifying their reservation. For instance, they'll reserve a Wednesday the first day it's available and that opens up the next 13 days that aren't available yet. They'll reserve the 14 days w the intention of only using some of the 14 days of the reservation. When the waiting period to make changes is over they'll give back those days to the system. As those dates go back into the system the commercial bots notify clients of availability and it's reserved again in a heartbeat.
There are bots, there is loads of competition on top of that, and there are those that have figured out how to make a profit on a public good.
