One hour may be fine if someone wants to get in some practice so having the option is fine. However, the current two hour limit works much better for groups and matches.
Can you setup for either one or two hour reservations? That would be my preference.
Thanks
Tom
Robert Taylor - 6 years ago
Definitely, please make this simple, smart and technically-quite-doable improvement to permit members to Reserve courts hourly, while still continuing the policy of permitting members to book only up to two-hours-per-day. This would give our members the simple and appropriate choice to book and use only the court-time they want or need. And thereby fix the current problem of courts sitting empty underutilized three to five weekdays-per-week, and underutilized because the current "system" is inaccurately showing those courts a "Reserved."
What's the reasoning for why our beloved public tennis club is not following "industry standard" practice? That is, the same simple, time-proven one-hour-on-the-hour court reservation system that's been used for generations by I'd estimate well over 90% of the tennis clubs throughout the USA?
The proposal to go with one-hour-Reservations-up-to-two-hours-per-day will still let each member Reserve up to two-hours-per day, while giving all our members the option to only book one-hour if that's all the court time they want and need -- thus freeing up that otherwise unused time for use by other members.
The current only-2-hour Court Reservation System is inaccurate in practice and is resulting in both underutilized (read "wasted") courts, as a small number of long-time members are being permitted to Reserve two adjacent consecutive two-hour blocks of courts simultaneously on both Courts 3 and 4 from 7AM-11AM, even though those courts are only being used 8AM-10AM (i.e., the system is showing these two courts are Reserved and unavailable for the rest of our club members 7-8AM). Then as if that's not enough of a reason to change the system, there's another group of other long-time members who at least twisce--per-week take over play on those two courts 3 & 4 at 10AM, which dovetails into this group's routinely blocked out two-hour Reservation 11AM-1PM, thus giving this group 3-hours of consecutive court time.
Looking ahead, we have hundreds of tourney players traveling to Tahoe in the next few-months to compete in our July 26-29 35th Doubles Classic Tourney and we're hosting the prestigious National Husband & Wife Mixed Doubles Championship Tourney Sep. 10-16. Many dozens of these players are going to want and need practice court time, starting as early as 7AM. But our current system doesn't let players book courts for just one-hour. Why is this a smart way for us to be managing our courts?
Here's a sample of what this hourly Court Reservation system would look like, sent from our ZCTC online Clubmanager365 Tech Support, who have advised us that they could implement this new and, in my view, improved simple one-hour Reservations system:
https://clubmanager365.com/Club/Bookings.aspx
In practice, the current system does not permit a dad to play tennis with one of his young kids for just an hour, without booking that court for two-full-hours. This is not, in my view, smart scaleable utilization of our courts.
Sheryl Herschman - 6 years ago
The 2 hour block system is the most efficient for the majority of the members. Allowing 1 hour block bookings, particularly in prime time, could potentially create a lot of unused court time. Even if only 1 court were effected, that is too much.
Parish Palmer - 6 years ago
One hour blocks are good as long as we can reserve two adjacent hours. People are blocking 4 hour chunks but only playing for two hours, leaving courts open but no way to schedule around actual play.
Kae - 6 years ago
Have one-hour increments, but allow people to book two consecutive hours.
One hour may be fine if someone wants to get in some practice so having the option is fine. However, the current two hour limit works much better for groups and matches.
Can you setup for either one or two hour reservations? That would be my preference.
Thanks
Tom
Definitely, please make this simple, smart and technically-quite-doable improvement to permit members to Reserve courts hourly, while still continuing the policy of permitting members to book only up to two-hours-per-day. This would give our members the simple and appropriate choice to book and use only the court-time they want or need. And thereby fix the current problem of courts sitting empty underutilized three to five weekdays-per-week, and underutilized because the current "system" is inaccurately showing those courts a "Reserved."
What's the reasoning for why our beloved public tennis club is not following "industry standard" practice? That is, the same simple, time-proven one-hour-on-the-hour court reservation system that's been used for generations by I'd estimate well over 90% of the tennis clubs throughout the USA?
The proposal to go with one-hour-Reservations-up-to-two-hours-per-day will still let each member Reserve up to two-hours-per day, while giving all our members the option to only book one-hour if that's all the court time they want and need -- thus freeing up that otherwise unused time for use by other members.
The current only-2-hour Court Reservation System is inaccurate in practice and is resulting in both underutilized (read "wasted") courts, as a small number of long-time members are being permitted to Reserve two adjacent consecutive two-hour blocks of courts simultaneously on both Courts 3 and 4 from 7AM-11AM, even though those courts are only being used 8AM-10AM (i.e., the system is showing these two courts are Reserved and unavailable for the rest of our club members 7-8AM). Then as if that's not enough of a reason to change the system, there's another group of other long-time members who at least twisce--per-week take over play on those two courts 3 & 4 at 10AM, which dovetails into this group's routinely blocked out two-hour Reservation 11AM-1PM, thus giving this group 3-hours of consecutive court time.
Looking ahead, we have hundreds of tourney players traveling to Tahoe in the next few-months to compete in our July 26-29 35th Doubles Classic Tourney and we're hosting the prestigious National Husband & Wife Mixed Doubles Championship Tourney Sep. 10-16. Many dozens of these players are going to want and need practice court time, starting as early as 7AM. But our current system doesn't let players book courts for just one-hour. Why is this a smart way for us to be managing our courts?
Here's a sample of what this hourly Court Reservation system would look like, sent from our ZCTC online Clubmanager365 Tech Support, who have advised us that they could implement this new and, in my view, improved simple one-hour Reservations system:
https://clubmanager365.com/Club/Bookings.aspx
In practice, the current system does not permit a dad to play tennis with one of his young kids for just an hour, without booking that court for two-full-hours. This is not, in my view, smart scaleable utilization of our courts.
The 2 hour block system is the most efficient for the majority of the members. Allowing 1 hour block bookings, particularly in prime time, could potentially create a lot of unused court time. Even if only 1 court were effected, that is too much.
One hour blocks are good as long as we can reserve two adjacent hours. People are blocking 4 hour chunks but only playing for two hours, leaving courts open but no way to schedule around actual play.
Have one-hour increments, but allow people to book two consecutive hours.
I prefer the 2 hour system!