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Camping Glossary index

booking hold

noun

Definition of booking hold

A booking hold is a temporary period during which a campsite or accommodation is unavailable to other campers while someone is in the process of reserving it. Booking holds help prevent multiple people from booking the same site at the same time.

An example of booking hold in a sentence

The site looked available at first, but it was actually under a booking hold while another camper completed checkout.

Related terms for booking hold

The above is an entry in Campnab’s Pretty Darned Useful Glossary of Camping Terms. This glossary is another project from us, the two Erics (@shelkie and @karj). We had a harebrained idea to create a dictionary containing every single camping term we came across. Admittedly, this is taking some effort—and leaving us with less time for camping. D’oh!

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