This "rush to book", reminds me of when i worked for the process control dept.
One selfish person, or "smart", depending on your view point, was married to a school teacher, had two children same as my self. Always booked ALL the school holiday prime dates, just as soon as booking became available, his wife got to know the holiday dates earlier than i could.
As they was six of us, five with young children, naturally all wanting at lest some of our holidays in the summer six weeks, we were left fighting over the scraps. Only two were allowed off at anyone time.
Complaints to management eventually led to a five leg rota being imposed. We ALL hated it, and basically we ended up on it due only to ONE person.
The rota ran continuously where you worked six weeks with rota days only, if i recall you had only one weekend during this period on rota days off, then you had 3 weeks on holiday.
Yes we did have a lot of holidays, but we worked most week ends, worked m/a/night shifts, and all bank holidays and xmas, if the rota fell that way!
So think on you people who book, and then for what ever reason cancel, complaints may well result in rule changes, that NOBODY wants.
The most obvious is a large booking fee, which is non returnable.
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