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2/28/2020 4:57 pm  #69


Re: new reservation system

John Connelly wrote:

Solos ...... That is a beautiful picture of your friend !

I really like the photo. It will be the one that we put up on the bookshelf. It was taken by my wife when all the girls went to the far side of the island to watch the sun set. The wife has a better ability to take pictures and a better phone camera.

 

6/02/2020 7:53 pm  #70


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MNR doesn't run the online reservation system - it is contracted out.   I would assume the markedly new web site is due to the contract for running the reservation system running out and a new vendor winning the contract.  However, it appears that the complaints about the site no longer showing site availability have fallen on deaf ears - the site still doesn't show how many campsites a lake has and how many sites are reserved.  I do like the fact that you can now easily view availability of a lake in the future.

 

6/03/2020 7:40 am  #71


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  When I made my reservation for tomorrow a couple of weeks ago, I made a comment/complaint about exactly that. I mentioned that the old site showed how many sites and how many were booked. I always booked purely on that fact alone. To try and stay away from the crowds. As of today, no feedback. 

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6/03/2020 8:04 am  #72


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Agreed, I always book with the intention of avoiding people and hate the new system. 

 

6/03/2020 10:21 pm  #73


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yellowcanoe wrote:

MNR doesn't run the online reservation system - it is contracted out.   I would assume the markedly new web site is due to the contract for running the reservation system running out and a new vendor winning the contract.  However, it appears that the complaints about the site no longer showing site availability have fallen on deaf ears - the site still doesn't show how many campsites a lake has and how many sites are reserved.  I do like the fact that you can now easily view availability of a lake in the future.

 
It was Camis before and it’s them again now. They do their own software according to the booker I spoke with. The new website absolutely sucks and they really don’t seem to be interested in doing anything about it. In addition to not showing lake occupancy, I’ve found the entire site to be badly behaved- as soon as I start checking out multiple routes and dates it starts feeding back untrue availability information. It struggles with completing a reservation, etc, etc (as outlined in this thread already). The old site had calendar availability already (at least for some parks), so that’s not an improvement.

 

6/06/2020 11:48 pm  #74


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First time using it and it took an hour and a half to get it done.  I think I'm going back to calling.

 

6/07/2020 6:59 am  #75


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For those keeping track that brings us up to.

People who like the new reservation site.

Yes - 0
No- 10,897

Really disappointed they have done absolutely nothing with all the feedback they received.

Really wish they would just bring back the old system at this point.


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6/07/2020 7:37 am  #76


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sadly this seems to be a theme with Camis! It seems every time they upgrade they remove or over complicate features that worked fine. first it was the double booking issue, then, in fixing it, they screwed up the costs for disabled campers (full price instead of disabled price), it's fixed now, but the other glitches have multiplied in it's place
 I hate to say it, but now I plan for a 2 hour battle every time I try to book....

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6/07/2020 9:43 pm  #77


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ShawnD wrote:

... Really wish they would just bring back the old system at this point.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!

 

6/07/2020 9:56 pm  #78


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solos wrote:

ShawnD wrote:

... Really wish they would just bring back the old system at this point.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!

I really hate that phrase. If everyone followed that saying there would be no such thing as innovation and improvement.

But in this case I'll make an exception... please Ontario Parks don't try to innovate and improve... just give us back the old system


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6/08/2020 10:10 pm  #79


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trippythings wrote:

solos wrote:

ShawnD wrote:

... Really wish they would just bring back the old system at this point.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!

I really hate that phrase. If everyone followed that saying there would be no such thing as innovation and improvement.
...

How about:  Keep trying new things but if it isn't better than the original, don't use it.

 

 

2/09/2022 10:56 pm  #80


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So booked a couple of national park trips in the past few days. I have to say I really like the national park reservation system. Each park has an opening day for reservations for the whole year. On Tuesday Bruce peninsula national park opened for reservations. At about 7:30 I went to the website and I was placed in a queue for reservations that opened at 8. At 8am I was told where I was in the queue and how long until my turn. When my turn came I was immediately forwarded to the reservations page. Choose my dates and campsites, paid and got an email confirmation. So much better than the 5 months in advance Ontario parks system that causes so many people to game the system by booking days they have no intention of using and cancelling later.

Did the same thing this morning for a pukaskwa reservation.

Ontario parks should take some notes on how to run a reservation system.

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