2017 - a good year?

[Morticia]

A wise innmate once said "Nothing good comes from answering the phone after 10o'clock at night." The same is true from booking over 12 months.
Not only does it tighten the ball and chain around your foot and neck and limit your choices in life, it almost always ends in a bad credit card or forgotten reservation by the "impulse" booker. There is nothing worse than having a reservation on the books to limit your future decisions, planning, even inn operations. In my very strong opinion....

We are willing but its due to the nature of business in my town - ie people are coming in the main for specific annual events and as soon as they get the date for the next year they want to make sure they have somewhere close to the venue to stay - not a 30 minute taxi each way. If in doubt I make them pay a non refundable deposit but again we do email about 3 months out to confirm again things havn't changed - good thing as have an event in may chap came to the door and booked as that year they had ended up in the next town over due to demand and didn't want to be caught out - however had lost the paper where he had taken all our details so was super pleased to know where it was he had actually booked! was going to have to look on google maps and ring every B&B on our street (there are about 15 bb's and hotels on my street its a 3 mile road)
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Same thing here. We used to get all the parents booking the following summer so they were sure to have their lodging taken care of. Don't get that any longer as hundreds of hotel rooms are now available closer to where they need to be.
They did the same thing at the summer camps - booked their kids in for the next summer. Sometimes they cancelled in January, but that still leaves plenty of time to rebook.