Booking Fees for the Honeypots

I do not think fines will work. If you are going to be fined if you cancel then you are back to the old problem of lost deposits in that you simply just do not turn up as the loss stays the same and that means all chance of letting the pitch is lost. Possibly no shows should be treated more harshly than cancelations.

The answer i see is if you cancel regularly then have all of your bookings cancelled. And only allowed to book within a week before the date you want to go.

In reality we have no idea what the CAMC do in relation to persistent offenders. Perhaps they do have bookings suspended and / or expelled. Personally I do not think it a huge problem. Given the number of folk going away each weekend it is inevitable you will get a fair number cancelling for quite legitimate reasons. Add on to this the late release of grass pitches into the system and it is easy to see why the conspiracy theory of large numbers cancelling on a whim has developed.