The Manitoba government is changing how residents can book campgrounds online this year in order to help avoid long waits for booking online as well as being out of luck for a spot altogether.
Starting this year anyone who wants to book cabins or yurts at Provincial Parks will only be able to make two reservations at a time instead of the usual three bookings and the maximum stay for anyone booking them will go down to seven nights from 14.
The effort by the province is an attempt to help cut down the number of times the system crashes when there is a large number of booking requests at the same time. In order to help prevent this from happening there will now be five different reservation days up from the usual three for different parks and types of bookings.
Conservation Minister Sarah Guillemard said in a press release Friday that the province will upgrade their computer servers this year and they aim to have completely new software in 2023.
