For Anglers

This section is for anglers — people who fish on a lake somebody else owns and operates. If you're a host (you list a lake yourself), the For Hosts section is the one you want.

You don't have to read this section in order. Pick the page that matches the question in your head right now:

• Finding a lake — search filters, what makes a result trustworthy, and how to read a lake page in five minutes before you commit.
• Making a booking — the checkout flow, the booking fee and remaining balance, group bookings, and the 3DS step with your bank.
• At the lake — arrival, ID check, paying the remaining balance, the 24-hour comms window, leaving, and what counts as a problem worth flagging.

The three rules of using LakeBooking as an angler

We're trying not to be one of those products that needs a manual, but these three are worth knowing because they keep you out of disputes:

1. Pay through the platform. If a host ever asks you to pay the booking fee outside the platform — bank transfer, Revolut, "I'll send you my IBAN" — say no. Once money leaves Stripe, the platform's dispute path stops protecting you, and so does the booking-fee / remaining-balance split that makes the model work. Hosts who ask for this are flagged in Trust & Safety.

2. Get arrival expectations in writing. The 24 hours before your session is when the host's phone number unlocks and arrival instructions go live. Anything important — gate code, late-arrival policy, off-road access, lifejacket-for-kids requirement — needs to be on the platform message thread, not on a phone call you'll forget. The thread is what the platform uses if anything escalates.

3. Flag problems from the gate, not after. If you arrive and the swim is unusable, the stock isn't there, or the host's no-show fee is a surprise — open the booking, tap Report an issue, send a photo. This timestamps the issue. Trying to fix it three days later by email is harder for everyone, including us.

What's not in this section

This is the operational documentation. For the legal and policy side, you want:

• Refund Policy — when you get money back, who pays it, and how long it takes.
• Trust & Safety — verification, fish welfare, water safety, incident handling.
• Privacy Policy — what we share with the host (it's: name, phone, payment confirmation) and when.

If a support page contradicts a legal page, the legal page is the one that's right.

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