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# **How LakeBooking works**

A short orientation to the platform. What it is, who it's for, and where to go next.

LakeBooking is a two-sided platform for fishing lakes. **Hosts** (the people who own or run the lakes) list their swims, set their rules, and manage their calendar. **Anglers** search, compare, and book a session at a real lake without making a single phone call. That's the whole platform in two sentences.

This support hub is split into three sections, mirrored in the sidebar on the left:

- **Getting Started**: the page you're on now, plus quick-start guides and a glossary of the words we use.
- **For Anglers**: how to find a lake, pay, arrive, and review a session.
- **For Hosts**: how to list your lake, set your prices, manage your calendar, and get paid.

## The 60-second mental model

There are three concepts that show up everywhere on the platform. If you know what these mean, you can read any other page without losing the plot:

- **Swim**: one bookable spot on a lake. A 4-hectare carp lake might have 12 swims; each one is rented to one party at a time. We use the British angling word "swim" rather than "peg" or "spot" because it's the one that travels best across our markets.
- **Billing unit**: the block of time a package is priced by, such as 12h or 24h. Each package has its own billing units and check-in times, and a longer session is priced as several of them. You never pick a billing unit yourself. On the lake page you choose a **Session length** (from 6 hours up to a week, whichever the package offers) and see its price before you book.
- **Booking fee / remaining balance**: the total booking value splits into two parts. The **booking fee** (a flat 10%) is paid online at checkout to secure your booking. The **remaining balance** (90%) is paid directly to the host when you arrive at the lake. The fee counts toward the total. It isn't an extra charge.

A full glossary lives on the [**Glossary**](https://lakebooking.com/support/getting-started/glossary) page.

## Choose your path

Pick the quick-start that matches what you're doing today. Each one is a single page, ten minutes at most:

[I want to book a session (angler)](https://lakebooking.com/support/getting-started/for-anglers) [I want to list my lake (host)](https://lakebooking.com/support/getting-started/for-owners)

## What this hub does not cover

This is the **how it works** documentation. It covers process and concepts, not legal text. For the legal side of each topic, you want:

- [**Terms & Conditions**](https://lakebooking.com/legal/terms-and-conditions): the contract between you and LakeBooking S.R.L.
- [**Refund Policy**](https://lakebooking.com/legal/refund-policy): when and how money moves back to you.
- [**Privacy Policy**](https://lakebooking.com/legal/privacy-policy): what we collect and why.
- [**Trust & Safety**](https://lakebooking.com/trust-and-safety): verification, payments, reviews, your data, and what happens when a booking goes wrong.

If a support page and a legal page contradict each other, the legal page wins. We try very hard to keep them in step.

## Still stuck?

The fastest way to a human is the [**contact form**](https://lakebooking.com/contact). For anything email-shaped, write to [**contact@lakebooking.com**](mailto:contact@lakebooking.com) (one inbox, real people, one working day).

  [**Quick start for anglers** From signup to your first session in under ten minutes. What to do, what to expect, and what each step costs.](https://lakebooking.com/support/getting-started/for-anglers)

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