BOAT HARBOUR WEEKENDS OVER SUMMER CLICK HERE FOR OPEN BALLOTS On expected busy Sundays and Public Holidays, entry to Boat Harbour Park will be limited to Season Pass Holders who have received an invitation in the ballot. CHANGES TO ENTRY ON SUMMER WEEKENDS If you purchased a season pass online in the past few months, you’ll have noticed that the way customers access the park on our busiest days was changing. On Sundays and Public Holidays over summer, particularly those forecast to have particularly good “Boat Harbour weather”, access to the park was changed to be by invitation only and those invitations were only accessible to a limited number of our season pass holders. This change was implemented to ensure that our customers were guaranteed a space in the park before they made the decision and all their preparations to come to the park. By doing this, we’ll minimise both the disappointment of reaching capacity and turning people away, as well as preventing any overflow of customers from negatively impacting the roads and community around us. Unfortunately even with this change, demand for space is still expected to outstrip the available places. To make the allocation of access as fair as possible, and to minimise the negative impacts, we’ve implemented a ballot system whereby interested season pass holders can “Opt-in” to a ballot which will allocate a certain amount of invitations based upon our expectations of the beach’s capacity for that day. Season Pass holders will receive an email and an SMS from us when we determine that a particular day will be restricted to invitation only, The email will request that you “Opt-in” or “Opt-out” of a ballot for an invitation to attend the park on the nominated day. You can simply click one of the buttons in the email or follow the link to our website where you can also manage your requests up until the time that the ballot is run. Entry to the ballot is typically open for around 3 days after it opens and after that time, we will randomly allocate invitations to those passholders who have opted in. Passholders who have opted in to the ballot will receive a notification by the end of the day of the ballot as to whether they were successful or not in receiving an invitation. Passholders who have opted out or did not respond to the email or sms will not be eligible to receive an invitation and won’t receive further communication from us. If you’re successful in receiving an invitation, please come to the park on the nominated day whenever you like and plan to stay as long as you like, knowing that we’ve guaranteed you a space on the beach. We will be scanning passes as you arrive to ensure only passholders who received an invitation are provided entry to the park. If you are unsuccessful or do not opt-in to the ballot, please do not attempt to attend the park as you will not be permitted to enter. CONTACT US✉ INFO@BESMAW.COM.AU☎ 9923 1944EPL - HLRCEPL - SAND