Guest identity
Connect the request to a stay or membership.
Collect a recognizable identifier and contact details for follow-up.
- Guest name, email, and mobile.
- Room, confirmation, member, or unit number.
- Preferred contact method if needed.
Describe your pool inventory, hours, and guest rules. Makeform creates a poolside reservation form for cabanas, loungers, daybeds, or time slots, with the stay details your team needs.
Send poolside requests to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, tailor it to your property, or send it to the builder. The structure previews useful questions.
Audience
Overnight guests requesting a full-day cabana
Format
Cabana request with stay verification and preferences
Prompt size
319 chars
Example form structure
Cabana request with stay verification and preferences
Guest, room, and confirmation details
Requested date and arrival time
Preferred cabana area and backups
Adults, children, and total party size
I have read the poolside rules
Suggested routing tags
Cabana requests
Lounger requests
Needs review
Ask for a confirmation or member number and the date before inventory choices so staff can review eligibility and availability.
Step 1
Identify
guest, room or member number, and contact
Step 2
Choose
date, session, pool zone, and preferred setup
Step 3
Review
staff checks eligibility, capacity, and inventory
Step 4
Prepare
confirmed request reaches the pool team
A calmer pool deck
Collect who is coming, what they want, and when they will arrive in one consistent request.
Offer clear resource choices and preferences without implying that inventory is confirmed.
Adult, child, member, and guest counts support occupancy review and preparation.
Send the date and requested resource to the responsible pool team.
Built for hospitality
Change inventory, eligibility, time blocks, and notes to match your property.
Verify the stay, party size, area preferences, inclusions, and arrival instructions.
Ask for membership, guests, session, lounger count, and zone.
Collect party counts, shade, allergies, and family or access needs.
Let staff review headcount for scheduled residential or wellness pool blocks.
Reservation workflow
Shape guest questions, review, and handoff around your resources and eligibility rules.
Name resources, zones, time blocks, operating days, and eligible guests.
Add identifiers, party details, alternatives, arrival time, and conditional questions.
Show check-in, capacity, cancellation, weather, and supervision notes before acknowledgment.
Organize pool operations requests by date and resource for review and preparation.
Request form vs scattered messages
Collect comparable choices, party details, and alternatives before staff checks availability.
Field guide
Use these six field groups, keeping only questions your property needs.
Guest identity
Collect a recognizable identifier and contact details for follow-up.
Date and inventory
Use structured choices and collect alternatives in the same request.
Party composition
Separate guest groups when occupancy, eligibility, or supervision differs.
Preferences and access
Label location and amenity details as preferences for staff review.
Operating information
Show current property-specific instructions before guests submit.
Review and acknowledgment
State whether staff review the request and how guests hear back.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for hotel, resort, club, and recreation teams designing a clearer guest request flow.
It collects a requested date and poolside resource with party, stay or membership, preference, and rule-acknowledgment details for staff review.
Include guest contact, room or member identifier, date, session, resource, party counts, alternatives, useful preferences, access needs, and acknowledgment.
Yes. Start with resource type, then show conditional questions for zone, inclusions, quantity, umbrellas, attendee count, or time block.
The form can clearly collect a reservation request, but confirmation should match the workflow you actually operate. If staff check a separate inventory calendar, label the submission as pending review and explain how guests receive the outcome. Do not imply real-time availability unless that mechanism is connected and verified.
Ask for a first choice and acceptable date, session, zone, or resource alternatives. This preserves guest priorities and reduces follow-up.
Yes. Ask focused optional questions about access, shade, equipment, allergies, or dietary needs only when staff can act on the answers.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect poolside requests without an invented response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Responses reach your Makeform inbox and can flow to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier for review by date and resource.
Give every poolside request a clear path.