Free lanes are not the same as available lanes
You can have four lanes empty and be able to run two, because there is one coach on. Booking software that only counts the space will happily sell you the other two.
The limit is usually a person, not a bay
Coaching ratios, safety supervision, someone to run the brief. Whatever your rule is, it decides how many sessions can go at once regardless of how many lanes are free.
Set the rule once and availability respects it. You are not doing that arithmetic in your head at four on a Friday.
A twelve does not fit in a six
- Most systems
- Big groups spread across two or three units and want to be next to each other. Most systems make that three separate bookings that happen to be at the same time, and then somebody has to remember they belong together.
- One group here
- Here it is one booking that happens to use three lanes, and it turns up as one group on the run sheet.
By the lane or by the person
Buy out a lane for an hour. Or sell it per head and fill it from separate bookings. Corporate on a Thursday and walk-ins on a Saturday are often two different models in the same venue.
Set it per experience rather than picking one and forcing everything through it.
The gap between groups is real work
Resetting, cleaning, a safety brief for the next lot. Buffers sit between sessions so nothing sells into the time you need.