UGUIDE Tier Pricing Information
As of Feb. 1, 2013, we are breaking our camps into 3 different pricing tiers. This will benefit both landowners and hunters for a number of reasons. A few of these reasons would be that it will help hunters to select a camp easier based on their budget preferences and also allow landowners to work into higher pricing tiers by developing a higher repeat customer base by adding additional quality habitat.
Another way to look at Tiers is comparable to the star system in Hotels (**** star = Tier 1, *** star = Tier 2, etc.)
Returning Visitor Rate ( or repeat rate) is the single variable which were used to determine what camps would go into what tiers. In essence it is a consumer driven pricing model.
- Tier Determination based on Repeat Booking rate
- Tier 1 is 66-100% of groups re-booked within 14 days of conclusion of current years hunt.
- Tier 2 is 34-65% of groups re-booked within 14 days of conclusion of current years hunt.
- Tier 3 is 0-33% of groups re-booked within 14 days of conclusion of current years hunt.
- Note: if a group has a desire for variety and wants to book a different camp than they had they prior year that booking credits the existing camp with a re-book as long as the group books withing the UGUIDE Network of Pheasant Camps.
- At the end of a season if a camp improves in Tiers it earns that Tiers pricing in the future years. Not next years bookings but the year after that.
- If a camp goes down in tiers based on the re-booking rate at the conclusion of the prior season then that camps Tier will change immediately. Even if guests booked at a higher Tiers price initially they would be credited back to the current lowers tiered rate should the re-booking rate of that camp determine that. It is a little bit of price protection if you will.
- So it takes longer to move up in tiers and is very quick to go back in tiers.
These are some of the drivers that influence guests determining to make a return trip to a camp or not:
- Acres of total land
- Acres of CRP
- Acres of Food plots
- Overall quality of the huntable habitat acres
- 1st year Camp or not (1st year camps start in Tier 3)
- Lodging accommodations (age, size, amenities)
- Other management and operation considerations.
- Good or Poor hatch due to climate conditions