For All Bookings (except Summer School Holiday Bookings)

If a booking is cancelled more than 4 weeks before the booking date then a full refund of the payment will be made.
If a booking is cancelled less than 4 weeks (for whatever reason, be it sickness, injury, hospitalisation, family issues, work commitments, inclement weather, etc.) then there will be no refund of the booking payment unless we can re-book the Hut for the cancelled nights. For example, if you cancel 3 nights that you booked and we receive a new booking for 2 of those nights then you will be refunded 2 of the nightly deposits.
In order to facilitate the potential re-booking of your nights then we will advertise the vacancy on our facebook page.

For Summer School Holiday Bookings

If a booking is cancelled or changed, there is a $100 fee, regardless of when the booking is cancelled/changed.

Inclement Weather

The Scout Hut is located in an alpine region where the weather can be quite inclement sometimes.  There are no refunds of the booking deposit due to inclement weather.

Road Closures

If the road into the National Park is fully closed (or closed to 4WD only) due to snow then your booking deposit will be fully refunded.  If you are prevented from leaving the Hut due to a Road Closure then there will be no charge for any additional nights.

Information about our nightly fees are listed on our Booking Info & Fees page (under the Bookings menu).

*If there is a 2 night booking that is adjacent to an available 3 night booking then these bookings can be swapped.  Bookings can’t be shortened in length.  Due to popularity of the Hut, the maximum number of nights bookable is 3 nights and only 1 visit per person per year is permitted. 

The Scout Hut is a very unique facility and we acknowledge that we are extremely fortunate to be the custodians. Our Scouting values guide us into wanting to share the facility and the experience with as many people as we can.  In order for us to achieve that, we only accept one visit per person per calendar year*.  This is because we have over 1000 people following our facebook page and there are obviously very limited dates available.  We ask people to please respect our aim to share our facility with as many as possible because unfortunately if someone is found in breach of our policy we will deny future access to the Scout Hut (and unfortunately we have had to do this).

Additionally, the maximum stay is one booking of 3 nights per year.  If groups try and book one booking in one name and an adjacent booking in someone else’s name with the view of people occupying the hut across both bookings, we consider this in breach of our policy and all existing/new bookings will be cancelled and all people in the the group will no-longer have access to The Scout Hut.

The above rules might seem a bit ‘over-the-top’, however, each year we have groups who don’t share our ethos of trying to share the hut with the maximum number of people and they will try various ways or ‘interpret’ our policies to fulfil their ‘happiness’ at the expense of others.

* Any visit as part of a School Group booking or a Scout/Guide/Leader/Parent Helper on an approved Scout/Guide camp, these visits are exempt from being counted towards the ‘one visit per year’.

We require the full payment of the $150 per night flat fee booked to be paid with your booking.  This means there are no per person nightly payments and no further payments required leading up to or after your stay.  In the event that you need to cancel your booking, please refer to our Cancellation Policy above for information on refunds.

The Scout Hut is located in an alpine region where the weather can be quite inclement sometimes.  There are no refunds of the booking deposit due to inclement weather, unless the road into the National Park is closed or open only to 4WD’s.

If the road into the National Park is fully closed or open to 4WD only, your booking payment will be fully refunded.  If you are prevented from leaving the Hut due to a Road Closure, there will be no charge for any additional nights.

We request an indication of your group request simply for our planning purposes. We appreciate that final accommodated numbers may change but there is no requirement to advise us of any changes.

We allow the group who have booked in the current year with 1st preference to re-book those dates again for the following year (except Summer school holidays, these dates can’t be rebooked for the following year). We allow groups, 2 weeks after returning from their booking to re-book the same dates in the following year (hence the 50 week timeframe). 

* Scout Groups are exempt from this policy and can book any available date more than 50 weeks in advance.

A ‘Scout Group’ is defined as being a bona-fide scout camp where a ‘TOPS form’ form will be submitted to the District Commissioner. For these groups, you will need to ‘Contact Us’ directly via the link at the top of this webpage.

If you are associated with a Scout Group but not submitting a ‘TOPS form’, this is a ‘Scout Family’ Booking and we don’t accept bookings more than 50 weeks in advance from Scout Family groups.

If you are occupying the Hut and are prevented from leaving Cradle Mountain due to a Road Closure then there will be no charge for any additional nights.