This is often 4:00 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. on the day of arrival, but hotels and resorts in popular areas may require cancellation days in advance. If you don’t cancel, you normally lose the cost of the first night’s Mission Beach Accommodation. In addition, always take along a printout of your online booking, or a record of your reservation made over the phone. Write down the confirmation number, the name of the person you talked to, the date and time you called, and the particulars of your reservation, such as the price, and take this with you. If there’s time, ask that a copy of phone reservation be sent to you. The same rules apply to canceling a reservation—you want to be able to prove it was cancelled.