I may need to put a reservation on the credit card to hold the rooms for the group.
Oss
You being a lawyer that makes you smarter than I however I've been ask to do that on some of my rides . My answer is always " NO WAY " . If the weather is nice you have nothing to worry about if not then the fair weather riders will leave you with the bill.
I agree with Joe, Oss, you shouldn't put up deposits.
Won't they give a 24 hour notice refund? That would give us plenty of time to see if a hurricane

, or some such thing, is coming.
I still haven't figured out if I'm doing 1 or 2 nights and wouldn't want to put you in the middle.