Features
What Cascade does today. Short, factual notes for guests, hosts, partners, and the people keeping the marketplace current.
All features
Curated from shipped product behavior. Internal automation details stay out of this page unless they explain how the marketplace stays current.
Browse nearby saunas, hot tubs, cold plunges, and spa spaces from one search surface.
Search across spa names, cities, regions, amenities, and published wellness content.
See spa listings on a map with price markers and listing previews.
Guests can save listings and return to them from their account.
Saved spas can show when a listing has moved into the Top 100 or gained a meaningful Wellness Score lift.
Guests can compare the two most recently viewed listing pages in one quiet sheet.
Guests can type a simple phrase and turn it into editable browse filters.
Guests can narrow browse results to listings with Cascade verification on file.
The Discover homepage gives guests one-tap entry points for sauna, hot tub, cold plunge, and steam-room browsing.
The Discover homepage surfaces nearby ranked spas from Cascade's current Top 100.
The Discover homepage can surface recent wellness articles tied to bookable places.
The Discover homepage can surface nearby listings with explicit same-day availability.
Signed-in guests see discovery rows shaped by their past spa choices.
Returning guests can see a row anchored to a modality they have rebooked and reviewed well.
Discovery rows can explain the wellness modality behind a carousel when the loaded listings share a clear signal.
Discovery cards can show one quiet best-for tag when a listing has a clear sauna, cold, soak, or contrast signal.
Discovery cards can show one quiet duration-and-price line when active service variants make the session shape clear.
Listing cards and listing pages can show a quiet value cue when a spa is priced below similar local peers.
Reset-heavy listings can disclose a sanitation reset fee and earn a quiet cleanliness badge when recent guest ratings support it.
Top Spas can narrow the Wellness Score leaderboard to a specific BC city.
Guests can read a quiet timing guide for an area when recent booking patterns are strong enough.
Top Spas can narrow the Wellness Score leaderboard by contrast, thermal, or Nordic experience.
Ranked spa cards can show a quiet ideal-for line from cached review insights.
Top Spas cards show compact evidence chips for verification and review provenance.
Top Spas cards can expand a factual verification strip with score freshness, review-count, and Google-linkage details.
Top Spas cards can show the current monthly Wellness tier when one exists.
Top Spas cards can show a quiet repeat-guest line when enough return history exists.
Returning guests can see how many current Top 100 spas they have visited.
Ranked listings can explain their Wellness Score in one cached sentence.
Top-ranked listing pages show the immediately higher and lower ranked spas for quick comparison.
Guests can add Cascade Wellness to their home screen for a faster return path.
Recognized sauna, cold, steam, soak, float, and treatment amenity chips can explain what the modality feels like.
Discover cards explain the strongest Wellness Score drivers without leaving browse.
Listing services can show quiet goal-fit and duration cues beside each variant.
Listing pages can show first-visit prep notes for recognized wellness modalities.
Listing pages can show short guest review quotes above the review list.
Listings can carry one optional host-authored story for what makes the place distinct.
Hosts can turn recurring guest message questions into reviewed listing-page answers.
Listing pages can compare active service variants before guests choose a ritual.
Listing pages can introduce the practitioners or guides a guest may meet before booking.
Listing pages can quietly recognize guests who have booked the same spa before.
Listing pages can point guests to short articles tied to the spa amenities they are considering.
Listing pages can show the broad time of day guests most often choose when enough completed booking history exists.
Listing pages can offer guests nearby alternatives with overlapping amenities.
Listing and checkout pages can reflect one amenity a guest has booked before.
Listing pages can show compact review-backed fit cues near the booking decision.
Listing cards and detail pages can show when a host consistently replies quickly.
Mobile listing pages keep long amenity lists compact until a guest asks to see the full set.
Listing pages can show cleanliness, accuracy, communication, and value averages from guest reviews.
Listing detail and host profile pages can show a quiet Trusted Host badge when the host has a green trust snapshot.
Listing detail pages can show a quiet line explaining where the description came from.
Listing detail and checkout can show when a host has completed payment identity readiness with Stripe.
Choose a date and time, then review clear pricing before booking.
Checkout can mark discounted time slots before a guest changes their booking time.
Returning guests can start checkout with attendee details from their last completed booking.
Checkout can show one quiet duration note when a listing has stored modality guidance for the selected session length.
Guests can reveal short etiquette notes for sauna, plunge, soak, float, and treatment variants before booking.
Eligible checkout sessions can request the same weekly time for four weeks.
Checkout can show calm review-backed cues before a guest confirms a session.
Guests with a short cluster of upcoming bookings can see the trip as one compact timeline.
Repeat weekly bookings collapse into one readable series on the guest booking history page.
Checkout can show compact host reliability cues before a guest confirms a session.
Checkout can keep parking, entrance, and access cues close before a guest confirms.
Checkout can summarize why the selected time fits the spa before the final price review.
Mobile checkout opens date and time changes in a bottom sheet with larger day and time targets.
Checkout can show the session length and add-ons other guests most often choose for the selected spa.
Guests can return to a recent interrupted checkout from the homepage or matching listing page.
Checkout can suggest nearby same-day openings that fit around the selected session.
Shared-capacity checkout can show whether other guests are already booked for the selected session.
Booking detail pages can point guests toward relevant wellness articles before or after a visit.
Checkout records one calm guest acknowledgement before a booking is created.
Hosts can set a small fixed set of listing requirements that guests acknowledge before booking.
Completed booking pages can show one quiet note about the session a guest just finished.
Checkout shows quiet payment and privacy reassurance before a guest confirms.
Listings can accept eligible bookings without a manual host approval step.
Listing pages summarize practical access cues before a guest reaches checkout.
Listing pages explain what happens after a guest starts booking.
Listing pages show a minimum-session estimate before a guest enters checkout.
Listing pages show how many reviews came from completed Cascade bookings.
Listing pages show proven session volume when a spa has enough hosted booking history.
Listing pages can show a calm return-cadence hint when enough guests have come back.
Guests can add host-defined extras during checkout when a listing offers them.
Checkout can show one quiet pairing hint after a guest selects a commonly combined add-on.
Returning guests see a quiet visit-count line after booking the same spa again.
Future booking confirmations can show a calm return-cadence hint when the spa has enough repeat-visit history.
Booking confirmations can show a short prep checklist based on the spa amenities a guest just booked.
Booking confirmations can show nearby complementary spas after the session details are clear.
Hosts can opt a listing into a quiet return-visit reward.
Confirmed bookings can offer remaining host extras after the session is booked.
Checkout can apply approved promo codes to the Cascade service fee.
Native checkout records a versioned safety waiver acknowledgement before booking.
Guests can use ledger-backed account credit during checkout or receive eligible cancellations as credit.
Teams can buy one batch of Cascade gift cards for employee or client gifting.
Guests can share a personal invite link that grants account credit after a friend completes a first session.
Confirmed bookings include an iCal file for personal calendars.
Guests can see a quiet profile badge based on their completed Cascade sessions.
Guests can subscribe once to a private read-only calendar feed for upcoming Cascade bookings.
Guests can see a quiet profile card when completed sessions land in consecutive calendar months.
Guests can see completed Cascade sessions grouped into a quiet personal trail.
Booking history can suggest one seasonal complement at a listing a guest already knows.
Hosts can manage bookable hours, buffers, advance notice, and blocked time.
Hosts can see recurring lower-fill windows from their own booking history.
Hosts can see explicit open-slot coverage on their availability calendar.
Hosts can set one active time-boxed deal for a listing.
Hosts can subscribe to a private read-only calendar feed for each listing.
Unread guest questions can open with one editable reply draft for the host.
Hosts have public profile pages that collect their listings and basic host details.
Hosts can review booking activity, listing health, and guest interest from one dashboard.
Hosts can review protection terms and file eligible booking-tied claims.
Hosts can see which listing details are complete and where a listing could use attention.
Listings can show a host response-time label when enough message history exists.
Listings are scored from amenity depth, reputation, review volume, uniqueness, and experience signals.
Top-ranked listings can show monthly rank badges based on Wellness Score position.
Cascade can show Google rating and review context alongside Cascade review data.
Listings can carry verification status when they meet Cascade review criteria.
Guests and hosts can read a plain-language overview of Cascade host and listing vetting.
Checkout and listing pages link trust cues to Cascade's host-vetting explainer.
Cascade can mark reviews tied to completed bookings as verified stays.
Guests can add optional photos to completed-stay reviews.
Guests can quietly confirm whether listed amenities matched their visit.
Guests can report a booking issue from the booking detail page.
Operator reviews can use a structured checklist for listing quality and readiness.
Cascade can discover wellness businesses from Google Places before they become full listings.
Potential directory entries can stay internal until an operator approves them.
Operators can compare external listing suggestions before applying them.
Listings can show official social and review links when those channels are available.
Cascade publishes wellness articles and can connect posts to relevant listings.
Article pages show a compact editorial byline with a short trust note.
Guide and spa-review articles can show when an editor last checked the practical details.
Blog cards can show the first linked spa when an article already points to a listing.
Guests can narrow the blog index to articles tied to a linked spa city.
Signed-in guests can see blog articles shaped by their completed spa visits.
Each blog category has its own shareable guide page with focused context and FAQs.
Guests can read confirmed answers to recurring platform-level booking questions.
The blog index can resurface older articles when the month makes them useful again.
Article pages can rank related posts by shared spa and local context before falling back to category recency.
Guests can browse hand-built reading paths through published blog articles.
Article pages can show linked bookable spas below the story.
Article pages can show places readers booked after the story when attribution exists.
Published articles can show a cached two-stop booking plan when local inventory supports it.
Article pages can surface a small matched spa dock while guests are still reading.
Published itinerary articles can invite readers to gift the same curated spa-day plan.
Article pages can answer one reader question from the article and its linked listing facts.
Article pages can explain why a linked spa carries its current Wellness Score.
Long blog articles show mobile readers their progress and offer a quick return to the top.
Guests can save blog articles in their current browser and return to them later.
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