Hello. So I had a Superhost bonus credit to use up by 1st of July. I had no idea what I wanted to do with it, but I wanted to use it as I could do with a mini break. What I did know was that I didn't want to spend loads of money on top, so probably just one night with UK prices. Also, not too far away, as there is no point driving for almost a whole day there and back to spend one night.
Should be simple, right? The 'I'm flexible' option should give me lots of ideas. NO, not really. I spent so many hours searching and giving up in frustration. The new search functions are confusing and frustrating and I am a seasoned user. Imagine how awful it must be for a new user.
Eventually, this evening, I did find a place, by doing a search for South East England (kindly suggested by @Stephanie ), selecting "I'm flexible" and then any weekend, two guests and a max price of £100 a night. From those options, I could then change my dates to one night and pick specific dates, but had to browse the host's calendar to see what dates were available.
What I noticed was that, although the host had dates that fit my search criteria available in July, August and so on, the search results only showed dates in November. So, if I wasn't aware of all the glitches in this new search, as a guest I would have totally overlooked that listing, thinking there was no availability for my selected search criteria until November.
This doesn't make sense and needs to be fixed.
Meanwhile, my own views continue to spiral downward and no bookings at all...