Hi @Tim4881 , I think the key question here is: did you set this up using “Linking calendars” or “Sync external calendars”?
For your situation, the right option should be Linking calendars, since that’s the feature meant for hosts who have one main listing and also separate listings for individual rooms in the same property.
On desktop, the steps are:
Click Calendar and select the listing calendar you want to link
Click Availability, then go to Connect calendars
Click Connect multiple Airbnb listings
Choose the main listing that contains your other listings
Click Next
Select the listings you want to link
Click Link calendars
Help article:
https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/1864
The important part here is that linked calendars are meant to block dates when there is a confirmed reservation. So if a guest books the full space, those dates should then block on the related room listings too.
Where I think the confusion may be happening is if you expected manual blocks on the main listing to automatically block the room listings as well, or if you expected an inquiry or pre-approval to do that. As far as I understand it, that’s not how this feature works. It’s really meant for confirmed bookings, not manual calendar closures.
The other option, Sync external calendars, is for connecting Airbnb with other platforms or external calendars, so that would not be the right setup for this case. It also doesn’t update instantly.
Help article:
https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/99
So my guess is it may be one of these two things:
you may have used Sync external calendars instead of Linking calendars, or
you may have been expecting manual blocks, inquiries, or pre-approvals to behave like confirmed bookings
So it may just be one of those Airbnb features that works a little differently than we expect at first.
Hope this helps a bit! And if you want, I’d be happy to take a quick look at your other listings too and share a few host-to-host suggestions.
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AdriSS
