The Day after Tomorrow

[Edmund99]

Hello folks

I've eschewed Instant Booking for years, preferring the relationship-building style of 'conversation before commitment'!  But bookings are less and I decided to explore some speed dating....

I set up the IB options (good track record, per booking message) as well as the Advance Notice setting to avoid Last Minute Bookings by requiring at least 1 days Advance Notice.

Whoops!  Within 4 days I received a booking late at night for the following day, a day on which I had made other plans....

Am I alone in thinking that 1 days notice means means 1 days notice?  

If, as seems to be the case, the term 'one day' is open to interpretation, could Airbnb not instead, use the more precise term of '24 hours'?  Simples?  Or is it me that is?

'What a diff'rence a Day makes, 24 little hours' .....tra la la 🎶🎵

Edmund

[Sangeeta8]

Precisely why I haven't opted for it. In the past guests have just shown up while others are still winding up! Don't need the stress 😔

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Edmund99 for Airbnb to use 24 hrs notice would be wrong as that is not how it works. Sadly you have found out the hard way that it means 'not the same day' arrival (ie next day).

[Edmund99]

That's my point @Mike-And-Jane0 !  It doesn't work....not because I don't understand it (because I do), but because the term one day is too  imprecise - it might mean 24 hours, or it might mean a lot less.  I suggest using 24 Hours Advance Notice, not as an alternative term for the existing arrangement, but as an actual, measurable, clear period of time of 24 hours duration during which time an IB may not be made.....

Airbnb suggest that setting advance notice puts us in control of avoiding last minute bookings, but it doesn't....Because one day doesn't mean one day, it means not on the same day, which is not the same, or particularly useful.  To interpret 'one day' as meaning 'not on the same day', means that a booking can be made just before midnight, (when I will usually be asleep) for the following day, which, in my view, is a last minute booking.

(I know, I know, it's not strictly a 'last minute' booking because that would be at 1459 hrs. for my check-in time of 1500 hrs., but lets not get tooo pedantic!)

I know I could choose to use 2 days (which again isn't really 2 days) but there are implications in this for losing bookings because of my minimum number of nights policy.

So my rhetorical question is, why does Airbnb not use 24 hours as a minimum advance booking period?  This would ensure that it I choose it , I would know, for sure, that I will not get a booking for the following day once I get to my check in time on this day.

Blimey, I'm in danger of boring myself now.....😂

Edmund