Menu > Your listing> under your title, second line down > Booking setting> First option under booking is ‘How Guest can book> toggle off Instant Book & on same page @ bottom leave an inviting Pre-message note.
To put your Airbnb listing on inquiry only, you can follow these steps:
Go to your Airbnb account and click on Your listings.
Select the listing you want to modify.
Click on Booking settings.
Under How guests can book, select Enquiry only.
After completing these steps, guests will be able to send you an enquiry about your listing, but they will not be able to book it directly. You will have the option to accept or decline their enquiry.
Hello @Michael8095, Welcome to the Airbnb Community.
I saw your post and noticed our fantastic Hosts provided step-by-step instructions to set your Airbnb listing to 'inquiry only'. Were you able to apply any of them? Which method worked for you?