One queen bed or two queen beds

[Francisco1133]

Hello all, 

New here (as a host). I live in South Florida and I want to buy a studio near the beach, but I am debating between getting one that has a queen bed or two queen beds. I there a benefit of one over the other? This is a hotel and the rooms are pre-configured and cannot be changed.

[Anonymous]

@Francisco1133   Do I understand this correctly?  A property that was purpose-built as a hotel is being parceled off and sold room-by-room as residential "studios," without reconfiguring them with residential amenities? And individual buyers can then convert them back into de facto hotel rooms on Airbnb, and that's completely legal?

[Michelle53]

@Anonymous    Airbnb is building a hotel/condo building with 600 units in Miami.

"Miami’s first Airbnb-branded building is rising Downtown. The 48-story tower, dubbed Natiivo, will boast 604 units — 412 condos and 192 hotel rooms — all of which can be rented and managed via the short-term rental giant."

https://nypost.com/2019/12/05/airbnb-to-open-natiivo-condo-tower-in-miami/

[Emilia42]

@Francisco1133 

Like Andrew this whole new business opportunity confuses me. But I suppose the question here is who do you want to cater to? 1.) A couple or 2.) parents with kids and/or 4 friends/2 couples. I personally love a couple. Less wear and tear, noise, laundry, water usage, etc. But you could likely charge more for a space that sleeps 4.

[Kevin1322]

@Francisco1133  two queen beds ought to get you more bookings than one queen bed imho. I'd say 80 percent of our guests are either couples or two friends travelling together. So they either don't mind separate beds or don't want to share. Couples don't mind a bed each, and there's room for two in a queenie anyway.  so you can still take couples or singles with a q size bed (presumably that's the same size as a UK q size, 5 ft)

We went for 2x3ft singles when we started last year.

A lot of our bookings are for two friends travelling together not as a couple. They don't mind sharing a room, but may not want to share a bed.

We have had couples, and family combinations. Mum and dad in our house their two kids in another Airbnb,  a few pairs of sisters, friends travelling together etc)

It's more laundry and work I guess, but we add on extra for the extra guest, then single travellers see the lower price then you still get the single traveller and have the option for up to four people if they don't mind sharing.

Go for two beds imho. 

Depends in the difference in cost to you I guess.

[Francisco1133]

Thanks for the replies. Naive me was expecting a straight answer. Hopefully someone else can chime in and maybe a trend will develop.

[Emily487]

@Francisco1133 

Here ya go: the benefit of two queen beds is that your rental will sleep more people. Helpful enough?