variety of minimum night stay requirements - seasonal and oddball

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Sandi14
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Surf City, NC

variety of minimum night stay requirements - seasonal and oddball

Our space is very seasonal - on the beach so in the summer months we do a 7 night and saturday only change day. The rest of the year I do 3-4 night minimum stays.

 

When my calendar starts out all clean for the new year its easy to set these up. But what happens is in the summer someone might book a 8-10 or other less than 2 full week stay, leaving "short weeks" in between. Is there an easy way to modify just those odd weeks without redoing all the "rules" for the rest of the season. Meaning, I don't want to have 5 or 6 different rules for just a few weeks here and there, and they have to be updated every time this happens. 

 

Also, sometimes I see a 2 night opening and I want to make that available. I have occasionally been able to highlight the dates and over ride the minimum night stay rule but not always. Anyone else found this to be true?

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@Sandi14 Are you using Professional Hosting tools? (https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2499/how-can-i-use-professional-hosting-tools)

 

It is super easy to select a range date range and set a minimum night stay between existing reservations. I do this to max out my calendar. So in your case, if you had a random 5-night window in between two bookings you would set that timeframe to a 5-night minimum. The Professional Hosting Toolings settings make that really easy because it is all color coded.

 

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Mike-And-Jane0
Top Contributor
England, United Kingdom

@Alison875 Be brave - click on the arrow and switch on the tools. I guarantee everything will be fine although you will need to get used to a slightly new layout.

@Scott Given that rulesets are so powerful could you consider taking off the 'several properties' bit above or change it to 'Get professional tools - Particularly useful if you manage several properties on Airbnb'

@Mike-And-Jane0  I will be brave 😁… thank you again …Alison