Recommended Preparation Times - Gaps Between Guesrs

James-And-Justin0
Level 2
Plymouth, United Kingdom

Recommended Preparation Times - Gaps Between Guesrs

In covid times what are airbnb hosts recommending as a gap between guests? Or even cleaners entering?  Can't see anything about it in enhanced cleaning, although I remember reading 6 hours, some are suggesting 24 or more hours between guests and using the preparation time setting of 1 day before and 1 after. It all depends upon whether corona virus can linger in the air. Any thoughts appreciated 

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Lisa723
Level 10
Quilcene, WA

@James-And-Justin0 when Airbnb first rolled out their extended cleaning protocol they also had an option to sign up for 72 hour vacancy buffers between stays.  They silently eliminated that option at some point, presumably because it cost them money as well as hosts. The cleaning protocol weakly suggests 24 hours if possible or at least 3 hours. So every host is on their own here. Personally I currently leave my houses vacant for 72 hours from check-out to cleaning and another 24 from cleaning to check-in.