@Gillian166 While I understand that many hosts are intent on booking as many nights as possible, my attitude is that my time, stress and aggravation level have value.
So I have always had one day prep time between bookings. My check-in time is 11am-11pm and check-out by 4pm. That still leaves me enough time to clean the guest space if I have another guest checking in the following day, and in fact most guests are gone by noon.
In my location, I do not get guests driving here unless they rented a car at the airport. Most are flying (the airport is an hour away, then they take a bus here) or busing from elsewhere in Mexico. So few actually arrive until mid-late afternoon, anyway.
Those check-in, check-out times mean that I have never had to field requests or be pressured to get in early or leave late. Only a few times have guests arrived after 11pm, and that was no fault of their own- it was due to flight delays and as they were great about keeping me in the loop- "My flight's delayed by 2 hours", "They just told us it will be another hour", "Plane is still sitting on the tarmac", I had no issue with accommodating them.
The only pre-11am check-ins I have had were one where the guest's flight had mechanical trouble, had to turn around, and all the passengers were rebooked to a red-eye, meaning she arrived the next morning at 8am, and a guest who told me her bus was getting in at 9am, but she realized that was too early to check-in, so she'd find a café to hang out in. Because she was so respectful and I had already prepared her room, I told her 9am was fine to come over.
My hosting attitide has always been that a few less nights booked is a fair trade-off for not having to deal with guests asking for things outside my settings, or rushing to clean and prepare the space. And as most of my bookings average a week- 10 days, that one night prep time block doesn't amount to that many blocked nights.
