How to set up Minimum Stays

The Minimum Stays setting can be used to restrict one-night bookings and encourage longer stays.

To allow one-night bookings, make sure that you don't have any minimum stays for the dates you want to allow this.

Please note that a minimum stay restriction for one night cannot be created as this is already the minimum.

Click on Step 5 'Minimum Stays'

Click on 'Add'

Select the start and end dates

Click on the calendar widget at 'Start' to display the calendar.
Select when the minimum stay restriction will start by clicking on the respective date.
Once you have selected a start date, the calendar widget will close and the selected start date will display
Click on the calendar widget at 'End' to display the calendar.
Select when the minimum stay restriction will end by clicking on the respective date.
Once you have selected an end start date, the calendar widget will close and the selected end date will display

Overlapping Minimum Stays:

Minimum stays can overlap in terms of the dates that apply. If there are two minimum stays restrictions that overlap, the restriction with the longest night-stay restriction will be applied.

For example, if a three-night minimum stay restriction overlaps with an existing two-night minimum stay restriction, the three-night minimum stay restriction will be applied on the overlapping dates).

Specify the Minimum Stay duration

Indicate the minimum number of nights required.

Setting up minimum stays for specific arrival days

This setting will apply the minimum stay restriction to specific arrival days of the week.

In the example depicted below, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are selected (ticked).

Result:
For the month of November, the minimum stay restriction will be applied to all availability searches should the arrival day be Friday, Saturday or Sunday during November 2024.

Select the days of the week that you would like the minimum stay restriction applied to.

Note that regardless of the selected start and end dates, the minimum stay restriction will not be applied to the days of the week that have not been selected (ticked).

Select the room type(s) that the minimum stay applies to

Select the room type(s) that this minimum stay will be applied to - tick the corresponding room type.

Alternatively, you cab select "All" for all rooms types.

Ignore rule

This setting will ignore the minimum stay restriction if the arrival date is within the specified number of days.

In the example depicted below, 1 day is indicated.

Result: Should a guest search for availability 1 day before their arrival date, the minimum stay restriction will be ignored and a one-night booking will be possible.

This is a way to have a minimum stay restriction in place, without losing any 'last-minute booker' business.

Should you want to allow bookings with a duration shorter than the minimum stay, and only for a certain number of days before arrival, type the number of days in this field.

Type '0' if you always want the minimum stay to apply to all the dates as selected, without an Ignore Rule.

The ignore rule does not update to the following channels: