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I’m new to AirBnB and rent two rooms in my home. One has a queen and the other two twins. The queen gets booked constantly. I outfitted the other room for kids or friends travelling. I own a vineyard and advertise to wine tourists. I live onsite also.
The queen gets booked approximately 4 times as the room with twins.
Should I consider replacing the twins with a queen to attract more couples?
From what you’ve said I would think you’ve identified your market as being predominantly adults and, by the sounds of it, couples mostly who’d share a bed. I think it’d make sense to change it up and try a queen/double bed in the other room. You’d only need to at least match the 1/4 bookings with minimal outlay to change the bed.
We have the same set up, thinking we would get Mum Dad + 2 kids, but we get all sorts of combinations. If our queen is booked, we don’t offer the singles separately. We only accept 1 party at a time, whether that be 1, 2, 3 or 4 people.
It sounds like you allow multiple parties, in which case the 3 separate listings idea sounds great. You’ll just have to manage it a little and block the 2+2 listing if one of the 2’s goes on certain dates.
Also, if you are looking to buy a new bed anyway, get 2 singles that can lash together, rather than tying yourself into a queen.
You can always turn 2 twin beds into one king. I stayed once in a hotel where twin beds were tiny. Though it was only me I wanted a bigger bed. And housekeeper came and magically turned it into big bed within minutes. I don’t remember exactly what he did but I didn’t even feel that 2 beds were just pulled together .
Or you can advertise as an addition to queen bed .