Ok, if I understand correctly, it sounds like you wanted to capitalize on the holiday weekend with a booking for at least Fri-Mon and didn’t want to have to clean again until Wednesday. For the examples, I’m going to assume the listing has a 2-day min and back-to-back bookings (no prep day in between).
If you’re using the Customized Trip Lengths Setting then you would choose the dates from Fri-Tue (May 26-May 30) put a 3-day minimum and set your Check-in day to “Fri only” (there’s a drop-down menu for that right below where you set the min). That gets your 3 days for Friday and keeps someone from checking-in on Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue.
However, it doesn’t keep someone from booking Wed or Thur and checking out on Sat or Sun which means you won’t get your 3-day weekend booking and will have to clean during it. So it’s better than nothing but you have much more control with Rule Sets. With Rule Sets, you can dictate a lot more, min stay by day of the week, checkin and checkout days, etc for any selection of dates:
Using Rule Sets to maximize on the 3-day weekend and not clean until after it, I’d select Wed-Tue (May 24-30) and make a Rule Set for those dates that says: Check-In Only on Wed/Thur/Fri + Check-Out Only on Mon and Tue. I don’t even have to make a minimum stay rule because the Check-In and Check-Out rules force the minimum stay. I included Wed/Thur so that no one takes the weekend away with a 2-day stay (i.e. a Thur to Sat stay).
If the prior Tue (May 23) is open on my calendar I’d make an additional Rule Set just for that date that says: No Checkout on Sat so that someone can’t book Tue May 2 and wreck the holiday weekend by checking out on Sat. I could say No Checkout on Sat or Sun but a Tue-Sun booking is a 5-day booking and I don’t think it’s worth losing out on that just to keep the 3-day weekend together, but it’s just a priority decision.
The reason I have to make a new Rule Set for Tue May 23, as opposed to including it in the first Rule Set for May 24-30, is that I already have a rule for “Tuesdays” in the May 24-30 rule set and it’s not the rule that I want to be applied to Tue May 23. That’s something to be aware of when using Rule Sets. Generally, my rule sets are never for more than one week of dates because so many rules are based on the day of the week.
If you look at your calendar while you read this I think it will make some sense, at least as an overview or something. They’re really worth exploring. I recommend you get them and then go way out on your calendar like Feb 2024 and open up a couple of weeks (make the price nutty like $1500 a night to keep anyone from booking, just in case someone is looking at dates that far out) and then play with the rule sets.
Set up some different ones and then go to your public listing page and see how they’re playing out. That way you can get a feel for them and learn to use them for your benefit without worrying about what it’s doing to the dates you’re currently trying to get booked.
And consider saving and titling your Rule Sets because the Rule Set you use for Memorial Day is likely the same Rule Set you’ll want to use for Labor Day and you won’t have to set it up again.
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