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[staying4free]

I’m curious how other hosts approach this in practice.

I’m talking about those 1–2 night gaps that appear between longer reservations — not low season in general, but random holes in an otherwise decent calendar.

Do you actively try to fill them (pricing tweaks, restrictions, promotions, minimum stays, etc.), or do you mostly treat them as an unavoidable cost of doing business on Booking.com?
If you do try to optimize for them:
– what actually works?
– what sounded good in theory but didn’t move the needle at all?

[Davvidd]

We leave those nights empty, it costs too much time and effort to turn our unit over and we would rather focus on the longer (3+ night stays). To maintain our place to high standards we need ample time to prepare and vet the guests, last minute guests bring too many unknowns.