While setting a Global minimum stay will apply to your listing's entire calendar, you also have the ability to set a custom minimum stay for specific days in the year and allow for orphan nights!
Select the specific listing you'd like to set a minimum stay.
On the Settings page, click on Minimum Stays on the left panel.
How To Set Your Minimum Stay
Note: The hierarchy for the various minimum stay rules from highest to lowest priority:
Date-specific rules have the highest priority and will override all other minimum stay rules.
Time-based rules will override Monthly Rules, Day of Week, and Global Minimum Stay rules.
Monthly Rules will override Day of Week and Global Minimum Stay rules.
Day of Week rules will override the Global Minimum Stay rule.
Global Minimum Stay is the default requirement.
Gap Nights will impact all the rules except for the Date-specific rule.
Global minimum stay
Set a global minimum stay by entering the desired amount below Global Minimum Stay and clicking Save Changes on the bottom left of the page.
Day of week minimum stays
Set a minimum stay by Day of Week. If a reservation includes any of these days, the minimum required length of stay will be the greatest value of the days selected.
Please note:
Adjustments made here will override your global minimum stay settings.
This feature on Airbnb is based on the minimum stay on the check-in date
Monthly rules
This feature allows you to set Day of Week Minimum Stays for specific months. This will override the generic Day of Week Minimum Stays set for your listing. For example, you can set longer minimum stays for December depending on the check-in date.
Click the "Add Monthly rule +" button then select December.
After that, set the minimum stays for each day of the week for December.
Click Save Change on the lower left of the page.
Time-based minimum stays
Create rules to automatically adjust the minimum night stay for stay dates within and beyond a specific number of days from the booking date.
Please note: this will override the Monthly Rules, Day of Week, and Global Minimum Night Stays.
Click Add time-based rule.
Select Within or After.
Add the number of days and number of nights required.
Click Save Change on the lower left of the page.
Specify by month
This feature allows you to set Time-based Minimum Stays for specific months. For example, if you want the Time-based minimum stay to be applicable for January only:
Click the Specify by month button on top of the time-based minimum stay requirement.
Click January from the months that will appear below the Time-based minimum stay requirement:
Click Save change on the lower left of the page.
Specify by week
This feature will allow you to set Time-based Minimum Stays for certain day/s of the week.
Click the Specify by day of week button on top of the time-based minimum stay requirement.
Then set the minimum stay for each day of the week:
Click Save change on the lower left of the page.
One-sided gap rules
This feature will allow you to set gap night rules for stay dates that are part of a one-sided gap.
Click the Add gap rule + button
Then set a gap night rule for dates before and/or after unavailability.
Click Save Change on the lower left of the page.
+ Monthly
You can also set a one-sided gap rule for certain month/s.
Click the gear icon next to the gap night rule, then select + Monthly.
Select the month/s where you want the one-sided gap rules will be applied. For example, January, February and March.
Click Save Change on the lower left of the page.
+ Day of Week
Click the gear icon next to the gap night rule, then select + Day of Week.
Enter the gap night rules for each day of the week
Click Save Change on the lower left of the page.
Date-Specific minimum stays
Create custom minimum stays for specific date ranges, such as holidays or events.
Please note: gap night functionality will not apply to date-specific minimum night stays.
Click the Add another date-specific rule + button:
Select the date range and enter the minimum stay. If you want to Date-Specific Minimum Stay to be a recurring rule, you can check the Yearly box.
Click Save Change on the lower left of the page.
Gap Nights
Gap nights - Automatically lower minimum night stays for gap periods smaller than the current minimum night requirement. (e.g. global is set to 3 nights, but there was a Tuesday and Wednesday available. Wheelhouse will automatically drop the 3 nights to 2 nights to ensure guests can book those days.) You can also set a Min and Max Lead Time if you only want the gap nights to be applicable under or beyond a certain number of day/s from the current date.
Orphan Nights
Wheelhouse does account for orphan nights in our algorithm to ensure we factor in whether nights are isolated or not. This means lowering the price for gap days which are squeezed in between booked and blocked dates in the calendar.
The Listing Availability Impact shows you how much we reduce that day's price due to being a gap day.
Notes
Longer minimum stays will decrease the number of cleanings, which means more potential revenue, while shorter minimum stays will lead to more reservations on the whole.
Wheelhouse will override all other settings that correspond with Airbnb, like calendar prices, global minimum stays, specific minimum stays for certain date ranges, etc.