20/10/2026
Is your minimum stay costing you bookings?
If you run one minimum all year, you're turning away about half of your last-minute guests. Most of them want one to three nights, and they never see a listing with a three-night minimum.
Quick check: open today's date on Airbnb and read your minimum. If it's still the summer number, that's your empty calendar.
Our new guide shows what three years of real bookings say about stay length, and the five rules to set instead:
Three years of holiday let bookings show guests who book late stay short and guests who book early stay long. The five minimum stay rules that follow from that.