Bookable services for day use

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Day use bookable services are bookable services that allow guests to reserve and use spaces for a limited time period during a single day, i.e., the arrival and departure dates are the same rather than overnight.

Properties can leverage spaces available during the day for a wide range of potential uses. For example, offering “daycation” and spa packages to locals, workspaces to professionals, comfortable spaces to spend a few hours for travelers with layovers, beautiful interiors to influencers and marketers who need a place to film projects, and more. 

With day use bookable services, properties can:

  • Expand the range of services they offer to guests
  • Attract entirely new guest segments
  • Offer entry-level services and upsell with additional services
  • Increase revenue and occupancy rates
Note: Day use bookable services are bookable services and, as such, the legal environment tied to them in Mews is limited to hospitality. When you want to to set up a day use service for anything other than hospitality, such as office/ meeting room purposes, you need to be aware of and check your local legal requirements.   

You cannot connect day use services to the channel manager integrations.

In this article you can learn about:
 

How many reservations can you create per day for day use? 

Currently, you can create one reservation per day, per space, per service. It's possible, therefore, to create a "Morning use" service and an "Afternoon use" service that utilize the same set of spaces. You can then book each of those spaces once a day for each service.
 

How does Mews calculate availability and occupancy?

Mews calculates availability and occupancy per service, so day use bookable services are calculated separately from other bookable services. Offering a space through multiple services, for example, a space booked for day use in the afternoon and later for an overnight stay does not result in occupancy higher than 100%. If a space is booked by one service, it is unavailable to other services during that time.

Note: Make sure that the occupancy periods and arrival/ departure times for spaces that are shared between multiple services don't overlap. For example, for such a shared space, if it's Stay service occupancy ending time is at 08:00, then the arrival time for your day use bookable service for that same space needs to start after 08:00 or the space would never be available for day use.
 

Can guests book multiple days in a row?

Yes, but Mews does not recommend this. If a guest books the space multiple days in a row, the space remains blocked and unavailable for the entire length of the reservation, like a standard Stay service, and not just the daytime hours.

Mews recommends that you set the maximum length of stay for day uses as a single day, meaning guests need to create separate reservations for each day. You can manage the maximum length of reservations by setting length of stay restrictions.

 

You can learn more about how to set up a day use bookable service here.

 

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