Enter your property size and nightly rate, then model two scenarios — no minimum stay restriction, and a minimum stay policy. Estimate the occupancy and average booking length you'd expect under each to see the revenue and turnover impact of applying the restriction.
🔓 No Minimum Stay
🔒 With Minimum Stay
Around high-demand weekends, bank holidays or local events, a one-night booking either side of a peak Saturday can leave you unable to sell the peak night to a longer, more valuable stay. A minimum stay policy protects your highest-demand nights from being "orphaned" by short bookings.
Restricting short stays reduces the pool of eligible bookings, which can lower overall occupancy — the calculator above lets you weigh that occupancy risk against the benefit of longer, more efficient bookings and reduced turnover costs.
Fewer, longer bookings mean fewer cleaning turnovers for the same number of room-nights sold — a real cost saving that's easy to overlook when focusing purely on headline occupancy or revenue figures.
A 2-night minimum around a single peak Saturday is common; 3–4 nights is more typical for genuinely high-demand periods (major local events, peak summer weeks). Longer minimums risk turning away more bookings than they protect — test conservatively and review actual booking patterns afterwards.
This calculator provides estimates based on the figures you enter and assumed occupancy scenarios. JWBIZ Ltd accepts no liability for pricing or policy decisions made on the basis of this tool.