Imagine a business traveler, Sarah, who has a long layover at the airport between connecting flights. Instead of spending hours in an uncomfortable airport lounge, she can now book a day use room at a nearby hotel. This private, comfortable space allows her to freshen up, catch up on work emails, and even take a short nap before her next flight, arriving at her destination feeling refreshed and productive.
Or picture a young backpacker, Michael, who arrives in a new city early in the morning after an overnight bus journey. With day use rooms available, he can check into a hotel room for a few hours to shower, recharge, and store his luggage securely before exploring the city’s sights and sounds.
Scenarios like this are becoming increasingly common as the concept of day use rooms gains popularity. As a hotelier, optimizing your revenue streams is crucial in the competitive hospitality industry, and day use rooms present an innovative solution that is gaining traction.
Day use rooms are designed to cater to the needs of travelers who require a comfortable space for a portion of the day, rather than an overnight stay. They offer numerous benefits for both hotels and guests.
Key Benefits for Hoteliers:
- Increase revenue: Utilize room inventory during off-peak hours.
- Attract new cohort of customers: Cater to travelers needing a place to rest, freshen up, or work during the day.
Key Features for SwiftBook’s Day Use Rooms:
- Easy activation/integration: Easily activate day use room feature within SwiftBook Booking Engine.
- Direct & Easy Communication: The Day Use Room feature could be used by guests where they could select the pre-defined package as per the description set up by the property.
How to setup Day Use Rooms on Swiftbook Booking Engine?
Step 1: Login to STAAH Max V2
Step 2: Click on BE Packages
Step 3: Click on ‘+’ and then New Package
Step 4: Fill the necessary Package Info & ‘Enable package for Day Use’
Step 5: Add Room Type and Validity information, and click on Save
SwiftBook Widget
Enabling the ‘package for day use’ flag automatically prompts a ‘Day Use’ selection on the booking engine widget.
How does it work for guests?
1) When the ‘day use’ option is selected, the widget will only have a ‘check-in’ date option.
2) On the confirmation page and the email confirmation, the check-in & check-out date will be the same.
Watch a walkthrough setup video here:
NOTE:
- The Day Use rate is not supported by Google for synchronization to avoid parity issues. Day Use data is not synced with Google.
- For properties integrated with a Property Management System (PMS), Day Use bookings are delivered to the PMS as normal, with a different departure date.
- If the PMS supports using the same date for arrival and departure, the Day Use feature can be enabled, and the same arrival and departure date will be passed in the booking.
- This Day Use feature is currently enabled only for a few PMS partners. If there are any other PMS that can support Day Use, please contact the technical team to arrange integration with the PMS partner.
- The PMS that currently support the Day Use feature are:
- Innkey
- Lucid
- Protel
By embracing the day use rooms concept, you can not only increase revenue but also gain a competitive advantage in the market by providing an additional service that sets you apart from competitors.
