Preventing check in/outs on holidays

[Garrett Kroll]

We've been paying our cleaners time & a half to work on major holidays so I'm looking to find a solution that is less expensive and more accommodating to our team.

Does anyone have a scalable solution to prevent guests from checking in & out on holidays? I was hoping to find a solution in our PMS or each OTA that would allow me to create a recurring rule, but haven't yet. I've also explored manually blocking off the calendar, but this requires constant attention and work. 

[Andrew Syrios]

I think you'll cost yourself more by not allowing check ins and check outs on holidays. You could test it and see how it goes but I think you'll have more vacancy and might have to lower prices to keep them full. Maybe someone else has a solution but from what I can see it's just a cost you'll have to absorb.