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Day-use booking

A day-use booking is a room sold for part of a day with no overnight stay — common at Philippine resorts for pool and beach access.

Worked example

  1. A resort sells pool-and-lunch day use at ₱800 per person, ten people on a Saturday: ₱8,000.
  2. It uses two rooms as changing space but sells no nights.
  3. Counted correctly, that is ₱8,000 of revenue and zero room-nights. Counted as two one-night stays, it reports ₱4,000 ADR on nights nobody slept in.

Why it matters

It is real revenue that most software cannot represent, so it ends up entered as a one-night stay, which corrupts your occupancy and your average length of stay at the same time.

For a property near a city — or on a beach that people drive to — day-use can be a meaningful share of a weekend.

Day use also has an operational cost that overnight stays do not: a same-day turnover on rooms you were not paid to let. Worth pricing in, and worth putting on the housekeeping board.

In MangoHost

A first-class booking type rather than a workaround. Per-night pricing on optional services resolves to a single unit for a day-use booking, so extras are still priced correctly.

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Related terms

  • Room-nightsA room-night is one room occupied for one night — the unit almost every hotel metric is built from.
  • Length of stay (LOS)Length of stay is the number of nights in a booking; average LOS is the mean across a period.
  • Walk-inA walk-in is a guest who arrives without a reservation and books at the desk.

MangoHost gives Philippine properties these numbers without a month-end spreadsheet. Book a 30-minute walkthrough and see them on your own rooms.