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Booking Window by Hour (Not Day) — Possible or Planned?

  • April 14, 2026
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Hi everyone,

I’m currently configuring booking restrictions in Mews and ran into some confusion around the “booking window” functionality.

From what I understand, Mews supports:

  • Same-day bookings
  • Real-time availability
  • Min/max advance booking restrictions (in days)

However, I’m looking for something more granular:

👉 Is it possible to configure the booking window in hours instead of days?
For example:

  • Prevent bookings within 3 hours of arrival
  • Allow bookings only within the next 6 hours
  • Define a minimum advance booking time in hours

Some documentation and descriptions mention “flexible” or “last-minute” booking windows, which initially suggested this might be possible — but in practice, it seems limited to day-based logic only.

So I’d love to clarify:

  1. Is there any native way to achieve hour-based booking restrictions in Mews?
  2. Are there recommended workarounds (e.g. using services, check-in times, or integrations)?
  3. Is this feature on the roadmap?

If not, this would be a highly valuable feature for properties offering:

  • Day-use rooms
  • Short stays
  • Last-minute / same-day operational control

Would appreciate any insights or suggestions from others who’ve tackled this!

Thanks in advance 🙌

3 Replies

MattJones
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  • April 14, 2026

You would have to change the service to an hourly service, or overlay the hourly service on to your daily service to do this (yes you can lay multiple services on to one space), and then sell the hourly service - Mews cannot blend overnight/day services with Hourly services, nor can you restrict bookings to an advance or minimum advance of a different service blend (i.e. you cannot use hours for an overnight service, and cannot use days for an hourly service)


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  • April 15, 2026

Hi Matt, 

Thanks for your reply, was hoping to avoid this option.

 


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  • April 15, 2026

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the reply, was hoping this would not be the only solution… I hope that MEWS will look into offering this as OTA´s are seeming to outperform in some areas… 

Have a good day,