Featured stay periods

Some stays get booked by name, not by date. Guests don't think "26 December to 2 January". They think "Christmas week". Featured stay periods put those named windows on your booking page as one-tap buttons: the Easter long weekend, the October school holidays, New Year's week. A guest taps one and the page searches exactly those dates, no date-picking required.

What guests see

Your upcoming periods appear as buttons under the date pickers, each showing its name and dates. The page shows the first two, with the rest a tap away behind "View more", and carries up to the twelve soonest. Tapping a button runs a normal search for that exact window, so the guest lands straight on rooms and prices for the dates you named.

A shortcut, not a special

A stay period sets the dates and nothing else. It doesn't discount, doesn't override your minimum stays, and doesn't conjure availability. The search behaves exactly as if the guest had picked those dates by hand. If the period is sold out, the guest sees the usual nearest-alternative suggestions from closest-date search. If you want a named window to also carry a discount, pair the period with a special covering the same dates.

Managing your periods

1. Open Distribution → Booking Engine and go to the Periods tab.
2. Add a period: a name (that's the button label guests see), a check-in date and a check-out date.
3. Save. The period appears in your list and, if it's upcoming and active, on your booking page.

Periods are real dates, not repeating rules, so "Christmas Week 2026" and "Christmas Week 2027" are two separate entries. That's deliberate: it lets you shift a period in a year when the school calendar or a public holiday moves, without a rule quietly getting it wrong.

Every period in your list carries a badge, so a button that's missing from your page always has a visible reason:

• Live: showing on your booking page now.
• Inactive: you've switched it off; it stays in your list and you can reactivate it any time.
• Past: its check-in date has been and gone.
• Invalid dates: the dates don't make a bookable stay, so it isn't shown to guests.

You can also delete a period outright when you're done with it.

Past periods tidy themselves

Once a period's check-in date has passed, it drops off your booking page automatically. Nobody can arrive into a window that's already started, so the button would only ever lead to an empty search. It stays in your list badged Past, which is handy as a reference when you're setting up next year's version. Adding last year's dates on purpose is fine too: the tab accepts them and simply badges them Past.