Scheduling Cleaners Around The Holidays

[Ryan Williams]

Hi Everyone, so I may just be overthinking this, but this will be the first holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas) I have gone through as a host.  I generally have my calendar open 6 months out, and when I saw that Thanksgiving and Christmas were almost available I reduced my availability window to 3 months out, fearful I wouldn't be able to get a cleaner if someone books through those holidays. We plan on traveling and won't be around as a back up or I wouldn't be worried about it. 

Is that a realistic fear?  Am I just overthinking it? Or have any of you ran into problems with this and had to find some creative solutions? Thanks for any suggestions or input!

[Dave Stokley]

We give our cleaners holidays off. You just have to keep an eye on the bookings and if someone books a check-in/out for a holiday you want to give them the holiday off, you just block the appropriate day.