What are your 11 month booking pro tips?

Curious - I am seeing something recently that I have not seen before. When trying to book at the 11 month window, I am noticing that the room I want to book is already unavailable before the booking window opens. For instance, today (12/5) if I look at the available rooms (prior to 8am window opening) the next available date is 11/6 (not 11/5 that should be available for booking at 8am). How and why does this happen?
Multiple things can happen (or a combination of them). It’s perfectly possible for all the 7 days after the booking window to be fully booked. If there are 10 rooms, and 10 people this morning booked a full week, the room will be unavailable for the next 7 days.

In a regular booking schedule this is unlikely to happen, as most people will have different lengths of stay and check out day, but the day most likely to be affected is the one that it’s becoming available to book the next day.

There’s also things like maintenance, a 2BR lockoff reducing 1BR/studio availability, etc.

People will also say walking. This doesn’t directly causes this problem, but it makes it more noticeable. These days people are walking rooms/dates that are not even necessary year round. You sometimes see this happening for rooms that are wide open, and each day the unavailable day keeps moving.

I also suspect there’s an IT glitch happening blocking days for some reason. I’ve noticed it sometimes when it doesn’t make sense (like the 5th being available and the 6th not).
 
Curious - I am seeing something recently that I have not seen before. When trying to book at the 11 month window, I am noticing that the room I want to book is already unavailable before the booking window opens. For instance, today (12/5) if I look at the available rooms (prior to 8am window opening) the next available date is 11/6 (not 11/5 that should be available for booking at 8am). How and why does this happen?
If a category of room is shown as full before the booking window opens for a date at 11-months out, but shows it is still open for the next day, that likely means that all applicable rooms are actually already booked full through that 11-month out date, but the next day has openings due to the fact that some members will be checking out, and whose rooms could not be reserved by anyone else for the day before they leave.
 












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