Airbnb sends unavailable-date notices that are not reservations. Choose, per calendar, whether they block your availability.

Why this option exists

Airbnb sends two different things in the same calendar: your guests' reservations and unavailable-date notices that are nobody's reservation.

Those notices come from your own listing rules:

Advance notice — how many days ahead you require to accept a booking.

Same-day booking cut-off — after it, Airbnb closes today.

Preparation time — the days you keep free to get the place ready between stays.

Booking window — how far ahead the listing accepts reservations.

None of them has a guest. Even so, they used to reach your calendar as a block, exactly like a real reservation — and the date was closed for your direct sales too.

On the calendar, a block that came from a channel notice now shows as "Unavailable on Airbnb". An imported reservation still shows as "Airbnb block". The name tells you which is which.

What each option does

Reservations and blocks — anything Airbnb marks as unavailable blocks your calendar. This is the long-standing behaviour.

Reservations only — only Airbnb reservations come in. Unavailable notices stop blocking your calendar and stop getting in the way of your direct sales.

Which one to pick

Reservations only is for you if:

you create direct bookings in Rezvia, on your own site or at the desk;

when you need to close a date, you block it in Rezvia.

Reservations and blocks is for you if:

you usually close dates inside Airbnb, by hand;

and you want those closures to keep reaching Rezvia.

There is no single right answer. The question is just this: when you close a date, do you do it in Rezvia or on Airbnb?

How to change the option

Whole property

1. Go to Settings.

2. Open Properties.

3. On the property row, click the link icon — iCal integration.

4. Under Imported calendars, find the Airbnb calendar.

5. Right below its name, under Import from this calendar, pick the option you want.

Property sold by room

1. Go to Settings.

2. Open Properties.

3. On the property row, click the door icon — Manage rooms.

4. On the Property rooms screen, scroll to the room you want.

5. Below that room's iCal calendar field, under Import from this calendar, pick the option.

Either way you get "Calendar preference saved!". Nothing else to do: the choice is already in effect.

If the calendar has no choice yet, the screen says so: "No choice yet: today this calendar imports reservations and blocks." Pick one of the two options and the notice goes away. New Airbnb calendars are born with Reservations only selected, so that notice only shows up on the ones added earlier.

What happens next

Airbnb reservations keep coming in normally. That does not change under either option.

Older unavailability blocks clear by themselves, usually within about 6 hours. They are not deleted immediately on purpose: the calendar waits to confirm the channel really stopped asking for that date.

Blocks on dates already in the past stay in the history. They get in the way of no sale, because the date is gone.

Things to watch out for

Do not remove the calendar to change the option. Do not use the trash icon or the X. Removing the calendar cancels every block it brought in, and adding it back afterwards can leave confirmed reservations in conflict. To change the preference, just pick the option.

Under "Reservations only", a block you make by hand on Airbnb stops coming in. If you close a date inside Airbnb it stays closed there, but it no longer closes the date in Rezvia. To close it in both places, block it in Rezvia — blocks created here still go out to the channels.

The option exists for Airbnb calendars only. Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia and other channels do not change and do not show this choice. That is deliberate: each channel writes its calendar differently, and in some of them a real reservation arrives marked as unavailable.

A new Airbnb calendar is born on "Reservations only". Under Settings → Properties → iCal integration — and, on a property sold by room, on the Property rooms screen — the option comes pre-selected before you add it. If you close dates inside Airbnb, switch it to Reservations and blocks right there, before or after adding.

Calendars that already existed keep the option they already had until someone changes them — including the ones never configured, which keep importing reservations and blocks. Nothing changed by itself on anyone's calendar, and switching is on the same screen, at any time.

Frequently asked questions

Why was there an Airbnb block with no reservation at all?

Because it was an unavailability notice from Airbnb itself — advance notice, same-day cut-off, preparation time or booking window — and not a reservation. Those events now show on the calendar as "Unavailable on Airbnb", and you get to choose whether they block or not.

I picked "Reservations only" and the block is still there

That is expected for a few hours. It clears by itself, usually within about 6 hours, once the calendar confirms the notice is not coming back. You do not have to delete anything by hand.

Can I change my mind?

Yes, at any time. Pick Reservations and blocks again and the notices go back to blocking from the next sync on. Nothing is lost in the switch, and you can go back and forth as often as you like.

Does this affect Booking.com?

No. The choice is per calendar, and it only shows on Airbnb calendars. The other channels stay exactly as they were.

Do I have to touch this at all?

On the calendars you already have, no: they keep working the way they always have, and no date was freed or blocked because of this change.

When you add a new Airbnb calendar, it is worth a look: it is born on Reservations only. If you close dates inside Airbnb, switch it to Reservations and blocks.

Why is "Reservations only" the default for new calendars?

Because Airbnb exports far more than reservations as unavailable. On 15 October 2026 a date showed as blocked on the calendar and, when asked, Airbnb itself answered: *"Unavailable. You require guests to book 2 days in advance."* It was nobody's reservation — it was a listing rule closing your direct sales.

Advance notice, the same-day booking cut-off, preparation time and minimum stay all land in the same bucket. Whoever closes dates inside Airbnb needs Reservations and blocks; whoever blocks dates here is better off with Reservations only — which is why a new calendar is born on that option.

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Airbnb calendar: "Reservations only" or "Reservations and blocks"