ALOS Calculator (Average Length of Stay)
Calculate your hotel's average length of stay. Higher ALOS lifts margin without lifting ADR — fewer arrivals, fewer turnovers, lower acquisition cost amortised over more nights.
Average Length of Stay (nights)
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Formula
ALOS = Total Room Nights Sold / Number of Bookings (Arrivals)
Worked example
Why it matters
ALOS is the most-ignored revenue lever in independent hotels. Each booking carries fixed overhead — OTA commission, check-in time, housekeeping turnover. Longer stays amortise that overhead over more revenue nights. A property at 2.0 ALOS that lifts to 2.5 ALOS through length-of-stay pricing can see 10-20% higher GOP per occupied room without raising rates.
Frequently asked questions
Depends on segment. Urban transient hotels: 1.5-2.0 nights. Leisure resorts: 3.5-7.0. Extended-stay: 10+. Track your own trend more than absolute number.
Length-of-stay discounts (e.g., 10% off for 3+ nights), minimum-stay restrictions on peak nights, package bundling, and direct-booking incentives that reward longer stays.
Yes — even when corporate single-night travel naturally caps ALOS, the metric is useful for tracking shifts within the segment over time.
Yes. Direct bookings often have higher ALOS than OTA bookings, which means the per-booking economics of direct are even better than the commission savings alone suggest.
Track ALOS automatically with Guestivo
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