Joey Bloggs said:
Our first few years we had business guests in the "off season" but now they are fewer and fewer, teleconferencing instead. Every year It hink about this, then say "whatever just leave it open and if we get many we can deal with it then"
So here's my deal with 'deal with it then'...you are always on edge- will someone call, won't they call, damn they called. With the calendar blocked you relax. If they call you can turn them down because in your head you are closed. If they don't call, you weren't expecting them anyway. When we hit December and I'm looking at my avail calendar (which shows 'blocked' days in red) and I see that red bunch of days getting closer, I relax, I get excited about 'my vacation' (which is spent fixing stuff, but goofing off, too). Of course, when Jan hits and I see the 'open' days getting closer it's a different story altogether!
We did stay open one extra day last year for a biz guest, but I added it on to the end of the vacation and he was the first guest back in Feb.