Say the 4 nights open, won’t they replace the 3 night reservation? Where it would not happen with the 1 night WL because they’re not going to split apart the 4 nights if someone has those exact dates on the WL?
Having both the 1 and 4 night gives 2 shots:
one shot where just the extra night comes through and it’s added on to the existing 3 day reservation, and
Another shot if all 4 nights come through and that would replace the existing 3 night reservation.
Would a 4 night WL not get filled to someone who already is holding some of those nights if the WL is to replace an existing reservation? I’m not certain about that answer, and may be where I’m not understanding it correctly.
Not if someone puts in a waitlist for 1, 2, 3, of those nights first. If someone cancels, the nights go back as individual nights, not as a group.
The only time a 4 night waitlist will match before a smaller one is if it was put in first.
For example, we both want June nights. if I have a two night wait list put in on Feb 1st and you have one for 4 nights put in on Feb 10th and all 4 nights open, they fill my two nights because it’s an exact match for me and I was on the list for those nights before you. Even though it would have matched yours as well, I get mine because I requested before you did. Those other two nights will go back into inventory or go to the next person on the list who has those exact two nights.
In this case, you have to wait until those nights open again and no one else was ahead of you for any of those nights.
What someone has booked plays no role. That’s why you don’t waitlist for rooms you already have.
Iif OP has three nights they don’t want to waitlist all 4 because the system isn’t going to match unti all 4 of those nights open up again and won’t even consider the three the OP has.
Basically waitlists are filled in order they are requested based on what opens. It’s why shorter waitlists have a much better chance of filling.