The Ten-Day Christmas: Longer Stays, Fewer Villas Left
Caribbean holiday stays booked through Haute Retreats now run past ten days, up from nine a quiet shift that has changed how many families a single December can hold.
Miami, Florida — American families have stopped choosing between Christmas week and New Year week. They are taking both.
The average festive stay booked through Haute Retreats, the luxury villa and concierge company, now runs past ten days — up from nine in the previous cycle. The quiet days in between, once the reason to split a holiday in two, have become the reason to keep it whole.
The arithmetic nobody announced
One extra night per booking sounds like a rounding error. In this market it is not.
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