We often stop off in cities in France, Spain or Germany on our way somewhere else, as we travel a lot by train from London. However it is REALLY hard to identify hosts which will accept a one night stay to allow us to break up our travels and explore like true travellers, perhaps with a higher GP fee or something to make it worthwhile. Might you consider adding this for hosts to choose, especially for major stop off routes along big train fast lines such as Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Hamburg, Barcelona and so on?
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I support this suggestion also for the opposite 
Even if weāve been transparent that for us itās really complicated to host for 1-2 days, we receive dozen of requests
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I donāt think itās easy for this type of exchange. 1/ For those who need it and canāt find it easily, and 2/ For those who donāt want it but are always being solicited, even if itās written in their title.
For our part, we feel that 1 or 2 days is not enough, given the time and cost involved in cleaning our apartment + linen.
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Bonjour LondonLass,
I think this is a good idea.
I still hope that the minimum numbers of night and a private room could help.
As far as we are concerned, we found a private room (not so private but this is another problem).
I have been obliged to write at the beginning of my listing that it would be the same number of points for 1, 2 or 3 nights to discourage these requests.
I donāt take any money for the cleaning as iām definitly against spoiling this beaufiful idea in a commercial agreement (rentals are here for that).
So i have been surprised to receive some requests (never 1 night but 2) of people wanting to stay for a week-end in Paris.
The problem in big cities is that it is generally the main home and people have to stay somewhere else.
The problem with 2nd home is that it can be far away to go to do the cleaning for 1 night.
When you contact people, did you try to offer 2 nights GP for 1 night and see how it works?
Or to come with your sheets (someone offered this, i was not interested but another host was).
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Hello. I once had to offer GP for three days so that the host would agree to let me stay one night. I always had doubts about whether that is correct. I would prefer that it be established that for one nightās stay, more GP must be given.
We prefer shorter stays in our beach house, not one day but a weekend if it works for us. Frankly we have times when we have a weekend visits to family planned and donāt mind someone enjoying our place. I see also see a number of people with two or 3 week minimums who might like to be able to list as a filter. I almost think the shorter stays you are talking about for one day would be good as hospitality stays but that doesnāt seem to be the focus of this site.
We once received a request for one night. I explained to the other party that we would not be able to vacate the house for the night but that we had a spare semi-private suite (own bedroom and bathroom, but they would have to share the kitchen etc.) and if that was ok, weād be more than happy for them to stay. We didnāt even exchange GPs since it was not the full house, we just called it a sleepover 
We took our visitors out for a meal in the city as they didnāt have a car. They paid for dinner which was not expected but was lovely - win-win!
It was a really nice (non) exchange and I feel like, that is the point of HE - to share your home and meet fellow travellers, share travel experiences.
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well of course Iād love to do so, but we live in a small two room apartment and itās our primary house so itās pretty inconvinient to have random people sleeping in the kitchen
thatās why as far as I love sharing I would love to be able to avoid receiving request for something we can never do. 
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Disclaimer: Mine is a very personal and non-judgemental opinion, but I consider 1 or even 2-nite requests to be incompatible with home exchanging (personally, I find such requests insulting and inconsiderate). If I was offering the Homestay/private room option, I would understand.
When I travel and my itinerary involves stayovers of 1 or 2 nites, I book commercial accommodation, that is their business and purpose.
I totally disagree with what DenisL.et.AndreG wrote.
I actually think the opposite: many people who are more into the business aspect of ĀØexchangesĀØ donĀ“t want to host for one night because is not business-friendly.
Hospitality is hospitality, which can be one week, one night, or one hour.
Exactly as NZMissQMrVac narrated, thatĀ“s hospitality and kindness!
However, there is already the feature in the calendar to select the minimum number of nights, so I donĀ“t understand which other feature should be made.
As the sayings go, ādifferent strokes for different folksā and āles goĆ»ts sont dans la natureā
Hospitality has no āabsoluteā, it is relative, subjective and custom/culture specific, hence my initial disclaimer. In my culture, respect for guests is that the house be squeaky clean, well stocked and well prepared. I spend half a day cleaning an appartment and a whole day cleaning a house, top to bottom. After, there is the laundry to be done. In that regard, asking to stay one night is unbalanced (and, I repeat, inconsiderate!). There is nothing ābusinessā about that. On the contrary, it is hotels that are in the business of being always prepared and hosting overnight, they have staff and it is their āraison dāĆŖtreā.
The example given in the first comment was not someone who is suddenly stuck and needs a good samaritan to host them for one night (that would be the definition of hospitality!); it was a travel itinerary planned with one-night stops, between trains.
I donāt ācountā nites, as a business would, and have done zero-points reciprocal exchanges where my counterparts had many more nights than I took; our needs were different, not an issue, to each his own. However, I am acutely aware of the time I spend cleaning, ha ha ha
A key motivation, for me, in Home Exchange, is to SHARE oneās home, oneās region, oneās city, for others to enjoy and discover, and the humanity in that reciprocal action. Someone who needs 1 night to sleep, because they are clearly headed somewhere else, that is called convenience, not an exchange. Ultimately, I would feel used, and treated as though I am running a business, which I am not.
It is not in my values, more power to those who do like to host one-nighters!! Good for you!