Market note
What 229 live crew accommodation enquiries across our desk say about how projects actually book, and what that timing does to a mobilisation in the United States.
Two numbers that should not sit together do. Crews ask for month-long accommodation, and they ask for it five days before they arrive. 61% of the enquiries we see land inside a week of check-in, 73% inside two weeks, while 54% of the stays run 28 nights or more.
It is not disorganisation. Mobilisation dates move with the site, not with the accommodation calendar. The cost is avoidable anyway, because the penalty comes from buying in the wrong market for the length of the stay, not from booking late.
Booked at five days' notice, a crew lands on the nightly layer by default and the whole month gets costed on first-week pricing.
Direct owners and local agencies price a month properly, but they are not instant to book, so short notice pushes buyers away from the cheaper market.
Median crew is 8 and rarely static. Without flex or swap terms agreed up front, every change becomes a rebooking at spot price.
Buying in the correct market for the length of the stay has saved our clients 20-30%. The lever is which market, not how early.
Stock context, not a directory. These are the places in the United States where we already track enough properties to tell you quickly whether a crew can be housed near the site, and where the answer is usually a wider radius.
| Town | Properties within 25 km |
|---|---|
| Washington | 37 |
Where a town has its own note, the link opens the detail for that market. Everywhere else, ask us and we will run the radius from your exact site.
Source: Bonjour Residences enquiry and sourcing data, September 2026. Enquiry figures cover 229 live crew accommodation enquiries. Property counts are geocoded from the town centre.
15 minutes. Give us the site, the dates and the headcount, and we will tell you which market to buy in and what your current plan is likely costing.
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