An independent look at your hotel's revenue, and a plan you can run.I audit how your Ann Arbor hotel prices, restricts, distributes and forecasts its rooms, then give you a ranked roadmap, a 12-month pricing calendar and training for your team. Fixed scope, fixed price, remote in Eastern Time (UTC-5), usually four to eight weeks.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides hotel revenue management consulting for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Ann Arbor, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Ann Arbor, I price September to November as the peak and January to February and December as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, based on room count, room types, channels and scope. An audit with a strategy roadmap is a single project fee, usually delivered in four to eight weeks.
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Properties optimized in and around Ann Arbor
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Hotel revenue management consulting is an independent review followed by a plan. I look at 12 to 24 months of your own data, shop your comp set, and find where rates, restrictions or channels are costing you money. Unlike outsourcing, I do not make your daily decisions; your team does, with a better plan.
This is my view of Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor has seven football Saturdays that matter more than almost anything else. Michigan home games at the Big House can earn several normal weekends' worth each. Graduation and the Art Fair add peaks, and Michigan Medicine brings long medical stays. The city's rules on short-term rentals also need checking.
For Ann Arbor owners I check the city's rules first, then price around the football schedule, commencement and the Art Fair. The plan also builds monthly stays for medical and academic visitors, so the property earns outside the seven big Saturdays.
The service in general is described on my hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how I apply it in Ann Arbor.
A review of the last 12 to 24 months: pricing decisions, rate architecture, restrictions, channel mix and cost, comp-set position, pace and the systems behind them, with every gap ranked by value.
Base rates and floors per room type, BAR levels tied to occupancy and pace, seasonal and event calendars and restrictions, written as a 12-month calendar your team can run.
Which channels to sell on, at what rate and with which promotions, so the mix protects margin: OTAs, corporate, wholesale, metasearch and direct.
A demand forecast, an annual budget, weekly pace reports and a workshop for your team, plus honest advice on revenue systems before you sign for one.
“Ann Arbor has seven football Saturdays that matter more than almost anything else. Michigan home games at the Big House can earn several normal weekends' worth each. Graduation and the Art Fair add peaks, and Michigan Medicine brings long medical stays. The city's rules on short-term rentals also need checking.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Outside basketball and hockey weekends, the city is quiet, so I lean on medical and academic stays with weekly and monthly rates.
Campus visits and admitted-student days build toward commencement, which I price as the top spring event with a two or three-night minimum.
The Art Fair in July is the summer peak, so I price it as an event and keep the rest of summer flexible for visiting researchers and families.
Football Saturdays at the Big House drive the year, so I price each home game separately and lift move-in and parents' weekends too.
Students leave and visitors are few, so I lower floors and keep monthly rates attractive for medical staff and visiting faculty.
Price each Michigan home football weekend individually as soon as the schedule is out.
Price graduation and parents' weekends as premiums.
Add the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July.
Build 30-plus-night rates for medical and academic stays.
Check the city's rules for the property type.
Performance has flattened
RevPAR is stuck while the market around you moves on.
Opening, renovating or rebranding
A new positioning needs a pricing and distribution strategy built from scratch.
An owner wants a second opinion
You need the operator's numbers checked by someone outside the hotel.
You have a team but want a better plan
Someone prices today and wants an audit, a calendar and training.
Thirty minutes on your property, your market and where you think revenue leaks. I scope the work and confirm the price before starting.
With read-only access to your PMS, channel manager and extranets I analyse the data, shop your comp set and talk to whoever sets rates today.
A written report and a working session: the gaps ranked by value, the strategy to close them and a 12-month calendar.
Step 4
I can set the strategy up in your systems, train your team and check in monthly, or run it for you as outsourced management.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price. After a free discovery call you get the scope and the price in writing before any work starts. Training days and monthly check-ins are quoted separately.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Audit and roadmap | Audit, ranked gap report, strategy and 12-month calendar | Fixed fee, quoted |
| Implementation support | Setup in your systems and team training | Quoted |
| Monthly check-ins | Optional review sessions after delivery | Quoted |
Real feedback from PriceLabs pricing strategy sessions with Alaa.
Alaa is a consummate professional! Patient, thorough, efficient and effective in communicating. He not only made savvy adjustments to my dynamic pricing strategy, but also helped me to understand the reasoning behind his methods, granting me a better understanding of the PriceLabs platform. Strong work!
Airbnb host
Alaa was fantastic, going through each of the properties I had and gave great advice and actioned a great game plan. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to enhance their pricing strategy on PriceLabs. Alaa's experience goes beyond this which makes it very beneficial to have this holistic approach.
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Alaa helped me optimize my PriceLabs settings for my Airbnb listing and was very helpful and patient with answering any questions I had. He was also able to clearly explain why he made the changes he made, and it was obvious that he had a lot of experience in this field. I will definitely be back!
Airbnb host
For hotel revenue management consulting, that is where my audit begins, because a finding here changes every recommendation after it. Whether each football weekend has its own rate and minimum, since rivalry games and night games behave very differently from early-season matchups.
Busiest in Ann Arbor: Football Saturdays from September to November, graduation in May and the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July. September to November: Football Saturdays at the Big House drive the year, so I price each home game separately and lift move-in and parents' weekends too. For hotel revenue management consulting, my audit tests whether your current rates and restrictions capture these windows, and the 12-month calendar I hand over sets them in advance.
Game-day single-night surges tied to the seven home football dates, graduation and Art Fair peaks, and 30-plus-night furnished demand from the medical centre. For hotel revenue management consulting, I check every recommendation against the Ann Arbor calendar before I make it. September to November: Football Saturdays at the Big House drive the year, so I price each home game separately and lift move-in and parents' weekends too.
Ann Arbor has seven football Saturdays that matter more than almost anything else. Michigan home games at the Big House can earn several normal weekends' worth each. That is the view I bring to hotel revenue management consulting in Ann Arbor.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Ann Arbor the first gains from hotel revenue management consulting usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: price graduation and parents' weekends as premiums. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Ann Arbor sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Furnished Finder for medical and academic stays. June to August: The Art Fair in July is the summer peak, so I price it as an event and keep the rest of summer flexible for visiting researchers and families. For hotel revenue management consulting in Ann Arbor, my distribution review covers each channel's cost, contribution and rate position, then recommends a mix.
For hotel revenue management consulting, i begin with 12 to 24 months of your own data, so the first findings are about your property in Ann Arbor, not the city. Add the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July. Next: check the city's rules for the property type.
Burns Park: Quiet streets close to the stadium and campus; I price football weekends firmly and build monthly rates for visiting faculty and families. Central Campus and Downtown and Kerrytown get their own treatment. For hotel revenue management consulting, i review your comp set and rate position for your own part of Ann Arbor, not the market average.
For hotel revenue management consulting, consulting gives you an independent view and a plan your own team can run, without handing the daily decisions to anyone. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Ann Arbor and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: add the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July.
Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, based on room count, room types, channels and scope. An audit with a strategy roadmap is a single project fee, usually delivered in four to eight weeks. The scope of hotel revenue management consulting is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Ann Arbor I would start from September to November: Football Saturdays at the Big House drive the year, so I price each home game separately and lift move-in and parents' weekends too. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Ann Arbor.
Yes. Hotel Revenue Management Consultant in Ann Arbor is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Ann Arbor have been optimized, including in areas such as Burns Park. The engagement is remote and fixed-scope, with calls in your time zone and a written report your team can run. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Ann Arbor.
The other services I offer in Ann Arbor, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each has its own page for this market.
Back to the revenue management consultant page for Ann Arbor, or read the general page for hotel revenue management consulting.
If you also run properties outside Ann Arbor, I work in these markets too, and each page is written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
Tell me what you run in Ann Arbor and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
