Win direct bookings from Google, before guests reach an OTA.I set up your Google Business Profile, free booking links and Hotel Ads, and make sure your direct booking path is competitive. I work with hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Athens, one to one, remotely and in Eastern European Time (UTC+2), and I have optimized 100+ properties in and around the market.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Google Hotel Ads optimization for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Athens, Greece, one to one, remotely and in Eastern European Time (UTC+2). In Athens, I price June to August as the peak and November to March as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Google Hotel Ads optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Athens
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Eastern European Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Google Hotel Ads optimization is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Google. I set up your Google Business Profile, free booking links and Hotel Ads, and make sure your direct booking path is competitive.
What I plan around in Athens: Island ferry and cruise season; Athens Epidaurus Festival; Orthodox Easter; Shoulder-season city breaks. Guests I price for: European and North American leisure travellers, 3 to 5 nights in Athens and 5 to 7 nights on Mykonos, Santorini, Paros and Crete. Where I start: Island seasonality with hard shoulder-season floors, Athens year-round strategy, and AMA-compliant listing management.
Athens sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. My hotel years began in five-star chains, and for Athens and island hotels I work on segmentation between tour operators, direct guests and OTAs. I help with allotment decisions, release dates and pricing for the short island season, and in Athens I plan around cruise calls and conferences.
The service in general is described on my google hotel ads optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Athens.
Your profile is often the first thing a traveler sees. I complete it, correct the details and keep rates and availability accurate.
Free booking links cost nothing to appear in. I set them up, then judge whether paid Hotel Ads are worth it for your hotel.
A click only helps if the booking path converts. I review your site and engine against the OTAs and fix what loses the guest.
Reviews on these sites travel with the property. I set up a routine to collect and answer them consistently.
“Athens and the islands are two businesses. The islands run a short, intense summer with hard shoulders, while Athens can work most of the year. Athens has also frozen new short-term rental registrations in its central districts, which protects existing listings. I price island summers by the week and Athens around city-break seasons and Orthodox Easter.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Most island homes close or sit idle, while Athens keeps city breaks going; I price Athens weekends for European couples and use the Athens Marathon in November as a small spike.
Orthodox Easter and spring sightseeing make this Athens' best stretch, so I lift weekends early and open the first island weeks with flexible stays for couples.
Island weeks run full and Athens shifts to stopover guests between ferries; I keep island pricing weekly and price Athens one to three nights around ferry and flight times.
Warm seas and calmer crowds suit couples on the islands and city breakers in Athens; I keep September close to summer and step rates down only once October pickup slows.
Google shows your hotel, your rates and your OTAs side by side, and the direct link only wins if it is accurate and competitive. A modest amount of careful setup here is the cheapest way I know to move bookings off commission-heavy channels.
Price island homes on weekly stays from June to September.
Price Orthodox Easter as a premium, noting it often differs from Western Easter.
Set Athens spring and autumn as main seasons with 2 to 3-night minimums.
Keep the AMA registration number on every listing.
Set island shoulder floors that still cover cleaning and ferry logistics.
A new Google listing
You have just connected Google and want it to rank and convert from the first weeks, not after months of guessing.
Views but few bookings
Visibility looks fine and conversion does not, which usually means content, photos or rate plans on Google.
Commission without much return
You pay Google commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Google and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Google listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Google: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Google account or through your channel manager, and explain each one so you can maintain it.
Step 4
About 30 days later I look at impressions, conversion and booking share on Google and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
I quote Google Hotel Ads optimization per property after a short chat. You get a fixed scope and price before any work starts.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single property | Google Hotel Ads optimization for one property | Quoted |
| Several properties | One scope and one price for a group on Google Hotel Ads | 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.
Property manager
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
Athens sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. September to October: Warm seas and calmer crowds suit couples on the islands and city breakers in Athens; I keep September close to summer and step rates down only once October pickup slows. For Google Hotel Ads optimization in Athens, i optimize Google alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization, on Google, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does. Busiest in Athens: June to September on the islands, April to June and September to October in Athens. June to August: Island weeks run full and Athens shifts to stopover guests between ferries; I keep island pricing weekly and price Athens one to three nights around ferry and flight times. September to October: Warm seas and calmer crowds suit couples on the islands and city breakers in Athens; I keep September close to summer and step rates down only once October pickup slows.
European and North American leisure travellers, 3 to 5 nights in Athens and 5 to 7 nights on Mykonos, Santorini, Paros and Crete. Demand is driven by Island ferry and cruise season and Athens Epidaurus Festival. For Google Hotel Ads optimization, i write content and photo order on Google for the guests who actually search for Athens.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Google around the specific part of Athens the property is in. Koukaki and Makrygianni: Below the Acropolis and near the museum, these streets attract first-time visitors; I price for short city breaks and keep spring and autumn weekends firm. Kolonaki and Pangrati and Paros and Naxos get their own treatment.
Price island homes on weekly stays from June to September. Next: set Athens spring and autumn as main seasons with 2 to 3-night minimums. For Google Hotel Ads optimization, the first changes on Google are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Athens traveler clicks.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization, i check this on Google first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all. Whether the Athens flat shows its walk to the Acropolis, the metro and Piraeus port, because stopover guests between flights and ferries choose on access above all.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization in Athens, this is how I would approach it. My hotel years began in five-star chains, and for Athens and island hotels I work on segmentation between tour operators, direct guests and OTAs. I help with allotment decisions, release dates and pricing for the short island season, and in Athens I plan around cruise calls and conferences. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization, i price properties for a living, so content, rates and promotions are tuned together and not in isolation. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Athens and work remotely in Eastern European Time (UTC+2). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price Orthodox Easter as a premium, noting it often differs from Western Easter.
Google Hotel Ads optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types. The scope of Google Hotel Ads optimization is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Athens I would start from April to May: Orthodox Easter and spring sightseeing make this Athens' best stretch, so I lift weekends early and open the first island weeks with flexible stays for couples. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Athens.
Yes. Google Hotel Ads Expert in Athens is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern European Time (UTC+2), and 100+ properties in and around Athens have been optimized, including in areas such as Koukaki and Makrygianni. I implement it live on Zoom in your Google extranet or through your channel manager, in your time zone. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Athens.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Athens the first gains from Google Hotel Ads optimization usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: set Athens spring and autumn as main seasons with 2 to 3-night minimums. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in Athens, 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 Athens, or read the general page for google hotel ads optimization.
If you also run properties outside Athens, 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 Athens and what you need. I reply in Eastern European Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
