Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Costa Rica hotels, resorts and serviced apartments: daily rates, restrictions, forecasting and distribution, with a monthly report you can check. Plans start from $650 a month by hotel size, month to month, remote in Central Standard Time (UTC-6).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Costa Rica, Costa Rica, one to one, remotely and in Central Standard Time (UTC-6). In Costa Rica, I price Mid-December to early January as the peak and September to November as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Costa Rica
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central Standard Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Outsourced hotel revenue management means I do the job of the revenue manager for you: I watch the comp set and pace every day, move rates and restrictions, manage the OTAs, forecast demand and report each month. You keep control of the hotel and see every decision.
What I plan around in Costa Rica: Tamarindo, Nosara and Papagayo beach demand; Manuel Antonio and La Fortuna eco-tourism; Surf and yoga retreats; North American winter travel. Guests I price for: North American families and couples on 5 to 10 night stays. Where I start: Dry-season premiums, weekly villa pricing, and green-season floors.
From my years in five-star hotels I help Costa Rica eco-lodges and boutique hotels separate leisure, retreat and wedding segments, fence package rates and set group policies for yoga and surf retreats that protect peak-season inventory. I also plan how much green-season space to release to retreat organisers, since a booked block in September beats empty rooms.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Costa Rica.
I monitor your comp set and booking pace every day and move rates, rate plans and restrictions as demand shifts, room type by room type.
I manage the channel mix, parity and promotions together across Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Google and your own site, so cost of sale does not eat the gain.
On the higher plans I forecast demand by month and segment, build the annual budget and keep a 12-month pricing calendar tied to the market's real dates.
You get a monthly performance summary, a full ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report on Plus and Pro, and on Pro a monthly strategy call and a quarterly review.
“Costa Rica sells nature, surf and wellness to North American families. Guanacaste beaches and Manuel Antonio fill in the dry season, Christmas and Easter are highest and the green season is quiet but beautiful. Villas stay about a week. Road travel between regions takes time, so guests usually base themselves in one area for a week, which suits weekly pricing well.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Christmas and New Year sell out first in Tamarindo and Manuel Antonio, so I set seven night minimums and open those weeks well ahead at full rate.
The dry season fills villas with North American families, so I hold weekly rates and price Easter week as its own peak with longer minimums.
Rains begin but mornings stay sunny, so I lower floors gradually, shorten minimums and target yoga and surf retreats looking for value.
The veranillo dry spell and North American summer holidays bring a second wave, so I lift those weeks above June and keep weekly stays.
The wettest months on the Pacific side, so I protect the floor, offer monthly stays and note road conditions honestly in the listing.
Price December to April as the dry season, with Christmas and Easter highest.
Use weekly villa stays.
Target yoga and surf retreats in the shoulders.
Price Tamarindo, Nosara and Manuel Antonio separately.
Set green-season floors.
No revenue manager
The role left or was never hired, and rooms are priced between other duties.
Results have plateaued
RevPAR has stopped moving while the comp set keeps learning.
More than one property
You want one consistent method across a small group without building a department.
An owner or asset manager
You want decisions made by a specialist and reported in numbers you can check.
Room count, room types, channels and the systems you use. I confirm the plan level and the monthly price for your size.
I study your market, comp set and current rates, set up the strategy and connect your PMS or channel manager and pricing tool.
I adjust rates, restrictions and promotions as demand moves, and manage your OTAs on Plus and Pro.
Step 4
You get the report against budget and last year, and on Pro we meet monthly, so nothing I do is hidden.
Priced monthly by your hotel's size, not per room. Core, Plus and Pro, month to month, never a percentage of revenue. Hotels of 200 or more rooms, luxury properties and groups are quoted individually.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Core, up to 20 rooms | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | By hotel size |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | By hotel size |
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
Busiest in Costa Rica: December to April dry season, with Christmas and Easter the highest. Mid-December to early January: Christmas and New Year sell out first in Tamarindo and Manuel Antonio, so I set seven night minimums and open those weeks well ahead at full rate. January to April: The dry season fills villas with North American families, so I hold weekly rates and price Easter week as its own peak with longer minimums. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i raise floors and tighten minimum stays ahead of these windows and review pace every week, so the strongest dates never sell early at a shoulder rate.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, that is the first thing I check before taking on the pricing, because everything else sits on top of it. How the road from Liberia or San José is described, including four-wheel drive needs in the rainy season, since access shapes reviews and repeat bookings.
Target yoga and surf retreats in the shoulders. Next: set green-season floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Costa Rica property usually leaks the most.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, in the quiet months my job is to protect the floor, close gaps with length-of-stay and last-minute rules, and keep the property visible on every channel. Quietest in Costa Rica: September to October. May to June: Rains begin but mornings stay sunny, so I lower floors gradually, shorten minimums and target yoga and surf retreats looking for value. July to August: The veranillo dry spell and North American summer holidays bring a second wave, so I lift those weeks above June and keep weekly stays.
Short stays in peak and green season priced like dry. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Costa Rica, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Costa Rica, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Costa Rica sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. January to April: The dry season fills villas with North American families, so I hold weekly rates and price Easter week as its own peak with longer minimums.
Playa Flamingo and Playas del Coco: Close to Liberia airport with calm bays and marinas; I price for families and boaters wanting quick arrivals and easy beaches. Santa Teresa and Nosara and Papagayo Peninsula get their own treatment. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i set rates, comp sets and restrictions per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number.
North American winter travel, Tamarindo, Nosara and Papagayo beach demand and Manuel Antonio and La Fortuna eco-tourism are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Costa Rica. September to November: The wettest months on the Pacific side, so I protect the floor, offer monthly stays and note road conditions honestly in the listing.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, you get one experienced person who knows your numbers, with a small team and a tool stack behind me, and no account-manager layer in between. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Costa Rica and work remotely in Central Standard Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: use weekly villa stays.
Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue. The scope of outsourced hotel revenue management is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Costa Rica I would start from mid-December to early January: Christmas and New Year sell out first in Tamarindo and Manuel Antonio, so I set seven night minimums and open those weeks well ahead at full rate. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Costa Rica.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Costa Rica is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Standard Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Costa Rica have been optimized, including in areas such as Santa Teresa and Nosara. I work in your time zone, report monthly, and the engagement runs month to month with no long-term lock-in. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Costa Rica.
The other services I offer in Costa Rica, 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 Costa Rica, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Costa Rica, 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 Costa Rica and what you need. I reply in Central Standard Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
