An independent look at your hotel's revenue, and a plan you can run.I audit how your Des Moines 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 Central Time (UTC-6), usually four to eight weeks.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides hotel revenue management consulting for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Des Moines, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Des Moines, I price August (State Fair) as the peak and January to March 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 scoping chat, 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 Des Moines
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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 Des Moines. Des Moines is a weekday city with one enormous August. Insurance and financial firms, the State Capitol and Iowa Events Center conventions fill Monday to Thursday, while the Iowa State Fair turns eleven days into the year's peak, especially for homes on the east side near the fairgrounds. I price the fair as its own season, keep business weeknights firm and set winter floors that still cover a February cleaning.
With a Des Moines owner I begin by deciding whether the home is a weekday business product, a fair and event product, or both. Then we set the August plan a year out, agree winter floors and long-stay terms, and build a simple monthly review so legislative weeks and tournaments are priced on purpose.
The service in general is described on my hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how I apply it in Des Moines.
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.
When I review a Des Moines property, the corporate account list usually tells the story. Negotiated rates for the insurance firms often have no blackout dates, so fair week and the state wrestling tournament are sold to contract guests at their ordinary rate. I also look at how the hotel handled the legislative session and whether West Des Moines and downtown hotels sit in the same comp set when they should not.
I deliver a short roadmap: corrected negotiated rate terms, a downtown and suburban comp set, and a twelve-month calendar marking fair, Relays, tournament and convention dates for sales and reservations.
Drake Relays and university commencements wake the calendar up; I raise the Relays Thursday to Saturday near the Drake campus and let the rest of spring ride on business demand.
The Des Moines Arts Festival, the Principal Charity Classic, Iowa Cubs home stands and summer weddings fill weekends, so I hold Friday and Saturday together and keep weekday prices slightly lower for leisure families.
Older houses with character near the university; I lean on Relays week, graduation and visiting parents, and sell the porches and brick to couples on summer weekends.
My full Des Moines calendar, areas, pricing moves and the mistakes I fix are on the revenue management consultant page for Des Moines.
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.
Tell me about your property, your market and where you think revenue leaks, in the chat or by email. 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 scoping chat 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.
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
For hotel revenue management consulting, that is where my audit begins, because a finding here changes every recommendation after it. Whether the listing shows parking clearly, since fair guests, wrestling families and business travellers in Des Moines nearly all arrive by car and skip homes with vague street-parking descriptions.
Busiest in Des Moines: August for the Iowa State Fair, plus June and July event weekends and the Drake Relays in late April. June to July: The Des Moines Arts Festival, the Principal Charity Classic, Iowa Cubs home stands and summer weddings fill weekends, so I hold Friday and Saturday together and keep weekday prices slightly lower for leisure families. August (State Fair): Every one of the eleven fair days gets its own rate; opening weekend and the final weekend usually carry the most, and I avoid letting a single night split a longer fair booking. 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.
State Fair premiums set months ahead, weekday business rates, and winter floors. For hotel revenue management consulting, I check every recommendation against the Des Moines calendar before I make it. August (State Fair): Every one of the eleven fair days gets its own rate; opening weekend and the final weekend usually carry the most, and I avoid letting a single night split a longer fair booking.
Insurance and financial firms, the State Capitol and Iowa Events Center conventions fill Monday to Thursday, while the Iowa State Fair turns eleven days into the year's peak, especially for homes on the east side near the fairgrounds. I price the fair as its own season, keep business weeknights firm and set winter floors that still cover a February cleaning. That is the view I bring to hotel revenue management consulting in Des Moines.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Des Moines the first gains from hotel revenue management consulting usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: treat Drake Relays week in late April as a premium for the Drake neighbourhood, Sherman Hill and downtown. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Des Moines sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. June to July: The Des Moines Arts Festival, the Principal Charity Classic, Iowa Cubs home stands and summer weddings fill weekends, so I hold Friday and Saturday together and keep weekday prices slightly lower for leisure families. For hotel revenue management consulting in Des Moines, 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 Des Moines, not the city. Lift weeknights during the legislative session and big Iowa Events Center conventions rather than only on weekends. Next: offer weekly and monthly rates from December to February for relocating insurance staff and contract workers.
West Des Moines and Valley Junction: Suburban homes close to the big insurance campuses and Jordan Creek; I price these for corporate weekly stays and families, with only a modest fair uplift. East Village and Downtown and Drake, Sherman Hill and Beaverdale get their own treatment. For hotel revenue management consulting, i review your comp set and rate position for your own part of Des Moines, 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 Des Moines and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: lift weeknights during the legislative session and big Iowa Events Center conventions rather than only on weekends.
Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free scoping chat, 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 Des Moines I would start from August (State Fair): Every one of the eleven fair days gets its own rate; opening weekend and the final weekend usually carry the most, and I avoid letting a single night split a longer fair booking. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Des Moines.
Yes. Hotel Revenue Management Consultant in Des Moines is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Des Moines have been optimized, including in areas such as West Des Moines and Valley Junction. 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 Des Moines.
The other services I offer in Des Moines, 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 Des Moines, or read the general page for hotel revenue management consulting.
If you also run properties outside Des Moines, 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 Des Moines and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
