Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Des Moines 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 Time (UTC-6).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management 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 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 Des Moines
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central 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 Des Moines: The Iowa State Fair; The Drake Relays; Iowa Events Center conventions and concerts; State government and insurance-sector business travel. Guests I price for: Fair-goers and event visitors on 2 to 4 night stays, midweek business travellers, and families attending tournaments. Where I start: State Fair premiums set months ahead, weekday business rates, and winter floors.
Des Moines hotels balance corporate accounts from the insurance sector, legislative travel and Iowa Events Center groups against one August that sells itself. From my years in five-star hotel revenue I help set group displacement rules for fair weeks, negotiated rates that do not block peak dates and a comp set split between downtown and West Des Moines.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Des Moines.
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.
Running revenue for a Des Moines hotel means living with two rhythms. Monday to Thursday belongs to Principal, Wellmark, Nationwide and the other insurance and finance employers, plus legislators at the Capitol from January into spring. Weekends belong to Iowa Events Center conventions, concerts and tournaments. Then August arrives and the State Fair compresses every property from the East Village to Altoona, so I manage that fortnight with its own rules.
My opening task is to separate corporate, government, group and fair demand in the hotel's history, then rebuild the rate ladder so each segment pays what the date is worth.
Lawmakers, lobbyists and tournament families are the only real buyers, so I keep Sunday to Thursday rates steady for Capitol travel and lift the state wrestling weekend at Wells Fargo Arena on its own.
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.
Steps from the Capitol and the Court Avenue bars, so I price weeknights for government and business guests and add weekend premiums for concerts at Wells Fargo Arena.
My full Des Moines calendar, areas, pricing moves and the mistakes I fix are on the revenue management consultant page for Des Moines.
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. Prices below are for a hotel of up to 20 rooms; larger hotels move up the size bands on the hotel plans page. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel Pricing Strategy Setup | One-time, done first: market, comp set, room types and rates turned into your strategy | From $750 |
| Core | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | From $900/mo |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | From $1,150/mo |
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 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 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. 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.
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. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Des Moines 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 Des Moines: December to February. January to March: Lawmakers, lobbyists and tournament families are the only real buyers, so I keep Sunday to Thursday rates steady for Capitol travel and lift the state wrestling weekend at Wells Fargo Arena on its own. April to May: 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.
Treating Des Moines as a weekend leisure market and leaving business weeknights underpriced and ignoring the winter tournament weekends that briefly fill the city in an otherwise slow season. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Des Moines, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Des Moines, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Des Moines sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. April to May: 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.
East Village and Downtown: Steps from the Capitol and the Court Avenue bars, so I price weeknights for government and business guests and add weekend premiums for concerts at Wells Fargo Arena. Drake, Sherman Hill and Beaverdale and West Des Moines and Valley Junction 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.
State government and insurance-sector business travel, The Iowa State Fair and The Drake Relays are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Des Moines. September to December: The World Food Festival, the IMT Des Moines Marathon and autumn conventions carry October, then I step down after Thanksgiving and push 30-night offers for the coldest weeks.
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 Des Moines and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: treat Drake Relays week in late April as a premium for the Drake neighbourhood, Sherman Hill and downtown.
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 Des Moines I would start from 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. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Des Moines.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager 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 Drake, Sherman Hill and Beaverdale. 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 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 outsourced revenue management.
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.
