I build your pricing strategy with you, live, in your own account.You share your screen and I build your Lafayette strategy inside PriceLabs or Wheelhouse, explaining every setting. One-time sessions priced by listing count from $125; or run it with Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing from $17.99 per listing per month.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Airbnb pricing strategy for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Lafayette, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Lafayette, I price April to May and September to November as the peak and June to August as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. PriceLabs and Wheelhouse strategy sessions are one-time and priced by listing count: $125 for up to 2 listings, $250 for 3 to 6, $370 for 7 to 10 and $480 for 11 to 15, with larger portfolios priced per listing. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month.
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An Airbnb pricing strategy is the set of rules that decide what each night is worth: base, minimum and maximum prices, seasons, events, minimum stays, gap nights, last-minute pricing, length-of-stay discounts and channel markups. The tool applies the rules; the strategy is what makes the tool worth having. Smart Pricing is not a strategy, because it optimizes for Airbnb's fill rate and knows nothing about your events or other channels.
What I plan around in Lafayette: Festival International de Louisiane; LSU football at Tiger Stadium; Mardi Gras celebrations; Cajun and Zydeco music and the Atchafalaya Basin. Guests I price for: Festival-goers and LSU fans on 2 to 3 night stays around downtown Lafayette, the Oil Center and Baton Rouge near campus. Where I start: Event-driven premiums stacking festivals and game days, two-night weekend minimums, and midweek pricing through a soft high-summer lull.
In PriceLabs or Wheelhouse I load Festival International, Festivals Acadiens et Creoles, Mardi Gras parade weekends and the LSU home schedule as separate events, add two-night minimums on those dates, and set gap rules for short stays. Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com then all reflect the same event pricing.
The service in general is described on my airbnb pricing strategy page; this page covers how I apply it in Lafayette.
I set the base from a real comp set, a minimum that protects your margin and a maximum that stops you underselling a peak night, listing by listing.
I build seasonal profiles and event premiums from the local calendar, so rates move before demand does and not after.
Minimum stays, gap and orphan nights and length-of-stay discounts are set to fill the calendar without discounting the whole month.
I configure OTA markups so your net rate is the same on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, and leave time to ask anything about pricing.
“Lafayette and Baton Rouge are event towns. Festival International and Mardi Gras fill spring, LSU football fills autumn Saturdays in Baton Rouge, and July and August are hot and quiet. I stack event premiums and use midweek pricing to fill the gaps.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Mardi Gras parades in Lafayette and Baton Rouge lift February weekends. I price parade weekends as events and keep midweek rates flexible for state government and business visitors.
Festival International fills downtown Lafayette in late April, and crawfish season brings weekend visitors. I price festival weekend highest and keep two-night minimums through spring.
Heat, humidity and the start of hurricane season slow leisure trips. I lower weekend rates, allow single nights and target oil and gas crews, hospital visitors and families coming home to Acadiana.
LSU home weekends dominate Baton Rouge, while Festivals Acadiens et Creoles brings October visitors to Lafayette. I price both cities separately and open football dates early.
Holiday visits and bowl travel create pockets of demand. I keep rates moderate, price Christmas week carefully, and watch for postseason games.
Price LSU home game weekends as top premiums in Baton Rouge.
Price Festival International in Lafayette as a spring premium.
Add Mardi Gras weekends.
Use 2-night weekend minimums.
Lower July and August floors.
You rely on Smart Pricing
You want a strategy that considers events, gaps and every channel.
You have a tool on defaults
PriceLabs or Wheelhouse is connected but the rules were never set up.
Your pace trails the market
Bookings arrive late or prices look low in peak weeks.
You want to run it yourself
You prefer to price on your own once the strategy is right.
Choose the package for your listing count and a slot in your time zone. Payment is taken securely at booking.
Share the listing links and tool access so I can review competitors and settings before the call.
On Zoom I set seasons, events, stay rules and markups with you on screen, and explain why each setting is there.
Step 4
A revisit session re-tunes the strategy against your results, from $75.
One-time sessions priced by listing count from $125. Wheelhouse follows the same schedule and revisits start from $75. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Up to 2 listings, 45-minute session | $125 |
| Growth | 3 to 6 listings, 60-minute session | $250 |
| Portfolio | 7 to 10 listings, 90-minute session | $370 |
| Scale | 11 to 15 listings, 90-minute session | $480 |
| Pro | 16 to 21 listings, 120-minute session | $615 |
| Enterprise | 22 or more listings, 120-minute session | $635 |
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 Airbnb pricing strategy, the first changes are base and minimum prices and the seasonal profile, since those drive most of the revenue in Lafayette. Lower July and August floors. Next: price Festival International in Lafayette as a spring premium.
Busiest in Lafayette: February to April for Mardi Gras and Festival International, and September to November for LSU football, spiking on Tiger Stadium game weekends. April to May: Festival International fills downtown Lafayette in late April, and crawfish season brings weekend visitors. I price festival weekend highest and keep two-night minimums through spring. September to November: LSU home weekends dominate Baton Rouge, while Festivals Acadiens et Creoles brings October visitors to Lafayette. I price both cities separately and open football dates early. For Airbnb pricing strategy, the strategy I build sets seasonal profiles, event premiums and minimum-stay rules around these windows before they open for booking.
For Airbnb pricing strategy, for the quiet months I set the minimum price, last-minute and gap-night rules and length-of-stay discounts so nights fill without dropping below your floor. Quietest in Lafayette: July to August, the hottest and quietest weeks. December: Holiday visits and bowl travel create pockets of demand. I keep rates moderate, price Christmas week carefully, and watch for postseason games. June to August: Heat, humidity and the start of hurricane season slow leisure trips. I lower weekend rates, allow single nights and target oil and gas crews, hospital visitors and families coming home to Acadiana.
LSU weekends priced too low and lafayette and Baton Rouge homes priced from one comp set. I look for these first when I review Airbnb pricing strategy in Lafayette, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For Airbnb pricing strategy, i set base prices and comp sets per area, with a separate profile where two parts of Lafayette behave differently. The Oil Center: Popular with business visitors and families visiting the medical centres. I price midweek rates more steadily here and use weekend pricing for festivals. Downtown Lafayette and Baton Rouge near LSU get their own treatment.
Mardi Gras celebrations, Cajun and Zydeco music and the Atchafalaya Basin and Festival International de Louisiane are the dates I price first for Airbnb pricing strategy in Lafayette. April to May: Festival International fills downtown Lafayette in late April, and crawfish season brings weekend visitors. I price festival weekend highest and keep two-night minimums through spring.
For Airbnb pricing strategy in Lafayette, each channel gets its own markup, so the net rate you receive is the same wherever the booking comes from. Lafayette sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. April to May: Festival International fills downtown Lafayette in late April, and crawfish season brings weekend visitors. I price festival weekend highest and keep two-night minimums through spring.
How far the home is from Tiger Stadium, downtown Lafayette or the Oil Center, since walking access and parking can matter more than square footage on event weekends. For Airbnb pricing strategy, i check this before touching a single rate, because a base price built on the wrong assumption makes every rule worse.
PriceLabs and Wheelhouse strategy sessions are one-time and priced by listing count: $125 for up to 2 listings, $250 for 3 to 6, $370 for 7 to 10 and $480 for 11 to 15, with larger portfolios priced per listing. Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing software is from $17.99 per listing per month. The scope of Airbnb pricing strategy is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Lafayette I would start from January to March: Mardi Gras parades in Lafayette and Baton Rouge lift February weekends. I price parade weekends as events and keep midweek rates flexible for state government and business visitors. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Lafayette.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Lafayette the first gains from Airbnb pricing strategy usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: lower July and August floors. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Yes. Airbnb Pricing Expert in Lafayette is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Lafayette have been optimized, including in areas such as The Oil Center. I build it live with you on Zoom in your time zone, inside PriceLabs, Wheelhouse or Revenuenaire Dynamic Pricing. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Lafayette.
The other services I offer in Lafayette, 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 Lafayette, or read the general page for airbnb pricing strategy.
If you also run properties outside Lafayette, 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 Lafayette and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
