Get your rentals booking on Booking.com, with a live audit and fixes.I audit the listing, complete the content score, tune photos, rate plans, deals and policies, and make the changes with you on Zoom. I work with Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Manila, one to one, remotely and in Philippine Time (UTC+8), and I have optimized 100+ properties in and around the market.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Booking.com optimization for rentals for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Manila, Philippines, one to one, remotely and in Philippine Time (UTC+8). In Manila, I price March to May and November to December as the peak and June to October as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans from $95 for one listing, priced by listing count and delivered live on Zoom.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Manila
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Philippine Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Booking.com optimization for rentals is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Booking.com. I audit the listing, complete the content score, tune photos, rate plans, deals and policies, and make the changes with you on Zoom.
What I plan around in Manila: Boracay and Cebu beach season; Balikbayan Christmas travel; Business process outsourcing corporate travel; Sinulog and festivals. Guests I price for: Domestic families and regional travellers on 3 to 5 night stays, corporate guests in Makati and BGC. Where I start: Dry-season premiums, Christmas minimum stays, and condo positioning in Makati and BGC.
Manila sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Agoda. On Airbnb, Agoda and Booking.com I configure PriceLabs or Wheelhouse with Holy Week and Christmas overrides, rainy-season floors and monthly discounts for corporate guests in BGC and Makati, keeping rates, fees and minimum stays aligned across every channel so no listing undercuts another during Holy Week or Christmas.
The service in general is described on my booking.com listing optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Manila.
Booking.com scores how complete a listing is. I fill the fields, rewrite descriptions for the guests who book there and tidy room details.
I choose the cover and order the gallery against the nearest competing listings.
I structure rate plans and judge which promotions and Genius levels pay for themselves.
Cancellation terms and review scores feed ranking, so I tune both and write reply templates.
“The Philippines needs three strategies under one heading. Makati and BGC condos serve corporate and outsourcing travel on weekdays, Boracay and Cebu sell dry-season beach holidays, and Christmas brings Filipinos home from abroad. Boracay also manages visitor numbers carefully since its rehabilitation, so accredited properties have an edge.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Sinulog in Cebu and Ati-Atihan in Kalibo near Boracay create festival weeks, so I price those dates as premiums and keep the rest of the dry season steady.
Summer school break and Holy Week bring domestic families to the beaches; I lift Boracay and Cebu rates sharply and set three-night minimums across the Easter long weekend.
Typhoons and rain slow leisure travel, so I keep beach floors sensible and lean on Makati and BGC corporate stays, which hold up better through the wet months.
Thirteenth-month pay, school breaks and balikbayan visits make Christmas the year's high point. I open December early, protect New Year with longer minimums and limit last-minute deals.
Many hosts connect Booking.com once and never return, then wonder why it brings so little. The channel rewards completeness and price position, and it reaches guests who never open Airbnb. I fix the listing and tie its rates to your pricing strategy.
Set weekday corporate rates for Makati and BGC condos.
Price December to May beach season in Boracay and Cebu, with Holy Week highest.
Price Christmas as a premium for balikbayan family visits.
Confirm accreditation requirements on Boracay.
Lower rainy-season floors from June to October.
A new Booking.com listing
You have just connected Booking.com 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 Booking.com.
Commission without much return
You pay Booking.com commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Booking.com and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Booking.com listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Booking.com: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Booking.com 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 Booking.com and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans, priced by listing count, from $95. Each is a live Zoom session with a full audit and the fixes made on the spot.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single | 1 listing, 30-minute session | $95 |
| Portfolio | 2 to 4 listings, 45-minute session | $145 |
| Scale | 5 to 8 listings, 60-minute session | $245 |
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 Booking.com optimization for rentals in Manila, i optimize Booking.com alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. Manila sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Agoda. June to October: Typhoons and rain slow leisure travel, so I keep beach floors sensible and lean on Makati and BGC corporate stays, which hold up better through the wet months.
Busiest in Manila: December to May dry season, Holy Week, and Christmas. November to December: Thirteenth-month pay, school breaks and balikbayan visits make Christmas the year's high point. I open December early, protect New Year with longer minimums and limit last-minute deals. January to February: Sinulog in Cebu and Ati-Atihan in Kalibo near Boracay create festival weeks, so I price those dates as premiums and keep the rest of the dry season steady. For Booking.com optimization for rentals, on Booking.com, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does.
For Booking.com optimization for rentals, i write content and photo order on Booking.com for the guests who actually search for Manila. Domestic families and regional travellers on 3 to 5 night stays, corporate guests in Makati and BGC. Demand is driven by Sinulog and festivals and Boracay and Cebu beach season.
Boracay Station 2: The busiest stretch with dining and nightlife; I set firm dry-season rates and price beachfront access above inland walking distance. Bonifacio Global City (BGC) and Mactan Island, Cebu get their own treatment. For Booking.com optimization for rentals, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Booking.com around the specific part of Manila the property is in.
For Booking.com optimization for rentals, the first changes on Booking.com are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Manila traveler clicks. Price Christmas as a premium for balikbayan family visits. Next: lower rainy-season floors from June to October.
Whether the Boracay property holds the tourism accreditation required on the island, since unaccredited homes face problems with bookings and arrivals at the jetty port. For Booking.com optimization for rentals, i check this on Booking.com first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all.
For Booking.com optimization for rentals in Manila, this is how I would approach it. com I configure PriceLabs or Wheelhouse with Holy Week and Christmas overrides, rainy-season floors and monthly discounts for corporate guests in BGC and Makati, keeping rates, fees and minimum stays aligned across every channel so no listing undercuts another during Holy Week or Christmas. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Booking.com optimization for rentals, 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 Manila and work remotely in Philippine Time (UTC+8). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: confirm accreditation requirements on Boracay.
Booking.com optimization has three fixed-price plans from $95 for one listing, priced by listing count and delivered live on Zoom. The scope of Booking.com optimization for rentals is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Manila I would start from March to May: Summer school break and Holy Week bring domestic families to the beaches; I lift Boracay and Cebu rates sharply and set three-night minimums across the Easter long weekend. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Manila.
Yes. Booking.com Optimization Expert for Rentals in Manila is delivered remotely and scheduled in Philippine Time (UTC+8), and 100+ properties in and around Manila have been optimized, including in areas such as Boracay Station 2. I implement it live on Zoom in your Booking.com extranet or through your channel manager, in your time zone. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Manila.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Manila the first gains from Booking.com optimization for rentals usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: lower rainy-season floors from June to October. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in Manila, 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 Manila, or read the general page for booking.com listing optimization.
If you also run properties outside Manila, 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 Manila and what you need. I reply in Philippine Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
