An independent look at your hotel's revenue, and a plan you can run.I audit how your Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In Minneapolis, I price Late August to Labor Day as the peak and January and February 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 discovery call, 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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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 Minneapolis. Minneapolis and St. Paul have a great summer and a very hard winter. The Minnesota State Fair is the single biggest week, and Vikings, Twins and Wild games add event nights. Corporate travel supports weekdays. In winter, I build strategy around longer stays rather than chasing weekend guests who are not coming.
For a Twin Cities owner I confirm the city requirements first, then place the home among stadiums, lakes, the fairgrounds or the airport corridor, and build a year that values summer and event dates fully while giving winter a realistic, longer-stay plan.
The service in general is described on my hotel revenue management consulting page; this page covers how I apply it in Minneapolis.
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.
“Minneapolis and St. Paul have a great summer and a very hard winter. The Minnesota State Fair is the single biggest week, and Vikings, Twins and Wild games add event nights. Corporate travel supports weekdays. In winter, I build strategy around longer stays rather than chasing weekend guests who are not coming.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
The St. Paul Winter Carnival and the pond hockey tournament on Lake Nokomis give a few strong dates, which I price above a low winter floor built for longer stays.
University of Minnesota graduation and Art-A-Whirl in Northeast lift selected weekends, so I price those dates early and keep weekday rates focused on business travel.
Lake days, Pride, the Aquatennial, the Basilica Block Party and Twins games keep the summer busy, so I hold weekend rates firm and allow shorter midweek stays.
State Fair crowds book early, especially for homes in St. Anthony Park and Roseville near the fairgrounds, so I hold three night minimums and price that zone highest.
Gophers and Vikings games, the Twin Cities Marathon and conventions keep autumn busy, so I load each date individually and keep weekday corporate rates intact.
Holiday family visits and Wild games at the Xcel Energy Center add dates, so I price Christmas week a little higher and leave the rest of the month near the floor.
Price State Fair week in late August as the top band.
Add Vikings home games and big concerts as date premiums.
Set weekday corporate rates near downtown and the Mall of America area.
Build June to September as the main season.
Offer monthly stays and deep floors in January and February.
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.
Thirty minutes on your property, your market and where you think revenue leaks. 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 discovery call 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. How the listing handles winter: heating, parking rules during snow emergencies and access, since winter guests avoid homes that look difficult to reach once snow arrives.
Busiest in Minneapolis: June to September, State Fair in late August, and Vikings and Twins seasons. September to November: Gophers and Vikings games, the Twin Cities Marathon and conventions keep autumn busy, so I load each date individually and keep weekday corporate rates intact. June to mid-August: Lake days, Pride, the Aquatennial, the Basilica Block Party and Twins games keep the summer busy, so I hold weekend rates firm and allow shorter midweek stays. 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.
Fair-week and game-day premiums, corporate rates, and deep winter floors. For hotel revenue management consulting, I check every recommendation against the Minneapolis calendar before I make it. Late August to Labor Day: State Fair crowds book early, especially for homes in St. Anthony Park and Roseville near the fairgrounds, so I hold three night minimums and price that zone highest.
In winter, I build strategy around longer stays rather than chasing weekend guests who are not coming. Minneapolis and St. That is the view I bring to hotel revenue management consulting in Minneapolis.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Minneapolis the first gains from hotel revenue management consulting usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: add Vikings home games and big concerts as date premiums. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Minneapolis sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. March to May: University of Minnesota graduation and Art-A-Whirl in Northeast lift selected weekends, so I price those dates early and keep weekday rates focused on business travel. For hotel revenue management consulting in Minneapolis, 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 Minneapolis, not the city. Set weekday corporate rates near downtown and the Mall of America area. Next: offer monthly stays and deep floors in January and February.
St. Anthony Park and Falcon Heights: Next to the fairgrounds and the university's St. Paul campus; I give State Fair dates the strongest premium in the metro and price the rest of the year moderately. North Loop and Downtown and Uptown and the Chain of Lakes get their own treatment. For hotel revenue management consulting, i review your comp set and rate position for your own part of Minneapolis, 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 Minneapolis and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: set weekday corporate rates near downtown and the Mall of America area.
Hotel revenue management consulting is a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement quoted after a free discovery call, 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 Minneapolis I would start from September to November: Gophers and Vikings games, the Twin Cities Marathon and conventions keep autumn busy, so I load each date individually and keep weekday corporate rates intact. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Minneapolis.
Yes. Hotel Revenue Management Consultant in Minneapolis is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around Minneapolis have been optimized, including in areas such as St. Anthony Park and Falcon Heights. 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 Minneapolis.
The other services I offer in Minneapolis, 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 Minneapolis, or read the general page for hotel revenue management consulting.
If you also run properties outside Minneapolis, 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 Minneapolis and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
