I build your pricing strategy with you, live, in your own account.You share your screen and I build your Monterey 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 Monterey, United States, one to one, remotely and in Pacific Time (UTC-8). In Monterey, I price July and August as the peak and January 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 Monterey: Monterey Car Week and Concours d'Elegance; Pebble Beach golf events; Big Sur and 17-Mile Drive tourism; Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cannery Row. Guests I price for: Bay Area couples on 2 to 3 night stays and international travellers driving Highway 1. Where I start: Event-week premiums with minimum stays, weekend pricing, and county STR permit compliance.
For hosts on the peninsula I configure PriceLabs or Wheelhouse with Car Week, Pro-Am and festival blocks, weekend minimums for Bay Area visitors, Big Sur closure checks and 30-night rate cards where short stays are not allowed, so every home follows the rules that apply to it.
The service in general is described on my airbnb pricing strategy page; this page covers how I apply it in Monterey.
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.
“Monterey, Carmel and Big Sur combine romantic weekends with two world-class event weeks, Car Week in August and the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February. Those weeks justify prices and minimum stays that would never work otherwise. Permits are limited in the county and several cities, so legal homes should be priced as scarce inventory.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
After New Year the peninsula goes quiet, so I set a modest floor, accept two night weekend stays and offer midweek value to Bay Area couples who can travel at short notice.
Pro-Am week brings golf fans, sponsors and media, so I price it as a separate block with longer stays for homes near Pebble Beach and Carmel.
The Sea Otter Classic at Laguna Seca and the Big Sur Marathon lift chosen April weekends, which I price individually while the rest of spring stays at a steady weekend rate.
Summer weekends sell to drive-in families, and Car Week tops the year; I keep minimum stays long through mid-August and avoid releasing single nights near the event dates.
Clear autumn weather and the Monterey Jazz Festival keep demand strong, so I hold weekend rates and treat festival weekend at the fairgrounds as its own premium.
Thanksgiving and the holiday weeks carry the season, so I price those dates firmly and let ordinary midweeks drift toward the floor without deep cuts.
Price Monterey Car Week as the top band of the year, opened a year ahead with long minimum stays.
Add the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February as a winter premium.
Use 2-night weekend minimums for Bay Area visitors.
Price Carmel and Pebble Beach homes by walkability and views.
Confirm permit status before listing.
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 Monterey. Confirm permit status before listing. Next: add the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February as a winter premium.
Busiest in Monterey: June to October, with Car Week in August and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February. July and August: Summer weekends sell to drive-in families, and Car Week tops the year; I keep minimum stays long through mid-August and avoid releasing single nights near the event dates. September and October: Clear autumn weather and the Monterey Jazz Festival keep demand strong, so I hold weekend rates and treat festival weekend at the fairgrounds as its own premium. 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 Monterey: December to January outside holidays. November and December: Thanksgiving and the holiday weeks carry the season, so I price those dates firmly and let ordinary midweeks drift toward the floor without deep cuts. January: After New Year the peninsula goes quiet, so I set a modest floor, accept two night weekend stays and offer midweek value to Bay Area couples who can travel at short notice.
Car Week priced too late, after collectors have booked and february treated as low season despite the Pro-Am. I look for these first when I review Airbnb pricing strategy in Monterey, 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 Monterey behave differently. Pacific Grove: Victorian homes, the coastal path and the monarch butterflies in winter; I price for families and couples and check the local rules before any nightly strategy. Carmel Valley Village and Big Sur get their own treatment.
Big Sur and 17-Mile Drive tourism, Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cannery Row and Monterey Car Week and Concours d'Elegance are the dates I price first for Airbnb pricing strategy in Monterey. September and October: Clear autumn weather and the Monterey Jazz Festival keep demand strong, so I hold weekend rates and treat festival weekend at the fairgrounds as its own premium.
For Airbnb pricing strategy in Monterey, each channel gets its own markup, so the net rate you receive is the same wherever the booking comes from. Monterey sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. September and October: Clear autumn weather and the Monterey Jazz Festival keep demand strong, so I hold weekend rates and treat festival weekend at the fairgrounds as its own premium.
Whether the listing is clear about ocean views, walking distance to Ocean Avenue or Cannery Row, and parking, because those details decide where it sits among scarce legal homes. 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 Monterey I would start from February: Pro-Am week brings golf fans, sponsors and media, so I price it as a separate block with longer stays for homes near Pebble Beach and Carmel. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Monterey.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Monterey the first gains from Airbnb pricing strategy usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: confirm permit status before listing. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
Yes. Airbnb Pricing Expert in Monterey is delivered remotely and scheduled in Pacific Time (UTC-8), and 100+ properties in and around Monterey have been optimized, including in areas such as Pacific Grove. 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 Monterey.
The other services I offer in Monterey, 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 Monterey, or read the general page for airbnb pricing strategy.
If you also run properties outside Monterey, 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 Monterey and what you need. I reply in Pacific Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
