Win placement on Expedia Group, across Hotels.com and Orbitz too.I optimize your Partner Central setup once so Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz and the other group brands all benefit. I work with hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Myrtle Beach, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and I have optimized 100+ properties in and around the market.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Expedia optimization for hotels for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Myrtle Beach, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Myrtle Beach, I price June to August as the peak and January and February and November and December as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Expedia optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Myrtle Beach
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Eastern Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Expedia optimization for hotels is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Expedia. I optimize your Partner Central setup once so Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz and the other group brands all benefit.
What I plan around in Myrtle Beach: Summer beach season; Golf packages in spring and autumn; Bike weeks in May; Carolina Country Music Fest. Guests I price for: Drive-to families on 5 to 7 night stays, golf groups midweek in the shoulder seasons. Where I start: Summer weekly pricing, golf-group midweek strategies, and deep winter floors with reduced minimum stays.
Myrtle Beach sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. With my five-star hotel background, I help Grand Strand hotels and condo resorts manage golf packages, group blocks for festivals and tournaments, rate fences between oceanfront and side-view rooms, and length-of-stay controls over July and the summer holidays, so peak weeks are never broken up by short stays.
The service in general is described on my expedia optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Myrtle Beach.
Expedia scores completeness and quality. I bring the content score up, write room descriptions that sell and align facts with your other channels.
I order the gallery for the search card and the property page, and flag the shots that are losing you clicks.
Expedia rewards competitive, well-structured rates. I set rate plans, member-only pricing and promotions, and judge whether Accelerator or TravelAds earns its cost.
Guest scores and response behaviour affect placement. I set up review requests and responses, and fix the operational causes behind low scores.
“Myrtle Beach is a volume market with a sharp summer peak and a surprisingly useful golf season on either side. Families drive in for summer weeks, while golf groups book midweek in spring and autumn. Winter is deep, so the pricing job is about capturing summer fully and building enough shoulder revenue to carry the quiet months.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Canadian and northern snowbirds book monthly stays, so I set a monthly rate card for oceanfront condos and keep nightly floors low enough to catch weekend visitors.
Can-Am Days, spring break, golf trips and the SOS Spring Safari bring different guests, so I price each block separately and add bike week rules in mid-May.
The summer weeks and the Carolina Country Music Fest are the core of the year, so I set Saturday changeovers for family homes and keep oceanfront rates firm until the final days.
Golf groups, the World Amateur Handicap Championship and the SOS Fall Brawl fill midweeks and weekends, so I price for groups and shorten stays as summer families leave.
Thanksgiving and Christmas carry a few strong weeks, so I price those dates individually and then move to monthly offers for the early winter snowbirds.
Expedia sells your inventory across several brands, and most of them read the same Partner Central data. That is why I do the setup carefully once: a complete profile and a sound rate structure improve placement across the group, and the promotions you choose decide how much of that visibility you pay for.
Price June to August on weekly stays, with Memorial Day and July 4th weeks as the top bands.
Target golf groups with midweek pricing and 3 to 4-night stays in April, May, September and October.
Add bike weeks and the Carolina Country Music Fest as date premiums.
Set deep but cost-covering winter floors with 2-night minimums and monthly options.
Price condos by oceanfront or ocean view against units in the same resort.
A new Expedia listing
You have just connected Expedia 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 Expedia.
Commission without much return
You pay Expedia commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Expedia and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Expedia listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Expedia: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Expedia 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 Expedia and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
I quote Expedia optimization per property after a short chat. You get a fixed scope and price before any work starts.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single property | Expedia optimization for one property | Quoted |
| Several properties | One scope and one price for a group on Expedia | 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 Expedia optimization for hotels in Myrtle Beach, i optimize Expedia alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict. Myrtle Beach sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. November and December: Thanksgiving and Christmas carry a few strong weeks, so I price those dates individually and then move to monthly offers for the early winter snowbirds.
Busiest in Myrtle Beach: June to August, with Memorial Day and July 4th, and golf shoulder seasons in April to May and September to October. June to August: The summer weeks and the Carolina Country Music Fest are the core of the year, so I set Saturday changeovers for family homes and keep oceanfront rates firm until the final days. For Expedia optimization for hotels, on Expedia, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does.
For Expedia optimization for hotels, i write content and photo order on Expedia for the guests who actually search for Myrtle Beach. Drive-to families on 5 to 7 night stays, golf groups midweek in the shoulder seasons. Demand is driven by Golf packages in spring and autumn and Bike weeks in May.
North Myrtle Beach and Cherry Grove: Quieter family beaches and shag-dancing weekends; I price for weekly family stays in summer and add the SOS weekends as premiums. Central Myrtle Beach and the Boardwalk and Surfside Beach, Garden City and Murrells Inlet get their own treatment. For Expedia optimization for hotels, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Expedia around the specific part of Myrtle Beach the property is in.
For Expedia optimization for hotels, the first changes on Expedia are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Myrtle Beach traveler clicks. Add bike weeks and the Carolina Country Music Fest as date premiums. Next: price condos by oceanfront or ocean view against units in the same resort.
Whether the city or county business licence and accommodations tax are in place, because Horry County and the beach towns each collect their own taxes on short stays. For Expedia optimization for hotels, i check this on Expedia first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all.
For Expedia optimization for hotels in Myrtle Beach, this is how I would approach it. With my five-star hotel background, I help Grand Strand hotels and condo resorts manage golf packages, group blocks for festivals and tournaments, rate fences between oceanfront and side-view rooms, and length-of-stay controls over July and the summer holidays, so peak weeks are never broken up by short stays. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Expedia optimization for hotels, 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 Myrtle Beach and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: set deep but cost-covering winter floors with 2-night minimums and monthly options.
Expedia optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types. The scope of Expedia optimization for hotels is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Myrtle Beach I would start from June to August: The summer weeks and the Carolina Country Music Fest are the core of the year, so I set Saturday changeovers for family homes and keep oceanfront rates firm until the final days. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Myrtle Beach.
Yes. Expedia Optimization Expert for Hotels in Myrtle Beach is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Myrtle Beach have been optimized, including in areas such as North Myrtle Beach and Cherry Grove. I implement it live on Zoom in your Expedia extranet or through your channel manager, in your time zone. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Myrtle Beach.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Myrtle Beach the first gains from Expedia optimization for hotels usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: price condos by oceanfront or ocean view against units in the same resort. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in Myrtle Beach, 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 Myrtle Beach, or read the general page for expedia optimization.
If you also run properties outside Myrtle Beach, 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 Myrtle Beach and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
