Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Saratoga Springs hotels, resorts and serviced apartments: daily rates, restrictions, forecasting and distribution, with a monthly report you can check. Plans start from $650 a month by hotel size, month to month, remote in Eastern Time (UTC-5).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Saratoga Springs, United States, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Saratoga Springs, I price Mid-July to August and Travers Stakes week as the peak and January to March and November to December as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Saratoga Springs
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Eastern Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Outsourced hotel revenue management means I do the job of the revenue manager for you: I watch the comp set and pace every day, move rates and restrictions, manage the OTAs, forecast demand and report each month. You keep control of the hotel and see every decision.
What I plan around in Saratoga Springs: The Saratoga Race Course summer meet; The Travers Stakes; Saratoga Performing Arts Center concerts; Skidmore College and the mineral-springs spa town. Guests I price for: New York and Albany racing fans on week-long and weekend stays downtown and near the track, plus concert-goers and college visitors. Where I start: Dramatic track-season premiums and long minimum stays during the meet, Travers-weekend surge pricing, and a soft off-season that needs monthly rate cards.
Saratoga hotels face one of the most compressed seasons in the Northeast. My hotel career helps with meet-week length-of-stay controls, group and owner-trainer blocks, wedding demand in shoulder months and a comp set split between downtown properties and those near the track or the lake.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Saratoga Springs.
I monitor your comp set and booking pace every day and move rates, rate plans and restrictions as demand shifts, room type by room type.
I manage the channel mix, parity and promotions together across Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Google and your own site, so cost of sale does not eat the gain.
On the higher plans I forecast demand by month and segment, build the annual budget and keep a 12-month pricing calendar tied to the market's real dates.
You get a monthly performance summary, a full ADR, occupancy and RevPAR report on Plus and Pro, and on Pro a monthly strategy call and a quarterly review.
“Saratoga Springs is one of the most extreme seasonal markets in the Northeast. The thoroughbred meet from mid-July to early September can earn more than the rest of the year combined, and Travers Stakes weekend is the single highest point. Many racing fans book the same homes every year. Outside the meet, the town is quiet and needs monthly strategies.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Chowderfest in February is the one winter weekend I lift; otherwise I sell furnished monthly stays to Albany-area professionals and families between homes.
Skidmore commencement, SPAC's opening weeks and Saratoga Spa State Park weather bring couples back, and this is when I quietly confirm returning track guests for summer.
Opening day at the Saratoga Race Course starts the meet; I sell full weeks, price racing days above dark days only for short gaps and review rates against last year's pickup.
The Midsummer Derby is the year's single highest point, so I price it alone, open it to returning guests first and never let it go as a stray weekend.
After closing day, I return to weekend pricing for foliage drives toward Lake George and the Adirondacks, with Skidmore parents' weekend as a smaller lift.
The Victorian Streetwalk and holiday visits help early December, but I mostly rely on longer stays and keep the floor above what summer guests might see as a bargain.
Price the whole meet as a top season, with Travers weekend highest.
Use weekly or longer minimum stays during the meet.
Offer returning guests next year's dates early.
Add SPAC concerts and Skidmore graduation weekends as premiums.
Offer monthly rates from January to March.
No revenue manager
The role left or was never hired, and rooms are priced between other duties.
Results have plateaued
RevPAR has stopped moving while the comp set keeps learning.
More than one property
You want one consistent method across a small group without building a department.
An owner or asset manager
You want decisions made by a specialist and reported in numbers you can check.
Room count, room types, channels and the systems you use. I confirm the plan level and the monthly price for your size.
I study your market, comp set and current rates, set up the strategy and connect your PMS or channel manager and pricing tool.
I adjust rates, restrictions and promotions as demand moves, and manage your OTAs on Plus and Pro.
Step 4
You get the report against budget and last year, and on Pro we meet monthly, so nothing I do is hidden.
Priced monthly by your hotel's size, not per room. Core, Plus and Pro, month to month, never a percentage of revenue. Hotels of 200 or more rooms, luxury properties and groups are quoted individually.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Core, up to 20 rooms | Managed pricing, run for you every day | From $650/mo |
| Plus | Pricing plus OTA, channel and segment optimization | By hotel size |
| Pro | Full revenue management with forecasting and a monthly strategy call | By hotel size |
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
Busiest in Saratoga Springs: mid-July to early September for the thoroughbred meet, spiking on Travers Stakes weekend, with the summer SPAC concert season alongside. Mid-July to August: Opening day at the Saratoga Race Course starts the meet; I sell full weeks, price racing days above dark days only for short gaps and review rates against last year's pickup. Travers Stakes week: The Midsummer Derby is the year's single highest point, so I price it alone, open it to returning guests first and never let it go as a stray weekend. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i raise floors and tighten minimum stays ahead of these windows and review pace every week, so the strongest dates never sell early at a shoulder rate.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, that is the first thing I check before taking on the pricing, because everything else sits on top of it. Whether the home's walking distance to the track, Broadway and SPAC is stated precisely, since guests during the meet pay most for leaving the car parked.
Offer returning guests next year's dates early. Next: offer monthly rates from January to March. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Saratoga Springs property usually leaks the most.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, in the quiet months my job is to protect the floor, close gaps with length-of-stay and last-minute rules, and keep the property visible on every channel. Quietest in Saratoga Springs: January to March. November to December: The Victorian Streetwalk and holiday visits help early December, but I mostly rely on longer stays and keep the floor above what summer guests might see as a bargain. January to March: Chowderfest in February is the one winter weekend I lift; otherwise I sell furnished monthly stays to Albany-area professionals and families between homes.
Short stays that break track-season weeks and no off-season plan. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Saratoga Springs, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Saratoga Springs, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Saratoga Springs sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. January to March: Chowderfest in February is the one winter weekend I lift; otherwise I sell furnished monthly stays to Albany-area professionals and families between homes.
Union Avenue and the East Side: Closest to the Saratoga Race Course, these homes are the heart of the meet; I sell them by the week and price Travers week as a separate band. Broadway and Downtown and Saratoga Lake get their own treatment. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i set rates, comp sets and restrictions per area and per room or listing type, not as one citywide number.
Skidmore College and the mineral-springs spa town, The Saratoga Race Course summer meet and The Travers Stakes are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Saratoga Springs. Travers Stakes week: The Midsummer Derby is the year's single highest point, so I price it alone, open it to returning guests first and never let it go as a stray weekend.
For outsourced hotel revenue management, you get one experienced person who knows your numbers, with a small team and a tool stack behind me, and no account-manager layer in between. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Saratoga Springs and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: use weekly or longer minimum stays during the meet.
Hotel revenue management plans are priced monthly by hotel size, with Core from $650 a month, Plus adding channel and segment optimization and Pro adding forecasting and a monthly strategy call. They run month to month and are never a percentage of revenue. The scope of outsourced hotel revenue management is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Saratoga Springs I would start from mid-July to August: Opening day at the Saratoga Race Course starts the meet; I sell full weeks, price racing days above dark days only for short gaps and review rates against last year's pickup. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Saratoga Springs.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Saratoga Springs is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Saratoga Springs have been optimized, including in areas such as Broadway and Downtown. I work in your time zone, report monthly, and the engagement runs month to month with no long-term lock-in. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Saratoga Springs.
The other services I offer in Saratoga Springs, 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 Saratoga Springs, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Saratoga Springs, 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 Saratoga Springs and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
