Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for St. Louis 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 Central Time (UTC-6).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in St. Louis, United States, one to one, remotely and in Central Time (UTC-6). In St. Louis, I price July to August as the peak and January to early February 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 St. Louis
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central 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 St. Louis: Cardinals and Blues seasons; Gateway Arch and Forest Park tourism; Washington University calendar; Conventions and medical travel. Guests I price for: Regional visitors on 2 to 3 night stays, medical and corporate guests. Where I start: Game-day and event premiums, medical-stay weekly rates, and winter floors.
St. Louis hotels live on conventions, medical travel and baseball. With my background in five-star hotel revenue I help build the group versus transient mix for convention weeks, negotiated rates for hospital partners, and a downtown comp set that reflects game-night compression rather than only star rating.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in St. Louis.
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.
“St. Louis is a steady regional market with a strong summer and useful medical demand. Cardinals home stands, festivals and the Gateway Arch bring visitors, while hospitals and universities keep weekdays busy. January and February are slow. I use weekly medical stays to support the quieter months.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
I let weekday rates follow hospital and convention bookings instead of tourism, and I quote 14 and 28 night totals so patient families can compare me against an extended-stay hotel.
For homes in Soulard, Lafayette Square and near downtown I treat the parade weekend as a standalone event with a two-night minimum, even though the rest of February is quiet.
Opening Day, Cardinals home stands and Washington University commencement all land here, so I load the home schedule into the calendar the day it is published and lift those Fridays and Saturdays.
Fair Saint Louis around the Fourth, summer baseball and family trips to the Arch and Forest Park keep weekends full; I hold firm and only soften weekdays when pickup stalls.
Move-in weekend, Blues home games and the fall convention calendar carry this stretch; I price game nights near the Enterprise Center separately and step floors down after Thanksgiving.
Price Cardinals home stands and big events for homes near downtown.
Build weekly rates for medical stays near hospital campuses.
Add Washington University graduation and move-in weekends as premiums.
Set April to October as the main season.
Lower winter floors with monthly options.
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 St. Louis: April to October, with Cardinals home stands, summer festivals and university calendars. Soulard Mardi Gras (February): For homes in Soulard, Lafayette Square and near downtown I treat the parade weekend as a standalone event with a two-night minimum, even though the rest of February is quiet. April to June: Opening Day, Cardinals home stands and Washington University commencement all land here, so I load the home schedule into the calendar the day it is published and lift those Fridays and Saturdays. 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. How many minutes it really is to Barnes-Jewish and the Washington University Medical Campus, since medical guests filter by distance to the hospital far more than by photos.
Add Washington University graduation and move-in weekends as premiums. Next: lower winter floors with monthly options. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a St. Louis 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 St. Louis: January to February. September to December: Move-in weekend, Blues home games and the fall convention calendar carry this stretch; I price game nights near the Enterprise Center separately and step floors down after Thanksgiving. January to early February: I let weekday rates follow hospital and convention bookings instead of tourism, and I quote 14 and 28 night totals so patient families can compare me against an extended-stay hotel.
University weekends ignored and winter prices close to summer. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in St. Louis, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in St. Louis, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. St. Louis sells mostly through Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. Soulard Mardi Gras (February): For homes in Soulard, Lafayette Square and near downtown I treat the parade weekend as a standalone event with a two-night minimum, even though the rest of February is quiet.
Central West End: Walkable to the medical campus and Forest Park, so I lean on weekly and monthly patient-family stays and keep weekend leisure pricing a little higher on top. Soulard and Lafayette Square and Downtown West and near Busch Stadium 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.
Conventions and medical travel, Cardinals and Blues seasons and Gateway Arch and Forest Park tourism are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in St. Louis. September to December: Move-in weekend, Blues home games and the fall convention calendar carry this stretch; I price game nights near the Enterprise Center separately and step floors down after Thanksgiving.
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 St. Louis and work remotely in Central Time (UTC-6). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: build weekly rates for medical stays near hospital campuses.
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 St. Louis I would start from April to June: Opening Day, Cardinals home stands and Washington University commencement all land here, so I load the home schedule into the calendar the day it is published and lift those Fridays and Saturdays. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in St. Louis.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in St. Louis is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central Time (UTC-6), and 100+ properties in and around St. Louis have been optimized, including in areas such as Soulard and Lafayette Square. 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 St. Louis.
The other services I offer in St. Louis, 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 St. Louis, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside St. Louis, 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 St. Louis and what you need. I reply in Central Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
