Your hotel's revenue manager, without the full-time hire.I take over the revenue manager role for Zakopane 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 European Time (UTC+1).
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides outsourced hotel revenue management for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Zakopane, Poland, one to one, remotely and in Central European Time (UTC+1). In Zakopane, I price Late December to early January, Mid-January to February (ferie zimowe) and July to August as the peak and September to mid-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 Zakopane
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Central European 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 Zakopane: skiing and the FIS ski-jump World Cup at the Wielka Krokiew; the Tatra peaks, the Gubalowka ridge and the Kasprowy Wierch cable car; the Morskie Oko lake and Podhale Goral mountain culture; the shops and grilled oscypek cheese along Krupowki street. Guests I price for: Polish and central-European families and groups on week-long winter-ski and summer-hiking stays, concentrated near Krupowki and the trailheads. Where I start: Running a dual ski-and-hike season with sharp Christmas, New Year and school-holiday premiums, floor-pricing the two shoulders in Poland's busiest mountain resort.
Zakopane hotels and guesthouses balance families, groups, ski packages and summer hikers. With my five-star hotel background I help them plan holiday allotments, set package prices for ski and spa stays, and protect peak weeks for direct bookings rather than releasing everything early to operators.
The service in general is described on my outsourced revenue management page; this page covers how I apply it in Zakopane.
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.
“Zakopane is Poland's busiest mountain resort, with ski season, festive weeks and summer Tatra hiking. Polish families and groups stay a week, and the ski-jump World Cup adds a winter spike. I run a dual season with sharp holiday premiums.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Christmas, New Year's Eve and the start of the ski season fill every chalet, so I price the whole period as one block with week-long minimums and no late discounts.
Polish winter school holidays are staggered by region over several weeks, so I load each regional window and keep week-long stays for families who book well ahead.
Late snow and Easter bring some demand, so I price Easter and sunny ski weekends higher and accept shorter stays during the quieter weeks.
The May long weekend and Corpus Christi fill quickly with hikers, so I price those holidays individually and keep ordinary weekdays close to the floor.
Tatra hiking season and summer holidays fill the town again, so I price for week-long family stays and keep a premium on homes close to the trailheads.
Autumn colours bring some hikers in September, then November is quiet, so I set a careful floor and offer weekend breaks with the Bukowina thermal baths in mind.
Price Christmas, New Year and school holidays as top bands.
Add the ski-jump World Cup weekend.
Price July and August hiking weeks.
Price homes near Krupówki and trailheads higher.
Set shoulder floors.
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 Zakopane: December to February for skiing and the festive weeks, and July and August for Tatra hiking. Late December to early January: Christmas, New Year's Eve and the start of the ski season fill every chalet, so I price the whole period as one block with week-long minimums and no late discounts. Mid-January to February (ferie zimowe): Polish winter school holidays are staggered by region over several weeks, so I load each regional window and keep week-long stays for families who book well ahead. 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 the listing handles parking and the road from Kraków, since many guests arrive by car on the busy Zakopianka and value a guaranteed space near the centre.
Price July and August hiking weeks. Next: set shoulder floors. For outsourced hotel revenue management, i start with base rates, the seasonal calendar and restrictions, because that is where a Zakopane 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 Zakopane: April and November between the seasons. March to April: Late snow and Easter bring some demand, so I price Easter and sunny ski weekends higher and accept shorter stays during the quieter weeks. May to June: The May long weekend and Corpus Christi fill quickly with hikers, so I price those holidays individually and keep ordinary weekdays close to the floor.
Summer ignored and location differences ignored. I look for these first when I review outsourced hotel revenue management in Zakopane, and fixing them is usually the quickest gain.
For outsourced hotel revenue management in Zakopane, i manage channel mix, parity and promotions together, so the cheapest route to a booking is not the most expensive one for you. Zakopane sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Expedia. Late December to early January: Christmas, New Year's Eve and the start of the ski season fill every chalet, so I price the whole period as one block with week-long minimums and no late discounts.
Krupówki and the centre: The main pedestrian street with shops and restaurants; I price it at the top for convenience, especially for families without cars. Kościelisko and Near Gubałówka and the Wielka Krokiew 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.
the shops and grilled oscypek cheese along Krupowki street, skiing and the FIS ski-jump World Cup at the Wielka Krokiew and the Tatra peaks, the Gubalowka ridge and the Kasprowy Wierch cable car are the dates I price first for outsourced hotel revenue management in Zakopane. May to June: The May long weekend and Corpus Christi fill quickly with hikers, so I price those holidays individually and keep ordinary weekdays close to the floor.
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 Zakopane and work remotely in Central European Time (UTC+1). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: add the ski-jump World Cup weekend.
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 Zakopane I would start from mid-January to February (ferie zimowe): Polish winter school holidays are staggered by region over several weeks, so I load each regional window and keep week-long stays for families who book well ahead. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Zakopane.
Yes. Outsourced Hotel Revenue Manager in Zakopane is delivered remotely and scheduled in Central European Time (UTC+1), and 100+ properties in and around Zakopane have been optimized, including in areas such as Kościelisko. 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 Zakopane.
The other services I offer in Zakopane, 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 Zakopane, or read the general page for outsourced revenue management.
If you also run properties outside Zakopane, 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 Zakopane and what you need. I reply in Central European Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
