another aloha friday

Finished off another week and things are looking pretty good for the weekend too. Most of the early morning James and I finished up setting our rates to be more competitive with Hyatt. It was pretty fun, because basically he left the pricing decisions up to me. As I mentioned earlier, we have to also make sure that the hotel’s information system matches the prices of expedia’s system, and that took up most of the morning.

Still working on my golf package, but I’m close to being completely done with it. I know I keep saying that, but that’s because some of these final details take so long to finish up. Stephanie, our PR person, and I got together to discuss the package and what we wanted for marketing. We’re planning on placing it on our branded site and then possibly on luxurycollection.com too. I really want to place a blurp about it on thelobby.com too, but having some trouble with regional wanting it on there. Once we’re finished we can open up sales for the call centers and Jay wants to pass it on to the wholesalers too. Unfortunately, wholesalers take commission off the rooms portion, but as long as we fill our estimated 40 spots then we’ll be stoked! We would really like to make this an annual package if things go well and any help for November revenue will be very beneficial :)

After work, Kelly Kaona invited me to go for a walk along the bay and dinner and a movie later. It was wonderful to get some exercise by the beach in Hanalei and then we went to the Hanalei Gourmet for a little dinner. I had an awesome little salad and some stir fry vegetables. After that we headed back to her house to watch a movie and then she took me back to the hotel. I was pretty tired, so I just went straight to bed once I got back.

Saturday my cousin June is coming to visit me for a day! I’m stoked about it and I have a few things in mind about what we can do.