Hurdle rates can be enabled in your Channel Manager if you are connected to IDeaS RMS. You need to enable hurdle rates for the room rate in your Channel Manager, however, hurdle rates are set up in your connected IDeaS RMS. When enabled, the room rate will receive the hurdle rate from the mapped room rate in IDeaS RMS.

Hurdle rates are thresholds set to prevent rooms from being sold when the price and stay period are not profitable, for example, they can prevent your rooms from being sold at low rates or for short stays. A hurdle rate will set the minimum value (set on a daily basis). The hurdle rate will be sent from IDeaS and your Channel Manager will translate it to a minimum length of stay (MinLOS) restriction.

For example, if the standard daily rate is 150, you could set a hurdle rate of 200. This will prevent guests from booking a one-night stay.

Note: the total value of the room rates across the dates of the stay needs to be lower than the total of the hurdle rates.

See the below example of how hurdle rates can be applied:

You need to enable hurdle rates for a room rate. When enabled, the room rate will receive the hurdle rate from the mapped room rate in IDeaS.

A room rate can inherit the hurdle restrictions from another room rate. The main room rate (from which we are hurdling another room rate from) is called the Hurdle Parent, and the linked room rate is called the Hurdle Child (Hurdle Children).

To hurdle from another room rate (create a Parent and Child link), select another room rate in the Hurdle from another room rate drop-down menu.

Hurdle Parents must always be mapped to IDeaS, however it is optional to map Hurdle Children to IDeaS. This is because Hurdle Children are limited to rates that share the same room type. Hurdle Children inherit the calculated hurdle MinLOS values from its Hurdle Parent, and therefore do not need to receive a hurdle rate from IDeaS. If you are also connected to a PMS this means you can push the rate from the PMS but still have hurdle MinLOS controls from the hurdle parent.

You can only pass hurdle restrictions from Hurdle Parent to Child. A Hurdle Parent cannot have a Hurdle Parent of its own — in other words, you cannot pass hurdle restrictions from Parent to Parent in a chain of several steps.

The Min Stay on Arrival and Min Stay Through restrictions both work by applying their own MinLOS value to a day. When a day also has a MinLOS set by hurdle rates, the larger of the two MinLOS values is used.

Therefore, these features can be used together safely, because the larger MinLOS value will simply override the other.

The MinLOS values calculated from hurdle rates are called Translated MinLOS values. These may be different from the MinLOS values shown in the Inventory grid if the Min Stay on Arrival or Min Stay through restrictions are applied. You cannot see Translated MinLOS values in the Inventory grid or anywhere in the channel manager.

Translated MinLOS values can be viewed if you have a connected channel that supports the Minimum Length of Stay Through field. The Translated MinLOS values will be sent to the channel as Minimum Length of Stay Through values, so you can go to the extranet of the external channel and view this field to see the Translated MinLOS values.

No. The MinLOS restriction is not related to the stop sell restriction. You can safely apply both a MinLOS and stop sell to the same date.