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  • February 4, 2026
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Femke
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Hey everyone!

 

Question for those working with breakfast rate setups on OTAs. 

We currently use SiteMinder and MEWS direct connect (varies by property) with Booking.com and Expedia, and we offer breakfast-inclusive rates.

The challenge we keep running into is that when we change breakfast pricing, we basically have to reload the rates from scratch. Simply updating the product price in MEWS is not an option, since any modifications to previously reservations would overwrite historical pricing and mess up the original breakdown as soon as our guests start the online checkin process. MEWS at the moment doesn't offer the option to block the product posting on previously made reservations which still need to arrive. 

I’m curious how others have structured their setup? Is there a smarter or more flexible way to set up breakfast rates so breakfast price changes can be applied quickly, ideally within minutes instead of rebuilding everything?

Would really appreciate hearing how others handle this!

 

Best answer by Johannes Rott

​@Femke let me jump in here quickly.

So do i get it correct, you want to update breakfast rates for example first of march and do not want to change existing reservation on the breakfast split? or do you want to?

we do have the similar set up with expedia and booking.com on direct connect and siteminder as channel manager for all other OTA´s. 

By now we have changed the breakfast rate on the product from 1.4.26. So therefore all new reservations will be including the new rates and the existing ones remain with the old rate.

For our SPA Resort Property we do face it the other way round they want to update all reservations with the new split to level up F&B Revenue so we will ask MEWS once the price change is done to auto update all reservations.

 

Let me know if that helped.

 

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Femke
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  • February 4, 2026

​@mauritsbots ​@carl.rosenberg maybe you have some tips? Or know others who’ve worked with similar setups? Many thanks! 

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  • February 5, 2026

​@Femke let me jump in here quickly.

So do i get it correct, you want to update breakfast rates for example first of march and do not want to change existing reservation on the breakfast split? or do you want to?

we do have the similar set up with expedia and booking.com on direct connect and siteminder as channel manager for all other OTA´s. 

By now we have changed the breakfast rate on the product from 1.4.26. So therefore all new reservations will be including the new rates and the existing ones remain with the old rate.

For our SPA Resort Property we do face it the other way round they want to update all reservations with the new split to level up F&B Revenue so we will ask MEWS once the price change is done to auto update all reservations.

 

Let me know if that helped.

 

Johannes Rott // IMLAUER Hotels
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