Calculators
Bed ADR Calculator
Your average daily rate per bed sold. Enter total bed revenue and the number of beds sold, and you get the rate that sits underneath most of your other numbers.
Formula
Bed ADR = Total Bed Revenue ÷ Total Number of Beds SoldRevenue from bed sales over the period
Bed-nights actually sold, not your total capacity
Bed ADR
$0.00
per bed per night
ADR vs RevPAB
ADR measures your pricing on beds you sold. RevPAB divides revenue by all available beds, including empty ones. High ADR + low occupancy = flat RevPAB.
What bed ADR is, and what it isn't
ADR, average daily rate, is just the average price a sold bed went for. Total bed revenue divided by the number of bed-nights you sold. If you took $5,000 across 200 bed-nights, your ADR is $25. It's one of the most basic numbers in the building, and almost every other metric you track leans on it somewhere, which is exactly why it's worth getting the definition right rather than blending it into mush.
ADR only counts the beds you sold
A blended ADR hides your pricing
Gross rate, before the channel takes its cut
This is the distinction people trip over. ADR divides revenue by beds sold, not beds available, so it tells you about your pricing, not your overall performance. You can post a beautiful ADR while half your beds sit empty, because the empty ones simply aren't in the calculation. ADR answers "what did a bed go for?", not "how well is the property doing?"
That's why ADR and RevPAB are different numbers and why you want both. ADR is your pricing power in isolation; RevPAB takes that same revenue and spreads it across every available bed, empty ones included, so it reflects whether your pricing is actually translating into revenue across the whole place. High ADR with weak occupancy can leave RevPAB flat, the rate looked great, but not enough people paid it.
Calculating one ADR for the entire hostel is the fastest way to throw away the detail you most need. Lump a 16-bed dorm in with your private rooms and you get an average that describes neither, it smooths your cheapest beds and your priciest into a single figure that can't tell you where your pricing is working and where it's slack.
Break ADR down by dorm type, and ideally by day of week. A private room's rate and a mixed-dorm bunk's rate move for completely different reasons, and a Friday rarely prices like a Tuesday. Those are the cuts where ADR actually tells you something you can act on, a blended monthly average mostly just tells you that you exist.
ADR is normally figured on gross revenue, the rate the guest paid, before OTA commission comes off. That's the standard and it's fine, as long as you remember it's the headline number, not what landed in your account. A bed with a $30 ADR booked through a commissioned channel nets you less than $30, sometimes meaningfully less.
If you want the honest take-home figure, run the gross rate through an OTA commission calculation to see your net ADR per channel. Keep the two clearly separate in your head: gross ADR for comparing your pricing over time, net ADR for understanding what you actually keep. Confusing the two is how hostels accidentally price against costs that have already been deducted.
ADR only counts the beds you sold
This is the distinction people trip over. ADR divides revenue by beds sold, not beds available, so it tells you about your pricing, not your overall performance. You can post a beautiful ADR while half your beds sit empty, because the empty ones simply aren't in the calculation. ADR answers "what did a bed go for?", not "how well is the property doing?"
That's why ADR and RevPAB are different numbers and why you want both. ADR is your pricing power in isolation; RevPAB takes that same revenue and spreads it across every available bed, empty ones included, so it reflects whether your pricing is actually translating into revenue across the whole place. High ADR with weak occupancy can leave RevPAB flat, the rate looked great, but not enough people paid it.
A blended ADR hides your pricing
Calculating one ADR for the entire hostel is the fastest way to throw away the detail you most need. Lump a 16-bed dorm in with your private rooms and you get an average that describes neither, it smooths your cheapest beds and your priciest into a single figure that can't tell you where your pricing is working and where it's slack.
Break ADR down by dorm type, and ideally by day of week. A private room's rate and a mixed-dorm bunk's rate move for completely different reasons, and a Friday rarely prices like a Tuesday. Those are the cuts where ADR actually tells you something you can act on, a blended monthly average mostly just tells you that you exist.
Gross rate, before the channel takes its cut
ADR is normally figured on gross revenue, the rate the guest paid, before OTA commission comes off. That's the standard and it's fine, as long as you remember it's the headline number, not what landed in your account. A bed with a $30 ADR booked through a commissioned channel nets you less than $30, sometimes meaningfully less.
If you want the honest take-home figure, run the gross rate through an OTA commission calculation to see your net ADR per channel. Keep the two clearly separate in your head: gross ADR for comparing your pricing over time, net ADR for understanding what you actually keep. Confusing the two is how hostels accidentally price against costs that have already been deducted.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Divide your total bed revenue by the number of bed-nights you sold over the same period. $5,000 across 200 bed-nights is an ADR of $25. Use beds sold, not beds available, available beds belong in RevPAB, not ADR.
- There's no universal figure, it depends heavily on your city, neighbourhood, room types, and season, so a rate that's strong in one market is weak in another. The useful comparison is against properties like yours locally and against your own ADR over time, not against a global average.
- ADR measures the average rate across the beds you actually sold, so it's a pure pricing number. RevPAB divides revenue by every available bed, empty ones included, so it reflects overall performance. You can have a high ADR and a low RevPAB at the same time if occupancy is weak.
- ADR is usually calculated on gross revenue, before commission. That's the right number for tracking your pricing, but it isn't what you take home. To see your net ADR per channel, run the gross rate through an OTA commission calculation.
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