About Run of House Room Types

A run of house (ROH) room type is the most common or standard room category in a hotel, featuring basic amenities. When you select a run of house room, the actual room is determined by the hotel, according to availability, at the time of check-in. Run of house is a virtual room type that can be any associated, available room type at a hotel. This enables a property to maximize the potential number of rooms being sold.

Run of house bookings are generally used for groups and not for transients. When a hotel is working with a group, the group might not care what room type is assigned, as long as a certain number of rooms is reserved. In this case, the hotel can sell the ROH room types to the group. The actual rooms that are given can range from all standard rooms to all luxury rooms, depending on availability.

The Siebel Hospitality functionalities that support run of house room types are as follows:

• Differentiate ROH room types from sleeping room and suite room types.

• Create multiple ROH room types.

• Associate generic room types with run of house room types at a property.

• Map run of house room types to specific room types at a property.

• Take run of house room types into account when checking for availability.

• Display run of house room types availability in the Availability views.

• Display ROH room types in the quote process, rather than the individual room types that make up the ROH room types.

A property can have multiple ROH room types. The property might, for example, have a ROH Standard room type and a ROH Deluxe room type. ROH room type names are user-defined and can be any group of characters. Availability checks take into consideration the number of ROH room types and display the correct room counts.