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Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (XHR)

Q2 2020 Earnings Call· Sun, Aug 2, 2020

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Operator

Operator

Good day and welcome to the Xenia Hotels & Resorts Incorporated Second Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference call over to Ms. Lisa Ramey Vice President Finance. Ms. Ramey the floor is yours ma'am.

Lisa Ramey

Analyst

Thank you, Mike. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Second Quarter 2020 Earnings Call and Webcast for Xenia Hotels & Resorts. I'm here with Marcel Verbaas our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Barry Bloom our President and Chief Operating Officer; and Atish Shah our Chief Financial Officer. Marcel will begin with a discussion of the quarter and details on our current portfolio status. Barry will follow with operating details and an update on our major capital projects and Atish will finish the call discussing our liquidity and balance sheet. Following today's prepared remarks we will open the call for Q&A. Before we get started let me remind everyone that certain statements made on this call are not historical facts and are considered forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties as described in our annual report on Form 10-K and other SEC filings which could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by our comments. Forward-looking statements in the earnings release that we issued earlier this morning along with the comments on this call are made only as of today July 30, 2020 and we undertake no obligation to publicly update any of these forward-looking statements as actual events unfold. You can find a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to net income and definitions of certain items referred to in our remarks in this morning's earnings release. An archive of this call will be available on our website for 90 days. With that I'll turn it over to Marcel to get started.

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

Thanks Lisa and thank you all for joining our second quarter 2020 earnings call. It's hard to believe how much has changed in the lodging industry since the beginning of the year or even since our first quarter earnings call in early May. The second quarter operating environment was unlike anything we have experienced in the lodging industry. With the sector facing dramatic declines in revenues as the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in government-mandated lockdowns restrictions on travel and a severe negative impact on consumer desire to travel. I would like to again thank our hotel operating teams and corporate employees for their agility and resilience during this unprecedented time and their continued dedication to the health and safety of guests at our hotels and resorts. Faced with this environment we took swift and decisive action to preserve company value and liquidity as we outlined in our first quarter earnings call. These actions include drawing down the balance of our revolving credit facility, working with our operators to significantly reduce operating expenses and working capital requirements at our hotels and resorts, a substantial reduction in staffing and expenses at the corporate level, a $50 million reduction in anticipated capital spending for the year and the suspension of our quarterly dividends after the first quarter payment. Most significantly during the second half of March and early part of April 31 of our 39 hotels temporarily suspended operations in an effort to minimize our immediate cash needs. Since we last spoke to you in early May, our team has continued to work extremely hard to position the company to not only get through this crisis, but will also prosper again when the inevitable recovery takes hold. Significant efforts revolved around balance sheet activities such as the successful negotiation of the amendments to our…

Barry Bloom

Analyst

Thank you, Marcel. Today I will be discussing our property performance for the second quarter, the significant accomplishments we've achieved in resuming operations at the large majority of our hotels, and providing details regarding our historic and future capital expenditures. For our 26 properties that were opened and operating for some part of the quarter, our hotels achieved 17.4% occupancy at an average daily rate of $184.26. While this headline is obviously unlike any we have heard before, we are pleased with sequencing of these results, which continually improved during the quarter as reflect an occupancy of 5.5% and ADR of $157 in the eight hotels that remained open throughout the month of April. May was notably improved with 12% occupancy and an ADR of $185 for the 13 hotels that were open for all or a portion of May. The June results further improved to an occupancy of 23.2% and an ADR of $186 for the 26 hotels open for all or a portion of June. We also wanted to share a few non-traditional metrics, we've been tracking closely as business and consumer confidence shift from week-to-week. All of the statistics I'll be referencing for the first 25 days of July. For that period, our hotels have continued to perform as well as can be expected in this environment, our nearly 25% occupancy and an ADR of approximately $169 due in part to a strong 4th of July weekend. Despite recent commentary and potential concern regarding a potential slowing of business in many of the Sunbelt states in which we operate due to increasing levels of COVID-19 cases. Our results for the weekend in July 25 were slightly ahead of our month-to-date performance. We are particularly pleased with the 17 hotels were opened for the entire month of June…

Atish Shah

Analyst

Thank you, Barry. I'm going to discuss our liquidity and balance sheet. As for our liquidity, we continue to have a strong position. At the end of the second quarter, we had over $305 million of cash and cash equivalents. Additionally, at the end of the quarter, we had approximately $50 million of restricted cash in property FF&E replacement reserves. Through agreements with our hotel operators, we are able to temporarily utilize these funds for hotel operating expenses. We estimate that about $20 million of the $50 million in restricted FF&E reserves is appropriately matched to properties that are more likely to incur losses in the near-term. Moving ahead to our expenses as they relate to our liquidity. We have been focused on managing our expense base during this unprecedented time. Our teams have been focused on reducing recurring expenses while also keeping our properties in good condition being positioned to recommence and ramp-up operations and effectively manage our corporate functions. While the majority of our properties are currently open and operating, we still think it's useful to provide a figure reflecting the extreme scenario of all hotels having operations temporarily suspended. Under that extreme scenario, our estimate of average monthly recurring cash expense is approximately $22 million. That figure includes corporate cash G&A expense as well as debt service. This estimate is at the low end of the range we had provided a few months ago. Let me take a moment to walk through our change in cash from the end of the first quarter to the end of the second quarter. Our cash and cash equivalents declined by approximately $91 million in the second quarter. In addition, our restricted cash declined by approximately $19 million. So in total that is $110 million of change in our total cash.…

Operator

Operator

Thank you, Sir. [Operator Instructions] The first question we have will come from Bill Crow of Raymond James.

Bill Crow

Analyst

Hi, folks. Thanks. Good afternoon. A lot of information there I appreciate that. Marcel, I think it was your prepared comments you mentioned that slowdown was inevitable because of the increase in the case count. I didn't get a sense that that was reflected in your July to-date results which seem kind of even with June. What are you seeing in your forward bookings that indicate that the slowdown is here or is coming?

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

Well Bill, obviously, I referred and I'll let Barry speak a little bit more specifically to what we're seeing kind of on the ground as far as forward bookings and kind of what we're seeing on a day-to-day basis. But obviously, there's been a lot of talk in general about economic slowdown as a result of the COVID-19 cases increasing in a lot of markets throughout the U.S. So my comments are not quite as specific to what we saw July to-date compared to June because we actually have been fairly encouraged that despite a lot of this stuff going on in these states that's -- that our hotels are holding up pretty well compared to what we were seeing in June. And I think Barry referred to it that actually over the last week we saw some -- a little bit of -- it's hard to call it strengthening at these kind of levels, but a little bit of improvement over what we saw during the weeks before that. My comment in general was also related to the fact that we certainly never expected to see kind of a straight-line recovery. We're very much prepared and expected -- prepared for and expected a somewhat uneven recovery. And I think anyone that kind of saw how people were starting to behave as states were opening back up was logically expecting some increases in cases that would potentially pause things a little bit again. And I'd say that that's something that's I fully expect you're going to see throughout the country as things kind of open back up. So I don't think that this is particular to the Sunbelt states or anything like that. It's just more a reflection of increased mobility increased activities. And obviously hopefully with some of the measures that are putting being put in place in a lot of states right now this will slow things down a little bit and we'll go back to that kind of continued improvement in the overall environment.

Bill Crow

Analyst

Okay. The second topic I wanted to jump into a little bit, you -- I appreciate you discussing it briefly in your remarks was the transition from the summer period into the fall. And I'm just wondering, I know you don't have a, especially, long booking window, but what are you seeing as we get past Labor Day? And how tenuous is the kind of decision to reopen hotels ahead of what appears to be a pretty slow fall from a business travel perspective?

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

I think -- and again, Barry can -- will jump in here in a second to give a little bit more feedback on what's happening on the ground. But certainly, you alluded to it I mean, the booking windows are extremely short. And undoubtedly the majority of the type of business you're seeing right now is that leisure-oriented business. So, clearly that does give you a little bit of pause as you think about where the fall will be. And then, as you look at expectations for who will be filling your hotels at that time. We certainly are hopeful that we'll see a little bit more corporate demand going into the fall. It will also be very interesting to see. And again, it's hard to put any specific data around this because of the booking windows are so short. It'd be interesting to see, if you really do see as much of a traditional break in leisure demand when the schools open back up, given the fact that obviously there is so much work. There's so much working from home going on, students being educated virtually and all those type of things. That might also mean that it's not quite as clear cut as you've seen in prior years where the summer ends and you don't see -- you see a very significant decline in leisure.

Barry Bloom

Analyst

Yeah. I think on Marcel's final point, I think that is what we expect to see and what we're targeting our plans around. Unfortunately, we're just too far away from post Labor Day to give any meaning to the data that's out there. And in fact, when we look at it, because when we look year-over-year, we never -- you don't have -- at least in forward bookings you don't have a separation between what is on the books for leisure and what's on the books for corporate transient. So it's really a combined number. So, are those numbers softer than last year, looking ahead a month? Absolutely. But, we know there's virtually no corporate demand in there yet. So, what we've done and a big part of our strategy across the system is more to Marcel's point is that, we think there's going to be opportunities for people to kind of continue behaving the way they behave, particularly in the drive-to leisure destinations in the resort markets where people are going to take long weekends if they have children who are in virtual school or have been working from home. They're going to be able to take more time off mid-week than they otherwise might have. And what we're trying to do is design programmic offerings that really designed to draw people away from their homes for that kind of getaway. There's no question that the guests in our hotels are there primarily because they are tired of being at home and they want a different experience. To the extent we can start differentiating that experience in our hotels by offering for lack or to talk about it kind of generically kind of theme weekends or, specialty programming or unique activities that make them want to choose our hotel than other hotel, that's the kind of positioning we're putting in place now focused on those fall month.

Bill Crow

Analyst

All right. I appreciate. I’ve got one more, but I’m going to cut out, everybody else chance, I’ll come back in later. Thanks.

Barry Bloom

Analyst

Thanks, Bill.

Operator

Operator

And next we have Michael Bellisario of Baird.

Michael Bellisario

Analyst

Good afternoon, everyone.

Atish Shah

Analyst

Good afternoon.

Michael Bellisario

Analyst

Just on the topic of dispositions, presumably buyers want drive-to and leisure-focused hotels, but that's also what you want to own right now. So, how are you balancing that? And how are you evaluating in terms of properties that you might sell?

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

Yeah. Clearly Mike, there's the type of assets that people would have a primary interest in are, obviously, assets that are also great on -- in this current environment. And it clearly is a balancing act to the extent that you're willing to potentially sell assets. How do you balance selling assets where your discount to pre-COVID levels, if you will, which is obviously a focus of a lot of people is a little -- is somewhat minimized? And you do need to balance that with your view of how you want to build your portfolio and keep your portfolio over the long-term. Certainly obviously, these are -- it is a situation where we're looking at a lot of different avenues to continue to bolster the balance sheet. And like I said dispositions could be one of those. So, it is a -- it absolutely is a balancing act to say do we feel comfortable with a potential sale of an asset at a certain valuation compared to certain other avenues that you might go down? And that's something that we'll continue to evaluate. And like I said, disposition will be one of the tools that we'll look -- that we'll continue to look at. And to the extent that we feel that there is a good amount of debt for a certain asset where we believe there is a fair valuation that is preferable to maybe pulling some of the other levers that we have at our disposal that will be something that we consider very closely.

Michael Bellisario

Analyst

And then, if you were to sell an asset or generate proceeds maybe through a financing, what's the waterfall of repayment that needs to occur?

Atish Shah

Analyst

Yeah, that's a good question. I mean there is a -- it would -- it varies based on level of revolver borrowings outstanding. But, in general, the majority would be towards debt reduction.

Michael Bellisario

Analyst

Got it. And then just last one for me on the three big box hotels, that you hope to reopen by year-end. I guess two-part question, what gives you the confidence that that will happen? And then, what do you need to see on the ground of what to switch to decide to open it eventually?

Barry Bloom

Analyst

Well Mike, each one is kind of a little bit different situation. Just the easiest first, which is the Galleria tower in Houston at the Westin Galleria. Those are two relatively equal-sized towers. We have the Oaks tower open. And then there's business that -- sufficient to fill that tower we'll open the Galleria tower. And we can actually -- even to the extent we have group business on the books or book group business we could -- it's very easy for us to move them from tower-to-tower, so that's pretty easy. Santa Clara, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara is interesting had the adjacent theme park been opened this summer, we would definitely be open. So, I mean that hotel has always enjoyed some different business. It's not. So, we're not. We have some -- we do a fair amount of NFL business and related business at that hotel given its proximity to Levi's Stadium. So, we're looking and watching how that business comes around and also transient demand in the Valley -- Silicon Valley in general. So, we think that -- so those are the things we're watching. And then Hyatt Regency Portland is really going to be much more dependent on activity in the nearby near adjacent convention center, and when citywide business comes back into that market. Although, we do think we have a – we've developed some very – as we have at all the hotels some very lean staffing models, where if there is even a relatively small amount of corporate transient demand, we'd be able to get that hotel successfully open, although not necessarily operating optimally.

Michael Bellisario

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Next, we have Aryeh Klein of BMO.

Aryeh Klein

Analyst

Thanks. Just as COVID cases – but have there been any variances across markets that have been more or less impacted that you've seen?

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

You were – not sure if it was just us, but Aryeh you were breaking out. It was very hard to hear your question.

Aryeh Klein

Analyst

Sorry about that. Just as COVID cases have risen, it sounds like occupancy has stayed consistent but has it varied across markets that have been more or less impacted by the rise in COVID cases?

Barry Bloom

Analyst

So one of the things, we took a look at is, we took a look in particular at Arizona, California, Florida and Texas. And even in those markets, while we saw some declines in the week or two following July 4, which in part was to be expected, because we knew July 4th, was a relative peak weekend as it related to leisure demand that week. Each one of those markets we – in each one of those markets we saw occupancy rise in the last week. So we – so the – so it has not behaved significantly differently in those four markets again Arizona, California, Florida and Texas than it really has across the portfolio as a whole.

Aryeh Klein

Analyst

Thanks for that. And just one – maybe one last question just on group bookings into 2021. Have there been any cancellations yet for that that you've seen?

Barry Bloom

Analyst

They have been. They've been relatively isolated at this point. It's obviously something we're watching very closely. It's no doubt we are not putting the amount of business on the books for 2021 to be ordinarily would be at this time. And I think, we'll probably be in a better position to talk about 2021 in the November call.

Aryeh Klein

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The next question, we have will come from Tyler Batory of Janney Capital Markets.

Tyler Batory

Analyst

Yes. Good morning – good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions. I wanted to ask real quick, just about the pricing environment. I'm curious, how promotional the environment is? What the competition is doing on ADR? And then, can you also discuss a little bit more the revenue management regarding some of these properties that have just reopened? Just curious, what you're doing on the revenue management front as you ramp up operations in the company?

Barry Bloom

Analyst

Thanks Tyler. Really good question obviously, and it obviously varies a lot market by market. And the one thing that, we know for sure is that, most of the hotels have now gone back to kind of much more manual and individual person thinking in terms of revenue management rather than using the brand management focused black boxes. And so obviously the data, they rely on is always based on prior periods. So we're really in a kind of different environment here. So what that has done is put a lot more pressure on the individual revenue managers in the hotel, to make sure that they are watching what competitors are doing, watching literally every day, kind of how business is flexing. The good news is, is that the silver lining and the fact that we're not booking business far out, is we have a lot of ability to make decisions very quickly. So for example, they are still watching today, our rates in our leisure and resort hotels for tomorrow night and Saturday night, because we're not yet booked to capacity. We want to attract more business. So we're doing whatever we think it takes on the revenue management side to be able to do that. As I mentioned to a prior question, what we're – part of what we're trying to do is shift away from pure rate plays and try to come up with more value-add opportunities, identifying things, services amenities that we're offering and that we can get the word out to our loyal guests and repeat guests through social media and other relatively easy-to-use channels to try to get them to want to stay at our hotel, and be a little less price-sensitive than the otherwise would. I think one of the things that, we have found in many of these markets is that, the guest is in some cases trading up and that where our hotels are positioned maybe at a higher-quality level than some of the places guests would stay before. They're willing to pay a premium over where they might traditionally stay and that has given us some price support in a lot of the markets that we're working in and has helped soften what would otherwise be a decline in rate.

Tyler Batory

Analyst

Okay. And then the follow-up question, I have is just I'm trying to understand more on the operation side of things. Obviously, you guys have done a great job managing the cost structure and made a lot of changes there. So a multipart question, I mean, how much flexibility, do you have if potentially trends get worse than maybe find even more on the savings front? And then kind of on the reverse, if things start to accelerate to the upside or hold steady, how much of that costs are going to be potentially coming back in as more people start staying at your properties?

Barry Bloom

Analyst

I mean, I think, it's safe to kind of go back to – I'll go back to my professorial days and think about managerial accounting a little bit. And there's no question that, that we've developed models now we're very comfortable that we've kind of covered the fixed costs in the hotels. I think that gives us probably a lot more opportunity on the upside to drive margin as we start working in costs, I think, they're much more likely to be variable costs than fixed costs or at the very least the staff costs where we're only growing fixed staffing for example every 50 or 100 guestrooms that are occupied. So I think we feel really good about the upside. On the downside, I think we certainly have opportunities to go, if we don't sustain the business levels that we're at. And I think, look, we're at very low business levels overall. But if we can't sustain, those we'll look and have to identify opportunities to figure out how to further cut costs. But the businesses are designed to be operating today in a place where we're kind of covering fixed costs, making money on the variable costs, and that we have a lot of – we have a lot of people in particular a lot of our management teams who to their credit are working really, really hard and doing things that are outside of their general duties that they would only be doing as managers, whether that's being additional security on weekends at swimming pools or lobbies, or whether it's kind of engineers doing similar kind of work, whether our front office managers are out some days taking drink orders at a pool bar. We are operating very, very efficiently in really all of our hotels at this point.

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

Yeah, and going back to Atish's comments about, how we've reduced the cash outflow is really in a situation with all hotels being suspended. We're comfortable saying that, we view that as a worst case scenario and that we can run in very low occupancy levels, and do better than what those numbers are that we talked about. And obviously, there are fluctuations that you'll see month-to-month that are some of the puts and takes that Atish talked about, including whether that includes severance amounts and churn amounts and those type of things. But we're pretty comfortable at this point saying that our team has done a tremendous job of really tightening down these expenses and being comfortable that this is kind of the worst case scenario as we presented it with all hotels closed.

Tyler Batory

Analyst

Okay. I'll leave it there. Appreciate the commentary. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Next we have Austin Wurschmidt of KeyBanc.

Austin Wurschmidt

Analyst

Hi, good afternoon, everybody. Atish, you had talked about some of the cost per month during the second quarter and that being around the $20 million level. But there's a number of nonrecurring items in there. And I'm just curious, if you have a sense or best guess of what that number looks like on July's results given you've opened a significant number of hotels and you've seen occupancy improve through the month.

Atish Shah

Analyst

Yes. That's a tough one, Austin. I mean, there's -- I mean, those puts and takes are -- they vary by month as I mentioned, it's AR, AP it's some items that you might get billed for semiannually or biannually as opposed to monthly like insurance and real estate taxes. So it moves around a little bit month-to-month. I would just say there's obviously a lot of focus as we bring these hotels back on the flow-through and higher levels of performance relative to these hotels were closed. And so we're moving in that direction and we feel comfortable and confident in that. But there is going to be a little bit of choppiness from month-to-month. So I -- unfortunately I don't have a good number for July and we'll just have to see how it comes in as things finish up and as the books close.

Austin Wurschmidt

Analyst

Okay. Got it. And then Marcel, just revisiting your comment on the transaction environment. One, I guess how should we think about the total dollar value that you would consider selling? And then you also referenced some other tools at your disposal to enhance liquidity and improve the balance sheet. Can you give us some additional detail of what else you're considering?

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

Yes. It's really tough to say how much we would consider selling or what's -- what kind of the outside number is that we would be willing to do. It really depends on what's -- what do we see out there from market condition-wise and how do we feel about current value you're able to achieve on some assets versus where we believe value for assets is. So we don't have a pre-described number in our heads. So if we'd like to sell x amount. And frankly, it also depends a little bit on how palatable that tool is versus some of these other tools. And I can run through all of them and we're being very nimble and we're being very careful in considering all the options that are out there. But any kind of list you can think of that creates liquidity for a company like ours is something we'll obviously look at very closely. And some of those are a little bit more appealing than others. So we'll certainly compare -- continue to look at potential financing avenues whether secured or unsecured we'll continue to look at sales of assets and many other things are -- could be considered. But the great thing is, is that we came into this with a great balance sheet. We have a very good amount of liquidity. We took all the steps to really shore up our balance sheet and to create additional runway for us. As Atish pointed out, we have a very supportive lender group we have been working with. So there's no gun to our heads to do anything. We don't feel under duress that we absolutely have to pull the trigger on some of these things that are probably maybe a little bit more urgent for people that came into this with a much more levered balance sheet.

Atish Shah

Analyst

Yes. I mean the other piece, I would add there's no maturities till 2022 as I mentioned. And again, I think we have strong relationships with all sorts of capital providers. It's our existing lenders and it's others in the space. And I think that gives us some confidence that we can navigate through as I had mentioned. So again all those various tools that we could utilize. I mean, there's obviously trade-offs associated with each and every one of them. And we think about the tool set in concert with how we think about the business evolving. And so obviously, we've given this worst case scenario the cash burn. But as the business moves forward, we'll have a better handle on exactly what kind of capital levels we might need to raise to further strengthen the balance sheet. And also where we want to position the company in light of opportunities that may be coming. And so some of the activities that you could see from us and others in the space frankly are a combination of defensive and offensive based on their view. So I think it's just a little bit too early, but I think what we wanted to do is explain that we do have a lot of these tools and we are thinking about them very frequently and how to think about appropriate levels of sequencing and total dollar amounts as well.

Austin Wurschmidt

Analyst

Okay. Got it. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Next Bryan Maher of B. Riley FBR.

Bryan Maher

Analyst

Thank you. And most of my questions have already been asked and answered. But if I can drill down just a little bit more on Tyler's question regarding the pricing environment. I think most of the people on this call I would think that weren't around in 2009 and 2010 when we saw distressed owners who were simply trying to make debt service pricing, high-quality room ridiculously low prices. Are you seeing that now out in the marketplace, or do you anticipate that as you get into the fall of occupancy doesn’t cover this later?

Barry Bloom

Analyst

So, Bryan, part of that cut out, but I think I can get to the core of the question or at least the answer that we -- the question we can answer best with regard to that today, which is that that, unlike what we saw before, the primary demand driver, without question for hotels today is the leisure traveler. And the leisure traveler buys rooms very differently, obviously, than either the corporate transient volume traveler, where those rates are negotiated often in advance or the group business, where they're generally being booked by sophisticated meeting planners. So I think that's part of why we feel like pricing has held up moderately well, because that leisure guests when there's demand and when they want to go someplace is not -- we've not seen them looking necessarily for the best deal. We've seen them looking for the best hotel that they want to stay at that's within their price range. So that doesn't mean rates not down, rate is down. But part of rate being down is that when we look at a traditional -- a typical blended hotel, even in some of these drive-to markets where we would have a decent component of corporate business in some cases, or in other cases large scale large volume group, that rates in those sectors, again, it varies property by property, but those rates are often higher than what the transient guest is paying. And that's part of why we see ADR softening a little bit in a lot of these markets. So I don't know if that gets all the way to the answer of the question. Happy to follow-up or address anything else more specific. But it's a very different environment. And again, the summary is, it's a different -- very different environment for sure. We don't know what things are going to look like when corporate and group really come back. But the transient guest seems to be willing to pay a respectable price for the hotel and they're choosing hotels based on quality location and amenities, more so in many cases it seems than they are on the rest.

Atish Shah

Analyst

And it's -- there is a big variation in our portfolio. I mean, you have ADRs in the $100 range and you have ADRs well north of $300, right now. So based on location and what else is open in the market and, obviously, day in a week. I think that the occupancy declines, if you look year-over-year and June and July month-to-date have been sort of in that mid to high teens kind of percentage range 15% to 20% in that range. So, obviously, as Barry said, down but maybe not as significant as one would expect or think relative to prior downturns.

Barry Bloom

Analyst

And I would add to that. I think part of that is -- and part of the proof of that is that we're kind of reaching, in many cases, kind of, equilibrium occupancy, which means that we're pricing appropriately for the demand in the market. We can't induce additional demand necessarily through lower pricing. So a lot of the hotels have maintained pricing at what we think are pretty respectable level.

Bryan Maher

Analyst

All right. That’s helpful. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Next we have the Thomas Allen of Morgan Stanley.

Thomas Allen

Analyst

Hey. Thank you. Good afternoon. So we really appreciate all the additional monthly color in the press release. Can you give us some more detail on June trend including what RevPAR declines were in June and adjusted EBITDA? Thanks.

Atish Shah

Analyst

The RevPAR -- you said June or July, Thomas?

Thomas Allen

Analyst

Currently you said it was too complicated to give July, because there are a lot of moving parts on free cash flow. So can you -- I mean, what I'm looking to understand is what the exit rate was in the second quarter for EBITDA and RevPAR. And it sounds like July is pretty similar, right?

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

Yes. We, obviously, have more hotels open in July than we had in June. So, I mean, we’ve reported on the hotels that were open in June and what kind of RevPAR they achieved. So during the days they were open, we were at about $43 RevPAR. So, obviously, a very significant decline from having 39 hotels open last year for the full month, running at obviously a much more significant RevPAR than what we saw in June so far.

Atish Shah

Analyst

Yes. I mean, I would also add, I mean, in terms of EBITDA, we said, during the quarter we gave our hotel EBITDA number. And it was about a-third of that. It was a decline in month of June, so roughly $13 million.

Thomas Allen

Analyst

So it gets improve relative to the prior month?

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

Well, what I was going to add there, which I think partially answers your question, Thomas, is that there's obviously different puts and takes that go into different months like Atish talked about, where there are certain accrual that hit certain months versus other months. So that's why when you actually look at the monthly EBITDA, they weren't that different from month-to-month in the second quarter. But, again, that is more driven by some of the things that just hit at different times in the quarter.

Thomas Allen

Analyst

Okay. So, you guys didn't give last year's ADR and occupancy, right? So -- but if I take the June RevPAR numbers, you disclosed the reopened properties and we take total 2Q RevPAR from last year, they imply to the reopened properties, RevPAR was down about 75%. Then you assume some properties closed -- were closed, so it's probably down around 80%. Is that a fair estimate?

Atish Shah

Analyst

Yeah. That's rough -- that's roughly fair yeah.

Thomas Allen

Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Atish Shah

Analyst

Yeah.

Operator

Operator

Next we have David Katz, Jefferies.

David Katz

Analyst

Hi. Afternoon everyone and thanks for taking my question. We've talked a couple of quarters ago or really at the outset of the pandemic about how relationships and the discussions between yourselves and management companies the brands have been. How have those evolved over the past -- the recent past 30 days or so? And assuming that, they're constructive, but what kinds of things are you sort of focused on addressing with them?

Barry Bloom

Analyst

Yeah. Definitely constructive, I think, I would suggest that our relationships both in general, but also I think as it relates to the specific people we work with at our largest brands, have never been in better shape. I think, everyone recognizes what we need to do to work through the crisis. But specifically, they have sought a lot of input from the owner community, and in particular from larger owners that they respect like us, a lot of input and feedback on what their corporate, structure and support structures look like going forward. I think that's something that's really important to them. And they want to make sure that they're -- that they've got the right above property services and above property numbers of people to be able to do some of the things that they've done historically, whether that's sales or digital marketing, or revenue management. And how they bring those services back and how they figure out how to right size costs on those. The brands in general have been very, very receptive to owners' thoughts in that regard. They've also been I think, very receptive as it relates to owner feedback on specifics to the operating model. And what opportunities there are to combine positions among properties or the properties that are jointly owned or whether they're properties that span across multiple owners, in terms of how to much more efficiently provide and combine some of those services are providing them through actual people in market as opposed to truly above property. And I think, also just really as it relates to input on ideas as to, is this right, is this how we should be thinking about, managing housekeeping or managing food and beverage, or things like that.

David Katz

Analyst

Right. So, in the end is it fair to takeaway, that you're sort of confident that it comes away with a more efficient and sort of better interaction? And does it leave, in the end when the rubber meets the road, an economic efficiency for you as well?

Barry Bloom

Analyst

I'd say economic efficiency for sure. I think relationships between owners and managers will always have points of disagreement and points of misalignment. And we think we're as good as that -- as good at that as anybody. But I think we're certainly in a period of great cooperation now, but no doubt there will be a time when there's going to be disagreements over this or that and this strategic initiative or another one. But I think regardless, I think, we're going to come out of this in a much more economically beneficial position, than we wanted to.

David Katz

Analyst

Got it. Thank you very much.

Barry Bloom

Analyst

Thanks, David.

Operator

Operator

Well, at this time, we're showing no further questions. We'll go ahead and conclude our question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the conference call back over to Mr. Marcel Verbaas, for any closing remarks, Sir?

Marcel Verbaas

Analyst

Thanks Mike. Thanks everyone for joining us today. Obviously unprecedented times and I'm very proud of how the team continues to manage through this. And I hope everyone on the phone stays safe and healthy. And we look forward to speaking to you again next quarter.

Operator

Operator

And we thank you to the rest of the management team for your time also today. The conference call is now concluded. At this time, you may disconnect your lines. Thank you again, everyone. Take care. And have a great day.