Company: BHR-PD
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001574085-25-000092
Chunk: 183

Company: Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-11
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 183
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 of Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, partially offset by an aggregate increase of $2.2 million at The Ritz-Carlton Lake Tahoe, Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale, The Ritz-Carlton Reserve Dorado Beach, The Ritz-Carlton Sarasota, Marriott Seattle Waterfront, Pier House Resort & Spa, The Notary Hotel, The Clancy and Capital Hilton.

Other Operating Expenses. Other operating expenses decreased $1.7 million, or 2.9%, to $56.4 million in the 2025 quarter compared to the 2024 quarter. Hotel operating expenses consist of direct expenses from departments associated with revenue streams and indirect expenses associated with support departments and incentive management fees. 

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We experienced an increase of $240,000 in direct expenses and a decrease of $2.0 million in indirect expenses and incentive management fees in the 2025 quarter as compared to the 2024 quarter. Direct expenses were 4.6% of total hotel revenue in the 2025 quarter and 4.2% in the 2024 quarter.

The increase in direct expenses is associated with higher direct expenses of approximately $587,000 at nine comparable hotel properties, partially offset by lower direct expenses of $212,000 due to the sale of Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines and an aggregate decrease of approximately $135,000 at Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa, The Clancy, Bardessono Hotel and Spa, Sofitel Chicago Magnificent Mile, Capital Hilton and Hotel Yountville.

The decrease in indirect expenses comprises decreases in: (i) incentive management fees of $1.1 million comprising an aggregate decrease of $1.0 million at our 15 comparable hotel properties and a decrease of $132,000 at the one disposed hotel property; (ii) lease expense of $926,000 comprising a decrease of $1.0 million at the one disposed hotel property partially offset by an aggregate increase of $87,000 at our 15 comparable hotel properties; (iii) general and administrative costs of $101,000 comprising a decrease of $936,000 at the one disposed hotel property partially offset by an aggregate increase of $835,000 at our 15 comparable hotel properties; and (iv) marketing costs of $67,000 comprising a decrease of $975,000 at the one disposed hotel property partially offset by an aggregate increase of $908,000 at our 15 comparable hotel properties. These decreases were partially offset by increases