Eklo migrates 10 hotels to Apaleo, saves 738 hours a month

Eklo Hotels has moved its ten French properties onto Apaleo's API-first PMS in five months. The budget chain, which keeps opening new addresses across France, says it recovered more than 738 hours of staff time in June 2025 alone thanks to automated reservations, payments and reporting.

That figure is the one worth keeping. Not the migration itself, which is table stakes for any group above five or six hotels, but what it says about how a lean operator buys technology today. Eklo did not build a custom stack. It plugged into an open API and let the vendor carry the integration weight, which is exactly the pitch every cloud PMS has been making for years and very few chains actually execute at this pace.

My read: this is the template mid-size European groups should be studying. Growth by addition, not by rebuilding. The savings in hours are real, but the bigger prize is that a new property can open without a fresh IT project. That is what scalability means when you run hotels, not software.