Google Hotels MCP Server

A hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives Claude, Cursor, Windsurf and any other MCP client one Google Hotels tool. Search hotels and vacation rentals for a destination and a pair of dates, then open any property in full with the rate every booking site is charging, ratings, a review breakdown by topic, amenities, photos and coordinates, all as structured JSON, with no Google account and no Places API quota.

1,000 free credits every month, no card required, which is about 100 hotel searches.

https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=google_travel_hotels

Contents

• What you need
• Quick start
• Example prompts
• Tools
• Errors and failure paths
• Pricing, free tier and limits
• Tool selection
• How it compares
• FAQ
• HasData links
• Development
• Contributing
• License

What you need

An MCP client and a HasData API key from the dashboard, free to create with no card, and the free tier covers about 100 calls a month at the 10-credit rate. This is a remote server, so the simplest path is a URL and an x-api-key header, with no container to run and no Google Cloud project anywhere in the flow. A client that only speaks stdio reaches it through a thin launcher, published as @hasdata/google-hotels-mcp on npm and hasdata-google-hotels-mcp on PyPI, shown below.

Quick start

The server URL is the same for every client. We run it hands-on in Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The other blocks follow each client's own documented format for a remote server.

Clients with OAuth support can add the same URL as a connector and sign in without putting a key in a config file.

claude mcp add --transport http google-hotels "https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=google_travel_hotels" \
  --header "x-api-key: HASDATA_API_KEY"

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-hotels": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@hasdata/google-hotels-mcp"],
      "env": { "HASDATA_API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-hotels": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["hasdata-google-hotels-mcp"],
      "env": { "HASDATA_API_KEY": "YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-hotels": {
      "url": "https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=google_travel_hotels",
      "headers": { "x-api-key": "HASDATA_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-hotels": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=google_travel_hotels",
      "headers": { "x-api-key": "HASDATA_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "google-hotels": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=google_travel_hotels",
      "headers": { "x-api-key": "HASDATA_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Example prompts

Prompts, not code. Paste one in and the agent picks the tool itself. Each is annotated with the calls it takes, because every successful call costs 10 credits.

Find hotels in Barcelona for the nights of 12 to 15 November, two adults, and list the five cheapest with nightly rate, rating and class.

One call, 10 credits. Rates, ratings and amenities all come back together.

Same stay, four stars and up, free cancellation only, sorted by rating.

One call, 10 credits. Class, cancellation and sort order are filters on the one request.

Take the top result and show what each booking site charges for it, and whether that is a good price.

Two calls, 20 credits. The search hands back a propertyToken per property, and passing it in opens that property with every source Google compares, a typical price range and Google's own verdict on the deal.

Vacation rentals in Lisbon that week with at least two bedrooms and a pool.

One call, 10 credits, with vacationRentals on, bedrooms at 2 and the pool in amenity__.

Name the destination the way you would say it out loud. A bare Barcelona is read against wherever Google believes the search is running from, so a server in California answers with Californian hotels. Either write hotels in Barcelona or set gl to es, and the city is pinned.

Tools

One tool, read-only, covering both halves of the site. Without a propertyToken it searches. With one it opens a single property.

The samples below are trimmed from real calls, and hotel rates move daily. Read them as a shape.

A sample is the payload, not the whole response. A tools/call result carries one text block, and that text is itself JSON holding url, status, text and json, with the scraped data under json. From a raw JSON-RPC response the path is result.content[0].text, parsed, then .json. A chat client unwraps that for you and code talking to the endpoint directly does not.

Search hotels and vacation rentals

hasdata_google_travel_hotels_getGoogleHotels

Properties for a destination and a stay, with rates, ratings, amenities and images.