Hotel & Vacation Rental MCP - live prices, availability & reviews across Booking.com, Airbnb, Vrbo & Google Hotels

Search stays, compare prices across Booking.com, Airbnb, Vrbo and Google Hotels, and pull reviews by just asking your AI. One hosted MCP, 300 free credits to start, no card.
Seven read-only tools - search, availability, listing detail, price, cross-OTA price compare, reviews, and job polling - for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, and any MCP client.

4 booking platforms, one schema · 7 read-only tools · cross-OTA price compare · OAuth 2.1, no key pasted into the agent · 300 free credits to start, no card StayingAPI is an independent service for accommodation data. StayingAPI is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, or Google Hotels. These are trademarks of their respective owners, used here descriptively to indicate the data sources StayingAPI's API and MCP server can query.

Install in one line

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http stayingapi https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp

Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other MCP client — add this as a Streamable HTTP server:

https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp

No API key to paste: the first call opens an OAuth sign-in (free account, 300 credits, no card). Per-client steps are in Quick Install, and the whole repo also installs as an Agent Plugin.

Why a Hotel & Vacation Rental MCP

You are already comparing stays across four sites by hand: a hotel on Booking.com, an apartment on Airbnb, a villa on Vrbo, and Google Hotels to sanity-check the rate. Every one of them has a different page, a different rating scale, and no API you can just sign up for.

Connect once, then just ask. Add this MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client a single time, and your AI assistant can search real stays, quote real prices for your dates, compare one property's rate across booking sites, and read normalized reviews - inside the conversation, with no code and no repeated setup.

Everything comes back in one unified schema. A hotel room and a holiday villa return the same object shape, ratings carry their native scale instead of being silently rescaled, and the cross-OTA comparison returns each site's offer plus a computed lowest and median price, so you do not re-derive them yourself.

Quick taste:

Find 2-bed stays in Lisbon for these dates under EUR 150,
compare the top one's price across Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo,
and summarize its reviews.

That single prompt spans three tools - search_stays, compare_prices, get_reviews - without you writing a line of code.

Install as an Agent Plugin _{· easiest}

This repository root is a conformant Agent Plugins 1.0.0 package — the portable format published 2026-08-06 and supported by ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro and VS Code. One install gets you the MCP server and a bundled stays skill that teaches your agent which tool answers which question, how to keep cross-platform fan-out cheap, and that Airbnb/Vrbo rate on a 5-point scale while Booking.com rates on 10 — so it never compares a 9 with a 4.5.

plugin.json                    # Agent Plugins 1.0.0 manifest
mcp.json                       # hosted MCP server, streamable-http, OAuth (no keys)
skills/stays/SKILL.md          # when + how to use the 7 read-only tools
.cursor-plugin/plugin.json     # Cursor plugin manifest, same MCP + skill (+ marketplace.json)

VS Code — Command Palette → Chat: Install Plugin From Source, then paste:

https://github.com/stayingapi/hotel-vacation-rental-mcp

Or register a local clone in settings.json:

"chat.pluginLocations": { "/absolute/path/to/hotel-vacation-rental-mcp": true }

Cursor — Customize in the sidebar → find the plugin → Install. For a local clone:

git clone https://github.com/stayingapi/hotel-vacation-rental-mcp ~/.cursor/plugins/local/stayingapi

Then Developer: Reload Window.

Add to Cursor — MCP server only, no clone. Paste this deeplink into your browser:

cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=stayingapi&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL21jcC5zdGF5aW5nYXBpLmNvbS9tY3AifQ==

ChatGPT, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, any other client — point your client's plugin mechanism at this repository, or at a local clone. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 standardizes the package format, not installation, so each client owns its own install flow.

30-second example

Find a 2-bedroom apartment in Split, Croatia for 12-15 June, 2 adults, under EUR 150 a night.

One search_stays call returns Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Google Hotels merged into a single normalized list, each with its booking URL. No API key to configure — the first call opens an OAuth sign-in (free account, 300 credits, no card). Then the follow-ups that normally take twenty browser tabs:

Is that one cheaper on Booking or Airbnb?   → compare_prices (one call, every OTA)
Is it free all week, and what's the min stay? → check_availability (day by day)

All seven tools are read-only — nothing here can book, cancel or change a reservation.

There are no credentials in this package — Agent Plugins 1.0.0 forbids embedded secrets, and authorization is client-managed. Verify the package yourself:

curl -sO https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json
curl -sO https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/mcp.schema.json
npx ajv-cli@5 validate --spec=draft2020 -s plugin.schema.json -d plugin.json
npx ajv-cli@5 validate --spec=draft2020 -s mcp.schema.json    -d mcp.json

Quick Install

Requirements:

• A StayingAPI account (sign up - 300 free credits, no card)
• Either OAuth (Claude, ChatGPT - no key handling at all) or an API key (stay_live_... / stay_test_...) from your dashboard

Recommended: add a rule so your AI invokes it automatically

Paste this into your client's custom instructions or rules file:

txt

Copy

When I mention a hotel, an Airbnb/Booking.com/Vrbo/Google Hotels listing,
a place to stay, travel dates, or ask to compare accommodation prices or
read stay reviews, automatically use the StayingAPI MCP tools to fetch
real data before answering.

Server URL: https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP transport)

https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stayingapi": {
      "url": "https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add --transport http stayingapi https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http stayingapi https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer stay_live_YOUR_KEY_HERE"

https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp