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Openvan Travel

Plan van trips and query fuel, weather, tolls, visas, safety, customs, and other travel data through MCP.

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Install Openvan Travel

Pick your client, then add it in one click or paste the config.

STDIONode.js
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openvan-travel": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@openvancamp/mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, merge this into mcpServers, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop.

Install not yet sandbox-tested— the server itself is confirmed live (we called its tools/list endpoint). The stdio install command is a separate, ongoing check.

Overview

openvan-travel connects AI assistants to OpenVan.camp data for campervan and car travel planning. Its tools cover route roadbooks, fuel and toll costs, country and city weather, entry rules, vehicle import, hazards, customs, holidays, events, news, food prices, currency, power plugs, and license plates. Use it for a complete trip brief or a focused question such as comparing fuel prices or checking visa rules. The hosted endpoint requires no API key, and a local version can run through npx.

Use cases

  • Plan a multi-country campervan road trip
  • Compare fuel and toll costs across route countries
  • Check visa, vehicle import, and customs requirements
  • Find suitable weather for sleeping in a van
  • Research road-travel hazards and holidays

Key features

  • Multi-stop roadbook generation
  • Fuel and toll comparisons
  • Country and city campervan weather scores
  • Visa, vehicle import, and customs lookups
  • Travel hazards, fires, holidays, and events
  • Currency, food prices, power plugs, and license plates

Tools30

What Openvan Travel lets your agent do. Expand a tool for its parameters.

Verified live~9.0k tokens of context

Security & health

What it can reach and how reliably it runs — from our own checks, not the maintainer’s claims.

ActiveLast checked 1d ago

Recent health check succeeded.

19/20 checks healthy over the last 90d

What it can do

From the 30 tools this server returned when we ran it; 30 declare their own safety hints.

Makes network requests · 30Read-only tools · 30
Network at startup3 connections
Files written at startupNone
Install scriptsNone
npm provenanceSigned build
Package age167 days
Maintainers1

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Scanned 6d ago via OSV.dev · @openvancamp/mcp-server (npm)

Adoption & maintenance

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npm downloads3kPackage downloads in the last 30 days.
Last commit10d agoMost recent push to the default branch.
Tools exposed30Callable tools this server registers over MCP.
Directory activity3 viewsConfig copies, upvotes, and views on AllMCPs.

How Openvan Travel works

What openvan-travel does

openvan-travel exposes OpenVan.camp’s travel data through MCP tools aimed at road travel, vanlife, and campervan planning. The central plan_road_trip tool accepts 2–10 places and produces a roadbook with distance, driving time, daily planning, overnight stops, travel budgets, border and entry information, vehicle rules, road restrictions, holidays, safety details, power plugs, warnings, and a checklist. It also returns a link to a roadbook that can be opened, edited, and shared.

The server supports both broad country research and narrow lookups. A country brief combines entry rules, weather, fuel, tolls, holidays, safety, electrical information, customs, and food prices. Separate tools handle individual topics when a complete brief would be unnecessary.

How it works

The service uses the OpenVan.camp API at https://openvan.camp and does not require authentication. It can be used as a hosted MCP endpoint at https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp, or started locally with the published npm package through npx -y @openvancamp/mcp-server.

Roadbook generation is asynchronous internally. get_roadbook_build_status reports progress while route, toll, border, city, campsite, weather, and news data are assembled, but it is intended as an internal helper for plan_road_trip rather than a standalone user-facing tool.

Setup and configuration

For a local MCP connection, run:

Terminal
npx -y @openvancamp/mcp-server

The package is documented for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf. A hosted connection is also available, avoiding local installation and API-key configuration. Gemini CLI can connect through the repository’s extension, while Claude Code and Codex have plugin integrations that provide the hosted server and related skills.

When displaying returned data in another application, include the attribution Data: OpenVan.camp with a link to https://openvan.camp/. The data is licensed under CC BY 4.0; repository code, including the MCP server, is MIT-licensed.

Tools and capabilities

  • Build multi-stop roadbooks with route details, budgets, border requirements, weather, holidays, road rules, and warnings.
  • Retrieve current fuel prices, compare countries, or rank destinations from cheapest to most expensive.
  • Estimate route tolls and inspect country-level toll systems, vignettes, bridges, tunnels, and vehicle classes.
  • Evaluate campervan weather for countries and cities, including travel, sleep, driving, solar, awning, and condensation scores.
  • Check passport entry rules, route-wide visa requirements, and temporary import rules for foreign-plated vehicles.
  • Look up hazards, active fires, customs restrictions, public and school holidays, and official peak traffic days.
  • Compare food costs, convert currencies, and inspect country power standards and European campsite connectors.
  • Search vanlife events and recent road-travel stories, with links back to OpenVan.camp pages.
  • Inspect, validate, and render illustrative license plates by country.

Limitations and notes

The tools are read-only. Roadbook, toll, weather, visa, and safety results can depend on available country or route data. Several responses expose verification dates, sources, or confidence levels; visa results should be presented with those qualifications rather than treated as unconditional legal advice. News search returns headlines, short summaries, dates, categories, countries, and links, not full article text.

Some tools return an explicit error when a country has no data. That result should not be interpreted as confirmation that no holidays or restrictions exist. Active-fire searches cover a bounding box no larger than 10° by 10°, and the fire data represents recent satellite detections rather than a forecast.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Openvan Travel

openvan-travel is an MCP server that connects AI assistants to OpenVan.camp’s travel data through tools for roadbook planning, fuel and toll research, weather, visas, holidays, hazards, customs, currency, events, news, food costs, power plugs, and license plates. It provides read-only travel information without requiring an API key.

Install it locally by running `npx -y @openvancamp/mcp-server` in an MCP-compatible client. The repository documents connections for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf. You can alternatively use the hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.openvan.camp/mcp`, which requires no API key.

Yes, openvan-travel works with Cursor through the local MCP server setup. Run `npx -y @openvancamp/mcp-server` and configure Cursor to launch it as an MCP server.

Yes, `plan_road_trip` accepts 2–10 places and creates a route roadbook. It can include distance, driving time, daily planning, overnight stops, fuel and toll budgets, entry and vehicle rules, road restrictions, holidays, safety information, and a shareable roadbook link.

No, the OpenVan.camp API and hosted MCP endpoint require no authentication. A local installation can be started with `npx -y @openvancamp/mcp-server` without API-key configuration.

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