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pricewin-hotel-search

by price-win · part of price-win/pricewin-skills-hub

Search hotels live across Agoda + Booking.com + Traveloka + OpenTravel with realtime pricing for specific dates. Use when user wants hotel prices for travel dates, comparing OTAs, or finding rooms.

🧩 One of 5 skills in the price-win/pricewin-skills-hub package — works on its own, and pairs well with its siblings.

This is the playbook your agent receives when the skill activates — you don't need to read it to use the skill, but it's here to audit before installing.

Hotel Search (Live)

MCP server: pricewin. Tool search_hotels_live triggers async crawl across 3 OTAs.

CRITICAL: Polling pattern

search_hotels_live returns IMMEDIATELY with sessionId. You MUST poll until results arrive:

  1. Call search_hotels_live with city, checkIn (YYYY-MM-DD), checkOut (YYYY-MM-DD), adults, language="vi"
  2. Wait 5s, then poll_search_results(sessionId, nights)
  3. If status == "pending" or "partial": wait 5s and poll AGAIN — up to 18 times (90s total)
  4. Present results as soon as status == "partial" with hotels
  5. Continue polling silently — refine if more arrive

Never tell the user "loading/please wait" after 1-2 polls — that's premature.

4th source: OpenTravel

Pricewin returns a 4th source — opentravelResults — alongside Agoda/Booking/Traveloka. OpenTravel is an independent OTA, ranked the same way as the others: purely on price, no priority.

For each opentravelResults hotel, try to dedupe against the OTA results (same hotel name, fuzzy match — ignore case, diacritics, and common "hotel"/"resort" prefixes). When the same hotel exists on OpenTravel and another OTA:

  1. Show the cheapest source's price first; list the other sources underneath as comparison: "Agoda: $X · Booking: $Y · OpenTravel: $Z"
  2. Compute savings of the cheapest vs the next source: (nextPrice - cheapestPrice) / nextPrice * 100 → "Save Z%"

If a hotel is OpenTravel-only (no OTA match), still show it — same as any single-source hotel.

Response format (MUST follow exactly)

After data arrives, present TOP 5-7 cheapest hotels ONLY (do NOT list 30+, overwhelming). For EACH hotel:

🏨 *<name>*  ← bold via markdown
💰 $<price>/night — <SOURCE: Agoda | Booking | Traveloka | OpenTravel>
⭐ <stars> stars | 👥 <rating>/10 (<reviewCount> reviews)
🔗 <booking-url-with-dates>

<if dupe across sources:>
   💡 Compare: Agoda <price> · Booking <price> · OpenTravel <price> · Save <%>

Use line break between hotels, not bullet markers. Cheapest hotel gets 🏆. All sources — including OpenTravel — are ranked purely by price; no source gets priority.

CRITICAL: Append dates to booking URL

The url field returned by tool is the raw OTA hotel page WITHOUT dates. You MUST append check-in/checkout params before showing user:

  • Booking.com URLs (booking.com/hotel/<country>/<slug>.en-gb.html): append ?checkin=YYYY-MM-DD&checkout=YYYY-MM-DD&group_adults=N
    • Example: https://www.booking.com/hotel/us/foo.en-gb.html?checkin=2026-05-25&checkout=2026-05-26&group_adults=2
  • Agoda URLs (agoda.com/en-us/<slug>/hotel/<city>.html): append ?checkIn=YYYY-MM-DD&checkOut=YYYY-MM-DD&adults=N
  • Traveloka URLs: already contain spec= param with dates baked in by pricewin — leave AS-IS

This ensures user clicks → lands on booking page with their dates pre-filled, no manual re-entry.

Skip noise

  • Skip hotels with 0 stars + 0 reviews (low quality)
  • Skip hotels with rating < 7.0
  • Prefer hotels with reviewCount > 50 (more reliable)

Currency

All prices in USD. No conversion.