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Recipe · Hotels API

Hotel search with Claude Code

Live Booking.com rates with the filters the real site has (24 of them). Every property returns with a price, review score, room type, and a working booking link, so the agent can present a shortlist the user can act on immediately.

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Step 1 · Connect

Install the open-source skills

Eight MIT-licensed skills (cheapest dates, fare watch, trip planning, hotel search, rate-parity monitoring…). They talk to the same API over MCP or plain REST with your key.

install
npx skills add mtnrabi/travel-agent-skills

Bring your own RapidAPI key: every request is billed to your own subscription, never ours.

Step 2 · Ask it

The prompt

Verbatim: paste it, or anything shaped like it. The agent maps it to the call below.

Find me a hotel in Lisbon, October 9 to 12, 2 adults, review score 8+, free cancellation.

Step 3 · Under the hood

What the skill calls

The skill calls the same API with your key. This is the call behind the answer, with real parameter names.

the call the skill makes
// search_hotels
{
  "destination": "Lisbon",
  "checkin_date": "2026-10-09",
  "checkout_date": "2026-10-12",
  "adults": 2,
  "filters": [
    "review_score_8",
    "free_cancellation"
  ]
}

Step 4 · Read the response

Fields your logic reads

The response is flat JSON. These are the fields this recipe branches on, with what each one means.

namestring

The property name as listed on Booking.com.

price_stringstring

The total rate for the stay as Booking.com displays it: “US$2,434”.

review_scorenumber

Booking.com guest score out of 10.

review_countnumber

How many reviews the score rests on: a 9.1 from 12 reviews is not a 9.1 from 1,200.

room_typestring

Which room the rate belongs to: compare like with like across markets.

linkstring (URL)

A working Booking.com link to the property.

Questions, answered plainly

Is my key billed to me?
Yes. The skill uses your own RapidAPI key, so every call meters against your own subscription on RapidAPI. There is no FlightPowers account and no second bill.
Does this need a server of mine?
No. The skill runs inside Claude Code and calls the hosted API over the network. Nothing to deploy, nothing to keep warm.
What does it cost?
The Booking.com Live API's free tier is 10 requests/month with a hard cap: enough to verify your key works, not to evaluate. The PRO plan is $10/month for 2,000 requests, and every plan includes every endpoint.

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