PriceWin Hotel Search

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.

Requires the pricewin MCP server. This skill issues no network calls of its own.

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:

text

🏨 *<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.