Google Hotels Cross-OTA Comparison

Compare one hotel across booking platforms via the Google Hotels backbone — every OTA rate plus a computed min and median. Use for "cheapest way to book this hotel". Powered by StayingAPI.

The flagship Google Hotels use case: a normalized cross-OTA price comparison — every OTA rate for one property, plus a computed lowest and median.

Setup

If $STAYINGAPI_KEY is not set, read references/auth-setup.md and follow it to get and store the key. A stay_test_ sandbox key works for evaluation at zero cost.

When to use this skill

DO use when the user asks:

• "What is the cheapest site to book this hotel?"
• "Compare OTA rates for this property"

Do NOT use when:

• You want a list of hotels — use google-hotels-search

Required headers

Every request needs:

• Authorization: Bearer $STAYINGAPI_KEY
• User-Agent: your agent's name (e.g. ClaudeCode/1.0).

Base URL: https://api.stayingapi.com/v1.

Tools

GET /v1/price-compare

Compare the price of one property across booking platforms in a single call, resolved through the Google Hotels backbone. The response carries the offers plus StayingAPI-computed min and median as first-class fields, so you can read the cheapest and typical cross-OTA price without re-deriving them. No cross-platform short-term-rental price-comparison API exists elsewhere — this is the wedge.

Key parameters:

• name — Property name to resolve.
• googleHotelId — Precise Google Hotels id.
• location — Disambiguating place / "lat,lng".
• checkIn — YYYY-MM-DD; not in the past.
• checkOut — Must be after checkIn.
• adults — ≥ 1.

MCP (no key pasted into the agent)

On an MCP-capable runtime, connect https://mcp.stayingapi.com/mcp (OAuth 2.1 + PKCE) and use: compare_prices.

The cross-OTA advantage

StayingAPI is cross-platform: Google Hotels data comes back in the same unified schema as Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Google Hotels, and the price-compare tool returns a computed min and median across every OTA — something a single-platform wrapper can't do.

Async & partial failures

A live call that has to scrape returns 202 + a jobId; poll GET /v1/jobs/{jobId} (free) until data.status is completed, then read data.result. On a fan-out, check meta.partial and meta.platformResults[].

Credits

Number-free by design — failed, empty and blocked calls are never billed, and stay_test_ sandbox calls are always free. Current costs: https://stayingapi.com/pricing · full contract: https://api.stayingapi.com/openapi.json.

Trademark

StayingAPI is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google Hotels. Google Hotels is a trademark of its respective owner.

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