google-hotels-reviews

Read normalized Google Hotels reviews for a listing, with native rating scales preserved. Use when a user wants ratings or guest feedback for a listing on Google Hotels. Powered by StayingAPI.

Read normalized Google Hotels reviews for a listing — the same review shape across every platform.

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 do reviews say about this Google Hotels place?"
• "Pull the latest Google Hotels guest ratings"

Do NOT use when:

• You do not have a listing id — search first

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/reviews

Normalized, paginated reviews for one listing on one platform. Native rating scales are preserved and echoed alongside each rating (TripAdvisor/Airbnb/Vrbo use 5; Booking.com/Expedia/Hotels.com use 10) — never silently rescaled.

Key parameters:

• platform — Platform enum.
• listingId — Listing id on platform.
• url — Full listing URL.
• limit — 1–100.
• cursor — Opaque base64 cursor.
• language — ISO-639-1 filter.

MCP (no key pasted into the agent)

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

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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