pricewin-hotel-search

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:

🏨 *<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.

Security & data handling

Documentation only — no code, no dependencies, no network calls of its own. The
only data sent is the search query itself (city, dates, guests, language), to
PriceWin's hosted MCP server https://mcp.price.win/mcp (no credentials, no
account). No PII, and this skill cannot book or pay for anything. Full
disclosure — operator, backend provenance, exact fields per tool — in
SECURITY.md.