Requires the
pricewinMCP 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:
- Call
search_hotels_livewith city, checkIn (YYYY-MM-DD), checkOut (YYYY-MM-DD), adults, language="vi" - Wait 5s, then
poll_search_results(sessionId, nights) - If status == "pending" or "partial": wait 5s and poll AGAIN — up to 18 times (90s total)
- Present results as soon as status == "partial" with hotels
- 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:
- Show the cheapest source's price first; list the other sources underneath as comparison: "Agoda: $X · Booking: $Y · OpenTravel: $Z"
- 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.
