@striderlabs/mcp-booking

MCP server for Booking.com — search hotels, check availability, manage reservations, and more via AI agents.

By Strider Labs

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Overview

This MCP (Model Context Protocol) server gives AI agents the ability to interact with Booking.com using browser automation (Playwright). It supports 14 tools covering the full hotel booking workflow.

Tools

Tool	Description
booking_status	Check login/session status
booking_login	Open a browser window to sign in (non-blocking; returns immediately)
booking_login_status	Check progress of an in-flight booking_login
booking_logout	Clear saved session and cookies
booking_search	Search hotels by destination, dates, guests, rooms, and amenities (pets, parking, pool, …)
booking_get_property	Get property details (amenities, description, policies, structured facilitySummary)
booking_check_availability	Check room availability for specific dates
booking_get_prices	Get pricing for a property
booking_filter_results	Filter last search by price, rating, amenities
booking_sort_results	Sort last search by price/rating/distance/reviews
booking_save_property	Save to wishlist/favorites
booking_book	Get a "continue in your browser" booking link (does not place the booking)
booking_get_reservations	List current/upcoming reservations
booking_cancel_reservation	Cancel a booking (requires confirm=true)
booking_get_reviews	Get guest reviews for a property

Requirements

• Node.js 18+
• A Booking.com account (for bookings, reservations, and wishlist)

Installation

npm install @striderlabs/mcp-booking

Or install Playwright browsers after install:

npx playwright install chromium

Configuration

Add to your MCP config (e.g. ~/.claude/mcp_servers.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "booking": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@striderlabs/mcp-booking"]
    }
  }
}

Authentication

The server uses cookie-based session persistence. Login is non-blocking (two steps) so it won't hang your MCP client while you wait on an emailed verification code:

1. Run booking_login. It opens a visible browser window at the Booking.com sign-in page and returns immediately.
2. Sign in in that window (including any email/SMS code or 2FA/CAPTCHA). A background poller watches for completion.
3. Run booking_login_status to check progress — it reports in_progress, success, failed, or idle. Poll it until it's no longer in_progress.
4. On success the session is captured and saved automatically; booking_status will then show you as logged in.

The background poller waits up to ~10 min by default; pass timeoutSeconds to booking_login to extend it (up to 30 min) if a verification code is slow to arrive. If the window is closed or the deadline passes before sign-in completes, the status becomes failed and the window is cleaned up — just call booking_login again.

Because login drives a real browser window, it requires Google Chrome installed and a desktop display — it cannot run on a headless server.

Cookie storage

• Session cookies are stored at ~/.strider/booking/cookies.json, scoped to Booking.com domains only (unrelated third-party/tracking cookies are not persisted).
• The config directory (0700) and the cookie/session files (0600) are created with owner-only permissions. The files are not encrypted — protect your home directory accordingly.
• booking_logout deletes the saved cookies and session.

Usage Examples

Search hotels

booking_search(destination="Paris", checkIn="2026-06-01", checkOut="2026-06-05", adults=2, rooms=1)

Search with flexible dates (±N days)

Use flex_window to widen the search around your exact dates, like the Android app "I'm flexible" feature:

# ±2 days flexibility around July 10-13
booking_search(destination="Paris", checkIn="2026-07-10", checkOut="2026-07-13", flex_window=2)

# ±7 days (full week flexibility)
booking_search(destination="Paris", checkIn="2026-07-10", checkOut="2026-07-13", flex_window=7)

flex_window values: 0 (exact, default), 1 (±1 day), 2 (±2 days), 3 (±3 days), 7 (±7 days).

Understanding price fields

The price returned by booking_search is usually the total stay price (not per-night) on multi-night searches:

• pricePerNight / totalPrice: same numeric value — the price shown on the Booking.com card
• priceIsTotal: true when the card shows total stay price; false only when explicitly labelled "per night"
• priceNote: raw text from the card (e.g. "CHF 450 for 3 nights") — use this to verify context
• currency: auto-detected from the card (CHF, EUR, USD, etc.)

For multi-night stays, divide totalPrice by number of nights to get the actual nightly rate.

Search by amenities (pets, parking, pool, …)

Amenity filters are applied server-side via Booking.com's nflt parameter, so results only contain matching properties.

# Pet-friendly hotels with parking and a pool
booking_search(destination="Rome", checkIn="2026-06-01", checkOut="2026-06-05", amenities=["pets", "parking", "pool"])

Supported amenity keys: pets, parking, pool, restaurant, room_service, front_desk_24h, fitness, non_smoking, airport_shuttle, family_rooms, ev_charging, spa, hot_tub, sauna, free_wifi, air_conditioning.

For a single property, booking_get_property returns a structured facilitySummary (e.g. petsAllowed, parking, pool, spa) where true = offered/allowed, false = not allowed, null = not mentioned on the page.

Note: amenity → filter codes are reverse-engineered from Booking.com's UI (undocumented but stable). If a filter behaves unexpectedly, supply an exact chip via rawNflt (e.g. rawNflt="hotelfacility=4;popular_activities=2").

Filter and sort results

booking_filter_results(maxPrice=200, minRating=8.0, freeCancellation=true)
booking_sort_results(sortBy="rating")

Check availability and prices

booking_check_availability(propertyUrl="https://www.booking.com/hotel/fr/...", checkIn="2026-06-01", checkOut="2026-06-05")
booking_get_prices(propertyUrl="...", checkIn="2026-06-01", checkOut="2026-06-05")

Book a room

booking_book does not place a booking. Booking.com checkout is a multi-step wizard (room selection → guest contact details → payment) that can't be reliably completed via automation, so this returns a bookingUrl to finish in a browser.

# Returns a bookingUrl (property page with dates/occupancy pre-filled,
# opening on the room list with "Reserve" buttons) to complete in a browser.
booking_book(propertyUrl="...", checkIn="2026-06-01", checkOut="2026-06-05", adults=2)

# Optional: also best-effort capture a deeper checkoutUrl with the first
# available room pre-selected (still stops before any guest/payment details).
booking_book(propertyUrl="...", checkIn="2026-06-01", checkOut="2026-06-05", adults=2, advanceToCheckout=true)

Manage reservations

# List current/upcoming reservations. Each result's reservationId is the trip id
# (or "<tripId>-<n>" for a specific booking within a multi-booking trip).
booking_get_reservations()

# Cancel walks Booking.com's multi-step flow: confirmation page -> "Cancel your
# booking" -> reason survey (Step 1 of 2) -> final confirm (Step 2). The final
# step is irreversible, so it only runs with confirm=true.
booking_cancel_reservation(reservationId="308612662158023")           # no-op preview
booking_cancel_reservation(reservationId="308612662158023", confirm=true)  # actually cancels

Safety

• booking_book never places a booking — it returns a link to complete checkout (contact details + payment) in a browser
• booking_cancel_reservation requires confirm=true; without it, it returns a no-op warning and never opens a browser. With it, it drives the multi-step cancel flow (reason survey + final confirm) and the last step is irreversible

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm start

License

MIT — Strider Labs