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pricewin-price-comparison

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Compare live hotel rates across Booking.com, Agoda, Traveloka, and OpenTravel to find the cheapest option.

What is pricewin-price-comparison?

This skill queries live hotel prices from four major online travel agencies (Booking.com, Agoda, Traveloka, and OpenTravel) for specific dates and properties. Use it when you need to compare room rates across platforms, check cancellation policies, or find the best deal for a named hotel or city.

  • Search hotels by city with live rate polling across four OTAs
  • Look up a specific named hotel's prices and availability across platforms
  • Retrieve OpenTravel direct property details with room types and rate plans
  • Compare per-room prices and rank by lowest cost
  • Check free-cancellation terms and refund policies for OpenTravel rate plans
  • Present savings percentages versus the next-cheapest source

How to install pricewin-price-comparison

npx skills add https://github.com/price-win/pricewin-skills-hub --skill pricewin-price-comparison
Prerequisites
  • pricewin MCP server must be installed and running
  • Hotel name, city, and check-in/check-out dates (YYYY-MM-DD format) for queries
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How to use pricewin-price-comparison

  1. 1.For a city-wide search: call search_hotels_live with city, checkIn, checkOut, and optional filters (adults, rooms, area, price range)
  2. 2.Wait 5 seconds, then call poll_search_results with the returned sessionId and number of nights
  3. 3.Continue polling every 5 seconds (up to 18 times / 90 seconds) until status is 'partial' or 'complete'
  4. 4.For a named hotel: call get_ota_hotel_detail with hotelName, city, checkIn, checkOut, and the user's original query text
  5. 5.For OpenTravel direct properties: call get_hotel_detail with propertyId, checkIn, checkOut, and guest counts
  6. 6.To check cancellation terms: call get_cancellation_policy with propertyId, ratePlanId, and checkInDate
  7. 7.Rank results by price (lowest first), calculate savings vs. next-cheapest, and prefer free-cancellation options when prices are close

Use cases

Good for
  • User asks 'Is the Mercure Danang cheaper on Agoda or Booking?' — call get_ota_hotel_detail with hotel name and dates
  • User searches 'compare hotel prices in Da Nang for Dec 20–22' — call search_hotels_live, poll results, then compare across sources
  • User wants to book an OpenTravel direct property and needs cancellation policy details — call get_cancellation_policy with propertyId and ratePlanId
  • User compares rates and wants to know the savings percentage — calculate (next_cheapest - cheapest) / next_cheapest * 100
  • User needs to decide between two similarly priced options — recommend the one with free cancellation
Who it's for
  • Travel agents comparing rates for clients
  • Travelers shopping for the best hotel deal
  • Booking systems that need live multi-OTA price feeds
  • Users deciding between OTAs based on cancellation flexibility

pricewin-price-comparison FAQ

Should I call search_hotels_live for a named hotel?

No. If the user names a specific hotel, use get_ota_hotel_detail instead. search_hotels_live returns a whole-city list and is slower for single-property lookups.

How long does a price comparison take?

City-wide searches take up to 90 seconds (18 polls at 5-second intervals). Single named-hotel lookups take 20–60 seconds. Do not mention 'loading' until results actually return.

What if get_ota_hotel_detail returns not-found?

Retry once. If it still fails, the hotel may not be indexed on those OTAs or the name may need clarification.

How do I present the comparison?

Rank purely by price: show the cheapest first, then others underneath (e.g., 'Agoda $X · Booking $Y · OpenTravel $Z'). Calculate savings as (next - cheapest) / next * 100. When prices are close, prefer free-cancellation options.

Can this skill book hotels or process payments?

No. This skill only compares prices and retrieves details. It cannot book, pay, or modify reservations.

Full instructions (SKILL.md)

Source of truth, from price-win/pricewin-skills-hub.


name: pricewin-price-comparison description: Compare live hotel room rates across Booking.com, Agoda, Traveloka, and OpenTravel for specific dates — which OTA is cheapest for the same property, per-room prices, and free-cancellation terms. Use when comparing hotel prices, checking room rates for a named hotel, asking which site is cheaper, or finding the best rate for given check-in/check-out dates. version: 1.0.3 author: PriceWin platforms: [linux, macos, windows] tags: [price-comparison, compare-hotel-prices, hotel-price-comparison, room-rates, cheapest-hotel, best-hotel-rates, booking-vs-agoda, ota-comparison, cancellation-policy, free-cancellation, agoda, booking-com, traveloka, opentravel, mcp, hotel, travel] metadata: openclaw: emoji: "⚖️" homepage: https://github.com/Price-Win/pricewin-skills-hub

Requires the pricewin MCP server. This skill issues no network calls of its own.

Price Comparison

MCP server: pricewin. Compares live rates across Booking.com, Agoda, Traveloka (crawled) plus OpenTravel (direct API).

Comparison is something you do over the returned sources — there is no server-side compare call. Pick the entry point by what the user gave you:

User gave youTool
A city — "compare hotel prices in Da Nang"search_hotels_live → poll_search_results
A named hotel — "is Mercure Danang cheaper on Agoda or Booking?"get_ota_hotel_detail
A hotel already known to be OpenTravel direct (source: "OPENTRAVEL_DIRECT", has propertyId)get_hotel_detail

City-wide comparison

search_hotels_live returns IMMEDIATELY with a sessionId — it does not return hotels.

  1. search_hotels_live — required: city, checkIn, checkOut (YYYY-MM-DD). Optional: adults (default 2), rooms, area, hotelName, priceMin, priceMax, language
  2. Wait 5s → poll_search_results(sessionId, nights)
  3. While status is pending or partial: wait 5s and poll again — up to 18 times (90s)
  4. Present as soon as status == "partial" with hotels; keep polling silently and refine

Then compare per hotel across its sources. See pricewin-hotel-search for the full dedupe + presentation contract — do not restate it differently here.

Single named hotel

get_ota_hotel_detail — for one specific Booking.com/Agoda hotel the user named.

  • Required: checkIn, checkOut. Pass hotelName + city + queryText (verbatim user text) whenever known
  • Do NOT call search_hotels_live for a named hotel — that returns a whole-city list
  • Live crawl, ~20–60s. Say nothing about "loading" until it actually returns
  • Speed-up: if a prior search already gave you prices.booking.url, pass it as propertyUrl to skip name resolution
  • If it returns not-found under load, retry once

Returns rooms, prices, facilities, photos, reviews for that property.

OpenTravel direct properties

get_hotel_detail — only for results with source: "OPENTRAVEL_DIRECT".

  • Pass propertyId (UUID from opentravelResults[].propertyId) when available
  • hotelName + city is a fallback only for a property already confirmed as OpenTravel direct
  • Required: checkIn, checkOut. Optional: adults, children, language
  • Returns room types with roomTypeId and ratePlanId — these are what make a property bookable

⚠️ Router rule: have a propertyId → get_hotel_detail. Name only → get_ota_hotel_detail.

Cancellation terms

For OpenTravel rate plans only: get_cancellation_policy(propertyId, ratePlanId, checkInDate) → non-refundable flag, free-cancellation window, refund %, and the computed deadline.

ratePlanId comes from get_hotel_detail → roomTypes[].ratePlanId. Pass checkInDate or you get no deadline. OTA hotels have no structured policy — quote whatever the crawl returned.

Presenting a comparison

  • Rank purely by price. No source gets priority, OpenTravel included
  • Show the cheapest source first, then the others underneath: Agoda $X · Booking $Y · OpenTravel $Z
  • Savings vs the next-cheapest source: (next - cheapest) / next * 100 → "Save Z%"
  • When the gap is small, prefer the free-cancellation option and say why
  • All prices USD unless the tool says otherwise. No conversion

Tool inputs and response fields: reference.md.

Security & data handling

Documentation only — no code, no dependencies, no network calls of its own. The only data sent is the comparison query (city or hotel name, dates, guests, plus queryText — the user's message verbatim), 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.