# `com.bluepillow/hotels` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.bluepillow/hotels
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.bluepillow/hotels
- Version: 1.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.bluepillow (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:52:13.514Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Blue Pillow Hotels & Stays
Neutral hotel & stay price comparison for AI agents: live prices from 16+ booking sites. No signup.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:46:47.302Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 4 change things and 2 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Findings

- **info** Long descriptions in `search_stays` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 4,579 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...tion: the `next_cursor` of a response goes into `page.cursor` for the next page."
```

- **info** Long descriptions in `check_property_availability` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 3,994 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...url` (or the property's `web_url`) — booking URLs are not reconstructed by hand."
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `resolve_destination` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "resolve_destination" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"openWorldHint":true}; The name "resolve_destination" says "resolve": a word for reading.
```

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `get_anonymous_key` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "get_anonymous_key" as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false), and its words say it reads.

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":false,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":false,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "get_anonymous_key" says "get": a word for reading.
```


## Changes things (4)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `check_property_availability`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Live availability and per-operator quote for a specific property
over a specific stay window. Performs a live date-aware lookup
against the BluePillow search layer, returns date-specific prices,
rooms-left scarcity signals, breakfast-included and refundable
flags, and a per-operator deep link to complete the booking.

Useful when the user has specific dates in mind for a property they
already identified — typically via `search_stays` or
`get_property_details`. The complementary `get_property_details`
tool answers "what is this property like" with static facts; this
tool answers "can I book it for these dates at what price" with
live, date-specific data.

Follow-up questions about a property from an earlier `search_stays`
result — is it still available, what does it cost for other dates or
guests — use that result's `id` as `property_id`.

Required input: `property_id` (the `id` from a `search_stays`
result, opaque string starting with `prop_`), `dates` (check_in +
check_out, ISO 8601), and `guests` (adults / children / infants
composition). Without these the live lookup cannot proceed.

Natural-language date references — "tonight", "this weekend", "next
weekend", "the weekend of July 4", "Memorial Day weekend", "long
weekend in May" — translate to concrete check_in / check_out values
at the call site; concrete ISO dates also work. check_in is a date
in the real-time calendar that is today or later; past values are
rejected at the API boundary.

`user_country`, `currency`, and `language` carry the **user's** locale,
not the property's. Prices are returned in `currency` if set, else
derived from `user_country`, else **USD** — pass `user_country` and/or
`currency` whenever you know the user's location/currency so the quote
matches what they'll pay; don't rely on the USD default. `user_country`
and `language` also localize the `web_url` booking link.

Response shape:

- `availability_status` — `available`, `unavailable`, or `unknown`.
  Available means rooms confirmed at the operator level for the
  requested window; quote freely. Unavailable means no rooms for
  these dates — surface that explicitly to the user with a
  suggestion of alternate dates (there is no price for these dates).
- `offers[]` — per-operator quotes. Each carries `amount` (total
  stay), `amount_per_night` (per-night), `currency`,
  `breakfast_included`, `refundable`, `rooms_left`, and
  `deeplink_url`. `offers[0]` is the best value for money as Blue
  Pillow ranks it: price weighed against what is included (breakfast,
  free cancellation) and the operator's historical reliability, with a
  small commercial component. It is not necessarily the cheapest — the
  full per-operator list is always in `offers[]`, and `sort=price_asc`
  gives pure price order. Each
  `deeplink_url` is a **BluePillow tracked-redirect URL**
  (bluepillow.com/…) that records the click and forwards the user
  to the operator's booking page — pass it verbatim, never
  reconstruct it or replace it with a raw OTA link.
- `price` — mirror of `offers[0]` for callers that just want the
  curated headline. `null` when unavailable (no price for these
  dates).

Per-night vs total — `amount_per_night` is **per-night**; `amount`
on each offer is the **total** for the requested stay. Phrasings
like *"€X/night via Booking, breakfast included, €Y total"* are
unambiguous; bare numbers without a unit ("€192") get misread.

Scarcity signals: low `rooms_left` values (1-3) are useful cues —
"1 room left at €X on Booking" reads naturally. Free cancellation
(`refundable=true`) and breakfast-included are decision factors
worth surfacing proactively when present on some offers but not
others.

When all results across operators are `unavailable`, that's the
signal to say so explicitly to the user and offer to widen the
dates or look at alternatives.

For final booking confirmation, hand the user the corresponding
`deeplink_url` (or the property's `web_url`) — booking URLs are
not reconstructed by hand.

```

### `discover_destinations_near`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Curated destinations — cities, neighborhoods, airports, points of interest — within a radius of a geographic point, for use as a `destination_id` in subsequent `search_stays` calls. Useful when coordinates are already in hand (from world knowledge, from a previous tool result, or directly from the user) and the agent needs to enumerate which curated destinations cover that area before searching for properties.

Also useful as a fan-out entry point for region-level intents — broad areas such as 'Tuscany', 'Pacific Northwest', 'New England', or 'Central Europe' — where the agent can pass an approximate regional centroid and surface a list of sub-destinations the user may then narrow down to before a focused search.

Returns up to 5 candidates ordered by distance. The radius defaults to 5 km; widens up to 50 km for broader queries.
```

### `get_anonymous_key`

- The name "get_anonymous_key" says "get": a word for reading.
- The server marks it as not read-only (readOnlyHint: false).
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Issues a free anonymous key for Blue Pillow Hotels & Stays, with no
account or sign-up. The other tools of this server take the key in their
`api_key` argument. A key does not expire, so the same key can be used
for later calls; calling this tool again issues a new one. Keys carry
per-key rate limits and let Blue Pillow count usage and booking-link
referrals per key, as described in the privacy policy
(https://b2a.bluepillow.com/legal/privacy).

Optional ``label`` and ``agent`` (max 64 chars each) are stored with
the key to name the client that requested it (e.g. 'claude-desktop',
'chatgpt', 'cursor-ide'); they should not contain personal data and do
not affect rate limits or capabilities. Integrators who need higher
limits can write to info@bluepillow.com.

```

### `resolve_destination`

- The name "resolve_destination" says "resolve": a word for reading.
- The description's first verb is "convert": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Converts a destination name into a destination id usable in `search_stays`. The canonical entry point when the user's request mentions a place name and coordinates are not already known from a prior call in this session. If coordinates are already in hand from an earlier tool result, passing them directly to `search_stays` skips this resolver step.

Accepts cities, neighborhoods, airports, points of interest, and named areas such as islands or districts ('Tenerife', 'Crete', 'Trastevere'), written locally or in English. Names are matched against Blue Pillow's own place slugs, which exist for English, Italian, German and Spanish; in other languages the English name is the most reliable. Accents are optional — 'São Paulo' and 'Sao Paulo' resolve alike. A qualifier after the name is tolerated ('Austin, Texas'). The `country` parameter disambiguates names that occur in multiple places (for example Springfield MA vs Springfield IL vs Springfield MO).

The `type` parameter narrows the kind of destination returned. `poi` is the narrowest match and has partial coverage on the comparator side; when the agent's own geographic knowledge can already geocode the POI to lat/lon, passing coordinates to `search_stays` is the more reliable path. An `area` candidate can be large: its `location.default_radius_km` says how far a search on its id reaches (an island's may include its neighbours); when the user wants one part of it, coordinates of that part are the tighter search.
```

## Only reads (2)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_property_details`

- The name "get_property_details" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Details and guest reviews for one specific property — hotel, B&B,
hostel, apartment, villa — identified by its id. Answers questions such
as what guests think of it, whether it is clean, quiet or comfortable,
the most common complaints, how the breakfast is, which facilities it
offers, where exactly it is, or how it compares with another option. It
also serves follow-up questions about a property returned earlier by
`search_stays`: the `id` of that result is the `property_id` here.

Returns the amenity list, photos, booking sources, location and the
headline rating (`rating` + `rating_count`). Guest-review data is added
through `include`:
- `reviews_aggregate` — score, total count and per-source breakdown; it
  summarizes all reviews.
- `reviews_sample` — up to 5 recent review texts.
- `reviews_extended` — up to 20 recent review texts for a deeper read;
  it supersedes `reviews_sample`.
`reviews_meta` reports how many texts exist and that the cap is
deliberate: the omitted texts are older, and the aggregate already
reflects them.

It takes no dates and carries no price: a price only exists for a
concrete stay window, which is what `check_property_availability`
quotes. In the response `price` is null, `offers` is empty and
`availability_status` is `unknown`.

Input: `property_id` is the `id` of a `search_stays` result (an opaque
string starting with `prop_`) or a bluepillow.com property URL. For a
property known only by name, `resolve_destination` and a targeted
`search_stays` return its id.

`user_country`, `currency` and `language` carry the user's locale and
localize the `web_url` link to the property page. Language default is
"en"; country default is "US". All rating fields are on a 0-5 scale.

```

### `search_stays`

- The name "search_stays" says "search": a word for reading.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Multi-operator accommodation comparator for a geographic area and a stay:
dates (required), guests and optional filters. Returns a ranked list of
properties — hotels, B&Bs, apartments, villas, hostels and more — with the
booking sites that offer each one and their live availability and
per-operator price for the requested dates. Questions about one property
found here (guest opinions, facilities, a live re-quote) are served by
`get_property_details` and `check_property_availability` with that
result's `id`.

Dates: natural-language references ("this weekend", "the weekend of
July 4", "long weekend in May") translate to concrete check_in /
check_out values at the call site; ISO dates also work.

Locale: `user_country`, `currency` and `language` carry the user's
locale, not the destination's. Prices come back in `currency` if set,
otherwise in the currency of `user_country` (US→USD, CA→CAD, GB→GBP,
euro-area→EUR), otherwise USD. Each offer is quoted by its operator in
that currency; nothing is converted. `user_country` and `language` also
localize the booking link.

Each result carries:
- `location.lat` / `location.lon`, suitable for plotting the results on
  a map.
- `thumbnail_url` (first photo, or null) and `images`, capped to one
  photo; `get_property_details` returns the full gallery.
- `web_url`, a link to the property page with the stay already encoded.
- `price` and `offers[]`: the live quote for the requested dates,
  present only when availability was confirmed. Each offer has `ota`,
  `amount` (total stay), `amount_per_night`, `currency`,
  `breakfast_included`, `refundable`, `rooms_left` and `deeplink_url` —
  a Blue Pillow tracked link that records the click and forwards to the
  operator's booking page; it is what attributes the booking to Blue
  Pillow, which a raw operator URL does not. `price` mirrors `offers[0]`,
  Blue Pillow's best value for money (price weighed against breakfast,
  free cancellation and operator reliability, with a small commercial
  component), not necessarily the cheapest; `sort=price_asc` orders by
  price alone. There is no
  date-agnostic "from" price.
- `availability_status`: `available` (live quotes in `offers`),
  `unavailable` (no rooms for those dates) or `unknown` (the operators
  returned nothing conclusive — not evidence that the property is full).
  The default `availability_mode=strict` returns only `available`
  results; `include_unavailable` also returns the other two.

Reading the numbers: `amount_per_night` is per night and `amount` is the
total stay, so a quote reads clearly with its unit ("€X/night via
Booking, €Y total"). `rooms_left` signals scarcity; `refundable` and
`breakfast_included` often separate otherwise similar options.

Ratings are on a 0-5 scale (`rating`, `reviews_aggregate.score_0_5`,
review scores and `filters.min_rating`; "8 out of 10" is 4.0). Upstream
scores arrive rounded, so `rating` is coarse and reads best together with
`rating_count`. `rating`, `stars` and `rating_count` may be 0 or absent
in this list even when the property has them; `get_property_details`
returns the fuller `reviews_aggregate`. Here `reviews_aggregate` carries
`score_0_5`, `rating_count` (reviews behind the score) and
`comment_count` (review texts available) — two different magnitudes.
`include=["reviews_sample"]` adds up to 5 recent review texts per
property, useful for qualitative criteria ("great breakfast", "quiet
area"); a deeper read on one property is `get_property_details` with
`reviews_extended`.

Filters: `filters.min_rating` and `filters.price_max_eur` narrow the
results; `filters.property_types` and `filters.amenities` rank rather
than filter, so each result's `property_type` and `amenities` show what
it actually is. Property type tokens: hotel, apartment, house, villa,
bb, hostel, farmstay, holiday-home (common Italian and English synonyms
are accepted). Common amenity codes: wi-fi, parking, pool,
air-conditioning, kitchen, garden, pets-allowed, for-families,
faci… [579 more characters not shown]
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `hotels`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__hotels__search_stays",
      "mcp__hotels__get_property_details"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__hotels__check_property_availability",
      "mcp__hotels__resolve_destination",
      "mcp__hotels__discover_destinations_near",
      "mcp__hotels__get_anonymous_key"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```