# search_hotels

Search live hotel availability and nightly prices for a destination and date range. Input: a free-text destination the way a person would say it ("Rome", "Tokyo Shibuya"), plus check-in and check-out dates. Returns each property's price, review score, room type and a booking link. Rates go stale within minutes -- never reuse an earlier result, search again. FREE TIER: this is the ad-supported server. For rate-parity pricing by country, the 24 Booking.com filters, no ads and no caps, use the paid server at https://hotels.flightpowers.com/mcp

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `search_hotels`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flightpowers-freemium-google-flights-and-booking/search-hotels

## Facts

- Tool: `search_hotels`
- Server: Free Flight and Hotel Search (no API key) (`https://lulu.flightpowers.com/mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flightpowers-freemium-google-flights-and-booking.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/mtnrabi/travel-agent-skills
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade C, identity unverified
- Server auth posture: open
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 7 (3 required)
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `adults` | object | no |  |
| `children` | object | no |  |
| `currency` | object | no |  |
| `destination` | string | yes |  |
| `checkin_date` | string | yes |  |
| `checkout_date` | string | yes |  |
| `budget_per_night` | object | no |  |

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "search_hotels",
    "arguments": {
      "destination": "<destination>",
      "checkin_date": "<checkin_date>",
      "checkout_date": "<checkout_date>"
    }
  }
}
```

## Why search_hotels is rated Low

Tool retrieves hotel data with no ability to modify, delete, or execute financial transactions directly.

From the tool's own definition: "Search hotel availability and nightly prices, returns each property's price and booking link."

Risk signals: Accepts file system path (destination)

## Use case

AI agents call search_hotels to retrieve information from Free Flight and Hotel Search (no API key) without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Allowed**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches Free Flight and Hotel Search (no API key):

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "search_hotels": {}
  }
}
```

## Other tools on Free Flight and Hotel Search (no API key) (3)

- `find_hotel_by_name` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flightpowers-freemium-google-flights-and-booking/find-hotel-by-name.md
- `search_oneway_flights` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flightpowers-freemium-google-flights-and-booking/search-oneway-flights.md
- `search_roundtrip_flights` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/com-flightpowers-freemium-google-flights-and-booking/search-roundtrip-flights.md

## For agents

This record is a snapshot. Live verdicts and the full registry:

- Check every server in your MCP config at once: `npx -y policylayer stack`
- Vet a server before you add it: install the mcp-precheck skill — `npx skills add https://policylayer.com` (skill text: https://policylayer.com/skill.md)
- Query the registry over MCP: endpoint `https://api.policylayer.com/mcp` — tools `check_mcp_server`, `check_mcp_stack`, `check_tool`, `search_registry`, `get_change_events`

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Source: the PolicyLayer MCP registry — one continuously verified record per MCP server. Full record: https://policylayer.com/registry?q=com-flightpowers-freemium-google-flights-and-booking · API: https://policylayer.com/registry/api · Policy library: https://policylayer.com/policies/com-flightpowers-freemium-google-flights-and-booking