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Best Time to Book Hotels MCP Server

com.besttimetobookhotels/booking-timing
not responding

Best Time to Book Hotels is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools.

Best-time-to-book verdicts, live last-minute hotel deals, and city price calendars, from data.

Uptime history 42 hours of history · worst hour 0%
42 hours agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
221 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add booking-timing --transport http https://www.besttimetobookhotels.com/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "booking-timing": {
      "url": "https://www.besttimetobookhotels.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.booking-timing]
url = "https://www.besttimetobookhotels.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "booking-timing": {
      "url": "https://www.besttimetobookhotels.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "booking-timing": {
      "url": "https://www.besttimetobookhotels.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

booking
get_booking_advice
Get a data-backed verdict on whether to book a hotel now or wait, for a city and stay dates. Based on tracked daily median prices.
cities
list_cities
List the cities with hotel booking-timing data on Best Time to Book Hotels. Optionally filter by a search string. Call this first to learn coverage.
city
get_city_calendar
Hot dates (events and holidays that push hotel prices up) and value windows (historically cheaper stretches) for a city in a date range.
last
get_last_minute_deals
Current last-minute hotel deals in a city: live rates below each hotel's tracked typical price, plus hotels that historically drop prices close to check-in.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.besttimetobookhotels.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 221 ms 12 min ago

Best Time to Book Hotels — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Best Time to Book Hotels do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_booking_advice, get_city_calendar, get_last_minute_deals, list_cities. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Best Time to Book Hotels working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 221 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Best Time to Book Hotels as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Best Time to Book Hotels?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Best Time to Book Hotels need an API key?
No. Best Time to Book Hotels completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.