HotelShortlist MCP Server

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answering

HotelShortlist is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Independent hotel research from guest reviews: bed bugs, pests, noise and hidden fees.

Uptime history 22 days of history

22 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

171 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check HotelShortlist every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add hotel-research --transport http https://hotelshortlist.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://hotelshortlist.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hotel-research]
url = "https://hotelshortlist.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hotel-research": {
      "url": "https://hotelshortlist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "hotel-research": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hotelshortlist.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

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

request

request_hotel_page

Ask HotelShortlist to research a hotel that search_hotels did not find. The research takes about a minute: call again with the same hotel and city to get the page link. Pages show the review findings; member rates stay for members.

request_introduction

Send HotelShortlist a request to get in touch. Only call this when the person asked for it and explicitly agreed to share these details. A person at HotelShortlist replies.

hotels

search_hotels

Find HotelShortlist research pages for hotels by hotel name or city. Returns page links; each page shows the review findings and the analysis date.

membership

get_membership_info

What HotelShortlist membership costs, how the fee works and how the research is made.

pitch

list_pitch_lanes

The offers for travellers, tour operators, travel designers and agents, hotel owners and hotel chains, with links and WhatsApp contact.

start

start_membership_application

The link and steps for applying for membership. The person applies themselves; this tool submits nothing.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://hotelshortlist.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	112 ms	8 min ago

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HotelShortlist — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can HotelShortlist do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_membership_info, list_pitch_lanes, request_hotel_page, request_introduction, search_hotels, start_membership_application. 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 HotelShortlist working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 171 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect HotelShortlist?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does HotelShortlist need an API key?

No. HotelShortlist completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is HotelShortlist?

It answers our handshake in 171 ms on average, which is faster than 77% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.