Garden Route Specialist MCP Server

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Garden Route Specialist is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.

Garden Route travel MCP - routes, accommodation, and local guides

Uptime history 9 days of history · worst day 4%

9 days agonow

12.1%

Uptime 24h

11 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

529 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 2 Nov 2026

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 2 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

2 Nov a tool description was rewritten generate_itinerary

2 Nov a tool changed the parameters it asks for generate_itinerary

Garden Route Specialist does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 13.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add garden-route-specialist-api --transport http https://garden-route-specialist-api.vercel.app/mcp

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

https://garden-route-specialist-api.vercel.app/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.garden-route-specialist-api]
url = "https://garden-route-specialist-api.vercel.app/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "garden-route-specialist-api": {
      "url": "https://garden-route-specialist-api.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "garden-route-specialist-api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://garden-route-specialist-api.vercel.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

generate

generate_itinerary

Build a day-by-day Garden Route itinerary (west to east, no repeated activities) with per-day costs, a budget check, dietary verification, safety notes and transport estimates. Activities within a day are kept walkable or a short costed hop apart. If a town has nothing left or open (e.g. rain), the day becomes a trip to the nearest hub. Picks, prices and whale season depend on the month, so ask the traveller for their travel month first (if omitted, the current month is assumed and flagged). Costs are in South African rand; times and fares are estimates.

knowledge

get_knowledge

Local knowledge for one Garden Route town: free/paid activities, hidden gems, dorm prices with booking links, evenings, safety tips and NSRI links.

stats

get_stats

Usage statistics for this API (call counts, recent calls).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://garden-route-specialist-api.vercel.app/mcp	streamable-http	answering	51 ms	6 min ago

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Garden Route Specialist — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Garden Route Specialist do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: generate_itinerary, get_knowledge, get_stats. 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 Garden Route Specialist working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 11 of 91 checks got a reply (12.1%), average response time 529 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Garden Route Specialist 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 Garden Route Specialist?

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 Garden Route Specialist need an API key?

No. Garden Route Specialist completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Garden Route Specialist?

It answers our handshake in 529 ms on average, which is faster than 22% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Garden Route Specialist open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at garden-route-specialist-api.vercel.app, which runs on its operator's own terms.