Booking Best Price

Overview

Booking sites and aggregators (Airbnb, Stayz, Vrbo, Expedia, Booking.com, HomeToGo) deliberately hide a property's real identity and the manager's contact so you cannot book around their fee. The same house is almost always listed on 5 to 15 sites through a single property manager, often including the manager's own website where it is cheapest.

This skill traces one pasted listing link back to the real property, finds every site it appears on, compares prices on the same dates, and surfaces the manager's direct contact. Goal: book the same house cheaper, or deal with the manager direct.

Core idea: pull a unique fingerprint from the listing (government licence number, exact name, manager/agency, a verbatim sentence of the description, the photos), then search that fingerprint across the web.

Step 0 — Firecrawl gate (do this FIRST, every time)

OTA pages are JavaScript-heavy and bot-protected. You need the Firecrawl MCP server. Built-in WebFetch is a weak fallback only.

1. Check if it is connected. Run in Bash:

   claude mcp list
   

   Look for a firecrawl entry showing connected. (Or confirm a mcp__firecrawl__firecrawl_scrape tool is available.)