# Gondola Award Travel Search

- Registry name: `ai.gondola/gondola` · version 0.1.6
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Travel & booking, Commerce & marketing
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Has destructive tools (destructiveHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): extensions, resources, tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=ai.gondola%2Fgondola
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/ai.gondola--gondola.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Compare cash vs points on hotels, flights, and cars. Checkout supported hotels and rental cars.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://mcp.gondola.ai/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `book\_flight`: Book a prepared flight only after the traveler explicitly confirms the exact current quote, total, currency, and consent version. Use the handoff\_id and quote\_id returned by prepare\_flight\_booking and a saved payment\_id from get\_payment\_methods. Gondola derives the traveler ID and type and a stable
- `book\_hotel`: Book a hotel room using a rate from get\_hotel\_rates. Requires guest details and a saved payment method. Use get\_payment\_methods to find the payment ID. The gondola\_rate\_id comes from the room rates returned by get\_hotel\_rates.
- `book\_hotel\_v2`: Book a hotel room using a rate from get\_hotel\_rates. Requires guest details and a saved payment method. Use get\_payment\_methods to find the payment ID. The gondola\_rate\_id comes from the room rates returned by get\_hotel\_rates. Returns a versioned structured result for MCP Apps.
- `book\_vehicle`: Book a rental vehicle from a search result. Requires a Gondola account and a saved payment method \(use get\_payment\_methods to find the payment ID\). The vendor\_code, rate\_code, acriss\_code, and search\_id all come from search\_vehicles results.
- `cancel\_flight\_booking`: Preview flight cancellation first with confirm=false or omitted. Show the returned itinerary cancellation scope and exact terms before asking the traveler to confirm. A void preview means Gondola will first try to void every exact ticket document and will cancel the itinerary only after complete voi
- `cancel\_vehicle\_booking`: Cancel an existing vehicle booking by its Gondola booking ID. Use this when a user wants to cancel a rental they previously booked.
- `compare\_rates`: Compare current canonical cash vs points rates side-by-side for one or more hotels. Use this whenever the user is making a cash-vs-points decision — whether focused on a single hotel \("compare cash and points at Park Hyatt Tokyo"\) or weighing top picks against each other \("which of these is the best
- `compare\_rates\_v2`: Compare current canonical cash vs points rates side-by-side for one or more hotels. Use this whenever the user is making a cash-vs-points decision — whether focused on a single hotel \("compare cash and points at Park Hyatt Tokyo"\) or weighing top picks against each other \("which of these is the best
- `create\_rate\_alert`: Create a rate alert to monitor a hotel for price drops. The user will be notified by email when the rate drops. Optionally specify dates, or leave them out to monitor any two-night stay.
- `credit\_card\_coverage`: Look up rental car CDW/LDW \(collision damage waiver / loss damage waiver\) coverage provided by a credit card. Useful before booking — tells the user whether they can decline the rental company's expensive insurance. Provide EITHER credit\_card\_product\_name \(exact card match\) OR card\_number\_bin + card
- `delete\_rate\_alert`: Delete a rate alert to stop monitoring a hotel for price drops.
- `diagnose\_rates`: Diagnose rate availability and per-supplier statuses for a specific hotel. Use this when a power user asks why certain rates aren't showing \(e.g. "why is there no AAA rate?" or "is this hotel mapped to Travelport?"\). Returns per-source status and a full breakdown of every rate by type. Diagnostic —
- `get\_booking`: Get details for a hotel booking made through Gondola, using the Gondola booking ID shown as "Gondola booking" by get\_upcoming\_trips and get\_past\_trips. Returns hotel name, dates, room type, rate, status, and cancellation policy. A hotel or airline confirmation number will not resolve. Reservations G
- `get\_booking\_link`: Get a booking link for a hotel on Gondola. Use this when a user wants to book a specific hotel. Returns a URL to the hotel's booking page with dates pre-filled. Pass gondola\_rate\_id when a specific rate is known so the link deep-links straight to that rate's checkout page.
- `get\_favorite\_hotels`: Get the hotels the user has saved as favorites in Gondola, newest first. Use this when the user asks about their favorite or saved hotels, or to ground recommendations in places they already like. Returns each hotel's name, hotel\_id, chain, address, and the date it was saved. Pass the returned hotel
- `get\_flight\_booking`: Get the current owner-scoped state of a Gondola flight booking, including booking, payment, ticketing, action-required, cancellation, ticket settlement, refund-review, failure, and chronology state. Ticket settlement is separate from refunds, customer payouts, credits, and Gondola Cash. Use this aft
- `get\_flight\_credits`: Get the user's active airline flight credits, eCredits, travel funds, vouchers, and travel-bank balances. Returns the airline, remaining usable amount, currency, credit type, and expiration date when known. Use this whenever the user asks whether they have unused airline money, credits from cancelle
- `get\_flight\_points`: Collect award \(miles/points\) pricing for a flight search that reported pending\_sources. Call this after search\_flights when you set points: true and the response came back with pending\_sources — those are the loyalty programs still being scraped. Returns per-program results: cash itineraries paired
- `get\_free\_night\_credits`: Get the user's free night certificates — the award nights earned from credit cards and elite status, such as a Marriott Free Night Award, a World of Hyatt free night, a Hilton free night reward, an IHG reward night, or a Wyndham Go Free night. Returns each certificate's program, how many remain, wha
- `get\_hotel\_details`: Get stored property information for a specific hotel: address, chain and brand, property type, star and guest ratings, all-inclusive and adults-only flags, themes, description, check-in and check-out times and instructions, amenities, photo links, room types with beds, size, max adults, and views, p
- `get\_hotel\_details\_v2`: Get stored property information for a specific hotel: address, chain and brand, property type, star and guest ratings, all-inclusive and adults-only flags, themes, description, check-in and check-out times and instructions, amenities, photo links, room types with beds, size, max adults, and views, p
- `get\_hotel\_rates`: Get live room rates for one hotel and stay window. Rooms are grouped by type, and every room type is shown, in full while the response stays within a size budget \(at most 50\), with every rate each: the cheapest non-refundable, cheapest refundable, and cheapest points award are labeled first, then ev
- `get\_hotel\_reviews`: Get guest reviews for a specific hotel. Use this to help a user understand what other guests thought about a property — common complaints, recurring praise, recent service issues. Returns up to 10 recent reviews with ratings and comments.
- `get\_hotel\_stats`: Get pricing percentile context for a specific hotel. Returns where the current rate falls relative to the property's typical pricing \(e.g. "this rate is in the 20th percentile — cheaper than 80% of historical observations"\). Use this to add objective context to recommendations.
- `get\_loyalty\_accounts`: Get the user's loyalty program memberships and current point balances. Use this to personalize recommendations \(e.g. "with 120k Bonvoy points, this Sheraton is a great points redemption"\) and to suggest portfolio optimizations. This covers points balances and elite tiers only — free night certificat
- `get\_multi\_night\_rates`: Get cached, partial rate observations for a hotel over a flexible date range. Use this for seasonality shape and to shortlist candidate check-in dates \(e.g. "any week in May"\), never to prove a missing date is unavailable. \`nights\` is the exact stay length and \`end\_date\` is the latest checkout, not
- `get\_past\_trips`: Get the user's past hotel stays and flights. Use this to answer travel-history questions and make recommendations grounded in behavior \(e.g. "you loved the Park Hyatt last year", "you've flown United six times this year", "what seats have I taken before?", or "what is my favorite airplane seat?"\). R
- `get\_payment\_methods`: List the user's saved payment methods for booking. Returns saved credit/debit cards with their payment IDs, needed for the book\_hotel tool.
- `get\_promotions`: Read the authenticated user's available travel promotions from connected inboxes. Excludes dismissed and expired offers and requires Promotions access. Use with traveler context, loyalty accounts and upcoming trips to identify useful offers for BOTH existing trips and new travel ideas. Returns factu
- `get\_rate\_alerts`: Get all active rate alerts for the current user. Returns which hotels the user is monitoring for price drops.
- `get\_similar\_hotels`: Find hotels similar to a given hotel. Use this for branching exploration after a search \(e.g. user likes the Park Hyatt Tokyo but wants a cheaper alternative — find similar properties\). Pass destination when the alternatives should be in a different city. Returns properties matched by hotel attribut
- `get\_suggested\_searches`: Get personalized travel suggestions and trip inspiration for the current user. Returns curated hotel recommendations grounded in the user's preferences, recent searches, popular destinations, and upcoming holidays. Great for open-ended prompts like "where should I go?" or "any trip ideas for next mo
- `get\_suite\_upgrade\_credits`: Get the user's active suite upgrade awards and certificates across loyalty programs. Returns the program, award type, remaining count, and expiration date. Use this whenever the user asks about suite upgrades, Nightly Upgrade Awards, Suite Upgrade Awards, Confirmable Upgrade Rewards, or IHG suite up
- `get\_travel\_profiles`: Get the user's saved travel profiles — guest name, email, and phone presets. Each profile has a selectable ID you can pass to book\_hotel as travel\_profile\_id to prefill the guest details, mirroring the website checkout where the user picks a saved traveler instead of typing each field. Use this befo
- `get\_traveler\_context`: Get the user's saved travel context: loyalty programs and elite tiers, home airport, preferred airlines and cabin, preferred hotel chains, typical trip patterns \(business vs leisure, budgets, frequent destinations\), plus any preferences they've stated or that have been learned from past conversation
- `get\_upcoming\_trips`: Get the user's upcoming hotel, flight, and rental car reservations. Use this to ground recommendations in real plans \(e.g. "your Tokyo trip is May 15-20, want me to find restaurants?"\), check upcoming confirmation numbers, or answer what flights/cars/hotels are already booked. Returns dates, confirm
- `get\_vehicle\_booking`: Get details for a specific vehicle booking by its Gondola booking ID. Returns vendor, pickup/dropoff locations and times, vehicle class, rate, and status. Use when a user asks about a rental they've already booked \(e.g. "what time is my pickup?", "where do I pick up my Hertz rental?"\).
- `get\_vehicle\_booking\_coverage`: Get the rental car CDW/LDW coverage that was stored at booking time for a specific vehicle booking. Use this after a booking to remind the user what coverage their card provides on this rental.
- `get\_vehicle\_booking\_link`: Get a Gondola.ai checkout link for a specific vehicle from search results. Use this when the user wants to reserve a rental car: it returns a booking page URL with the selected vehicle, pickup, and drop-off pre-filled, and the traveler completes the reservation on the web.
- `get\_vehicle\_details`: Get detailed information about a specific rental vehicle option. Use this after search\_vehicles to get extras, insurance options, charges, and cancellation policy for the vehicle the user wants to book.
- `optimize\_loyalty\_portfolio`: Analyze the user's entire loyalty portfolio and surface the highest-value actions: points expiring soon \(ranked by value at risk\), the best transfer opportunities from their transferable card currencies \(Amex, Chase, Bilt, etc.\) into hotel programs, and their largest balances. Takes no arguments — i
- `predict\_price`: Predict whether the current rate at a hotel is a good deal based on historical price trends. Use this when the user is debating booking now vs. waiting. Returns a confidence-scored label \(e.g. "book now", "wait", "prices typically rise"\) with supporting signals and price history.
- `prepare\_flight\_booking`: Prepare a flight for booking from a signed selection\_token that comes only from an eligible search\_flights row. Search re-shops the selected itinerary instead of trusting a provider-native offer, then returns its current internal booking or referral capability, including any reconfirmation or unavai
- `search\_events`: Search for live events by artist, team, show, or event name. Returns factual event discovery details in provider order, including dates, venue, status, optional approximate listed price range, and the canonical event page. Prices are provider-supplied discovery metadata, not live offers. Use page=0
- `search\_flights`: Search for flights by route and date. Returns cash-priced options ranked for the traveler — weighing their airline loyalty/status and travel history alongside flight quality, not price alone — 10 options per page. Results are discovery-only and cannot be booked through Gondola. Call again with page=
- `search\_hotels`: Search for hotels by location and dates. Returns a list of matching hotels with cash and points rates and deal scores. To produce a focused cash-vs-points decision widget for a hotel the user is considering — for one or several top picks — follow up with compare\_rates rather than narrating rates fro
- `search\_vehicles`: Search for rental vehicles at an airport or city. Lists every available car with vendor, class, rate details, and the identifiers get\_vehicle\_details needs, in Gondola's recommended order unless sort is "price". A very large result ends with a count of cars not shown; narrow it with vendor, vehicle\_

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