Hotel Search: Kayak Prices from Every Booking Site

What does Hotel Search: Kayak Prices from Every Booking Site do?

Hotel Search looks up hotels in a city for your dates on Kayak and Cheapflights, which compare prices from many booking sites at once (Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Priceline, Hotels.com and hotels' own websites). You get one list, sorted by total price.

Give it a city and dates. For every search it returns up to 50 hotels, each with the whole-stay price, the nightly rate, which booking site sells it cheapest and how many sites quoted it, star class, guest score and review count, neighbourhood, distance and a link. Each row also picks out the cheapest stay and the cheapest well-reviewed stay, so you can read the answer without opening the list.

It never books, buys or signs in anywhere. It only reads the public search results.

Why use it?

• One search, every booking site. Single-site scrapers show you one site's price. This shows the lowest price any of them is offering, and who is offering it.
• Compare many cities or dates. Put dozens of searches in one run, schedule it, and export the table to a spreadsheet.
• AI agents. Connect it as an MCP server and let an agent find a place to stay while it plans a trip.

How it works

For each search it reads, at the same time:

1. Kayak hotel search
2. Cheapflights hotel search

The same hotel listed on both appears once, at its cheapest price. Results are sorted cheapest total first. If one site does not answer in time, the row says so, so a partial search never looks complete.

Input

Field	Required	Description
searches	Yes	One entry per city and stay. Each needs a location (a city name like Lisbon, or an airport code like LIS), a checkIn date (YYYY-MM-DD, or "+30" for 30 days from today) and either checkOut or nights. Optional: adults (total guests, default 2) and rooms (default 1). A line like "Lisbon 2026-12-10 2026-12-13" works too.
maxConcurrency	No	Searches run at once, 1 to 8. Default 4.

Example input:

{
  "searches": [
    { "location": "Lisbon", "checkIn": "2026-12-10", "checkOut": "2026-12-13" },
    { "location": "LAS", "checkIn": "2026-12-04", "nights": 2, "adults": 4, "rooms": 2 },
    "Austin 2026-12-04 2026-12-06"
  ]
}

Output

One dataset row per search. Download it as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it through the Apify API.

{
  "location": "Austin",
  "checkIn": "2026-12-04",
  "checkOut": "2026-12-06",
  "status": "found",
  "cheapestPrice": 176,
  "cheapestNightPrice": 75,
  "currency": "USD",
  "cheapestHotel": "Scottish Inns Austin Downtown",
  "cheapestSeller": "Priceline",
  "cheapestUrl": "https://www.cheapflights.com/hotels/Scottish-Inns-Austin-Downtown,Austin-p56642-h65996-details/2026-12-04/2026-12-06/2adults",
  "bestValueHotel": "Hampton Inn & Suites Austin Cedar Park-Lakeline",
  "bestValuePrice": 180,
  "bestValueScore": 8.6,
  "hotelCount": 50,
  "hotels": [
    {
      "source": "cheapflights", "name": "Scottish Inns Austin Downtown",
      "price": 176, "nightPrice": 75, "currency": "USD",
      "seller": "Priceline", "sellerCount": 4, "stars": 2,
      "score": 5.8, "reviewCount": 487, "propertyType": "Hotel",
      "city": "Austin", "distance": "3.8 mi", "distanceFrom": "from city center",
      "url": "https://www.cheapflights.com/hotels/Scottish-Inns-Austin-Downtown,Austin-p56642-h65996-details/2026-12-04/2026-12-06/2adults"
    }
  ],
  "warnings": [],
  "error": null
}

status is found, not_found or error. not_found means the sites answered and listed nothing for that place and those dates, which is a real answer (a sold-out weekend, or a place too small to have hotels listed).

price is the whole stay: every night and every room. nightPrice is the advertised rate for one room for one night, often before taxes and fees, so compare hotels on price. bestValueHotel is the cheapest hotel with a guest score of 8 or more from at least 50 reviews. stars is null for places with no star class, like apartments and hostels.

Pricing

$0.088 per search, with no monthly fee. One search returns up to 50 hotels with prices from every booking site Kayak compares, not one page of one site.

• A search that comes back not_found is charged, because both sites were still searched.
• A search that fails with an error is not charged.
• Set a spending limit on the run and the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches it.
• On Apify's free plan, each run processes the first 10 searches (10 tool calls per MCP session). Any paid Apify plan removes the limit.

Use it as an MCP server

This Actor also runs as an MCP server with one tool, search_hotels. Point any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, your own agent) at:

https://bowmark-ai--hotel-search.apify.actor/mcp

with your Apify API token as a bearer token. Each tool call is billed like one search in a normal run.

Limits and good practice

• It reads only public search results. It never signs in anywhere and never changes anything.
• Use a city name (Austin) or an airport code (AUS). A state or country after a comma is dropped, because the sites search nothing for "Austin, TX".
• Prices are in US dollars and come from the comparison sites, so a hotel's own website can occasionally differ.
• Each search takes about 20 to 60 seconds. Use dates in the future.
• Cheapest first means hostels and shared rooms often lead. Use bestValueHotel, or filter hotels on stars, score and propertyType.

Questions or a wrong result?

Open an issue on the Issues tab with the input you used and what you expected. We read every one.