Bluerails Hotels

Book a hotel room. Works for ANY offer list_hotels gave you an offerId for — there is no separate check to make first, so pass the offer the guest chose. Pass that offer’s offerId exactly as you were given it — it names the hotel, room, rate, stay and price, which is why none of those are separate arguments. It expires after 30 minutes; if it has expired or the hotel has raised the price since, nothing is booked — get a fresh one by calling list_hotels with that same offerId, which re-prices just that room rather than showing the guest the whole property again. TWO OUTCOMES, and the reply tells you which. confirmationNumber means the room is booked: give the guest the number and tell them they pay the hotel at the desk — nothing has been charged. paymentUrl means the room is NOT held yet: give the guest that link to pay, their card is HELD rather than charged, and the booking is placed once they have paid. Set acceptedTerms only after the guest has agreed to book this rate. Show them that rate’s cancellation terms where list_hotels gave any; where its cancelTerms was null we hold none, so say so and that the hotel’s own terms apply, then set it once they agree on that basis — a blank is NOT a reason to refuse the booking. Ask the guest for their own phone number and billing address — the hotel puts them on the reservation and uses them to reach the guest. Never invent them. If a call comes back ambiguous, do NOT call again — a reservation may already exist.

Search hotel properties in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, and price them for a stay in the same call.

ASK BEFORE YOU SEARCH. Four things are required and this tool answers nothing without them: checkIn, checkOut, adults and maxPricePerNight. "Hotels in Berlin for a couple" is not yet a search — it names a place and a party and nothing else, so ask which nights they want, who is coming — adults AND any children, by age — and roughly what they want to spend, in ONE message, and search once they answer. Never fill these in for them: dates you chose are not their dates, and a budget read off "cheap" or off a star rating hides the very hotels they could have afforded. A call missing any of them comes back with no rows and a hint naming what is still to be asked.

PLACES. Pass city with any place name we cover to get properties around it, nearest first, each with distanceKm — despite the name it takes a place of any size, so a village, a resort or a borough ("Silvaplana", "Wals", "Zell am See", "Brooklyn") works as well as a city. radius is a value with its unit — {"value": 10, "unit": "mi"} — so you never have to convert; it defaults to 20 km and may not exceed 100 km. Prefer city over query for place-based searches: it understands about 151,800 places and returns neighbouring towns, whereas query only matches words in a name or description. An unresolvable place name returns placeNotRecognised — that means the NAME was not understood, not that the place has no hotels. When a radius returns nothing you get nearestBeyondRadiusKm so you can widen deliberately rather than guess.

SOMEWHERE SMALLER THAN A TOWN — A STREET, A LANDMARK, A STATION, A DISTRICT — GOES IN coordinates, NOT city. Sent as a city, such a name is either refused or resolved to a different place of the same name, which comes back as a confident answer about somewhere else. Estimate the point yourself, pair it with a small radius, and tell the guest you estimated it.

A STAY. checkIn, checkOut and adults are required, and when you ask how many adults, ASK WHETHER ANY CHILDREN ARE COMING TOO and send their ages in childrenAges — ages, not a count. A child left out is priced as though they are not coming, so the guest can book a room that will not sleep them. The moment the guest mentions a child, put it in childrenAges even if you do not yet know the age — send null for that entry: THE SEARCH IS THEN REFUSED until you replace it with the real age, which is what stops a family being quoted as a couple. With those, the answer comes back in TWO groups. priced holds the hotels we read real rates for: every room and rate plan with its own price for the WHOLE stay, in the currency you sent, its cancelTerms where we hold any and null where we do not, its photos where we have them, a bookingUrl carrying the guest's dates WHERE THIS ENDPOINT PUBLISHES ONE — read that field's own description rather than assuming it is there, because an endpoint that can book the room for you publishes no link for it — and stayTotal / pricePerNight for the cheapest offer. EVERY PRICE IS IN THE currency YOU SENT. They come back in a deliberate order that is NOT nearest first and NOT cheapest first — show them in the order you are given. Show all the rooms you are handed, not just the cheapest. unpriced holds everything else: hotels that do not publish rates anywhere we can read, that did not answer us, or that were past the read ceiling. Those are the same thing to you — NONE of them carries a booking link of any kind. What a row carries instead is websiteUrl, the property's own site, or an EMPTY websiteUrl when we hold no site either and there is nothing to open at all. WHEN YOU RECOMMEND A HOTEL, RECOMMEND A PRICED ONE. We hold no rate for anything in unpriced, so you cannot say what it costs and it may be well over what the guest wants to spend; naming one as your suggestion answers their budget with a number nobody has. Bring one up only as "I could not get a rate for X, here is their website". Offer that site as the property's website and NEVER as a way to book or check rates, since we do not know it sells rooms online — and where it is empty, say we have nowhere to send them rather than going looking for a page of your own.

AN EMPTY priced IS NOT "SOLD OUT", AND CHECK aboveBudget BEFORE CALLING IT UNREADABLE. With a maxPricePerNight, an empty priced means every hotel we priced costs more than that, and those hotels are in aboveBudget with real prices — quote them. Only when aboveBudget is empty too does an empty priced mean no rates could be read, and even then we get the same empty answer for a connection that failed, a party the property will not sell to, and a genuinely full hotel, and it never says which — so report the price as unknown and hand over the links, NEVER that a property is full. No ROW in this response can tell you a hotel has no space. One thing can: the hint, which says how many properties were left out because they told us outright that they are full — that is why they are in no group at all, and it is the only "full" this tool ever reports. It is never about a hotel you can see.

A BUDGET IS A FILTER, NOT A LABEL — AND IT IS THE GUEST'S NUMBER, NEVER YOURS. maxPricePerNight is required, so ask them for a figure before searching rather than sending one of your own. Words like "budget", "cheap" or "affordable" are not amounts: read as one they filter out the very hotels the guest wanted, and the answer then tells them their limit was missed when they set no limit. A guest who says they have no limit still has a most-they-would-pay — ask for that and send it. maxPricePerNight decides what you are handed, at both levels. priced holds ONLY the hotels at or under it, each carrying ONLY its rooms at or under it — so every price you read out is one the guest already agreed to, and priced may be shorter than the limit you asked for. Dearer hotels are NOT in priced, NOT in unpriced, and not returned at all while any hotel fits: do not tell the guest this is every hotel in the area, and read the hint, which says how many were left out. Only when NOT ONE hotel fits do they come back, in aboveBudget — then say what the nearest options actually cost, never "nothing is available". A room in priced keeps ALL of its rate plans, including one dearer than the budget, so a breakfast or flexible rate is still there to offer as an upgrade. The comparison is pricePerNight, the stay total divided by nights — a stay AVERAGE, not a rate charged on every night, so say it that way.

HOW MUCH ONE SEARCH RETURNS. limit is the ceiling across BOTH groups, priced first — an answer can be shorter when properties were dropped as full, defaulting to 10 and capped at 20. unpriced carries AT MOST 5 however large a limit you ask for, so raising limit buys you more PRICED hotels and never a longer list of names we hold no price for. THERE IS NO PAGING: one search returns one set of rows and there is no second page to ask for, so to reach anything past 20 properties, narrow the search — a nearer city, a smaller radius, a query, country or starRating. Calling again with the same filters returns the same rows. No count of the whole match comes back either, so do not tell the guest how many properties exist in a place — say what you can show them.

Also supports country (de, at, ch, us, gb), starRating (1-star, 2-star, 3-star, 4-star, 5-star) and style (boutique), which are independent of one another. Some place names exist in more than one of those countries, and city alone resolves them to THE MOST POPULOUS of them — "Cambridge" is England, not Massachusetts; "Bellevue" and "Salem" stay European. It is a proxy for the place a guest means, and it is sometimes wrong: "Kendal" resolves to the Kendall in Miami, not the Cumbrian town. Pass country alongside whenever you know which you mean, and ALWAYS when the guest named the country — it overrides the contest outright. Returns public fields only.

BOOKING A ROOM FROM THIS ANSWER. Every priced room carries an offerId and NO booking link, because we can book it for the guest ourselves — call hotel_reserve with the offerId rather than sending them to a website. It needs the guest's full name, email, phone and address, so ask for those once they have chosen a room. It answers one of two ways: a confirmationNumber means the room is booked and the guest pays the hotel at the desk, and a paymentUrl means the room is not held yet and that link is where the guest pays to get it booked. Where a room's cancelTerms is null we hold no cancellation terms for it: say so plainly, say the hotel's own terms apply and come with its confirmation, and book once the guest agrees on that basis — a blank is not a refusal.