Claude Skill Plans a Real 4-Night Trip, Reprices and Reroutes When Town Sells Out
ApifyEnthusiast1 · reddit · 2026-09-14
The author built a Claude skill that plans a full four-night trip (fly into Denver, drive to a Saturday event near Albuquerque, drive back): describe the trip once, and Claude prices flights and hotels, ranks them, and returns a plan with real per-person and total costs. It runs in plain language or over MCP.
Test run (3 adults, Oct 15–19):
- Cheapest nonstop round trip came back near $1,000; a cheaper one-stop landed near midnight, so it flagged the tradeoff instead of just taking the low number.
- Hotels near the airport ranked out with the cheapest around $113. The small town nearest the event returned no rooms, and Claude read "no rate" as sold out rather than free, then widened the search to Albuquerque on its own.
- Final output was a cost table pasted straight into an email.
Two rules that kept the comparison honest: rank hotels by rating, review count and price rather than star class; and compare total stay cost before per-night, since a one-night rental with cleaning fees looks fake-expensive per night.
Limits: cash prices only, so no points or award pricing; it does not book, it hands you links. Disclosure: the author built it, and the flight/hotel data comes from a paid source he maintains, so the skill is free but the underlying data has a usage cost. The skill is open on GitHub.
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