Travel

pickthehotel

by SYLVAIN CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER GORDON-HORWOOD

Overview

pickthehotel is an answer engine for hotels. Instead of a wall of results, ask for the one hotel that fits your intent in a city and get a single confident pick, a few alternatives, and a booking link. Choose an intent: • iconic - the standout in town • value - great, and fairly priced for what you get • budget - cheap, clean, and genuinely central • family - one room that actually sleeps two adults and the children Every hotel is judged the same way - value (punching above its price), location (closeness to what you actually came for), and reviews (weighted by confidence, not just averaged) - with no paid placement. You can anchor "central" to a landmark ("near the Louvre") or to your live location, and you can ask for a curated list of long-established hotels around the world. Live in Zürich, Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Bangkok, Dubai, Singapore, Istanbul, and Hong Kong, with more rolling out. Prices are indicative and confirmed at the booking site; booking links are affiliate and disclosed.

Tools

check_availability

ChatGPT

Confirm which hotels are ACTUALLY bookable for specific dates, with the live refundable price and a direct booking link. Give a city (and optional mode) to get the top-ranked hotels that are genuinely available for those dates, or a hotelId to check one. Use this before recommending a hotel for specific dates so you never send someone to a sold-out or mispriced result.

get_deals

ChatGPT

Return today's standout hotel deals: the biggest SEASONAL bargains (genuine 5-star hotels at the season they're cheapest — shown as % below that hotel's OWN peak season, NOT a market discount), tonight's cheapest refundable rooms, this weekend's escapes, the best-value pick per region, and curated bucket-list experiences (bookable via Viator). Prices are per night; seasonal figures are indicative and confirmed at booking. Each deal carries a booking link. Use this to surface deals rather than a single city pick.