Veabird

By Veabird

Overview

Veabird answers travel questions with live forecast data instead of guesses. Ski: about 300 resorts worldwide. Veabird matches resorts to your group's ability (kids included), Epic or Ikon pass, dates and home airport. It covers 7-day summit snow, a 0–100 "ski today" score, crowd outlooks and terrain mix. Beach: 1,400+ Caribbean, Gulf, Mexican and Hawaiian resorts. Each date gets a beach score with sargassum (seaweed) forecasts, weather, water temperature, waves, UV, crowds, hurricane threats, tides and travel advisories. Veabird can also suggest a better beach nearby when one scores higher. Trips: plan a whole trip in one go: conditions for your dates, places to stay with live nightly prices and photos, flight searches to the best gateway airports, and extras such as lift tickets and rentals. Rental hosts: see which nights near your property will be busy (events, home games, holidays), which nights are booked from your iCal link, and nights where your rate looks low, shown on an inline calendar. Try asking: "Where should we ski in late January? Two intermediates and a 7-year-old, Ikon pass, flying from Dallas." · "Is there seaweed in Tulum next week?" · "Is my Airbnb in Austin priced too low for next month? I charge $180 a night." No account needed. Forecasts are modeled estimates, not safety guidance. Lodging, flight and rental links are partner links, and partners never affect forecasts or rankings.

Tools

beach_conditions

Claude

Full conditions for one beach resort on one date: 0-100 beach score with per-metric scores, sargassum, weather, water temperature, waves and rip currents, UV, crowds, hurricane risk, holidays. For today, also live conditions and alerts. Days 0-15 are forecasts, later dates climate outlooks.

better_nearby_beaches

Claude

For a beach resort and date (within 16 days), nearby resorts with a meaningfully higher beach score: swap suggestions when sargassum or weather is bad.

find_flights

Claude

Pre-filled flight searches from the traveler's home airport to the best gateway airports for a ski or beach resort (or any airport code), with the drive from each airport to the resort.

find_lodging

Claude

Places to stay near a ski or beach resort (or any 'lat,lon') for given dates and party: live nightly prices, ratings and photos where available, filtered by budget, homes from local property managers booked direct (no booking-site fee) where Veabird has them, plus hotel and vacation-rental searches.

find_ski_resorts

Claude

Ranks ski resorts for one traveler or group: terrain that fits their ability (beginner/intermediate/advanced/expert, or a mixed group), snow and crowds for their dates, travel from their home airport or city (drive or fly), and their Epic/Ikon pass. Returns the reasons for each pick plus lodging, flight and rental links. Use for 'where should I ski' questions.

hurricane_threats

Claude

Active Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes (NOAA NHC) with position, intensity and track, and which Veabird beach resorts are threatened.

plan_trip

Claude

Everything to book one trip to a ski or beach resort: conditions for the dates, places to stay (live nightly prices with photos where available, plus rental and hotel searches), flights from the traveler's airport to the best gateway, and extras (lift tickets, ski rentals, tours, car hire, insurance).

property_demand

Claude

For a vacation rental or hotel owner: how busy each night will be around their property for the next weeks (concerts, festivals, carnivals, conventions, pro and college home games, public holidays and long weekends, weekends), compared with a typical night there. With their calendar's iCal export link (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Hostaway, Guesty, OwnerRez...) it marks booked and open nights; with their nightly rate it flags nights priced too low for the demand and suggests a range. Use when a host asks whether their price is too low, what's happening in town, or when to raise rates.

rank_beaches

Claude

Rank beach resorts by 0-100 beach score for a date, optionally within a region, island or country, or a radius around a resort. With from, also gives each resort's airports and a flight search. Use for 'where should I go to the beach' questions.

sargassum_forecast

Claude

Sargassum (seaweed) outlook for a beach resort: the next 16 days in detail plus a weekly outlook for coming months, barrier and cleanup programs, and the model's source and held-out skill.

sargassum_model_skill

Claude

How well Veabird's sargassum model performs on held-out years (AUC, Brier score, calibration) versus baselines.

search_beach_resorts

Claude

Search Veabird's 1,400+ beach resorts (Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico's Pacific coast, Hawaii) by name, town, island, region or country. Returns ids, today's headline conditions, photos and page links.

search_ski_resorts

Claude

Search Veabird's 317 ski resorts by name, country, state or range, optionally only those on a pass. Returns ids, terrain mix, passes, gateway airports and forecast links.

ski_conditions

Claude

Today's 0-100 'ski today' score (fresh snow, base depth, weather, crowds), the next 7 days of summit snowfall and temperature, crowd outlook, terrain mix, passes and gateway airport for one ski resort.