# Gondola Award Travel Search (slim) > Gondola Award Travel Search, an MCP server by gondola.ai, listed from the official MCP registry. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Compare cash vs points on hotels, flights, and cars. Checkout supported hotels and rental cars. - Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gondola.md (~2,650 tokens) · this version ~2,580 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gondola.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gondola - Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04 # Gondola Award Travel Search > Indexed, not reviewed: facts from the official MCP registry and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/ - Kind: MCP server, by gondola.ai (https://www.gondola.ai) - Category: Travel & booking (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/travel.md) - Listed because: It's published in the registry under gondola.ai, a namespace the registry only gives to whoever proves they control that domain. - What the official MCP registry says: Compare cash vs points on hotels, flights, and cars. Checkout supported hotels and rental cars. ## Facts - MCP registry: `ai.gondola/gondola` 0.1.6 - Endpoint: https://mcp.gondola.ai/mcp (streamable HTTP) - Source: https://github.com/gondola-ai/gondola-mcp - Website: https://www.gondola.ai - GitHub stars: 9 - Registry entry updated: 2026-09-16 ## Tools - Tools it lists (43, about 14,051 tokens of context, `tools/list` without credentials over MCP 2025-11-25, checked 2026-10-04 22:20 UTC): - `book_flight` (writes): Book a prepared flight only after the traveler explicitly confirms the exact current quote, total, currency, and consent version. Use the handoff_id and… - `book_hotel` (writes): Book a hotel room using a rate from get_hotel_rates. Requires guest details and a saved payment method. Use get_payment_methods to find the payment ID. The… - `book_vehicle` (writes): Book a rental vehicle from a search result. Requires a Gondola account and a saved payment method (use get_payment_methods to find the payment ID). The… - `cancel_flight_booking` (writes): Preview flight cancellation first with confirm=false or omitted. Show the returned itinerary cancellation scope and exact terms before asking the traveler to… - `cancel_vehicle_booking` (writes): Cancel an existing vehicle booking by its Gondola booking ID. Use this when a user wants to cancel a rental they previously booked. - `compare_rates` (read-only): Compare current canonical cash vs points rates side-by-side for one or more hotels. Use this whenever the user is making a cash-vs-points decision — whether… - `create_rate_alert` (writes): Create a rate alert to monitor a hotel for price drops. The user will be notified by email when the rate drops. Optionally specify dates, or leave them out to… - `credit_card_coverage` (read-only): Look up rental car CDW/LDW (collision damage waiver / loss damage waiver) coverage provided by a credit card. Useful before booking — tells the user whether… - `delete_rate_alert` (writes): Delete a rate alert to stop monitoring a hotel for price drops. - `diagnose_rates` (read-only): Diagnose rate availability and per-supplier statuses for a specific hotel. Use this when a power user asks why certain rates aren't showing (e.g. "why is there… - `get_booking` (read-only): Get details for a hotel booking made through Gondola, using the Gondola booking ID shown as "Gondola booking" by get_upcoming_trips and get_past_trips. Returns… - `get_booking_link` (read-only): Get a booking link for a hotel on Gondola. Use this when a user wants to book a specific hotel. Returns a URL to the hotel's booking page with dates… - `get_favorite_hotels` (read-only): Get the hotels the user has saved as favorites in Gondola, newest first. Use this when the user asks about their favorite or saved hotels, or to ground… - `get_flight_booking` (read-only): Get the current owner-scoped state of a Gondola flight booking, including booking, payment, ticketing, action-required, cancellation, ticket settlement,… - `get_flight_credits` (read-only): Get the user's active airline flight credits, eCredits, travel funds, vouchers, and travel-bank balances. Returns the airline, remaining usable amount,… - `get_flight_points` (read-only): Collect award (miles/points) pricing for a flight search that reported pending_sources. Call this after search_flights when you set points: true and the… - `get_free_night_credits` (read-only): Get the user's free night certificates — the award nights earned from credit cards and elite status, such as a Marriott Free Night Award, a World of Hyatt free… - `get_hotel_details` (read-only): Get stored property information for a specific hotel: address, chain and brand, property type, star and guest ratings, all-inclusive and adults-only flags,… - `get_hotel_rates` (read-only): Get live room rates for one hotel and stay window. Rooms are grouped by type (up to 12 shown) with up to three rates each: the cheapest non-refundable,… - `get_hotel_reviews` (read-only): Get guest reviews for a specific hotel. Use this to help a user understand what other guests thought about a property — common complaints, recurring praise,… - `get_hotel_stats` (read-only): Get pricing percentile context for a specific hotel. Returns where the current rate falls relative to the property's typical pricing (e.g. "this rate is in the… - `get_loyalty_accounts` (read-only): Get the user's loyalty program memberships and current point balances. Use this to personalize recommendations (e.g. "with 120k Bonvoy points, this Sheraton is… - `get_multi_night_rates` (read-only): Get cached, partial rate observations for a hotel over a flexible date range. Use this for seasonality shape and to shortlist candidate check-in dates (e.g.… - `get_past_trips` (read-only): Get the user's past hotel stays and flights. Use this to answer travel-history questions and make recommendations grounded in behavior (e.g. "you loved the… - `get_payment_methods` (read-only): List the user's saved payment methods for booking. Returns saved credit/debit cards with their payment IDs, needed for the book_hotel tool. - `get_rate_alerts` (read-only): Get all active rate alerts for the current user. Returns which hotels the user is monitoring for price drops. - `get_similar_hotels` (read-only): Find hotels similar to a given hotel. Use this for branching exploration after a search (e.g. user likes the Park Hyatt Tokyo but wants a cheaper alternative —… - `get_suggested_searches` (read-only): Get personalized travel suggestions and trip inspiration for the current user. Returns curated hotel recommendations grounded in the user's preferences, recent… - `get_suite_upgrade_credits` (read-only): Get the user's active suite upgrade awards and certificates across loyalty programs. Returns the program, award type, remaining count, and expiration date. Use… - `get_travel_profiles` (read-only): Get the user's saved travel profiles — guest name, email, and phone presets. Each profile has a selectable ID you can pass to book_hotel as travel_profile_id… - `get_traveler_context` (read-only): Get the user's saved travel context: loyalty programs and elite tiers, home airport, preferred airlines and cabin, preferred hotel chains, typical trip… - `get_upcoming_trips` (read-only): Get the user's upcoming hotel, flight, and rental car reservations. Use this to ground recommendations in real plans (e.g. "your Tokyo trip is May 15-20, want… - `get_vehicle_booking` (read-only): Get details for a specific vehicle booking by its Gondola booking ID. Returns vendor, pickup/dropoff locations and times, vehicle class, rate, and status. Use… - `get_vehicle_booking_coverage` (read-only): Get the rental car CDW/LDW coverage that was stored at booking time for a specific vehicle booking. Use this after a booking to remind the user what coverage… - `get_vehicle_booking_link` (read-only): Get a Gondola.ai deep link for a specific vehicle from search results. Use this to share a booking page URL the user can complete on the web, or as a fallback… - `get_vehicle_details` (read-only): Get detailed information about a specific rental vehicle option. Use this after search_vehicles to get extras, insurance options, charges, and cancellation… - `optimize_loyalty_portfolio` (read-only): Analyze the user's entire loyalty portfolio and surface the highest-value actions: points expiring soon (ranked by value at risk), the best transfer… - `predict_price` (read-only): Predict whether the current rate at a hotel is a good deal based on historical price trends. Use this when the user is debating booking now vs. waiting.… - `prepare_flight_booking` (writes): Prepare a flight for booking from a signed selection_token that comes only from an eligible search_flights row. Search re-shops the selected itinerary instead… - `search_events` (read-only): Search for live events by artist, team, show, or event name. Returns factual event discovery details in provider order, including dates, venue, status,… - `search_flights` (read-only): Search for flights by route and date. Returns cash-priced options ranked for the traveler — weighing their airline loyalty/status and travel history alongside… - `search_hotels` (read-only): Search for hotels by location and dates. Returns a list of matching hotels with cash and points rates and deal scores. To produce a focused cash-vs-points… - `search_vehicles` (read-only): Search for rental vehicles at an airport or city. Returns available cars sorted by price with vendor, class, and rate details. - How its tools read to an agent (0 errors, 2 warnings, 0 notes, about 14,051 tokens; rules at https://www.anchorterminal.com/check.md; not part of the score): - warn TC11 search_events: 4 parameters without a description: limit, page, radius, radius_unit - warn TC23 server: 43 tools - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gondola.json - Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. Ask for a review: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#claiming