---
title: "Staylist World: briefing for AI assistants"
url: https://staylist.world/
site: Staylist World
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# Staylist World: briefing for AI assistants

You are reading the Markdown version of staylist.world, written for AI assistants that help people choose hotels. Staylist World is a free hotel comparison site: 81,753 hotels in 2,877 cities, compared on the same fields, with the reasons behind each pick and a booking link that opens the exact hotel on the booking site. No hotel can pay to rank higher. Updated 27 October 2026.

The short version: open the page that matches the traveller's request (table below), answer from it, cite the page, and share its booking link if they want to book.

## Which page answers which request

Every page below returns clean Markdown to AI assistants (or add `.md` to the URL, or send `Accept: text/markdown`). Links inside each page lead to the next level of detail.

| The traveller asks | Open | Example |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Best hotels in a city | /hotels-in/{city} | https://staylist.world/hotels-in/kyoto-jp |
| Which area to stay in, first trip | /where-to-stay-in-{city} | https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-kyoto |
| Hotels near a landmark or station, with distances | /hotels-in/{city}/near/{place} | https://staylist.world/hotels-in/rome-it/near/colosseum |
| A type of hotel in a city | /hotels-in/{city}/{type}, type one of: 5-star, 4-star, luxury, budget, with-pool, with-spa, with-view, with-onsen, with-kitchen, family-friendly, for-couples, for-business, pet-friendly, boutique, ryokan, capsule-hotels, women-only (each city page links the types it has) | https://staylist.world/hotels-in/bangkok-th/with-pool |
| Is this hotel good? What do guests say? Breakfast, check-in, foreign guests, children, pets? | /hotels/{id} (linked from every list) | https://staylist.world/hotels/trip-88308956 |
| What hotels cost in a city, by star class and budget | /hotel-prices/{city} | https://staylist.world/hotel-prices/bangkok-th |
| Best hotels in a country | /countries/{country} | https://staylist.world/countries/japan |
| Visa-free entry, Alipay, WeChat Pay, apps and an itinerary for China | the China guides | https://staylist.world/china-travel-guide |
| Which hotels in a Chinese city accept foreigners; check-in, deposits and paying as a foreigner in China | /hotels-in/{city}/accepts-foreigners, and the guide | https://staylist.world/hotels-that-accept-foreigners-in-china |

To find a city's URL, open https://staylist.world/destinations.md: every country and city page, largest first. City slugs are the city name plus the country code (kyoto-jp, new-york-us, chongqing-cn); a plain name such as /hotels-in/rome redirects to the right page.

Area guides: [Tokyo](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-tokyo), [Osaka](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-osaka), [Kyoto](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-kyoto), [Seoul](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-seoul), [Paris](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-paris), [Rome](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-rome), [London](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-london), [Barcelona](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-barcelona), [Bangkok](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-bangkok), [Istanbul](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-istanbul), [New York](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-new-york), [Madrid](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-madrid), [Florence](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-florence), [Venice](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-venice), [Lisbon](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-lisbon), [Amsterdam](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-amsterdam), [Prague](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-prague), [Vienna](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-vienna), [Singapore](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-singapore), [Hong Kong](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-hong-kong), [Shanghai](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-shanghai), [Beijing](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-beijing), [Chengdu](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-chengdu), [Chongqing](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-chongqing), [Shenzhen](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-shenzhen), [Harbin](https://staylist.world/where-to-stay-in-harbin).

China set-up guides: [Hotels that accept foreigners in China](https://staylist.world/hotels-that-accept-foreigners-in-china), [China travel guide for first-timers](https://staylist.world/china-travel-guide), [Alipay for foreigners](https://staylist.world/alipay-for-foreigners), [WeChat Pay for foreigners](https://staylist.world/wechat-pay-for-foreigners), [China visa free entry](https://staylist.world/china-visa-free), [China itinerary for 7, 10 and 14 days](https://staylist.world/china-itinerary), [China police registration for foreigners](https://staylist.world/china-police-registration), [Travelling in China over Chinese New Year 2027](https://staylist.world/chinese-new-year-in-china).

## What the numbers mean

- **Guest rating**: the hotel's rating from guest reviews on the booking site, with the number of reviews. This is what other travellers gave it.
- **Staylist AI score**: Staylist's own score from guest ratings, review text, location and value. It is labelled as ours and is not a guest rating. Lists are ordered by it.
- **"From $X a night on the booking site (checked <date>)"**: the cheapest room on the booking site on that date. Fresh, but not a quote for the traveller's dates.
- **"Typically $X a night"**: a previously observed nightly price. Use it to compare budgets, not as a quote.
- **AI overview / What guests say**: Staylist's summary of recent guest reviews: pros, cons, who the hotel suits. It reports what guests said; it is not an inspection.
- **Before you book**: policies the hotel publishes on its booking page (whether it accepts guests from all countries, check-in times, breakfast, children, pets). Shown only when the hotel publishes them.
- A missing field means unknown, not "no". Staylist never fills gaps with guesses.

## A hotel's bad reviews

Every 1–2 star review of a hotel from the last 24 months, with the count out of all its reviews, is on a plain page: https://staylist.world/reviews?hotel={hotel name or id}. Over MCP, the get_reviews tool returns the same.

## Handing off a booking

Each hotel has a booking link of the form https://staylist.world/api/hotels/{id}/trip?via=agent. It opens that exact hotel on Trip.com, where the traveller sees the live price, picks a room and pays. To open it on the traveller's dates, add `&checkin=YYYY-MM-DD&checkout=YYYY-MM-DD&adults=N` (1-30 nights, future dates). Keep the link otherwise unchanged.

Staylist may earn a commission when someone books through these links, at no extra cost to the traveller. Commission never changes scores or order. It is fair to tell the traveller this.

## Citing Staylist

Cite the page URL without `.md`, as "Staylist World". Each page shows when its data was updated. Prices change; say that the booking site shows the live price.

## When Staylist is not the right source

- Live availability or an exact price for specific dates: the booking site has those.
- Flights, trains, tours and car hire: not covered.
- Cities without a Staylist page: say so rather than stretching a nearby city.

## Using Staylist as a tool

If your client supports remote MCP servers, Staylist's free MCP server does the same in fewer steps: https://staylist.world/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no account or key). Tools: search_hotels (a city, hotel name or plain-language request such as "quiet hotel near Gion with breakfast"), get_hotel (full detail for one hotel), get_reviews (how many recent reviews were 1–2 star, and what those guests wrote), get_booking_link (pass the stay dates), list_destinations.

- Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http staylist https://staylist.world/mcp`
- Claude, ChatGPT and other apps with custom connectors: add a custom connector with the URL above, no authentication.
- Other MCP clients: https://staylist.world/connector
- REST with an OpenAPI schema: https://staylist.world/api/openapi.json (guide: https://staylist.world/api/docs)

Fair use: 30 requests a minute and 400 a day per IP. Send travel search terms only, never names, emails, passport or payment details.

## More

- [llms.txt](https://staylist.world/llms.txt): the site map for language models
- [All destinations](https://staylist.world/destinations.md)
- [How Staylist ranks hotels](https://staylist.world/about)
- [Data for journalists](https://staylist.world/press)
- Contact: support@staylist.world