# Gondola Award Travel Search

Puts cash and points prices side by side for hotels, flights and rental cars. Useful when you are deciding whether a redemption beats paying.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI · ★ 9
- Author: gondola-ai
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/gondola-ai/gondola-mcp
- Updated: 2026-10-12
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/gondola-award-travel-search

## What it does

The server connects over Streamable HTTP and runs against your Gondola account. Sign-in uses OAuth 2.1 with Dynamic Client Registration, so there is no API key to copy and the account costs nothing. Your client opens the Gondola page the first time it connects.

It ships 36 tools: hotel, flight, car and event search, live cash and points rates for the same stay, cents-per-point value, price prediction, per-supplier availability checks, and suggestions for spending the balances you already hold. Hotel and car rates come with a checkout link; flights are search-only and cannot be booked through Gondola yet.

The Claude plugin also installs the slash commands `/hotel-points`, `/award-flights`, `/worth-it` and `/optimize-points`. Wiring the server up by hand means getting each client's config key right: Windsurf wants `serverUrl`, Gemini CLI wants `httpUrl`, and VS Code puts everything under a top-level `servers`. Mix those up and the connection fails.

## Requirements
- Remote server: `https://mcp.gondola.ai/mcp`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http gondola https://mcp.gondola.ai/mcp
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add gondola-award-travel-search --url https://mcp.gondola.ai/mcp
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "gondola-award-travel-search": {
            "url": "https://mcp.gondola.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "gondola-award-travel-search": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.gondola.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http gondola-award-travel-search https://mcp.gondola.ai/mcp
```

## When to use it
- compare cash and points rates for one hotel stay
- work out whether a points redemption is worth it
- find a business-class flight on a given route and date
- check whether a hotel rate is likely to drop
- see which loyalty balances expire soon

## Example prompts
- Is it worth spending Bonvoy points on the Ritz-Carlton Maui for four nights in March?
- Find business-class flights from SFO to HND on 2026-11-10

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