# HotelRefund

> Free hotel price tracker. Pick a city, hotel and dates — we check the Agoda rate several times a day, keep the full price history on a public page, and can optionally email you when the price changes. No account needed.

HotelRefund helps travelers who already booked (or are about to book) catch price drops:
rebook a refundable reservation cheaper before the cancellation deadline, or simply see
whether a rate is trending up or down before committing.

## Core facts

- Completely free; no signup or account. Email is optional (price-change alerts, one-click unsubscribe).
- Prices come from Agoda's public rates for the exact stay (hotel, dates, guests) the user selected.
- Price basis: every tracked price is Agoda's total for the whole stay with taxes and fees included, for 2 adults, at the standard rate Agoda returns to partners (verified to match Agoda's free-cancellation rate). Coupons, member or app-only discounts and non-refundable rates are not included — Agoda's own pages often show prices before tax, so compare with the tax-inclusive total at checkout.
- Every price check is recorded; history, sparklines and stats are public for anyone to view.
- Each tracked hotel has a printable price-history report (https://hotelrefund.net/track/report?id=N) with every timestamped observation, plus CSV download — usable as evidence for Best Price Guarantee claims, refund requests and check-in negotiation.
- Prices are displayed in the visitor's own currency (converted with daily FX rates; original currency always shown).
- "Today's deals" shows the biggest discounts by destination vs Agoda's listed rate, refreshed daily.
- Monthly email digest (optional subscription): biggest tracked drops + deals for the subscriber's chosen city.
- We never fabricate prices or history — only observed data is shown.
- Affiliate disclosure: booking links may earn us a commission; the price users pay is unchanged.

## Key pages

- Tracker (start tracking a hotel): https://hotelrefund.net/track
- Today's deals (server-rendered HTML — biggest observed discount per city, real Agoda rates, refreshed daily): https://hotelrefund.net/deals
- Deals for one city (every discount we found there, up to 6, refreshed about twice a day): https://hotelrefund.net/deals/{city-slug} — e.g. /deals/tokyo, /deals/bangkok, /deals/seoul. The full list of live city pages is in https://hotelrefund.net/sitemap-deals.xml
- Price history for one tracked stay (server-rendered table of every timestamped observation for a specific hotel and date range): https://hotelrefund.net/track/{id} — e.g. /track/7. The full list is in https://hotelrefund.net/sitemap-track.xml
- Refund Report (free tool: builds a best-price-guarantee claim — PDF letter and copy-paste message in English, Korean, Japanese or Chinese — checks the booking site's deadline and matching rules; runs entirely in the browser, nothing is stored; AI agents get the same checks and text through the MCP tools check_refund_claim and draft_refund_request): https://hotelrefund.net/refund-report — also /ko/, /ja/, /zh/refund-report
- Home: https://hotelrefund.net/
- Blog (guides on hotel refunds, cancellation deadlines, rebooking, price behavior): https://hotelrefund.net/blog/
- Hotel price tracker comparison (Google, KAYAK, Hopper, Pruvo, HotelRefund — honest, limits included): https://hotelrefund.net/blog/best-hotel-price-trackers
- Cancelling a non-refundable booking (grace windows, hotel goodwill, date changes, price-match claims, insurance, resale): https://hotelrefund.net/blog/cancel-non-refundable-hotel-booking
- How to cancel a hotel reservation without a heavy penalty (where to cancel, deadlines in hotel local time, what the fee is made of, four ways to shrink it): https://hotelrefund.net/blog/how-to-cancel-a-hotel-reservation
- Why hotel rooms are non-refundable and whether the discount is worth it: https://hotelrefund.net/blog/why-are-hotel-rooms-non-refundable
- Claiming the difference when your hotel gets cheaper on another site after booking (step by step, deadlines, evidence screenshots): https://hotelrefund.net/blog/claim-hotel-price-difference
- Price-match claim message examples for Booking.com, Agoda and Trip.com: https://hotelrefund.net/blog/hotel-price-match-claim-message-examples
- Why price-match claims get denied, with a 7-point check: https://hotelrefund.net/blog/why-hotel-price-match-claims-get-denied
- About (who runs it, data methodology, contact): https://hotelrefund.net/about
- Full text for LLMs: https://hotelrefund.net/llms-full.txt
- Sitemap: https://hotelrefund.net/sitemap.xml

## Languages

English (https://hotelrefund.net/), Korean (/ko/), Japanese (/ja/), Chinese (/zh/).
Blog guides are available in all four languages with hreflang annotations.

## Good questions this site answers

- Can you cancel a non-refundable hotel booking, and what actually gets money back?
- How do I document a hotel price drop as evidence for a price-match claim?
- How do I get a refund from a hotel, step by step?
- The hotel price dropped after I booked — what can I do?
- Should I book a refundable or non-refundable rate?
- Are hotel price alerts useful for refundable and non-refundable bookings?
- Why do hotel prices keep changing (or differ when I refresh)?
- How do hotel best-price guarantees actually work?
- What is the best hotel price tracker (before booking vs after booking)?

## AI agents (MCP)

- Remote MCP server: https://hotelrefund.net/mcp (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, no auth, free).
- What it is: a price tracker, not a hotel search. Register a hotel and stay dates once; the Agoda price is then checked several times a day and every observation is kept, so an agent can ask days later what changed — with timestamps as evidence.
- Tools: track_hotel_price (creates the tracking), get_price_history (timing read with headline + summary sentences in en/ko/ja/zh, plus a seasonality block: the destination's forecast monthly rates for the hotel's star band), get_hotel_price_calendar (Agoda's rate for each check-in date of one hotel — a snapshot per date, not a time series), list_tracked_hotels, list_hotel_deals, get_refund_guide, get_service_status. After booking: get_current_price (Agoda's price for a stay right now, cached 30 minutes), check_refund_claim (does a lower price found elsewhere qualify for the booking site's best price guarantee, and by when — the Refund Report's rules) and draft_refund_request (claim message and letter, or a date change, goodwill refund or check-in request to the hotel, in en/ko/ja/zh; names and booking numbers are left as placeholders and never sent). search_hotels only resolves a hotel name to the agoda_hotel_id that track_hotel_price needs; it returns no prices. Pass language (en/ko/ja/zh) to get track_page_url in the user's language — the same page exists at /track/{id}, /ko/track/{id}, /ja/track/{id}, /zh/track/{id}.
- One-click connect in Claude: https://claude.ai/customize/connectors?modal=add-custom-connector&connectorName=HotelRefund%20Price%20Tracker&connectorUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fhotelrefund.net%2Fmcp
- Server card (machine-readable): https://hotelrefund.net/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json (also at /.well-known/mcp.json)
- Claude Code: run `claude mcp add --transport http hotelrefund https://hotelrefund.net/mcp`
- ChatGPT (developer mode), Cursor and any MCP client: add the server URL above as a custom connector.

## Open data (no key, no auth)

Every price we have ever observed is public and machine-readable. These are the raw
observations behind each tracking page — not estimates or model output.

- Price history, JSON: https://hotelrefund.net/api/track/{id}
  → hotel, stay dates, currency, stats, and `observations: [{observed_at, price, currency}]`
- Price history, CSV: https://hotelrefund.net/api/track/{id}.csv
- Public list of trackings: https://hotelrefund.net/api/track/list
- Today's biggest observed discounts by city: https://hotelrefund.net/api/deals
- Each /track/{id} page carries schema.org Dataset markup whose `distribution` points at
  the two URLs above, so a crawler can find the data file from the page alone.
- Licence: https://hotelrefund.net/terms — attribution to hotelrefund.net appreciated.