borski/travel-hacking-toolkit

fallback-and-resilience

What to do when a tool fails, an API hits a rate limit, or a site blocks scraping. Maps every primary tool to its best fallback so a single failure doesn't block the search.

Quellsprache: Englisch

flight-search-strategy

Canonical multi-source flight search strategy. Source priority (Duffel, Ignav, Google Flights, Skiplagged, Kiwi, Seats.aero, Southwest), parallel workflow, market selection for international price arbitrage.

Quellsprache: Englisch

award-sweet-spots

Catalog of high-value award redemptions where points dramatically outvalue cash. Tiered by legendary/excellent/good with current rates, devaluation history, and booking caveats. Includes Oceania and South Pacific plays (Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji)…

Quellsprache: Englisch

trip-log

Save flight searches, itineraries, and booked trips to the trips/logs/ directory for future reference. OPT-IN — use when the user asks to log a trip or look up past searches, or on every search only if the user has said they want automatic logging. Also use…

Quellsprache: Englisch

gardening

Audit and tend to existing travel reservations. Reads a user-provided reservations file, then systematically checks every booking for price drops, better cabin availability, improved routings, schedule changes, nearby airport alternatives, and award repricing…

Quellsprache: Englisch

points-valuations

Cents-per-point (cpp) valuations across major loyalty programs from four publications. Floor/ceiling rules for deciding if a redemption is good or exceptional.

Quellsprache: Englisch

transfer-bonuses

Active credit card transfer bonuses from Amex, Chase, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Rove. Weekly-refreshed data with confidence markers. Use when pricing an award booking that involves a points transfer or deciding whether to wait for a better bonus.

Quellsprache: Englisch

amex-travel

Search Amex travel portal for cash prices, MR points pricing, IAP discounts, and FHR/THC hotel benefits via Patchright. Use when comparing pay-with-points portal pricing to award alternatives.

Quellsprache: Englisch

chase-travel

Search Chase UR travel portal via Patchright for cash prices, points pricing, Points Boost offers, and Chase Edit hotel benefits. Use for pay-with-points portal comparison on Sapphire Reserve/Preferred.

Quellsprache: Englisch

transfer-partners

Credit card to loyalty program transfer ratios. Cross-references seats.aero award prices with transfer ratios to find the cheapest path from UR, MR, TYP, Capital One, or Bilt to any mileage program.

Quellsprache: Englisch

sutochno

Search Sutochno.ru (СУТОЧНО.РУ), a Russian short-term apartment-rental platform where you book directly from owners and pay in rubles (Mir card / bank transfer). Best for Russian-speaking travellers booking stays in Georgia / the CIS, where Airbnb and Booking…

Quellsprache: Englisch

compare-hotels

Unified hotel comparison across Chase Edit, Amex FHR/THC, metasearch, and Airbnb. Highlights premium program benefits, stacking opportunities, and benefit-adjusted pricing.

Quellsprache: Englisch

vrbo

Search VRBO (Vrbo / Expedia Group) vacation rentals including entire homes, condos, and cabins via Patchright browser automation. VRBO sits behind Akamai Bot Manager so plain HTTP and standard Playwright get a 429 bot wall. Use for whole-home or group stays,…

Quellsprache: Englisch

award-holds

Per-program rules for placing award flights on hold before transferring points. Covers programs with holds (AA, Lufthansa, Flying Blue, Cathay, Turkish, Virgin Atlantic, ANA, Emirates, EVA Air) and those without. Includes transfer-speed reference.

Quellsprache: Englisch

booking-guidance

Step-by-step guidance for booking award flights. Covers the hold-before-transfer rule, phone numbers for major programs, and partner award booking workflows.

Quellsprache: Englisch

seats-aero

Search award flight availability across 27 mileage programs via Seats.aero Partner API. Find cheapest award flights, compare programs, and get booking links.

Quellsprache: Englisch

plan-trip

Guided trip planning workflow. Asks destination, dates, travelers, class, and flexibility, then runs parallel flight/hotel search with cpp math and booking plan.

Quellsprache: Englisch

deutsche-bahn

Deutsche Bahn train schedules, journey planning, and departures across Germany and into neighboring countries (Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Belgium). Use for ICE/IC/regional rail planning and airport ground transport (FRA, MUC).

Quellsprache: Englisch

wikipedia-airports

Discover destinations served from any airport via Wikipedia. Sanity-check whether an airline flies a specific route, find regional service that fare tools miss, identify late-split-return airport options.

Quellsprache: Englisch

awardwallet

Query AwardWallet for loyalty program balances, elite status, and transaction history. Use when checking points inventory, airline status, or planning trips on points.

Quellsprache: Englisch

tripadvisor

TripAdvisor Content API for hotel ratings, restaurant search, attraction reviews, rankings, and nearby locations. Use when evaluating hotels or researching destinations. 5K calls/month.

Quellsprache: Englisch

alliances

Airline alliance membership (Star Alliance, oneworld, SkyTeam) and cross-alliance booking relationships. Maps which loyalty programs book which airlines, including bilateral partnerships outside alliances.

Quellsprache: Englisch

american-airlines

Check American Airlines AAdvantage balance, elite status, and loyalty points via Patchright. Handles email 2FA with 6-box code entry. Uses persistent browser profiles to skip 2FA on subsequent runs.

Quellsprache: Englisch

atlas-obscura

Search Atlas Obscura for weird, wonderful, and hidden gem places near any destination. Find the interesting stuff, not boring plaques. Search by coordinates, get full details with descriptions and images.

Quellsprache: Englisch

award-calendar

Find the cheapest award dates for a route over a date range. Searches seats.aero across all programs, groups by date, and shows a calendar grid of the best deals. Use when dates are flexible and you want to find the sweet spot.

Quellsprache: Englisch

bilt

Search Bilt Rewards travel portal for cash and Bilt Points pricing on hotels and flights. Public REST API, no auth required. Includes Home Away From Home (HaFH) properties with $300+ benefits.

Quellsprache: Englisch

cabin-codes

IATA cabin codes (F/J/W/Y) and saver fare class codes (X/I/O) for reading award inventory and determining partner-bookable availability.

Quellsprache: Englisch

compare-flights

Unified flight comparison across cash (Duffel, Ignav), award (seats.aero), and portal (Chase, Amex) sources in parallel. Outputs one table with transfer partner optimization and recommendations.

Quellsprache: Englisch

duffel

Real-time GDS flight search via Duffel API. Accurate per-fare-class pricing, cabin selection, multi-city, time preferences. Primary cash price source. Does not include Southwest.

Quellsprache: Englisch

getting-started

First-run setup. Detects configured API keys, points to the local setup-keys script for secure key entry, and shows sample prompts scaled to available tools.

Quellsprache: Englisch

google-flights

Browser-automated Google Flights search via agent-browser. All airlines including Southwest. Cash prices, schedules, economy/business comparison, market selection.

Quellsprache: Englisch

hotel-chains

Maps hotel brand names (Westin, Sheraton, Holiday Inn, etc.) to chain families and loyalty programs. Use when hotel results contain branded properties or deciding whether to check award rates.

Quellsprache: Englisch

ignav

Fast REST API flight search via ignav.com. Cash prices, booking links, market selection for price arbitrage. Include in every flight search alongside Duffel and other sources.

Quellsprache: Englisch

lessons-learned

Mandatory pre-flight-search reference. Contains the Seats.aero workflow (pull ALL programs first), source accuracy hierarchy, Southwest/Companion Pass specifics, small-market caveats, and Duffel limitations.

Quellsprache: Englisch

partner-awards

Loyalty program airline ticketing partnerships (alliance + bilateral). Cross-references credit card currencies to booking programs for award reachability checks.

Quellsprache: Englisch

premium-hotels

Search Amex FHR/THC and Chase Edit hotels by city. Compare credits, benefits, and find stacking opportunities across card programs.

Quellsprache: Englisch

rapidapi

Google Flights Live and Booking.com Live search via RapidAPI. Secondary source for cash flight prices and hotel availability when SerpAPI needs a second opinion.

Quellsprache: Englisch

round-the-world

Round-the-world, Circle Pacific, and distance-based award products across alliances. Covers Star Alliance RTW, oneworld Explorer, Lufthansa M&M, Qantas, Cathay, JAL, Aeroplan, and Iberia charts.

Quellsprache: Englisch

scandinavia-transit

Search trains, buses, and ferries in Norway (Entur), Sweden (ResRobot), and Denmark (Rejseplanen). Intra-Scandinavia ground transport with schedules and Danish fare pricing.

Quellsprache: Englisch

seatmaps

Aircraft seat maps, cabin dimensions, and seat recommendations via SeatMaps.com and AeroLOPA. Search by flight number or airline+aircraft via agent-browser.

Quellsprache: Englisch