Pp Hotelist

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Hotelist — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the hotelist-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install hotelist --cli-only

2. Verify: hotelist-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/travel/hotelist/cmd/hotelist-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

Hotelist.com (by @levelsio) rates hotels with AI: it reads real traveler reviews, scores actual room photos, and photo-verifies claimed amenities so you can filter on a gym with real weights or a bathtub that actually exists. This CLI puts that data in your terminal and in agent context with --json/--select output, an offline cache, and cross-location commands the single-map website can't express: rank-country, chain-compare, corridor, and a watch/diff drift tracker. Data is scraped from Hotelist (community/AI-rated, not an official API).

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when an agent or user wants AI-rated, photo-verified hotel discovery without pay-to-play bias, especially for cross-location questions: best value across a country, chain-vs-chain comparison, a multi-city route, or tracking how a place changes over time. It shines when the answer requires aggregating or joining hotel data that Hotelist's one-city-at-a-time map cannot.

Anti-triggers

Do not use this CLI for:

• Do not use this CLI to book a hotel or check live room availability — Hotelist is discovery-only with no booking or dated pricing.
• Do not use it for date-specific nightly quotes; prices are AI-estimated averages.
• Do not use it as a general Booking.com/Expedia client — it only exposes Hotelist's AI-rated dataset.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Cross-location value the map UI can't express

• rank-country — Rank the best hotels across an entire country by Hotelist rating-per-dollar, with compound amenity and price filters.

  When an agent needs the single best-value hotel in a whole country under hard constraints, reach for this instead of paging city-by-city search.

  hotelist-pp-cli rank-country thailand --min-rating 8 --max-price 150 --amenities pool,coworking --json

• chain-compare — Compare hotel chains head-to-head on mean rating, median price, and rating-per-dollar in a country.

  Answers 'which chain is actually worth it here?' in one call instead of a dozen manual map filters.

  hotelist-pp-cli chain-compare --chains marriott,hilton,hyatt --country japan --metric best-value --json

• corridor — Find the best hotel in each stop of a multi-city route in one pass, with shared filters.

  Plans a nomad's annual route in one command; pick this over N separate searches when the user names several cities.

  hotelist-pp-cli corridor --cities "Chiang Mai,Lisbon,Medellin" --min-rating 7.5 --max-price 120 --amenities coworking --json

Local state that compounds

• watch — Snapshot a saved location over time and diff which hotels improved, declined, or changed price since you last checked.

  The only way to answer 'did this city's hotels get better or more expensive since last time?' — pick it for any change-over-time question.

  hotelist-pp-cli watch diff lisbon --since 2026-01-01 --metric both --json

• chain-consistency — Compute mean, median, and spread of a single chain's ratings across a country to see if the brand is reliably good or full of outliers.

  Use before trusting a loyalty brand in an unfamiliar region; surfaces hidden outlier risk a single listing can't show.

  hotelist-pp-cli chain-consistency --chain marriott --country thailand --json

• price-cliff — Find the price point in a city where rating-per-extra-dollar collapses — the cheapest hotel that's still legitimately good.

  Turns 'spend the least without sacrificing quality' into one number plus the hotels just below the cliff.

  hotelist-pp-cli price-cliff bangkok --min-rating 7 --json

Command Reference

hotel — A single AI-rated hotel from Hotelist.

• hotelist-pp-cli hotel <hotel_id> — Fetch the raw detail-modal HTML for one hotel (Hotelist Score, verified amenities, AI rating breakdown).

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

hotelist-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Best-value hotel with a real gym in a city

hotelist-pp-cli filter lisbon --gym-weights --json --select hotels.name,hotels.hotellist_rating,hotels.price

Photo-verified weightlifting gym, narrowed to just name/rating/price so an agent doesn't parse the full payload.

National value leaderboard

hotelist-pp-cli rank-country thailand --min-rating 8 --max-price 150 --top 10 --json

Top 10 hotels by rating-per-dollar across the whole country in one call.

Compare loyalty chains before committing

hotelist-pp-cli chain-compare --chains marriott,hyatt --country japan --metric best-value --json

Head-to-head mean rating, median price, and value per chain.