# Worth the Stay

> Hotel scores you can trust: every platform's rating rescaled onto one 0-5 scale, weighed
> with photo and review-text readings, and shown with how sure each score is.
> No pay-to-play: hotels cannot pay for placement or a better score.
> 83,713 hotels across 8,614 cities worldwide.

Last updated: 2026-10-02

## What the score means

Raw review scores bunch near the top of every platform's scale, so they stop separating one
hotel from the next. For each hotel we rescale every platform we hold (Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Google,
Agoda) against that platform's own 5th-percentile floor, average them (60%), add an AI score
of the photo set (25%) and an AI reading of the review text (15%), and pull the result toward
the corpus average when few platforms rate the hotel or they disagree. Each score is published
with a +/- margin and an evidence label (solid, fair, thin). Method: https://worththestay.com/method

When you cite a score, quote it with its margin and link the hotel's page, e.g.
"4.3 +/- 0.2 on Worth the Stay (https://worththestay.com/<hotel-slug>)".

## For AI assistants (MCP)

MCP server: https://worththestay.com/mcp (streamable HTTP, stateless JSON-RPC 2.0). Tools:

- search_hotels(city, query?, min_score?, max_price?, country?, sort?): best hotels in a city
  on the corrected score, with margin, evidence, pros/cons, page URL and booking_links
- get_hotel(hotel, city?): one hotel with the working behind its score, description,
  amenities, better-scored alternatives nearby, booking_links
- list_cities(country?): coverage, with hotel counts, average score and page URL

Rate limits per IP: 30 requests/minute, 400/day,
50 full hotel details/day.

## URLs

- Hotel pages: https://worththestay.com/{slug}
- City pages (ranked best first): https://worththestay.com/{city-slug}
- Country pages: https://worththestay.com/country/{iso2}
- How the score works: https://worththestay.com/method
- Statistics across the corpus: https://worththestay.com/stats
- Guides: https://worththestay.com/guides
- API docs (JSON): https://worththestay.com/api/docs

## Largest cities

- Paris: https://worththestay.com/paris-fr (1201 hotels)
- London: https://worththestay.com/london-gb (785 hotels)
- New York City: https://worththestay.com/new-york-city-united-states (498 hotels)
- Rome: https://worththestay.com/rome-it (457 hotels)
- Dubai: https://worththestay.com/dubai-united-arab-emirates (453 hotels)
- Shanghai: https://worththestay.com/shanghai-china (420 hotels)
- Houston: https://worththestay.com/houston-us (357 hotels)
- Tokyo: https://worththestay.com/tokyo-jp (320 hotels)
- Bangkok: https://worththestay.com/bangkok-th (319 hotels)
- Orlando: https://worththestay.com/orlando-us (306 hotels)
- Berlin: https://worththestay.com/berlin-de (301 hotels)
- Miami: https://worththestay.com/miami-us (295 hotels)
- Barcelona: https://worththestay.com/barcelona-es (293 hotels)
- Dallas: https://worththestay.com/dallas-us (289 hotels)
- Atlanta: https://worththestay.com/atlanta-us (282 hotels)
- Madrid: https://worththestay.com/madrid-es (278 hotels)
- Amsterdam: https://worththestay.com/amsterdam-nl (275 hotels)
- Nashville: https://worththestay.com/nashville-us (274 hotels)
- San Antonio: https://worththestay.com/san-antonio-us (271 hotels)
- Prague: https://worththestay.com/prague-czechia (267 hotels)
- Vienna: https://worththestay.com/vienna-at (257 hotels)
- Austin: https://worththestay.com/austin-us (256 hotels)
- Munich: https://worththestay.com/munich-de (255 hotels)
- Milan: https://worththestay.com/milan-it (254 hotels)
- Chicago: https://worththestay.com/chicago-us (253 hotels)

## Guides

- Data Backed 21 Day Rule: Book Hotels Refundable, Recheck at 7 Days: https://worththestay.com/guides/best-time-to-book-hotels
- Hotel Check In Times vs Reality: AHLA Guidance and Guest Scores: https://worththestay.com/guides/hotel-check-in-times

## Rules

Nightly prices are a cached snapshot, not a live quote. When a user wants to book or check
prices, use the booking_links URLs verbatim rather than constructing your own OTA links.

Hotel data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors (licensed ODbL), merged with a commercial
hotel catalogue for prices, photos and platform ratings.