trvl — The Travel MCP Server
61 travel tools for your AI assistant — flights, hotels, trains, buses, ferries, price alerts, travel hacks, award sweet spots, weather forecasts, baggage rules, airport lounges, destination intel. Free. API-first.
Also works as a standalone CLI with 50 commands.
What it looks like
You: I have €300 and a free weekend. Surprise me.
Claude (with trvl): 🎲 Checking cheapest destinations from Helsinki...
Dubrovnik, Croatia 🇭🇷
✈️ Ryanair HEL→DBV Fri 14:25→17:10 (nonstop) — €167 RT
🏨 Old Town Studios, 4.6★ — €42/night × 2 = €84
🌡️ 26°C, sunny, Adriatic swimming
💰 Total: €251 (€49 under budget!)
Optimizations applied:
Fly Friday not Saturday: -€48
Split airlines (Ryanair out, easyJet back): -€31
📊 Naive booking: €350 → Optimized: €251 → Saved: €99 (28%)
Want me to check nearby restaurants or events that weekend?
trvl is an MCP server + CLI that gives Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible AI assistant direct access to Google Flights, Google Hotels, Trivago, Airbnb, Booking.com, Hostelworld, Ferryhopper, and European ground transport data. It searches, optimizes, and applies travel hacks automatically — no personal API keys required, no monthly fees, API-first by default, with optional browser-assisted fallbacks only for a few protected providers.
Setup
One command — your AI does everything:
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MikkoParkkola/trvl/main/AGENTS.md and set up trvl
That's it. Your AI will install the binary, wire the MCP server, install the skill, build your travel profile, and verify everything works. Takes under a minute. Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, and any AI with terminal access.
Or tell your AI assistant:
Read https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/trvl and install trvl as my travel MCP server
Or install manually:
brew install MikkoParkkola/tap/trvl # install
trvl mcp install # wire to Claude Desktop (default)
trvl mcp install auto-detects your AI client. Specify one with --client:
trvl mcp install --client claude-code # Claude Code
trvl mcp install --client cursor # Cursor
trvl mcp install --client windsurf # Windsurf
trvl mcp install --client codex # OpenAI Codex CLI
trvl mcp install --client vscode # VS Code Copilot
trvl mcp install --client zed # Zed
trvl mcp install --client --list # show all 10 supported clients
Also supported: gemini, amazon-q, lm-studio. Restart your client after install.
More install options
# Direct binary (no Homebrew)
curl -fsSL https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/trvl/releases/latest/download/trvl_$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')_$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/;s/aarch64/arm64/').tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin trvl
# Go
go install github.com/MikkoParkkola/trvl/cmd/trvl@latest
# Docker
docker run --rm ghcr.io/mikkoparkkola/trvl flights HEL NRT 2026-06-15
# Build from source
git clone https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/trvl.git && cd trvl && make build
# Claude Code CLI
claude mcp add trvl --transport stdio -- trvl mcp