Is There a Google Hotels API? What Google Offers and How to Get the Data

Google offers several hotel APIs, and every one of them flows in the opposite direction from what most people searching for a Google Hotels API expect.
Google's hotel APIs let hotels and booking sites push their prices into Google's results.
Pulling Google Hotels data out has no official API at all.
That one inversion resolves most of the confusion around this search.
The official surfaces (Hotel Prices, Hotel Content, the Travel Partner API) serve advertising partners: businesses that own bookable inventory and bid to appear in Google's hotel results.
If that's you, you already have an account manager.
Everyone else wants the data they can see on the page: the list of booking sites and prices per hotel, the direct rate, the reviews.
If you just want alerts for one trip, Google's built-in price tracking feature covers that without any API.
For the data itself, there's a working route, covered below.

Key Takeaways

• Google has no public API for Google Hotels data. The official hotel APIs exist for advertisers pushing rates into Google's results.
• Google's hotel APIs serve inventory owners. Hotels and OTAs push rates and property content in, and the Travel Partner API reads their own Hotel Center reports. Access comes through partner onboarding.
• Places API is the closest self-serve option, and it's capped. Place details, photos, and up to 5 reviews per property, with zero pricing data.
• The valuable data is the per-partner price list. Google shows every booking site's rate for the same room, including the hotel's own site.
• Third-party data APIs return that list as JSON. Each partner, its price, and a booking link per property, available on signup.

Google's Official Hotel APIs and Who They Serve

Google's official hotel surfaces come down to five products, and none of them hands market data to developers.

Surface	Direction	Who it serves	Data out?
Hotel Prices API (feeds)	Push rates in	Hotels and OTAs with bookable inventory	No
Hotel Content (Google Lodging Format)	Push property content in	Hotels and OTAs	No
Travel Partner API	Read your own account	Hotel Center accounts already in hotel ads	Only your own performance and price-accuracy reports
Vacation Rentals	Push listings in	Rental partners	No
Places API	Pull, limited	App developers	Metadata and up to 5 reviews, no prices

The Hotel Prices API (feeds) is the pipe behind Google's hotel ads: accommodation providers and OTAs feed rates and availability into Google's hotel search, through approved integration partners, with feed specs and bidding attached.
Google's own Hotel Prices documentation is written for exactly this audience.
It's an advertising product with an API attached, and qualifying for it requires owning inventory you can sell.
Hotel Content carries property information such as amenities into Google in the Google Lodging Format, and Vacation Rentals does the same job for rental partners' listings.
The Travel Partner API reads your own Hotel Center account: property performance, price accuracy, price coverage, and participation reports.
Google has moved its campaign and bidding services to the Google Ads API, so the Travel Partner API keeps only the hotel-specific reports.
It reads your own account, and nothing about the wider market.
Google's newest entry, the Universal Commerce Protocol, is described as "an open standard for agentic commerce that now unifies digital Hotel Booking", which makes it a booking standard for partners that sell rooms.
The Places API is the one hotel-adjacent Google API any developer can self-serve.
It returns place details, photos, ratings, and a capped set of reviews (up to 5 per property, with no pagination, per the Places API reference).
Pricing and availability are entirely absent.
If you searched "google hotel reviews api", this is where you land, and 5 reviews per property covers display, with no room for analysis.
For Google reviews at scale, our Google Reviews API guide compares the routes.
Some searchers still call all of this the Google Hotel Finder API, after the product name Google retired years ago; the surfaces above are what replaced it.
The shape mirrors what we've documented for the Booking.com API programs and the Marriott API: official APIs serve the platform's business model, and for Google that model is advertising, so the data flows in.

The Pricing and Access Questions, Answered

Google Hotels API pricing: is it free?

The Hotel Ads integration has no API fee, because you pay through the advertising model: cost-per-click or commission on bookings.
"Free" is the wrong frame for an ad product.
Places API bills per request with a monthly credit; check Google's current pricing page for the numbers.
StayAPI's Google Hotels endpoints run on its normal plans, starting with 50 free requests on signup.

How do I get a Google Hotels API key?

There's no self-serve key for hotel prices data.
Hotel Ads access goes through partner onboarding for inventory owners.
The only self-serve key that touches hotel content is Places API, with the data limits above.

Can Places API give me hotel prices?

No.
It covers names, photos, ratings, and a handful of reviews, and it's genuinely useful for enrichment.
Rates, availability, and multi-site price comparison sit outside its scope entirely.

What People Actually Want: Google Hotels Data

Three jobs sit behind most "google hotels api" searches, and naming yours picks your tooling.
Job 1: the aggregated price view.
Google Hotels shows every booking site's rate for the same hotel and dates in one list.
That multi-channel snapshot is the whole value of the surface, and the job is getting it as data.
Job 2: the direct rate.
Google is the one place where the hotel's own-website rate appears next to the OTA rates.
That makes it the natural input for rate parity checks and direct-versus-OTA comparison.
Job 3: monitoring over time.
Today's Google Hotels prices are a snapshot.
Logged daily, they become price history and market movement; our hotel price tracker guide owns that build.

How to Actually Get Google Hotels Data

Third-party data APIs read Google's hotel results and return them as structured JSON, which makes them the literal answer to this search.
StayAPI's Google Hotels API is one of them, built on its Google Travel endpoints.
It works in two steps: resolve the hotel once, then pull whatever data you need with the token.
Step 1 resolves a hotel name to a durable entity_token:

curl -G "https://api.stayapi.com/v1/google_travel/resolve" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok"

It returns the token with the matched name:

{"success": true, "query": "JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok", "results": [{"entity_token": "ChcI34eltpWZyPQNGgsvZy8xMjFxOHpoZhAB", "place_name": "JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok"}]}

Step 2 calls the prices endpoint with that token:

curl -G "https://api.stayapi.com/v1/google_travel/prices" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d "entity_token=ChcI34eltpWZyPQNGgsvZy8xMjFxOHpoZhAB" \
  -d "currency=USD"

The response is the per-partner price list as Google surfaces it, truncated here to the fields that matter:

{
  "success": true,
  "check_in": "2026-12-27",
  "check_out": "2026-12-28",
  "currency": "USD",
  "price": { "formatted": "$220", "value": 219.65625 },
  "offers": [
    { "partner": "JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok", "price": "$296", "booking_link": "https://www.google.com/travel/lodging/clk?..." },
    { "partner": "Traveluro", "price": "$220", "booking_link": "..." },
    { "partner": "Booking.com", "price": "$297", "booking_link": "..." },
    { "partner": "klook", "price": "$268", "booking_link": "..." }
  ]
}

Notice the first partner: it's the hotel itself.
When the property advertises its direct rate on Google, it arrives in the same offers array as the OTAs, which is the direct-versus-OTA comparison in a single call.

Field	Example	What it is
offers[].partner	"Booking.com"	The seller: an OTA or the hotel's own site
offers[].price	"$297"	That seller's nightly rate
offers[].booking_link	"https://www.google.com/travel/..."	Click-through to that seller's checkout
price.value	219.65625	Lowest available rate as a number
check_in / check_out	"2026-12-27"	The dates the rates apply to

One tradeoff to know: the prices endpoint returns rates for Google's default dates (December 27 to 28 on a call made October 15), echoed back as check_in and check_out.
The dates are Google's pick.
For a specific stay, the Google Hotels info endpoint accepts query, check_in, and check_out and returns the lowest nightly rate plus the per-seller price list for those dates.
Here's how the three routes compare for hotel data:

	Hotel Ads / Prices feeds	Places API	StayAPI Google Travel
Direction	Push your rates in	Pull, limited	Pull
Prices	Yours only, inbound	None	All partners incl. direct rate
Reviews	None	Up to 5 per property	Summary, sub-scores, source breakdown
Access bar	Partner onboarding	Self-serve key	Signup, 50 free requests
Built for	Inventory owners	App developers	Data and intelligence work

A fourth route is building your own Google Hotels scraper; our scrape hotel prices guide covers what that takes.
A daily loop that appends each response to a sheet turns these snapshots into the price history Google never shows; the tracker guide linked above walks through that build.

Getting Started

1. Sign up at stayapi.com: 50 free requests, no credit card, enough to test a handful of properties.
2. Preview the data without code using the free Google hotel search tool.
3. Resolve your first property and call the prices endpoint, as shown above. Cache the entity_token; it's durable.
4. Automate: an N8N or Make.com schedule can log the offers array daily and alert on changes, no code required. For teams monitoring a portfolio or comp set, book a demo.

FAQ

Does Google Hotels have a public API?

No.
Google's hotel APIs (Hotel Prices, Hotel Content, Vacation Rentals, the Travel Partner API) exist for partners pushing rates and content into Google's results.
No official API pulls Google Hotels data out; third-party data APIs are the working route.

What is the Google Hotel Ads API?

It's the integration surface for properties and OTAs participating in Google's hotel ads: rate and availability feeds through the Hotel Prices API, with bidding and campaigns now run through the Google Ads API.
It serves businesses selling rooms, and it provides no market data.

What happened to the Google Hotel Finder API?

Hotel Finder was the experimental hotel search tool Google introduced in 2011, and its old address, google.com/hotels, now redirects to the hotel search in Google Travel.
It never had a public data API, and its successors are the partner APIs above.

Can I get hotel reviews from Google's API?

Places API returns a capped set of reviews per property, up to 5 with no pagination.
For review data at scale, the Google Reviews API guide linked above compares the routes.

How do I get the prices Google Hotels shows, as data?

Through a third-party data API.
StayAPI's Google Travel prices endpoint returns the per-partner list (each booking site, its rate, and a booking link, including the hotel's direct rate when advertised) as structured JSON.

Is Google Hotels data free to access?

Google offers no data access at any price.
Third-party access typically starts free: StayAPI includes 50 requests on signup, no credit card required.