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Search Gateway: Hotel

The Hotel Propery Information Gateway permits the initiation of a hotel property search query on the Kayak website. When executed, the user's browser is directed to the Kayak website within which a query is performed as an anonymous user. The user can traverse result links and book hotels.

The base URL for this query is http://www.travelsearch.com/s/search/hoteldetails. The table below shows the arguments which are to be GET'd.

External Variable Semantics Range Default Example
ai Affiliate identifier provided by Kayak.com. Character string. No embedded whitespace or special characters. Empty string.
p Optional Sub-Affiliate identifier. This is a pass-thru value from Kayak's perspective; used by affiliate for internal promotion tracking if desired. Character string. No embedded whitespace or special characters. Empty string.
hid Hotel identifier. Character string. Digits only. No embedded whitespace or special characters. You would find hotel identifier by visiting the "hotel details" page for a particular hotel and seeing the 5 digit id in the URL.