In a filmed live test, Claude checked Villa Coral's calendar, caught a five-night-minimum conflict, re-planned the stay, and quoted a total that matched the OwnerRez checkout to the cent.
-- CTC Stays, the family-run villa rental company founded by Chris and Tamara Cassidy, today announced that travelers can book its homes through the AI assistant they already use, by adding the free CTC Stays connector once (about two minutes, no API key). Guests describe the trip in plain language — place, dates, headcount — and the assistant checks the live calendar, applies minimum-stay and capacity rules, quotes the total, and returns the secure payment link.
In a filmed November 4, 2026 test, Claude was asked for Villa Coral, CTC Stays' four-bedroom family villa in Dorado Del Mar, beginning April 7, 2027. The assistant determined that the requested stay could not be booked: a four-night opening next to those dates could not satisfy the home's five-night minimum. It proposed the next open stretch, April 18–23, 2027, and quoted a live total of $4,883.48 for a family of eight (four adults and four children). The OwnerRez checkout for those dates showed the identical $4,883.48, including fees and taxes. The same flow was also completed in the ChatGPT phone app the same day.
“We kept watching families fight a booking calendar across five open tabs,” said Chris Cassidy, co-founder of CTC Stays. “The assistant now does that work. The part I care about is the failure case — it caught a week that could not be booked, explained why, and priced the week that could. And its number was the checkout's number, to the cent.”
The company published an assistant-by-assistant status table with the launch. Claude and ChatGPT both complete the Villa Coral booking path end to end through a one-time CTC Stays connector setup (about two minutes, no API key, no CTC account). A plain chat without the connector can describe the homes but cannot read live prices. Gemini currently finds and explains the homes and routes travelers to an inquiry; CTC Stays describes live booking on Gemini as in progress and says it will update the table as re-tests complete.
Assistants never collect payment. The guest confirms and pays on the OwnerRez payment form, and dates are held when payment is made. For builders, CTC Stays publishes the integration openly: an MCP connector, an OpenAPI specification, a discovery catalog, and a plain-text quote endpoint.
CTC Stays is a curated villa portfolio for large families, groups, and milestone gatherings, held to a 100-point inspection blueprint. Its portfolio includes Villa Coral in Dorado, Puerto Rico (sleeps 12), GPS Villa in Puerto Ayora, Galápagos (sleeps 9), and partner estates in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic. The company was featured in News is My Business for its selective, inspection-first approach to villa rentals.
Travelers can try the booking prompts, watch the demo, and read the assistant status table at https://ctcstays.com/ai-booking/.
Contact Info:
Name: Chris Cassidy
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Organization: CTC Stays
Address: Puerto Rico
Website: https://ctcstays.com
Release ID: 89209184
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