Will my hotel booking API show me whether breakfast is included in the room rate?

Yes, in most cases the meal plan is part of the room information that comes back with each rate, so you can see before booking whether a room is room only or includes breakfast or a fuller board arrangement. The booking portal reads that information from the supplier along with the room name, the price and the cancellation terms, so your agent or your customer sees it on the same results screen rather than having to call the hotel to ask.

How clearly it appears depends on the supplier behind that particular hotel. Some suppliers send the meal plan as a proper field, which we can show as a neat label on your search results and on the booking confirmation. Others bundle it into the free text rate description, which means it reads more like a sentence than a tidy tag. We display whatever the supplier gives us, and we do not invent or assume a meal plan when the supplier has not stated one.

There are a few limits worth knowing. Breakfast is sometimes included only for the guests named on the booking, so extra occupants may have to pay at the property. Children are often treated differently from adults, and some hotels include breakfast on one rate type and not on another for the same room. The rate conditions text is the reliable place to check, and that text is always shown before the booking is confirmed.

The best next step is to run a few test searches on the properties your customers book most often, see how the meal plan reads for each one, and tell our support team if you would like it shown more prominently in your results and your confirmation documents.