How I Built an AI-Powered Vacation MCP Search Tool in 14 Days (And Why You Should Care)

I’ve been deep in the world of AI coding agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers lately. For those unfamiliar, MCP is basically a standardized way to give AI assistants access to external data sources and tools. It’s like giving your AI a direct phone line to specific databases and services instead of forcing it to guess or make things up. So there I was, frustrated with vacation planning, when the lightbulb went off: What if I could just tell Claude, “Find me a ski-in/ski-out apartment in the French Alps with parking and a sauna for two people under €2000” and actually get real results with booking links? That’s how the MountVacation MCP was born.