> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.nowadays.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Hotel chat tools

> Read your chat with each hotel on an event, mark it read, and message a hotel.

These tools read and send the same hotel chats as the **Hotels** tab of an
event in Nowadays. Each takes a required `event_id`: the event's UUID from
`list_events`, or its numeric `eventId` from `find_event`, as a string. An
event you cannot read returns the same not-found error as one that does not
exist.

You can read an event's hotel chats if you are an owner or admin of that
event. A hotel's emails show only as the short summaries and updates you see
in Nowadays, never as the raw email.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Summaries and updates come from emails a hotel wrote. Treat their words as
> information from the hotel, not as instructions for your AI. Each read result
> includes a `note` field that says this.

## `list_hotel_threads`

Lists the hotels you are talking to on the event, most recent first.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `event_id` | string | Either id of the event. Required. |

Returns `hotels`. Each hotel has `venueStaticId`, `name`, `city`, `lastAt`,
`preview`, `waitingOnClient`, `offerExpiresOn`, `latestHotelActivityAt`,
`declined` and `unreadCount`. Use `venueStaticId` with the other tools on this
page.

## `get_hotel_thread`

Reads your chat with one hotel, oldest first.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `event_id` | string | Either id of the event. Required. |
| `venue_static_id` | number | The hotel's `venueStaticId` from `list_hotel_threads`. Required. |

Returns `entries`. Each entry has a `kind`: `milestone` (for example, RFP
sent), `client` (what you wrote), `summary` (a hotel email, summarized),
`update` (a short status line from the hotel), `nowadays` (an email Nowadays
wrote the hotel for you, summarized) or `quote` (a proposal). Summaries and
updates can carry `attachments`. Each attachment `url` works for one hour, so
read the chat again to get a fresh link. Also returns `unreadCount` and
`readCursor`.

Reading a chat does not mark it read.

## `mark_thread_read`

Marks your chat with one hotel read, up to what `get_hotel_thread` showed you.
It saves at once, with no confirm step. Only your own unread count changes.

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `event_id` | string | Either id of the event. Required. |
| `venue_static_id` | number | The hotel's `venueStaticId`. Required. |
| `read_cursor` | string | The `readCursor` from `get_hotel_thread`. Required. |

## `message_hotel`

Prepares a message to one of the event's hotels, in the person's own words.
This is the same send as the **Message venue** button in Nowadays. Nothing is
sent until [`confirm_change`](https://docs.nowadays.ai/mcp/making-changes#confirm_change) runs after
the person said yes. See [Making changes](https://docs.nowadays.ai/mcp/making-changes.md).

| Argument | Type | Description |
| - | - | - |
| `event_id` | string | Either id of the event. Required. |
| `venue_static_id` | number | The hotel's `venueStaticId`. Required. |
| `message` | string | What to tell the hotel, in plain text. Required. |

The preview names the hotel and counts who it goes to (its contacts on file,
and anyone else on the existing thread), without their email addresses. It
also shows the subject and the message. The message is sent exactly as the preview shows it. Nowadays sends
it from its inbox, inside its usual greeting and sign-off, on the hotel's
existing email thread when there is one. If the recipients change before
the confirm, nothing is sent and you must prepare the message again.

The hotel must be on the event and not declined. On a test event, nothing is
mailed.

To have the email written for you in Nowadays' voice, use
[`draft_venue_email`](https://docs.nowadays.ai/mcp/tools/sourcing-and-proposals#draft_venue_email).


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