Who it is for
Anyone booking a self-catering break in the UK, including groups travelling with pets or in larger parties.
Cottages
Self-catering holiday cottage search across the UK
Overview
What Cottages does
Cottages, published by Alpic and Awaze, searches a portfolio of more than 18,000 quality-checked self-catering properties across the United Kingdom. Requirements go in as plain description rather than form fields, and follow-up questions narrow the shortlist further.
Results carry prices, verified guest reviews and real availability, and shortlisted properties can be set side by side.
Stock ranges across coastal and countryside locations and across property sizes, from small places for two through to houses that take a large family group. Example prompts ask for Devon cottages with hot tubs in August, and for a property that takes six people and two dogs.
What stands out
The whole search runs on one operator's own checked inventory rather than aggregating listings from several platforms.
Availability
Where Cottages is listed
Cottages is listed in both the Claude connectors directory and the ChatGPT apps directory. The two listings do not state the same publisher domain, so they are matched here by product name, with Alpic publishing the Claude listing and Alpic / Awaze the ChatGPT one.
Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- Alpic / Awaze
- Filed under
- Travel
- Listed since
- June 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- cottages.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Example prompts from the listing
- Show me great cottages with hot tubs in Devon in August
- Any luxury cottages for a group of six traveling with two dogs?
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Cottages publishes 2 tools to Claude, a deliberately narrow surface; only 5.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under the Other bucket publishes 10, so this one sits 8 tools below its bucket's median, 18th of 22.
It falls in the 1-3 tools band, which holds 16.4% of the Claude directory.
Cottages publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Alpic
- Verification
- Community-listed (61.5% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Other
- Endpoint
-
https://mcp.cottages.com/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 2 · 1-3 tools band
- Depth rank in Other
- 18 of 22
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Cottages is community-listed in the Claude directory, the tier 770 of 1,253 connectors sit in (61.5%). It is the default for a self-published server, and says nothing either way about quality.
In the publisher's words
How Alpic describes it
Find cottages in the UK! Tell us what you're looking for in your own words and let us show you what's available from over 18,000 quality-checked cottages across the UK. Need more information or want to check other options? Ask away! With clear pricing, verified reviews. We'll help find the right cottage for you across coast and countryside, from romantic hideaways to big family stays. Discover real availability, compare favourites, and book with confidence, all in one easy place.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Cottages's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Alpic, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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