Question 1

Why use this instead of just asking my AI?

Accepted Answer

On its own an AI answers from memory. It does not know what is open, how long a transfer really takes or what a day in that city actually costs, and it cannot save anything when you are done. Connecting Holicay gives it live destination data to work from and permission to write to your account, so the plan is checkable and it ends up as a real itinerary you can open, edit and share rather than a block of text you have to retype.

You keep chatting with the AI you already use. Holicay handles the travel side: places, timings, routes and the saved trip.

Question 2

What can it actually do?

Accepted Answer

Once connected, your AI can do what you can do in your own Holicay account:

Search destinations for places, activities, seasonality and cost signals worldwide.
Create a day-by-day itinerary through Holi-AI, then add, remove or reorder days and stops.
Read the trips already saved in your account, so it can pick up where you left off.
Find and compare stays on cost and location.
Check the weather for your travel dates.
Invite the people travelling with you and create a share link.

On Holicay Pro it can also file bookings and tickets against the right day, reorder a day so the route makes sense, and export the trip to PDF. Budget tracking, a hand-off to a Holicay travel expert and saved collections are coming soon.

Question 3

Do I need a Holicay account?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Holicay MCP works on your own account: every trip your AI creates is saved there, and it can only read or change trips you already have access to. It never sees your password or payment details.

An account is free and takes about a minute to set up. Sign up first, then follow the setup steps for your AI app. The first time your AI uses Holicay, it asks you to sign in so it knows which account to save to.

Question 4

Do I need a paid Holicay plan?

Accepted Answer

No. The free plan covers everything you need to plan in chat: searching destinations, creating and updating unlimited itineraries, reading your saved trips, comparing stays, checking the weather, inviting companions and sharing.

Holicay Pro adds attachments for bookings and tickets, route optimisation and PDF export.

While Holicay MCP is in beta, it is free and unmetered for every account.

Question 5

Does my AI app need a paid plan?

Accepted Answer

That depends on the app, not on Holicay. Holicay MCP works with any app that can connect to a remote MCP server, but some apps only offer custom connections on certain plans or behind a setting you switch on first.

ChatGPT, for example, needs developer mode turned on, as shown in the setup steps. Code editors such as Cursor and VS Code add MCP servers in their own settings. If you cannot find the option, check your app’s plan page.

Holicay does not charge anything for connecting.

Question 6

Whose AI credits does this use?

Accepted Answer

Your AI app’s, for the conversation itself. Every message you send and every reply counts toward that app’s usage limits in the usual way.

The travel work runs on Holicay. Searching places, building the itinerary with Holi-AI and saving it to your account happen on Holicay’s side and do not use your AI credits. During the beta, that side is free and unmetered.

Long planning sessions use more of your AI plan simply because they involve more messages.

Question 7

Where do the trips go?

Accepted Answer

Straight into your Holicay account, like any trip you create in the app. Your AI replies with a link, and the trip is waiting in your trips on the web and in the Holicay app.

From there you can edit days and stops, add notes, invite the people coming with you and share it. Edits you make in the app are there the next time your AI reads the trip, and edits your AI makes show up in the app.

Nothing stays trapped in the chat. Delete the conversation and the trip is still in your account.

Question 8

Can it book anything?

Accepted Answer

No. Holicay MCP plans trips; it does not make reservations or take payments, and it never sees your payment details.

It can find and compare stays on cost and location, so you can book the one you choose with the provider. Once you have booked, Holicay Pro lets it file your confirmations and tickets against the right day of the trip, so everything sits in one place.

Question 9

Can I use it for a group trip?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Ask your AI to invite the people coming with you, for example “Invite Sam and Priya to my Tokyo trip”. They are added to the shared itinerary in Holicay and see changes as the plan develops.

For anyone who only needs to look, ask for a share link instead. Your AI can only change trips you have access to, and each person keeps their own Holicay account.

Question 10

My AI cannot see my trips

Accepted Answer

Work through these in order:

Check that Holicay is switched on for this chat. In ChatGPT, attach the Holicay plugin in the composer before you ask.
Make sure you signed in with the Holicay account that holds your trips.
Start a new chat. Some apps only load a new connection in a fresh conversation.
Ask directly, for example “Show my saved Holicay trips”.
Still nothing? Remove the connection and add it again with the exact URL https://mcp.holicay.com/mcp.

If it still fails, contact Holicay support and tell us which AI app you use and what it replied.

Question 11

How do I revoke access and remove it?

Accepted Answer

Remove Holicay from your AI app and it can no longer read or change anything in your account:

ChatGPT: open Settings, find Holicay under your plugins or connected apps, and delete it.
Claude: open Settings, then Connectors, and remove Holicay.
Cursor, VS Code and other editors: delete the holicay entry from your MCP settings or mcp.json file.

Removing the connection does not delete anything. Trips your AI created stay in your Holicay account until you delete them yourself.

Plan your trip inside the AI you already use.

What your AI can do once it is connected

Build itineraries in conversation

Know where to go. And when.

Edit the trips you already have

Works with any MCP client, as a plugin

Why connect Holicay if ChatGPT already plans trips?

ChatGPT on its own

ChatGPT with Holicay MCP

Connect Holicay MCP in three steps

Turn on developer mode

Paste the server URL

Start planning

Using something else?

Copy a prompt and try it out

Build my first itinerary

Start with a blank canvas

Plan a weekend away

What can Holicay MCP do?

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