skills/stays-dining/SKILL.md

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name: stays-dining
description: Select trip bases, hotels, neighborhoods, and restaurants using current location, price, operational, and traveler-fit evidence. Use for focused lodging/dining requests or when explicitly invoked as a research track. For a complete multi-day trip, return evidence to vacation-planner.
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# Stays and Dining

Choose bases before properties. Evaluate how each neighborhood affects walking, transfers, evenings, day trips, sleep, parking, and the feel of the trip.

If mobility, allergy, medical-equipment, or medication-storage constraints appear, apply `$accessible-travel` gating before ranking. A candidate with an unknown or failed critical link is ineligible for the recommended configuration; do not bury it in the 5% practical-drawbacks score.

Read [evaluation.md](references/evaluation.md) for scoring and price capture.

For each base, compare one best-fit hotel, one better-value option, and one deliberate upgrade. Record the exact date window, travelers, room count/type, taxes, fees, meal inclusion, cancellation terms, and total stay cost. Surface stairs, noise, parking, resort fees, seasonal access, and accessibility uncertainty.

Curate a compact dining set aligned with each day's geography: destination-defining meal, neighborhood favorite, casual fallback, and at most one intentional splurge unless requested. Verify the venue appears operational and record cuisine, expected party cost, reservation pressure, dietary-fit confidence, and an official link. Never treat a gluten-free menu item as proof of celiac-safe handling.