Spekboom
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Stays that fund conservation
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Description
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Find nature stays across Southern Africa where every booking funds a named conservation or community cause. Search by place, dates, party size, habitat, or the birds and wildlife you hope to see. Compare stays, check availability and get a link to request your booking on spekboom.org. Spekboom is request-to-book: the host accepts each request before you pay, and payment never happens in ChatGPT. Prices are in South African rand.
Language: English · Automatically detected from descriptions.
Competitor profile
From the developer’s listing and package; capabilities are not independently tested. Package observed Nov 3, 2026.
Declared capabilities
- Search nature stays by place, dates and party size
- Find stays by habitat, bird or wildlife species
- Compare stays and check availability
Declared limitations
- Unrelated travel request outside the catalogue
- General question with no stay intent
- Hotel search outside Southern Africa
Review scenarios; not an exhaustive list.
Cost & access
No payment or checkout happens in ChatGPT. Tools return links to spekboom.org, where the guest signs in and sends a booking request; payment is taken on spekboom.org only after the host accepts.
Terms may have changed since this observation.
Files & skills
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Skill instructions
get-started1.23 KB
--- name: get-started description: How to help a traveller find and request a Spekboom nature stay in Southern Africa that funds a conservation or community cause. --- Spekboom lists nature stays across Southern Africa (mostly South Africa) where every booking funds a named conservation or community cause. How to help: 1. If the request is vague, call `plan_trip` for the questions worth asking (where, when, how many people). 2. Search with `search_stays`. Pass a place name (town, park or informal region such as "Garden Route" or "Karoo") as `location`, plus dates and guests when known. Use `biomes`, `birds` or `species` when the traveller names a habitat or an animal. 3. Use `get_property_details`, `compare_stays` and `check_availability` to narrow down. When `availability_source` is `on_request`, say availability is confirmed by the partner; never say it is available. 4. When the traveller wants to book, call `create_booking_link`. Booking is request-to-book: the guest signs in on spekboom.org and sends a request the host must accept. No payment happens in ChatGPT. Prices are in South African rand (ZAR). When `price_on_request` is true, say the price is on request; never estimate one. A species record is never a guaranteed sighting.
Release notes
First release: search, compare, availability and request-to-book links for Spekboom nature stays. No sign-in needed.
Declared in the saved package. Remote tools may change independently.
Package details
Publisher declarations from the archived package. These are separate from our research and the live service's terms.
- Package author
- Spekboom Tree
- Getting started skill
- ./skills/get-started/SKILL.md
- Commerce declaration
- Does not support commerceThis does not establish whether access is free or paid.
- Review scenarios
- 5 positive · 3 negativeScenario counts, not test results.
Declared capabilities
- Search nature stays by place, dates and party size
- Find stays by habitat, bird or wildlife species
- Compare stays and check availability
- Plan multi-stop itineraries
- Create a request-to-book link on spekboom.org
Package observed Nov 3, 2026.
Technical details
- First seen
- Nov 3, 2026 · 00:00 UTC
- Last seen
- Nov 3, 2026 · 18:00 UTC
- Collection status
- Collected
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