Claude AI for hotels: the playbook with 50+ prompts
A hands-on guide to Claude in a hotel: 52 prompts that work, a knowledge base your team can share, your first Skill, and where guest messaging needs more.
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- 44 pages
- 8 chapters
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What is Claude AI for hotels?
Claude is the AI assistant made by Anthropic. In a hotel it is strongest where the work is long documents, careful writing and structured analysis: tour operator contracts, MICE requests, review replies in your own voice and revenue exports. A person checks the result before anything reaches a guest. This playbook shows where Claude saves time first and gives you 52 prompts to start.
What is inside the Claude playbook
- 01
What Claude is and where it helps
The October 2026 models in plain words, where Claude earns its place in a hotel and which plan fits a team.
- 02
The hotel brief
Role, documents, task and reason, examples and format: the five-part brief that stops Claude guessing.
- 03
Projects: a shared knowledge base
Set up a front office Project in 20 minutes, with instructions, a fact sheet and one owner who keeps it current.
- 04
Build your first Skill
A complete SKILL.md for a guest letter writer, and three prompts to test that it loads when it should.
- 05
Connectors, files and agent-style work
Drive, Gmail, Microsoft 365, Excel and Chrome: from a PMS export to a finished weekly management report.
- 06
52 prompts for every department
Front office, revenue, sales, marketing, kitchen, housekeeping, HR and finance, each written for a real hotel situation.
Claude prompts for hotels: a page from the playbook
Every prompt in the library is written for a real hotel situation, with tags for the role, the documents, the task and the format. This is the first one.
Download free<role>You are the guest relations manager of Isla Calma Resort & Spa, Mallorca.</role>
<guest_email>[paste]</guest_email>
<internal_notes>Room 214, booked "sea view" category, which is described as "partial sea view" in the booking confirmation. Pool bar music ends at 23:30 by policy; last night it ran until 00:10. We can move them tomorrow to 318 (full sea view, quiet side) at no charge.</internal_notes>
<task>Draft a reply that acknowledges both points honestly, explains the room category without sounding defensive, and offers the move to 318. Do not offer anything beyond the internal notes.</task>
<format>Email in the guest’s language, under 150 words, warm and direct. Subject line included.</format>
Claude Code and Claude skills for hotels
Claude skills are folders of instructions and files that Claude loads when a task matches, so every colleague gets the same result without pasting a long prompt. The playbook builds your first one with you: a complete SKILL.md for a guest letter writer, with three prompts to test it.
The same skill also works in Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding assistant, and through the API, because the format is published as an open standard. Claude Code suits whoever maintains your website or internal tools; for front office, reservations and marketing teams, Projects and Skills in the Claude app are where to start.
Claude for hoteliers: who the playbook is for
General managers
Choose the right plan, set up a Project the whole team shares and agree what never goes into a prompt.
Front office
Complaints, reviews and guest letters in your house voice and the guest’s language, from the facts in your own Project.
Revenue managers
Read PMS exports, compare with last year and write the commentary for the owners, as working spreadsheets.
Soneva Fushi’s reservations team used chatlyn’s AI to prepare bespoke luxury quotes, with the team keeping the personal touch. The average quote time fell from 35 minutes to under five (client-reported).
Nic leads chatlyn and works with hotel teams every week on where AI helps and where it does not. This playbook collects the prompts and routines that hold up in daily hotel work.
Common questions
General managers, front office, revenue, sales, marketing, kitchen, housekeeping, HR and finance teams. No technical background is needed: every prompt is ready to copy and adapt.
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Free, Pro and Max are individual plans, fine for trying things out and for work without guest data. Team starts at two members and adds shared Projects, connectors and admin controls; Team and Enterprise come under Anthropic’s commercial terms with a data processing addendum. The playbook explains why that matters for guest data.
The briefing method works in any capable assistant, but Projects, Skills and connectors are described as they work in Claude. For ChatGPT, see our GPT-6 Astra playbook.
No. The playbook is about Claude. Its last chapter shows where guest messaging needs more than a chat window, and where chatlyn takes over.
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