Rome2Rio

What the Rome2Rio connector does

The Rome2Rio MCP server brings multimodal journey planning into Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients. Two tools answer how to get from anywhere to anywhere — get-routes compares flights, trains, buses, ferries and driving in one reply, and get-schedules looks up departures for real dates. Both read. Nothing here books a seat, takes a payment or holds a reservation.

Rome2Rio tools (2)

• get-routes
• get-schedules

Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.

Limits

• We verified nothing on the wire, and the directory's authless flag is unconfirmed rather than contradicted. Anthropic's snapshot records is_authless true and auth_posture "no_auth". Our bulk probe recorded HTTP 403 and classified the server AUTH-REQUIRED. Both readings are wrong to publish. Every path we tried on chatgpt-app.rome2rio.com returned an identical 5,483-byte Cloudflare "Attention Required" page — the listed endpoint, an invented path, the host root, the .well-known descriptor paths, and /robots.txt, which no MCP server gates behind authentication. Adding an Authorization: Bearer header changed nothing. A refusal that does not discriminate between a real route and a fabricated one is a WAF answering, not a server.
• No parameter schemas exist on this page, from any source. We could not read inputSchema, and Rome2Rio's announcement documents the connector for travellers rather than developers. What get-routes and get-schedules accept is described here only as Rome2Rio describes it in prose — origin, destination, dates, budget, one-way or return, price and departure-time filters.
• Prices are estimates outside of bookable inventory. Rome2Rio states an exact price appears only where tickets can be booked; elsewhere it shows ranges, some derived from a similar service in another operator's network. An agent quoting a Rome2Rio price as a fare is over-reading it.
• Schedules can simply be absent. Rome2Rio names seasonal routes, operator publication windows and missing operator feeds as causes, and states operators can change services at any time. Silence from get-schedules is not evidence that no service runs.
• Nothing books, pays or reserves. Rome2Rio holds no bookings or payments and cannot issue refunds or amend dates. Every transaction happens on a partner's site, in your browser, under that partner's terms — Rome2Rio's help centre names Omio, Flixbus, 12Go and GoToGate as examples.
• Multi-leg journeys are booked leg by leg. Rome2Rio's help centre carries a dedicated article on why each leg is booked separately. A connector answer describing one door-to-door journey may correspond to several separate purchases from several different providers.
• The two published coverage figures disagree. Rome2Rio's site description says 160+ countries; its April 2026 ChatGPT announcement says 240+ countries and territories. Neither document acknowledges the other, and we found no reconciliation.
• The connector's own mode list is narrower than the website's. Six modes are named for the connector against ten displayed on the website. Whether tram, taxi, walk, shuttle and towncar reach the connector is not stated anywhere we found.
• The announcement post describes an unreleased product. Rome2Rio's Claude post, dated 2026-08-28, is written in the future tense throughout and states the connector was pending Claude's review and approval, promising an update when it is listed. It is now listed in Anthropic's directory, so the post is behind its own subject — its forward-looking wording may not match the shipped behaviour.
• The endpoint hostname is unexplained by the vendor. Rome2Rio documents no Claude-specific host and never mentions ChatGPT in its Claude announcement. The origin story here is inferred from the two announcement dates, not stated by Rome2Rio.
• No rate limit, quota or fair-use policy is published for this connector by Rome2Rio or in Anthropic's listing. The host sits behind Cloudflare, which is a rate-limiting layer by construction, so absence of a published limit is not absence of a limit.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Rome2Rio, "Rome2Rio Is Releasing a New Connector in Claude", by Jenn McCarthy, dated 2026-08-28 — the connector announcement and the documentation URL Anthropic's directory publishes for this entry. (retrieved 2026-09-08, HTTP 200, zero redirects). Source of the connect steps, the usage methods, the mode list, the schedule examples and the seven-question FAQ. · retrieved 2026-08-28
• Rome2Rio llms.txt, the vendor's own machine-readable site description (retrieved 2026-09-08, HTTP 200, 4,251 bytes). Source of the 160+ countries figure, the "search and discovery product" framing and the statement that there is no checkout flow on Rome2Rio. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• Rome2Rio, "Rome2Rio App Now Available in ChatGPT", by Jenn McCarthy, dated 2026-04-16 — the earlier ChatGPT launch that establishes the hostname's origin. (retrieved 2026-09-08). Source of the 240+ countries figure. · retrieved 2026-04-16
• Rome2Rio help centre, "How do you determine your prices?" (retrieved 2026-09-08). Source of the exact-versus-range pricing statements. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• Rome2Rio help centre, "Why can't I find timetable/schedule information?" (retrieved 2026-09-08). Source of the three named causes of missing schedules. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• Rome2Rio help centre, "Bookings and Rome2Rio" (retrieved 2026-09-08). Source of the statements that Rome2Rio has no visibility of bookings or payments and cannot arrange refunds or date amendments. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• Rome2Rio help centre, "What forms of transport are displayed on Rome2Rio?" (retrieved 2026-09-08). Source of the ten-mode website list. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• Rome2Rio help centre, "Why do I need to book each leg separately?" (retrieved 2026-09-08). · retrieved 2026-09-08
• Anthropic Connectors Directory entry — , read from our directory snapshot dated 2026-09-08. Records the two tool names, partner tier, is_authless true, auth_posture "no_auth", has_mcp_app true, works_with claude / claude-api / claude-code / claude-desktop, zero prompt names, and added 2026-08-17. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• Live posture check (2026-09-08): anonymous initialize requests to https://chatgpt-app.rome2rio.com/mcp, plus controls against /mcp/, /api/mcp, /sse, the host root and the invented path /totally-fake-path-xyz, each returned HTTP 403 with an identical 5,483-byte Cloudflare "Attention Required" body and no WWW-Authenticate header. A repeat with Authorization: Bearer invalidtoken123 returned the same. GET /robots.txt and four .well-known descriptor paths on the same host returned the same block at 4,545 bytes. No RFC 9728 descriptor was readable and no authentication challenge was observed. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• DNS checks (2026-09-08): claude-app.rome2rio.com, claude.rome2rio.com, app.rome2rio.com and free.rome2rio.com return no A record; chatgpt-app.rome2rio.com and api.rome2rio.com resolve to the same Cloudflare addresses. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• https://www.rome2rio.com/robots.txt (retrieved 2026-09-08) carries Allow: / for all user agents, disallows booking and map paths not used here, publishes 40+ sitemaps, and sets no Content-Signal directive. The /blog/ and help-centre paths cited above are permitted. · retrieved 2026-09-08
• Rome2Rio about page (the llms.txt link /about 301s to this trailing-slash form; the destination is cited). Support (HTTP 200, zero redirects). Privacy — , taken from Anthropic's directory entry.