# Blink Booking

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/blink-booking/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Blink Booking was a Madrid, Spain based mobile application for last-minute hotel booking, founded in 2011 by Rebeca Minguela and Miguel Ortega Rodriguez. The app presented travellers with a curated daily selection of four discounted hotels for same-day stays, working with more than 2,000 hotel partners across eight European countries, and competed directly with HotelTonight. The company raised approximately $2.5M in a Series A round in May 2012 from Ventech, Uncork Capital (then SoftTech VC), 500 Global (then 500 Startups) and Kibo Ventures. Groupon acquired Blink Booking in September 2013 to strengthen its Groupon Getaways travel division; the app was rebranded "Blink by Groupon" and was wound down over the following months. The company is defunct and publishes no developer surface, no API, and no documentation. Its former blinkbooking.com domain lapsed and was re-registered in August 2020 by an unrelated party; it now redirects to a third-party gambling site and must not be treated as a company property.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Travel, Hospitality, Hotels, Booking, Mobile Applications, Last Minute Travel, Defunct, Acquired, Spain

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/blink-booking/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.