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    Reviewed May 25, 2022

    I just booked a flight from Dominica Republic to Toronto. I put in PUJ and YYZ and it says 1 stop. I am fine with 1 stop and the time so I booked it. Unfortunately, I do not realize that there is change of airport until later on and there is no complimentary shuttle between the 2 airports. I checked other websites and they would not put this booking for people to select. I felt that Booking.com is setting up a trap for people to fall in and they are very irresponsible in this. I called the customer service but they could not change the flight for me. My booking is from 1 point to another point so what they offer should include all transportation from the 2 points. However, I have to find my own transportation and pay for it and this is not acceptable. I would never book with Booking.com as I don't want to be tricked another time.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2022

    I purchased a 6 night stay at a hotel in Sunny Isles Beach Florida. On my receipt from Booking.com, it clearly states that included with this room, is breakfast charged at $8.50/person/night. When I tried to have breakfast and asked about this charge, the hotel said that I in fact don't get that. They told me to take it up with Booking.com which I did. I asked them why it states that on my receipt when it is not the case. I basically received no explanation other than "sorry but you don't get that even though it says it on your bill". It's not about the money, just about dealing with a company you can trust. I will never book anything through Booking.com again as I cannot trust anything they say, even if it's in writing.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2022

    I will NEVER use this site again. Before you book make sure you are committed to the dates that you choose and to spending your money. Not only is it impossible to get a hold of someone but I know that I was deceived with the reservation that I made. The booking said I could cancel but yet I was charged with no option for a refund or cancellation. Speaking with the hotel clerk I was made to feel like I didn't read or was just plain dumb. Therefore I am left with absolutely no resolution.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2022

    I've used Booking.com for a number of years and had grown to count on them. On a recent trip 2 out of 4 hotels did not have the listed features - notably air conditioning. It was May and temperatures were high. Our rooms exceeded 80F. Yes, the hotels had A/C equipment, but it does not operate until June 1. Booking.com makes no differentiation between "having A/C" and "A/C in operation." I contacted Booking.com and they tried to push this off to the properties. Then they stopped responding to my communications. I doubt I will ever use their service again.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed May 25, 2022

    Sorry but I urge you to avoid this site at ALL COSTS! Did not receive a confirmation e-mail and tried to contact Booking.com. Well you have to have a confirmation number to get a person or reply via e-mail. Tried for several hours and nothing but a reply to an e-mail directing me to the same customer service site that asks for confirmation number! After several attempts received an e-mail with an International number to call Netherlands! Call the hotel directly and work out a deal with them. I used this service for the first (and last time). Read the reviews so thought I was safe. Unfortunately was not able to make the trip due to illness. Taking this one in the shorts! Again AVOID this service at ALL COSTS!

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    Reviewed May 24, 2022

    I got few issues with hotels on a trip related to payment and extra charges. I showed all the proofs, several times, explained, several times. I always get a different person and the process begins all over again and when one follows up, they say they are missing evidences when they have it all. I Have been using their services for years now and never needed them. Now that I do they are just MIA and play dumb so they don't have to lift a finger.

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    Reviewed May 23, 2022

    Booked a flight via Booking.com. Couldn't fly because I tested positive for COVID19 pre-departure. Per airline policy it is free to rebook. I called booking.com on the day and was advised to go to the airport to report with the check in counter to avoid a no show. I did that. However, when I rebook they just blame each other and make the rebooking impossible. Basically, they say, "OK the rebooking fee is $5000," while on their website, buying new tickets with the same flights would only cost $3800. I think I can call that cheating.

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    Reviewed May 23, 2022

    I've had an issue on two separate occasions where I have booked through booking.com and when I got to the lobby to check in for my hotel reservations I was told that I have to pay again because Booking.com virtual card has declined and the reservation can't be honored. Booking.com got their money immediately when I booked but when I called them for help they told me that they couldn't help me and that will I would have to pay out of pocket and they can refund my card in up to 7 business days which is outrageous. Imagine paying 300 dollars for a room to be told that you can't get in and have to pay 300 again, with only 50 dollars left in the fricken bank. It's frustrating for someone who is already in a bad situation and it's horrible business practice. The resolution that came from this was me sleeping in the car with my 3 year old and my dog. I'm NEVER using this company again.

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    Reviewed May 22, 2022

    I pre-paid 4 nights at the Hampton Inn, a Hilton property through Booking.com for over $1000. Their website said then and says now "Free Cancellation, Most Rooms". I had to cancel two weeks ahead of time because of a serious medical emergency. They wouldn't refund any of my $1000+. Since I cancelled, they can also re-rent my room which means they are doubly enriched. This is a scam. My confirmation number was **. To the Hampton Inn's credit, they offered to rebook my reservation in the near future, but because of the medical emergency that may not happen. Lesson learned: book directly through the hotel only and make sure you can cancel.

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    Reviewed May 22, 2022

    I booked 2 hotels with them and twice they overcharged me. First in Waynesboro Va. $80 more with Booking.com and in Garden City SC I have to pay $130 more for my 2 little dogs for just one night. I booked these same places w/o them, that’s how I know.

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    Reviewed May 20, 2022

    Rate was quoted in Canadian dollars on Booking.com, but we were instead charged in USD, which came out to $60 more CAD than what was quoted. I've been disputing this for over a month with no resolution from either the hotel or booking.com. Won't be reserving through booking.com again moving forward as I feel like this was a full-on bait and switch - I could have booked on Expedia for a similar rate, gotten my points, and just paid for breakfast... but instead got charged way more.

    From what I can tell this is an issue with the booking.com website, which clearly labelled my rate as being in CAD, despite my being in the US when I made the booking (on my laptop I'd brought from Canada). I'm assuming it's a bug in how they represent currency... but regardless, in my mind that makes the website responsible for the error.

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    Reviewed May 19, 2022

    How do I write a review? Deer Lake Lodge in Lake Louise told us to cancel with Booking.com. once we arrived to check in. They said they would give us a full two nights if we paid straight to Deer Lodge because we arrived at 4:30am. Which seemed practical at the time as they were pressing the subject and we just needed to get some shut eye. Come 11am they woke us up and said it was our checkout time or pay another night. In the end we paid double for 7 HRS stay. Not blaming Booking.com. But Booking.com needs to be aware of businesses using them to draw customers in and then charging larger fees once a customer tries to check in.

    **Deer Lodge in Lake Louise Alberta is not a good lodge. Rude staff as well as the scamming makes it a zero in my personal opinion. Rooms were about a 2.5 0ut of 5. Perhaps a 3 if the rooms had a TV at the least. ***Booking.com 3 out of 5. Need to check into the scams businesses such as Deer Lodge seems to be doing to your customers through your services.

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    Reviewed May 19, 2022

    Went for a short vacation to Honduras. The place Hilamito Lodge does not exist in Tela as I continue is like 3 hours away from highway. The road is horrible. Lost my money as I was not able to drive the car.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed May 18, 2022

    I have recently had two unacceptable experiences with Booking.com. I used them to reserve a hotel room and they required prepayment, which I provided. When I got to the hotel they had no record of my prepayment and required me to pay again, which I did. This was in April. It is now almost June and still no refund. When I contact them they respond with an automated response that is clearly meant to placate customers and not solve their concerns. My son use them to purchase airfare back in March. Apparently they hired a third party to handle the booking and never informed my son of the third party or to expect correspondence from them. This third party made one attempt to inform my son that his flight was cancelled that my son never received.

    No one from Booking.com or this mysterious third party followed up. My son arrived at the airport in May to find out his flights were cancelled. When he logged on to Booking.com to check his itinerary it showed that all his flights were still active. No problems or messages were noted on his itinerary at all. When customer service was called they called my son a liar and said he probably won't get a refund and that it will be up to the airlines to decide. Well, what airline is going to want to pay for an incident clearly caused by Booking.com. We are probably out of luck. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!

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    Reviewed May 18, 2022

    During my trip, I had an issue with booking that needed to be changed. Neither anyone from customer service responded, followed up or took care of it. Even though I had to book another hotel and still no one took care and I am charged without even staying in the hotel. Worst possible customer service.

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    Reviewed May 18, 2022

    I used Booking many times.No trouble 'I'm from USA'. I come to visit India. I've been studying this country over 20 years. 'I knew what's here.' I used booking and disregarded a trusted friend local 'and said my site knows better' and I book room 10 minutes before arrival no free cancelation. I knew this 'but there photos were highlighted and air brushed to make it look great. 'I walked in, gave money, he walked me to room which had a video just stuck open bringing a dust storm in 'the. I say, "I can't stay in this." The bedsheets looked so dirty. They have never been cleaned and I couldn't even say a word to him cause there 15 Flies roaming the room. Every time I tried to speak they were in my mouth. I Said, "I want my money and I can't stay here." I was a total 3 minutes. He kept my money and I left.

    I"ll never use or trust booking again and because I canceled there no receipt and there remove most details and on my go pro I have video. Can't access till next week while I'm still nearby that hotel 'and booking doesn't allow screens shots of certain pages and they wanna offer me 303 rs for the inconvenience. The 1512 I lost doesn't even matter. It's the point of making photos that make this place look 5 star. It's rated 3. It was the Oyo hotel savor in Kurukshetra. We call this like bait and switch or just a scam.

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    Reviewed May 14, 2022

    You really need to be dedicated to find a way to contact them if you want to make a remark or complaint about their services, they are definitely making it hard for users to contact them. You have a problem or question as a client and they only send you to the FAQs.

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    Reviewed May 14, 2022

    We have used Booking.com for several years, but I can no longer recommend them. We were quoted a room with a genius discount. The web site gave us the full price for the room and we accepted it. The price we were billed, however, did not include the discount. We contacted customer service - and after being transferred to 3 or 4 representatives - over the course of several hours - we were told that they were under no obligation to honor the quoted price. They also refused to give us an email to contact any company official. It feels like a bait and switch.

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    PriceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed May 13, 2022

    I have been dealing with Booking.com for a week now trying to get my flight refund back because the airline changed my flight details and they don't match my travel plans. I was also offered a one time change at no charge from the airline so I chose to cancel and I have been given the runaround by booking.com. They tell me that their refund dept. is working on it and was also told originally that it would take 3 to 5 days. Then was told it would take 24 to 48 hrs. Now I'm being told another 3 to 5 days. All I want back is my refund so I can continue my plans.

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    Reviewed May 13, 2022

    I paid extra so I could change my flight. I did make a change, and received a confirmation email saying that the change had been made. When I got to the airport, I discovered that Booking.com had never actually issued the ticket. I called Booking.com, and the person said that the people who issue tickets are on a different team, and that they work very hard. I had to purchase a new ticket at the airport. Later that day I received an email from Booking.com saying they hadn't been able to make the change I'd requested. Afterwards, Booking.com refused to give me a refund or any compensation.

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    Reviewed May 11, 2022

    Booking.com online reservation service is easy to use, but what bothers me is its poor security and protection of customer information. I booked a hotel two weeks ago, and today I checked my account and my two-step verification phone number has been changed to an overseas number. I can't change it back to my own phone number even though it still sent me verification codes. I have never seen this kind of poor design of security in any online service I am using. I tried to contact its security or customer service team to alert them, but after spending an hour on its Help, Messaging, and Security sites, I can't contact, speak to, or email to a real person, so I will not use its service any longer just for protecting my private and credit card info. Be aware if you are using any of its online service with your private info.

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    Reviewed May 11, 2022

    I am a business traveler, and I am on the road a lot. I use a variety of online services. I had the worst experience calling in BOOKING.COM. Customer Service. That left me shocked at their lack of care or concern about an issue I had, when I had booked a room online at a hotel, and when I arrived. The Hotel did not have the room that I and reserved. It started at a Super 8 Hotel, which I will never use again, in Virginia. I had booked online a single Queen bed, non-smoking Room. When I arrived at the hotel, The Front desk Clerk informed me that they did not have the room that I had booked and told me the only room that they had left was a double Full size Smoking room. I said, "No thank you, I am a nonsmoker and was not going to stay in a smoking room." He said it is the only room that he had left. I told him that again, I was not going to stay in a smoking room. He said I had to because at 6 pm in the evening, it was too late to cancel this room.

    This Hotel is on a busy Highway. I again said, "I am not going to stay or pay for this room." He continued to write a contract for the room. I took the contract, didn't sign the bill, and left the hotel. I immediately called Booking.com. They said they would call the hotel and see what the problem was. When customer service got back on the phone. She told me they offered me another room, and I told her yes, that it was a smoking room, and I was not interested in staying in a smoking room and told her about my displeasure of how the clerk, and now customer service was telling me I had to stay in a smoking room.

    I informed her at Customer service that I was never going to use Booking.com again, and I had to call American Express, and file a fraudulent charge, for them not having the room that I had originally booked. Terrible Customer service From Booking.com. I do not recommend that anyone use them if this is how they treat people with a conflict with a room

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    Reviewed May 11, 2022

    I will never use Booking.com again, their customer service is basically non-existent, they just make you contact the hotel you are using directly. It was a lot of hoops to jump through and a lot of wasted explanations all for nothing, no one will refund me the difference in prices. Booking.com guaranteed me a price for 2 rooms in Vancouver, CAN at the Best Western Premier Chateau for $1,978.96 CAD, where they also state "The total price shown is the amount you'll pay the property. Booking.com doesn't charge guests any reservation, administration, or other fees." But I ended up paying $2052.46 CAD, I contacted the hotel and they blamed it on the exchange rate and the "eco fee which is our environmental fee which we charge daily as well". This doesn't match at all with the Booking.com price promise. So don't use Booking.com and don't stay at BW Premier Chateau unless you want to get charged hidden fees.

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    Reviewed May 10, 2022

    An agent from Booking.com cancelled all my upcoming reservations because I refused to buy a gift card at Albertson's for $500 and give him the information on it. He works for Booking.com because he managed to cancel all my upcoming reservations. Because he cancelled me I am out of pocket over $800 and with no upcoming hotels. Run and do not look back!!!

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    Reviewed May 8, 2022

    The explanation of how to move up in their Genius level or in other words, to start qualifying for the discounts and other benefits is misleading. They say: "Complete 5 stays in 2 years to unlock free lifetime access to travel rewards at participating properties." A "stay" in my language means" "Per Night" they are saying "Per Reservation". This is misleading and just another trick. I could have just booked multiple hotels if I knew this, instead of 15 stays, or in my language, nights. Ok, just going to use Hotels.Com, they are more upfront on their benefits.

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    Reviewed May 7, 2022

    I tried to cancel my room a full week before it was scheduled and Manhattan New York City Rooms and Booking.com refused. I'll never book with Booking.com again. I'll never book Manhattan New York City Rooms again. When I called there was lots of noise on the line as though the person was located overseas from the US.

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    Reviewed May 7, 2022

    If I can give them zero star that is what they deserved. I booked and paid for a hotel in Dallas, when I got there, the hotel does not know anything about my reservation. Waited for hours and no one was willing to get back to me. When I finally get a hold of a representative, they confirmed that I can book another hotel accommodation and the difference will be paid by Booking.com. I don't trust from the beginning so I ask her to send me a confirmation confirming our conversation before I book the new hotel and confirmed that the hotel will be acceptable to booking.com before I book it as it is about $200.00 more than my original hotel accommodation. Got all the written proof and they still came back telling me the difference they are willing to pay is $24.62 from Julie ** (customer service). What a joke! DON'T BOOK ANY TRIPS WITH THEM, THEY ARE ALL LIES AND NOTHING BUT LIES.

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    Reviewed May 6, 2022

    They talk very nice with you, long phrases, but the problem remains unsolved. They don't send invoices when requested despite blocking the money before staying. Booking.com is a service for photos and general reviews about a specific location but don't book your stay with them, try the property directly. Even if you have a problem with the location money return is after a month more or less.

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    Reviewed May 5, 2022

    I booked a hotel through Booking.com and after a day tried cancelling the reservation. Booking.com said that it was a third party vendor, so they could not provide a refund and that the third party would have to refund this for me. The third party hotel then said booking.com paid them, so went back to booking.com asking for some help. They continued to say they cannot refund, the hotel will have to. The hotel then sent me proof that booking.com canceled this reservation on us, however booking.com confirmed our reservation was still in tact.

    They continued to tell me the hotel needs to refund me, but they never sent the money to the hotel. I had a lady laugh at me on the phone, continued to tell me there's nothing they can do and eventually lost over $660. The hotel, that was supposed to refund me, never received the pay and booking.com said there's nothing they can do. I had used booking.com before and was absolutely shocked by their actions. I will never ever use them again, they are thieves and crooks.

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    Reviewed May 4, 2022

    Booking.com has the worst customer service. A representative made a mistake and they are making me (the customer) pay the price. The representatives are like machines, they repeat the same thing over and over with no logic. They are completely useless. Booking.com doesn’t care about their customers.

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    Reviewed May 4, 2022

    I was looking for hotels in Holbrook, Arizona and “The Holbrooke” came up (I live nowhere in the west coast of the country, so I didn’t even realize there was an E at the end, it was just a close city to where we were driving at the time) so I booked it and it turned out to be a hotel in California. I immediately called customer service and they advised me to call the hotel. I called the hotel, explained the situation, and they agreed to cancel my reservation without charging me. They emailed Booking.com customer service and I was told to wait up to two weeks for a refund. I’ve now had to call back twice and have been informed that the email said “they agreed to cancel, but they didn’t specify if it was free of charge.”

    I believe the hotel—the front desk girl was great and even talked to the manager and they said they would handle it without charging me and for whatever reason their wording wasn’t good enough for Booking.com so now I’m here four weeks later on hold with customer service in Singapore, who was cutting in and out and hanging up and re-calling me. I had to ask her multiple times if she could just call the property because I had already handled this situation a month ago and she kept saying I should call—which I already had. I wanted it handled with the three of us on the phone. It was and continues to be a super frustrating situation and Booking.com has been zero help. I hope they go out of business because they don’t deserve customers if this is how they’re going to treat them. I will avoid them at all costs and will advise anyone I know to do the same.

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    Reviewed May 4, 2022

    I will try to condense this in the most clear way possible. On April 11th, I booked a trip to Maine for a few nights through booking.com for $455. An hour later I upgraded said room for another $65 using a different payment method. Then a few hours later I had to cancel the entire thing. Luckily from the start I had free cancellation on the reservation! Great, right? WRONG.

    I was refunded $65 dollars to both methods I paid. This left me an outstanding balance of $390 on my initial booking method. Most companies today have seamless customer service experiences so I reached out via chat. They told me the refund had been issued already, and when I tried to explain that a refund WAS issued for a PARTIAL amount and not the full thing, I kept getting the same canned response. I called them 4 times, chatted, etc. When I called them, I literally could not even get someone who spoke enough English to understand what I was saying. I am not saying this to be mean or disparaging to foreigners working for US companies, it's just a fact. I asked, pleaded with everyone I could to have the issue escalated, as $390 is a lot of money for a reservation I canceled within 3 hours. I even reached out to the property (they were amazingly nice) and they told me they had never charged me, only Booking.com.

    I felt extremely hopeless and upset that I was essentially being robbed with no recourse. I did eventually go through PayPal (my initial payment method) and finally it was escalated by the bank and removed from my statement (for now). If you choose to use booking.com, you may at first be fine, but if ANY sort of issue arises, I promise you will get to see first hand the HANDS DOWN WORST customer service experience in totality that you will EVER have. DO NOT USE BOOKING.COM!!!!

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    Reviewed May 2, 2022

    I booked a hotel through Booking.com in Abbotsford, BC. The booking was for one night and from all accounts the pricing was $168.30 and cancelation cost was $193.55. When I arrived to check into my hotel after a long day of travel I was charged $193.55, after reaching out to Booking.com I was told that the price was excluding taxes. They contacted the hotel who were equally confused by the pricing that was stated on the app as well as in the confirmation email. After bringing it to the attention of the agent at Booking.com they tried to cancel my reservation after I was already checked in. They have tried to mislead me into taking a credit for another pricing issue that was agreed upon prior as compensation for this pricing issue. Negative stars if I could. Go with anyone else to make reservations.

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    Reviewed May 2, 2022

    I made a reservation through this site and unfortunately had to change the dates I had booked. Their customer service team told me that this was not possible and that no details of the reservation were allowed to be changed despite the instructions for changing dates on their website. No explanation was offered. I would understand if there was a charge to make a change, but now I am out the money they collected for a booking I cannot use. Lousy service. They should be very ashamed.

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    Reviewed April 29, 2022

    In April I booked a hotel room with Booking.com on my phone app. The stay was for July and I was able to cancel my hotel room without charges until July 2022. I noticed on my credit card bill a $1,960.60 charge on my card? After cancelling my hotel room I should have not been charged anything? Booking.com fraudulently charged my card and now I have been trying to get the charge reversed. It is an error that was made by them not the hotel at all. I sent them my information that it was charged wrong but yet did nothing about it. This site is charging me without a confirmation of staying. I have a confirmation that I cancelled the hotel yet I am still being billed. So frustrated. Please think twice about using the site for booking hotel rooms. They are stealing money from people.

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    Reviewed April 28, 2022

    I had the worst experience of my life with a hotel booking in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Though I booked a week, it was so bad that I couldn't stay more than one night. Booking.com did cancel, billing me for 2 nights. When I came home to post a review, I learned that because it is classified as a cancellation, they won't allow the hotel to be review on their own website. And though I sent them dozens of terrifying pictures, the photo on their website continues to be a beautiful pool that IS NOT OPEN. And believe it or not, there was no water during the day between 8:30am and 5:30pm.

    The hotel was very run down and undergoing construction. Internet did not work. No breakfast. Dirty floors, with visible patches of dirt. Furniture scratched and dented, and belongs in a dump. Cracks in the tiles. Black goo smeared in the corners of the shower tiles to cover gaps. Room used by staff to dump cleaning chemicals. Hallways had permanent visible stains in the carpets, dents in the walls, peeling paint. Bathroom mirror must have broken, left the half-broken mirror clips, and stained impression on the door. Foyer and elevator filthy. It was the worst hotel I have ever witnessed.

    Don't believe the beautiful picture of the pool, it is NOT OPEN. No honest disclosure of all of these things prior to arrival. They gouged me for 2 days though I barely stayed there. For people who have negative experiences, Booking.com doesn't allow cancellations to post a review because you need to complete your stay to be able to write a review. Seems skewed. Not happy. Beware making reservations from afar. You can't trust the pictures on Booking.com.

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    Reviewed April 28, 2022

    I am so upset with this company first of all my flight was canceled the day before I was headed to go home. I had to find a new flight with a whole other airline. I called and requested my refund. Then a refund was sent to Booking.com on the 15th. They have yet to send me my money. Every time I called you they tell me I have to wait. They can’t give me a definite time. I request a supervisor call the supervisor call means absolutely nothing because they have no information for me.

    But I keep waiting. The fact that you’re running a business so unprofessional you can’t give a customer an actual answer and the money has yet to be charged to my account. You have had my money since the 15th of the month is the end of the month and I have still not received my money and every time I call they just say wait. I’m speaking a foreign people who can you can barely understand. They are very short and rude and I still have not got my money back. I am very unsatisfied and very upset. I will never ever ever ever use Booking.com again.

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    Reviewed April 27, 2022

    I had booked a hotel through booking.com, and was to be charged a month before arrival. Our plans changed, and I need to add a night to our stay. The change was made through chat and I was pleased with the positive response. I then received a confirmation which indicated that I was charged twice for the additional night. I sent a message, with no reply. In checking my credit card charges, I found that I had been charged four times for that night. Back on the chat, and after a couple of tries, and asking the hotel to intervene, I was assured I would be reimbursed, within 12 days… I checked my credit card statement a few days later, and rather than be reimbursed I was charged an additional three nights! Again!

    Waited on chat for an hour and did not get through, then spent 2.5 hours the next day, on chat, sending proof (3 times) asking to speak with a supervisor or accounting (request not even acknowledged) and I dealt with two diffèrent people who had real difficulty understanding the problem and kept insisting that I had been refunded, rather than charged again. I was finally told that accounting would need to review… and received no answer. Booking.com, at that point, owed me over $2,060 on a charge that should have been $330. I insisted throughout my dealings that I be refunded the full amount overcharged in Canadian $, rather than euros, which fluctuate. Over 48 hours later, I received an ambiguous message, stating that I would be refunded, no amount mentioned. No apology was ever received. Several days later, my credit card statement showed a refund at the current euro rate, which means that I am shortchanged $60.

    In total, I spent about a day, and much aggravation to correct a charge through two errors of booking.com. Lessons learned: Never deal with booking.com, I will never again book through them; check your confirmations and your credit card statements. I have been booking hotel rooms online for almost two decades. I have never experienced such poor service and error upon error such as this. I find it more than remarkable that I am still paying, in time and cash, for booking.com’s ineptitude and sloppy service and that there is absolutely no way to reach a human being. There is no reason to use this company as a booking service. Other providers do much better. Please spread the word. They deserve no business whatsoever.

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    Reviewed April 27, 2022

    I booked a room for my graduation trip about 2 months in advance. I realized I accidentally booked 2 rooms and immediately went to cancel one room. They had advertised free cancellations and no prepayment so I wasn't too worried about it. The next day I am looking over my credit card statement and notice that I got charged for the room? I call Booking.com and they tell me to call the hotel as they do not handle refunds. I call the hotel and they tell me the manager is not there so I then message them from the booking.com app. The hotel responds and tells me that booking.com is responsible for the refund. So again I call and talk to a rep that speaks broken English and she tells me the best she can do is give me a 50 dollar credit? I decline because the room was 157 dollars and was advertised as free cancellations. She refuses to issue me a full refund so I then go to dispute the charge on my card.

    I get notified from my credit card company that they deemed the charge valid? I go on to read to letter from my credit card company and on it booking.com claims that they have no record of me contacting them to discuss the charge and go on further to tell my credit card company that they believe I am just trying to get money back that isn't due to me. I have recently re-opened the claim and added the two screenshots below of both the free cancellation advertisement as well as my documented communication. I won't ever use booking.com again, could not believe how poor the customer service was and that they actually lied to my credit card company.

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    Reviewed April 26, 2022

    We made a reservation for our trip a month before our vacation through Booking.com and canceled the booking through booking.com a week after we booked and booking.com kept our money and still haven’t refunded our money back! They keep lying saying the hotel has to refund the money and the hotel keeps saying booking.com has to refund the money! They are liars and I have reported them to the BBB and they are being sued! I had enough of their **! And I will never book through them ever again!!! We was scammed by them and my lawyer has all their information and putting a lawsuit against them!

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    Reviewed April 25, 2022

    Very unprofessional. I cancelled over a month in advance and never got my refund. I had to call and do a dispute. If I would have never said anything they would have taken almost $500. Worst experience ever! Everywhere I can leave a review I will let it be known how unprofessional and unorganized Booking.com is, telling me different dates I will be refunded then call on the date they need proof from my bank where they could see it was taken out. It was just some not thinking going on, and asking the same over and over made no sense. Thank god we got the best Airbnb which was professional and on top of business and our refund after our bank dispute and sending proof they could already see.

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    Reviewed April 24, 2022

    The hotel was disgusting so I could not stay. I asked for a refund but I have not been able to get a refund. It's like, call this person, they are like, call the hotel, straight runaround. I ended up having to pay out of packet to get another room at a higher rate and last minute. I would not use this service, there are other services similar to this company. Try your luck somewhere else. This is my honest opinion.

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    Reviewed April 23, 2022

    I made a reservation through Booking.com. Realized within an hour of the dates were wrong. Try to change it. Booking.com stated that they were unable to get a hold of the property. That was a lie. I got a hold of them that night. 2 months later still unable to change my reservation with the same excuse. Unable to get a hold of the property. I called them today. They answered and told me their availability.

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    Reviewed April 22, 2022

    Booked a hotel through the site, got to the hotel and was disgusted by the hotel. So we were offered a refund and Booking.com decided not to do so. Every time I call I get put on hold then they hang up. Horrible customer service

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    Reviewed April 19, 2022

    A couple friends and myself stayed in the Casablanca Deluxe Suites Resort in Miami, FL earlier this month and were utterly disgusted. The design of the room was stuck in the 1950s. It looked like they had taken a studio apartment and converted it into a 1 bedroom hotel room with a closet and bathroom. The kitchen was tiny and the bathroom was old and mildewy. There was grime in all of the grout Of the tile and in every crevice of the bathroom. There were also rust spots that looked like they may have been blood at 1 point. The ventilation in the bathroom was non-existent which is probably why it looked the way it did. The only good thing that room had going for it were the beds.

    The ceiling of our hallway Looked like it had been patched up several times which made me wonder how well maintained the building really was. After the collapse of that condo building in Miami last summer, the condition of the hotel was real concern. The hotel has a restaurant, but It was still closed due to covid apparently and there weren’t any amenities to get overly excited about. The pool was okay and the private beach was not maintained well, it had a lot of debris from the ocean. Don’t stay in room 716.

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    Reviewed April 19, 2022

    On Booking.com, I booked several flights out of where I thought was, Springfield, IL which actually turned out to be Springfield, MO. Booking.com refused to help me change the origin or even credit me for this error. Nowhere on the itinerary or booking details stated Springfield, MO or IL for that matter. It just said Springfield. I lost several thousand in air fare with no explanation from Customer Service, they would just hang up on me. On one of the flights I even bought insurance. DO NOT USE BOOKING.COM. They have zero compassion and even less as customer service.

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    Reviewed April 17, 2022

    I have paid reservation to DC and once I get to that hotel the front desk said I have cancelled because was overbooked. Now, nobody is taking any responsibilities to give me my refund back! Unbelievable how the Booking.com and hotel itself hold the responsibilities to verify if I checked in or not! Both sides have explanation which from the hotel side is they did not get money, and from Booking side that hotel never answer the phone call or responded to any emails! We live in ** irresponsible country and now we on our own to hire a layer to deal with that!

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    Reviewed April 17, 2022

    Booking.com almost cost me $2k due to no customer service. It's one of those sites that you have to keep clicking on links to try to find customer service number, and the links just take you back to the same no info pages. Basically, I reserved a hotel in Greece, but the email address was off a letter. It was not listed on my Dashboard and I was not getting the notifications. The only reason I knew it was open was because a hotel rep contacted me on What's App. It was past the time where 50% of the amount was due. I tried looking for a customer service number to assist with resolution, tried emailing asking for reply/call back. I got nothing. I was on the hook for two reservations due to a typo. This kind of platform needs a customer service line and contingency plan to assist customers with no visibility to possible errors. I will no longer use this website due to poor customer service.

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    Reviewed April 17, 2022

    I spent one night at a hotel booked on their site. I originally was supposed to stay 2 days and I checked out early. They refuse to give me money back that the hotel refunded them on my behalf. Beware!!!

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    Reviewed April 17, 2022

    We had reservations and conformation for for overnight stay. We were not in the hotel system as having reservations. Booking.com gave us the run around for 1hr, 45 minutes, kept putting us on hold, over and over. Plus, caught representative in a lie, lying on the hotel clerk, will on speaker, with clerk listening to conversation. We asked to speak with their supervisor on duty but Booking.com person said a supervisor wasn't on duty....lol.. another lie. Never will use them again.

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    Reviewed April 15, 2022

    I went on Booking.com and made a hotel reservation, it clearly stated "free cancelation up to a day before arrival and payment made on site". It was all a lie, my card was charged, when I tried to cancel 15 days before arrival Booking.com wouldn't let me, spoke to 7 agents because they kept hanging up on me after having me on hold for over 35 minutes each time, they wouldn't even let me speak with a supervisor. Very unprofessional and fraudulent. I even sent screenshots from the website clearly stating the free cancelation policy. Never again! It was a complete nightmare! Beware of Booking.com! You will regret using their service.

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    Reviewed April 15, 2022

    Worst service. With no reason they canceled our reservation today in NY, just a couple hours before we got into the city. We were travelling and then we read the message. We went to the hotel and they charged us twice the price we booked months in advance, unfortunately we had to pay because is late at night we don’t know anyone in the city. Our only option was staying on the street… But we have no money even for stay the rest of the weekend. The only answer from Booking is, "Sorry not our fault." NEVER EVER AGAIN we will use or recommend this nasty page.

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    Reviewed April 13, 2022

    I have now had 2 major issues with Booking.com. The first was on a 1500 mile trip I need to change my reservation and they wouldn't let me and said I would still be charged. So we went out of our way to get to the booked hotel only to find out our Booking.com reservation had been lost. Then a week later I get an email saying we never showed up and was charged. I decided to give them another chance and again was ** by them. This time the amount I was quoted was not the amount I was charged and a month later I am still trying to get resolve. They don't respond or communicate at all when there are issues.

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    Reviewed April 13, 2022

    Booked accommodation through Booking.com 5 months in advance for a stay in Melbourne over F1 weekend. 2 weeks in advance the property was reconfirmed via email and paid for ($1,280). A few days later I tried to organise (ahead of time) a check-in/key collection point (as I had read reviews that this was an issue with this property). 2 days later I received a text from the property saying that the booking will be cancelled - no reason given. I then contacted the property who (after some time) said that the current guest contracted covid and they had no option but to allow them to stay (this is now 7 days prior to check in date).

    I informed the property that covid rules in VIC say to quarantine 7 days, upon 7th day can leave without the need for testing and that we would be happy to check in one day later to allow them to clean the room, to which they responded, "We have already advised we can't accommodate you for the 5 days of your stay". Booking.com gave written confirmation that they would help to relocate us and it would be at the expense of the property. They provided 2x alternate (like-for-like) options and asked us to select one... when I went to secure I noticed they were dates for the month following, NOT for our original stay. I was then told by booking.com that this is "absolutely not possible because it is a computer system and mistakes are not possible", to which I told them to check the link that they sent me to see for themselves. The response was "We don't have to because we know that is not true".

    Went back to another booking.com agent who apologised and offered a larger property but in a different town altogether (one hour drive away), to which I pointed out was unsuitable. Booking.com then instructed us to arrange alternate accommodation and send through the invoice and apply for reimbursement, however being such late notice (and on F1 weekend), the only other options were in excess of $8k (6x times what we originally paid!) Asked booking.com for confirmation that the additional cost would be covered to which they said "you must pay first and then your application for reimbursement would be assessed". Asked numerous times to speak with a supervisor or team leader and was declined every time. Demanded to speak with a manager and was offered a callback.

    After one hour the phone rang for a couple of seconds and I wasn't able to answer in time - tried to call them back but before I could even dial I received an email saying that the payment had been refunded and a "compensation" had been given "for any inconvenience". Checked the email and compensation amount - $120, which is obviously well short of the additional $7k for alternate accommodation. Went back to booking.com and they advised that because I had "accepted" the compensation, they were not obliged to assist any further and left me out to dry. Requested again to speak with management - again declined. Asked for the email address to send through a request for reimbursement and was given a bogus address. Asked for email address to write a formal complaint and they told me that I basically have no grounds for complaint and that I need to be patient for the refund to be issued.

    ALL of this is documented in webchat, text messages and screenshots, including Booking.com subsequently telling me that what I was initially told was incorrect and they should never have offered to help in the first place!

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    Reviewed April 12, 2022

    Booking.com takes no responsibility about property they rent. They don't help you at questions about money return, about quality of accommodation. Also they erase bad comments about accommodations in their page. So you cannot trust the review score about properties. It doesn't show reality.

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    Reviewed April 12, 2022

    Booking.com is a platform that takes no responsibility for the accommodations that it advertises. They allow fraudulent accommodations and people to advertise on their platform, take your money, and then offer absolutely zero assistance in rectifying the situation- nor do they take action on the criminals that are using their platform. It is disgusting, and I do not recommend risking your money with this company.

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    Reviewed April 10, 2022

    I would not even give this company one star. Do not book with them. We booked a two bedroom apartment in Boston over 7 months ago and have paid the money in full. We are due to fly out to Boston on Thursday this week as my daughter is running the marathon. However we have just been told that the apartment is now cancelled! It is obviously a really peak booking period and the equivalent apartment is now almost three times as much money. Booking.com have offered an apartment to us that is over 17 miles away from the original and will involve huge expense and time in terms of getting to where we need to be. This is all they will do in compensation! Plus the most they will offer in a refund is an extra £200 which will not in any way cover the extra £1500 we would need to rebook a similar apartment.

    They have now stopped answering our calls. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place as we cannot alter the timings, flights are booked and paid for and the race is also paid for. We have no alternative, other than not going, than to pay an exorbitant amount of money to find another place to stay. I am SO angry with Booking.com! They have similar apartments in the right place on their site but will not transfer us to them. Do not trust them, do not use them, never book with them.

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    Reviewed April 8, 2022

    After requested to cancel reservation, got a confirmation email from Booking.com that the request of cancellation email was sent to Hampton Inn, property for cancellation fee waived and information to call property to follow up with question. I called the property and spoke to two different front desk manager and they both said the reservation has been cancelled and there is no cancellation fee is charged because it was done early enough. However, Booking.com claims that I didn't receive an email confirmation from the property so I can't provide refund for the reservation even after Booking.com customer service staff have spoken with the property's managers of their waiving cancellation fee. And I keep received emails from Booking.com that my reservation is still active and cancellation fee will be charged.

    I have spoken to 4 different Booking.com costumer service teams but kept giving me a run around not receiving emails response from the property and asked to call the property manager again to get an email sent which I did but the mangers told me they don't have access to this email sent from Booking.com of waiving request and they normally agreed via phone calls before. I'm very frustrated being a run around and lied to by Booking.com. Please inform and broadcast to the consumers of this bad business practice so no other people will have to deal with this experience. Thanks!

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    Reviewed April 8, 2022

    Booking.com has partnered with a third party to offer customers a cheap option when booking at specific hotels. The problem is the rates are non-refundable. We all know what non-refundable means however for bookings made on their website not with the third party (you need to read the fine print as to what is or isn't being booked by a third party) they will still contact the hotel to try and get you a refund on non-refundable bookings. However for any booking made through the 'third party' they will not even request a cancellation or modification.

    I made a booking (apparently with the third party) but on Booking.com, payment went to Booking.com on my bank statement, I tested positive for Covid, I informed the airline who said they would not allow me on the flight and issued a credit, the other hotels I was scheduled to stay at (which were booked via Expedia and Hotels.com) offered a refund on non-refundable reservations after calling the hotel to get approval. Booking.com refused to contact the hotel, contact the third party, told me they would not request a refund, credit, change of dates, transfer to another person. NOTHING. They actually told me to contact the hotel and see what they could do but also indicated the hotel may not do anything.

    So I have a booking for a hotel stay, I can not board a flight to get to the city, even if I managed to get to the hotel, the hotel will NOT let me enter as they indicated they are not a Covid hotel, so what am I supposed to do? The fine print should have read, "Bring a sleeping bag..." because this will be the outcome for those that have the misfortune of getting Covid before they check in. People will end up lying and pretending they don't have it just to not waste the money spent on the booking. Don't we want people to be honest and report when they are infected, why are the policies counter productive. The hotel staff are very nice, they said they would accommodate a cancellation with no fees but Booking.com refused to do anything.

    I will never book with them again not because they don't offer comparable rates but because the way they operate as a business is does not value their customers. They have policies that don't make sense. Who is going to pocket the $1000 I have prepaid for my booking, because I am not going to be able to stay at the hotel. Clearly it is Booking.com, their contracted third party and the hotel.

    Please go with Expedia or Hotels.com. They have good rates and amazing customer service, you don't need to speak with multiple people. The first person you speak to is able to help you. Given the UNCERTAINTY in the world today, we can not predict what will happen and therefore we need to make more informed choices as customers. Booking.com is a not a company I would book with or recommend to anyone given our current uncertain landscape. Happy travels and if you are booking with Booking.com - don't forget to pack your sleeping bag.

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    Reviewed April 7, 2022

    When we arrived at the property I booked through booking.com we found old food in the refrigerator, beds with no linens, and piles of dirty linens and wet towels on the floor. Immediately we called the owner to resolve the issue. He couldn't contact his cleaner so he had a local friend come. The friend did basic bathroom cleaning and used the laundry in the unit to wash the linens including the queen size comforters. The beds were made except the comforters which were in the washer and dryer. It was getting late so we asked the friend to leave so we could put our 4 kids to bed.

    We said we would finish the comforters. Unfortunately they took so long to dry we couldn't use them that night and slept without blankets. I emailed the owner in the morning to let him know and he said he would refund our cleaning fee. After I left an honest review of the property the owner messaged me and said he would not be refunding our cleaning fee due to damages. He sent a photo of a comforter with holes in it which I also took a picture of since his friend was the one who put it in the washer. There was also a photo of a loose doorknob which we did not damage. There is no proof we caused any damages since the property was not cleaned or inspected before our arrival. When I contacted customer service they said they would contact the property owner about the refund. After making contact they said there would be no compensation which is unacceptable.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2022

    Terrible Customer service - Terrible policies. Terrible company - do not waste time with any owners connected to this company. Your experience will not be good. We have used these guys a few times, and have had terrible experience with them. I strongly suggest not to waste time with these.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2022

    Do NOT use Booking.com! Con artists, rip off artists, THIEVES! Booked a hotel in Hagerstown Maryland recently and was charged $75.21 by them. Then the hotel, another gem, charged me an additional $84.00 when I actually checked in! Hotel claims they only see ONE transaction, theirs, for $84. The hotel claims Booking.com DOESN’T charge your card for reservations! I guess the credit card fairy did then!! Called Booking.com to get a refund but was told in order to initiate the refund I have to use MY gas and time to drive to a Walmart or Walgreens and BUY a booking.com card to get a number off the card so they can credit the card I *actually* used to pay the original 75.21!! WHAT?!! Have filed a fraud complaint with my credit card company and am filing a complaint here and with the Better Business Bureau. DO NOT use Booking.com!!! They are shady AF!!!

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    Reviewed April 5, 2022

    WORST customer service on the planet!! THIEVES!! Rip off artists! Charged me for a room then REFUSED to reimburse me when the hotel, another JEWEL, also charged me for the room! Hung up on me THREE times! Wouldn’t listen, kept telling me I had to be inconvenienced by going to a store to get a Booking.com card to get a refund ON THE CARD, a different one, I used to reserve the room!! Then said I had to download their app to get the refund!!! WHY would I do that when I have NO intention of EVER using them again???! Will NEVER use them again!! Getting my attorney involved, filing a police report for FRAUD, and alert my credit card company!! THEY ** SUCK!!!

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    Reviewed April 5, 2022

    Cancelled my flights without reason, my flight were booked for 9 April 2022, they were cancelled on 22 March 2022, and I paid £1,603.46 when I booked. It is now 5 April 2022 and my refund has not been issued, I can now no longer contact customer services because my confirmation number is not recognized. When I first received the cancellation email I contacted customer services because my flights were still showing as confirmed, the lady on the phone just said yes the flights have been cancelled, then she told me that nothing was available for me and she try to get a refund.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2022

    I was charged for 2 rooms in Toronto and the hotel did not book any rooms for us. They have not refunded my visa and want information about my bank account. I don't trust the legitimacy of the Booking.com at all. Never use them.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2022

    Horrible experience with them. My booking was cancelled 3 days prior to travel. I could not get hotel in Srinagar. I checked with hotel. They said Booking.com told us. Booking.com told hotel cancelled it.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2022

    We have used Booking.com for hotels for over 5 years all over the world. Last year I would've given them a 5 star review, but I never had to deal with their customer service. I booked my first flight with Booking.com this year, and when the airlines changed the flight, Booking never informed us. We are losing money on non-refundable hotels (also booked through Booking) & buses, and Booking.com will not do anything to make up for their mistake. Their customer service is useless and not accommodating.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2022

    Booked a room through Booking.com that gave no indication that the room was a smoking room. Upon arrival, the staff refused to move us to a non-smoking room. Canceled night two early next morning, and was lied to by the staff that told me they would provide a refund for the night I DIDN’T stay, but then refused when booking.com contacted them. Booking.com did NOTHING to help!!! Don’t use this service!!! It is a scam!!!

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    Reviewed April 1, 2022

    I am a long time customer. After booking a reservation on Booking.com with a hotel that I had also called to confirm a late check out possibility (there were witnesses during the phone call and in-person at check-in), I checked in after 3:00 AM on 3/18/2022 after being promised a late check out the same day. Checked out at 12:53 that same day, 3/18/2022, but was charged for two (2) nights. Contacted both the hotel and Booking.com to correct the mistake but in vain.

    Booking.com will present crappy hotels to you in the app. Not only are the hotels crappy, but they will also steal your money from your credit card once you present this to them for incidentals. When you call Booking.com to ask for help or a refund, they will tell you it is not their business but yours to contact the hotel and solve. Most importantly, they will offer to escalate the matter to have a supervisor call you but no one will ever call you. Additionally, they will offer to issue you a credit (at least the part they took from your account, but never will. I will not use this app if I were you.

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    Reviewed March 30, 2022

    I am done with Booking.com. I received a confirmation for a stay at a motel (6 nights) for $513.02. I stayed for 3 of the 6 nights expecting a credit of somewhere near half of $513.02. But no... I learned that Booking.com sent Motel 8 a confirmation of $906 for the 6 nights! Yet, the confirmation I received from Booking.com stated in bold letters "The final price shown is the amount you'll pay to the property"! Ie, $513.02. I can't really blame the motel, but had I known I would be paying $906 dollars, I would had figured something else out.

    Now here is the kicker. The amount of my stay for 3 nights just happened to be $513.02! What's the chances? Booking.com didn't make good on the error, and Motel 8 did not (although I showed them the printout from Booking.com for the $513.02). I can't justify staying at Motel 8, but the true culprit was Booking.com. The future, should I ever book "ANYTHING", I will need to double-check and double-check again! Call the motel, etc. What is one to do when arriving at the motel with no other place to stay other than the car?

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    Reviewed March 29, 2022

    We travel regularly and used to use Booking.com exclusively. Despite making and paying for a reservation weeks in advance, last weekend we arrived at our hotel to find no rooms available. Booked an alternate through Booking and was charged again only to find no room available again. Customer service said they would call back, but never did. It was late at night and cold, and we ended up going back to the airport to sleep on the floor in baggage claim like the homeless. Never again Booking.

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    Reviewed March 29, 2022

    I purchased 8 nights accommodations on booking on the 17th of March. A few hours later I noticed something strange on the listing and asked Booking to verify whether it's authentic. A few days later I found another listing with the same issue (a photo with details asking for personal contact). I realized then that this was fraud and asked Booking for a refund. I have sent booking chat messages every day and called them as well. They are only saying that a supervisor is working and ask me to be more patient.

    So this company:
    - is unable to manage its platform and allows scammers to create fake profiles and property listings on their platform
    - allow for fraud to be committed
    - are told by the customer that it's fraud and they claim to still be investigating after 10 days

    - refuse to give any status, update or timeline on when it's resolved, leaving a customer without any option for their holiday booking.

    I have never encountered such poor service, lack of security and professionalism in any other travel agency. I will never use booking again!

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    Reviewed March 29, 2022

    I recently flew from Japan to NY using Booking.com to book the flight. My first issue was that they changed my information but never updated their app with my information. I had to search for the email they sent weeks ago to get my correct information. Then my flight was canceled. My flight the day before I was suppose to return back to Japan. They offered no alternative way to get back to Japan. When I called and spoke to the customer service rep about a refund it took me forever to in contact with the right person. On top of that didn't receive confirmation about until about week and my flight was canceled in the beginning of March. And that was after multiple calls calling about my refund.

    At the end of it all I only received a refund of 398.00 for my return trip to Japan which makes makes no sense even if I did use half of my flight to get to NY. When called customer service about the amount of the refund they just said I don't get the whole refund because I used one part of my flight which i feel like does not qualify as a real answer. Don't Use booking.com for any major trips or flight. You will be screwed over.

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    Reviewed March 28, 2022

    I reserved through Booking.com. The Hotel at Miami, FL, Wyndham hotels. Upon arrival, the room was used by another person and I had to cancel the reservation calling their customer service confirmation number 3939.588.374. They did nothing to get me money back, after cancellation I was still check in at the hotel because they did not contact the property nor returned my money. After making the report to the police and reported to my credit card I was able to get it. It was a nightmare. I will never use Booking.com.

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    Reviewed March 28, 2022

    They will not help you if needed. Please avoid booking anything with them. Whatever you do avoid. Mistaking My DH. Booked a Room with with Twilight Surf Motel in Myrtle beach S.C. They are Thieves and are very rude and nasty. Never book them with any 3rd party Service. Especially Not Booking.com. They will not help get your Money back Due to Twilight Surf Motel Lying. It's a big loss. Just don't do it.

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    Reviewed March 28, 2022

    I just arrived at my hotel and they have no record of my reservation through Booking.com. According to the attendant, this happens often with Booking.com. It's the second time it has happened to me. Last time, since there was no record of my reservation, I made my reservation directly with the hotel, since I was there anyway. Booking.com didn't want to reimburse me for the reservation I made through them. So I was being double charged for my room. It took me a couple of months of emails and phone calls, and threats of legal action to get my money back. What a nightmare.

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    Reviewed March 25, 2022

    DO NOT USE BOOKING.COM! I booked reservations a month in advanced and tried modifying my reservation date it automatically cancel my previous reservations and charged nearly $300 dollars more when I didn't even enter anything on the site. All I did was select modify. I didn't even have a chance to make any changes. It automatically deleted my previous dates and amount my original amount for 3 nights was $528 and was changed to $779 without me selecting ANYTHING! I will never use booking.com again nor refer them to ANYONE I know. This is terrible. Now I have to search for new reservations in such a short period of time.

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    Reviewed March 18, 2022

    Booking.com will trick you into making a payment by showing low prices. But if you are travelling with the family and made the reservation including the kid they would charge you for kids stay but the confirmation slip after making payment would not include kids. I have faced this challenge two times. It was the second time I realized that booking.com always takes payment for the kids stay and the confirmation is only provided for adults. This was then their customer service clearly told me that their system can't process kids. Thus the hotel asks you to pay more for kids breakfast. Their customer service is rude and they don't care about customers especially if the booking is non-refundable

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    Reviewed March 18, 2022

    I booked accommodation at the Parkview, 75 Brougham St. Fairfield, Brisbane, 4103, Australia, through Booking.com for 3 nights from March 1-4 & was required to pre-pay. On my arrival, I could not find the Parkview as it was under flood water. I called the owner who had left a recorded message, asking her to contact me. No response. I emailed customer relations at booking.com, difficult to access, my no response. I have phoned the owner 4 times since, leaving messages, no response. I tried to respond to booking.com review request, explaining that I had not been able to stay at the Parkview as it had been under flood waters, the review did not support replies. Today is March 18th, have not had a response from either booking.com or the owner of Parkview regarding a refund. I will never use booking.com to pre-pay for accommodation again & will continue to pursue the owner for a refund.

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    Reviewed March 17, 2022

    We booked a room with Booking.com and requested the first floor due to my wife not able to walk stairs. Get there all they had was a 3rd floor room. No elevator and was told to call booking.com to cancel and to get a refund and when we did they empty my bank accounts and left us with an overdraft instead of refunding us. Never again will I deal with them again. We are disputing the charges and the company trying to get our money back.

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    Reviewed March 17, 2022

    I say not rational, not real, not trusted service, abusive, provocative support phone and web chat, zero tolerance for customer and discrimination. Revoke phone calls, handle calls for 30 minutes then just handle out. Could communicate with the support representative a serious just over and over same question again and again, support can't listening just followings a canned response, nonsense conversation. I'm pay 40£ for 1 night hotel, but then I'm stay for night - no accommodations, l even arrive at the property location not allowed to access the property or room for night, the property own cancel the reservation for room night with reason not show, the support representative Booking.com just handle out calls and chat web. Total mistake, do not allow service or to stay online, scrap intelligence storage our services and the available property to...

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    Reviewed March 16, 2022

    I highly recommended using a prepaid card with a VERY low balance, if any when booking through this site. I was charged over $1200 for a room I never used. I cancelled within the cancellation policy on the site but the Holiday Inn by the airport in Nashville charged me due to not cancelling within 48 hours. Booking.com only has a 24 hour policy so I have been going through hurdles to get my money back. The customer service department was extremely unprofessional and proceeded to hang up on me. I called my bank immediately to dispute the charges and hopefully I will be getting my money back soon. Never again!

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    Reviewed March 15, 2022

    I am a traveling nurse so pre-planning for a safe trip is paramount for a woman traveling alone. I made a reservation a few weeks prior to my assignment for a hotel in Grand Rapids, MI area. I work night shift so I arrived at the hotel at approx 3:30 in the morning to find out even though I had a reservation my room had been given away. I stated specifically in my reservation I would be a late arrival and had paid for the previous day as required.

    I can never trust Booking.com or the hotel chain that accepted the reservation. I ended up at a hotel down the street after driving around for 1/2 hour. Of course it was at a higher cost and the property is in disrepair; most of the "guests" appear to be residents. VERY unpleasant experience. I know I will never trust Booking.com again and not sure I will trust any other sites other than direct to hotel booking which is substantially more. This is clearly fraud and this is not the only review like this so why they continue to get away with it is a mystery I will be looking into further. In the meantime people make sure you're booking with a reliable vendor if not directly with the property.

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    Reviewed March 14, 2022

    If I could give them 0 stars I would. I booked 2 tickets last summer 2021. I couldn't use them because of Covid. They said I have a year to rebook but they have been issuing new deadlines every 3 months pressuring me to rebook earlier. Now I have been trying to rebook for the past 2 weeks. First, they said they don't have access to the new pricing, then the day they found the new pricing and accepted to rebook, they said they couldn't go further and call another day because their system is down and can't process payment. for the past 2 weeks.

    Last Friday I called twice and two agents told me to pay $2975 for rebooking fees! I thought I heard wrong. No $2975 rebooking fees! I book the original ticket for $1420 the new prices online are $1900. They want me to pay $2975 to rebook. No sense! I called them numerous times. Today I have to call 5 times because they kept dropping the call on purpose. The fifth time the agent told me we reimbursed you. What a lie! So I asked her to send me a confirmation email or proof. She hangs the phone. Not a surprise from this company. It seems that when their agents don't know what to reply they just hang the phone. Stay away from this company. Meanwhile, I'm filing complaints until I get my ticket rebook or refunded.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2022

    I rented a car through Booking.com after Kayak sent me there. I just went to print my itinerary and noticed all the MASSIVE extra charges not included in the price listed. A $1500 deposit to rent a compact car? Never in my life have I heard of that. Ever. After reading the customer reviews of the car company Routes, promoted by Booking.Com, and seeing they only had one star reviews and every single person wrote about overcharges, dirty cars, cars that smelled like smoke...the list goes on and on...all one star reviews. I want to cancel but can find NO help from booking.com other than sending an email. We will see if they respond and help me. If they do, I will update this review to reflect that, but for now, this is not a site I would EVER use again.

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    Reviewed March 10, 2022

    I couldn't stay at a hotel because the room was NOT as promised. I left after ten minutes, booked a different hotel through Booking that cost more because it was last minute but I had no choice. I was told that I could call about a refund the next day, but then the next day the manager was rude and refused to speak to me. I had booked this hotel through Booking, and explained the situation to them and rather than them helping me get a refund as I should be entitled to because the room was not as promised they said I could write a bad review of the hotel and there was nothing else they could do.

    Turns out because they know I didn't stay there overnight, Booking won't even let me write a bad review about my experience even though they were willing to charge me for it. All around bad experience with one of their hotels which wasn't their fault, but if they aren't going to be helpful about this then I will not bother to book through them again when it is cheaper to book hotels directly on their own websites.

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    Reviewed March 6, 2022

    We arrived to Disney with our two small kids, we had a reservation confirmation 5 months in advance, the place was paid upfront. When we get to the property they tell us that the property was sold, we called Booking and they didn't know anything about it. After 5 hours with customer service on the phone they left us stranded in Orlando with no place to stay, they just offered us a refund and we had to find somewhere else to stay that same day. Obviously the rate of reserving the same day was 5 times than reserving 5 months in advance. At the end we had to pay it and Booking didn't care at all. Whatever you do avoid Booking.com.

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    Reviewed March 5, 2022

    I booked a flight to visit family last year but had to cancel because of Covid with the option to reuse the credit at a later date. I have been trying to use this credit for a month now and every time they say they'll have to confirm the credit with their management and call me back. They never call me back. They also said they already refunded me, which they did not and I've told them multiple times I have an email saying how long I have to use the CREDIT, not a refund. Then I told them I need to book new tickets but I need to add tickets. They said they cannot do that and I'd have to book those separately.

    I tried to explain that I am flying with 2 very small children and I cannot book separately as I need to be sure that I have the other adults with me for safety reasons. They said they still couldn't help. My last attempt at contacting them the "party was unavailable". The call wouldn't even go through. I'm beyond frustrated at this point. I have 2 jobs and 2 small children and have wasted 6 hours now trying to get this handled. I don't have 6 hours to waste. NEVER USING THIS COMPANY AGAIN.

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    Reviewed March 5, 2022

    Look what happened to us and have a look at our Video, we searched for an #Accommodation for a 24 night #TripToBudapest and found this nice ad [see the first link at the bottom] on Booking.com by "#PremiumApartmentsHi5 - #ElegantSuites". It seems to be pretty ideal for our stay. We liked the big sofa, the white textile-covered bed, and the pretty generous 4 person table (perfect to set up a little office for the 24 night stay). So we booked it even though they had a #NonRefoundable reservation plan. Well, we thought there couldn't be anything mistaken if the apartment is like in the pics. We are ready to go and would never consider any cancellation on them.

    We chose to pay by #Paypal (maybe our last hope), filled in their papers and accepted their building rules, etc., but we kept on asking them also around 3 times the same question: "is the #Apartment we get the one we chosed by pics and at the same time the one that you promote on #Booking?" But they avoided giving us a concrete answer on this until the fourth time when they sent us a couple of #Pictures. When we understood that this could mean real trouble because the pictures were completely different from the ones they used in their ad, they #Clickbait(ed) us and we did not check this #Swindle.

    Now, after 4 days, there are only 2 days left until we need to check in into this #UglyPlace. And after endless conversations by mail and phone with the host and #BookingSupport, we recognized that #BookingWillNeverHelpYou out or even #BanThoseFraudulentHosts off their website as they see only their profit. Booking told us it is #AgainstTheirPolicy to #AdvertiseWithFakePics, but they cannot do anything. I should accept their apologies and 100€ credit and forget about that #TheHostKeepsMyMoney 1150€ (1050€ for the apartment and additional 100€ if I cancel) in such an easy way.

    I don't wonder that Booking lost the first place online and I also hope they will disappear soon because they treat you like a complete idiot if you ask them to check the case and compare the pictures of those 2 #DifferentApartments; the one I was paying for and the one I am going to get (the host sent me pictures of his #UglyApartment which he promotes with #FakePictures). Guys, this is so crazy. Please #Avoid booking and #Hi5Apartments in #Budapest and enjoy #YourMoney differently. #WatchMyVideo with the #Conversation and decide for yourself if #ThoseGuysCommittedAFraud! Let's just don't support them.

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    Reviewed March 5, 2022

    We booked 2 reservations in 2 states. We wanted a king size bed, but it showed the hotel was out. Then we found that hotel another site that had a king size bed. I called the hotel thinking maybe they could help, but said they couldn't. We would have to call Booking.com. As she got looking for our reservation there wasn't one. I called booking.com and the guy told me he would have to call the hotel and fix it. Waiting on line then he hung up on me. Called the hotel and he hung up on her too.

    Now today I thought I better check out our other hotel reservations in Memphis. Same thing. No reservations was made like booking.com said with a email and confirmation #. Lesson learned. Call make reservations directly through the hotel. The saves wasn't that much. Only a few dollars. Not worth the time I spent on the phone dealing with booking.com and having to make new reservations. Stay away from booking.com. Customer service is rude and they never respond back to emails. Could of been a disaster if we got to our hotel with no reservations.

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    Reviewed March 4, 2022

    Booked a hotel stay through Booking by mistake rather than direct and they made reservation for two rooms rather than one. Their confirmation showed one room and I cancelled the other at the hotel when they mentioned the second room. No problem, right? But no, Booking charged my card double and said I booked two rooms; unable to get a refund. Stay away from these cheats. Robert

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    Reviewed March 4, 2022

    We rented a car and hotel room through Booking.com for our daughter's tournament at ASU in Phoenix. Unfortunately our daughter got sick and cannot travel or play. Getting in contact with anyone at Booking.com is a laborious time-consuming process; the Chat function is useless as they just then tell you to call. Once you call, you are then sent an email to do a request for refund procedure. It's a joke. I had no idea Booking.com service has tanked so badly. It's no longer worth using.

    Book direct with the car rental company and hotel. It's far easier to get a refund if your trip gets cancelled. I was "Genius Level 3" -- whatever that means, clearly no benefits from that -- as we Booking.com was formerly fantastic but now it is terrible. The British accent voice mail/telephone prompts are pretentious and confusing. I thought I was somehow through to a booking.com UK telephone number but no, it's for the US. Ironically I lived in the UK for 12 years and now booking.com customer service is actually very British as in non-existent!

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    Reviewed March 2, 2022

    Stay away! While traveling stuff comes up and plans change. No reason to use. Zero customers service, zero phone numbers? Just use the hotels themselves as they are flexible with cancellations. I will never use again and will tell others to stay away.

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    Reviewed March 1, 2022

    I booked a hotel online for a business trip, easy enough. We were unable to use the hotel due to a fire across the street so we requested a refund and it was granted. This is where my experience took a sharp nose dive. In order to even find a phone number to call you must have your booking number and pin number. I could imagine this could be a horrible thing if you were traveling far away and didn't have your info on you and something happened to your booking. This just seems a tad shady to me, not really customer focused. I spoke to a person on the phone and granted my refund and said I have to wait 7-10 business days, fine. That period of time went by and then some. No refund. So I called again and now I have to wait another 7-10 business days. SUPER SHADY. Pain in the ** to contact, pain in the ** to deal with for a simple solution. There are far better services out there.

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    Reviewed March 1, 2022

    I will never use Booking.com again and want to warn you of hidden cost. The taxes are not included in your prepay portion. They never mention this specifically and I ended up paying 25% more at the counter. I tried to work with them to no avail.

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    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2022

    We had a reservation for Ivey house in Everglades FL for February 26. On February 24 both my husband and I came down with COVID. I called the Ivey house immediately and they told me since I made reservation through Booking.com I had to reach out to them. I immediately called them twice. Once to cancel my reservation and then again after I emailed them copy of our positive COVID test. I then called them the second time to confirm they received my email. I was told by Jovelyn that it would be taken care of. They never canceled our reservation and lied to me and Ivey house that they called to cancel. Ivey house kept trying to reach out to booking.com with no response to them when we didn’t show up. I am now being charged for one night.

    Fortunately Ivey house was able to rebook the room for my last two nights but I am responsible for the first night because booking.com never canceled the reservation. I’m sure the reason they don’t cancel reservation because they will lose their commission. Would never use them again or recommend them. Company from Singapore and very difficult to get through and was hung up on twice and put on hold for 30 or more minutes.

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    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2022

    I made a reservation using Booking.com. I was unable to get to my destination for the night due to bad weather. I reused booking.com to make a reservation for where I had to stop driving. Booking.com didn't refund my money. I jumped through their hoops for 90 days. My bank account said the transaction happened by booking.com NY. I would call customer service and they say, "We can't help you. We are booking.com Amsterdam or booking.com Singapore." 90 days of talking to very stupid people with no refund ever. Booking.com are terrorists and can't be trusted. Can get an honest answer from these crooked thieves. Never ever ever use this criminal organization for your travels. They will are not good people to deal with!!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 25, 2022

    Please GO Directly Through the hotel or property and cut out the middle man. IT’S a hassle with cancellation and refunds. I had to make several calls to them to process a refund for a property that was uninhabitable. The pictures are not accurate and the service lacks.

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    Reviewed Feb. 25, 2022

    They took my money for reservation but I had to change the date twice. It seems their system is lagging and hotel didn't find anything on file and had to pay again out of pocket for stay. They're acting confused and are not able to offer any refund. Beware of your money!

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2022

    My wife inadvertently booked a non-refundable hotel in Venice. I immediately called to cancel the reservation. Booking.com charged $1,800.00 to my Amex card and said we would have to deal with the hotel. So much for using Booking.com. USELESS!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2022

    As a long term (Level 3) user of Booking.com, I can say they have lost their touch similar to companies that have lost their way and meaning of customer support. Although I have book reservations with Booking.com with free cancellation, I was told that this particular reservation was managed by a 3rd party... and things just got worse from then on. Keep in mind, this was an International Reservation with limited Wifi and Telephone access and I'm stuck on the border, arguing with Booking.com, so just be careful their name is Booking.com it doesn't mean they are crooked. They did everything to make the experience worse with no support.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2022

    I have recently made two bookings on Booking.com for reservations in Marrakech and Lisbon. I have decided to cancel both of these bookings as I have had problems due to changing my email address that these bookings were made with. The problem is that as I am unable to cancel these, it basically means that the payment dates are still due and I cannot change these without help. Booking.com say that they need my reservation number and pin code to do this but I don't have them!

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2022

    Booked flight and hotel within Canada online, yet this appears to be a USA Booking.com. Online it stated that cancellation was near to the trip date, then when printed out, cancellation was by the end of the next day. Could not contact booking.com as they had not sent any confirmation. Contacted our credit card company who did not have booking.com charges and did not have a regular telephone number for them. Found out after the cancellation date that this had been given to their partner company, Priceline without anyone advising us. When we fought the charges either booking.com or Priceline cancelled it without notifying us! We are still fighting the charges!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2022

    Reservation at a Best Western Resort was never received by the resort! Was peak season and unfortunately the resort was completely sold out, as were most decent lodgings in the area. Booking.com agent was no help whatsoever. Alternate lodging Booking suggested was a rat-hole. NEVER AGAIN!

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2022

    I booked a hotel with an retail advertised rate of $732/night on Booking.com. Their advertised discounted rate was $403/night. This discounted rate was a comparable to several other booking websites (like Expedia, etc.). After I had entered all of my payment information, I received my reservation confirmation and a charge for $732/night (plus taxes and resort fee) a total of $891 for the night. It should have been just over $540 total.

    I immediately called to speak with customer service, explained the situation- no resolution. I pulled up their website and again confirmed Booking.com advertised discounted rate. I asked them to pull up their own website and confirm what I was saying. They refused to look at their own website and said that they would not lower the rate to $403 (or refund my money). (Again-multiple online travel sites with the same $403/night available). I have used Booking.com before and never had any issue with them. It’s been several years since I last booked with them. I won’t do it again. Use them at your own peril.

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2022

    I have used Booking.com for years without any problems. I have booked stays a year in advance and then contacted Customer Service to pay before arrival. This year I have booked 5 stays. I have paid for all, except 2. I have written and sent chats to the properties and followed up with Customer Service when no response was received. Customer Service has not helped me with my questions. They have not responded within 48 hours, and they do not make the property follow the policies posted on the stay. I have had agents hang up on me, and one even complained that she was staying after to help me.

    I will never use this company again. If you have a problem with your booking, Booking.com will do nothing to help you. They also will not penalize the property for not following policies. You are better to find a price here, then communicate with the property directly and book directly. Not sure why Booking.com receives a commission when they do not help customers.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2022

    Last June we were scheduled to take a trip to Nashville. Unfortunately, due to a health issue, the trip had to be canceled. At the time, we were given flight credits from American Airlines for the full amount that we paid for the tickets. When we tried to use the flight credits in January, we found out from American Airlines that they issued a full refund, totaling $639.60 to Booking.com on 12/28/21. They confirmed the amounts refunded along with the last 4 digits of the credit cards that received the refund. We contacted Booking.com and after numerous calls and emails, on 1/28/22 we were told that they would request that a refund be issued to us. That refund arrived yesterday, 2/15/22, for $216. Booking.com received the full amount of the airfare, and has kept 66.5% of the total we paid, apparently as a "fee". I will NEVER book through Booking.com again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2022

    This company is only good at stealing money from you. I didn't use their service but I was charged for a hotel room. I'm disabled and they stole my money. Do not use these people. I need to get a lawyer to get my money back.

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    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2022

    I was looking for a place to stay that allows dogs. The site recommended a place. I reserved. Just in case I contacted the location and was informed otherwise. The hotel also separately contacted me and told me they do not allow dogs. Now I find that the full amount for my stay - US$450 plus - has been charged to my credit card although I never stayed at the property. I have spent hours talking to various 'customer service' people at Booking.com. I have also contacted the hotel (booking.com refused to provide their phone number). They refuse to refund the charge. I never stayed at the property as they do not allow dogs. Booking.com and the hotel are using every excuse they can to refuse the refund. DO NOT BOOK THROUGH BOOKING.COM. Use booking.com to FIND a property, then contact the property directly. NO REASON to use a middle man! This is highway robbery.

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    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2022

    Among the list of reasons to hire from Booking.com/ America rentals/Rentalcars was the free cancelation, valid up to the start of rental. AFTER I’d paid, given cc# it then listed things I need to have in order to be given a car. When I got to “$7000 damage deposit” I immediately went to “cancel” where I was offered a $32 refund. American rentals had passed me on to Rentalcars who I could not reach? So, after jumping thru several hoops, Booking.com informed me of their refund policy, only valid up to 48hrs before rental. NO ONE has accepted responsibility for the 100% “free refund” that obviously never existed. Renta

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    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2022

    All it says now is; "This review is hidden because it doesn't meet our guidelines." There was no profanity, the hotel was a disaster, and they don't want an honest review with photos? So much for truthful and accurate reviews. I love how services like Booking.com attempt to make it appear that they are supportive and available - good luck trying to speak to them - their customer service has nothing to offer for someone like me who would like to know how my review didn't meet their 'guidelines' or how it violated them.... "Booking.com is available in 43 languages and offers more than 28 million reported accommodation listings, including over 6.2 million homes, apartments, and other unique places to stay. Wherever you want to go and whatever you want to do, Booking.com makes it easy and supports you with 24/7 customer support."

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    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2022

    I have enjoyed using Booking for its choices and prices as well as ease of use. But recently I have had a couple of problems and it is absolutely impossible to get any customer support even though I am Genius Level 3.

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    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2022

    Live in Michigan. Went to Key West for Anniversary. Got to hotel no reservation. Very, very disappointed. Hotel spoke with them in front of us, they said they would call us back ASAP. Nope….Never Again.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 5, 2022

    Please! Don’t use this company at all. If you have any problem with you reservation, they will not help you at all. I did by a ticket to my country and by accident I wrote my last name wrong. When I arrived at the airport 3 hours before of my flight and they said that I could not travel because my last name was different from the passport I started to call them, I did spoke with 5 different agent and none of them helped me to solve my problem. So I lost my flight and still here almost after 6 hours waiting for the right agent call me back. So please don’t lose your money, because if you have any problem they will not help you!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2022

    We booked a trip to Mexico (1/28/2022) with Booking.com for 5 people. The resort charged us for all 5. On the day of trip, one of the adult had covid. We explained the resort manager of the situation and asked for refund for the 5th person. The resort said work with booking.com. Booking.com customer service email is terrible. Had to call England to speak to someone. They had a language barrier, but told us that booking.com can't do anything and talk to resort staff. Basically we got a runaround and in the end we ended of paying $1000 that we didn't receive services for. Horrible customer service and will never use an overseas company name booking.com.

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2022

    It is a bad agency. I made a reservation with Westgate resorts for 700 dollars. They never returned the money back after I canceled it. It is a bad hotel. Booking.com did nothing to recover my money. I am a single mother with two kids. I work hard for my money. It was very unfair. Stay away from them. It is scam.

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2022

    I rented a car through one of their affiliates, rentalcars.com. When I got to the desk at Thrifty, they said the reservation had been cancelled weeks ago and they would not recognize my voucher. Booking.com simply refuses to acknowledge their mistake and reimburse my money. Nobody in customer service responds.

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2022

    I booked a one night stay at a hotel via Booking.com browser. When I received the confirmation email, I downloaded the app to review the booking. Then I saw the exact same hotel stay for cheaper, with the same company. I emailed them immediately and asked if they would do an adjustment for the price. They said they needed the exact booking link which I sent them. I informed them this was the last room available that I booked, so I didn't have the exact dates to show, but I provided an example of the next available dates with screenshots of the browser and app offers.

    Customer Service emailed me back that they couldn't help me, and I would have to cancel my reservation and re-book through the app to get the discount. I indicated to them my concern with cancelling, because it was the last room available and all the rooms were getting booked very quickly, and I didn't want to risk any delay between cancelling, the room showing as available again, and then reserving again through the app. I asked why they couldn't just apply the discount to my current booking, as I hadn't paid yet. They did not answer me for three days. When I emailed again, they just copied and pasted the exact same message as before without reading or answering any of my concerns. Their price match is a complete joke if they refuse to price match different offers within their own company and advertisements, and so is their customer service.

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    Reviewed Jan. 30, 2022

    Wanted to shorten my stay by 2 days on the front end of a booking. No Matter how I explained it, it was impossible for the person to comprehend the request. 1 hour of my time I'll never have back. Booking.com will never have any of my business ever again.

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    Customer ServicePriceBilling

    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2022

    Please save your time, money, and card information before they are stolen from this company. I would give this 0 stars if I could. I booked a hotel with them and contacted the hotel to ensure everything was correct, but the hotel received no information and had no booking. I called Booking several times to find out what was going on, but they insisted on taking my card information again over the phone saying they would make the payment now again for various different charge amounts (which I denied as I had already input the information into the site when I booked and it felt off). They proceeded to hang up on me multiple times when I wanted to know what was going on with my booking and why it did not exist. Ended up having to block my card and get a new one and dispute the charges for a booking that did not exist.

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    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2022

    I never had a problem with Booking.com in the past years until on new year's night they charged on my credit card the amount of AED25105 around US$6800. I didn't have any bookings at all with them neither cancelled or active. It is a fraud and an unauthorised payment. I called and sent too many emails and sent them the bank documents they requested many times since they kept asking for it till today, the same documents over and over again, my account states booking.com Amsterdam. I sent all the details but they didn't answer or show any interest in the case. It is definitely a Fraud and their service is really bad and unprofessional. They stole my money and didn't even take any step yet except sending the same requests for documents although they have them all. Booking.com stole my money so be careful and the suitable rating for them is -5.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2022

    On Dec 31 2021, we booked a hotel near Atlanta Airport through Booking.com. When we showed up at the hotel, they said there's no room, we had to leave. Frustrating. We ended up staying at another hotel booked by phone. Booking.com charged us for the hotel that we couldn't even stay at. Until today, Jan 25 2022, they are still holding that money.

    What's more disgusting about booking.com is, the customer service is garbage at helping. Each time I called, they promise the money will be refund, but they actually never refund. Today in an email sent by booking.com, they asked me to register an account with them, they will give me credit afterwards, and if I do everything they asked, the credit will show up in my account in 5 business days. What a joke! In summary, booking.com made a mistake by booking an unavailable hotel, holding on to my money for a month, and will only give me credit on the condition that I registered account with them. This company is disgusting!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2022

    I booked a room at 10:40 P.M. Mexico time, got a confirmation saying that I have till 11:40 P.M. to cancel... I called 10 minutes after I booked and I was told that the reservation can't be cancelled!!! I was furious and they didn't help me... Not worth it to use this company, they work in a fraudulent way...

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    Customer ServiceCoverageMaintenanceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2022

    I'm not a big fan of using websites like Booking.com as when you have issues one company always points the finger at the other but I used them because they are a preferred partner of American Airlines. That being said I will never use them again. They screwed up my booking and by the time I was trying to fix it the hotel and deal I had was full booked. I spent hours on the phone trying to fix this and not only did this not get fixed but no one seemed to care. I would recommend never using them again!

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceStaffRatesHonesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2022

    Do NOT use Booking.com!!! Awful!! I was lied to about being in a smoking room and a jacuzzi suite. Which the Hyatt in Sumter SC. Has neither!! I asked him multiple times on the phone with him. He reassured me there was. I didn't feel right about the phone call so I called the hotel directly. The women told me that neither is available. Or the smoking room. That it's a non smoking hotel. I was lied to just get a sale and a booking fee! 0 stars! The staff I spoke with on Jan. 21, 2022 around 6pm was completely rude when I called. I'm sure this happened often. They assured me I wouldn't be charged. To call Booking to cancel I did. But I was Still charged. I rate the staff 0, rude and treating me terrible and you care less! For wanting to make sure I was not charged. What a good scam they have going.

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    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2022

    Booking.com prices are low compared to other travel agencies websites. The hotel reviews are of visitors from all over the world traveling, taking vacation, sharing their opinions and experience. I never had a problem using Booking.com. They have a very simple process. Fast and easy reservation. They also show nice photos of activities that will occur in the area during the time of your visit. Also have available rental transportation options, to travel to the festivities, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Most hotels have breakfast. Booking.com will share the info comfortably at your fingertips. I've always left please with a smile. When you know your reservation are secured and you have extra curriculum you can enjoy planned. It makes the trip a lot more exciting. Booking.com is Awesome. Two Thumbs definitely.

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    Refunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2022

    We cancelled a reservation at the last minute due to a covid diagnosis with symptoms. We would not have been allowed into Mexico and would have had to quarantine at resort. Despite providing documentation of diagnosis and order for isolation Booking.com could not obtain a refund. We were only two days past the date for total refund. Instead we lost refund for entire stay. Penalized for doing the right things and following public health policies!

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    Reviewed Jan. 17, 2022

    Booking.com falsely advertises the cancellation is free and it is absolutely not true. I've been waiting to be refunded from two Hotels I booked through them since 12/19/2021 - Hampton Inn Columbus International Airport and Hampton Inn New Albany. In speaking with the Clerk at Hampton Inn New Albany, she advised I call Booking.com to find out why my account hadn't been credited. When I called Booking.com, she blamed the Hotel for not canceling. When I put them on a conference call, they both said they had to discuss my credit privately - without me being on the phone. I came directly here to report the scam and I'll be contacting my Lawyer the next business day. This is close to $400 on the line between both hotels. Ain't nobody got time for that.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2022

    As my bad luck would have it, I ventured to use Booking.com for a flight booking in Dec 2021. Wanted to make schedule changes but there was no way to contact them except thru phone. There is no facility to change or cancel the flights, since this options presents an error message "Oops. Something went wrong. Try again". Their call centre waiting time is minimum 45 minutes and one needs to keep listening to the repetitive, painful messages. They do not provide an idea of the waiting time nor they call you back. Horrible and frustrating. Please avoid this site.

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    Customer ServiceBilling

    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2022

    Been working with them for few years, they got better but still long way to go. First good to mention it's not an US Company so the will never match our Customer Service and some features! Lot of things are made hard which are common sense, inconvenient messages to customer support will get ignored! The biggest security joke is the show you the Credit Card only 5 times that supposed to prevent abuse haha, like you could not take photo of that screen or write down the info! Problem is Guest Don't have any Reviews so the can behave badly at the property the rented!

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    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2022

    Used Booking.com To book one night in Elk Refuge Inn in Jackson Wy. On arrival the hotel informed me that a booking.com double booked the room and they don’t have any rooms. Was stranded at night without a place to stay. Booking.com customer service promised to call back with alternative in 30 min but never did. Spent the whole evening and taxi fare to find a place to stay. Customer Service has not been helpful in getting reimbursed for the extra cost, let alone the inconvenience.

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    Reviewed Jan. 7, 2022

    I am writing this review to warn you that Booking.com will NOT stand up for you or your money; they did not refund or allow us to extend our booking from June 2020 during the peak of the global pandemic. We made a booking Jan. 2020 for a stay in Paris, June 18 2020 to June 25, 2020. My credit card was charged $3,456.26 on Jan 29, 2020. Due to the virus we received an email from booking.com dated March 27, 2020 that due to pandemic we could change or cancel our dates. We opted to change to 2021 as we were certain the virus would be taken care of by then. The property we originally reserved was apparently not available for June 2021 and we choose from their list the 2 bedroom with Cityapartmentstay confirmation number #** for June 24, 2021 to July 2, 2021. With the virus restrictions still a problem we contacted cityapartmentstay to get the reservation continued to June 2022. They have refused.

    We were unable to travel from this time forward to end of 2021. The funds from our original booking were transferred to this new reservation and we had no idea it was all done behind the scenes. We were given the option from booking.com to cancel the original or rebook. When we rebooked with cityapartmentstay they transferred our funds from the original booking to this new booking we assumed we were still working with booking.com.

    As a side note when this virus hit in March 2020 our airlines for this trip extended vouchers to end 2022 as most travel related companies agreed to do. Booking.com nor cityapartmentstay (the vendor on booking.com) are allowing us to book our reservation, instead they are taking our money ($3,456.26) and their response to allow us to re-book was this: "Hello, Thank you for your message. Unfortunately, I cannot extend your voucher to 2022. Best regards," Use a reputable Hotel site or Air BnB...DO NOT use BOOKING.COM or they will take your money. How a company could do this to people during a global pandemic is heartless. To not even allow us to rebook at a later date is unheard of.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2022

    After renting a car through Booking.com we were surprised by the struggle and difficulty we encountered when we needed to make a change. I wanted to change from a 2 wheel drive vehicle to a 4WD or AWD due to inclement winter weather in the location we were traveling to. Last Agent I dealt with had no idea how to accomplish this and decided she would rather argue than listen to our request. From what I could understand from the non-stop and rude monologue she was running, she didn’t understand the difference between front wheel and rear wheel drive, nor the notion of all wheel drive or 4WD. The second agent we lost to a simple phone disconnect. The very first agent got all the way through to the cancellation phase or our initial vehicle so we lost our reservation.

    The attitude of the last agent, coupled with the fact that she wanted to argue, exacerbated an already bad experience by ultimately disconnecting me for the 3rd time. That was egregious enough, but ironically not the nexus point for writing this review. Further, it was not prompted by the potential failure of the underlying infrastructure; that is annoying but it happens. What prompted the review was when the “free cancellation” element listed on the receipt, turned into a ~$100.00 charge. You are less than helpful, insist on insulting me, and disconnect me; I would not expect a positive review, but frankly charging me ~$100.00 was the ultimate insult. I paid it and I must say it was an expensive lesson to learn but where Booking.com is concerned it is one that I will never repeat.

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2022

    Booked and prepaid for hotel through Booking.com. On checking out the hotel also charged for the reservation. Tried to deal with it at the hotel before leaving for our flight, no joy. Called booking.com, was put on hold for the agent to “ research” and then agent hung up on me. The hotel not knowing I had prepaid is ridiculous. Now the burden of proof is on me, needing to send copies of bank and credit card statements. Would strongly recommend not pre paying through Booking.com. Personally, we will never use again.

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    Customer ServiceCoverageMaintenanceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 26, 2021

    Booking canceled our return flight home from Puerto Rico. Every time we called to try to fix it they referred us to the airline. The airline could not help because we went through Booking. They refused to let us speak to a supervisor. We ended up have to rebook the flight at our own expense. They stole our $900 return flight fee. It also took almost an entire day from our vacation trying to deal with them.

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    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2021

    Due to errors with Priceline and Booking.com, I have been on the phone back and forth for 4 days trying to correct an error from their website. Booking.com representative advised me to book the hotel again through Priceline, take a screenshot and email it to her. I’m doing so, they will honor the lowered price. After I completed the task the representative told me to do, I was told they could not honor the lower price.

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    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2021

    I booked on map search. Ended up Booking.com. They changed my dates on the receipt after I booked it. I called them as soon as saw the mistake. They claimed to have called the hotel to cancel it. the date that was changed was to the next day so you couldn't cancel. They said free cancelation with 3 day notice. I notified my bank of this scam and put in a consumer report complaint. Be very careful, buyer beware.

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    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2021

    Booking Reference: **. I got charged on my credit card for a reservation I did not do. Later I got a email saying my credit card is invalid and therefore the booking is cancelled free of charge so I cancelled my flight to Dubai from India. Later I got a email saying my booking is valid. Hotel said Booking.com emailed you for cancellation and reservation and they have charged you so deal with them. Booking.com went through all my email's and chat history with the proof of payments and promised me a refund on 4th December. Now they are not coming on live chat as well as their customer service IVR saying my booking is invalid so I cannot connect to anyone. Please help.

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    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2021

    Booked at North beach hotel through Booking.com site. Hotel rooms not as pictured at all. They promised a refund, my trip was in October. Booking has not released a refund yet and it is now December. Both companies keep blaming each other as reasons I've not gotten my refund. Be aware that these two companies are very shady.

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    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2021

    I booked with them months ago and had to reschedule due to COVID. They are completely uncooperative and will not provide a contact number. The number they have goes to a dept that can't help. It's all, "Don't call us, we'll call you", but they email saying they called and there's no missed calls, so no idea what they're talking about. Complete **, avoid them at all costs.

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2021

    Denied car rental that I booked months ago with Booking.com (with Avis) for a trip to Costa Rica after my flight got delayed. Instead of providing any support in rebooking a new car, customer care asked me to go back to Airport and figure out car rental on my own stating that no rental cars are available for next 72 hours. On the top of it, the company refused to cancel the booking and provide any refund to me. I have sent email 10+ times and called customer care many times without any success. The company is in a business to fraud customers as I think there are many more customers impacted like me. This doesn't account for all additional travel expenses ($2K in 9 days) I incurred without having a rental car.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2021

    On September 2021 I did a reservation for a hotel in State College for May 2022. This is my daughter's graduation date. I was looking at the reservation today, Dec, 12 and found out that it was cancelled. I never cancelled this reservation, the worst of all, the total cost was $1955 and the cancelation fee was $1740. Booking.com stole from me and worst of all I lost the reservation for my daughter's graduation. This is a Scam company. Ridiculous. I want to understand how can I sue this thieves.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2021

    I used Booking.com multiple times over the years when traveling. Usually, all went well. The service helped me find the hotel, helped the hotel find me, and collected its fees in between. Everyone is happy. But one bad apple eventually came along. We reserved a place called Kanakis Apartments, in Crete, Greece. The place turned out to be a SCAM. What they do, is give you a room significantly inferior to the one you reserved (and paid for, as they require immediate payment with no refunds). Then force you to pay more for an "upgrade". Unless you pay up, you'll end up in the shabby room.

    With no windows for example. We refused to stay in that hotel. Rented something else and asked Booking.com for help. That's where we learned that Booking.com is not going to help. They refused to assist saying that they can't do anything, basically siding with the hotel. We lost the money. So, use this service, but know that if you get into an unpleasant situation you cannot count on Booking.com for any assistance. After they've collected their money you are on your own.

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    Reviewed Dec. 9, 2021

    THE ABSOLUTE WORST! I ended up in the street of Mexico because of them. They are really bad. Please don't do business with them. They overbook their places, even after host repeatedly tell them to stop. So they couldn't found a replacement that resemble nearly to my original booking which was 2 bedrooms 2-3 minutes walk to the beach. They kept trying to send me way out of town and with one bedroom. They first said they would paid the difference but then didn't do anything cause their mistakes and it was high season the next available 2 bedrooms was 800$ differences. And I had in writing but the manager said no cause their website reinitialized the amount of guest to one. And I wrote to host about it like 2 mins after the booking was done and it's when he told me the place wasn’t available but Booking even after showing them the message they kept insisting that I only need one bedroom.

    We argue for 3 hours where I show them proof and anyway I book 2 bedrooms and that's what they should provide me with because of their mistake. Who are they to tell what I need or not. And then at the end I was not so much about 2 bedrooms, 2 guests situation but just that they didn't want to pay the difference. Horrible lying people. DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH THEM.

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    Reviewed Dec. 6, 2021

    We arrived at the airport to pick up our car rental at Dollar and was told they had no cars available. We arrived at the exact time we had reserved the car for. They told everyone in line it would be 1-2 hours before they had any cars. I have spent hours trying to get a refund. Told me it would take 72 hours and then 30 days to get a refund. That was if it was approved. I will never use them again. One star because none wasn't an option.

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2021

    After reserving a room at the Red Roof Inn in Mishawaka, Indiana, I got there and was told I didn’t have a reservation. The lady at the front desk was of no help. We were told to call Booking.com. When we did we were told we could get placed somewhere else. At this point it had been about 2 hours, the reservation was for my in-law who had traveled from several hours away. We were never compensated for our wasted time. Had to deal with a hotel front desk lady who was nothing but rude. This website is horrible for booking anything. Terrible experience we had to go through, we ended up going to a different hotel.

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    Reviewed Dec. 2, 2021

    I booked a rental car through this company, never got the car, tried multiple different solutions. They keep saying it's a total loss and are intent to charge in full. NEVER GOT THE CAR. No managers available.

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    Reviewed Nov. 30, 2021

    Worst customer service ever. I had to cancel a reservation due to change of plans and they refused to provide refund even though cancellation occurred as per cancellation policy. The customer service guy Rene was disrespectful, unprofessional and very rude! I was on phone with them for hour and a half and they just kept coming back with reasons as to why they cannot provide refund. After three different excuses, unprofessional attitude I had to hang up out of exhaustion.

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    Reviewed Nov. 23, 2021

    Booked a queen room in New Orleans via Booking.com. Arrived at the hotel and discovered that it did not have queen rooms at all. Instead, Booking.com booked three (!) double rooms for us. Used two rooms out of three, was charged for an additional room. Tried to speak with Booking.com and discovered that it is almost impossible to find their phone number (I could not). In the chat they refused to refund additional charges. Terrible, terrible service. Stay away.

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    Reviewed Nov. 23, 2021

    I booked a reservation for 3 days at a Wildwood motel in NJ and canceled 5 minutes after thru the app. Now I have to pay the full amount to the motel because they said that motel needed to cancel and not me.

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    Booking.com
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    1996
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