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Expedia runs a global travel booking digital site. Consumers can book flights, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages. Founded in 1996, Expedia brings together advanced search tools and user reviews to simplify travel planning. It also offers personalized itineraries.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed March 9, 2020

    No answer on phone when I've tried To call them by phone. The women at the desk doesn't speak English. MOLD in BATHROOMS, cockroaches in bedroom, NOISY airplanes and NEIGHBOUR. No refund possible Expedia said but hotel said yes at first then refuses To give me a refund.

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    Reviewed March 8, 2020

    I called to see if I could change the day of the ticket's birthday that was input incorrectly on my reservation. I waited for 40 min and the agent who took the call said they could do it if I called in an hour. I called back in an hour and this time I was on hold for 1 hour. The agent told me she couldn't change the day and she couldn't cancel the ticket I had bought two hours prior. I asked to speak to a supervisor and was on hold for another 30 min. I selected the option for them to call me back because I couldn't wait for so long and they left me a voice mail saying they could change the day of birth. I called back and was on hold for over an hour and the agent told me to call back in an hour because they were going through a system update and they couldn't do anything. That was the same story they made up the first time I called. I couldn't believe it. HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE. I AM STILL ON HOLD.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaffRates

    Reviewed March 8, 2020

    I booked a hotel through them and after arriving at the hotel the front desk clerk who was very rude and unprofessional wouldn't honor Expedia's pricing. I booked it weeks ago. So I called corporate on the hotel and then Expedia. The customer service rep said hold while I call the hotel and that did nothing. He was so weak. I asked him if he was going to find me another hotel and he said no. Supposed to receive a $50 but it took me calling back 4 times and live chat agent to get it. When I requested to speak with a supervisor I was put on hold for over an hour. I'm so frustrated because it took me an extra 3 hours just to book another hotel and get in the room. I was so upset. The Hilton hotel I'm at now was so concerned they gave me a great deal. I will never use Expedia to book my hotel or stay at a Marriot hotel again. This was by far the worst experience I've ever had at a hotel. So disappointed!!!

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsStaffCommunicationTimeliness

    Reviewed March 7, 2020

    Itinerary **. Booked a package holiday with Expedia before coronavirus outbreak. Me and my daughter both have Asthma and my GP recommended not to Travel to Italy as current situation is worse there. I have contacted Expedia many times, and they keep telling the hotel has to get back to them. Even the hotel in Italy does not respond. They can not do anything.

    I have made 12 calls. All 12 times Expedia says they tried to contact the hotel no response. Can not do anything as the travel agent. Then I ask, "This hotel does not have a front desk so even if it turns up and they do not respond what do you do again?" Expedia says, "We have written to the hotel. No response." I did not pay the hotel directly. I paid to Expedia. They can not take any action is unacceptable. It is an unrepeatable excuse. Then I contacted hotel directly. The hotel responded my direct emails even though he refused to communicate to Expedia. He was rude and arrogant.

    I have email communication from him which says following, "I don't agree to refund you anything because these are the terms and cancellation policy, your dates are not affected by force majeure. You can keep the numbers you give me, your concern in the country where there is no damned Coronavirus. These like you panic by exaggerating the gravity, that in my opinion is an influence and nothing else." "You got too scared about the fact that a virus that simply and novo and little studied but still less serious than many other viruses still around the world." "Insist! What is bad that I told you about the numbers not of the people, and I do not see any offense to your person, go to see how many people die of hunger and thirst in an hour, then you are looking for a reason to be able to get the refund back, causing me in every way. This is the last answer to your insistence. You don't have to tell me what you want to do, just do it, here we end the conversation."

    So please tell me whether you will consider staying at this hotel when the host does not care a tozz about your heath and safety when he is not benefited. Until things goes well he will be the most polite person but when he knows you have no other choice but to rely on him he will be rude and arrogant. Please reconsider before booking with his hotel. Name of the hotel in Italy is Vanella Rome Domus. I contacted Expedia to report this rude behavior of the hotel. Expedia even refused to record my complaint.

    They said, "You have not travelled yet so you are not allowed to do a complaint." I ask for a chance to forward this communication from the rude hotel owner. Expedia said they have no option to do so. One of the team members may get back but up do date no communication from Expedia. Expedia may sound attractive with their travel packages but when it comes to issues with the travel they are useless and give you no solution.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed March 7, 2020

    I am not very computer savvy but it was very easy to establish my airline reservation. To be sure that everything was accomplished correctly I phoned Expedia and the customer service rep reviewed my reservation input line by line and confirmed my reservation. Asked the customer rep several questions concerning what I should do once I received my E ticket and he was very helpful. While we were still on the phone he said to check my email to see if I had any further questions. My customer service experience was one of a very few that I have dealt with in the past that I felt went above and beyond. I'm certain I will have no problems when I go to the airport because I will already be checked in 24 hours prior to flight time.

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    Customer ServiceStaffTransparency

    Reviewed March 7, 2020

    I made a hotel reservation which I voluntarily prepaid, via Expedia.com.au for the dates 8th March to 12th March 2020, to attend an exhibition in Frankfurt. On the 26th of February Light and Building organizers informing us that the exhibition was postponed due to coronavirus. My first attempt to contact expedia was on the 27th of February to explain the situation. After the phone call they contacted me via email to say that they have submitted my request to the hotel. I received no further updates except for an email saying that they were trying to call the hotel but the reception did not answer the phone. In the meantime I got the new dates and wished to rebook so I send an email with my request. A few days passed with complete silence during which I was trying to contact expedia but could not get through.

    Today after an urgent email that I had send yesterday, they replied that they…. “have checked and can see that we (expedia) have tried to call the hotel more than twice but did not get any response. We are sorry we are unable to make any changes as your reservation has already came in inside penalty and we have to go as per the policy.”

    In other words, "Sorry but you have been punished because the organizers postponed the exhibition due to coronavirus and we did not do much to contact the Hotel and change your reservation". At a time when a global health issue affects so many events around the world and cause problems to travelers I would expect Expedia to be more flexible and work for the clients/travelers and not against them. Expedia has the most unprofessional and inattentive team.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsStaffTimeliness

    Reviewed March 6, 2020

    We had to cancel our trip to Athens, Greece two weeks prior to travel date due to corona-virus scare that is rapidly spreading in Europe. Since the past weeks we been reaching out to Expedia to give future travel airline credit if refund is not possible. We called Expedia customer service numerous times spending an average of 3-4 hours in the call and we get the same response every time... "we reached out to airlines and within next 24-48 hours we will hear from them and we will notify you". Many 24 & 48 hours have passed since then. No response from Expedia.

    Expedia doesn't seem the understand the severity of health crisis.. They don't understand under what circumstances we decided to cancel the trip. Greece is not our home country. If we travel there and get quarantined due to virus, we have no place to go. Our child is traveling with us. If he gets sick due to this virus, it will be devastating for us. It is appalling how horrible Expedia customer service is. Expedia's customer service is not just dissatisfying but incredibly inadequate, unfriendly and in no way is willing to help the customer. It has been a terrible experience what we are going thru their customer service.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed March 6, 2020

    Made a mistake booking a hotel, tried to immediately correct it. After, 4 phone calls and 1.5hrs on the phone with a call center in the Philippines with customer service reps that were flustered and just taught English yesterday I am still out $300. The hotel says that Expedia has the discretion to refund and Expedia will say that it’s not true. Do not use Expedia.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed March 5, 2020

    Expedia refuses to give refunds. I've been on hold for over 1hr and 20mins trying to get a refund for a car rental protection plan. The plan didnt offer what my rental car company suggested I need so I took a better offer. I tried cancelling before taking my rental but expedia had a 57-1.5hr wait time. Upon getting through I had my car already and they said If I would have waited and not got my car then maybe they could refund me but now they cant. This company only worries about how much money they can get out of people instead of helping people out. They refuse to help period! Expedia customer service is the worst! And we refuse to book with them again.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed March 5, 2020

    I booked a hotel through Expedia and need to cancel within 72 hours. I have been online and on the phone for the past three hours trying to resolve the issue. There is no way to look up my reservation because Expedia says I don't have one; the hotel says that Expedia booked my reservation; and AmEx deleted the reward points. I finally got somebody in India, who told me that Expedia had booked through Expedia Partners and that I had to go to them. They have no record of the transaction. In other words, I'm **. Never -- ever-- Expedia again.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed March 5, 2020

    I booked a flight and had prepaid my hotel. I ended up having the paramedics called for me at the airport and not making the trip. The airline, Delta, refunded my flights along with the flight of my friend who was traveling with me. I called the hotel and they told me I'd have to talk to Expedia. I called Expedia and they told me I had to get the approval of the hotel manager. So I called the hotel back and they had the manager call me. The hotel agreed to a full refund. That was over a month ago.

    To this day Expedia says they've never received confirmation. They won't call the hotel to get the confirmation unless I'm on the phone with them. And so far I've never managed to call when the manager at the hotel is available to confirm the refund for Expedia. There is a two hour time difference between where I live and where I was traveling to. I used to recommend Expedia. Then I had a bit of trouble with hotel reservations. Now this. I not only don't recommend Expedia I actively tell anyone who will listen not to use Expedia. I have spent the equivalent of a business day on the phone on hold with them and have gotten nowhere.

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed March 4, 2020

    WE prepaid for the Hilton in Bimini for 3 nights in Feb. 2020. When we tried to check in, Expedia had failed to send our reservation and the fact that we had paid in full to the Hilton. The Hilton had no record of our reservation. While we tried to straighten it out, we waited in the lobby with our bags. Took a walk, and after 3 plus hours, and getting the hotel manager involved with Expedia, finally Expedia sent them our reservation. Terrible service by Expedia, and no recompense or apologies from Expedia. Bad service. Next time book direct with the hotel and airline, as we were stressed out and disappointed with Expedia.

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    Customer ServiceCoveragePricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaffBillingRates

    Reviewed March 3, 2020

    Expedia has TERRIBLE Customer Service. Do not use Expedia for flights. Book directly with the airlines who offer the same price flights if you use google flights to search. I could not check to my international flight the night before leaving. Expedia told me my middle name wasn't on my ticket so I needed it added. Expedia called Delta and told me it would cost $50, took my credit card and I thought it was done. 2 hours later Expedia called me saying they never added my middle name despite taking my CC number and said it would not be added and I might not get on my flight because my name does not match my passport.

    SUMMARY I was on and off hold for hours getting calls from Expedia employees who were probably calling from INDIA who could not fix my problem. I show up at the airport and Delta fixed all my problems no issue FOR FREE. EXPEDIA DID NOTHING TO HELP ME FIX ISSUES THE NIGHT BEFORE MY INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT. I had a similar issue years ago and my CC company got involved and refunded my ticket.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed March 3, 2020

    I booked a flight through Expedia that then had to cancel and Expedia guaranteed me that I would have a future credit with the airline for that trip canceled for the full amount of the trip minus a minor re booking cost. When I eventually wanted to use the credit, had to call Expedia 3 times, with the calls lasting more than 1 hour and no one seemed to know how was this credit given to me since apparently the airline in question (Interjet) doesn't give out credits.

    I finally get hold of the airline and they tell me that out of that credit, only 25% of it can be used towards booking (the rest is taxes and fees). BEWARE of cancelling or changing flights through Expedia since they do this false advertising and you end up wasting your time and money when trying to actually use this called "benefit". Lesson learned, never book through Expedia again and go directly to the airline who at least have the information cleared and you can deal with them without Expedia being the intermediary.

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    Customer ServiceCoveragePriceRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed March 3, 2020

    I booked a package a week ago. Found out that Spirit airlines doesn’t offer WiFi or tv for a 4 hour flight. Purchased the insurance which states you can change or cancel for any reason. When I called to change my departure flight Expedia said they could not help me and to call spirit. Spirit will not refund me only give a credit and will charge for penalty fees. What was the point of the insurance then? Very deceiving. Very upset.

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    Price

    Reviewed March 2, 2020

    When I reserved a room for myself, I got a really nasty surprise at check-in. They demanded I pay an extra $50 that wasn't listed when I booked online. The motel stated that it was Expedia that charges this due to it being done online, which is ridiculous. It's really ironic, too, because I had just used Expedia previously and there weren't extra charges (and it was reserved online), so I don't know if they charge extra at specific motels or what, but I am very done with Expedia! At this time, I am trying to fight to get that $50 back. The clerk at the motel said it could take up to 10 days to get it returned. This is money that should not have been taken to begin with.

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    Refunds & Payouts

    Reviewed March 2, 2020

    Nonrefundable hotel bookings, I was not aware of this when I made the reservation. I had to cancel my travel plans and am screwed out of my money. The hotel actually says they would be willing to refund my money but Expedia is not. Complete rip off, our travel dates were not even close to the cancel dates. I lost our 400 dollars, but I have learned a lesson and Expedia is out a customer. So congratulations Expedia, while you might have taken my money, you lost a customer and many more from this review.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaffBilling

    Reviewed March 1, 2020

    On February 26, I booked a round trip flight to LA online. After payment, confirmation page showed me that my flight is to Ontario, Canada. Then going back is still from LA to Grand Island. Which leaves me with no flight between Ontario and LA. I called and the representative was very helpful. She cancelled the flight going to Ontario. She went on correcting the error, tried to rebook my flight to LA and she kept getting the same error of having the flight to Ontario 2x. She said she will have the problem reported.

    Tried once more and she got it right this time but the airfare went up from $1,000 to $1,800+ (my daughter and I are traveling). Frustrated by this, I asked her to try the nearest airport. She found a cheaper fare and booked it. The representative was amazing. However, because of all the hassle that I had to go through, such as waiting for my money to go back to my account after the cancellation, had to call customer service and stay on the line for more than an hour, I now have to go through the trouble of driving from my county to another county for 40 minutes to get to my flight and vice versa. Expedia had nothing to offer to make it easier for me and my daughter. I asked the representative about it and she said that she did all her best and stayed with me on the phone to solve the problem. Like that should be enough. Either they don’t know what was happening or they are trying to conceal the problem and blame it on the users.

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    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2020

    POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! I booked a hotel in London that had a cancellation policy of 72 hours in advance for a 2-day stay from 12/27-29/2019. Due to a friend's death the morning of 12/23 (and dealing with that all day), I ended up cancelling late in the day on 12/23, knowing that 12/23 was the last day I had to cancel. BUT, because of the time difference, I ended up being 2 HOURS after their deadline. An unfamiliar time difference was the last thing on my mind that day while dealing with a death.

    This hotel and Expedia showed POOR customer service in that they had zero flexibility and offered no concessions. They both refused to meet me in the middle to only charge me for one night instead of for two, considering that I technically only missed their 72 hour in advance window for one of the two nights. Even though it was the hotel's policy, I feel like Expedia could have offered some concession for someone who had booked 29 hotel NIGHTS thru Expedia between 11/30-12/29.

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    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2020

    We booked a bundle package through Expedia 2/20/2020 through 2/23/2020. We were travelling from Oregon to Atlanta, Georgia to see our son graduate AIT training to start his Army career. The day before our flight, I call the customer service number to ask about taking liquid medication on the flight, was asked about itinerary number and/or confirmation number??? I said to them, "I just want to know if I can take my medication on my carry on or if I need to check it in?" They would not answer my question unless I gave them a confirmation number. I should have hung up at that point.

    I finally gave in, gave them the itinerary number. They start telling me that we have no confirmation flight leaving from Denver to Atlanta and asked if I want to authorize a change in the flight plan. I told them, "Absolutely not, I am not authorizing any changes to my itinerary. I just want a question about what I am taking on board the flight answered????" At that point I hung up.

    My wife gets an E-mail an hour later saying that expedia has received our request to cancel our trip. She comes home and spends an hour being shuffled around from agent to agent until an Agent named George finally says that everything has been placed back to our original plan. At this point, we are scared to death that our flight, hotel and return flight are going to be all screwed up. We end up flying out of Oregon, arriving in Atlanta and all is well, we pick up our rental car, arrive at the hotel only to find out or hotel had been cancelled and we end up having to pay 100 bucks more to rent the room.

    The following day we get an E-mail from EXPEDIA saying they have received our request to cancel or flight agenda due to a death in the family, none of this has been requested by us of course, at this point we have no idea if we even have a flight home and were terrified to call and ask any question based on our experience the day before traveling. We did get home on our original flight and however, our entire trip was nothing but a stressful and completed ruined trip. I WILL NEVER USE THEM AGAIN. After reading the reviews above I feel lucky to have gotten home and only getting screwed out of 100 bucks. OH, and everyone I spoke with had an accent and was very difficult to communicate with. Nothing against them, it's all another way for expedia to take advantage of people. DONT DO IT!! Set up travel plans yourself or pay the price.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2020

    I recently booked a flight through Expedia for 4 people. Delta was the carrier and a few days after my confirmed flight and it was paid for Delta changed our flight. I called Delta and they said they could not do anything for me because I booked through Expedia. I called Expedia and they told me the only thing they could do was cancel my flight and refund my money. I can’t cancel my flight! I will never book through them again and highly recommend you don’t either!

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2020

    We only asked Expedia to do two things throughout our entire stay. They failed us on both. Firstly we visited the hospitality desk at Occidental to arrange our return transfer. We had prebooked private transfers and got to the hotel fine. The reps confirmed that our pickup time would be 10am. On our final day we headed for the pickup point. 20 minutes later no one showed so we got the hotels guest services to cal them. No one was coming, Expedia had messed up. We had to book a private cab and shell out more money to try and get a refund when we get home.

    Prior to this we booked one excursion through the Expedia reps. It got to the day of this excursion and no one turned up to pick us up. The hospitality desk doesn’t open when the excursions start so we had to wait an hour to to ask ask them why we were still waiting. He said there had been some confusion and therefore we had no transfer booked. Overall the service out provided by Expedia in Mexico is an utter shambles and we won’t be going through them Again.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsStaffTransparency

    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2020

    My brother and I booked a flight with Alitalia for travel within Italy for last Fall. Since our 88 year old mom fell ill, she had to be hospitalized and we had to take turns and care of her. Therefore, we had to cancel our identical Alitalia flights that were booked separately with Expedia. We both submitted IDENTICAL HOSPITAL DOCUMENTATION, proving that mother was hospitalized, plus our respective birth certificates. My brother's request was immediately approved within a few weeks of submission. My refund request continues to be denied due to hospital documentation reasons. They keep on asking for a hospital certificate and the hospital is not aware of what that is.

    I asked for an explanation of the inconsistencies in hospital documentation requirements and that request went to deaf ears as every single reply I received from Expedia IGNORED that very question on why the inconsistencies. Their reply simply states request denied and there is nothing they can do about it. Most importantly, I don't think Expedia cares. It's been going on for at least 5 months and my mom has since passed away and it is rather obvious that Expedia prefers profits over compassion. I am not trying to cheat them. I had to cancel as mother was hospitalized and we had to care for her, full time! And the documentation we submitted PROVES that she was hospitalized. Again, using identical hospital documentation, my brother's refund request was immediately approved and mine continues to be declined. WHY???

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2020

    Shouldn’t have to lose $2000 when an emergency comes up. Can’t travel because our beloved family dog recently became very sick. Canceled the notes, flight and rental car five days before trip. The hotel canceled with no issue and said they wouldn’t charge us a fee. Why should Expedia keep our money for the hotel. We should at least get back what we were charged for hotel room for four nights.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2020

    Expedia would not change or cancel my flights (for credit) more than a week before departure even though airline fare rules permitted changes. After 6 hours waiting on the phone while they repeatedly promised to help they eventually did nothing and made all manner of excuses as to why they could not help. I purchased a round trip ticket through Expedia. Ticket noted the following in relation to changes:

    "Airline rules + restrictions. We understand that sometimes plans change. We do not charge a cancel or change fee. When the airline charges such fees in accordance with its own policies, the cost will be passed on to you. Tickets are nonrefundable and nontransferable. Itinerary changes are permitted, fee may apply. A change fee of $500.00 per ticket is charged by the airline for all itinerary changes."

    The above actually makes no sense because different airlines charge different change fees depending on fare rules. In my case the airline charges a $250 fee for changes. When I needed to change my itinerary Expedia was unable or unwilling to change it or even cancel for credit. I was left with the choice of taking flights or forfeiting the ticket. In addition, at some point after purchase, Expedia unilaterally changed my itinerary to depart 10 hours earlier than originally booked with a 10 hour extension of layover at next connection. Expedia gave all manner of excuses for not being able to make my requested changes - all reasons denied as being valid by the airline. Airline refused to cancel ticket which I think is also wrong. I will in future stick to purchasing flights on airline websites directly.

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    Customer ServiceCoveragePriceRefunds & PayoutsMaintenanceRates

    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2020

    I purchase plane tickets and the flights changed several times to the point the airlines cancelled outright. I had also purchased the insurance. I called to fix the flights and they repeated there was nothing available though I can see there were flights with the original carrier as well as their partner carriers. Issue is the price went up so they repeatedly said, "There’s nothing available. But sure you can have a refund!" At that point I was fed up and agreed.

    Here’s the kicker. The card I used was compromised between the time I bought the tickets to when I asked for a refund. I had a new card issued in its place. They again said the only way to issue a refund was to the card used for the purchase. I told them the issue and he repeated it and said sorry probably 30 plus times. I asked for a paper check and he said no because of fraud issues. The only one committing fraud in this case was Expedia. I am out $2000 dollars not even counting the insurance. I will never in my life use Expedia again and warn anyone that this may happen. They will gladly say sorry and keep $2000 and lose one customer.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2020

    I booked a Carnival Cruise with Expedia on December and bought a travel protection plan. But 16 days before departure I decided to cancel because a Coronavirus. We are old people, my husband, 74, and I, 72, we think it was a big risk for us. Carnival returned us the third part of the payment, but the protection plan returned nothing. They said the Coronavirus is not included in the policy. It’s is a ridiculous. So, the protection plan is good for nothing.

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    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2020

    We booked a cruise 14 months before date and 8 weeks before cruise we received notice our cruise was cancelled and they returned our money paid for excursions. Called agent at Expedia and got nothing but confusion. Had to call Royal Caribbean to get all things in the trip back to normal. Agent was so little help and seem to be taking time as it was not a priority with him.

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    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2020

    After the airline changed a flight, Expedia representatives were not able to see it and so had to call the airline. This took multiple hours of telephone hell each time. I say each time, because every time it was almost done, something would happen that would require me to be transferred to someone else and then that person would not be able to verify anything that the previous Expedia agent had gone through. So, I've now been on the phone with these people for about seven hours and a supervisor has just had to restart the entire process. I will never use Expedia again. I'll just go straight to the airline. Any third party just makes any change an absolute hell to deal with and the prices are not any better.

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2020

    Booked a flights and Hotel package and when attempted to pay for it only partial payment was deducted from my account, this happened twice as I tried again from my laptop. The first time I called the lady from support team was able to cancel the pending transaction and my money was returned, the second time I called customer service and they were mocking me, hanging up on me, pretending to transfer me to support but in actual fact they were just putting me on and off from hold. The customer service is disgusting, they brought me to tears. I'm still waiting for my money to return. I will NEVER use Expedia and will be on the phone to the ombudsman today, I don't understand how such people hold a job in customer service. Disgusting!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2020

    I have made this Expedia review very specific to Car Rental in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico because of several bad experiences with Expedia and poor customer service afterwards. Expedia carries ads for most of the car rental agencies in Puerto Vallarta which all say that they include liability insurance in the rental rate. Even the 'fine print' of the individual company contracts on their own site state that minimum liability insurance is included but additional liability insurance is available as an OPTION.

    The problem comes when you arrive at the agency to pick up your car. You are then told that the additional liability insurance is MANDATORY and you must pay between $18 and $21/day extra. This often more than doubles your rental cost but they will not give you the car unless you pay it. The story that the additional liability is mandatory is a lie but all of the agencies on the Expedia site (there are some that are not) use this scam, which leads me to believe that all the agency franchise are held by one person.

    Complaints to Expedia result in communication with their entry level Customer Service reps who have no clue about what you are talking about or any understanding that the rental company has contravened a contract posted on Expedia's own site. Escalation of the complaint usually results in long wait times only to be told that Expedia cannot be responsible for the rental agencies actions. Even complaints to the Rental Companies US corporate sites are met with "Mexican agencies are independent and we cannot be responsible". If Expedia truly believe that they are not responsible for numerous financial and contractual statements on their own site then I believe this is ample reason not to use their booking system for car rental in Puerto Vallarta. Some honest and trustworthy companies not on Expedia are Sixt & Gecko

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2020

    Reservations incorrect on multiple occasions. Expedia has been the platform we use to book trips. In the past couple years this includes Thailand twice, Aruba, Cancun, NYC, Miami and others. This is the second occasion where we have chosen a hotel booking with free breakfast and have got to the hotel and been told the breakfast was not included. I called Expedia again and was told there is nothing they can do. This is the last time we will use Expedia and I will make sure all of my friends, family and clients are aware of our experience.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2020

    I had to cancel a flight that was booked through Hong Kong because of the coronavirus. I called Expedia and was able to get an agent quickly. The agent's name was Patch. She assisted me in cancelling my flight and getting me a replacement flight. Her attitude was so pleasant and she went above and beyond to assist me. Her service was so refreshing. It made what could have been a horrible experience into the best service I can remember. Thank you.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2020

    On 26 of January, me and 4 more friends decided to get one night accommodation in North Bank Apartments in Melbourne, Australia. Everything was ok, until I decided to contact the Expedia member and request to EXTEND one more day at that apartment, the payment/confirmation was done via phone, very quickly. The things became weird when during a short trip around Melbourne someone from the Hotel informed that they didn't find any reservation (extension that I requested) on their system. The manager on Duty informed that we could not stay there. Clearly a misunderstanding of their team member who booked a different day and obviously the hotel was unable to find my details there. I requested the refund because it was not my fault and also requested the recording of my call to them.

    Well, after more then 12 times calling Expedia almost 4 weeks trying to solve this issue, they gave me a code/number saying that the refund will be done in 5 to 7 days. Well, surprisingly they sent me an email yesterday 14 of February, informing that was my mistake and they are not going to refund me. I am tired to keep calling this company requesting the recording and they just ignore me. It's frustrating and disrespectful with their arrogance. #NOMOREEXPEDIA

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2020

    I am with Expedia CA for five years. I often book hotels with them, and rarely book flights. I booked the return flights from Canada to China with EXPEDIA CA two months ago. One week before I returned to Canada, I received the flight reschedule email from EXPEDIA. When I arrived at the airport, the check in officer said that they could not retrieve my ticket# that I need to process my check in. I showed the notified email to the officer, she suggested me to contact EXPEDIA CA for the missing info. My flight would be departed in 2hours. I certainly did, spending more than one hour on $3/min international calling charge with the Expedia agent. He sent me to the previous airline counter which is Air Canada and now operated by Air China.

    Unluckily, the counter of AirCanada did not have officer working at the counter at that moment. And then the agent told me back to the Air China counter. When I arrived at the Air China counter, the agent was on hold mode around 25 minutes. I could not take the 25 minutes with a check in officer cuz I already asked for a space for cutting the line. At the end, I helped myself and called the Air Canada to deal with it and it took me 1 minute.

    The day after I arrived at Canada, I received the Expedia Survey. I reported the issue and requested they should pay for my international calling charge around $234. They replied after two days and blame to the airline who has the access on the reservation, all they can do is that they have sent me the airline reschedule email. I thought I was too mad to write the feedback to Expedia. So I added some screenshots from my expedia account and the email I received. Now I think I did too much for them to let them know what they are doing wrong, they are not taking responsibility to their clients and they deserve to lose loyalty customers.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2020

    My husband and I booked our flights with Expedia for our honeymoon in September of 2019. We were planning on going to Australia. But wanted to make a pit stop in Hawaii to break up the long flight from Toronto. We chose the multi-trip option and got TORONTO to Vancouver to Honolulu then 6 days later we were going from Honolulu to Sydney to Melbourne. 14 days later we fly from Melbourne back to Toronto. Then after a bit more research. We decided we wanted to stay in Sydney instead of a quick stop over and we would find our way back to Melbourne in order to come back to Toronto. Seemed easy, we had a layover in Sydney anyways, we’d just skip our flight to Melbourne.

    But just to be safe, we thought we’d call Expedia and let them know beforehand so that they could resell our ticket from Sydney to Melbourne. However, they said if we wanted to skip our 1.5 hour flight, it would be considered a no show and they would cancel the rest of our trip. Meaning we would need to buy a new way home (this would cost us like 2K+). But we were giving them a heads up?! How could this be a no show? They then said they could change it but it would cost us $250 a ticket. At this point, we didn’t care, we said, "Sure!" Then they said their system couldn’t process it and we would have to cancel the entire trip with a $500 per person fee and rebook at a new price ($1000 + new price $4000).

    So just to not go on a flight it was going to cost us 2K, if not more). Crazy right? So new plan. Take all our flights as ticketed and purchase an additional flight that would take us back to Sydney to Melbourne ($300). Sounds brilliant right? Well, our flight from Honolulu landed in Sydney at 5 PM. Then our flight from Sydney to Melbourne didn’t leave until 10PM, meaning we wouldn’t arrive in Sydney until like 11:30 PM. The next flight back to Melbourne didn’t leave until 6AM the next day. So we are sleeping overnight in the Melbourne airport only to be back in Sydney by 8AM. All of this, so they wouldn’t consider skipping a 1.5 hour flight a no show and so that we could get back to Toronto without buying a new ticket. Also, none of our airlines were able to help us with this, even though both Quantas and Jetstar employees thought the entire thing was ridiculous. In what world is any of the above okay? Happy honeymoon to us.

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    PriceRefunds & PayoutsStaffHonesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2020

    We had an absolutely horrible experience at the RIU Palace in Cabo. They needed to refund the $450 we paid for an upgrade. We had to switch rooms, were promised another free upgrade and they never delivered. I wrote to RIU HQ and they said I needed to contact Expedia. Expedia did NOTHING for us and this mess has gone on for months. RIU lied and claimed they offered us $80....RIDICULOUS! First, why offer $80 when we paid $450 for the upgrade?? Second, why would we turn money down??? There were so many problems with this stay. I don’t have time to explain it all!

    Our trips are for business and free for us. But if they send us back to the RIU, I think I’ll actually turn it down! My wife and I went to Italy last year. Our taxi we booked didn’t show up in Rome. TripMasters immediately took care of it and were very helpful. Expedia has been the exact opposite! Do yourself a favor and book with TripMasters and stay away from Expedia! I hope the $450 is worth it to the RIU and to Expedia! Never again!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2020

    Expedia customer service does not care, they do their best not to refund your ticket, they tell you that you can not modify or cancel whereas it’s clearly says you can when you book online, they create stories, you wait forever to talk to them, WILL NEVER USE again! And the worst part is they are more expensive than if you book directly with the airline (Flydubai for example).

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    PriceRates

    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2020

    Booked a room in the Marmot Lodge in Jasper through Expedia. Charged me double of what the rooms actually cost. What a price gouging company. Charged me $248.00 for a room that costs $113.00. Shameful.

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    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2020

    This website publishes much false information regarding pricing for members with points or coupons. Very often if you attempt to book online using points or coupons, you will not be able to do it because the hotel will not accept the reduced payment. Even after calling Expedia customer service there is a good likelihood you will not get the discount advertised to members. In exchange they will offer you a coupon that you will NOT be able to use upon your next attempt to get a reduced price. Save your grief and book with the hotel.

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    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2020

    Coronavirus is now a Global threat. As I cancelled our stay at Dusit Thani, Makati through Expedia due to the Novel Coronavirus not for our convenience, Expedia and Dusit Thani refuses to refund our hotel reservation cost. Booking dot com provided us a refund of our seven day hotel booking and Mango Tours gave us our flight expense for two to Manila. I suppose Expedia and Dusit Thani is not aware of Coronavirus or does not care about their customers. Feb. 7, 2020.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2020

    Customer service is very terrible or I should say there is no customer service!! I have been on the phone waiting for one and half an hour but no one answer my call but once I select make a booking and I got to speak to someone within 5 mins!!! Then I was transferred to change and cancel team again and waited for another an hour!!! What a joke!! Sales you are served but problem, you got sent away and no one after you. It is very terrible. It is worth to buy tickets directly from airline. I got to cancel a ticket which I bought from Emirate and the process was smooth. Not recommended this website, think twice!! You pay what you get.

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    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2020

    I booked via phone for the purpose of making sure I was being informed as to what my package contained and what extras could be added. The booking agent made every option seem like all the passengers I booked for we’re getting all options we spoke of. Long story short and many calls to Expedia later I found out that 1 person in each cabin was excluded from drink packages, specialty dining and my WiFi minutes were way less than what was told to me on the phone. I have spoken to everyone I could possibly speak to and all they could come up with was a $100 voucher for future travel. Please save yourself the headache and the money. Go with another travel site or service or directly with the cruise line.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaffBillingRatesTransparency

    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2020

    We booked 2 tickets on Tropic Air. Expedia confirmed the booking both by text and email. When we got to the airport for the flights we were advised Expedia had cancelled the tickets (without notifying us at all). Luckily we were able to buy 2 tickets on the flights or Expedia's error would have been far more impactful for our holiday. The original tickets paid for through Expedia were successfully charged to our credit card and Expedia did promptly refund this charge (without associated fees and charges). We asked Expedia for an explanation and for refund of the $60 in fees. The whole entire waste of time email trail to and from Expedia is available - many times the reviewer did not even read the information nor understand the issue. They tried telling us WE had cancelled the tickets many times and later moved on to claiming it was a credit card issue and the charge was rejected (garbage - it was successfully charged).

    They also kept telling us that because the charge was rejected it would be cancelled without even being charged to the card - yet they had our credit card statements showing this was garbage. The whole dispute process was a waste of my time it appears they never had any interest in solving the problem. They have never explained why they cancelled the tickets.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2020

    Expedia is selling cancelled flights, and refusing to give a refund. Expedia refers you to the airline, which has no contact number for a refund. They then send you a strange number for expedia to explain to you how to get a refund. They wasted a morning of my time with their idiotic customer services people. NOTE TO EXPEDIA, give me back my money that you have STOLEN. I will not go away and the longer this goes on the more compensation I will be seeking. I will report you to trading standards. I am absolutely disgusted with your level of customer service.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 5, 2020

    What is up with the people that answers the calls at Expedia?? Expedia used to be good and now they have the weirdest and awkward reps that answer the calls. Booked an all inclusive package and needed more information about my booking and I get connected to the all inclusive vacation line, and this man basically turned every inquiry that I made into what shouldn't have been so complicated. How many different ways do I need to word: how many beds are included in the hotel room I booked? He seemed appalled and shocked and confused by this question.

    His attitude made it seem like it was a burden to answer any of my questions and almost as if he was doing ME a favor by answering. WELL MY APOLOGIES EXPEDIA! Sorry to hassle you by giving you money to use your service. I am now considering cancelling this package as I am utterly disgusted by how Expedia treats their customers. Would never book again and definitely spreading the word so that nobody books with this awful company again!

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    Reviewed Feb. 3, 2020

    Hi, I recently booked an hotel with free cancellation with Expedia.ca. I cancelled prior to the date and received a confirmation by Expedia confirming that I would not get charged on my credit card. 2 weeks later, I realized that the hotel in Asia charged my credit card and therefore that Expedia shared my credit card and personal information to the hotel without my consent and after I cancelled. It’s been more then a month and I still haven’t been able to retrieve the money. Be careful with this company that share personal credit information!!!

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsCoveragePricePunctuality & SpeedBillingHonesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2020

    Pretty sure their system fails to charge my credit card after they send me an email indicating that I have successfully booked the flight. And I received one email one week prior to my flight saying that the airline has cancelled my flight. When called back for resolution, first girl says they will cover the cost of rebooking. 1 hour later, I called back, they claim that it is too expensive and they will only cover up to $1500+ my cost of original booking. Fine, I find another cheaper flight and call them again to ask them to book this cheaper one for me, and second lady recorded everything I told them but later told me that they will NOT rebook for me. She left a voice mail: sorry, good luck and have a good day.

    I called the airline, and the airline says they never cancelled my flight and they didn't even see my booking information. When I checked my credit card, I realized they never charged me for my original booking. And they lied about the airline cancel the flight to bounce back the responsibility to the airline. Stay away from Expedia.

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    Customer ServiceCoverageStaffBilling

    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2020

    Website would not accept AmEx payment. Called contact number, Rep could not add trip insurance from her position. Transferred call to "insurance" WITHOUT booking room. On hold for over 15 min, nobody ever picked up call.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceOnline & App

    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2020

    In the WebSite is one total Amount, but what you pay is totally different. They charged me for plate pass. I was told it was going to be a certain amount, but when Paid it was double, and I barely used it. I recommend do not get the plate pass if you're not going to travel outside place you're visiting, they going to insist to get it. Poor customer service as well. Also if get your car with gas in it, they don't give any credit, check your vehicle when you receive it and take pictures, I got mine with one missing headlight.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2020

    After failing to reach Expedia by phone yesterday ("no one available" recording then disconnection)--then reading many terrible reviews of Expedia service related to coronavirus cancellations--my friend and I expected the worst when we called today. We had a Thailand trip booked through Expedia, transferring planes in Beijing. But today, the wondrous Michelle answered the phone, cancelled trip #1 and rebooked, taking time to ensure we had the best possible itinerary. We had spent enough time online searching yesterday to know we're really fortunate to have our new trip--a bit more expensive than the last, but we leave in three days so no surprise there, and no longer than the original one. The frustration of other Expedia reviewers sounds just awful: so here's my advice: ask for Michelle!

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Jan. 30, 2020

    I don’t recommend this travel site, I cancelled a hotel reservation but it’s now 1 month and still they didn’t refund my money! I called them 4-5x already! They passed my call to different department but still no clear answer.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaffTransparency

    Reviewed Jan. 29, 2020

    There are some serious flaws in Expedia's software. I spent 2 hours carefully screening all possible angles of reaching my final destination early evening. Expedia sent me an email to say the airline changed the departure flight and to select an option from 2 provided ...both arriving much later and having a much longer (hours) airport layover. I choose the least painful one with a now 3 hour later arrival time. No update was done to my reservation however 2 days later. What they had done though was gave me a connecting flight that took off EARLIER than my LANDING flight! Perfect! They have serious quality assurance problems, with software that is clearly unable to do maths to see this places the customer in an impossible position.

    IF I hadn't gone into my reservation to double check them and assumed all is well I'd have had a nasty surprise on my day of travel. In addition to that I wouldn't not have made my tight schedule of various hotel appointments all over the country. We pay them for this "service" and now I am spending my valuable time trying to get it FIXED! No one is picking up at CS and the email "service" clearly is non responsive. I regret buying through them and should've gone direct to airlines...Buyer BEWARE!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2020

    I purchased two tickets over the phone with Expedia and within the next days the price dropped down from 866.59 to 688.10 and the other flight from 998.59 to 812.10. So we are talking about 364.98 less than when I bought those tickets and they don't do anything about it. Yet, they don't give you any at least 24 hours cancellation, as soon as you pay you are screwed. This is the first time I bought tickets from expedia and I don't like their policies. I will try to avoid them later. There are other websites that offers you a bit more than Expedia. Think twice when you are buying from expedia. I have never wrote a review but I am quite upset about this.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2020

    Me and my wife have used Expedia as our professional travel agency for 10 years without issue. We put our trust in them completely. This year Expedia advertised a vacation package in Jamaica as all inclusive. Without hesitation me and my wife had confidence in Expedia to have our best interest in mind when offering vacation packages to the public. We found out the hard way that Expedia isn’t professional and most certainly do not care if a package that they market and sell puts you in danger. They only care about the money. I didn’t think a professional travel company would do such a disservice.

    After we found out the danger we were in we reached out to Expedia to find no help and only condemnation towards me and my wife for not researching what we expected Expedia to do for us by offering professional travel service. We were flown into an airport 6 1/2 hours away from the resort package Expedia offered. We later find out that there was a airport 45 minutes away after arriving.

    The road was dangerous and very scary to travel in a country we where unfamiliar with. Expedia offered no help or guidance in a situation they created by offering and selling such packages. They claimed that the reason behind it was the airline didn’t fly to the other airport. That was false because we switched the return flights ourselves with no help from Expedia. They only care about money and not the people that they claim to offer professional travel services for. If the did Care about me and my wife they wouldn’t have left us stranded only to figure out our own way in a country neither of us were familiar with. Shame on Expedia.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2020

    I have spoken with the Expedia call centre, as I was directed there by the on-line attempt to change a reservation. Each of the three times I was put on 4, 5 and 5 "quick holds" which were usually 4 to 10 minutes. I gave up the first time but stuck it out the second. Each time I was put on hold so the person could check my reservation. So I went online and checked it in 60 seconds but the call person took 5 to 6 minutes. I am convinced that the "quick holds" are one of two things - either staff is paid by the time they spend, or they are dealing with more than one call at a time. In either case this has been a nightmare, I am now in my 4th call, on hold while they check with their supervisor. According to my stopwatch this quick hold is up to 7 minutes and ten seconds.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2020

    Worst experience ever. Booked flight to Europe, four times Expedia canceled flight and re-booked again the same exactly flight. Finally they found that they typed my name in ticked wrong - converted first and last name. After 10 hours conversation on phone I canceled my booking, they charged $300. Never ever got business with Expedia.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2020

    I made my flight reservations months in advance and still can’t get any help. My flight from Miami to Roatan, Honduras was changed by the airline. I don’t know why, but I do know that I have gotten zero help from Expedia concerning these changes. All I received from Expedia was a nasty email saying they were going to cancel my flight because they couldn’t get in touch with me and had been emailing and phoneing me with no success. I had spoken to a rep two days earlier, and knew the basic of the flight changes. Mia to Grand Caymen to LeCeiba (on the mainland) and then I had to wait till the next day to take the ferry to Roatan.

    Next I was told they had no info on the ferry, no Times, who was paying for it, did they offer accommodation for overnight. No. They didn’t have any information for me to answer my questions. Next, they told me the ferry left the same day I arrived but I had to pay the taxi to the ferry, which left at 4:30. Before I go any further I should tell you I still don’t have my fly itinerary that I requested on my first phone call.

    Fed up with their ignorance I called Cayman Airways and had all the info I needed in ten minutes from a very courteous young lady. The airline has since contacted me to ask me if I would prefer a plane ride to Roatan. A prop plane I’ve taken before and I replied yes. The point I’m making is if you are planning a flight anywhere do yourself a favor and use a travel agency that treats you with the respect you deserve, since you are paying them, not a agency that takes your money and then treats you like shi- And could care less about what happens to you. I will never use Expedia again, and don’t say I didn’t warn you if you do.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2020

    I have used Expedia many times with good results. This last time was the worst experience ever. I booked a room at a hotel in Nashville. The room I booked and paid for was a king size suite. What I was given was a handicapped accessible, roll in shower room. The hotel was more than willing to move me to a a regular room. Not only was I charged more than Expedia quoted, but I contacted customer service on three separate occasions. They never compensated me for the mistake or called or emailed me back. Terrible customer service! I will not be using them in the future!

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2020

    I have been with Expedia for years. I just had the worst experience at expedia. I booked an Eastern China flight through Expedia in November. I canceled the flight due to the on going coronavirus. Eastern China announced they are offering a full refund on their official website, but Expedia insisted that I would need to pay a $150 cancellation fee and said it was Eastern China's policy. I contacted Eastern China about the situation, they told me I was eligible for a full refund without cancellation fees, and they aren't receiving that $150 fee. Expedia claims it was the airline's policy to charge me 150 cancellation fee. But guess who is pocketing the money...

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2020

    Misrepresentation of company. After searching the internet for Boston Park Plaza, called a number believing it was the hotel’s reservation phone. When I asked if this was Boston park plaza reservation she said, "Yes we reserve for BPP." Then proceeded to take my reservation never mentioning Expedia. That was only the beginning.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2020

    Had the worst experience with Expedia. Expedia is a fraud, and unreliable! You are warned, run away from Expedia. Cheap flight comes with a catch and they will get you. Called to cancel a return flight on April 1, 2019, spoke to a representative called "Nolan **" (from roverflights.com) paid $500 for cancellation got an email of the transaction, and was told I will get a refund of $1596.91 by June/July 2019. After several, countless calls to 1-866-603-5912 I got a representative who told me Nolan ** does not work with them anymore and that I should get my refund end of September. Did not get a refund, called day and night everyday for 2 months got no one to pick up. Was later told by a machine the line is out of service.

    Followed up with Delta Airline, and was told no record showed on their side of the cancellation and was redirected to Expedia since I purchased from them. After which I followed up with two supervisors from Expedia (James **, and Daniel) on Jan 21, 2020 for more than 2 hours combined and was finally told they have no record of the cancellation that it was a "No Show" according to Delta Airline and they have no record of the company/person I cancelled with despite the email showing the transaction and a snap-shoot of my bank statement showing the $500 leaving my account on the day of cancellation. I am disappointed, and surprised, did not expect to be a victim of fraud with Expedia. I am heart-broken with Expedia.

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2020

    I would like to warn everyone against booking travel with Expedia, especially package deals. A few friends and I recently used Expedia to book a trip to Mexico, including air, hotel, and ground transportation. When we arrived at the airport at 4:30am, we learned that our tickets were not ticketed properly by Expedia, and they were unusable. The airline was helpful, but it was out of their hands. This began the 13 hours (not an exaggeration) of phone time with Expedia customer service to resolve the issue. We spoke to over 10 different team members that day, each telling us the mistake was too expensive to correct and outside of their 'approval limits.'

    We ended up losing an entire day of our vacation and when I've reached out to customer service, each time I just receive the same 'auto-generated' form email again and again. They will not even acknowledge the fact that their mistake caused us to lose an entire day of travel, and gain an entire day from hell on the phone with them. Complete, complete disregard for their customers. Oh, and by the way, when we finally arrived to the hotel, the booking was incorrect (made for 3 people instead of 4). DO NOT EVER BOOK WITH EXPEDIA unless you're willing to gamble that you won't actually arrive on the date and time you wish to. BEWARE.

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    Coverage

    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2020

    Terrible service!!! On November 16 I booked first class round trip from Minneapolis to Maui on January 11 with insurance. The first and short leg was first class, the rest of the trip was the worst and cheapest seats on the planes.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2020

    After researching flights for a trip to Disneyland, for hours, we had decided on ones offered by Expedia. After trying to check out, we were told the layover was too short and we could not purchase the tickets we had intended to. Feeling frustrated, I called and asked why there would be a flight offered that wasn’t actually able to purchase... I was told there were no seats left? Which their website said there was still 7 seats left. I still don’t know why I couldn’t purchase the tickets, but even WORSE, we got charged the tickets we were trying to purchase, twice! Not only could I not buy the tickets I wanted, I got charged for them twice.

    So another hour phone call later, they said it would “probably” be on our credit card for 5-7 business days. I explained that although I am fortunate enough to be able to survive that long without access to those funds, some families wouldn’t be and it is unacceptable that a family should have to wait a week to have access to their own money because of an error on their end. Apparently there is nothing they can do. I would highly recommend that when booking something through Expedia, you are just very aware that they may not actually have the flight you are trying to purchase, but they will however still preauthorize your visa. This could negatively impact a family fairly heavily, so use caution.

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2020

    I have used Expedia before, after several horrible experiences I swore never to use them again. Unfortunately, they continue to spam ads at me on Youtube. This makes me more dissatisfied with Expedia in general, and I will never use them again. In addition, considering they insist to advertise on Youtube and waste my time pressing "skip ad" button on Youtube, I will make an extra effort to tell all my friends, family, co workers, customers, suppliers and even strangers how horrible Expedia's service is, and how intrusive their ads on Youtube are!

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    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2020

    Cheap Flight Specialists but do NOT say, that does not include luggage, food, drink and change of day. The surprise comes later, the airlines as you bought by Expedia mistreat you and do not solve anything, all these low-cost companies are a trap to the detriment of the user. Buy direct seems more expensive but in the end it is much cheaper. When you call them on the phone the only thing they say you solve with the airline, but the ticket I bought from Expedia, I lost my money. END OF HISTORY.

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    Customer ServiceCoverageTechPriceRefunds & PayoutsStaffHonesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2020

    DO NOT USE EXPEDIA (or Travelocity) to book anything! Other sites as Booking.com are cheaper, more reliable, and honest. In December, I booked a car in S.Jose (CR) with Economy Rent a Car on Expedia and added the EXPEDIA "Collision Damage Plan". According to Economy I had to also add liability insurance. So I decided to buy FULL insurance from Economy and get a refund from Expedia BEFORE renting the car. I immediately called Expedia (BEFORE renting the car) and its representative confirmed I would get their insurance refund. Now, EXPEDIA is refusing to refund because Economy tells them "it honored the third party insurance from Expedia". When I called Economy, they TRIPLE CHECKED my contract and RECONFIRMED I did not use the EXPEDIA insurance. After being their customer for 20+ years, I WILL NEVER AGAIN USE EXPEDIA (or Travelocity) for anything.

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    Reviewed Jan. 10, 2020

    I am so so disappointed in my recent dealings with PEI branch. I was booked on a cruise and paid deposit in July and at the same time I was told that the plane fare would be a much better deal if booked now during a phone conversation. I am certain I requested a fare that could be cancelled if emergency came up and was told yes. Well I developed blood clots in early Dec. 2019 and was advised by dr. That I cannot travel in the foreseeable future. I called Mrs. ** and discovered I did not have travel insurance and she would work on getting funds for cruise minus deposit and I was out of luck with travel. I persisted on travel and finally was told I may get all but 250. Back plus fees. I was advised Danielle my roommate needed a note from my dr. advising I could not travel in order for her to get her insurance coverage.

    This was just prior to Xmas and I requested the letter and was advised I would get call when it was ready, well I kept getting emails from Expedia pressuring me to get this note. I am so sad that I will not be able to go on cruise and for letter there was nothing I could possibly do to speed it up. Since expedia - not the cruise line - chose to keep my cruise deposit it is blatantly obvious that they do not want further business including a fall Alaska cruise we are planning.

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    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2020

    My employees travel a ton and this is the last time we are using Expedia. Book directly w/ Airline, Car, Hotel. At least you'd be able to cancel without forfeiting the entire $. Asked me to submit a claim w/ AIG? If you were not so lucky and caught the flu, you have to go see a doctor and get a letter. I had my flu shot and there's nothing the doctor can do. NEVER AGAIN WILL MY EMPLOYEES OR MY SUBCONTRACTORS WILL USED EXPEDIA.

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    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2020

    Expedia Will jack your prices up after you call in and wipe out the deal you had on the original booking if you alter or edit your booking if you add a day to your hotel. They are scam artist and I complained and they gave me a $100 credit on my account but I can't use it because it's on select hotels and where I go none of the hotels use it. Scammers.

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    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2020

    When you try to book with Expedia, even if the transaction DOESN'T go through, your credit card will be charged what is called an authorization fee and they keep it for 3-10 business days before removing it off of your credit card. In my case they charged me almost $6000.00 and when I couldn't book because the end of the booking said flight was sold out, or couldn't process I finally went to a local travel agent who got me everything for even less than Expedia.

    When she went to process my credit card it was over its limit due to Expedia and their authorization fee. When I called I got the absolute run around from customer service and demanded to speak to someone who would remove the charge so I could actually book my trip. Asking to speak to a manager he again told me 3-10 business days they would hold this money on my credit card which is preventing me from booking. The trip is in two weeks. I sicc'd my credit card company on them. What a terrible policy and what a sham of a company. Never using Expedia AGAIN.

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    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2020

    We booked a return air flight for our family of four for our year end holiday last year. There was no problem with the flight there but when we arrived at the airport for our flight home, we were told that we were not booked on the flight. The itinerary sent to us by Expedia showed a 2-way ticket was booked but the airline did not receive the booking request from Expedia for the return trip. We were frustrated that Expedia did not acknowledge their mistake in failing to book the flight and instead referred us to the airline. It is unprofessional of them to not ensure our booking is made accordingly and to inform us if the booking was not successful for any reason. We were almost stranded at the airport. We had to book another flight out, incurring more charges than we had to. In short, do not use Expedia to book your air flight.

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    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2020

    Expedia started to advertise "Seat selection" as an option, it could be free or fee. I booked a roundtrip ticket from Expedia from SYD to SEA, and have seat selected. Nothing ever showed me there will be a charge to pay at the check in counter. I contacted Expedia customer service. At the beginning, they kept saying there is no fee, and asked me to contact Cathay Pacific to resolve the issue. (Cathay Pacific asked me to contact Expedia). At the very end, after many emails and chats, the customer service representative told me "Seat selection" option is available, it doesn't mean it will be free. The last advice he gave me is to call Expedia to get the accurate information on rules and policy. It basically said their website is not showing accurate information, blame me not calling them to verify. WTF.

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    Reviewed Jan. 7, 2020

    I bought a vacation package for my family including flights and seat assignments. Later on come to find out the seats they gave me were non existent. And I had to pay extra money to get the seats. I called Expedia and they blamed it on me.

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    Reviewed Jan. 7, 2020

    Expedia ringed me and talked to me very impolitely and hung up without letting me say a word. I got to know that they also talked bad about me behind my back which is very unprofessional and rude to speak about customers in this way!

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2020

    So, I originally booked hotel Isola Sacra from Expedia for a 10 days vacay in Rome since it was really cheap.. After booking the hotel and read a couple reviews although it’s a 4.0 hotel, I realized that this hotel wasn’t it. I called Expedia and asked them to change the hotel, they told me it was impossible after multiple attempts although my reservations had insurance on it. When I arrived to the hotel, they told me breakfast wasn’t free, yet Expedia mentioned breakfast was included with my reservation. Then, I was told to pay 8.50 euros daily for breakfast and 30 euros round trip to go the nearest train station. On my third day at the hotel, I didn’t have toothpaste & there wasn’t any housekeeping whatsoever. As a result, I found bedbugs in the room.

    Since I was the only ** person at the hotel during my stay, it was kinda embarrassing to even mention the bedbugs to the front desk, I eventually did and nothing was done. Along with that, Expedia charged me $100 for round trip transportation between the airport to the hotel and when I asked the driver how much the transportation actually cost he told me 8 euros. Expedia scammed me out of insurance, transportation and breakfast. Please stay away from Expedia!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2020

    Do not use Expedia. Their customer service suck. Booked a hotel via them, not only more expensive but 24 hours protection to cancel or change was misrepresented to us. They took our money and we had to contact our bank to dispute the transaction. Bunch of thieves are suiting to take your money. Use other providers.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2020

    I had organized a 3 day trip from July. The email of the reservation, made clear that I do not have to contact the hotel, but when we tried to check in the room was not reserved and with no reason. The hotel manager tried to search for another accommodation but unfortunately whatever he suggested was way more expensive than the one I had early booked.

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2020

    Booked a commuter flight with Expedia. Could not check in because there was NO ATTENDANT at counter. When attendant appeared, was told that passenger "just missed" boarding and was refused permission to board aircraft! Expedia's reply for a refund is that since the airfare is so low, they would not refund! It should not matter what the airfare is...if you can't board the plane because of bad customer service, you should be refunded for a flight that didn't happen. Shame on you, Expedia. You have so many customer complaints! I was loyal but not anymore. You may be big but you have too much competition and your withholding of 60 bucks costs you another complaint and a customer.

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2020

    I tried to book a flight on Expedia. Usually I have used other sites but this time I ran across Expedia and it will absolutely surely be the last time I use this company. First, after I chose my tickets and entered my data, my credit card was charged 4 times (2 times service charge 2*18 EUR + 2 times flight charge 225*2 EUR). AND to top it off, no booking confirmation was e-mailed to me and no booking also appears on my Expedia account. And... When I called the customer service their response was basically something like "Umm, sorry we cannot help you, call back on Monday". Just pathetic all over. Avoid and use Momondo or Skyscanner instead!

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2020

    Expedia advertised home booking in Canadian Dollars and then converted to the US$ rate costing me extra even though the booking was confirmed in C$. When I cancelled the reservation within the specified period, I was short changed again when they converted US$ to C$. Spent 2 hours trying correct the error without success. The manager would not come to the phone. Will not deal with Expedia again. Misleading website!

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2020

    I just talked to Expedia corporate and they told me that Hertz's response was an adequate resolution to this situation: On Dec 27, I flew to Tampa, Florida to then drive to Clearwater to visit a sick family member. After taking a cab to the Hertz location at 6037 N Dale Mabry Hwy, I arrived at 7:30am. I was told that even though I had booked a rental car well in advance through Expedia, and that my reservation was confirmed by Hertz, they had zero cars available. They let me know that they had no clue when they would get more rental cars and that my options were to wait at the rental facility or leave my contact and credit card information for them to call me when a car became available. Because I had nowhere to go, I had to wait at the facility.

    I sat in that rental facility, unsure that I would get a car at all and horrified that I was unable to get to my sick family member, where the only bathroom was for "staff only," for over 2 hours before being told that cars were on their way. When a car for me finally arrived, I was shocked to see the employee driving the car was smoking a cigarette as she got out of the car. Once my car was cleaned and fueled, I entered the car and was immediately hit with an extremely potent smell of cigarette smoke. When I brought it up to the employee, she pointed out the fact that it was the only car available and that if I didn't want it, they would give it to the next customers waiting. I left in the disgusting car at 9:50am.

    To make all of this worse, I was on the phone with Expedia customer service for 1 hour 45 minutes. During this time I was hung up on twice as employees tried to transfer me to supervisors. When I finally talked to a supervisor (after finally getting my car) their response was that they were sorry and they asked if there was any other issues I could help with. I just talked to Expedia corporate and they told me that Hertz's response was an adequate resolution to this situation.

    I have always booked my travels through Expedia and I am so disappointed in the response of their customer service.

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2020

    Every one out needs to know what these booking companies are doing!! They claim as in a hotel reservation that it’s none refundable. Well that’s what they try to make you believe after you reserve. But actually has nothing to do with the hotel or airlines. They do this then offer a protection option you can buy to cover any changes. This is all done in house and in hopes to make more money!! Be advised I ran into a situation like this and the hotel agent got very upset because Expedia and other companies claim they need approval from them to cancel so we customers would not find out it’s their own scheme. The more we can get to understand this the quicker we can get this scamming stopped!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2020

    Bought a protection plan. Needed to change flight the day after. Customer service said I couldn't do so and suggested to cancel the flight and use the protection plan to get back hotel refund. So I had to pay for the protection plan for nothing. Tried to contact them again to complain and they pretended like there was issue with chat screen and didn't connect me to any supervisor. Tried to email them to complain and they pretented like they didn't get the issue. Even spelled my name wrong. Very rude and shady. The customer service names seem to be lack of diversity (4/5 people I chatted with have hispanic/latino name). Save your money and book somewhere else.

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2019

    We booked a trip to the Rocky Mountains through Expedia. We booked at the Coast Canmore hotel for 2 nights on Dec 30-31, 2019. We liked the convenience of it and wrongly assumed they would have fair pricing. We were appalled to find out we overpaid by as much as $150 a night when we showed up to the hotel. We get that they need to make their cut but getting a fee as much as the hotel room itself is simply unacceptable. We contacted Expedia to complain. We got a templated email saying that is just how things are. I was a gold member. I am never using them again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2019

    We made a hotel reservation. Due to family illness we were unable to make Our trip. We called the hotel and were told if we had made the reservation through them we could cancel, but because we made it through Expedia we would have to cancel through them. Called expedia and were told because it was less than 24 hrs they could not cancel any of the 5 days reserved. $ 1100.00 dollars down the drain. Terrible customer service.

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2019

    I tried to get hold of them but the reps over the phone/chat/email don't really care to help with anything!!! They wouldn't honor the price match policy as well..It's just a scam!! I tried to solve issue over a month. I spent nights and days hours and hours to see if they will solve any problem. Even as a gold member I consider to stay away from them. They don't deserve to have us as customers.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2019

    Expedia have robbed me $1,200 by not booking my ticket for my partner and notifying me of the issue. Now I’m trying to get a refund as I had to book 2 days before Christmas a new ticket at an excessive price. Expedia does not want to refund me and also want to take more money out of me pretending that I haven’t paid the airfare for my partner. Now that the flights have gone they are asking me to call the airline to confirm my booking while nothing was booked when I called the airline on the fay of flying. Do never ever book anything with them. They will take your money!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2019

    My friend uses Expedia to book a room in Orlando @ the Quality Inn & Suites/Kissimmee by the Lake on 11/28/19 for 2 nights, a month in advance, to see her grandson play in the ESPN Youth Baseball Tournament. She specifically asks the Expedia representative if she has the right to cancel and get a refund if necessary because her grandson’s place on the team was not finalized. The Expedia rep tells her that as long as she cancels before 2:00 PM on 12/25/19 she will get a full refund.

    On 12/4/19 she calls and cancels and is then told that she is not entitled to a refund because the hotel will not give $342.50 back as there is a no refund policy. So I call to complain and end up talking to someone in the Philippines that I can’t understand and visa-versa. FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection and Bank Credit Card Charge Back here we come. Lessons learned, never use Expedia again or Quality Inn & Suites/Kissimmee by the Lake. Anyone reading this, TAKE HEED and save yourself money, time and trouble and never book thru 3rd party who outsources their call center to a distant 3rd World Country who’s employees can’t speak proper English.

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2019

    Here is a pro tip about saving time and money: Never order tickets, or anything, with Expedia.com I booked a flight with them. They misspelled my surname by changing the place of two letters. I called... and called again. Two weeks, four phone calls, four departments and 6.5 hours later (in total), the name on the tickets has yet to be changed. They are after my money, you see. The flight cost 900+ dollars. If they can convince me to cancel and re-book the flight, then they would only refund 300 dollars. Brilliant eh? I have spoken with Helen, Ashley, Alex, Andy, Elton, Maria, Reggie, Paulo and Elsa (most of them 'senior representatives' or 'managers'), from whom I got no less than four different 'case numbers' and countless false promises. They also never call you back, though they promise to every single time at the end of each conversation. All I ever got from you were excuses, and blaming Swiss airlines for your own poor service.

    SHAME ON YOU EXPEDIA! You did not just lose a single customer - you lost every single person I will ever speak with about online ordering of flights, hotels and car rentals. BEWARE OF EXPEDIA!! If this is what I had to go through at home, just imagine how awful if you are stuck at an airport. Never again. By the way, I have all 6.5 hours recorded. It is like slow torture. Worse than watching politicians on TV.

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2019

    Firstly I had trouble understanding the accent of the call centre representative in India. I wanted to know the terms and conditions about changing my booking. When she said there would be additional charges, I said to leave booking as is. She said she had already changed it so it was too late. I then had to cancel my AirBnb accommodation and got a call later to say she had reinstated the flight booking and to check my bank account because they may have charged me again for the same flight. Have been a customer with Expedia for over 2 years and booked many domestic and overseas trips with them including accommodation. I will be cancelling my membership and taking my business elsewhere. Very disappointed.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2019

    I have been making reservations on Hotels.com which books through Expedia.com. Today I received an email from Expedia stating I’d been selected for 50% off my next reservation. Before making a reservation I contacted Expedia to ask if it was a legitimate offer or not. The agent (per usual, the agent was somewhere outside of the country and completely ignorant of the FTC). She put me on hold for quite a while to check on this “offer”. She came back on the phone and said it was but did not elaborate. She asked what where I wanted to make reservations. Again I was put on hold. When she returned she quoted me a rate that was $10 more than the Hotels.com website. I asked about the 50% off. Again a long hold. When she returned she told me $69 was the best she could do. FALSE ADVERTISING AND BAIT AND SWITCH!

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2019

    I am so disappointed in my experience with Expedia. We booked 4 tickets to Hawaii eight months in advance. One month in, our departing flight changed so that we now left 2 hours later. Not a huge deal but annoying. It meant our first day in Hawaii was going to be cut short by 2 hours so instead of arriving at 1pm with plenty of time to hit the beaches, we now are arriving after 3pm.

    Then, three weeks after that our return flight changed from leaving at 11am and arriving in Austin at 11pm to leaving at 1pm and arriving THE NEXT DAY at 5 in the morning. That is a HUGE difference. When I tried to call to ask them to change them to another option, I was told there would be a fee for that (per person).

    Since I had purchased travel insurance on Expedia, I went on American Airlines directly to see if I could find better flights. Sure enough, I found one much closer to our original flight. Not only that but the flights were $74 cheaper PER PERSON. I decided, what the heck, I'll cancel the flights with Expedia, book these flights, and just lose out on the travel insurance if need be. Even with losing that, I'm still saving money.

    I called Expedia (my 4th time in the last few weeks given all the changes I was unhappy with) and as usual, I was on the phone with them for over an hour. In fact, the first person accidentally disconnected while on hold. When I called back and got the next rep, she told me that the first rep had went ahead and canceled the tickets. I asked when we could expect the refund so that we could purchase the other 4 tickets on hold with American Airlines. She said, "Oh, he didn't tell you there is no refund when you purchase the type of tickets you did? These are non-refundable." I said, "NO HE DID NOT TELL ME THAT. In fact, our phone was disconnected!"

    I asked about the travel insurance - it says on the policy that you get a refund of 100% and she stated that in order to submit an insurance claim, we will need to call the insurance company directly. She gave me a 1-800 # to call and said that the refund would be subject to the insurance company's approval; it is not even through expedia! I am LIVID. I am out $3000 at this point and have ZERO tickets to show for it.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2019

    Ugh. My husband tried to book a complex flight. Never again, we will work directly with airlines and get better bookings with less hassle. Expedia set up an open jaw, which tacked an additional $1000 plus to each ticket (as opposed to two separate round trip flights which would have been more convenient and cheaper). When we discovered what had happened, we tried to get it corrected only to discover that the "owner" of the flight, which included 2 major airlines and one 1-star-rated regional, was the 1-star-rated regional with a "too-bad, you booked it and we won't make any changes" booking policy. We could cancel the whole flight and get $5400 in credit--plus change fees--with that 1-star airline (no credit on the majors) but since we rarely fly in that region, that wouldn't help.

    I spent 1 hr and 45 minutes on the phone today with Expedia Customer Service who tried to fix the problem, only to have them tell me that it would cost an additional $1800 per person, plus $400 in change fees to do what I wanted. The folks were very helpful, just not "English as a first language" and they totally missed the fact that I was upset about the garbage ticket we had gotten from them without knowing what we were getting into. Expedia might be great for round trip flights on known airlines, but they are in no way capable of handling or supporting complex flights.

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    Reviewed Dec. 26, 2019

    I can only stay at a place with a gym. I booked a place thru Expedia that wrote they have one... That's closed exactly during my stay. Somehow, they didn't disclose THAT! Expedia refused to do anything. Bounced me around for an hour and 20 min. No call back after the call disconnected. Literally, nothing. Just repeating the same story 4 times on the phone and about 3 on chat. Then they told me that they can't verify what I was told because they don't have someone who can speak to the front desk in Spanish. No compensation, nothing. I have to pay my own way to relocate or find a gym with a day pass. I officially am switching to a competitor.

    Another incident relates to transfer from the airport. This one place wanted to charge $50 ($45 more than Uber). When I wanted to cancel, Expedia said that I was in the 25 hour penalty time and have to pay. He said this 35 hours before the transfer. Expedia was not always like this. I specifically used them for the amazing customer service... until this trip. The profit outlook tanked and the top two guys left. Maybe, just maybe, Barry Diller will understand that customers keep the lights on, and when they get jerked around, they leave.

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    Reviewed Dec. 26, 2019

    We spoke with two separate agents yesterday about our issue and after hours of talking we were told to handle this through email. What was even more unprofessional was that they had difficulties even emailing us. When we finally received the email we did just that, sending them what they asked for, but then the very next day we received an email back informing us that there was nothing to be done over email and asking us to call Expedia back, so we did. After calling Expedia back we received absolutely no help or resolution even though we have been through this before - we didn't even receive an email from Expedia informing us for our records that our money would indeed be returned into our account (which by the way we have proof that Expedia can indeed send such emails because it was done before for us.).

    All of this happening on Christmas eve and Christmas Day. The lack of support, the lack of customer service, is truly baffling and honestly completely unacceptable, especially for a Gold Member customer. This has been the second time that Expedia has severely let their customers down and they have lost business from us permanently.

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    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2019

    I had to stay 2 hours explaining the same problem for seven people and the end left me on hold for hour. If I could I would sue them for wasting 3 hours of my time, definitely not going to use them again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 19, 2019

    After I couldn't get on my plane to the United Stated due to my ESTA delay, I tried calling the plane companies I was supposed to travel with, and they couldn't fix my problem. I called Expedia and receiving an amazing service from Ann. She was able to change my ticket to a completely new itinerary, all of this without fees. I'm still amazed that this could have happened, as when I called the flight companies directly they told me there would be up to 2000$ fees. Ann was able to change my flight ticket for no fees at all. Thank you Expedia for this customer experience, and thank you Ann for your amazing service.

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    Reviewed Dec. 19, 2019

    Don't book cruises with Expedia. They make offers for onboard credit just like the cruise companies do but, unlike the other companies they hide forms in the small print that you have to complete so, that you don't get your credit. If I would have booked my cruise directly with the cruise company I would have received the credit. Instead Expedia pocketed my money. Dirty company!! Beware!!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 18, 2019

    How Expedia works to rip you off. When you compare prices for a holiday trip Expedia is always top listed. It happened to me as I choose an all-inclusive package that was everything else than that. How they do it is that they remove the food and the return luggage from the ticket. That way you will only notice that when you are already in the plane and think that this was a mistake. At the return flight then you have to pay extra for your luggage and have no choice. When you contact the Customer service they will tell you that these is not always guaranteed, their loophole. A very smart way they worked out to rip you off. Well hands off from this company that makes money tricking customers, spread the word!

    I bought an all-inclusive package from Expedia and didn’t waste any other thought on it as it was all inclusive. I went to the airport, checked in and boarded the plane - so far so good. 10-hour flight, when it was time to serve food a stewardess asked the other about the list, how to serve the food and the other replied very clear and loud, “all get food except this one, and pointed at me.” I tried to discuss that with them, that I bought an all-inclusive package and that is maybe a mistake but the situation was clear. I thought about a mistake and didn’t waste any other thought about this to enjoy my holiday.

    At the hotel it continued. Room without Wi-Fi, if I wanted to use it 7$ a day. Room without safe, even I made sure I ordered the room with one. Yes, it was in the room but if I wanted the key to use it I had to pay. Well I continued my holiday. When it was time to check in for return the attendant made me aware that my return flight was without luggage and I had to pay extra as I had no choice. Well at that point I figured out the way Expedia work to rip you off step by step so that you only notice when it’s too late. I contacted customer support, explained the situation and confronted them with that. All I got is nothing as they have a loophole for that In that case. Well hands off from this company that makes money tricking customers.

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    Reviewed Dec. 18, 2019

    I was in a hurry to buy a ticket Taiwan- Vietnam, at the desk, in order to be allowed to enter Taiwan. Found a fairly cheap one through Expedia. It was advertised to cost 69$. After proceeding it turned out there were extra fees so the actual price to pay was around 110$. Ok. Normal procedure I guess. Still the 69$ was never more than a lure. I was careful to check luggage rules and it was said to be included. One piece checked in luggage up to 20 kilos. Three weeks later, at the airport desk (Vietnam Airlines) I'm informed this is not true and never had been. So I had to pay another 40$. So in the end the actual cost was more than double the advertised cost. That's a first class scam.

    /Patrik

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    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2019

    I bought a trip to Jamaica that cost me $3,229.53 which is scheduled for February, a couple of weeks later I saw the exact same booking for almost $1,000 less in price, so I contacted Expedia to get a discount and I was advised I could get a discount and was bounced around just to get a response that I could not get any discount because they only have a price guarantee for a standalone hotel reservations, which I think is BS, I will never book with these people again!

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2019

    Before visiting New York on a girls trip I purchased “skip the line” tickets to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. 1) You don’t skip the line at all. Waited in line for approx 30-35 minutes, only to be informed that when Expedia sold me those tickets, their contract was being negotiated or something to that effect. Those tickets were no longer good. Had to purchase tickets there at the museum.

    I waited on the phone as long as I could to get resolved. Decided to follow up after my visit to New York. Called upon my return home. They said I should have a refund in a few days. Instead I received an email the next day, stating that a different department needed to follow up with the museum and that I should hear from them within 48 hours. Of course, a week later...I haven’t heard from them. The other tour we booked with Expedia was fine. I just want them to refund my $112 dollars I spent for 4 tickets I was unable to use.

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2019

    Wanted to cancel a hotel booking. Talked to Expedia customer service and got a few different answers regarding how much they can refund..also talked to hotel directly and then also got different answer. Annoying with empty promises and contradicting information. Asked Expedia to only cancel my booking if it was free to cancel, but they cancelled it anyway without asking me, which caused trouble when trying to check in.

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    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2019

    We booked flights through Expedia in September for a December trip to Vietnam. The day after Thanksgiving the airline sent an email letting us know one of our return flights from Hong Kong to Vancouver, BC had been cancelled and we needed to call them to rebook that flight. 10 minutes after that email posted, my husband saw it and we contacted the airline. They told us they could not change our flight, because we booked with Expedia and needed Expedia to change the flight.

    We immediately called Expedia and were told they didn't know what to do and would have to contact the airline. Expedia said to email them in 3-5 days. Our international flight was only 3 weeks away, so we called back every day and were told a different story every, single, time! After the first few calls, it automatically sent us to supervisors who all had different stories and it appeared no action was taking place. I waited on hold up to 2 hours a day while supervisors tried to contact other departments which never seemed to be open. Each day we were told they were calling and checking with different departments to resolve the problem, only to have a new supervisor look at our reservation the next day and have it show they had done absolutely nothing but give us a different story. After 4 days I begged and cried and a supervisor said he was sending an email to the airline and to contact them in 3 to 4 days.

    This continued until 7 days after we were first notified of the cancellation when the airline sent us an email saying since we didn't change our cancelled flights, they had run out of optional flights to move us to and were refunding our entire trip. This was 2 weeks away from our vacation and new tickets had more than tripled in price. We cannot afford the new tickets (originally $1,100 now $3,550+ per person) and are no longer going on our trip to visit family and friends.

    If Expedia had a simple policy on file with this airline that their employees understood, a quick phone call less than an hour after we were notified of the cancellation would have easily saved our trip and over 2 weeks of daily, hour long phone calls. (Just wait until you try to get your money back!) They should not be booking trips. They do not have a clear relationship with the airline and what to do if there is a flight change. Our airline flights were held hostage by Expedia and we will never book with them again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2019

    Rewards Points program is a joke. Spent close to $3000 in hotel fees, got $21 in points, compared a room price with and without the points, only save me $8, so my $21 in points actually translated to $8 comparing the same room. Total scam! You earn nothing and they screw you for 60% of your points once you use them. Cancelling account w/ Expedia.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2019

    Updated on 12/12/2019: Updating from last review. They are still refusing to refund the $2,000+ charge that was confirmed to not be happening/refund would be issued numerous times in writing, while providing in writing the incorrect cancellation policy of actual hotel. A refund was confirmed multiple times in writing over the span of multiple months and they are still denying.

    Original Review: Booking through Expedia is no problem. Having them refund a cancellation is another story. Their reps are nice on the line but this is the most backward unhelpful system I have ever experienced. This has been a long standing problem where a hotel has refused to issue a refund even though the cancellation abided by their policy for refund. But every time you call in you have to explain everything from scratch with a new person, or they have to read through all of the documentation on the account. Without fail every phone call lasts over 1 hour. This has been going on for over 5 months and has taken dozens of calls and emails, and it still unresolved.

    I finally got through to corporate a few weeks ago who gave me a case number, assured me they would work on it and get back within the week (because they won't provide direct numbers for you to contact them) and it has been three weeks so I gave another call today. The corporate person I spoke with assured me I would not have to go through the phone process again, she would be the only one I would have to speak with about the matter again, and gave me the case number to provide if I had to call back so that I could get escalated right up to her. This didn't happen.

    I have been on the line for 45 minutes yet again and am waiting to get transferred to corporate again after going through a supervisor again. I am on hold as they write documentation and read through the notes on the account - of which there are many so it takes a long time for each new person to do this - so I know that I will not be getting the same corporate rep I got the first time. Will update with result but I would never use them again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2019

    I had to cancel a flight reservation for an ill relative weeks before the event. Travel Guard Insurance (offered by Expedia) turned out to be a scam. Unless you're a victim of terrorism, are denied military leave, or have a fire or serious traffic accident, the product is useless. Expedia takes no responsibility for Travel Guard's horrible customer rating or service. I will no longer use Expedia, and will only book directly with an airline. I'd rather pay a little more, knowing I can get a refund or credit from the airline.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2019

    There are so many online options these days that Expedia should not have to be one of your considerations. They might appear to have good prices but beware. In one single trip their baggage cost details were grossly misleading and added cost to the airline ticket afterwords. Their assistance when something went majorly wrong with one of the tickets in our travel group was outrageously poor, to the extent that we simply had to buy a new ticket right there on the airport before departure.

    A mess up with the car rental booking that was corrected on Expedia's online chat was never completed according to them and lead to a cancellation, loss of payment and having to pay for a new car when we arrived at our destination... Now I have travel extensively all my life and never seen anything like this. If you expect NO PROBLEMS at all when you travel, by all means use Expedia. If you think you may run into even the smallest and snafu, avoid Expedia because all you'll get from them is an offer of a $50 Expedia voucher for the next time you book a disastrous trip thru them!

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2019

    I booked my hotel and flight with Expedia. Bought the insurance with it so I could cancel my flight if I needed to. I was told it would be no problem. I called to cancel my flight and they said they wouldn't honor their insurance lol. Garbage company.

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    Reviewed Dec. 10, 2019

    I decided to give Expedia a shot since many people use it. I usually go through Yelp, Google or directly on the website when I book anywhere. My fiance was a couple of days out from his powerlifting comp and forgot to book a hotel. I looked up on Expedia, a decently priced hotel right near the Tampa airport. The reviews were pretty good, so I thought why not? I booked it. When my fiance got there, this place was DISGUSTING. There were bed bugs, ** stains on the mattress and lamp, dead roaches and when he took the sheet out of the bed he found glass!! It was craziness. I decided to look this on up on Yelp and it had the worst reviews! I trusted Expedia to have true reviews and they were NOT accurate. There were pictures on yelp of everything my fiance experienced. I felt horrible to have booked this room for my fiance.

    He calls Expedia and they said he was going to get a refund and that they had to contact the front desk of the hotel, but they would give him a refund for sure. He goes to the front desk and the person in the front KNEW of all the issues and also said he would get his refund. 2 days later I get an email from expedia saying they contacted the front desk and because of "policy" could not give us a refund and they did everything they could. This is the most absurd thing ever! Because I trusted the reviews on expedia my fiance had the worst experience of his life. This was no 20$ hotel. Somehow this dump is worth 80$ a night. I've stayed at way better hotels for less. I am in outrage at expedia and can't believe this hotel is still running. Don't believe anything on expedia. Look up reviews in other places!

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    Reviewed Dec. 9, 2019

    I was under the false assumption that Expedia was a reputable company, one that I could rely on delivering fair rates and truthful declarations. Expedia has refused to refund or credit my account for a stay that they charged me $20+ more than if I had walked into the hotel 5 minutes later. I horribly regret this decision. Yes, it’s only $20. However, this $20 won’t be spent on holiday presents for my family. A $20 lost due to false advertising, followed by a complete lack of customer support. I was offered literally nothing other than what may have been an apology and an “it is what it is” result.

    When your company boasts about excellent customer service and discounted rates- it should at least TRY and live up to those advertisements or make amends when you’ve fallen short. I look forward to reviewing your company on every possible outlet- in an effort to ensure others SKIP your process and book directly through the hotel. I also found it entertaining that your company then put the blame back onto the hotel- Super 8 by Wyndham Asheville. However, it was their hotel who waived out pet fee to try and help make up for your overcharging in an already difficult situation. They should be aware of your slander/blame.

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    Reviewed Dec. 9, 2019

    I booked a roundtrip from Los Angeles to Toronto in Oct. I had something came up so I can't go, I cancelled my flight more than a week before the flight actually departs. The customer service told me that I can cancel the first round of the flight but I can't cancel the second one. It wasn't a cheap airline. I was a little mad but that's ok. Then they said I'm not getting any of my money back even I cancel the flight, but I will get a 180 dollars credit. I'm not going to complaint with them since I got the 180 credit (the roundtrip was almost 700 dollars after tax). When I have to book a flight on Dec 8, I didn't see any credit on my account so I called the customer service. HERE IS THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING: They say that I have to pay a hundred dollars processing fee in order to redeem the credit!!! I have never heard anything even close been bad like that! DO NOT USE EXPEDIA!

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    Reviewed Dec. 9, 2019

    I recently booked a room at the Angel of the Winds Casino Resort online with Expedia which was easy. I had to cancel due to change of plans, received a confirmation email on the cancellation but 9 days later was charged by the hotel. I called the hotel and Expedia never contacted them to cancel. Wont use them again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2019

    I usually don’t like to give negative reviews or comments but I feel is necessary for other people to know before they booked a reservation thru Expedia. Let’s go back to this year August 2019 when my fiancé booked thru Expedia a nice hotel by the beach. He wanted to surprise me with a nice room with jacuzzi for our anniversary. When we got to the hotel room it looked nothing nothing!!! Like advertised on EXPEDIA. He said, "It can’t be possible. There must be a mistake here, I’m gonna go to the lobby to make sure they made a mistake." When at the lobby the customer service representative told him that if booked thru Expedia is not gonna be accurate and the room that showed on the picture is the “Suite” and it wasn’t possible it cost "that”...

    Is December 2019 and I made the HUGE Huge mistake to book thru Expedia AGAIN!!! When booking our vacations with Hotel Car and Flight...I’ll start saying that trying to book a flight that’s convenient with not a lot of layover with a 1 year old is not the easiest thing. When I picked economic it didn’t said that we were not going to be able to seat together and a bunch of other things like not being able to bring a carry on. But to be honest don’t even care about that just the sitting together because in what world when a family of 3 books a vacation to go together wants to sit apart one whole row separate? That’s Ridiculous, NonSense, Stupid all the words you can imagine...

    If you call the airline they gonna said, "Oh you booked thru Expedia. Is a Package. CAN'T BE CHANGED." When you call Expedia they say, "Ohhh but the AIRLINE picks the seats. We got nothing to do with it." For all of these reasons I’m not gonna use "Expedia services" anymore. Would rather book my hotel thru hotel's website and flight thru airline website. That way when having an issue directly call the company.

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    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2019

    I have booked with Expedia quite a few times, thankfully without incident. Unfortunately 2 times I had to deal with an error or a change, their customer service was beyond sub par. Bottom line, if everything goes well, this is a great service. The last customer service incident had to do with a third party limo service that did not show up at the airport. Expedia gave me the run around for months despite all the proof I gave them and still refused to offer any rebate, compensation or even an apology. 2 years later, several phone calls and emails, I still have not seen anything. For this reason I refuse to use them any longer. There are several services out there that I can give my business to.

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    Reviewed Dec. 7, 2019

    Booked a hotel in Branson, MO through Expedia to visit family over the holidays...paid 4 nights in full, in advance. At no point during booking did the website indicate that the hotel was "Adults Only - No Children Allowed". Naturally this wouldn't work for a family trip. I notified Expedia and the hotel owner "Ronnie Craig" within hours of the booking after learning of this property description and the conflict. I was flatly denied any sort of refund and this was well in advance of vacation dates so it's not like they couldn't re-book the property. Total scam - and now I am stuck paying for 2 hotels, one of which we will never set foot in. Thank you Expedia for ruining our holiday!

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    Reviewed Dec. 6, 2019

    I recently bought tickets with Expedia for the 7th and final time. Every single time, Expedia has been extremely difficult and unable to help. I have been on hold with Expedia agents for over two hours. After making me wait for two hours, they told me that they could not solve the problem and would hand it off to the "offline" team. The Expedia agent told me that I would be contacted in the next 72 hours. I waited a week and did not hear anything back, so I was forced to contact Expedia again. And again, they were unable to help.

    I have had sufficient experience with Expedia to say this: while it is helpful to use Expedia.com to browse flights, never book your flight through Expedia. If any changes/cancellations are made, or if you need to make them, Expedia will not help you, and instead they will tell you to contact the airline directly. However, every airline will tell you that they must be contacted by Expedia since Expedia bought the tickets. In summary, save yourself the money, frustration, and time by buying tickets from the airline directly. (Expedia will never save you money. They simply show you the prices of airline flights, and they charge a fee for doing so).

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    Reviewed Dec. 6, 2019

    When I booked my flight for the price listed it ended up adding >$1000.00 to my cost. Very poor service. Website confusing and misleading information. Very disappointed and Very bad Expedia experience. Customer service kept me on hold for long moments, and after over one hour they could not assist.

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2019

    I booked a flight to New Zealand through Expedia. I had extenuating circumstances beyond my control and they refused to help. They did not offer a credit because they "wouldn't make money" if they gave out credits. Every airline is concerned about customer relations and will hand you a credit or simply find you a new flight as soon as possible with no extra charge. THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH EXPEDIA! At the end of the day, Expedia does not care about customer relations since they are such a huge corporation. I understand money is the main motive for every company but Expedia is surprisingly blatant about their greed.

    It is kind of revolting. I was even mocked while I was on the phone with a customer service agent which made a stressful situation that much more worse. I ultimately did not get a refund or a credit and was offered no help by Expedia. This was an unfortunate situation but because of it I learnt my lesson to never book through third party agencies again. Every time you book through a third party agency you are essentially waiving your customer service rights away. Expedia does at times have cheaper prices but beware, the cheaper price comes with a hefty underlining cost...

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2019

    I booked a flight for my brother yesterday, his name had 2 words which I entered correctly, but to my surprise, my confirmation ticket came with no space between the words. Since this does not reconcile with what my brother has on his passport, I called Expedia this morning to ask to add the space in his first name, I was shocked to learn that there was a fee associated to that.

    Tried to explain multiple time to the lady on the phone, that it was not my fault as I entered the name correctly, she wouldn't listening, the only solution she offered was for me to cancel the ticket et buy a new one, but now the same ticket cost $200 more. Now we are just hoping that my brother will be able to onboard and that the Airline will not refuse him. I always book my flights and hotels with expedia, but feel like it is time to review that.

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    Reviewed Dec. 3, 2019

    We booked a pay at hotel stay in Rome through Expedia (Roma Dreaming Aparts and Hotel). I used my C Card to book but paid with my husband's in full at the resort. After returning home I found 2 charges from the resort on my card to the tune of $477.55 Canadian, I have been dealing with Expedia to have these charges removed for the past 2 weeks and was promised results NO later than yesterday but I of course have not heard back once again. If Expedia can't protect its customers from being ripped off then they shouldn't be dealing with bookings period!

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    Reviewed Dec. 2, 2019

    My first poor experience included purchasing travel insurance through Expedia then not having being able to get a refund when I had to unexpectedly cancel my trip. I decided to give them a second chance as I didn’t read the fine print. Today I’m officially done using this site to book travel. I was charged for a room then told that there were no rooms available when their site said there was 5 left. So I tried again for a different room that showed 5 available. I was charged again only to get a message saying that there were no rooms available. Customer service didn’t seem to care at all. Oh well. Live and learn.

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    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2019

    My wife had to travel to Hawaii for a family emergency. When booking the flight, due to the circumstances we knew that it was very likely that her return date would change. I called about the $40 travel insurance offered by Expedia and was told yes, that's exactly what it's for, to change your flights if necessary. What they didn't tell me was I would have to purchase another ticket for her return flight while I filed a claim with a third party insurance company. I was livid. I think it was a scumbag move just to make $40 off me. Meanwhile my wife contacted my new go to airline Delta, who quickly changed my wife's flight with no fuss. Neither me or my extended family will ever use Expedia again. When traveling, best to book flights with the airline, there are many sites for hotels and car rentals.

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    Reviewed Nov. 30, 2019

    We had a very bad hotel experience on a New Orleans 25th Anniversary trip. While still away, we phoned Expedia and they ensured us we would get a refund from the hotel. Upon return, we only got a refund for the nights we didn't stay at the hotel (which should be standard) and not what was explained to us on the phone. We requested to hear the recording of our call to ensure we didn't misunderstand and were told our request was received but it was never sent along. We called again and after hours of speaking to numerous people, they offered us a $50.00 coupon for our next hotel room booking.

    2 months later and still no coupon. We called AGAIN to readdress the issue. After another hour they said they forgot to send it, would add it to our account and send an email outlining how to redeem. It's now been another week, we got the email but absolutely no coupon. Additionally, we have not received any points for our trip and they have not fixed this either. After a disappointing trip, many wasted hours on the phone with customer service and multiple broken promises from Expedia we are beyond disappointed with the service. I hope Expedia reads this and will contact me because I don't have any more time to waste and want only what has been promised to us on multiple accounts.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 30, 2019

    I booked a trip through Expedia, hotel accommodations only. I found out on Saturday that I had to delay my arrival from Monday to Tuesday. I called customer service beginning Saturday night at 8 pm through Monday night. Continuous dropped calls, maybe because they outsource to India?? Unyielding, Rude staff. I was so scared to lose $1200 along with the reservation if we didn’t show up Monday! Expedia said they called the hotel but didn’t get through so they emailed the hotel and said it takes 48-72 hours for a reply!! Do the math, that wasn’t working for us! Thank goodness our friends arrived Monday, spoke to front desk and reservations management and changed our check in to Tuesday, we had to pay for Monday but that was fine with us. We experienced so much frustration with Expedia CS! Use your local travel agent!!

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    Reviewed Nov. 27, 2019

    I had the worst and most exasperating experience with the Expedia customer centre. I had noticed an unauthorized charge on my credit card to Expedia, and I called them to inform them that I had not authorized the charge, and that the account was a fraudulent account. However, the person on the other line could NOT understand anything I was saying. He kept asking me for my booking reference even though I told him several times that I DID NOT have an account with Expedia and that the charge was a fraudulent charge. I even asked him to transfer me to the Fraud or Scam department, to which he said, "Of course not ma'am. We do not have such a thing."

    He even had the audacity to raise his voice at me when he started to get impatient when I was trying to ask him what my options for resolving the issue were. He insisted on getting an email address and phone number for the account even though I told him all I had was the transaction code for the purchase. I understand that he needed to verify my identity, but they NEED to be trained in dealing with fraud! I will NEVER travel with Expedia, and wouldn't even recommend them to anyone, because their customer service is so inept.

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    Reviewed Nov. 25, 2019

    I called directly to book flights because it was a complex one. I had already booked and had to make some changes for which we had to pay a fee. The agent changed the date of the flight but not the airport of departure. I had two other people in the room with me when I called and we were consulting with each other so I know that we gave the right information. The agent was a goofball and I am 1000% certain I gave him the right information. Expedia did accept the responsibilities for their mistake and we had to buy another flight. I suggested that they listened to the recorded conversation, at first they said that it was internal information at first and later I was told by another agent that it is over 60 days and they no longer have the recording. I HAVE A HUGE FAMILY AND WE MAKE YEARLY TRIPS OF 100+ AND WE USED EXPEDIA ALL THE TIME BUT I WILL NEVER USE THEM AGAIN.

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    Reviewed Nov. 24, 2019

    Caveat emptor! I live in Australia and booked accommodation for 3 nights through Expedia. Cost on their website was quoted at $112 per night. When I got my booking confirmation the cost had escalated to $169 per night. The original cost quote was in U.S. $ and this was certainly not indicated on the website. Expedia need to lift their game and indicate the currency not just a $ figure. I will not use Expedia again as I can't now trust them.

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    Reviewed Nov. 24, 2019

    I booked a hotel on Expedia and realized as soon as I received the email confirmation that I had entered the wrong airport location so I called in to customer service right away to get the hotel location changed. Expedia said that they could cancel the reservation and they would call the hotel and check on the refund. No manager was available at the Best Western O'Hare so they would have to call back in the morning. Next day I get an email saying that the Best Western O'Hare refused the refund. I call Best Western corporate who says that they don't have a no refund policy however Expedia does. So they pass the blame back and forth. Don't waste your time dealing with this criminal organization known as Expedia.

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    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2019

    I accidentally booked for the wrong date while traveling because of last minute change of plans from a 2 hour flight delay. I noticed right away and requested to change it to the correct date within 10 minutes of booking. It was not approved and not refunded so I am just at a loss with that money I guess. Terrible experience.

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    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2019

    Sorriest travel company out there. So many scams and hiddened crap. We bought insurance for our trip when we booked. What the ** at Expedia dont tell you is that for every hotel you add it creates a different number. So they use that to weasel out of refunding money. Venice Italy was our destination and since it flooded we couldnt go. ** Expedia and every ** that works for them. I will be actively telling everyone I know not to use Expedia. Social media here I come.

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    Reviewed Nov. 19, 2019

    I attempted to book a trip on the Expedia website when an error popped up and asked me to start over. I did so and then was told my credit card was declined. I checked the balance and found that Expedia sent 4 authorizations to my credit card. I called customer service, got no where with the agent, after 30 mins asked to speak with a Supervisor. Was told they can do nothing to help me out. Was disconnected after an hour and did not receive a call back. Still nothing resolved. NEVER USING EXPEDIA AGAIN!

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    Reviewed Nov. 18, 2019

    I rented an Avis car for a weekend trip with a friend from Expedia. We were delighted to get the car for roughly $155. When we arrived to get the car, the Avis rep told us it would be ~$320 because we were picking up in one city and dropping the car in another, or we'd have to pay 25 cents per mile. I had a contract from Expedia and Avis showing that I would get unlimited miles and would be dropping off the car in the 2nd city, for $155. I spent TWO HOURS on the phone with Expedia to no avail. They finally told me to pay the higher amount ($320) and to send a picture of my receipt to them via email and they would refund me WHILE I WAS ON THE PHONE.

    We had flown to the city we picked up the car, so we had little choice. I should have known better. I did as instructed: responded to the email with a picture of the receipt and was told to call them back. But there was no phone number provided! I called the number I originally called and just spent another hour. They are going to call Avis to see if Avis will reimburse me. SERIOUSLY! I don't care who pays me back. I have a contract and it should be between them, not pulling me -- the customer -- into it. I will never deal with this company again!

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    Reviewed Nov. 17, 2019

    I bought an insurance car for a car that I rent in Dominican Republic. When I got to economy rental car, they told me that I had to have the one that they offer. The one that I bought in Expedia was useless. So please be careful and do not be fool buying an insurance that is not going to work to get the car. I ended paying 2 insurances because Expedia did not refund my money.

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    Reviewed Nov. 17, 2019

    While making reservation, I selected Breakfast included as criteria. The website of Expedia displayed list of hotels. Out of those filtered hotels I selected a hotel and booked. Even while booking there was no message populated/alerted me about breakfast. When I checked in and enquired about breakfast, hotel staff said it's not included.

    When I called Expedia about the same, I was on call for more than one hour and they said I need to send receipts for getting refund for the breakfast. It's not about money but it's all about hassle especially when we have kids. I got upset with the hidden things they have to deceive customer to get business. Worst experience with expedia and will never use this again.

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    Reviewed Nov. 17, 2019

    This agency is unbelievably incompetent and unprofessional. They have tied up over $1000 of my available credit on my credit card ($700 was a pending charge that they have not settled from 10 days ago and $300 for a charge today that I did not authorize). The only reason I can see this information is because of my credit card’s app, which allows real time activity and access to funds. I spoke to 2 customer service reps (that I had a tough time communicating with because they were not American), 2 managers, and 2 corporate representatives. However the issue was not resolved. Neither were they sensitive to the fact that these issues prohibited me from using my card to purchase plane tickets to see my grandmother in ICU. I say stay away from this service and potentially any third party like them.

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    Reviewed Nov. 14, 2019

    I purchased the travel protection on my flight because I knew my plans had the potential to change. They did and when I called to get a refund for my flight I was unable to because of the ridiculous requirements to get a refund. Absolute scam, don't do the travel protection.

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    Reviewed Nov. 13, 2019

    Never book anything from Expedia. They charged me twice for the same reservation and have called 4 times already and not issuing a refund. They charged me $4000 on my credit card and it is a pain getting a refund. Their customer care is the worst and don't know a thing about your reservation. Most painful experience ever and I haven't got my money back.

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    Reviewed Nov. 13, 2019

    A week ago I got on Expedia's booking site to book a junket trip for my wife, by the time the website was done with me I had 4 bookings (nearly 2 hours) because each time I'd hit the "book it" button it would run a circular icon for 15 - 25 min. then show a message: "unable to confirm your booking at this time". So, I promptly called on the phone (long hold time), was connected to a rep so I explained what had taken place. I chose 1 (ONE) itinerary # to keep, she then cancelled 2 more then told me the third was taking so long she would just send me a cancellation email, which I never got. The next day I was checking my CC account activity and discovered a still existing charge for the flights, I promptly contacted Expedia and after a grueling barrage of "tier 1" and "tier 2" emails asking me for "screenshots" I was just told by a "tier 3" representative "NO" in a rudely blunt fashion. I will NEVER, EVER even consider using Expedia again! George

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    Reviewed Nov. 11, 2019

    Booked a car through Expedia, didn't receive any email confirmation. When picking up the reservation with car rental company, the CHARGE is DOUBLE to what Expedia quoted. Contacted them to straighten it up, but no. Obviously with no answer. Itinerary **. Surely that's not just bad, but against the law, right?!

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    Reviewed Nov. 10, 2019

    I made a booking for self drive luxury car and Expedia charged me for insurance in advance. When I presented the Expedia insurance to Avis (Car rental company), they refused and I had to per force buy insurance from Avis. I presented my case to Expedia who took a week to revert and simply refused any refund. Worse is, my cousin who was along with me and had an exact similar situation was refunded by Expedia for the same refusal. Sanjeev **, India.

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    Reviewed Nov. 9, 2019

    I can not stress this enough, do not use this. I had approximately 2,500 dollars worth of Expedia points on my account. I used this site a lot for when I travel. Well, someone instantly changed my email address and tried to use my points for a rent and hotel room in New York City. So I contacted support to address this issue and all was well. I instantly hurried to use my points and lo and behold all of a sudden my account was deleted with no warning or email. After approximately 2-3 hours on the phone with support they concluded that my account never existed....even though I am still getting emails from them and have the reservations # from me and the scammer. They basically said I either deleted it or someone from the company did. After what he told me and my account just "disappearing" I think it was an inside job and someone wanted to use my points. I will never use this company again. Avoid it at all costs.

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    Reviewed Nov. 8, 2019

    The lowest price guarantee is crap. All they do is make you attach screenshot and log in a complaint, they will just tire you out till you give in and say, "Crap. To hell with your lowest price guarantee. Let me go for my vacation."

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    Reviewed Nov. 7, 2019

    I was quoted $140.51 for a car in Dublin Ireland including taxes and fees. Then I added a driver for $35.24. and fuel for $61.00. I was then charged in the end $617.30. That would be good to know! You can hire a lot of Uber drivers who are experienced at driving on the other side of the road for that.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 6, 2019

    Expedia Charged me an additional $2500 for my flight and took weeks to refund the money. Buyer beware.. I had to spend countless hours on the phone with their staff, they promised me a gift card for the stuff around and the gift card never came. I had another separate issue with them a while back where they booked the wrong accommodation, I got to the hotel and there was no booking made. They had made a booking at another hotel with the same name in a completely different state, they are very rude and hard to deal with on the phone. I would highly recommend you go elsewhere.

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    Price

    Reviewed Nov. 5, 2019

    When I book a package the price is what it should be when I book which room and flights I want, until I get to the end and after I get to final details the price increases for no reason. They are scammers.

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    Reviewed Nov. 5, 2019

    They are the worst website ever and I will never book through you again. I booked a flight from Bali to Kuala Lumpur. It mentioned I have a checked baggage included and when I arrived at the airport they charged me for the bag and then their unhelpful customer service refused to give me the refund despite that I sent them the receipt. Really I consider this as stealing my money. They are a disrespectful company and this is the last time for me to book through them and I will tell everyone I know about this.

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2019

    Cancelled our reservations before deadline as listed on the Expedia site but still charged 100% by the hotel. Expedia staff is incompetent and not willing to research and really honor the policy that is listed on their site. Terrible experience. It is good platform if you never need to call them or have an issue. If so, you are on your own, in reality no one to talk to.

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    Reviewed Nov. 2, 2019

    Stayed at The Breakers Palm Beach in a bed bug infested room. The hotel and Expedia refuse any refund for a $600 per night room that cover my body in bed bug bites for their corporations to gain profits from unhealthy services.

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    Reviewed Nov. 2, 2019

    I would like people to learn from my experience. I went online back in early September looking for a deal on a hotel near Denver International Airport for a planned trip to Hawaii in October. I ended up booking this hotel stay a month before our trip began. My wife, granddaughter and I would stay the night before in the hotel, and be flying out the following day. We can were looking forward to a restful night sleep, free continental breakfast, and free shuttle to the airport the day of departure. I found what I thought was a good deal with Travelocity.

    This is where I went wrong. I used a travel site that I had never used before. By the time I realized I hadn’t received a confirmation, I forgot who it was that I booked it through, but I did remember the name of the hotel. I called them, and was told I booked it through Expedia. I pulled up my app, and didn’t see the hotel stay in “my trips”. At least the hotel confirmed I had a room reserved is what I was thinking.

    A few days before our scheduled stay, my wife’s back began acting up (herniated disk). We agreed staying on a foreign bed the night before we fly out wasn’t the best idea. I then tried calling the hotel on multiple occasions to cancel. They said it had to be cancelled through Expedia. I sent a message through the Expedia App (still believing my booking was with them) more than 24 hours prior to check-in. I never received a reply. I called the hotel again that night, and stated I had no intention of checking in,..just so they knew. It was at that time I Googled “Expedia Customer Support”, and finally spoke with someone that stated my booking was through Travelocity. They transferred me to them. After explaining it all over again, they said they cannot refund my money because it didn’t comply with their cancellation policy.

    The next day after our arrival in Hawaii, I found the charge had been placed on my account by the hotel. I have since researched all businesses associated to Expedia, and will never use any of them ever again. By the way, I have used Expedia; and all of their businesses primarily since these online travel sites began taking over the industry. I feel that I made an honest mistake, and did my best to cancel; only to be treated like a first time user.

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    Reviewed Nov. 1, 2019

    I paid extra for cancellation coverage and cancelled my reservation within 1 hour of making it. Not only did I contact Expedia for a refund 1st I was told to contact the hotel; why I didn't make the reservation at the hotel, then I was told it's a 3rd party, AIG. I didn't pay you... Now I being asked for medical information. Which I was fully prepared to send until I saw the form. Complete slap on top of dealing with my sisters and family issues. This is the worst return insurance I've ever experienced. Expedia needs to take it off the site if they don't intend to honor. AIG should not list it as cancellation insurance if it is not, it's being handled as a dispute. AIG claim **. Expedia Itinerary # **.

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    Reviewed Oct. 31, 2019

    When renting a car for a trip to Guatemala. Expedia offered full coverage insurance for the car. I opted to take the insurance, when I went to check in at the rental car counter I was informed the insurance is not valid in Guatemala. Why in the world would they offer a product for a rental in a country that is not valid? I was a very loyal and active user of Expedia, a "Gold" member that has spent many 10's of thousands or over $100 thousand of dollars since they launched. This experience coupled with a trip they botched for me to China has me convinced something has changed. I will be transitioning away from using Expedia. So sad, Jerry.

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    Reviewed Oct. 30, 2019

    I booked a hotel on Expedia and realized I made an error while feeding details. I immediately canceled the booking on the website. Then saw a better deal on Booking.com and booked two rooms from the same. As my stay date was approaching, I kept receiving multiple reminders from booking.com about my stay, if I need to revise any booking details, etc but absolutely no communication from expedia.

    I reached the hotel as per my booking, and asked them for two rooms as booked on booking.com. To my shock the hotel manager said I have 3 rooms booked under my name - 2 on booking.com and 1 on expedia! I told him I had canceled the expedia booking but he said his system is showing the booking is on. Expedia T&C said 60% of the payment will be advance deducted by the hotel before the stay and 40% there at the hotel. However the Hotel had not deducted any advance payment and expedia had not sent any communication which could tell me that my booking was not cancelled!

    Both my hotel manager and me tried to contact Expedia through all the options available on their site - toll free number, chat bots, emails and still could not get through anyone at Expedia. Finally I had to pay Rs 5000 for a room in which I did not stay at all and that really pinched me. Was really disappointed with absolutely no support from expedia in the scenario where there was an error in their system.

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    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2019

    I booked a bargain fare on Expedia from Helena, MT to Manchester, NH. Several weeks after booking I received an email that there were problems with my flight and please choose another option. Fine. But my options were from Honolulu to Manchester, NH. So I phone customer service - my service rep. was excellent I might add; he went above and beyond to rectify. Unfortunately my only solution would have been a crazy all day into the night flight coming down in 4 cities. I asked for a full refund which was granted.....in 6-8 weeks. This tied up my entire morning, now I have to rebook, monitor my debit card for the refund, and most likely change all plans I've made (domino effect). Lesson learned: No more bargain fares. No more Expedia.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2019

    I recently booked a hotel/flight package from Expedia UK. I paid one amount to Expedia, not separate hotel and airline costs. One payment. My bill showed split charges. Expedia charged the hotel and Vueling Airlines charged for the flight. The problem is that the airlines charge processed twice, once as Euro and then again as USD. First response from customer service was “not our charge. Deal with airline directly.” I was quite angry with this. I didn’t buy from airline. I bought from Expedia. If I wanted to buy from the airline, I would have gone to Airline’s website. I didn’t. I didn’t even make two payments on the Expedia website. I trusted Expedia to deliver what it represents on its website. This “not my job” is terrible service. Expedia should stand by its sale. After further back and forth I still got nowhere.

    I have been dealing with Vueling and my bank as well. Vueling says I bought two tickets. I showed the Vueling website and Expedia site which show I bought only one ticket. No response. I’m taking it to Citizens Advice now. Both Expedia and Vueling are refusing to deal with this. Both point the finger at the other to resolve the issue and neither is taking responsibility. Shocking customer service. I blame Expedia UK. They represented this sale. I bought from them.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2019

    I never write bad reviews, however, I could not be more disappointed.... I have been trying for over a month now to just receive a refund for a night I booked off of Expedia for a "hotel" that turned out to be someone's personal apartment. I couldn't even stay the night if I wanted to as there was no way of even entering the building. I went to purchase the insurance to be able to cancel and was redirected (all within 3 mins of my initial reservation). I ended up calling customer service to get assistance and the initial lady I smoke with was polite and nice and tried to reach out to the "hotel" for me.

    She was unable to contact them and didn't have any correct contact info for them. I have been talking back and forth with DIFFERENT customer service agents ever since via email and not one of them has been able to contact this "hotel" despite me being able to contact the hotel (days after the initial reservation) through the Expedia messaging itself... I have been mediating a conversation and relaying info back and forth between the "hotel" and Expedia for over a month now and the "hotel" insists they have not received any sort of messages, emails, or calls from Expedia requesting the refund. I am still owed well over $200 and have not heard anything from Expedia in the last week.

    To say I'm frustrated is a huge understatement and I have not been contacted via phone or email despite my polite requests for over a week by any sort of management. I went to leave a Google review and it is impossible to do so. I have emailed time and time again. I have gone through every means to be noticed by them and am getting to a real point of anger.

    The whole point of me going to Portland in the first place was to visit my terminally ill parent. Not one part of this has been easy and on top of that I seem to have lost over $200 to a non existent hotel facilitated by Expedia. I wouldn't be upset at all as long as I could tell or had any reassurance that they were trying to solve the situation. BUT NO ONE HAS EVEN CALLED OR EMAILED OR MESSAGED THAT "HOTEL" BUT ME. NO ONE HAS REACHED OUT TO ME TO RESOLVE THE SITUATION...

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2019

    Expedia has the worst customer service!! Book directly with the Airline! They do not do any kind of effort to assist you!! If I had book directly with the airline they would have waive the fees and I would have had just paid the difference!!! I have a been a customer for so long but they just lost a customer! Please stay away from them!

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2019

    Booking a flight for 3-persons, Expedia offers great reduction if also booking hotel ('bundle'-reduction); in fact the price appears to be 45% higher!!! Their excuse: 'live website, floating prices' - this was a booking for April-2020!!, BUT individual flight/hotel prices are stable from 1 week before to 1 week after the booking!! Email assistance is totally inadequate, ignoring All, in vague nothing-saying company-based wordings. VERY FRUSTRATING!!

    On top of this, the announced permitted cancellation within 24 hours does NOT work!! "Sorry, we had a technical glitch on our end and could not cancel your flight"... Try it yourself at Expedia.com for any Lima to Cusco flight in combi with any Cusco hotel (I did so for several for April and May-2020!!) with the amazing and unmotivated!! 45% increase!! I had a similar but less dramatic experience for a bundled flight/hotel, but the difference of paying only 10$ more (rather than getting a reduction) was not enough to put me into action!! But now the 190$ difference was a bit too much!!!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2019

    I have found Expedia the most difficult of any travel group I have dealt with. I booked a holiday for myself and my daughter and her partner to Bali. The booking was through Expedia and I have to deal with them when I require information or want to make changes. TWICE now I have contacted them and both times they have told me my booking can't be found. This is despite me giving my full contact details plus the booking information they have provided me with. They take at least 24 hours or up to 3 days to respond to an email and usually their response is another question so you wait another 2 or 3 days for them to come back to you after you give them answers. I would never use them again. No matter what the discount is the frustration is not worth it. I wish I had never booked this holiday.

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    Reviewed Oct. 23, 2019

    I booked my room at the Kerry Hotel Hong Kong through Expedia, one month prior to my reservation date I contacted the Kerry hotel and requested allowing me to change the date to approximately one month later. Kerry hotel indicated I would need to do that through Expedia so I contacted Expedia and they said they have to contact the Kerry hotel and they did and the Kerry hotel would not allow a date change nor would they offer a refund. This is repulsive policy. Not only am I disgusted with the Kerry hotel but with the runaround I got and Expedia not fighting to get me a reservation date change.

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    Reviewed Oct. 22, 2019

    We were a long time customer of Expedia and never had to cancel a flight for refund. Just recently we booked a flight for Korean Air and we had to make changes then in the end we had to cancel the entire booking of our trip. When we called to cancel, we were to told to wait 8 weeks for a refund of the purchase. We got a refund because we paid for the flight twice. After waiting for 8 weeks, we did not get our refund back. We called Expedia again and we were being transfer to different people and finally got the corp guy to help us. He said that the first staff did not fill out the paper properly for the refund so we have to wait again for another 8 weeks for our refund. We feel that this is their fault and not our fault and they refused to refund the money back sooner than the 8 weeks. So we decided to not use Expedia anymore.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 22, 2019

    Called to make a booking. The guy took my information placed me on hold and came back with the confirmation of booking. Didn't confirm anything back. Found out he booked my ticket $34 expensive as that was a card fee, if the guy would had confirmed this with me i would have used a different card to avoid the fee, upon disputing that he transferred me to someone else where the girl was no help, placed me on hold and came back advising a Call back in 5 minutes. 2 hours of wait i called them back upon doing a verify check i found out my email address taken down by the initial sales rep was incorrect. After being on the phone for over an hour the guy finally greed to refund $34 back and when i asked him to re-confirm all the flight details i found out that the Name of the Itinerary for myself was incorrect.

    The guy again placed me on a very long hold promising a fix came back advised they cannot do anything and said the ticket will be invalid due to names not matching passport and he has to cancel it with a full refund in 5-10 business days. I asked for a new ticket to be booked at the same price with a discount applied a a compensation for all my trouble and the guy straight up denied this. Upon alot of argument promised a CB from supervisor, again failed to keep promise. I kept calling back, speaking with different people, no notes were left on the account so had to start over again every time and everyone had something different to say. I cannot stress enough that how unhelpful each and every agents including the managers have been.

    They need proper training. I have wasted so many hours being on the phone and they just love to put you on hold after every second. In tears now. It's been so painful dealing with the call centre people in India as they do not have any form of empathy or awareness of the awful customer service they are providing. I wish i could have spoke to someone the the head quarters in States and they could have sorted this out for me. I am still waiting for promised call backs the solution to all my trouble. Please dont book through Expedia at least not with the sales team over the phone!!! TAKING THIS TO OMBUDSMAN!

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    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2019

    They sold me a smoking room. Had confirmation on it. Smoked in room and got charged $250 smoking fee from the hotel. I had confirmation but nobody looked at it. If Expedia is selling smoking rooms they should make sure the hotel know this. I called Expedia as soon as we checkout and they said they would look into it and they never did and never heard back from them. Lesson learned.

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    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2019

    Their website initially stated that they would allow me 2 checked baggage 23 kgs each. So I choose Expedia even though other providers were turning out to be cheaper because Expedia was providing me with 46 kgs of checked baggage were as other providers were providing me 30 kgs of baggage. But when I got my itinerary they only gave me 25 kgs and I paid a lot more on expedia tickets then I would have done if I used other providers. When I called them regarding this they were so rude and didn’t accept their mistake even though I had evidence against them.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Oct. 20, 2019

    My wife and I were in Punta Cana, and we made a reservation at the Expedia desk for a one day island trip. Cost about 200 bucks. The next morning we arrived early in the lobby to wait for the bus to pick us up, but it never came. There were numerous tours leaving, people's names were getting called, but not ours. I spoke to the tour guides, the front desk, but we weren't any anybody's list. We waited for an hour but nothing. Later on when the Expedia desk opened we went back to complain and ask for our money back. Of course they accused us of being late to the pick up, and refused to refund us. Ruined our vacation.

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    Reviewed Oct. 20, 2019

    I made a purchase of a multi city trip using Expedia, initially I searched at Google Flights and it directed me to Expedia, there I made the payment normally and received email and payment confirmation sms, one day later I received an email from Expedia saying that it was not possible to debit my card, but they debited the day before! I called my bank and they explained that the charge was successful made... Case ID **

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    Reviewed Oct. 18, 2019

    We booked a ten day vacation to Hollywood Florida through Expedia. Every detail air, resort, airport transportation and activities. One of the activities we purchased was a dinner show on the River Queen boat. We took an Uber to the show which cost us $38. When we arrived we were informed the cruise had been bought out by United Way over a month prior and Expedia had been notified. The River Queen could not refund us because we booked through a third party. Expedia did not notify us! We had to take a water taxi back to the resort which cost an additional $28.

    We contacted Expedia and were offered a refund on the dinner show however the only thing they would offer for the transportation was a $50 credit to use on a future booking with them. We are not planning any travel in the near future so that credit is useless to us. They refused to actually refund us for the transportation. Long story short. We will never book a vacation through a third party again. Not even the concierge at the resort can offer assistance. It leaves you at their mercy if you have a problem. Expedia needs to review their policies because their mistake cost us money and precious vacation time.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 18, 2019

    I am trying to help the family of my brother which had a terrific experience with Emirates (never fly with them or look before the terrific experiences (1/5) on Tripadvirsor), and they bought the tickets on Expedia and the customer service like usual: unefficient and without any power to decide anything. I live in Europe and I was going to Canary islands where Expedia Europe have its HQ and you have to know that Canary Islands has a very attractive fiscal conditions, so it's a fiscal paradise for business companies. So it was really an experience as I didn't know what to expect: just a letter box or a real HQ.

    So I arrived at the address in Santa Cruz, Tenerife at the 4th floor of an old building in the city. 2 young men opened the door, and I ask to see the director of this HQ for Expedia Europe and it's called VACATIONSPOT S.L. They were surprised as they never see any expedia customer going there. And they said there was no HQ there, just a travel agency probably owned by Expedia working on reservations in Canary Islands and they added "it's just for fiscal reasons". So the HQ of Expedia wasn't the HQ at all and it wasn't looking like an HQ, more than a call center.

    So many European countries are struggling to have enough money for health, administration, justice ... and they increased our taxes. And Expedia which get the benefit of this fiscal paradise, legally, because its HQ is in Canary islands. But if there no HQ, what happened? It's immoral and it was shocking for me to see the behavior of Expedia and I won't buy anything with them.

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    Reviewed Oct. 17, 2019

    They do nothing for you when you need to cancel. You have to go directly to the airlines even though its less than 24 hrs. If you book multiple airelines, you must call each. I told them it was false advertising and the agent said "YES, IT IS". The web site also timed out while taking my payment.

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    Reviewed Oct. 16, 2019

    The hotel management charged us twice for the same stay. I informed them even before our stay that amount was deducted twice but we were assured that it is just for security purpose and extra amount will be returned after completing our stay. After stay we again asked them to return extra amount, but we have not received it yet. Booking was done by the Anurag Chousey and we are your regular customers. But this time, we are really upset by this unprofessional mistake of the hotel management. Kindly look into matter.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 16, 2019

    Expedia made it extremely difficult for me to make travel arrangements because no one was willing to work with me. I had to cancel my flight to Boston. I was then misinformed that I would need to pay an extra $75 to book a new flight which is stupid because the new flight I want to book is only $75 which is close to the amount of the credit I received for cancelling my flight.

    Each time I emailed them I got a response saying this issue has been dealt with. It was always some Generic copy and paste email that they get paid to sent to customers who are mad. I also called numerous times however speaking with customer service representatives that don't speak English often infuriates me. So needless to say, no one gave me the correct information and no one was willing to help me fix my travel plans so that I could go back home.

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    Reviewed Oct. 15, 2019

    I made a reservation at Highland Lake Resort, for which I was a no show. The policy stated on my booking was that such an incident would result in a 50% payment. I was charged 100%. Expedia would not honor the 50% policy despite providing them with screenshots of the policy and how much I was charged.

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    Reviewed Oct. 14, 2019

    Unfortunately I received the call that my sister has passed away. I obviously had to get things in order and fly home asap as I want to be close to our mother as soon as possible. I don't know about most people, but in this situation my mind it starting to prioritize and the flight wasn't really something that worried me that much. Kinda had the expectation that would cost more since it's a same-day international flight. Long story short, the search results went quick, selected the flight and the "we're sorry, that price is no longer available but if you pay $500 more we will give it to you" situation. And that was added to what was already priced accordingly as a same day flight.

    So I've bought in, and I know and I am aware that was a hasty decision, but I bought in. And that is ok!!! Now... I'm not looking for any answers, expect anything financially in return, attempted any contact like it would matter. Nothing. However, I will say this... simply because of the use of this business practice/algorithm: I really wish with the deepest hate that I can find in me, or any person can imagine... for your company to fail, shut down, and those responsible for the use of that algorithm to go through hardship & unresolved life tribulations. Nothing less.

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    Reviewed Oct. 12, 2019

    Cheating and bad business as they did not full their responsibility and they did not offer anything. I call all their department and all the people I spoke to them they do not able to came up with any solutions.

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    Reviewed Oct. 11, 2019

    So I booked a ticket with Expedia and due to sickness I had to cancel it. I called them 48 hours earlier and asked if they cannot refund it, they could provide me with credit or change the day of flight. They cancelled my ticket with no credit or refund. Well I had a medical reason to cancel it with a doctor's note which is a genuine reason. They should have understood it.

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    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2019

    Due to a family emergency I had to cancel a hotel reservation at Santa Ana Casino Hotel in Bernallillo, New Mexico within the 24 hour range. Expedia clearly states that if one does have to cancel within that time frame, the reservation is subject to the loss of one night's stay plus taxes. My stay was for two nights, and Expedia refused to honor their stated policy and refund 1/2 my payment. Expedia has nothing to assist me and continues to operate deceptively. Avoid them at all cost!

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    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2019

    In February 2019 we booked a flight via Expedia from Sao Paulo to Foz Do Iguacu (211 euros). The Airline was Avianca Brasil. When we arrived at the airport (1th of July) we found out that Avianca Brasil had been bankrupt since months. Expedia never bothered to let us know. On the contrary, they even sent us an email the day before departure to remind us of our flight! Being at the airport with 2 small children and having already booked a hotel in Foz, we were forced to buy new tickets (432 euros). The day after, we received an email from Expedia entitled "How was your flight to Foz?" where we were asked to rate our flight with Avianca Brasil!!

    Now we are 3 months and several emails later and we still did not get a clear answer from Expedia, let alone a refund. They refuse to take any responsibility in this. We always get the same lame reply with the same grammatical mistakes ("we understand how feel it must be"), probably sent from some lonely help desk officer in Bangalore who has no intentions whatsoever to help us but rather to discourage us. They claim to be leaders in travel, I would say they are suckers in travel. :-( Never again.

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    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2019

    I booked a tour with Expedia. I got told by the tour company that tour was unavailable. I requested a refund and followed up from the tour company and they said they refunded it to Expedia, Expedia has to refund it to me. It's been almost 2 months and I'm still waiting. I am not the first they need to stop with their false advertising.

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    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2019

    I am outraged! I reserved a simple hotel room for 2 nights (during the week) in Dallas. No flights were necessary. I purchased the insurance in case I had to cancel, because I have been having medical issues and was not sure if I could make it. With 7 days notification, I called to cancel, and I was told by the Expedia rep that the hotel would need some kind of letter from my doctor in order for me to get a refund. I couldn't believe it! I canceled anyway, and then called the hotel directly and spoke to the General Manager, Peter. He said that it is NOT their policy to require medical proof when a reservation has to be canceled and that they're not the ones that even have my money to refund. He said they don't get payment from Expedia until the day of Check-in, so it is not up to them to approve a refund. He also said it is completely up to Expedia.

    On a side note, I asked what their rates were for those nights to see if I had gotten any kind of "deal" by booking through Expedia, and he said the rate was exactly the same. So in summary, booked a hotel room through Expedia, paid for the insurance in case I had to cancel, didn't get it a cheaper rate, and when I tried to cancel, they are giving me the run around asking for medical proof of why I can't make it, and then they blame the hotel and lie about the hotel's policies to cover themselves. Outrageous. Expedia, you may get my $242, but you will NEVER get my business again. Don't ever book through these crooks!!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2019

    Expedia hooked me up to a very cheap hotel. When I arrived in the hotel, I was asked to for my credit card. And I asked if they wanted deposit, I was going to give them cash. The hotel worker told me that they need to keep my credit card with them and would give me in the morning when I leave just in case I smoked something is lost. I left the hotel and called Expedia right away and asked them if they can use money to find me another hotel. They said that I need to make another payment because I agreed that cancellation is not allowed. They literally left me in a position where I had to be compliant with the shady hotel so request for my credit card.

    I decided to sacrifice one night's payment than leaving my credit card with a shady hotel. I'm not sure if this is a coincidence but few days after that I started receiving phishing emails. I was contacted by my bank about account activity that I had not authorized. Anyways, I wouldn't feel comfortable making any kind of business with Expedia.

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    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2019

    Booked flights through Expedia. Fours hours prior to the flight we received a sms from Expedia telling us that the flight was cancelled. They didn't provide any information or contact details. At the airport we finally got in contact with Expedia and they provided absolutely no assistance WHATSOEVER!!!! Shocking behaviour!!!!

    We had to source and purchase new airfares online whilst sitting in a foreign airport. On our return we contacted Expedia for a full refund and a "please explain". We were gobsmacked when they basically said it wasn't their problem or fault. They basically wiped their hands clean of the whole situation! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! WILL NEVER EVER USE AGAIN AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND TO ANYBODY.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Oct. 8, 2019

    Expedia and Delta would not work with me on changing the flight seven weeks in advance. Hence I lost 326.86 in this transaction. Horrible customer service to a very frequent user of both Expedia and Delta. There is no excuse for this as I was willing to re-book (and not take a refund). You can bet I will NEVER utilize either Delta or Expedia again. This is no way to treat a customer!

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    Reviewed Oct. 8, 2019

    I am a member of Expedia, I have used them countless times to book hotel rooms for myself and my children. This past Saturday, myself and my friend had tickets to a hockey game and were very excited to be booking at a apparently well reviewed hotel in Hamilton Ontario. I picked which city I wanted to book in. I put in "Hamilton, Ontario". The first hotel that came up was the Sandman (which I have previously stayed in for a week in Hamilton). I was very happy with the hotel previously, it did it only had 2 rooms left, so I jumped on it and pressed "reserve".

    I instantly got my confirmation email from EXPEDIA, that said "HAVE FUN IN OAKVILLE". Now, I know very well I booked for HAMILTON, not OAKVILLE. I IMMEDIATELY called Expedia to let them know the error, the lady on the phone was extremely rude, unprofessional and immature. She stated they have a zero refund policy. I tried to explain my situation, it was impossible for us to stay in Oakville and see the hockey game in Hamilton. She began to laugh at me, I asked to speak to a manager, she continued to laugh, and hung up on me. I still had to book a room here in Hamilton, so I used a different booking company and had zero issues with this.

    Now, I have called many times to try and get this sorted out, I have explained that I am a single mother of 2 young boys, who solely depend on me for everything, $190 is not a lot to some people, to my little family, $190 is an entire week of being able to put food on the table for my boys. I have explained this to Expedia, as well as the Sandman in Oakville. I have asked for even a credit to be able to stay somewhere else, I've asked for a partial refund. Not one single employee or manager from Expedia has cared in the slightest. $190 to Expedia is nothing, even considering how much money I have spent booking through their company. I am appalled at the customer service and how I have been treated. I am struggling way more than normal this month now. I do not recommend anyone use Expedia or the Sandman Hotel in Oakville. Even an apology for being laughed at from an employer would be sufficient.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Oct. 8, 2019

    Terrible company. Stay away. Try BookIt.com. You wil be happy! When you get points they will take them away and end up with zero. Bad service, rude and not interested in your well being plus their prices are not as good as other companies. Buyer beware!!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 7, 2019

    We booked a jam packed trip to Vegas and stayed at the Luxor for 3 nights 5 months ago. I received a text message from Expedia in August saying that we needed to change our flight home as a West Jet flight was cancelled. That happens and I was ok with that. We arranged the change in flights... After 2.5 hours on the phone. The Expedia rep wanted us to come home on the Saturday instead but that was not going to happen...and then he wanted us to come back on Monday and that was not an option because of work.

    We ended up settling on a long 9.5 hour day of flights to make coming home on the same day as planned work. The hotel was great and no issues on the trip down. We were scheduled to leave at 12:30 Sunday afternoon on October 6th 2019. We arrive at the airport at 930 am and are informed that Expedia had changed our flight and we had missed it. We were supposed to fly out at 830am that morning. I received no text...no email...and no notification regarding this change. This was not my first time booking with Expedia but I will assure you it will be my last.

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    Reviewed Oct. 7, 2019

    I have been trying to book a trip from Expedia since Friday 4th of October. At the payment stage, they give an error saying that an error has occurred with the payment method. There is no chance that my bank rejects this transaction because I spoke with the bank several times, I have a sufficient amount in the account and there is no limit on the amount that I can spend on one day. I also spoke with representatives of your company who do not know anything and cannot help me in any way, although I am sure that your company has the problem, and not my bank.

    so for 4 days I tried to book tickets through the application, through the website from the phone, through the website from the computer and by the phone. All these times an error appeared that there were problems with the method of my payment and all the times they withdraw money from me, although I did not receive any confirmation to my mail. A few days later, they return me money to my account, but I did not manage to book a trip ever. If the problem is with the trip that I choose, if it is no longer available, you should remove it from your site and not waste my nerves, time and money!!!!

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    Staff

    Reviewed Oct. 5, 2019

    Location is great. Right next to a local market full of interesting shops. Hotel staff can speak English well. However, I have never been so disrespected by a hotel receptionist in my life. I bought a cheesecake, and brought it back to hotel to share with family. We needed a knife to cut it open, and saw a metal knife in their VIP area. I picked it up, and intended to take it back to the room. A receptionist rushed to stop me, and refused to let me use the knife. Then I asked the receptionist if you have a plastic knife, and he said no. I asked him how I cut the cake. He said no knife. Are you kidding? A hotel does not allow a guest to use its knife. I ended up using dental floss to cut my cheesecake. Is it a cave hotel? Then, to make matters worse, I posted a negative review at Expedia, and Expedia censored my review. Refused to post it despite multiple followups and escalations via Better Business Bureau. Just be careful with this hotel and Expedia review score, in general.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2019

    I arrived in Rome Fiumicino airport on Sept 3, 2019 waited in line to pick up a reserved automobile at Fox car rental only to find it that it is supplied by a company called Sicily by car. The waiting period for pick-up was in excess of one and one half hours delay. I paid at the counter as per Expedia's offer. When I later filled up for fuel, I checked the oil and had one liter of oil missing in a small car. I returned the car on Sept. 25, 2019 in proper order and asked the attendant to refund the oil payment of 7.90 Euros. He told me that he was sorry and that there was no supervisor on duty in order to authorize a refund.

    I have taken this issue up with Expedia and other than cheap apologies and in excess of six days of waiting, all they said, "We are sorry but you paid at the counter therefore we can't assist you." I explained that they are the selling agent and should I have not picked up the car on the agreed date, they would have charged my credit card. Expedia spends millions of dollars in order to obtain consumer business and then some underqualified rep. at the customer service desk loses your loyalty.

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2019

    Purchased two tickets for relatives and discovered one of the travellers had a passport issue. Tried to cancel well in advance of the flight. No refunds. Have to go to a third party company and wait a month to six weeks for a check, if they deem the claim to be valid. Meanwhile they cloak this with legalese, terms and conditions and someone has my $1350 for something I never used. This is how Expedia and the airlines rip off senior citizens. Don't use this company if your plans go awry as they sure do not look after their customers.

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    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2019

    A cautionary tale: My wife and I booked a trip to Lima Peru with Expedia, but my wife had to cancel. I called Expedia and cancelled her trip and changed my itinerary. The agent said that we would get credit for her flight that could be used later. I got an email confirmation of my itinerary change but no email confirmation of her cancellation. When I called Expedia to rebook, they had no record of her cancellation and credit, but instead recorded her as a no show. Be vigilant when using Expedia. I will not be using them again.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 3, 2019

    Worst. Rep names Johnny. I had 1200 credit and asked for comfort Air Canada ticket. He said it's impossible but my ticket will include baggages and seat. Made me pay extra 416 for changing fee and tax. Ticket was worth 600 and he told me I will lose value. And I don't get confirmation email for another 10 hrs. Found out he booked me a wrong flight. I called back and they gonna do case to see what they can do. Waste of 5 hrs. Never ever ever booking with Expedia. Just book with Hotels.com or airline directly. They scam you. They will just take money and get you lowest value ticket. And the rep Johnny seems like he doesn't know what he is saying.

    He was telling me my itinerary number back 3 times. All 3 times was diff # with 1 or 2 digit. How can I book my flight ticket with someone who can't read number clearly. Anyways I paid over 1600 dollars for just 700 dollars worth ticket. They made me lose 415 dollar value and charged me for 200 changing fee and 215 for tax. This is unbelievable. I regret so much for using Expedia. I always been booking all my travel package many years. After this funny and ridiculous experience. I AM PERMANENTLY delete my account. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO NOT USE EXPEDIA. You will regret it.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed Oct. 2, 2019

    I’ve been tracking a certain hotel for several weeks and the price has been consistently the same. Today I received an email from Expedia telling me there was a 48 hour sale with member only discounts. I went through the link and saw the advertised price and it was a $20 discount, so I booked it. When I finish checking out I had actually paid more than the price they were advertising BEFORE the sale! What I thought I was paying and what I was actually charged her two very different things. I was on the phone with customer service for over an hour, and there was zero resolution and zero admittance of fault on their part. I have never been more disappointed. I was completely scammed and lied to by a company who I have done repeated business with in the past.

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    Reviewed Oct. 1, 2019

    I booked a cruise with them on MSC in February. Their website offered 12 drink vouchers per person. When I got on the ship I was told that promotion was discontinued a year ago. I paid 300 dollars for the upgrade for 5 people. I called Expedia when I got home and was on hold for 3 hours. Finally they told me corporate would make a decision in 72 hours which they did. I was told since they can't go back in time to see what was on their site I wasn't entitled to any compensation. I won't deal with them or their partners again. I was even told on my 3 hour call that this had happened before.

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed Sept. 30, 2019

    Booked a vacation package through Expedia at Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Cancun, which was advertised as all inclusive on their website. Got the email confirmation which also listed the hotel as all inclusive with some restrictions on food and beverage. Got to Cancun, checked into the hotel, and was told by the manager of the hotel that the resort was not all inclusive. Got back to the states and complained to Expedia. To my surprise Expedia would not take any responsibility for the false advertisement.

    The lady at corporate said she listened to the phone conversation of the agent booking the package and at no time did the agent say this was an all inclusive resort. What a joke. I have the email from Expedia describing the resort as all inclusive and yet she has the nerve to tell me this. Never will I book another trip though Expedia and would encourage others to do the same. These companies think that they can do anything to rip you off and don't have to take responsibility.

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    Reviewed Sept. 30, 2019

    My flight was cancelled and when Expedia made the change for a new date, they didn't issue a new ticket number. Korean Airlines didn't have access to my new tickets without it. I spent 89 mins on the phone trying to reach them and have them issue my new ticket number until I finally missed my flight. The airline said I was a No Show, so Expedia asked me to pay for another ticket to reach my destination without being able to guarantee that I would at least get my money back. Now I need to wait for them, God knows for how long, until they investigate if it was indeed an error on their part. Needless to say, I have spend a fortune on phone bills calling them from Japan, and bus fares to and from the airport (6,165JPY). Unacceptable.

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    Ease of Use

    Reviewed Sept. 29, 2019

    Expedia used to be a good travel booking site. No more. They are obsessed with upselling. The receipt and itinerary have become unreadable. And you can count on multiple extra steps as they try to sell a hotel, car, insurance rather than ease of use for both mobile and website. I am giving up my points and have switched. I am trying Trivago for hotels. Let's see how that goes. Still researching a travel site.

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    Coverage

    Reviewed Sept. 29, 2019

    Rented a car through Expedia in Nice France. Also took out CDW insurance for $110. Enterprise Rental company had no knowlede that any insurance was taken out so I had to pay $360 for insurance. Requested the $360 back from Expedia and I guess they thought refunding the original $110. was more than enough for the mistake they made. Sooo I'm out of $250 because someone in Expedia car rental dept. did not do their job as they should have.

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    Reviewed Sept. 28, 2019

    I booked on Expedia business class airfare from Rome to DC, departing a week later from NY to Paris. After booking my airfare, I pressed the Expedia car rental button and rented a vehicle from Alamo for the week. Turns out Expedia booked the vehicle from DC to be returned to DC, although my departure is obviously from NYC. Alamo charged me $355 for a NYC drop off and Expedia refused to acknowledge their software mistake and stuck me with a $355 Alamo charge for a NYC drop off. Expedia Customer service refused to refund the Alamo drop off fee.

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    Company Name:
    Expedia
    Year Founded:
    1996
    Address:
    333 108th Ave.
    City:
    NE Bellevue
    State/Province:
    WA
    Postal Code:
    98004
    Country:
    United States
    Website:
    www.expedia.com