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Reviewed Feb. 13, 2018
Bought air tickets from this app (Expedia). Price was good, but their services were too bad. Back in October 2017 I bought round tickets to Asia, when I return I wanted to change the date, they wanted to charge me $1600. They told this is the cheaper price that they can give me, even when I bought my ticket in October was only $1126.77 Canadian for round trip, and $1600 just for the return only.
Just bought the second air tickets with them again for the price $1219.98 Canadian, with the same name, email, address, credit card number... Before I confirmed my purchase I was checking very careful, then they send me the e-tickets, I found out my name missed some letters, so I called them. They said they can’t help, then they call Delta, to add my full legal name that’s all. They told me they buy the new tickets from them and cancel this tickets that I just bought without refund :-(, on 11 Feb 2018 I travel from Mtl to Phnom Penh, from Mtl to JFK. I was blocked there for full day because of their stupid system, Delta and Korean Airlines they were trying to help, but they said they couldn’t.
They asked me to contact Expedia to correct my name, which Expedia didn’t want to. They want only I buy new tickets, Delta Airline agent at JFK, she decided to step in and help, she spent over than 5-6hrs on the phone with her boss and Expedia. Expedia always deny to help, after all delta decided to give me new full air tickets and cancel the one with Expedia, now I’m still in my transit in Japan 14 Feb 2018 because of their cold blooded, my worse experience in my life. I will not buy anything from them again ever.
Reviewed Feb. 13, 2018
Pure disappointment. Expedia put together a package for me to Hawaii that had me flying into Kona and staying at Hilo, which is 1.5 hours away. There was no shuttles available between the airport and hotel so I had to pay an additional $600 USD to get from the airport and my hotel. Watch out for where Expedia flies you and where they put you up!
Reviewed Feb. 12, 2018
Expedia offered a roundtrip shuttle service for my recent trip to New Zealand. Problem, Expedia set up the voucher for the return the same day as the arrival. Trip was 24 days and stay at first hotel was 7 nights. They seem to think that using the shuttle service the same day is normal and expected. Will try to avoid Expedia family as best as I can.
Reviewed Feb. 12, 2018
With the thought I had cancelled a 4 day stay in Nashville 3 months ago, I received a call from the hotel to confirm my reservation that starts at 3 pm, 5 hours from the notification call. It seems I was mistaken on the cancellation (could have been my fault?) So, long story short, I was charged the night's stay and cancelled the remaining 3 nights. The problem that tortures me with Expedia is in the year that I have had an account with them, I received 3-6 email a week from them trying to sell me something (more trips, Etc.) but no reminder or confirmation of my upcoming stay so this whole situation could be avoided.
I was under the illusion that this is the reason to book through online sources is the added convenience of notifications and such. I know Booking.com and Choice hotel, who I have used before do give you a reminder of upcoming stays. I did call Expedia to cancel my online account as there is no way to do it online. I did kind of expect an apology and some agreement that upcoming stay info should be one of their services, but no, they cancelled my account and asked if there was anything else they could do for me. Unacceptable.
Reviewed Feb. 12, 2018
I reserved a car through Expedia at Thrifty Car Rental. Upon arrival at the rental counter, they had our reservation but no cars. We waited 45 minutes as they tried to find a car, and during the wait they never said they did not have any cars. We were able to rent a car at another rental company. When I complained to Expedia, they said, "Sorry but we can't do anything." Something should be offered, a discount on the next car rental, etc. I won't use Expedia or Thrifty again. I help arrange travel for the staff of a $100+ million dollar company. We won't be using Expedia or Thrifty either.
Reviewed Feb. 12, 2018
If you go to website for a hotel search and enter a check in date the default check out date is 1 day later. Fine. If you buy an airline ticket from them they send you an email asking if you need a room for your trip, they default the checkout date to the date your flight leaves the entry city. SCAM. If I’m touring Europe for a year do I want to spend 365 days in Paris? We used the first method to select a hotel for one night and booked using Expedia’s Generated email. They booked us for many days beyond the one day we needed. In the thousands of dollars. We called immediately for a correction. They refused because the hotel was a non refundable hotel, Expedia is a corrupt company that will STEAL your money and not bat an eye! Avoid them at all cost!!!
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2018
We booked our first cruise excursion through Expedia and everything went just fine until we got on the ship and found out our ship was scheduled to leave the destination earlier than originally told. This was a “2 hour Sunset Cruise” excursion, that left at 4:30pm. The ship changed their schedule to leave at 6pm instead of 7pm. We paid for the protection plan thinking we would be protected. Wrong! With no telephones on the ship, the only thing we could do is sent the Shore Excursions Group an email. We did that as soon as we got on the ship which was 2 days prior to the excursion. They replied for us to call the office upon our return. We did and were told the office would confirm the ship's itinerary change and get back to us. We never did hear. When we asked the people on the ship, they said if we had booked it on the ship instead of on Expedia it would have been no problem- that was our mistake! Never again!!!
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2018
I made hotel reservations through Expedia for a hotel in Mexico. I received a confirmation from Expedia for the two rooms I reserved. When I got to the hotel in Mexico the hotel manager said I didn't have a reservation and that the hotel was fully booked. I got Expedia on the phone and they said, "sorry". I was on the phone, mostly on hold, for almost an hour with Expedia customer service as I stood near the hotel check in desk. Horrible experience. Absolutely unacceptable to make and have a confirmed hotel reservation at a foreign destination to get there and find out you don't have any room at all and need to find one.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2018
Booked a higher category hotel room in Vegas (king bed with high roller view) through Expedia. But at check in I was told they are out of the room type I booked. I was given a double bed with no views. Contacted Expedia but didn't get any help from Expedia. Expedia charges for upgrades without making sure upgrades are provided. Contacted Expedia through phone calls, email and survey but not getting any response. Also noticed hotel staff don't treat guests who booked through Expedia.
Reviewed Feb. 10, 2018
I was placing a reservation online and everything was perfect, at a time I supposed to put my cc last 3 digits code the price of my reservation change and they charge my cc for another price. I called Expedia and they came out with the excuse that the hotel room I was selected was sold out and the hotel gave me next option. I asked the customer service for a discount due to the incident and since I am a Silver account holder they came out with another dummy excuse. I will like to have a discount on my reservation.
Reviewed Feb. 8, 2018
I booked a car through the Expedia site for $166.97 for 4 days. When I arrived at Payless, the company the car was booked, they had given my car away because the car was booked at the incorrect pick up time. They proceeded to tell me that they would match the cost. I now have a pending charge on my card for $288.45 which is $121.48 more than what I originally booked. When I called Expedia they said the reservation is for $166.97, and I called Payless and they also confirmed the reservation was for $166.97. When I asked about the $288.45 charge they said I should take it up with the local location. Guess what, the location doesn't pick up their calls. On top of that, Expedia charged me $50 for collision and damage repair which they won't credit! The reservation wasn't fulfilled and they won't credit my account. Do NOT book with Expedia, use Hotel Tonight!!!
Reviewed Feb. 8, 2018
I attempted to book the vacation on Expedia online and when I tried to complete the booking it came up with an error. I decided to call and book it. I went through the whole booking process with an Expedia agent and when she tried to complete the booking she was extremely quiet. She then explained that the booking did not go through. I then checked my TD credit card online and noted a 4200 dollar charge from WestJet. I told the agent and she was surprised but confirmed that the booking got booked then immediately canceled. She also went on to explain that I would have to wait 3 days for my funds to be returned to my credit card. This is unacceptable. I spoke to a supervisor in customer service, and she actually had the audacity to tell me that my card was declined because I did not have the funds. What a joke! I then called WestJet and booked it with them on my card that did not have enough funds. Never will book with Expedia again.
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2018
I used Expedia to try and find affordable airfare to fly from Philadelphia when my mother became ill. I did get fairly cheap airfare and the flight out there was ok. Unfortunately my mother passed and the funeral was set for a few days after my return trip was set. I called the airline to try and either be given a credit or have the itinerary changed. They told me since I bought the ticket through Expedia that I would need to contact them. I called Expedia and the first person I talked to told me they could work with me and just needed to send me a form to fill out to either refund the ticket or credit it.
He put me on hold for about 15 minutes and another gentleman picked up informing me he was a manager and explained there was nothing they could do and I either would have to use the flight or lose it. He then proceeded to ask me if I wanted to pay for another ticket home after the funeral. Needless to say I did not and will never use Expedia again if this is the way they want to treat bereaved families.
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2018
I booked 2 different flights both priced the same. I booked one after another as the return dates were different. The pricing for all flights and passengers were the same. On the second flight I choose to book the flight and enter in all the names traveling with me, pick our seats and enter my credit card number and hit book. It then priced gouged me and charged me $212.00 more for all the tickets. I called Expedia and they would not help me. I called again today and was told even the supervisor tried to look up the original transaction before the price increase and it comes up with error messages. So they have to raise my case. Then it stated on both reservations on the website even before booking 2 free check in bags. I book the flight, go back into the reservation and I have to pay $25.00 per bag. They only show the baggage fees for one airline not two.
So we choose Expedia to save money as our family is large. We changed locations to fly into our destination to save money. We used a different airline and Expedia to save money and instead we are farther away from where we wanted to go, paying for our bags and charged more fees than indicated which equals the same if we had just used KLM or Lufthansa. The website manipulates prices and is not accurate in information or just missing.
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2018
I booked a hotel on Expedia in November 2017 for a trip in March 2018. According to their the site I would not be billed for the hotel until 3 days prior to stay. The hotel charged my card the same day in I booked my room in November 2017. I decided to cancel my reservation at that hotel the first week of January 2018. As of today February 2018 the hotel has yet to credit my credit card account for charge. I have called Expedia 3 times trying to resolve this problem. Also Expedia won't let me leave a review for the hotel because I didn't stay there to warn people to avoid making reservation at this place. I would be very careful when using Expedia because they aren't as helpful resolving issues as they would make you believe.
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2018
Made a reservation to a San Bernadino, California, hotel. When I go there I discovered my reservation was for a king bed in a smoking room. The hotel staff said that reservations made through a third party simply got a room. I'd selected and thought I reserved a non-smoking, two queen room. What I got was a smoking, king bed reservation. Checking the fine print yes, that was what Expedia sent me as a reservation. My mistake. I trusted Expedia to reserve what I asked OR tell me they could not do it. BTW I tried messaging them. It's a computer that responds. You can't get anywhere.
Reviewed Feb. 6, 2018
Purchased and paid extra for airfares to get "seat choice" which was advertised as "included". After making a reservation and paying for the tickets, I was never given an option to choose my own set for my family of 3. Instead, there was a link available to do so after booking, which took me directly to the airline website and each seat assignment cost $69 extra per person!!!. When I called Expedia, they kept claiming airlines do not open seats to assign until 24 hours before departure, which is a total nonsense. Then why would Expedia advertise the ticket price includes "seat choice" when it's not available at the time of purchase??? I have been using Expedia for years without issues like this and this is the last time we will use Expedia for our trip.
Reviewed Feb. 6, 2018
This was my first time using Expedia. I reserved a room for a fall trip about 6 months in advance. The website said nothing about having to pay now for the room. I reserved the room and found out the next day that the money had been taken out of my account. This drained my bank account because I was just reserving the room and not intending to pay till check-in. I cancelled the room so I could get my money back and they said it will take 7 days to get back the money they took overnight. If they had put on the website that I had to pay when booking I would have booked a different room. When I call customer service it was like an automated response from people you could barely understand. They wouldn't listen to my complaint they just tried to feed me some lies to justify what they did.
Reviewed Feb. 5, 2018
EXPEDIA STOLE $500 FROM ME. I've been trying to use a credit I had with United Airlines through Expedia.com for months now and have not been able to because agents would not help me determine which account the credit was saved under due to "security purposes". However in the last call I just had, their agent was able to provide me with the EXACT EMAIL ADDRESS listed on the account the credit USED to be under, just like that. They could have done that months ago and now it's expired because I haven't been able to use it since NO ONE WOULD EVEN SLIGHTLY TRY TO HELP ME. Ridiculous!!! EXPEDIA IS THE WORST!!!! Absolutely terrible service!!! You are criminals!!!
Reviewed Feb. 5, 2018
Trying to get assigned seats through this website. The last 2 times has became a maze of "the Airline" and "we don't" statements. It makes me dizzy trying to figure out what to do about a service which clearly should be part of the ticket price. I have been going around with Expedia for 3 days trying to get assign seats before I get to the airport... It's mind blowing how it's my PROBLEM since I purchased an economy seat-that it doesn't come with the option of a seat assignment. I have to wait until I get to the ticket counter, and folks we all that will not end well. BTW I don't consider $442. economy anything. I had to work some serious hours to rattle those dimes together. NEVER again for Expedia. It's too bad because for years they were topnotch. This company no longer has my loyalty. SHAMEFUL, and sad.
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2018
We are complaining about the transport reservation that was made almost 2 months ago and when we arrived to Germany we did not get the service although we paid 124 $ for Munich + Berlin. We had to pay additional expenses for the transportations. We were connected by Expedia and the shuttle company. We arrived Berlin at 13:00hrs and nobody was waiting for us although they should have pick us from the airport to the hotel. We try to contact their office but there was no answer. I went and ask a security person to help me and find my ride. He wasn't able to reach them. He took me to the Information service and their 2 people tried to call and get some answers about the transportation but nobody answered the phone.
I wrote them to pick me from the airport at noon time and from the hotel at 17:30.pm. Their driver arrived the hotel at 15:00pm and not as agreed, therefore it is not my fault. He arrived the hotel and waited exactly five min., no more. The reception lady told them that we are reserved the transportation at 17:30pm. Never the less they took the funds without giving any recompense therefore I demand to get the money that I paid back or otherwise I'll demand to compensate even for the additional transportation expenses that we had. In my opinion they are not reliable as they seem to be.
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2018
Spend quite some time to enter all the information. However, price suddenly went up after agreeing on everything, but before pressing the final confirmation button. And it is worded in such a way that people are pushed to make a quick decision to pay more for the same ticket. I ended up closed the window, and went ahead to buy from a competing company the same ticket, at the same initial price from Expedia. So, the sudden price hike was from Expedia, and not from the flight company!!! It is a shame that such a big company is cheating consumers like this!
Reviewed Feb. 3, 2018
It’s hard to write this without profanity but here goes. I was charged 200+ for booking this room, the reservation was set, I had been charged, and then they took it upon themselves to cancel my reservation, and tell me for them to give me a reason they’ll contact me within 48 hours. You hear that? 48 hours to get a reason. Then 7 business days to be refunded. 7 days to get back money they stole from me. They inconvenienced me and my girlfriend, they made me pay another 300+ with the same card they had an “issue” with.
PLEASE LISTEN TO WHAT I'M TELLING YOU. DO NOT. I REPEAT. DO NOT USE THIS APP. Unless you have hundreds of thousands and don’t care if you get robbed for a couple hundred dollars and if you are that kind of person reading this; you are the exact type of moron they’re marketing to with this approach. I will NEVER USE EXPEDIA AGAIN. I will be advising all of my friends and business associates/colleagues to do so as well, you robbed the wrong guy. P.S. Whoever from your department is reading this please note that you are a bunch of con artists who prey on people’s lack of time to call and reserve their room, and I hope your company gets shut down. A lot of reviewers/previous users feel the same.
Reviewed Feb. 3, 2018
I booked a trip to Ireland via the website. Price as booked was roughly $4800.00. Upon entering credit card number a screen popped up that read something to the effect of "Snap, I hate it when this happens. The price of your trip just went up." I saw a price of approx. $5200.00. The screen then switched to the confirmation page. There was no option to accept the new charge and re-search. I called Customer Service and was told that the prices were fluid. I was told I could cancel the flight within 24 hrs. As for the hotel, the operator said he could call the hotel and cancel the reservation on the condition that I re-book at the hotel. We both agreed that if the price went up just a few moments ago, it would probably be higher when I went to re-book. BUYER BEWARE, price quoted will probably not be the price you pay and you have no real recourse. What a scam!
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2018
Not acceptable. Expedia cashed in at reservation then need 28 days to reimburse in case of cancellation 1 week after. Expedia is raising the flag to say that it is easy to change mind. I raise the flag to say to it is untrue. 28 days. This information is not available on the reservation or if it is, it is sufficiently unclear or hidden to deceive me. Then no way to contact anyone to claim except automatic voice service or mail. Then Expedia answers that they are overloaded by request and it will take a while to get an answer. What happen in cases of bankruptcy? I lose my money. I have no guarantee. I don't recommend at all Expedia. Other sites: either you let your card number as a guarantee or you paid without possibility to be reimbursed.
Reviewed Jan. 29, 2018
I bought 3 round trip flight through www.expedia.com on 2017. One round trip flight is me Dec, 20-2017 return Dec, 30 2017. from Duluth USA to Hongkong, $2023.46. Two round trip flight is my mom, my young sister Jul 26, 2017 return Dec 20, 2017. From Hong Kong to Duluth USA $1672.66/each, total we paid $5368.78 for 3 round trips. Thanksgiving I have over 1 week holiday, we want to change our flight time, my round trip flight change Nov 23-2017 return Dec 1-2017, my mom and my young sister return trip change Nov 23-2017.
I called Expedia Chinese custom service 800-680-2521 on 7:00 pm Nov 15-2017, ask my round trip want to change time, one speak Chinese lady customer support, she after computer check told me my round trip can change, when I bought my flight was $2023.46, now price update is $1609. After take charge flight fees $300, I can get refund $26.10, but Expedia cannot refund cash to me, just put my Expedia account save when I next time book flight use. I asked her my mom and my young sister flight they can change time? Because they already spend one trip, just change last trip time, she said need ask her Supervisor. Her supervisor his name is Kent, he told me my mom and my sister can change, but need pay fees $ 300/each, one stop Korea.
I worry my mom and my young sister their passport they can or not stop Korea, I need next daytime call their passport embassy make sure, also I need deposit $600 my visa card pay their change flight fees, if our flight can change together flight, I agree their point. I know they charge fees is Expedia ruler, I asked the supervisor, "May I one more night same time call you again?" I think they are nice and professional, he answer, "Yes, you can call same Chinese customer support and me again, they will work."
The next day 7:00 pm I called Expedia Chinese custom service again, bad, bad, bad, dream is coming, one customer service his name is Jingfu**, he answer my phone. I told him I want to speak Kent, he said they already off go home, he got their message. He knew my case, he can handle my case, I trust him. I asked him my round trip flight can change?He answer same before the lady Chinese customer service, my round trip can change. When I bought my flight was $2023.46, now price update is $1609. After take change flight fees $300, I can get refund $26.10, but Expedia cannot refund cash to me, just put my Expedia account. Save when I next time book flight use. He asked me, "want to change flight or no?" I said, "Yes, I want to change", so after change my flight my flight time is Nov 23 -2017.
I ask him, "My mom and my young sister flight cannot change?" He told me their flight they cannot change, if change not same flight, my flight little early.I asked him, "Why? Before last night your supervisor told me they flight can change together, why you told me they cannot". After 1 hour my husband call their English customer support 1-877261-3523, one English lady she asked her supervisor, she said my flight if change back to original need pay $1072, if my mom and my sister last trip want to change early need pay $2000/each. So we can not separate flight, I need pay more $1072 my flight back to original.
Now we are not very happy book flight through www.expedia.com, I told him my mom she is 73 yrs old, my young sister she cannot speak very good English, their flight have 2 stop, they can not transfer other flight, so I bought round trip flight with them back to Hong Kong, we can not separate flight, can you change my flight to original? He said my flight cannot change to original, I told him, "Please help me" or "May I speak your supervisor?" He said his supervisor cannot do anything for me, I told him, "Please help me", he said let him ask his supervisor. I told him, "After ask your supervisor please call me back." I told him, "Call my home phone no many battery, call my cell phone better, and then he in phone just said, "Hello, hello", he cannot hear my voice, but I STILL hear his voice.
I am not very happy book with Expedia, also I Strong complaints www.Expedia.com. customer support > What is www.Expedia.com change flight rule?? Our 3 round trip flight cannot change early together, also I have need paid more $1072 change my flight to original. Why only one night customer support answer different? From www.expedia.com, my mom and my sister if buy new one trip from Duluth USA to Hongkong, Nov23-2017 just pay $ 766/each, why www.expedia.com charge they change flight fees $2000/each. My original flight paid $2023.46, after take change fees $300, and take update $1609? Why no left $114.46? Why only $26.10 left?? $2000-$300-$1609 =$114.46. Why only 1 hour change flight fees from $300 up to $1072? Why before I have 405 points in my Expedia account, I never spend my points, why after I paid my change flight fees$1072, now only left 278 points, who can take points??
www.expedia.com website show if change flight is airline charge change fees, no Expedia charge fees, but we book with Expedia, we with Expedia customer support communicate, just one hour change flight fees from $300 up to $1072? I think is Expedia make mistake, I do not know they how to with airline Delta communicate make me paid more $1072??? Dear officer, spend handle our complaints case, we just do not want to Expedia customer support happen again.
Reviewed Jan. 29, 2018
This was the first time using Expedia. I had to go through them because this is who Alaska Air uses for their vacations. I was transferred to them from Alaska Air, upon getting a customer service rep I realized I could not understand him. I asked for someone that spoke English. I'm hearing impaired and have hearing aids through Bluetooth. He told me to hold and then he would transfer me. The next person was just as bad. I told him the same thing and he got really angry with me started yelling at me. I hung up. I then contacted Alaska Air via Facebook and they gave me a different number to call. Unfortunately they couldn't do anything. So I decided to do this online.
This trip was to fly to Hawaii for my mother's 80th birthday. Upon booking I opted for the insurance per flight just in case (which is for a full refund if you have to cancel the trip). Trip was booked on December 31 2017. We chose to fly out on the 28th of Jan-February 4th. We were going to stay at the Hilton in Waikiki beach. I had to get a rental car to reserve it. I had to give my credit card info. After booking I got my confirmation for rental only. I tried to contact them requesting my confirmation number via email and no response. A friend of mine called them and he too had difficulty understanding them but we did get confirmation number from her.
January 12 2018. I had to call and cancel trip. We had a family emergency. Since I bought the flight insurance I figured this would be easy but it was a nightmare. I had to call. I had to have this rep repeat herself several times and you could tell she was getting frustrated. First off that trip insurance I paid extra for? She stated I had purchased it after booking and I told her I did it while I was booking. Secondly they agreed or shall I say the Hilton agreed to refund me for hotel. According to Expedia Hawaiian Air refused to refund me and Expedia gave me a voucher. Ohh and the rental car company (Economy) they refused to refund me. See I put in my cc number and apparently that gave them permission to charge the whole balance to my card. This company is fraudulent. I'm surprised they haven't been sued yet.
Reviewed Jan. 29, 2018
We had a trip planned to Tennessee. Unfortunately, snow storm Grayson canceled our flight going out. So we called Expedia and canceled the whole trip because it was impossible to for us to get to Tennessee in time for our hotel. We were told on the phone that we would receive a full refund due to the storm. We only received a refund for the hotel and then spent COUNTLESS hours on the phone trying to get the refund for the flights we did not take. It was ridiculous. I am never using Expedia again. We paid for something we did not use. Customer service is incompetent and does not know what they're doing. Use Travelocity or some other company for your vacation.
Reviewed Jan. 28, 2018
I'm going to make this as short as possible because I'm tired of talking about it. I'm 18 years old (an adult) and I booked a hotel to stay in Orlando. It wasn't until later I saw that the age to check-in was 21. This was when I went to look in the check-in details in my confirmation email, so I tried to cancel the booking. I was told by Expedia it had to be disputed with the hotel. I called the hotel, who insisted only Expedia could cancel it. Then later gave in and told me it was cancelled. Later I see a charge on my card.
I try to contact Expedia and they tell me it is non-refundable, despite their negligence to make it clear their check-in age before booking. It was stated in tiny print. I opened a dispute with Expedia through my credit card company, and their response was extremely rude, using words in capital letters and bold font to make me seem like an idiot for reference. This is the worst company I've ever dealt with in my life, and I wouldn't dream of giving them another PENNY unless I was forced at gunpoint. Their customer service is insufferable and they were all extremely uninterested in customers.
Reviewed Jan. 27, 2018
Me and my fiance were planning to go to San Juan for our honeymoon and had reserved everything on Expedia. Unfortunately, my fiance is part of the DACA program and our lawyer recommend us not to go due to the uncertainty of the program now. I canceled the flight and was ok with paying a little bit more to switch flights to a different honeymoon spot we were going to pick. We decided on going to Orlando instead and called the customer service hotline to switch our flight but everyone we talked to was hard to understand due to thick accents. We requested to leave on the 20th and come back on the 26.
The man verified the right dates and I was very satisfied with the transfer until I got the email confirmation saying we were scheduled to return on the 21st. I immediately called customer service and made the complaint. They told me they would have to listen to the recording to verify the employee's mistake. They said it would take 72 hours and it took 2 week to get a response saying that they couldn't find the recording and I would have to pay another $200 to fix our flight. I'm have never been more upset with a company. Based on other reviews I have read they are a very dishonest company that I will never use again. Please avoid at all cost.
Reviewed Jan. 26, 2018
I was booking with Expedia for years and everything was great until last couple of years. First of all it is very disappointing that they outsourced customer service to India. I am from Seattle and it was much easier and better to understand someone from Seattle than from India. Secondly this is the second time I am having problem with Expedia and I think this is a last time I am dealing with Expedia. On January 23rd I ordered trip to Yuma, AZ and I picked Hotel El Rancho Motel and clicked submit. I did a screenshot right before I submitted just in case. To my surprised I got confirmation in about 5 minutes with completely different hotel! I immediately called Expedia and said its gotta be mistake and even sent them copy of my screenshot. I was told it will be fixed but they need up to 48 hours to resolve it.
Today, January 25th after more than 48 hours of waiting I checked my Expedia reservation online and hotel has not been changed. Again, I had to spend almost an hour or wasted again an hour and was told basically that they cannot make mistake, period! When I asked them that one of us is lying and since I know what I booked and have a proof I will never deal with Expedia again - they just said "do you have any more questions?" and that was it! Very rare I write review but in this case I want to make sure all potential Expedia customer know that even if you pick something online with Expedia it DOES NOT MEAN you will get what you picked.
Reviewed Jan. 25, 2018
I'd rather give Expedia zero stars, but this is not possible, alas. On September 29, 2017, my wife and me were to fly from Dubrovnik to Bristol, via Dublin, with Aer Lingus. We had made the booking through Expedia. The flight was first delayed; and then cancelled (flat tyre, serious), we were taken to a hotel, courtesy of Aer Lingus. As we absolutely had to be in Bristol the next day, to celebrate my mothers 85th birthday, and there was no prospect of the Aer Lingus flight leaving anytime soon, we phoned to Aer Lingus, late in the evening. The lady on the phone was helpful enough, and agreed to cancel our flight, so we could book another flight ourselves. This we did, and we made it to Bristol, almost in time.
The Aer Lingus-lady had also given us the phone number of Expedia, to request the reimbursement of the cancelled flights - about 480$. I talked to them for one hour (they said they had to check with Aer Lingus), and in the end, they told me that the refund would take place in about 8 weeks (X-mas 2017). I complained about this long delay, but finally settled for it. We are now a month and several unanswered emails from my side later than X-mas 2017, and I still did not see a written confirmation that I would be refunded, and of course not a single dollar on my bank account. I continue to write mails to Expedia, and have now started a kind of naming and shaming campaign. I'll keep you posted. My advice: avoid Expedia.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2018
Through Expedia, we booked 3 nights at Oldfields House in Bath, England. It was a horrible experience -- non-flushing toilet, no hot water, tiny room, no place to put anything, strangely aggressive receptionist. We left the next morning and contacted the manager the next day about refunding the remaining 2 days. He said we'd have to deal with Expedia which we commenced to do upon our return from the trip. We got a complete run-around from customer service and after many emails I stopped trying. The gist of Expedia's argument was that their arrangement with hotels preclude giving refunds. I asked for a copy of this arrangement but never heard back. I will never use Expedia again.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2018
I booked hotel in Milan last night. On the main screen it clearly said "Free Cancellation". When I went to book the room, it had many options, two different rates, had Free Cancellation options and I selected one of them to book two rooms. Upon confirmation I realized that the hotel was little too far from the exhibition center so I booked another hotel thru Expedia. When time came to cancel, it won't allow. I have spent 55 minutes on the phone last night and supervisor promised to call me today at 11 am, never happened. I called this morning and spent 24 minutes on the phone and no luck. Now I have been on hold for last 37 minutes. Shockingly they don't have the option to take information, look into the issue and call me back. I am surprised how they are staying in business with such bad customer service.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2018
I booked a flight and hotel to Paris with Expedia. I wish I hadn't. They have given the worst customer service I have ever experienced. After booking, I found out that the airline we booked with was less than reputable. I called Expedia to cancel. They said I could cancel the hotel but not the airline thru them. I had to call the airline directly. So I called the airline and they agreed to refund me the airfare portion. I tried to book new airfare on Expedia but they were going to charge me double because I no longer was booking a package deal. I called Expedia again and asked to cancel my hotel so I could rebook a package with new airfare. They informed me that I was not allowed to cancel my hotel for any reason. I waited two days and my airfare was still showing as active on Expedia.
I called them and asked them about it. I explained that I wanted to book new airfare right away as flights were quickly increasing in price and I didn't want to wait, but needed to know that my previous flight was in fact canceled. They told me to call the airline. I told them that I had already done that but that on their website, it still showed as active. They put me on hold for 45 minutes then told me they would transfer me to the airline's phone number to speak with them. Again, I told them that I had already spoken to them and they had told me it was canceled but that I wanted to hear Expedia confirm this before I booked another flight. They refused to confirm it and told me it was active and I would be able to board the original flight that I already canceled with the airline. I am SO angry! At this point, I don't know if we have a flight or not. I don't know if I need to buy tickets or not. I will NEVER book with Expedia again. What a ** mess.
Reviewed Jan. 23, 2018
Expedia showed me a return ticket for two for 17000NT$. I entered all the data and payment info, clicked confirm and guess what... the confirmation page suddenly says that my "ONE-WAY" flight for two people is confirmed and I have been charged 11000NT$ for it. Now I have to buy a return ticket separately which will cost me even more. I WILL NEVER use them again. It's my fault trying to save a few bucks through Expedia. It ended up costing me more. Should have just gone through the airline company. Never again!
Reviewed Jan. 22, 2018
I cancelled my reservation through the motel but Expedia still charged my credit card. The dates were Sept. 4-5 at the Homewood Suites, Nashville, TN. Spoke with "Kevin" the manager and he said my card would not be charged. Have not been able to reverse the $186.00 that was charged on my credit card.
Reviewed Jan. 22, 2018
I booked a hotel with the wrong date, and immediately noticed my mistake. Phoning Expedia was painful, their system hung up on me twice after long periods on hold. Finally I got through to an operator, who got approval to change the date. She then took 20 minutes and had to get help to identify the right city for the booking, as her system was "glitching". Finally she changed the reservation, asking for my credit card verification number on the back. Only at the end of the process did I learn I had now paid 111 for the 76 dollar booking I had made originally. I was not at all happy. :P
Reviewed Jan. 22, 2018
If I could give a negative star that's what I would rate them, the customer service center is a absolute joke. I booked multi city flights from JFK Nyc to Dubai... Dubai to Jeddah and Jeddah to JFK Nyc. My flight closed at 4:00pm that was scheduled to depart at 5:00pm. Got to counter at 4:05 to be told the flight was closed at 4:00pm. I immediately got on the phone with Expedia and explained what happened and was told by the customer service representative that as long I booked a flight to Dubai my remaining flights would be honored so that’s what I did.
I get here and when checking for my hotel reservation I see that I have no remaining flights. Call Expedia and they say, "Oh yea if you miss one flight we cancel them all out and mark you as no show." So I'm here in Dubai and my hotel is done in about 9hrs. Been back and forth on the phone with several reps all telling me something different. Say they are waiting on a waiver or a ok for a penalty fee for 3 days now with no response from the Saudi Airlines. So now I'm at risk of being stranded with a 1yr old and a 2yr old thousands of miles away from the US and no one can tell me anything. It was a total waste of money paying for their so called “flight insurance”. It didn’t ensure anything but more money in their pockets. Just a total waste. I will never deal with another 3 party company like this ever. Just go straight through the airline company!
Reviewed Jan. 20, 2018
I booked 5 round trip flights from Chicago to Los Angeles. I made sure to buy out the insurance for all flights at additional costs. Upon wanting to cancel the flights Expedia informed me that these are the lowest fare tickets and I cannot get a refund or any credits. What? Why would you even offer me insurance for the flights? I’m never booking through this company again! SCAM, SCAM, SCAM. Stay away!
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2018
Expedia is basically a 3rd party that helps you find cheap prices on the internet. The catch though, if you rent a car at least, they will offer you insurance on the car for the number of days you have it just like a rental company does but that's their insurance and not connected with the rental company's policy. So basically if you crash then you'd have to claim it through Expedia rather than just let the rental handle it. This kind of detail is very hidden and it basically sucks. You're much better off booking directly.
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2018
When my flight got cancelled they put me on another one... However they failed to tell me the date of my flight. So as result I wound up at the airport 24 hours early and it already given up my rental car... Their employees speak poor English and never made it clear to me my flight was the next day... Never coming back to these guys.
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2018
I booked a flight & hotel package. I made the mistake of not looking at my booked itinerary until a couple days later and quickly realized that my return flight time was wrong. I contacted Expedia immediately. I explained that my return flight was suppose to be an afternoon flight, but my itinerary had a midnight flight. They submitted an investigation and I was given a confirmation number and was told that I would be contacted by email within 3 days. I patiently waited for 11 days and finally called again. I was transferred several times and was told that the investigation still hadn't taken place, but that I would be placed on urgent priority and called within 24 hours. Three days later I finally received a phone call. I was told that they could see that I was trying to book the afternoon flight and that an error occurred and somehow when I booked the package the midnight flight was selected.
Expedia says they are not at fault. I asked for a copy of the report and was told that they cannot give me a copy of the report. I am certain that I would not have made such a stupid mistake. I am taking this trip to celebrate my daughter's 21st birthday. I purposely was selecting my flight schedule around her flight schedule on a different airline to a different location. I am positive that I selected the afternoon departure, and it's been verified that I did select such time. However, Expedia customer support is not helpful. They will not supply me with a copy of the report that says they are not to blame, and instead want $440 to change to the flight that I was originally booking. I have never been so angry over going on a vacation. I haven't taken a vacation like this in nearly 10 years and will never use Expedia as a search engine again in my life. I have always used Hotwire and will continue to do so in the future. This has been an absolutely awful experience!
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2018
Booked a prepaid car rental in San Diego. First the website listed rental car that was available in airport. Husband is disabled so I chose that vendor. Upon picking up car... NOT in airport by the way. The vendor required debit charge of double the paid rental. This would be returned upon bringing car back. NOT mentioned in large print. Vendor agreed to cancel my rental but then I had to get $ back from Expedia. Spent over 4 hours to date on phone and still do not have my money. Amazing how many staff started with, "Here is what I found out..." And proceded to lie!
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2018
Customers can receive a full refund within 24 hours of booking a flight on the Internet. However, when the website is experiencing technical difficulties, the customer is faced with an opportunity cost to take advantage of this. Expedia's upper management denied any technical difficulties with the website even when the employees at the call center verified that there were indeed technical difficulties. A full refund was given manually even though the refund system does not take into account website crashes. Instead, the management blamed the customer and said that the technical difficulties were on the other end (the customer's). Even if that were true, the dispute would be between the Internet service provider and Expedia, not between Expedia and the customer. The money was refunded because I was in the right and I phoned Expedia three times.
During the first couple of calls, the employees at the call center stated that the refund could not be processed immediately due to system updates, but I would receive the refund eventually. When I reached upper management, I received the refund but received a different narrative. Upper management denied any technical difficulties, passed the risk onto the customer despite the company promising 24 hour free cancellations, and stated that this sort of refund would only happen once and never again. Technically, I was in the right, and when I asked what should the customer do the next time the website crashes, I received this non-answer. There should be a disclaimer somewhere stating that Expedia is not responsible for any website crashes. The customer should be fully notified before booking that a 24 hour free cancellation is not guaranteed.
Expedia failed to do this and only told the customer at the last minute over the phone after two failed attempts by customer service to solve the problem. Instead of fixing the problem or describing a solution, upper management at Expedia simply stated that manual refunds would not be granted again. This experience discourages me from booking with Expedia again. It was an inexpensive plane ticket this time. If someone were to book an expensive plane ticket and experienced a site crash, they would not necessarily be reimbursed. It is simply too risky and Expedia seems to be passing the risk onto the customer. The refund was treated as an exception to the rule and not a usual business practice with website crashes taken into account for.
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2018
Do not book any flights with Expedia. Any time you need to reach a customer service representative you will be helped by someone who has no knowledge on any information regarding cancellation policies or answers to simple questions. They also keep changing their answers. One operator told me my fee will be waived and then another operator said no. They also claim to provide full refund if you purchase an insurance. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM. They will not provide a full refund. They will turn it into credit and then charge you a $200 fee to reinstate the ticket.
Reviewed Jan. 17, 2018
Coerced into overpriced travel protection insurance. Woke with fever and flu and tried to cancel but was told I could not because the airline shows a flight change. I contacted the airline and there was no change. Switched to a supervisor but after holding 25 min I called in again and was told I had to be switched to flight change department. I will NOT use Expedia again. Also, Expedia receipt did not list airline confirmation code that was necessary for check in etc.
Reviewed Jan. 16, 2018
I booked hotel with breakfast, paid, got the confirmation and suddenly the breakfast included was nowhere to find?? I immediately sent an email, to Expedia but no response. We arrived at the hotel. There was no breakfast included! The hotel The Savoy Tel-Aviv, Sea Side, Tel Aviv felt my this disappointment and still gave us complimentary breakfast. Super service, good hotel, highly recommended.
Expedia does not do anything to help me solving their malpractices, they deny they made a mistake, cannot read my print screen with proof, they says, so I had to pay a lot more extra if I also had to pay for breakfast in the hotel! Malpractice, blacklisted, I never book through Expedia again, though via Booking.com. I booked after this bad experience with Booking.com for another trip an hotel and the service is super! Immediately customer service by phone after a lack of clarity on my part, a friendly lady was talking to me and immediately called the hotel to get information. I was extremely surprised by this nice action. And I received a confirmation by email right after. Booking.com knows how to deal with customers!
Reviewed Jan. 15, 2018
I was in recently meeting up with a group already staying at this hotel and although my friends offered me to bunk with another friend I thought I book my own room. I was in the hotel parking lot and went to Expedia app site and booked my one night stay that night. When I got the confirmation it was for the wrong date. I went into the hotel and checked with the hotel clerk and sure enough it was for two weeks from that day. She said I had to cancel thru Expedia so I called and they said that the hotel charges a CANCELLATION FEE of the full amount of the room charge.
I insisted that I get refunded since this was not my error so she put me on hold to call the hotel to see if they would approve a refund, she came back on 10 min later and said, "No luck. Sorry. They won’t refund." When I informed her that standing in the hotel lobby right now and the phone never rang!!! She kept asking my permission to cancel with fee. I could not believe this! WHAT A SCAM!! The hotel clerk asked to speak with Expedia and insisted that she credit my cancellation and they did. I won’t be using Expedia. Then told me that the hotel doesn’t get that money. PEOPLE PLEASE BE VERY CAUTIOUS AND DON’T ALLOW EXPEDIA TO SCAM YOU!!
Reviewed Jan. 15, 2018
My family & I were booking hotel rooms for the memorial service of my father. The family member that booked first did not pay attention to the fact that there were no pets allowed, it was only a 2.5 star hotel and there was no pool for those of us that have kids. When booking it on Expedia, it clearly stated that we had up until Feb 15th to cancel the reservation. I should have been wary when charged the full amount for it because suddenly when we decide to cancel, I'm told that it is non-refundable.
I called Expedia and they said the hotel refused to waive the fee. I called the hotel and was told that the waiver had to come from Expedia. I have been a long time customer of Expedia but I will never use them again. In a time of loss and grieving, they completely took advantage and then did not have the decency to assist us. When I threatened to file a complaint they said that they convinced the hotel to agree to refund ONE night of the reservation. The hotel told me that they had not received any payment for this reservation yet, that it would be completely up to Expedia.
Reviewed Jan. 14, 2018
I booked a flight through Expedia and needed to change it on a short notice. It was impossible to get a live person on the phone within a reasonable hold time on their automated system and the online function did not work. I was unable to make a change by talking directly to the airline, they said it had to go through the booking company (Expedia). Since this was not possible, I ended up having to purchase a new ticket at a high cost, rather than pay the (much lower) fee for changing a non-refundable flight. The airline agreed to refund the taxes, but again this had to be done through Expedia. Now, >3 months later I still have not received the refund.
I have spent many hours on the phone with Expedia, mostly on hold. Don't believe their automated message "due to high volume of callers, the hold time is longer than usual." If they think they can sell you a new flight, they will answer the phone fairly quickly. After talking to one of their agents, (usually a foreigner, sometimes hard to understand) I have received several emails assuring me that the refund was processed (expected to take 8 weeks!) This turned out not to be true. I'm still waiting... I found my experience dealing with them very frustrating. The regular staff is not competent, the supervisors are slightly better but the word "customer service" seems unknown to them. I will not book anything through them again.
Reviewed Jan. 14, 2018
I have been using Expedia for almost 10 years and they are getting worse year by years. I have booked a hotel last week for Las Vegas and Expedia website showed they charge me $75 and then when I went to Vegas, the hotel charge me another $83 for resort fee. Should Expedia tell me at first place they will total charge me for $178? Is this the way to do business? I will never to do business with them again.
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2018
I am very disappointed with Expedia's customer service. And here is why: On January 3, 2018 I made reservations for the DIT Majestic Hotel in Bulgaria. I entered wrong dates for reservation and realized it 3 minutes after I made reservations. So I called Expedia right away. Today is January 13 and I have been calling Expedia every day, I have being bounced around from one person to another, who keep promising to resolve my issue in 24 hours, but no results. I am sick and tired of spending 1 or more hours on the phone every day without any results. I have never expected such service from such well known agency. CAN I GET ANY HELP HERE?
Reviewed Jan. 11, 2018
This is the worst customer service I have ever experienced. I have been bounced around from person after person throughout the global call center world. I have spoken to dozens of people to try and utilize a voucher to no avail. I will never use Expedia again. I hope no one ever goes through this nightmare and wastes their money on a useless booking site like Expedia.
Reviewed Jan. 10, 2018
I recently booked a round trip shuttle to pick me up from the airport and a return from my hotel while visiting Paris France before I left the United States. $19 dollars each way which was a great deal. I did not book this online, it was booked by a travel advisor from Expedia over the phone. My pickup from the airport went without a problem. I called the merchant January 2, 2018. Upon my arrival in Paris, within 10 minutes a van arrived and took me to my hotel.
My return to the airport however was a nightmare. I called the merchant to confirm my pickup at 3 a.m on January 9, 2018 as my flight, #45 American Airlines, was to depart Paris France at 9:45 a.m. The merchant claimed that my *pickup time was at 6 p.m and refused to accommodate me any further. I called Expedia frantic and was redirected to a supervisor at my request. Initially I was advised that it was my fault because policy required me to call at least 24 hours in advance to arrange a pickup.
When I informed the Supervisor it seemed rather odd that there was a pickup time already appointed and I did not make arrangements 24 hours in advance upon my arrival, he agreed to look into the matter and ask the merchant if a refund were possible. The Supervisor claimed he called the merchant a number of times but there was no answer. Ultimately, in order not to miss the flight had the hotel receptionist call a taxi at a cost of 54 Euros, equivalent to $64.41 US dollars.
Reviewed Jan. 9, 2018
Expedia cannot defend itself nor point fingers at some other merchant on this one! I had my credit card cancelled when receiving notification from my CC company of a transaction at a hotel I did not authorize. A day later Expedia sent me a request to review the hotel the THIEF stayed at. No thief is going to gain access to a credit card and book through Expedia! BUSTED! P.S. I have yet to receive any response to emails I have sent to the Security Dept. or Customer Service at Expedia. BEWARE! Do NOT store your cc numbers on your Expedia Accounts. Better yet, in view of the lack of concern they seem to have with their "so-called-highest-digital-security" that they express in their FAQ to customers, do even use Expedia for your travel arrangements. They are NOT a secure site!
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2018
I called Expedia to simply try and delay my flight and was left on the phone for 40 minutes, it was an international call from Dubai to the United States. After 40 minutes I did not receive what I wanted and the line cut. I was told by the customer service operator that if the line cut I would get a callback and I did not. I called again and this time the phone call was ONE HOUR and TWO MINUTES just to simply delay a flight for 2 days. I am going to pay an insanely large amount of money on my phone bill because of the extremely poor quality of service you are offering your customers. I would have done it online as on any other website if it were easy to do in the first place. On top of that I sent you a complaint just after this incident which was about 5 days ago and I still did not receive any sort of reply or attention from you. I am not using Expedia ever again.
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2018
On flight to Oakland via Mexico City and Los Angeles. Mexico to LA flight delayed which gave less than 1 hour to go through customs in LA with luggage. We ran and hurried to get through customs and we ended exhausted at our gate in LAX only to find the flight to Oakland was delayed 3 hours! No contact text or email from Expedia. Will not use them again!
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2018
Personal info is not safe. When I asked for a map of the island, I was given a poorly printed map on a recycled piece of paper containing another guests credit card info and other personal info on the other side! When I brought it to the hotels receptionist, they said, "Oh it would be safe..."
Food - fatty and sugary - no vegan options and they always had limited supply of papayas in the morning. Bikes - old helmets, broken, no straps...only the third one was not missing straps or was not broken; inflexible in time - open only at 10 am. Beach - very shallow, only knee deep, forcing one to walk 500 metres to a place to swim. Light on the side of the bed was not working in the room. Room charged at 500 USD per night, neighbour paid 100 USD. I was scammed.
Reviewed Jan. 7, 2018
Booked a vacation through Expedia for a 1 week trip to Hawaii including roundtrip airfare, car rental, and "trip insurance ". After booking, I noticed an error in the return date (defaulted to a month past when we planned on returning). Spent 55 minutes on the phone with customer service which consisted of her asking me the same questions over and over, with long pauses on hold in between.
Transferred finally to "airline service " who basically did the same thing, then finally charged me HUNDREDS of dollars to supposedly fix the return date. (Apparently my insurance doesn't cover the cost unless there is a medical emergency). Then, tried to upsell me on my car rental saying since they had to change my flight itinerary, my car rental has changed. Ended up quoting me a price of $1200 for the car rental. Another 25 min spent taking my credit card info and putting me on yet another long hold. Then telling me in the 25 minutes time it took to book the car rental, the "varietal cost" of the company had gone up an extra $113. I was already furious as to how long the process was taking (almost 3 hours) and just wanted this pain-in-the-ass call to end, so I agreed.
Customer service finally gave me a confirmation number and assured me all the info from my plan change will be emailed to me. After I hung up, I waited another 2 hours for any emails, but none came. I did check my credit card, and THOUSANDS had been taken out from Expedia (not including the original cost of my vacation confirmation).
I called customer service back AGAIN. And told them the situation and just wanted written confirmation that my flight and car rental plans were correct and confirmed. At this point they had no information on any changes nor able to look up my confirmation number I was verbally given. Another 20 minutes on hold before they told me my confirmation "was never officially confirmed " because the already-jacked-up price for the car rental had went up even higher!
I told the agent I just want to cancel the car rental through them altogether since they have been screwing me around on this for too long, and I'm tired of it. She told me would cancel and refund my money and I again demanded a written confirmation of this (still not received). Meanwhile, I contacted the car rental place directly and ended up paying almost $300 less than Expedia tried to get me to pay... AND I was able to get a email confirmation from the car rental place. I will NEVER book through Expedia again. They are a rip-off and should be sued for overcharging and misleading people!
Reviewed Jan. 6, 2018
I have been using Expedia since 5 years and every time they are getting worse with the services they offer than the year before. I used it because I thought it’s easier to book traveling (tickets, hotel, cars) because those online companies took over the travel agents who cared a lot about the satisfaction of their customers and they always followed the customers wherever they are, I mean they made themselves available before, during, and after traveling to their customers.
Where in the case of Expedia for example, 1- You can’t contact anyone if someone goes wrong with the reservation. One time I made reservation to Cancun through Mexico City. The plane was delayed coming from the US. We missed our connecting flight to Cancun, so we call them an international call that I had to pay myself to be transferred from one employee to another wasting money on a phone call and my time, to get to nothing at the end they wouldn’t take the responsibility and this is one example.
2- Now I am in Istanbul. I booked through them a hotel for 2 people and then when I arrived the hotel refused to let the second person in till I paid some extra money. I tried to contact with Expedia but it was useless because all they have an automated email that they send to everyone, the bottom line I discovered that I could have gotten the hotel cheaper if I directly contacted the hotel and also I would have had a cheaper ticket, they trick you through their wording by saying use a bundle deal to get a better rate, it’s a total scam. 3- Their point rewarding system is a total scam. Yearly I buy tickets and hotels minimum a total of $ 7000 and you know what they give me in return $ 9 to deduct from a hotel reservation. I will never use this company again. It’s the best scam in the business of traveling.
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2018
I would not wish upon my worst enemy to have to deal with Expedia customer service. I had a flight cancel due to weather, and was on hold off and on for over 6 hours only to come up with 'sorry there is nothing we can do'. I had even purchased their 'cancellation policy'. They did not know the policy and told me to refer to them. No refunds, no changes without additional fees etc. I'll reach out to the insurance company but who knows. Do not expect for Expedia to do anything to accommodate. They are ignorant to just about everything and completely unhelpful. It seems this is the general consensus though.
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2018
I recently booked a hotel stay with Vista Inn and Suites through Expedia.com. When I arrived at the hotel, the lady at the desk did her best to check me in. The keys to the room didn't work so I was put in another room. The hotel conditions were below acceptable standards. Squalid. Had I known I wouldn't have booked or stayed. I have never felt so uncomfortable in my life that though I booked 4 nights, I was only able to bear 2 nights. I would like 2 nights refunded back. I was unbelievably uncomfortable and just being in the rooms made me feel ill. I moved rooms 3 times in the 2 nights that I was there. First 175, then 135 then 129. All 3 rooms were squalid. The photos on Expedia do not in any way represent the true condition of the decrepit condition of the rooms. Truly awful.
I checked out on the 3rd night because I couldn't sleep there any longer. In fact, I should have checked out the very 2nd day. I am very upset about having been offered such an awful place to stay and would have given anything to take that time back to go elsewhere better. When I spoke with Expedia customer service that evening of the 3rd, they said that they would call the hotel to request a refund on my behalf and then get back to me on the 4th about the result. I didn't receive any call at all. Their customer service is based in India and they put me on hold for over 10 minutes. There is no way I could ever deal with Expedia again over their unacceptable referral. The hotel was also under renovation and they never mentioned it anywhere in their advertising.
Reviewed Jan. 4, 2018
We booked flights to Kauai, Hawaii for a family of 4 to travel from December 22nd through December 31, 2017. We spent just under $6000 with Expedia for this reservation. The reservations were made during the summer of 2017, well before our travel dates. We were informed on one occasion, September 24th, of a change in our itinerary. Two of our flights changed their departing and arriving times by less than 10 minutes. We made note of the changes. There were no issues with our flights to Hawaii.
Our itinerary for travel home included a flight on Island Air from Kauai, (Lihue Airport) to Honolulu and from Honolulu we were to travel American Airlines to Phoenix and then home to Chicago. The night before our scheduled flights home, we attempted to check in only to find out that Island Air went out of business in November of 2017 - one month prior. We discovered this after calling and trying to access the Island Air website ourselves. We immediately called Expedia and after 1.5 hours on the phone, had no resolution. Expedia claimed they notified us. We did not receive this notification. In fact, on Dec 19th (2 days prior to our travel), Expedia sent us a reminder of our itinerary where Island Air and a flight number was clearly listed as part of our travel plans.
We repeatedly offered to forward this documentation to Expedia as proof but they were not interested in receiving it. The phone call ended that evening (after 1.5 hours) promising they would figure out a plan but needed to talk to a supervisor and there were none on duty during the night shift. A call was promised to us first thing in the morning with resolution. The next morning, no call was received and it took two calls from us and 4 additional hours on the phone before a resolution was reached. Expedia recommended several options: 1 - Book another flight from Kauai to Honolulu with Hawaiian Air (another small airline) at our cost which after researching was minimum $500 above the $6,000 we already paid. 2 - Call Island Air to recover our money. We reminded them Island Air was out of business and would not be in a position to refund our money.
3 - Call American Airlines to recoup the extra $500 we would incur. We argued American Airlines would have no reason or desire to pay us for a flight not on their airline and of one of their former competitors. Never did Expedia take ownership, apologize or try to figure out a solution for the fact they booked us on an airline that went out of business and did not notify us in time to make alternate arrangements. By 11am the following morning, we were checked out of our accommodations, needed to return a rental car and were essentially stranded on an island. We elevated our situation up 3 or 4 levels before talking to someone who would attempt to work with us on a plan to get us off the island. It took over an hour of arguing and negotiating with the 4th level supervisor at Expedia before she would research alternate flights to get us home.
When a suitable flight was found, she expected us to pay the difference in the flight costs. After further negotiations, we ended up paying $150 for the change. During our travel home, we read reviews of several other dissatisfied customers with Expedia including one with the EXACT same situation as ours only three days prior. It's more proof Expedia knew of a problem with Island Air and did nothing to support the customers that had faith in them as the travel experts. Never will I book flights, hotels, cars or any type of reservation through Expedia again. Mistakes happen but owning up to them and making them right is what matters and Expedia did neither. Poor customer service and communication will be their downfall someday and I can only hope that it is someday soon to protect other families and customers.
Reviewed Jan. 3, 2018
Expedia is a disorganized misleading organization, that tells lies about their pricing. When they record their calls and tell you that the prices for the property you just booked at (By their own admission) has changed and that you would be refunded the difference, they try to make you go away by giving you a phony voucher not a refund, they have 'zero' price guarantee, and they are a complete scam. Myself and eight other associates will never use them again.
Reviewed Jan. 3, 2018
I made a reservation thru Expedia with Alamo Car Rental at the airport in Nicaragua for 8 am. We arrived at the Alamo counter just a few minutes after 9 am and we're told that we were late and they gave our car away. It was high season and to find another vehicle cost me more than double my original price. Also, Alamo told us that we hadn't been charged anything but upon going over my info...I found that Expedia charge me 99$ for car insurance. Expedia cost me way more money than booking direct. After making phone calls, Expedia did credit me the 99$ back and offered me a 25$ coupon but the coupon is pointless as I will never book thru Expedia again or use Alamo Car Rental again.
Reviewed Dec. 31, 2017
We booked a 5-day vacation package to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico beginning 12/24/17, through Expedia. I made the arrangements & signed the deal on 10/24, 2 months earlier. The total was $3,700. I selected Spirit Airlines (stupidly, in hindsight) for a direct flight. I did see a message in small type that I selected a “low cost carrier” and therefore I may be liable for additional fees. However, I was not counting on $520 additional at the time of booking! When I checked-in online a few days prior to our flight I received the sticker-shock and almost fainted. There are 3 of us traveling, and so we each had to pay both checked and carry-on for 3 people (less the carry on for my son), and all of that came to $520.
Now, I have never purchased tickets thru Spirit, so I was unaware of these exorbitant fees. However, my beef is not with Spirit, jerks they might be, rather I am disgruntled with Expedia since they specialize in the travel industry and they knew there were 3 of us traveling and they should have sent us a more prominent alert (not in legalese small type) that we risk significant extra fees - far more than other airlines. If this were the 1990s and I went to a storefront travel agency and they failed to warn me (or said something like, “oh btw don’t forget possible extra baggage fees”) that I’d likely have to pay over $500 more I’d consider that malpractice. Anyway, I contacted Expedia by phone and direct text and the bottom line is “sorry”. I would have hoped they could meet me half-way or at least given me credits as a goodwill gesture. I’m very disappointed and learned not to use any of these on-line 3rd party travel agents. It’s a tough lesson-learned!
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2017
Please reconfirm with your customers the bed configuration before confirming the booking. How do you expect 3 person to sleep in a queen bed or in 2 separate single beds??? I am working in a hotel and I don't see any problems with Agoda or any other third party websites or travel agents but it's always Expedia who is the cause of most of the complaints in my workplace and I'm telling you, it is on a daily basis for Goodness' sake! Pls don't just think about the profit! Think of your customers!
Reviewed Dec. 29, 2017
I paid $500 for hotel reservation and then discovered the dates were wrong, I asked Expedia to fix the dates which both dates were for 1.5 months later in from the time of booking. First they wasted 2 hours of my time on the phone and then 3 days later they sent me an email saying we cannot cancel the reservation. I replied I did not ask for cancellation I just want to fix the dates. They replied well first we have to cancel it then book for new date. So that is how they scam and rob people.
A year ago I booked to travel to New York and I paid for cancellation insurance full amount, then something medical came up for my wife and I had to cancel the trip. Expedia insurance said you need to provide a doctor's note, so I did after a month they said we are not eligible for the refund and they provided some silly explanation. Then again, I paid for cancellation insurance and that is how treated that. Please stay away from these group if you don't want no headache and financial cost.
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2017
We booked a $4,281.47 all-inclusive vacation to Antigua through Expedia from 2/9/16-2/16/16. We were informed by Expedia in the early hours of 2/9 that our flight out from JFK Airport later that day was cancelled due to a snowstorm. We were told that there would be no flights available to Antigua until February 13th-14th - more than halfway into our booked vacation. The Expedia agent explained that she would take care of everything. Her advice was to cancel the trip to Antigua and rebook, through Expedia, another $4,000 vacation to Cancun for February 12. Unfortunately, Expedia charged for both trips and would NOT REFUND the cost of the original trip on the basis that we canceled the trip. We are now out $4,281.47. We are open to receiving a credit for another vacation. Our letter to Expedia has been unanswered.
Reviewed Dec. 27, 2017
I am silver + member of Expedia and have booked many hotels using Expedia and I’ve got to know that they’ve been cheating me the whole time. This time I booked a hotel via Expedia and paid an amount of 85$ and I’ve asked my friend just to enquire as new customer how much the room was then we’ve got to know that room was only 64$ and next day I tried to book another room in same hotel and found the price as 104$. But upon checking with front desk they said that room rent is only 68$, I know Expedia should charge a fraction amount as service charge but almost 40$ is definitely not a service charge. I am not going to book via Expedia anymore, Priceline is way better than Expedia.
Reviewed Dec. 27, 2017
Expedia is full of crap, they knew we could not travel to PR and our money was not refunded. My coworker got a full refund from Expedia and she did not purchase insurance. Make your own travel arrangements. Don't use Expedia.
Reviewed Dec. 27, 2017
I have purchased round-trip tickets for my family on November 4th to Lihue from PDX, and I paid $3,569.06. Two days before our return trip, we tried to confirm our tickets, and we learned that Island Air had gone bankrupt on November 10th, yet Expedia failed to notify us. We lost these two connecting flights which would have taken us back home. We stayed on the phone for over four hours with Expedia “customer service” in Manila just to learn that Expedia would not refund any money for these flights, and they did not offer us any other flight in exchange. They asked to leave a day earlier or later, even though we prepaid our accommodations, and changing our return date would have resulted in a loss of money.
Expedia services blamed customer Air, which was the only connecting flight which had not been cancelled for the return trip, and when we called Alaska Air, they stated that they were not to blame because we did not purchase tickets from them. Besides the extremely long wait times, they kept putting us on hold to “clarify” things, and they have not done anything to support our return home. Finally, we had to buy new tickets for our family through Hawaiian airlines out of pocket, which cost us $492.80. We asked Expedia to provide the same tickets to us instead of Island Air, and they told us that the same tickets were $960, but that “they will sell it to us for $760.”
My husband and I were frantically on the computer, trying to find flights back home, and luckily, we purchased “cheaper” tickets than they offered to sell us. I feel cheated in many ways: first, they did not notify us when Island Air went bankrupt, even though they sold us tickets. Second, they did not find substitute flights back home, and third, they offered much higher prices for the tickets than what we found ourselves online. The incident spoiled the end of my vacation, and I am extremely unsatisfied.
Reviewed Dec. 26, 2017
I have been a loyal customer of Expedia for many years. If everything goes well Expedia is no better nor worse than the others. Essentially they sell you a ticket and say see ya later! I recently purchased a trip with the Travel Insurance they push (Travel Guard). I waited till 21 days out to purchase the airfare to ensure all would go well. The venue was cancelled the next evening. I contacted Expedia the next day and they would not help as I was on the 30 hour mark - they only care up to 24 hours. They then tried to cancel my travel insurance instead of my airfare. That was slimy but I chalked it up to miscommunication/language barrier. Travel Guard then denied my claim. The fine print doesn't cover the venue being cancelled (or trip cancellations for pretty much any reason but death/hospitalization).
I am very disappointed - and Travel Guard should be ashamed. Based on their claim denial, and Expedia's unwillingness to make this right just 30hrs after purchasing airfare tickets (Holding fast to the 24hr window), I must conclude that your Travel Insurance is a major scam. This is EXACTLY what travel insurance portrays itself to be for - unforeseeable changes in trip plans outside of your control. I cannot control when a business venue is canceled. No, I did not change my plans - the conference was cancelled altogether. I now have learned that AIG is the parent company for Travel Guard - the same insurance company that the People bailed out 10 years ago to the tune of $85B. Scam us once, shame on you. Scam us twice - shame on us for helping you back on your feet again. We do not forget.
This is just so sad that Expedia/TravelGuard would stoop this low. I have been a loyal consumer of Expedia for a long time, but you have lost me as a customer due to this sleaziness. All for a measly $342. Travel Insurance is no different than any other - In the long run the Insurance company comes out ahead - that's call business and profit. We stand behind that. But denying claims in every way feasible and clinging to useless fine print is unforgivable. Please just go away and leave room for respectable companies. Travel Guard gives insurance companies a bad image as a whole. I give this company a Negative star rating!
Reviewed Dec. 26, 2017
I just recently booked a studio with Expedia. The website advertised it at $75, I received a $273.14 charge on my card for property fees and deposit. I called Expedia to cancel this reservation immediately, I was told to contact the property manager directly, the problem is that the number they have is incorrect, they are using the 1 you have to dial to get an out of area call as part of the phone number. I have called several times to try to get this resolved and they still cannot help, they keep telling me to contact the incorrect number. I am so frustrated, I am currently on the phone for 1 hour and 15 minutes waiting for answers, my next step is to contact my credit card company and report fraud charges.
Reviewed Dec. 21, 2017
We are here at the airport SFO. Our flight was booked from Expedia, United-las Vegas-Panama-Peru (Copa). When we arrived to United our confirmation number did not show any booking or itinerary. They sent us to Copa. We went to Copa and they said they cannot.help because they are.not United. We spoke we Expedia and they do not help us. We are screw. I paid extra money business class and Expedia did not honor that. We were talking with a lady and then pass us to her supervisor "Sophie". At this point I really do not know even is that her real name. How is possible Expedia step on our rights? They are careless about it. My husband is handicap, and they do not care about it. Not solution. Does.someone can help? This is so stressful.
Reviewed Dec. 21, 2017
Expedia spelled my name wrong so I was forced to pay $50 to get on my flight for name change. I emailed them 3 days ago and no reply. I suggest, and from now on I will, just use the site as a catalogue and reach the companies directly. Use them like they use us. Plus you Do not have to deal with any third party issues to get a refund or change anything. I travel many times a year and have used Expedia for years. Not happening anymore.
Reviewed Dec. 20, 2017
We book a trip to Puerto Rico. (We meaning my wife, 3 kids, sister and sister in law). The planning and booking of the trip seemed fine. Puerto Rico is hit with 2 storms, the 2nd one being the most tragic. That 2nd storm hit a week prior to our departure so we contact Expedia to find out if the trip is canceled or what steps should be taken from there. The hotel cancels our reservations and our money is returned with no problems. After contacting the Airlines we were told we had to go through Expedia to find a solution.
At this time Puerto Rico has no power and the place is in a very bad state. We requests our money back and that became an issue due to Expedia stating the plane never canceled the flight. We were given credits which we had to use within 6 months. We were told we could use the credits whenever wherever as long as it was used prior to the 6 months. We have been contacting Expedia the last 2 days and I've been on the phone a total of 6 hrs. I feel like they do not want to help and they would rather the situation not work out so that they can keep the money. Why when we have no control over a situation such as the storm that hit do we get penalized? Do they want us to fly over there with 3, 8, 9 year old kids and look at a disaster, have no power, food etc.
I don't understand why Expedia will not back anyone up in a situation like this. With having important jobs, kids having school we can not just come and go as we please. I feel like I'm being scammed out of my money after trying to book a separate trip using the credits that were forced upon us. I've spoken with supervisors that are no help to the situation, everyone is trained to say the same thing. I guess I'll have Expedia tell me when I can use my credits and they can plan my trip. This whole situation is horrible and I wish Expedia would correct the situation and not try to get more money out of us. I will be recording my next few attempts at contacting them.
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2017
Not sure why y'all are giving us a hard time cancelling our flight and refund my money. I have been fighting with y'all for over a month. Now saying I can't fly because of certain reasons. And your customer service rep told me we would get a full refund on the tickets when we purchased if things come up. Because when I got the tickets I wasn't sure if we was able to go. Not only that but we paid for insurance plan for cancellation. And also I have a doctor's note now saying I have limited restrictions. Which means I can't fly due to what I have because it too complicated for me to sits for a long period of time. Y'all are a SCAM to take $1000 away from someone who has a medical condition.
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2017
Get Away from Expedia! They are cheating people using a fake travel protection. They are charging people extra payment during booking as a Full Protection/ Free Cancellation and never refund any payment if you need to cancel, I am contacting them from 07-Nov-2017 and after more than 40 days they send me a letter, "Please be advised that we contacted the airline today. According to them, the documentation submitted to them was already reviewed and your refund request is already rejected. Due to their policy in relation to your reason in requesting a refund to your reservation, they have unfortunately denied your request." #Expedia_Cheating_People #Get_Away_From_Expedia
Reviewed Dec. 15, 2017
I was booking a flight for 3 people to Jacksonville, Florida for Christmas. I got all the way to the end of confirmation of flights and an error came up and asked me to try again in a few moments. I continued to try over 10 or more times and it came up as the cc I was using wouldn't go through. Then when I changed cc's, it repeated the same. Kept telling me there was an error and to try again in a few moments. I continued to try until I gave up with the same error. I called Expedia and talked with someone who said neither CC would go through, with me knowing either or both should work.
I finally had to use a 3rd CC which only had enough on the limit to allow 2 people to travel, which meant I had to take the third person off, (they charged me more, saying the prices had gone up now) not allowing them to go on Xmas vacation with family (and it was his cc's we were trying to use). I booked the other 2 travelers, leaving off the 3, not being able to go. Then... a fraud alert came to his CC's telling him over 18k had been charged to his acct and he didn't even get a ticket!!
NOW, not only does he not get to go, but both of his CC's were cancelled for fraud alert!! NOW... not only can he not go in family Christmas vacation, but he can't use either CC's because the banks closed them for fraud!! Now if he tries to book the trip, the prices have gone up SO much, he can't pay this amount because he was in another state at a family funeral when his cards were cancelled and has to wait 10 days to get new cards and then it will be too late!!! He got charged over $18k and still has no ticket!!! Ridiculous!! Almost didn't even make it home from Ca to Tx from family funeral because both cards were cancelled!!! Because of Expedia's website, not only did the other two tickets go up (but were charged the original price and the most expensive price), but the CC owner was charged all that $ but still has no flight to Florida for Christmas!!!
It's so sad and we are all hurt that he won't be there JUST because of Expedia!!! (He's still working on the fraud charges and even after being charged the original prices, even the other two paid more!!! They charged the original price, and then charged the highest rate because they said the first charges didn't go through, in fact they DID!!! UGH!!! I believe after ALL if this, they should give him a free ticket!!! He can't even use his cards for Christmas gifts because of Expedia!!! Nor can he go on family Christmas vacation because his cards have been cancelled and the prices are outrageous now!!!
Will Expedia make up for this loss? We all are hurt and frustrated over this. If the very first request had come up as completed, we would all be happy. They "charged" us, but we not only did not get the original price (even though they charged us), but the 3rd person doesn't even get to go!!! SERIOUSLY!! $18k was charged to 2 credit cards but still no ticket??!! And now no credit cards!!! Expedia, please fix this wrong!! So sad.
Reviewed Dec. 15, 2017
USE FLIGHTHUB OR SOMEONE ELSE, DO NOT USE EXPEDIA. If we could give Expedia negative stars we would, We spent thousands on flights and we had to change a date and they had no options for us, they did not want to work with our situation and did not provide any alternatives. All of our money was lost because they were not willing to fix our problem. We highly suggest you give your business to other companies that are upfront and are willing to help, FLIGHTHUB has always provided us with the help we need.
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2017
I wish I had read all these complaints about Expedia. I have a big big problem and need help ASAP. My family is going to Mexico. One party has 3 adults. The other party has 2 adults and 2 children. I wanted to reserve two rooms at Pueblo Bonito Sunset Resort in Cabo, MX. Cannot do it on Expedia as one reservation because we had a total of 7 people. So, I had to do 2 separate reservations with two separate transactions. I used the Expedia App on my iPad. Well, the Expedia is not, I repeat not user friendly. I by mistake clicked on the wrong hotel for one of the reservations (Pueblo Bonito Rose instead of Pueblo Bonito Sunset.).
This is how the process goes on the app. Once you get to paying it, you put in your information and then there is a button on the bottom that says "Slide to purchase." Something like that. I would expect before or after this, I would get a summary of what I am buying and ask for confirmation. No such a thing. It only asked me for the security code on the back of my credit card. When I received the confirmation, is when I noticed that I booked the wrong hotel. It was about 9 pm PST. I called the customer service within FIVE MINUTES. Obviously, the two families want to stay together not separately. The only thing I asked that they transfer the hotel reservation the correct one, Pueblo Bonito Sunset. They said they would try their best. This happened in the evening of December 12th.
As of now, December 14th, Expedia could not help me. I was told that the hotel refuses to make the change, even though they are the same company/hotel chain. There is more. We contacted the HOTEL. They told us it is not true. Expedia is lying. This type of mistake happens all the time and they are always happy to accommodate. They even said that they would be very happy to transfer that reservation from Pueblo Bonito Rose to the Pueblo Bonito Sunset, as their hotel, the Rose is very popular and they can easily sell the room. The hotel ee recommended that I dispute the charges on the credit card. Which I will have to do if this is not resolved.
I really hope that Expedia will resolve this for me. I have been crying since this happened. My family will not be together. It should be an easy resolution. I cannot help it that the app is so not user friendly. This would have not happened if I could have reserved two rooms in one transaction, or there would have been a summary confirmation page. I do not want to talk to the customer service. I did that Tuesday evening, again I called within FIVE minutes after purchasing the trip. I also talked to them numerous times yesterday. I need to talk to someone at the corporate office. Has anyone run into this problem with Expedia? Thank you.
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2017
I purchased ticket from Singapore to LAX travel date 12/14 to 1/16. Used XiamenAir Transit at Xiamen for 2 hrs and several mins. When I checked in they told me I have to have a visa on transit. Which never know visa is required only for transit. I understand if you want to leave the airport yes it required a visa. Been travel around the world. To make story short neither XiamenAir or EXPEDIA help. They bounced me on the phone for more than 1 hr.
I asked to refunded or transferred or give me credit. NO help. I was even willing to come back with a visa and requested to rescheduled with a fee. EXPEDIA DIDN’T want to help. Expedia even Said I don’t have # to Xiamen. I gave 2 different #. Now they said it was a wrong # or poor connection. You know I just talked to them prior so I know they’re Not doing their job. Bottom line, EXPEDIA IS MONEY SUCKER. DO NOT BUY TICKETS OR BOOK HOTEL through them. It was inhuman. No CONSIDERATION AT ALL. My $900 JUST BURNT LIKE THAT??? Also if you must travel through China never never transit at Xiamen. This world is so $$$ minded. No compassionate anymore???
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2017
When travelling in Europe, we had to cancel our hotel in Casablanca. We had paid for 3 nights. We knew according to the cancellation policy we would have to pay for 1. When we were charged for all three, we contacted Expedia and got the runaround. From, we had to contact them from the email we booked from, so we did, to phone numbers etc etc. We finally gave up feeling that that was their goal. We never got reimbursed, so their advertising is false.
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2017
I called Expedia to book a car rental in Ft. Lauderdale. I asked if I booked a rental with Economy, whether the reservation could be canceled if necessary and was assured by the representative that I could. I booked the car rental and paid. Several days prior to the pickup date, I had to cancel due to illness. I immediately contacted Expedia to cancel the reservation. I was put on hold for over 2 hours and then the representative hung up on me. I sent numerous emails stating I was canceling the reservation. An Expedia representative called me back at 2:00 am advising me I would have to obtain a medical note and submit it to Economy Car Rental.
I obtained a medical note from my doctor and submitted it to Expedia and Economy Car Rental. This was done several days prior to the reservation. It is now 12/13/2017 and Expedia has not issued a refund and when I called today I was told that Expedia has a no cancellation policy. This is a lie and false advertising. The representatives are rude and not helpful and each one tells you a different policy. I was told I would get a refund in three days and now they are refusing to issue a refund.
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2017
I literally made an account here just to submit this. I am disgusted with how this business has treated me. Spent over 6 hours on the phone over multiple occasions trying to resolve a huge issue that was because of incorrect information on their website. After everything including proof, they refuse to help out and blame me for their mistake. Very disappointed in how unprofessional this place is. Stay away.
Reviewed Dec. 13, 2017
I would like to start out and say that my husband and I have been using Expedia for the past 3 vacations. We have gone on and have had nothing but good experiences with their customer service and their fantastic prices. This vacation we booked just recently, however, has a different story. We decided on an all-inclusive resort in Los Cabos and it so happened that Expedia was advertising ‘Free Airport Transfers’ when you booked this bundle. When we went to check-out, the shuttle fee ($62) was not being waived. We called Expedia, the man on the phone was helpful and explained that he didn’t know why the fee wasn’t being waived, but if we booked through him, he would make sure we got our free shuttle. Great. So we booked with him over the phone, despite the fact that we get more money back (in Expedia points) when booking online.
The Expedia customer service man said he would contact our resort and arrange our transportation and email us when this was done. Great. I get an email saying that Expedia is in process of setting up our transportation and we will hear from them in 24 hours. Great. I get an email 3 DAYS later saying that the resort doesn’t do free shuttles and we are out of luck. I have NO problem with the resort we booked, this is all Expedia’s error. Expedia FALSELY advertised the free shuttle. Which is honestly fine with me, as long as they would make it right and pay for our shuttle.
My husband proceeds to call customer service again. He was passed between 3 people and on the phone for 2 hours, 1.5 of those hours being on hold. The first customer service woman was helpful, apologized for their mistake and offered $100 credit on our account, but we would still need to pay the $62 for the shuttle. My husband kindly asked, "Can you just please waive the shuttle fee." She transferred him to the next level. The next customer service guy wasn’t helpful at all and passed my husband to the next level.
This woman at the next level accused my husband of lying about what the first customer service representative said (about the $100 credit) saying this wasn’t Expedia’s policy to do that. She told him there was nothing she could do and didn’t apologize for the false advertising on their website. The only offering she finally gave him was to send Expedia a detailed receipt of our taxi and they would refund us for ONE way, not both ways to and from the airport. HOWEVER, my husband then explained that in Mexico, you generally don’t get a receipt and we prefer the shuttle, as it feels safer. She continued to be rude, unhelpful and offer no solution.
While this complaint is over a measly $62 dollars, it came down to the feeling that Expedia gave us. We have always loved booking our vacations through them because of the crazy bundle deals. Now, HOURS of our time have been wasted on the phone, and when we were able to talk to people, we were accused of lying. This might sound petty, but we will NEVER use Expedia again, because of how they treated us. Both my husband and I work in customer service orientated jobs and neither of us would talk to someone the way he was talked to. We just wanted someone to take care of this minor issue and in turn were treated extremely poorly.
Reviewed Dec. 13, 2017
The travel insurance offered on Expedia site is "a third party retail" which neither the traveling site nor the carrier can make adhere to their posted rules. This does however mean that you can lose your airfare/booking if you were relying on the insurance about change of flight or refund with the official documentation and notice.
Reviewed Dec. 13, 2017
We bought Vacation package with Expedia to Hawaii, this package was 100% refundable if cancelled within 24hrs. We cancelled within 24hrs, but Expedia only returned flight portion amount and they never returned hotel portion. After calling Expedia multiple times, each time I was put on hold for 30 min and finally Expedia would inform they managed to cancel hotel. Till today I havent received my money back, finally I called credit card company and filed dispute.
Reviewed Dec. 12, 2017
Expedia is worthless with re to solving problems via phone and email. They make promises, drop calls, don't call back, tell me the "flight team" will call or email me within 2 hours and 48 hours later I have been unable to get ahold of any person with authority to discuss my problems. They told me for 16 hours that they were unable to contact EVA Airlines to change my schedules (departing/returning) despite the fact that they were able to book flights with them.
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2017
Do not book your trip on Expedia or any of the 10 companies that they own. If the price drops on your trip Expedia has a solution for you, go blow. They do not care about you, only the $$ you can give them. Do not book with them, book directly with the airline or hotel on their website.
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2017
Booked a trip through Expedia. Never got any confirmation emails. Had to search for flight info and couldn't even find my motel info. Purchased specifically from this site because they were offering free breakfast at our motel. Motel has no information stating it was included. Had to get ahold of Expedia on my vacation. Getting the runaround that it didn't include breakfast. Be very careful of buying through this company! I will never make that mistake again.
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2017
Just booked a hotel through Expedia's website and had no idea they would charge my card RIGHT AWAY (usually hotels charge/collect the money after your stay). I won't ever use them to book hotels again. I've not had any issues booking flights through Expedia but will avoid them in the future for any hotel things.
Reviewed Dec. 8, 2017
Updated on 10/31/2018: It's been over a year and Expedia still has not resolved this. Within 24 hours of booking, we cancelled a domestic flight for two and booked the same domestic flight for a few hours later that day - same airline, same price at $800. We even received a confirmation email from Expedia about the cancellation and a separate email for the rebooking. It was not until we received our statement from Chase two months later that we noticed the first booking was never cancelled and we were charged twice. Chase stated they cannot remove the charge and that we must deal with Expedia. Expedia requested 15 days for an investigation.
At 15 business days, we called for an update and Expedia stated they needed a month. After over a year of phone calls back and forth, we were told by Expedia that the investigation was closed, and that this case was "past the date range for any refund." How is it possible for us to travel to Montana twice within a few hours? I am in disbelief that Expedia cannot provide us with any reason as to why they cannot provide our refund.
Original review: I cancelled our flight within the 24-hour window through Expedia. Several months later, found out Expedia charged my credit card and never provided the refund. After 2 hours of speaking with several Expedia customer service agents who confirm the refund was made in a timely manner, this situation has yet to be resolved and I'm continue to pay interest fees. It's been 3 months and the investigation process with Expedia is still ongoing. I will be looking into a class action suit.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2017
I have booked a flight with Expedia then I cancelled it after 30 minutes because I found a better price. According to their policy I should be refunded within 2-3 business days. After 5 business days, I'm not refunded and every time I call them I get a different answer, with an average call duration of 45 minutes. They played with many times; one time claiming that the airline company is responsible for the delay, which was not true since the cancellation was made within the first 24 hours. Then they claimed that the problem is in the bank, then I made a 3 way call and the bank emphasized that they did not hold any transaction from Expedia, because, simply, there was none. In the last call, and after they finished all the games they have, they said that I should wait up to 8 weeks to be refunded.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2017
I was on this site and was purchasing 2 tickets, it came up with an ad saying I could reduce the price by $100. By applying and using their credit card, so I applied, I was approved and boom the ticket went up by $200.00 each. Now I have a stupid credit card I don't want and I had to buy the tickets through a different site, for the original price that Expedia offered me. I feel like I was scammed into getting their credit card, what the heck. I'm so disappointed. I will be filing a consumer complaint with the BBB and contacting my credit report agencies and disputing the credit card effect on my report. This just is bad business. Don't fall for it. Barclay is the credit card.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2017
DO NOT BOOK THROUGH EXPEDIA!!! I tried to book online and it wouldn't let me through! Later, I found out that I was charged for the flight times 2. When I called customer service they put me on hold over an hour only to ask me did I purchase insurance! ARE YOU KIDDING ME, I NEVER SUBMITTED FOR Y'ALL TO TAKE MY PAYMENT. They said possible glitch in the system but I'm still stuck with two tickets I don't need!!!
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2017
I have never used Expedia before, but used them to book hotel and airfare to Venice. I decided to extend my stay shortly after booking the flight, and I have been on hold with Expedia for almost an hour. It seems like a fairly simple thing to change a flight, or that an answer on flight availability could be given fairly quickly. The waits are much longer than any I have ever experienced booking flights directly with an airline, and that is something that definitely needs to be taken into consideration when using Expedia. You get transferred to multiple people as well. It seems like an overly complicated process. Not sure if I would book with them again.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2017
I accidentally booked a hotel on the website for a date I’m not in Mexico. I called immediately and they had no ability to correct the mistake immediately. Instead, I was put on hold for about 30 min while they called the Mexican hotel and was told they and I have to wait until they get in touch with them. They did nothing until I called again the following day to which I was put on hold again. I told them to just please correct the date and I do not wish to wait while they do their job, but I was still forced to wait again about 15 min while they called Mexico to which no one answered.
Finally, an additional day passed when I received an email telling me the hotel said no and Expedia recommends I keep the hotel or try to find someone To switch the name to. I was shocked! I just made a mistake with the date and they couldn’t change it themselves after I caught it! They say the hotel fee is nonrefundable and I keep the hotel, but I’m not even in Mexico! Infuriating, the incompetence. I’m a silver member and refuse to use their service from here on out. Don’t get me started on when my Mexico flight was canceled last year and they didn’t notify me until I called them to confirm 2 days before!
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2017
Booked airline tickets through Expedia. On our return we get to the airport and find out Island Air is no longer in business. I call Expedia. They took no responsibility for anything. Blamed it on Alaska for not contacting us. Ended up having to purchase another set of tickets and a hotel and a rental car. I once again contacted Expedia and they said there was nothing they could do. And would not refund or help us out with any expenses. I just want people to be aware before you book through them.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2017
I recently booked a hotel room for Sept 19-23/2018 and I chose the option that Expedia offered where you "Pay at the Hotel" and your credit card will not be charged and the credit card is only used to hold the reservation. I was later charged a $617.00 deposit on my credit card by the hotel in Greece and when I phoned Expedia.ca to complain and to ask why they advertise on their website that a person has the option to pay at the hotel when this option is not what it appears to read. Expedia basically told me that the hotel has the option to charge a deposit if they want and my money will not be refunded. Expedia does not care about their customers and they could care less about refunding my deposit. I want my deposit money back because if I knew that the option to pay at the hotel was a lie then I would not have chosen that option. I will never again book with Expedia.ca.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2017
We purchased a bundle of hotel and flights last year, December 2016 from Expedia. We had to cancel the trip with an unexpected event so we did it. Expedia refunded only hotel portion and gave us credits for flights that is valid within a year. We are trying to use the credits now, it is still valid. We called Expedia to book our flights using the credits and they said they lost our records and they can't guarantee for either refund or credits. We have emails from the agent that we spoke last year and it clearly noted that they gave us credits that is valid for a year.
Also we paid with credit card and on the record it shows we paid full amount of the trip and they only refunded a portion of it. We are on phone with their customer service over a total 10 hours+ so far. They kept transferring to new agents over 10 times and they still haven't given us to use our credits. I am on the phone more than 3 hours today and likely to extend. It is a very simple process, we have credits and we want to use it. It is their issue that they lost our records and now they are claiming they can't give us anymore. It is not acceptable and fair for their customers.
Reviewed Dec. 3, 2017
When you wake up two five year olds, a seven year old, and an 8 year old at 4am, to hop on a 5.5 hour flight to Hawaii, your day is already hard. But then when the 8 person full-size SUV you’ve reserved through Expedia is contracted out through a third party that can’t fulfill your reservation and takes TWO HOURS to get you into a P.O.S. minivan, you start to lose your mind a bit. The kids are going bananas two hours sitting at the airport waiting. Then I literally spent 5 hours on the phone with Expedia.
I got passed from person to person who all claimed they could help me but then no one did. No one seemed to understand our situation or take responsibility for the fact that we booked through Expedia and they should satisfactorily resolve the issue. Way to start a vacation. And no, we are still stuck with this crappy minivan that we paid way too much for. So upset. Won’t be using Expedia again. They gave us a credit for a hotel but I don’t ever want to travel with them again.
Reviewed Dec. 2, 2017
I booked a vacation with Expedia. Spent over 3,000. Tried to book another vacation 7 months later to find out I had no Expedia points added from my prior vacation. They stated I had to specifically note it when I booked the last vacation (are you serious). Under my understanding if I already have an account with Expedia and booked thru your website why wouldn't I want the point? I was only hold with a customer service rep. for 20 mins to figure out the issue. And once told no discount of percentage off for their mistake! Never again!
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2017
I work and have been working at the front desk for a total of about 15 years. It has gotten so bad. Not only does it take about 20 minutes at the least to get someone on the phone. I explain the entire situation with accommodating a guest for the person to transfer me to another dept. Explain the entire thing all over again they say they are going to contact the guest, and what happens? The guest shows up! We have a no local policy which is stated on their website and yet they can never find it and I literally have to walk them through their own website. It's about an hour long ordeal everyone. I have to call Expedia. This is ridiculous.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2017
We booked all-inclusive vacations with Expedia months ago, it's non-stop flight. Today we got an email notice that they changed, not only the flight time, also from direct flight to transferred one. They indicate there's NO any compensation. Departure time was 8 p.m, and now it's 6 a.m, we planned to work on that day, it's fine, we can adjust it. But it changed to stopped flight, it's not acceptable. We wouldn't booked if it is not non-stopped. Customer service FIRST offered me a direct flight on the same day, and right after she said it's not available anymore; SECOND she asked me if I can change my vacation to another day (we planned this family trip months ago, and now she asks me to change another day, anyway, I want to see what they can do for me), so I asked her what day they can offer me.
Another long hold she came back and told me that I'll have to pay the difference for changing to another day. We didn't even talked about the date, how did she know I'll have to pay Expedia, not Expedia pays me! Then she asked me what I want, I told her that I want Non-stopped flight which we purchased originally. She said if I can find any non-stopped flights, she'll match it. That Do Not make any sense, I booked this trip months ago and there were lots of choices for Non-stopped flight, and now a few months later she told me this! While I'm writing this message, I've been held for 1 hour 28 Minutes and 59 seconds. And I've spent almost 4 hours this afternoon with Expedia. Do stay far away from Expedia!
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2017
It's the very best third party booking website I have dealt with. I have been frequent flyer for past 6 six years. This is the very first time have booked with Expedia and I didn't even had any conflicts of my airline tickets. First I thought it would be very bad as Orbitz (Please don't book with this website. They complete scammers). But the Expedia is the best. Even I got my flight confirmation within 10 minutes after I placed my booking via the airlines.
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2017
I’m writing this review because I’m very disappointed with my experience with Expedia. I booked a flight through Expedia with Delta. I also purchased insurance for an extra $40. I called back within a hour to cancel and was told first to contact the airline! So I did. The airline said contact Expedia. So then I was told the ticket I purchased wasn’t refundable that it was bought in some kind of group sale! This is really upsetting. Finally after contacting the insurance Company who informed me that they needed medical records to prove that my husband was sick and couldn’t take the flight which we didn’t have that they couldn’t do anything for me but I was welcome to file!
Then I called my bank and now have a investigation going through my bank. This really nice man from Expedia finally gave me some leeway after being on the phone for a week and said they could refund me 70 percent of my money! Which will take a couple of days! I need all my money. The ticket was 596.00. This is not a little bit of money! They are not trying to refund me all my money! I would say people who has been wronged let’s get together to hire a lawyer and fight this giant Expedia! They are a ripoff and nowadays we have Facebook Instagram Twitter and YouTube we have the power to do something about unfair business practices. Inform all your friends and colleagues about these unfair practices and something will be done! Giants do fall!!!
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2017
I cancelled my hotel reservation within the allotted 2 day timeframe. A few days later I noticed that the hotel charged me for the night. I called the hotel who said I had to deal with Expedia. I called Expedia and got an Indian with a very thick accent. She confirmed that I canceled in time to not be charged and put me on hold while she called the hotel. After a few minutes she came back on and said the hotel needed to contact their manager and would get back to Expedia. She mentioned that the hotel said they did not get the cancellation. I have the cancellation confirmation date stamped. I got emails from Expedia the next day that they tried to advocate on my behalf but was unsuccessful. I emailed back and said I expected my money back whether it’s from Expedia or the hotel. I was basically told, "Too bad." So I disputed the charge with my bank. I will NEVER NEVER use Expedia again.
Reviewed Nov. 26, 2017
Piss poor service. Do not use the APP. Expedia is very misleading especially in the App. Customer Service tried to belittle me and dismissed me several times when I told them there was an error. From customer service to senior support to the tech support. I am very displeased and have had it! The reservation that I made did not say I had to make a payment or deposit. Before I confirmed the reservation on the APP I double checked to see when I would be paying and it said at check out $0.00 today and in fine print it said that I would be paying upon arrival at the hotel. They tried to tell me something that was not there! You need to fix this ** app.
Do not use Expedia. They will take your money without telling you. Even the email didn’t say it. I knew that this was something that couldn’t be canceled. I was okay with that. I knew that it was not something that I book now pay later as it was not advertised that way. But damn sure wasn’t advertised as pay three days after booking!!! If it were listed on there that the hotel needs their money now then I would have not booked!!! I spoke with the hotel and they even said DON'T USE EXPEDIA!!! They are the reason the hotel now requests full payment at booking!!!! Like I said Service was poor. The app is crap. And they are deceitful.
Reviewed Nov. 26, 2017
Expedia rips off consumers and is creating dysfunction in the market for hotels. I reviewed Trip Advisor for hotels in a small city. TA referred me to Expedia which indicated there was only one room available. For that reason, I went ahead and booked it. I later found, on examining the inn’s site, that the Expedia price was almost twice the posted online price. For a number of reasons, I didn’t cancel my reservation. Perhaps I should have, but what I learned was an interesting lesson and a bit scary.
Apparently, per the Inn’s owner, Expedia can upcharge for rooms and often does so. She recommended to never book on any of these sites since the hotels now generally guarantee lowest pricing. So while we used to expect to get the benefit of the Sites buying power, this is all a fallacy. Moreover, the innkeeper told me that she wished she could get away from Expedia, TA and all those Sites. But the organizations pressure small inns like hers to use these services. What’s really scary is that she said they will manipulate the property’s images in the site and the positioning of negative feedback, which has a huge sway over consumer actions.
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2017
Honest mistake, I booked a room with the wrong dates. I called Expedia minutes after I receive the confirmation number. They tell me it is not refundable, as well as the hotel told us the same thing. We should be protected in this particular cases when we make mistakes and we notice within hours.
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2017
Expedia did not provide complete information when I booked flight and hotel. They did not honor their statement to honor a better price if found on their website within 24 hrs. Was unwilling to help me when I found out that there would be an additional resort fee when checking out of the Westin Hotel. Their agents were uncooperative and unprofessional. I would NEVER recommend Expedia or use them again.
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2017
If I could give less than one Star I would. I booked a flight and hotel in Florida on 8-18 for the week of 11/7-11/13. The flight was fine. We called the hotel and arranged for shuttle service to our hotel. When we arrived at the hotel they told us we were supposed to go to the other hotel and that hotel was closed due to the hurricane. We had called Expedia and the hotel to confirm before our departure and was assured the hotel was open.
I spent 7 hours on the phone with Expedia and was transferred several times, left in hold for 30-45 minutes each time, hung up on, etc. I then had to pay them an additional $500+ to stay at an unsafe hotel. I tried to speak with higher ups and was told, "You are not getting any higher than me." I registered a complaint with the Florida board of Tourism. There is more to relay but I can't even continue without getting sick. Things are still not resolved.
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2017
Never again will we use their service. We made a reservation accidentally as they placed a link next to the hotel we were searching. The hotel had no reservation for us. We checked in and paid the hotel. Expedia charged us anyway. We disputed the charge and they refused to reimburse us. Never again will I use them. If anyone launches a Class Action Law Suit, let me know.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2017
I trusted Expedia and checked in at Edgewater Hotel and Casino. Found my mattress was so old the wire was sticking out. Maintenance cut the wire with a wire cutter. Bathtub, shower, and toilet made for 10 year old. Mold growing in the corner of the bathroom. When complained to the hotel I was told to deal with Expedia. Called Expedia and was told nothing they can do. At $100 a night it was a ripoff.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2017
I booked 4 flights with Expedia over the phone. During the time of bookings they stated the prices increased which is ridiculous. At the same time, you can book online at the original prices quoted. They are only trying to make more money off of the customer. When requesting to cancel they cannot do this directly. Expedia states the customer is required to contact who they booked through independently. Some are international calls only, so additional charges may apply. None of this is explained during the time of booking.
Reviewed Nov. 22, 2017
I purchased travel through Expedia for a work event that I needed to attend. I also purchased travel insurance Expedia was offering on the web page from their partner company Affinity travel. For the price offered on the web page, when you purchase air travel you can purchase insurance in case something happens where you can't travel. The company decided to cancel the event the employee was traveling for therefore needing to cancel her travel. This is when I realized this is a third party company I purchased travel insurance through.
I had to write a claim and submit three pieces of information to prove my claim and explain why exactly I was canceling. I was able to attach all the information, and gave an explanation as to why my employee could not attend the event as there is no longer an event to attend. I was then told that I would have to wait to see if the claim would be approved, approved? I purchased travel insurance, I no longer need the travel, because the situation has changed due to unforeseen circumstances. I would like my refund please, no not that simple.
The letter I received stated that even though they were sympathetic to my cause it did not fit in their cancellation guidelines that were approvable. No refund yet they got my money. My primary complaint is that Expedia is subjecting their customers to a company that is practicing predatory business. People are taken advantage of every day and this is just another example. There are over 3,000 complaints documenting the same thing. The least you could do is list all of the things that fall into the guidelines on the page that you're selling the travel insurance so that people realize they're not really getting that great of coverage, unless they're planning on dying.
Reviewed Nov. 22, 2017
I will never darken the door of Expedia ever again! I hope no one else does either. I made a reservation off of the app, but found a better rate with another hotel. Canceled the original... I still got charged a no show charge because Expedia's app was having issues unbeknownst to me. I've been trying to get my $$ back and they won't budge. They basically called me a liar and told me they have no record of my cancellation. Why would I need 2 hotels for the same weekend?! I wouldn't... Customer loyalty and customer service isn't Expedia! Never ever use them!!! Don't get burned.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2017
NOT GOOD. LODGING OWNERS BEWARE!!! EXPEDIA online booking site operates entirely to serve themselves, not your business. Example: Travelers book your place for 2 nights a month in advance, on days that you require 2 night minimum. Your published cancellation policy requires 5 days notice to cancel because you are a small B&B with only 2 rooms. You reconfirm their reservation just a week before arrival, the traveler responds with confirmation. Then 2 days before traveler is to arrive for reservation that you've held for a month, the traveler phones you, says they are in front of your property, want to stay immediately for 1 night; they say it's because they have changed their itinerary, say they were confused! You say, “No you can't make this change”.
You tell them they can only cancel or change by calling Expedia anyway. They call Expedia and demand a refund for their upcoming weekend reservation, which is clearly against your 5 day cancellation policy. Expedia calls you to ask if you will approve the refund. You say no. The traveler never cancels the original reservation. Two days later the traveler then never shows up for the original reservation. The traveler then goes on Expedia and tears you to shreds with a terrible review. You file the proper objection through Expedia, but Expedia tells you the bad review will not be removed! Bad business, bad policies, MISTREATMENT OF THE LODGING OWNER! NO EXCUSE FOR ALLOWING SUCH BEHAVIOR FROM TRAVELERS, THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS RIGHT!
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2017
The overbilled me by a few 100 baht and keep asking me for statements from my credit card when I had used a debit card linked to my bank account for the transaction. Their booking page said "Your price had been deducted" in the last minute and the receipt shows the new reduced price but they billed me the old rate. Customer service seems to be using the same copy paste template instead of responding carefully. They haven't refunded me the extra amount yet.
Reviewed Nov. 19, 2017
Be wary of Expedia, they can be sketchy. I booked a hotel last weekend and it came back with the wrong date, off by one week. I immediately called Expedia within minutes and they refused to adjust the booking date nor refund our money. I would never use Expedia again. Any decent merchant would do the right thing but they did not.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2017
Rental car agency never received booking from Expedia. I called Expedia from airport counter numerous times trying to correct the situation to no avail. I was put on hold every time. I finally had a supervisor call me only to be told she could hear me. She stated that and said have a nice day and hung up. After enduring this for one hour and forty five minutes I booked a car on my own at more than double the price. They are deceitful to say the least. DO NOT USE THEM FOR ANY REASON!!!
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2017
Talked to Corporate to an Amanda **. Wasn't able to help me at all. Literally talked to her for 5 mins to tell me, "There's nothing we can do for you," after being on the phone with a prior agent for 2 hours. Currently on my way to the hotel and have no place to stay. Thanks to Expedia in messing up my reservation and telling me everything is fine. Like wtf, why say that. I'm beyond furious right now. Would not recommend in booking with Expedia at all.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2017
Booked a trip to Vegas between Christmas and New Year’s. Got a great rate on the hotel and flight. Today I receive an email that my email was changed. I call and get a woman that barely speaks English and all she can tell me is that I canceled the trip and there is nothing she can do. I never canceled the trip and now it will cost me over $1000 more and I lost the good flights I had. Last time I used Expedia I had a great experience, this time the pits. Will never recommend or use this site again.
Reviewed Nov. 17, 2017
I booked airfare, hotel and rental car through Expedia based on their description of the hotel, I decided to go with a package the Expedia site recommended. Flight and rental car were fine, the hotel (Marina Tower, Waikiki) was not as described. There was no lobby to check in, only a phone number posted on the wall when you arrived that you had to call between 4 - 7pm to check in. So we did and the gal came walking over and hand wrote my CC number on a piece of paper. That was our check in. We were also charged that day an additional $350 for the resort fee and valet since they don't have parking for guests. You are given 2 room keys and 1 FOB to gain access to the building and pool. This is an additional $200 if you lose the FOB. Also, if you check out since it is a virtual lobby type situation we were told to leave the key and FOB in the room.
Well we got up to our room and started to unpack and we put our leftovers in the fridge. As we finally were able to sit down to our one year anniversary I started to notice bugs quickly running across walls, the floor, the fridge, the toilet, the ceiling, just about everywhere. They were cockroaches. I truly hate bugs and the thought of a cockroach that close to me was enough for me to book another hotel. My husband took pictures of the roaches. These bugs are strong, we watched them crawl into the fridge where we put our food. It was disgusting. I was able to book another hotel between 2 and 3 am. We packed up and left the keys and the FOB in the room as we were told to by the Marina Tower manager. I waited till 7am to call Marina Tower to let them know we checked out, I was told to call back at 10:30am so I did. I asked her if she was going to call Expedia to refund the remaining 6 days since we checked out and she said yes.
Turns out she didn't call them. I had to call them and a few days had past since we checked out. Now Expedia will not refund the remaining 6 days because it is their policy not to refund unless you either don't check in or cancel the reservation 2 days prior to check in. Here's the thing. If they were to accurately describe Marina Tower and it's infestation of cockroaches I would have never booked it. Since I didn't know about the bugs I checked in and since have been told I cannot receive any of my money back. I disputed this with them and all they told me was they couldn't reach the hotel to verify anything so no refund would be given. Fine, so I disputed it with my CC company who told me they won't refund it because I didn't ask for another room.
Now, I am not the smartest person when it comes to how cockroaches work, but I do believe they were not limited to just my room so putting me in another room would not work. It has been over a month and Expedia refuses to offer any type of reimbursement or credit. I will not be using them in the future for anything! I have attached a couple of pictures of cockroaches, one of the fridge that one ran into to get to the food and one of the blood on the bathroom ceiling.
Reviewed Nov. 17, 2017
I specifically searched for first class flights and the search result showed first class for both the outbound and return flights. After I paid for the flight they both magically became coach and I would've had to pay an extra $1400 to upgrade to first. I could've just gone through the airline for all that hassle. This was the opposite of convenience. Don't tell me I'm buying first class tickets if you can't guarantee them and if you can't, put it in big capital letters right near the button that says "book".
Reviewed Nov. 16, 2017
I recently booked a hotel in Victoria BC for a one night stay. Unfortunately plans changed and I had to cancel the reservation. I contacted Expedia and explained the situation and they said they would contact the hotel and see about cancelling. I should have a reply within 24 hours. A couple days later I still had not received anything from them. So I contacted them again! I received an automated reply saying they would get back to me. This continued going back and forth for almost 2 weeks, including Expedia asking what it was I wanted to do with my reservation!
There were excuses like not being able to contact the hotel, or that the reservation was non-refundable. I had personally contacted the hotel (got through first try) and they said, no problem, it can be cancelled without penalty up to 48 hours before check-in time (normal hotel policy). But, because it was booked through Expedia it had to be cancelled through Expedia. So I continue trying to contact Expedia and was given the same excuses again! It finally (after 3 weeks) took a very strong phone call from a male friend to get them to cancel. I will never use Expedia again, and will be sure to tell all my friends and family what happened.
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2017
I buy two tickets in Expedia and when I get to the airport the airline say my booking was cancel. They don’t give any reason and they don’t know when is the day they going to change the reservation I did more than 2 months in advance. Call Expedia to try to get reimbursed for the service I didn’t get and they don’t help me at all. They just say they are not responsible... So my question is what are Expedia responsible for??? So easy to make money but when the consumer have a problem they just wash their hand and do anything to help so please do not book anything in Expedia.com because they don’t gonna take responsibility for nothing.
Reviewed Nov. 13, 2017
We planned a birthday getaway to Las Vegas back in August of 2017. Wanted it to be a great, relaxing, fun filled weekend. She likes Expedia so we went there (my first try). Booked a decent rate for the flight there through Alaska and a return home flight from Spirit. $699 which included a car rental at about $150! Not bad?! We decided to move up our departure time and contacted Alaska who charged an additional $89 per ticket change fee and tried to charge $125 per ticket for the process but did not in the end. That was bad enough, but then we had to change the time of our car rental to the morning of... Expedia "refunded" the original amount and there was a charge of a bit more from Alamo to Fox rental agencies. Not a problem.
What they did not tell us was that Spirit charges for everything else so my larger bag which costs me $25 to check with Alaska costs me $50 with Spirit and those two "carry ons" that Alaska charged zero for, cost an additional $55 each on Spirit. The weight was 12 lbs over on the checked bag which cost $30 more?! So before we could even print out a boarding pass we were forced to pay an additional $220 for luggage! Then, Spirit does not "assign" seats so in order to ensure I could sit with my Lady, the birthday girl, WE were forced to pay an additional $15 per seat each bringing our return flight to an additional $250 before we ever stepped on the plane or went through the TSA check??!
Expedia has now left me on hold after talking to a rep and a supervisor who was nowhere near empowered to do anything or make a decision about this for an on-going 1 hour and 25 minutes thus far?! Apparently I am waiting to speak with the supervisor's supervisor who is on the phone dealing with another patron's issues?!? It gave me enough time to write this?! and I am still waiting!!! Never again...
Reviewed Nov. 12, 2017
I purchased a package plan with insurance for a vacation in San Juan with my family. Unfortunately, our flight date was right after Hurricane Maria had hit Puerto Rico. I had called ahead of time and cancelled the hotel and flights. During my calls, the CSR told me that I could cancel the flights and get a credit to rebook for later - HOWEVER, if JetBlue changes the refund policy for the hurricane, I am eligible for a refund - and the CSRs told me to just keep checking back.
JetBlue did post an update saying that any flights cancelled by the company due to the hurricane situation is eligible for a refund. Well, guess what, another Expedia CSR said I can't get a refund because I had requested the cancellation first -- regardless of what they had told me before. $670 charge on the flights and they only said, - “Sorry we apologize but we cannot do anything about it”. Why would you tell your customer to cancel if you knew the policy says no refund if the customer initiated? Extremely frustrating at how they scam their customers for money. Borderline fraudulent.
Reviewed Nov. 10, 2017
I have never had an experience with ANY type of company in ANY industry quite like the one I've had with Expedia over the past year. Their failure to disclose information, blatant lies and horrible customer service are a just skimming the surface of the issues that I have with how they run their business. I will reluctantly retell my story in an attempt to benefit someone else who may be considering using Expedia.
(SPOILER ALERT - If you don't feel like reading this incredibly long and detailed review but you're interested in knowing if you should use this company. Long story short: DON'T DO IT): My experience began with a customer service representative back in March. He was unwilling to help, rude, and kept me on the line for over an hour, transferring me back and forth between different people with ultimately no resolution to the problem at hand. In an attempt to appease me and compensate for my horrible experience, I was issued a "$100 voucher" which would be credited to my account. No further information was disclosed and I was not informed of any exclusions, aside from needing to redeem the voucher by March 2018.
Because I am forgiving and believe in second chances, I made the stupid mistake of attempting to book travel through Expedia again. YET AGAIN I was unable to apply my voucher to my reservation, so after scouring the website and FAQ's for a solution (which, may I add, there was literally NO information regarding my voucher and no links to click for exclusions, details, etc.) I decided to call customer service. I sat on hold until someone finally spoke with me and informed me that I couldn't use my voucher on stand alone flights - it had to be a hotel+flight bundle. I was irritated because this information wasn't disclosed beforehand, but okay... fair enough. I ended up booking my trip on the website anyway and figured I would use the voucher at a later date.
Today I spent 4 hours trying to book a trip to Florida, HOTEL+FLIGHT BUNDLES, and when it came time to pay I experienced the same problem I did last time - the voucher would not apply. I figured it was a glitch in the website so I decided to call the sales department and try to book over the phone. The lady who worked with me started off very friendly and helpful, until it came time to apply the voucher. She was, and I quote: "unable to apply the voucher because the airline I am flying with is a discount airline (Frontier)".
I was immediately irritated because I spoke with customer service regarding this voucher on two separate occasions prior to the conversation I was currently having and not one of them mentioned this- Even after I called to specifically ask about exclusions! She tried to diffuse the situation by offering to help me find a new flight- One that was $106 more expensive than the one I currently had saved to book and, to add insult to injury, it was with Spirit Airlines- Another discount airline!
At this point I got angry. Clearly she thought I was stupid and didn't know what Spirit was or she thought I would be too elated over getting to use the $100 voucher that I wouldn't notice my end total was actually higher than the bundle I had spent hours meticulously choosing? And that's even without any discounts applied! I expressed this to her and asked to speak to her supervisor who gave me the same response about Frontier Airlines being the issue then offered to "find me a new hotel that is more in my price range". I asked to speak to her manager.
I was placed on hold and transferred to yet another employee who I had to have the exact same conversation with. As it turns out, both of the previous reps lied to me- the voucher has nothing to do with "discount airlines". This was the moment that I realized what a horrible company Expedia is and the issue become one of integrity, not money. I didn't care what they were willing to offer me, I just kept asking for an explanation on why they handle situations how they do and what the rationale behind offering a disgruntled consumer an UNUSABLE travel voucher is. I obviously didn't receive any viable response. He offered to send the names of the employees who spoke with me to corporate and I made it very clear that my intention was not to get anybody fired, I just wanted answers.
I will say that although infuriating, the man I spoke with last tried very hard to appease me after everything was said and done. The $100 voucher turned into a $150 voucher that "couldn't be applied before purchasing" but "would be refunded back to my account afterwards"... HA! Call me old-fashioned, but I will NEVER trust or give another dollar of my money to an alarmingly opaque company that treats me like I'm an inconvenience. DO NOT USE EXPEDIA. Any intelligent person with an ounce of integrity should save themselves the precious time and headache and just use a different service.
Reviewed Nov. 8, 2017
I have been using Expedia for years and more so this year after dating someone who lives in a different stay so I book a lot of hotels and flights. This recent flight booking with them has put me over the edge to never book flights with them ever again. I recently booked 2 one way flights with JetBlue, one through the JetBlue site, and one through Expedia. I did this because I had credits on the JetBlue site for their apology with canceling my flight. I also had credit with Expedia for a JetBlue flight because I had to cancel a flight I had booked.
My original flight with Expedia that was cancelled was a Blue level seat. When I called to use the credit for a new flight, I requested Blue Plus (the only difference in service is that 1 checked bag is included). The Expedia rep put me on hold while she confirmed with JetBlue that there is no other difference with the ticket levels and that they could switch this for me. After this was confirmed, I was told I was now booked on a Blue Plus ticket for after New Years. However, a confirmation would not come through, so the rep created a confirmation and e-mailed it to me.
When I checked the flight on JetBlue, it was for a Blue ticket. I called Expedia back saying I was given the wrong ticket type. I was then transferred twice to a "manager" who said they needed to pull the recording to make sure that was what I requested and it would take 48 hours. 48 hours later I got an e-mail saying they will contact me in 72 hours. That was on October 21st. It is November 8th, and I have not been contacted.
I am currently on the phone with Expedia after calling them about this issue and I am told there is no record of me requesting a Blue Plus based on my original reservation or my current one. I told this rep multiple times I had a case number which he did not request until 33 minutes into this call. I have never contacted a company that has consistently told me there is no record of anything and that I would have to pay cancellation fees to fix the problem. After finally searching my case, he found the info that was said to not exist. This is the last time I will ever book with Expedia again. When I called JetBlue for a flight adjustment, my call was 1 minute and 20 seconds. Not multiple 1+ hr calls that go nowhere.
Reviewed Nov. 8, 2017
I recently booked two airline tickets from Melbourne to London via Expedia for travel in 2018. I chose the Expedia option for a Qantas code share ticket on Emirates flights, the Expedia option quoted the Qantas flight numbers. After paying for the booking I received confirmation but discovered that the bookings had Emirates flight codes not Qantas flight codes. The difference is that although we would be on the same aircraft, with a Qantas code we would receive many more frequent flyer and status points. It seems to me that there has been misrepresentation in the Expedia website, we didn't get what we ordered.
Reviewed Nov. 8, 2017
My wife and I booked a flight, rent a car and a Spa resort hotel in Jacksonville, Fl. in June. November 4th we get an e-mail from the HOTEL asking why we cancelled. Nothing from Expedia. We called the hotel and they checked for us and found out Expedia cancelled, not us. They had cancelled 2 of our 4 days. The hotel reinstated the two days that wasn't double booked and said they would contact Expedia for us about the other 2 days. Next thing we know, Expedia cancelled our 2 days at the Spa resort and gave us 4 days at a Best Western down the road about 3 miles.
We contacted them and the long and short of it was Deal with it. This is what you got. My wife and I would like to know why we got kicked when we had reservations since June. Nobody could tell us that or help in any way. If we wanted rooms at the Best Western, that is where we would have booked. Not to mention, what if the hotel had not E-mailed us. We would have had no rooms. So just book your stuff yourself. Little more hassle up front, but worth it in the end.
Reviewed Nov. 6, 2017
I only had a small problem with Expedia but they use the Thrifty rental car and I was very dissatisfied with them. So Expedia offer to $25 coupon if we use them again but I don't think that's a satisfactory response.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2017
American Airlines (AA) has no concerns for family values and unexpected emergencies. I was truly disappointed at the high price I paid to travel from Atlanta to Allentown to attend my brother's funeral. (Friday, October, 27th) AA did NOT offer discounted rates for bereavement; I was only going for the weekend to try to rush back for the birth of my 1st granddaughter. Both flights leaving out and returning to Atlanta were connecting flights in Charlotte, NC. My return flight was for Sunday, Oct. 29th at 4:42 p.m. from Allentown arriving in Atlanta at 9:47 pm.
My son's wife went into labor Sunday morning and I called AA to try to leave on an earlier flight to get to the hospital for the delivery of my granddaughter. I called AA to see if they would put me on an earlier flight, they said they could not do it and any changes would cost an additional $75. I said NO, I had already paid $784 for this weekend ticket and no way I would I pay any more money to this airline. I informed the agent on the phone that I will never travel on this airline again since they are not "Family Friendly". This airline, American Airlines does not support the "American Dream" which is helping families during unexpected tragedies or early childbirth experiences.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2017
I booked a hotel reservation through Expedia a month prior to my travel plans, was charged right away for my hotel room. I traveled 5 hours get to my hotel only to find out that they are sold out, apparently the hotel and Expedia do not communicate on the reservations that are made. I will never use Expedia for my travel reservations again.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2017
Had to cancel a flight due to an emergency. When I booked the flight I paid extra for the cancelation insurance. When I went to make another flight they told me I would not receive the refund even though I paid for the insurance!! Was out over $500... The only thing they gave me back was $19 that I paid for the insurance.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2017
Broken dreams. Vacation to Atlantis Bahamas, Hurricane Irma had to Cancel. Then paid with Debit Card months in advance. NO Refund or a new vacation. When we paid $2639.97 Spent Hours on the phone trying to cancel. We did get an Airlines Credit but no hotel. They kept our money??? They wanted us to rebook the Hotel and pay another $3100. And wait for or get a refund. Tried to get a vacation May 2-7 TPA-NAS.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2017
June 15 I purchased from Expedia two airline tickets for Rome Italy and total protection insurance, the airline was Air Berlin. On November 3 Expedia called me and said Air Berlin went bankrupt and my tickets for November 17 would not be honored, I would have to find a new airline at my own cost. I was informed that my total protection insurance doesn't cover airlines going bankrupt. After three hours of arguing with Expedia on the phone Expedia said the best that Expedia could do is give me my 70.00 dollars insurance money back and I should contact Air Berlin for the 1,100.00 dollars for the airline tickets. I told Expedia selling insurance as total protection should mean total protection, answer was, "We can't help you."
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2017
I booked a room with Expedia at a Marriott in Maryland. Discovered the standard rate on rooms were $40 less than my Expedia rate. Called Expedia and they said I would have to discuss it with the hotel. The hotel said I would have to discuss with Expedia. In any case, I am stuck with the rate that can't be cancelled or reduced. I will do my best to share my Expedia experience to keep others from making the same mistake. Maybe a class action effort would help.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2017
Expedia is absolutely the worst choice to purchase your flight tickets! I made a reservation via their website last Monday, selecting a morning flight from DC to Atlanta. Yesterday, they sent me a confirmation indicating that I chose to fly out of DC at 8 pm and arriving Atlanta at after 10 pm. I called and they gave me the runaround for their errors. They wanted me to pay $200 to fix their error. After keeping me on hold for hours, and getting nowhere with a satisfactory resolution, I had to cancel my flight for Friday. They said cancellation would cost me $200, and the balance would have to be applied to future purchase of flight through the airline (American Airlines). What? This is my 2nd bad experience with them and I wouldn’t advise anyone to do business with Expedia. Their customer service is the worst I have ever to deal with.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2017
I booked a trip to Sweden through Expedia. Months before the trip, I had to cancel the trip because of my wife's health. Expedia refuses to refund the money even though I followed their policies. They then emailed me stating the airline is responsible for the refund, then emailed me stating the refund has already been made but my bank took my money. They refuse to help or give my money back. My bank even verified that no refund has been made. DO NOT USE EXPEDIA.
Reviewed Nov. 1, 2017
I was contacted by Expedia that I had a flight scheduled that I didn't book. So when I try to get my money back because someone had stole my credit card. They told me that they couldn't do that and so I'd have to use the flight. So then after 2 days of contacting them back and forth I asked him to add my daughter. I said, "Fine. I'll make a vacation out of it. Please add my two-year-old." They booked her as an infant. They sent me a new itinerary and then when I got to the airport she couldn't fly so I spent on hold for 4 hours after my flight had already previously left trying to get stuff fixed and they couldn't do anything about it. The best part is the people next to me had the same issue. They were traveling with two children and they booked both of them as infants. Those people had to pay $3,000 to get their flights fixed.
Reviewed Nov. 1, 2017
After booking two round trip tickets and a car rental for a week thought we had everything done. When we get to where we were renting the car on the 24th of October, were told then that though we had paid for rental and insurance, we didn't pass the credit check so couldn't rent car. We were stranded at airport till family rescued us.
After calling Expedia we were told we would be refunded in a week (which was not good news as we could have used that money for another rental). After calling today we were told that the process had been started but not completed (though somehow the insurance part wasn't started at all. And we were also informed that it actually takes up to a week just to get the email that refund has been started, it will take up to 15 days to receive money. And the main car rental refund was with someone else and they have to contact that person to have them finish the refund process, which could be another 2-5 days till we get an email for THAT!! So then there will be another week to 2 week to actually RECEIVE our entire refund for something that wasn't our fault! DO NOT USE EXPEDIA!!
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2017
I bought lodging for 10/05/2017-10/09/2017 in Cancun, Caracol in Mexico. The day before the trip a tropical storm appeared in the Gulf, that would turn to a hurricane. AA canceled flights, therefore we couldn't leave the USA. I contacted Expedia telling them I wanted a refund, they told me they needed to contact the resort because they have my money. I told them I purchased the lodging thru Expedia and they should refund my money. They emailed for a week and stated that I would receive a partial refund because they would charge me for a night’s stay. I told them this was unacceptable and I wanted a full refund because we COULDN'T go. They finally sent an email a week late stating that I would receive a full refund. Till this day I haven't.
Luckily, my credit card is thru PenFed, and they had my back and as of today, have reversed the charges. Expedia stopped communicating, and the last phone call I made to them, the rep told me to hold, and literally kept me on hold for 3.5 hrs on the phone. The rep, would click in every 30 mins and check if I hung up. Finally she blind transferred me to some "Gold member department". They purposely did this. Stay away.
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2017
I booked a room through Expedia. I was checking out the hotel reviews and realized I made a huge mistake. I immediately called the hotel to cancel. The phone rang for two minutes. No one picked up. I then called Expedia. They told me if I cancel I won't get a refund. I called the credit card company and was told the same thing. Now I have to book another hotel and pay for the first one too. Pretty expensive night stay. What a ripoff. I won't be using Expedia again.
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2017
Horrible experience with getting receipts from Expedia for travel bookings. When you go back to their site to look at your history of purchases it is very difficult to obtain the costs specific to your travel. I had problems getting receipts for airfares and rental cars. Especially with rental cars from Avis. In addition I cannot get the breakdown of the costs associated with the Avis rental car, the daily rental fee and taxes. To top it off when you call Expedia you are talking with a person with a strong accent which is very difficult to understand. I currently have another upcoming trip and cannot go to their site to see what the rental car fee will be that I booked. How frustrating. What company does business like this.
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2017
We booked a hotel for one day with Expedia but it was not a one day booking. You had to booked two days so that was more money??? Then the room we're supposed to be two big rooms but we only got one bedroom and the other were two small rooms that were split so we had to split couples up??? Never again will I booked with Expedia. They messed up all way around and then some.
Reviewed Oct. 28, 2017
I purchased the insurance for a flight that advertised that it would "avoid change fees - protect your trip." Expedia failed to mention that although they would not charge a fee, the AIRLINE DOES. I paid $202 for a ticket, and they wanted to charge me $200 to change the date to the following day. They may not be FALSE advertising, but they are definitely deceptive in not mentioning that there are multiple levels of insurance, and the basic one covers only death or cancel due to injury/sickness.
Reviewed Oct. 27, 2017
My sister and I booked a trip to Punta Cana with Expedia. We decided to cancel and rebook to a bigger suite. They say if you cancel in less than 24 hrs you get full refund. Which is what we did! My sister got full refund I did not. I called them over ten times spent hours on phone with them, even spoke to two different managers. Both said, "Don't worry we will get your money." "The hotel is not responding but as soon as we get a hold of them will let you know. I spent a month back and forth finally we get to hotel on another reservation. (Me thinking I am getting a refund) I ask hotel what's going on. They say we never received any money so we can't refund anything.
I waste another hour on hold with Expedia they finally say we never received a response from hotel. I say ok well I am here and this is what they are saying. Can I have my refund now? "Ummm we can't give you a refund your room is none refundable!!!" I spent a month calling, waiting hours of my life!! Not once did they say they couldn't give me my money back because my room was none refundable. Yes all rooms are none refundable BUT if you cancel in less than 24 hrs it is refundable. Also, why not say that the first, second or third time I spoke with them? I wouldn't of booked another reservation. Manager promised me not to worry. She also said don't call again we will let you know as soon as it's solved. Well now I owe my credit card 1300 for a room I never used. Also they booked me a flight that was not available.
Reviewed Oct. 27, 2017
I booked a hotel with Expedia and had to leave a day early. When I went to the front desk they said I had to cancel with Expedia. I called Expedia and the girl said she couldn't cancel it because her supervisor was out today. 2 days later I get an email saying they couldn't cancel the last day because it was 2 days ago. The hotel was completely full and they could have used the room. Never booking with Expedia again.
Reviewed Oct. 27, 2017
Problem: Jet Airways had canceled the flight 1 day before travel. Solution Attempt #1: Me: I called Expedia to get a flight resolution sorted. Expedia: 2 options were given to me, get on a flight 2 days later or get a refund. Me: A flight 2 days later is not an appropriate solution to a flight being canceled. Expedia: Reconfirming I only had 2 options. Me: Agreed to a refund as I was told there was no way I was getting a flight on the same day. Before ending the first call I got Jet Airways information and immediately called them after getting off the phone with Expedia. It was unacceptable to me that I was now going to have to book a flight one day before it left as the prices were going to be 2x what I had originally paid. This was Jet Airways problem to fix - not my financial burden!
Solution Attempt #2: Me: Called Jet Airways, explained to them that my flight was canceled and I needed a resolution of a same day alternative flight. Jet Airways: Immediately looked at an alternative company to rebook a same day flight, found a KLM flight that same day, but then realized that I took the refund from Expedia and they were unable to reschedule my flight. Told me call Expedia back.
Solutions Attempt #3 & #4: Me: Called Expedia back, escalated the call to a Supervisor... explained the situation that had I known I should have called Jet Airways first I would not have taken the refund that has now left me with no flight and the financial burden of paying 2x the original flight cost to rebook on my own. I was repeatedly told that this was my problem as I took the refund and there was nothing they could do!
Absolutely appalling and disgusting customer service to leave a customer in this situation. I would have never taken the refund had I known there was an alternative option to get the flight rebook and sorted out with Jet Airways directly. I was completely misinformed and misguided. I called back a second time in desperation of trying to get this sorted as I did not have an additional $1000 dollars to rebook my flight. Conversation with Expedia resulting in the same customer blaming tactics. Icing on the cake, I was informed that my refund was going to take 8 WEEKS! I will NEVER use Expedia again!
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2017
Expedia is the worst place to purchase your flight tickets. I called them up to look for the best priced Air flight ticket and wanted to leave the day before Thanksgiving which is on Nov 22nd. The Phone Rep booked my flight in Oct instead of November. Because we were in October I overlooked that she booked it for the wrong month. After noticing their mistake a few days after purchasing my round trip ticket I called Expedia to advise of their mistake and asked them to please fix it. They listened to our phone conversation and verified that I did ask for a flight the day before Thanksgiving but still did not refund me my money.
I had lost all of my money on this and they didn’t do anything to make things better. I ended up having to repurchase my roundtrip tickets! Expedia told me that the rep that helped me is overseas and they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving so she didn’t know it was in November, This is not an acceptable excuse, here in America the airlines are very busy, the tickets alone are double the normal price due to the holiday so they hire overseas people and we take the hit. I would avoid this company at all cost!!!
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2017
Expedia sold us travel insurance on a recent trip from a company called AON. I had a medical emergency and an Eye operation shortly before the trip departure date. I filed a claim and was told by AON that it would take 7 to 10 days to process. Since then I have received weekly requests for additional information and numerous forms that have to be filled out by the Doctors. Recently, we seem to have dropped into a black hole. No payment has been made. Avoid Expedia travel Insurance at all costs.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2017
Had to check out a day earlier than planned, hotel was great but after talking to Expedia and explaining everything, they sent confirmation to wrong address. They had put wrong letter in my email address and never changed it like I had asked them too. It may not seem much to some people but I usually don't reserve rooms, just look around but I had 2 dogs I was bringing and wanted to make sure hotel would let them stay. From now on, I'll just call hotel directly.
Reviewed Oct. 24, 2017
I went online and reserved a car from Alamo thru Expedia a full size sedan for 3 days. 17.00 a day. The total bill was quoted 123.00. I turned the car in 12 hrs early and also vacuumed it out because it was dusty to begin with and they had ran through a mud hole. I ask the agent at the counter, "Do I get a discount?" She said no. I told her the bill now is 165.00. She said no. I told her, "Now you are charging me 31.00 a day." She said it was because of the fuel purchase now is 34.11. Add that to 123 and you get 157.00. Another different amount-because it is now 165.00. It is because of the daily rate. They changed from 17.00 to 31.00. Add that to 123.00 and you get 165.00.
I called Expedia. They will not give me a refund of 42.00. I ask her did she want me to complain and write a report up. She said, "I have done all I can do. It's because of the fuel option." I said, "No. It's because of the daily rate that you changed that made the amount go up to 165.00." Even if you have a written agreement they will still change it. Never will I do business with them again.
Reviewed Oct. 23, 2017
Booked a room through Expedia for an event at Universal Studios, just wanting a place to sleep for a few hours afterwards. As soon as we entered the lobby, we were disappointed by the appearance and the line of people waiting at the front desk where one employee was working (in the entire place). The first people in line were there disputing the lack of refund of their deposit from six months ago and the police were called while the line just grew longer and longer. The front desk clerk was completely rattled, kept leaving the front desk and going into a back room and doing nothing for the people waiting.
While waiting in line, I called Expedia to see about just getting a refund and after an almost two hour call, where they called and spoke to the single employee at this place, was refused by that front desk person. After a two hour wait in line behind a second group of people trying in vain to get money back and being interrupted by a woman complaining about bugs in her room, finally made it to the front desk. On Expedia's website, there was explained to be a $60 cash deposit required at time of check in but the front desk clerk would not accept cash and demanded a credit card which I was leery to give after the incidents observed while waiting in line so they wouldn't let me check in and still refused a refund. I printed out the policy from Expedia's website and they still have not issued a refund. This hotel was gross and needs to be shut down. They have it as a recommended hotel!!! I think they could have a class action for this hotel alone.
Reviewed Oct. 23, 2017
I reserved a flight and a hotel through Expedia. I went to the airport the day of my flight and couldn't check in because the airline couldn't confirm my return flight. Due to an error on Expedia's end, they never sent in the flight to the airline so I wasn't able to board my flight. After two hours on the phone with Expedia I was finally able to get my refund for the flight. I later tried to get the refund for my hotel as well, and they would not communicate with me through email. They ignore emails, so after a week I posted on Twitter with my frustration and finally whoever runs the Twitter helped me sort of.
They only refunded me one night on the hotel because I didn't cancel within 24 hours, but I didn't even know I was going to have to cancel until the day of because of Expedia screwing up my flight. On top of that, I had to pay another $200 out of pocket to get transportation to a friend's place 2 hours away because I wasn't even in my home country at the time. Expedia could have completely stranded me and they didn't care.
Reviewed Oct. 22, 2017
I booked a vacation from Seattle to Hawaii for my anniversary and for some reason the United flight got delayed. They were very courteous to inform me about the same and offered a callback for running the options. They mentioned to me that flight is delayed and they can look for another flight for United but another flight that is available is with Delta but to book from that I need to cancel my whole reservation and book again. So, 400$ for cancellation and whatever the new price I need to pay. That is 700$ more. So, a light delayed and to keep my plan I need to pay 1100$ while just 1 flight got delayed.
I purchased a vacation waiver and that is just a third party (nowhere mentioned) and I have to chase it out separately as a claim. So my advice stay away from Expedia. They only can provide nice UI for booking everything together and charging you as bundled trip, but in case there is any flight delay or hotel delay good luck chasing out separate departments. They will have no control whatsoever and quote different policy for everything.
Reviewed Oct. 22, 2017
Believe the negative reviews. Expedia can be a quick way to reserve car/air/hotel stays, but they are anything but EXPEDIAnt if you need to cancel. Woe to the person who needs to cancel a hotel stay. Prepare yourself for hours on the phone. Both my parents and my wife have recently had to go through mini-nightmares to cancel hotel stays arranged through Expedia. Normally cancelling a hotel stay is very easy, but not with Expedia. We will never use them again.
Reviewed Oct. 22, 2017
Absolutely horrible company. Customer service sucks. I changed my flight booking and paid $225 and then called up like 20 mins later to change the reservation and was asked to pay extra 356 so a total of $581... which is **... pathetic play to buy tickets. Highly not recommendable... and the customer service is awful. Worst place to be. WORST AND SHAMEFUL.
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2017
I thought I had booked my motel directly with the motel. My credit card was charged $202.89 immediately upon booking. Upon check-in I learned this booking was through Expedia. Upon check-out I was given a paid-in-full bill for $146.12. This means that Expedia kept $56.77. Obviously I will never use Expedia again. In the future I will do my own research and call the motel of my choice directly. Expedia has a no-refund policy. All I can say is "buyer beware!"
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2017
I had to go through a mental distress because of my current booking with Expedia and will never recommend it. I was charged $626 for a flight + insurance when the same flight was available and my friend booked for $528. And when contacted them for their price back guaranteed if lower price found, they were like they have stopped that but will offer me some $50 coupon which I can refund in my next trip. I did not want that because I was never going to use Expedia nor recommend to anyone.
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2017
100% disappointed in service. You have lost a customer for life. I bought a $600 plane ticket with $50 extra for the cancellation service. My husband is currently deployed and we were scheduling his flight home for a 4 day leave before he leaves for 10 months! I not only spent hours being bounced around but also got zero dollars back including the cancellation policy I paid for as "serving your country" is not a valid reason but "losing your job is". When did unemployment rank higher than the men and women who protect us on a daily basis? The ones that leave their family, friends, and home for a year on end. I expected more from a large company. My last call I demanded to speak to a manager and was told no. Who tells a very upset customer no when they ask for a supervisor? Deployment is not easy, a little help would have been greatly appreciated. Instead the people within this company made a hard situation that much worse.
Reviewed Oct. 18, 2017
In July 2017, I purchased an all-inclusive (resort, meals, flight and ground transportation) honeymoon to St. Thomas for my daughter and future son-in-law. The trip was planned for 10/18/17 - 10/25/17. Unfortunately, hurricane Irma completely destroyed Sugar Bay Resort and was forced to cancel this trip and book another. Thank goodness I purchased travel insurance... WRONG! Let me just say I have spent at least 5 hours attempting to get a claim filed for a refund the original trip. None of the Expedia agents understand my issue; I have to repeat and explain several times. I was put on hold for about 1 hour total so the agent could discuss with the manager.
After several conversations, I finally get confirmed cancellations for the resort and ground transportation but not the airline tickets but was credited airline points for a future trip, if booked within one year. Two problems... I couldn't use the airline miles credit for the next honeymoon trip because the price doubled if I didn't include airline tickets in the "bundle" price. The second issue is I used Expedia's loan company; Affirm to finance the trip costing me 25% interest for 12 months but paid upfront. Since I wasn't credited the full amount of the trip, I was forced to pay $900 out of pocket to pay off the airline tickets and was charged $445 interest on the loan. I'm out $1345 and still need to book another trip!
Making several more calls, I was told to file a claim for the price difference with Expedia's travel insurance broker; Aon. Another hour on the phone and several emails, I receive a letter from the insurance company; Transamerica Casualty Insurance stating my claim has been denied! "According to the information submitted, your cancellation was due to infrastructure damage caused by hurricane Irma. Unfortunately, your reason for cancellation is not among the specified reasons allowed in the plan". Something is seriously wrong with this company! Why the ** would I not want to cancel this trip???!!! And why is this NOT a qualified reason for cancellation??? I will never purchase from Expedia again!!!
Reviewed Oct. 18, 2017
We booked an Alaskan cruise on Norwegian in August 2017. One of the extras that we got to choose was a 50.00 credit on each shore excursion. Prior to booking through Expedia I asked how we'd get this credit. I was told to take my receipt to the excursion desk on the ship. I then ordered my excursions thru Expedia and when we got on the ship, they didn't give us the 200.00 credit. Norwegian said I had to buy the excursions thru them. It didn't state this requirement in any of the documents. I spent a lot of time trying to make sure all of our paperwork was correct. I feel this was misleading and we should get the promised credit.
Reviewed Oct. 17, 2017
I had made a reservation for the Palms Place through Expedia. On arrival I was told there was no reservation. After showing my confirmation the hotel told me it was Expedia's problem. I went across the street to the Palms. Expedia said I demanded this. They lie. I am a doctor and the money is not the issue. This company is fraudulent. I have told everyone I know on social media to stay away from these clowns.
Reviewed Oct. 17, 2017
I booked a trip from the US to Cozumel Mexico with Expedia around Jan 2017, to travel for our honeymoon in Oct 2017. A month or so later Expedia called to say that my flight from Mexico City to Cozumel was canceled and there was nothing they could do about it. The representative was not helpful in any way. I ended up finding us another flight on the Expedia website. Around August Expedia called to say we were now returning to a different airport that we were flying out of. We would have to cab an hour back to our car. Now I am on the phone trying to reschedule our flight home because my husband is sick. I have been on the phone for 1 & 1/2 hours at international rates, waiting for the representative to get back to me. I have no idea if they even remember I am on the line.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2017
I needed to cancel my accommodations through Expedia (which is who I booked through) and had extreme difficulty. I never got my refund, after spending 3 separate times on the phone with 3 different people. No one could help me. They ended up waiting too long until the hotel charged me for the room. I am disgusted with this company. I will NEVER book through them again. Do not use Expedia. They are crooks. And I am not against people who can't speak English, but no one can understand you on the phone... and vice/versa. It was an extremely frustrating experience and waste of time and money.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2017
I am so extremely upset with the car rental experience! I booked a car rental through the Expedia website and booked this car rental for the weekend in order to attend my grandmother's funeral and I was charged $398.47 by Expedia! To be charged that type of money I thought that I would be getting a decent car rental; however that was not the case. As I landed at the airport and proceeded to the ground transportation it was unclear where I was to go to get picked up by the shuttle. I went to terminal B, after 5 minutes I called the car rental and was informed by an automated service I can wait at A11-13 or B11-13 and a shuttle would pick me up. I waited at B 11-13 for twenty minutes and no shuttle came to pick me up. I called the rental car again and talked to a live person who informed me I have to go to A11-13 in order to get the shuttle, but she could not direct me to where that location was located.
When I finally arrived to the shuttle location 40 minutes after my flight because I couldn't find the shuttle location, a shuttle bus was there and there was no air-condition on the bus. I arrived to the car rental and there were no signs that this was the correct place. I entered the building because the shuttle driver told me this was Right Cars rental agency. There was a really long line. I waited for two hours to get to the front desk in order to get my car rental. The man who was helping me with my rental was also doing five other jobs. When he finally gets my vehicle he tells me they are giving me the vehicle on E, an empty tank! He also tells me they are charging me a $250.00 deposit and I was using a major credit card. I didn't understand that.
I also saw on the bill a charge of $300.00 for the rental when I rented from Expedia who is charging me $398.47. This caused me to be late for the funeral service. I am so upset with all of this service that I never want to do business with Expedia or Right Cars. I was experiencing grief and pain from my grandmother's death and you all created me more stress. I have attempted to contact Expedia several times about this issue and they refuse to assist me with the problem.
Reviewed Oct. 14, 2017
My daughter was in need of a room for the night, my wife booked a room in Clearlake Ca, so when my daughter got close she input the address to the hotel into her GPS to find that the roads to get there were closed, so she would have to take a detour, (though in reality the road was opened 3 days ago). The detour took her to a dirt road with a locked gate! (All of this is not Expedia's fault, I get that.) So she called the hotel and the very rude lady there said we would have to ask for a refund online (Expedia).
The website was not user friendly in this respect so she called, explained the situation and was put on hold, after 20 mins we were ready to give up but at this point ya kinda wanna see where it goes, LOL so 40 (yes 40) mins later a actual manager comes on the line, (may have been a bit of a language barrier) and said that she had no problem cancelling the reservation but could not refund the money, (once again, it was in fact the GPS that said the roads were closed and not Expedia's fault) but, it took an hour to get an answer?? I would have paid the $109.00 just to have my Friday night back! Wow... AND now I have taken the time to open a account on this website and the time to share my story! LOL. Cheers!
Reviewed Oct. 13, 2017
I booked the flight to see my grandchildren. I put in my name which is the same on my account. My email address has my last name in it and I paid for it with my own credit card. 2 years prior I made reservations for my grandson to come and see me. They picked up his name and applied to my ticket. They can't change the name or anything. So I'm out the money. After hours on hold they hung up on me. I have used Expedia for 8 years booking flights for my father and my grandkids and friends. My grandson was not the last person I booked. No excuses.
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2017
My friends and I have lost more than 7 hours trying to resolve an issue with Expedia which has yet to be resolved. We are a total of 8 people traveling from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for a bachelor party. Our original booking date for the flight and hotel package was for October 20, 2017 (Friday to Monday trip), but our flights were cancelled. We then proceeded to call Expedia to discuss our options for the package. The Expedia employees changed our flights to November 3, 2017 and told us that they were going to call the hotel to change the hotel dates. We later got an email that our flight schedule had changed yet again, and the new dates they gave us for the weekend trip was November 4, 2017 (Saturday to Tuesday trip). Expedia had told us that they would reach out to us in 24 - 48 hours, and this did not happen, so we decided to call again.
The Expedia employees always have the same excuses, that they will get back to us in 24 to 48 hours. We have been calling since last Thursday (October 5), and today is already Thursday, October 12. Expedia now wants our group to pay extra for the hotel, for a change that we were forced to make, it was not a deliberate decision. We do not think this is fair in any way, especially since the package deal is still at the exact same price that we had paid, and this was a packaged deal sold to us by Expedia. Some of my friends have had to change their flights from the States to Puerto Rico, since they are coming in from out of town to celebrate my bachelor party. This is our first time buying from Expedia, and after this headache we are sure that it is our last time buying from them! Now we have a hotel for October 20, 2017 and a flight for November 4, 2017 which makes no sense at all. Thanks for ruining my bachelor party Expedia!
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2017
They should be ashamed of themselves!!! I can't believe Expedia is charging me over 4 thousand dollars for a trip I never even went on. I asked the representative to cancel and they never did, they Just made up some lie about having technical difficulties smh. Never again will I book my vacation with Expedia again. #verydisappointed
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2017
I spent 2 hours on the phone with their agents today to find out why no one had called me back regarding an issue with a booking I have. After 2 hours they realized that someone should call me. It took 2 hours of trying to understand what the problem is before we came back to the point of someone calling me. Ridiculous. All their agents can't understand what I want. Have to keep repeating before it makes sense to them.
Reviewed Oct. 9, 2017
I would rather not leave even 1 star. We booked one way flights home from our cruise. Itinerary number is **. This flight was on JetBlue from San Juan to Hartford Connecticut on 11/12. We booked August 5. Round trip tickets were $368.10 each plus we purchased the total protection plan for $44.00 total $736.20. On October 8, I received an email that my flight needed attention that my flight had been rescheduled for the next day 11/13. I called Expedia and was told my original flight was cancelled. I told them next day travel was not an option. They worked with JetBlue and rescheduled us for a later flight on 11/12. Great right?
After I received my confirmation I looked up the cost of this new flight to find out they were charging $138.00 for each ticket. HOWEVER neither JetBlue or Expedia bothered to tell me this. I called JetBlue myself and asked and they said they needed to honor the lower price. They gave me a credit of $450.00. In summation they only honored the lower price because they got caught being dishonest. Furthermore I was Expedia's customer and they should have been looking after my best interests.
The second issue is the total protection plan. Expedia told me I need to call AOM and advise them that the flight was changed to a later time. When I did they said the protection plan was not transferable. I called Expedia, explained again. The customer service rep said she had to transfer me immediately. She did and after an hour I hung up. This must be the transfer to nowhere that they send customers they don't want to deal with. So now I have a protection plan for a flight that does not exit. I wanted a credit for this or coverage for my new flight.
My only recourse is not to do business with Expedia or their partners in the future and once I have used my credit from JetBlue I will never fly with them again. Essentially these two companies had no problem stealing from me. I have to wonder how many other people they have stolen from. I will make doubly sure that I tell this to everyone about this so they are aware of the dishonest business practices of both of these companies.
Reviewed Oct. 7, 2017
Somehow another customer's reservation and loyalty points were added to my Expedia account. I contacted Expedia customer support via phone, web form and Facebook to have this resolved - it has been more than 2 weeks with no resolution or meaningful contact. Since then I have contacted Expedia at least 5 times requesting the other customer's data be removed from my account without resolution. As of today Expedia still cannot remove the other customer's data from my account, cannot tell me how this happened or how it will be prevented in the future. They also are unable to tell me if or when my data has been exposed to other customers.
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2017
I booked a Flight to go home Christmas after serving 30 years in the Marines and they had the flight leaving and returning in the wrong direction and wouldn't change it nor give me a refund! Unforgettable!
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2017
I booked a all inclusive package with Expedia on September 27th. I submitted a claim within 24 hours as per their instructions. The new price was 5,490.00 from 5,950.00. They wanted a screenshot of the new price, which was sent. They were suppose to get back to me within 72 hours and did not for a whole week. They decided they could not see the photo properly. They did not advise me, they just said I did not follow the rules. The rules were not clear whatsoever. It states, hotel details, and added etc, in their conditions. What is etc. Am I just to assume what they wanted??? I tried explaining this to the person. It was very difficult to understand, because they are from India. I spoke to a Safy and the supervisor's name was Jack. I was on the phone for over two hours. They were very rude and difficult to deal with. No consumer should have to put up getting scammed. We are seniors and do not appreciate Expedia's scam.
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2017
I was booking a hotel at last minute and always book through Hilton. Pulled up the hotel I wanted on my gps and hit call now since I was driving. They never answered "Hilton" which should have been my first clue. I asked if they had rooms available and he said, "Can you confirm the hotel you are calling?" He then said, "Yes, we have 1 room left for $154 and we can book it with your credit card." Asked him to use what was on file as I was driving and he said they don't keep record of it for security purposes... Again leading me to believe I was booking through Hilton.
I check out this morning and there was no dollar amount on the receipt so I ask the front desk why and she said, "Because you booked through Expedia!!!" I'm like "what? No I didn't... I called the number that pulled up when I put your address in". So then she tells me the room was 109 a night thru Hilton but I was charged 154. And they were not even close to being booked. Moral of the story is Expedia is unethical and when I called them back to complain they did nothing. Said I agreed to the rate and there was nothing they could do about it. Hilton did give me my points though. They rock. Expedia never again. Learned a valuable lesson. Still have not gotten a receipt from Expedia or confirmation email as they promised.
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2017
I haven't even taken my trip yet and I'm already annoyed. When booking my flight initially I couldn't select any personal preferences - food restrictions or seats. Website would time out every time. Same deal all the way up to the flight. Meanwhile you can't make those changes directly with the airline because you've booked through Expedia so you're trapped. I was on the phone trying to explain my seat preferences for 4 different flights and was on the line for 40 minutes when the call disconnected as the representative who booked me in the wrong seats (after I explained, she explained to back, and I double explained to make sure we were on the same page) went to go back to the airline to book new seats. They ask you for your phone number to call back should the call be disconnected. They do not.
Reviewed Oct. 5, 2017
I have used Expedia for a number of trips. As long as you book properly on their website and go on the trip everything is fine. Just don't try to call them or talk to one of their "representatives." I recently booked a trip for my wife to Las Vegas. Unfortunately, Jennifer Lopez decided to cancel her show. The reason for the trip to begin with. Called three times to speak with Expedia. Each call lasted between 30 minutes to an hour. I had purchased trip cancellation insurance. The site only showed that I would be charged a rebooking fee and would receive an airline credit for a future flight. There was no option for the cancellation insurance.
After two attempts to cancel the flight, I finally got this cancelled. (The hotel was cancelled with a credit to my charge card without a problem.) The representative told me the insurance did not cover the airline fee? Not sure what I paid for. Reviewed the policy and submitted a claim to Aon. Naturally, spent half an hour printing documents, scanning them to my computer, uploading the information to the Aon site. Still not sure what will come of all the hassle.
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2017
Long story short booked a hotel on app. App somehow got the date wrong (booked the day BEFORE I required the room). Called Expedia (I am a MORE than frequent user as I travel up and down the country on business 3-4 times a week) Held for 33 mins. They charged me for the hotel. I asked that the charge just be moved across to the next day. They REFUSED POINT BLANK insisting that I have to re-book and pay AGAIN. WILL NEVER BE USING THIS APP AGAIN. Just installed booking.com. CAN'T POSSIBLY offer a customer experience.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2017
In July I booked 2 tix to Florida, in September Hurricane Irma came and American Airlines cancelled our flight... But guess what? It is now October and I still have not received my refund of over $1,000. Expedia (when I was able to get through, usually after being on hold for 40 min.) suggested I call American Airlines, I told them, "I paid Expedia. Why would I call Am Airlines?" They still have not refunded me my money and I am currently on hold for over an hour. Good Luck ever getting through to an agent.
I called American Express and they still have an ongoing dispute - I was just wondering how this company gets away with this??? I paid for the 2 flights, did everything I was supposed to do to hold up my end and now I can't get a refund. One agent told me that according to Expedia's records I called and cancelled my flights!!! Which is pure BS, they just don't want to return my money. How is this Legal??? I will never ever use Expedia again. From now on I go directly to the airlines and book my own flights, etc.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2017
I bought a package of travel from Expedia. It included, airfare, hotel, insurance and airport transfers. When We arrived at the airport the transfer company was not there. We asked the visitors desk where to find them and were informed they had left for the day and would not be back until the following day. I tried to call them several times to no avail. I then had to pay for a taxi to take us to our hotel and on the return trip we just took a taxi. I contacted Expedia for a refund and they refuse to give me a refund after their company is the one that suggested this company.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2017
My friend and I purchased a package (it was under my friend's name). The hotel pictures on Expedia were NOT accurate. The room pictured was completely different than what we got. Additionally, many amenities were advertised. These amenities were "closed" for various reasons. Additionally, there were hidden fees not disclosed in the Expedia package that we were ultimately responsible for. I will never book through Expedia again, and will encourage others to stay away.
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2017
My friend and I booked a flight to Costa Rica in June. Since booking, we have had 3 calls from Expedia letting us know that the airline has changed our flight. The third time, my friend had accepted the changes put forth by Expedia for the flight change. When I called to accept my change, they let me know that the flight my friend was on was cancelled, but when she called - they told her it was not. After 1 hour and 20 minutes on the phone with Expedia, they finally changed my flight to match my friend's... Perfect. However, when we looked at our itineraries that were emailed to us, they were both on the wrong day (different than they had told us on the phone).
When we phoned to get the issue corrected, Expedia told us that it was our fault and we would have to pay for the changes. After another 2 hours on the phone, they have now put us on two different flights on two different days! We are no longer travelling on the same flight or even day! After expressing our deep dissatisfaction with this customer service, we had asked multiple times to speak to the manager. Eventually ending up speaking to someone in the corporate office, she had advised us that they will have to listen to our phone calls to ensure we said the correct date and would take up to 5 business days and that since it will take so long, she still can't ensure we will be on the same flight or on the same day. I will never use expedia again.
Reviewed Oct. 1, 2017
Expedia will happily make a reservation for you using your credit card, but good luck trying to get them to cancel one. We had to change travel plans due to my wife's accident, notified Expedia TWICE... and I get a $428 Hotel no-show charge even though I canceled the reservation more than two weeks in advance. Contacted Hotel directly they say Expedia never contacted them... so I am on my 4th attempt to contact Expedia and all they do is ignore you. Easy to make a reservation, but you see, they don't make any money if you cancel a reservation so... you are SOL. I'd never do business with that pack of incompetents again.
Reviewed Oct. 1, 2017
We had 2 very bad experiences with Expedia on our last trip. We booked a hotel in NYC, picked the wrong date - tried to change the date, we did, however, Expedia charged us for our original booking - so we paid for the hotel room twice!!! You will be on hold with them for an hour each time - they are set up to take you money, and not respond. Then, we booked Transport through Expedia from the NYC Airporter. We had a terrible experience with the service.
I contacted the NYC Airporter, they will refund our money, but because we booked through Expedia, we had to connect with Expedia to connect with the NYC Airporter, and then we would get our refund. Despite several attempts to connect with Expedia... Even with a PLEASE READ, PLEASE RESPOND title - no responses. Expedia stole our money twice - they do not respond, they have the worst customer service ever. We will never use them again - and highly recommend no one ever use them either. We are out a lot of money all because of Expedia.
Reviewed Oct. 1, 2017
My friends and I purchased two one way tickets to Miami in July for Sept. 14 & 17. Unfortunately, the flights were cancelled due to Hurricane Harvey. The airline was Delta and had stipulations on the ticket if insurance was not purchased. The agent from Expedia contacted me to give Delta's policy. Well, this was good that we were able to re-book within a year using a credit from Delta, but we had until Sept. 30 to do so. Okay we understood the guidelines.
Now, when it was time to re-book we were transferred to several agents. The first agent just reviewed the itinerary, then had to transfer to a supervisor who was not in the USA. Since there was a language barrier a 20 min. phone call to re-book took 2 HOURS and 30 mins. They were not aware of the notes in the account, they continued to place me on hold due to the other agents in the background speaking another language, then they did not understand Delta policy which specifically said no fees if re-booked on or before the 30th. They continued to repeat the script and the supervisor did as well. The supervisor had no authority to make an executive decision or find a mitigation to eliminate parts of the process like calling Delta each time to find out the policy and if they can use the credit which is on my Expedia account. This was ridiculous... A waste of time.
I learned a valuable lesson the Expedia that is to purchase directly with the airlines and pay the extra $50 and purchase trip protection if that is still of value. How can you guarantee the best prices when you do not have the best customer service to handle the volume. Your agents need to be trained on each airline policy or have a streamline process that will allow you to provide great customer service. Customer's time is valuable. This is why they choose to do everything in one click not BE ON HOLD for over an hour while your agents become abreast to their notes that I had to advise them to do. HORRIBLE! Back to regular travel agents like AAA!!!!
Reviewed Sept. 29, 2017
Booked a trip 5 days ago. Ended up changing our minds on the hotel. Had to cancel the entire thing, including airlines. Still waiting for the airline charges to refund on my card. Purchased trip insurance, which did not automatically cancel when the rest of the trip was cancelled. Tried to change the itinerary numbers to my new trip (same trip, different hotel), which I booked today, since the charge for the insurance was never refunded. Expedia cancelled my first trip insurance. Now I can't put insurance on the trip I just booked, as it's a package trip and it needed to be done before I actually booked the trip.
Now I have no insurance unless I cancel again and start over. But then I will need to wait another 7 days to get this trip refunded. So then I will have 3 airline charges on my card for one trip. Called Expedia customer service and they couldn't help me. Absolutely worthless company. Website very difficult to use. Was never given the option to cancel the trip insurance, when the rest of the trip was cancelled. ANGRY!!
Reviewed Sept. 29, 2017
Attempted for hours the day before Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico (where we Lived) to get approval of a change of reservation without penalty. Due to hurricane, lost ability to communicate. We were evacuated on a humanitarian flight Saturday the 23rd and was unable to contact them until yesterday as my computer was left at another sibling’s house (it needed to be charged and accidentally left it). I got the computer yesterday but the supervisor named Bryan (refused to give me his last name or to connect with HIS supervisor).
He flat told me too bad you do not get a refund. Due to two hurricanes hitting the island we were to visit (St. Croix), there is nothing here to go to. My understanding is hurricanes are not MY fault but Expedia simply doesn’t care. I want to start a class action lawsuit against them to include all people victims of their unlawful treatment. I have contacted a TV news station here in Austin Texas to see if they can help. NEVER use Expedia folks - they are a rude, uncompassionate, money hungry, unprofessional group of robots because they don't listen and they have a heart.
Reviewed Sept. 28, 2017
I am so beyond mad with Expedia!!! My now exboyfriend bought tickets for each of us and I ended up not going. So he said that I had a credit for 1 year to use. We are no longer speaking at this point today. I called and spoke to a representative in India and asked them to go over with me what my options were with my credit. Then I asked them to email me what we had spoken about so I had it in writing. I was told on the phone by a woman and via email from her that I had insurance and that United has a $200 change fee but that it would be waived for me. So I had the full amount of $376.06 to use towards another flight with them.
I have now called back twice and spoke with 2 gentlemen on 9/22 and today 9/28 and they are both telling me that I have to pay the $200 and then they will credit my exboyfriend's credit card. After arguing with them that I have it in writing even going as far as emailing to the first guy so he had it. After he read it, he said, "Sorry it's worded that way." I couldn't believe that I was hearing what I heard. He said, "You will need to pay the fee and then we will credit it back," to my ex's card. I said, "No, I have it in writing from you that it will be waived and that I can use my full $376.06 towards my future purchase." I was so frustrated after being on the phone for an hour and a half with even speaking to a manager that I hung up in frustration that they won't honor their own words.
I called back today after showing numerous people and asking for advice and they all said, "Call back and speak with someone else. That can't be right." So, I DID today and he just read me the same BS as the previous rep. I even at this point agreed to pay it and have them credit my card back so I could my flight which is now going up at this point. He said no, he couldn't do that. So asked for a manager again and was put on hold forever with him never checking back with me. So, I just hung up again beyond frustrated that they refuse to help me in any way at all.
I will never ever ever work with this company again. I am going to write a bad review everywhere I can. This is such bad bad business. I would give them a zero but unfortunately this was not an option. So much time and aggression wasted on something that I have in writing verbatim. It says the $200 fee would be waived. Not charge me then credit it back on a card. This is just the start of my bad reviews.
Reviewed Sept. 28, 2017
My experience with Expedia has always been excellent for over 8 years now. I made a mistake last month with a non-refundable hotel reservation in Europe. Needed to change the date, called customer service, they called the hotel directly and solved the problem for me. Truly remarkable.
Reviewed Sept. 27, 2017
For a week, I tried to cancel the 6th night of a hotel reservation, the Days Inn and Suites in Sunnyvale, literally the day after I booked and paid for the reservation. Online, the website seem to let me make the necessary changes but because of Hurricane Irma, it would time out and never let me. I called and after waiting over 45 minutes, I gave up for that day. But after several more calls and attempts to cancel the last night, trying to get the hotel to do cancel as well, I was charged for the last night. The representative from Expedia said all was ok, that my continued calls were documented.
Apparently, they needed approval from the hotel but the hotel would not give it... but the payment was to Expedia who advertised that this room was free cancellation, unless cancellation was a day before the date. Normal policy. Expedia would not refund me my money. They were no help and I spent a lot of time trying to fix my problem. It's very frustrating and no one would do their job. I assist hundreds of employees with travel, so it's an easy decision not to ever use their service again.
Reviewed Sept. 26, 2017
I had booked a trip to Chicago. I had a Flight, Hotel and Car Rental. I decided not to do the car rental. So I call Expedia the same day. They said I will receive a email from their supervisor stating my refund of $141.00. The portion of the car rental I did not rent. I receive the email. It stated I would be receiving only $20. I call three times, still no refund.
Reviewed Sept. 26, 2017
My parents gave my wife and I and our daughters money to buy tickets to fly out to visit them in St. Croix while they are serving a mission there. We purchased the protection plan and booked the flights. Since the flights were booked St Croix experienced two category 5 hurricanes and my parents are being evacuated because of the crime, conditions, lack of power and open sewer running into the streets. We will not be able to visit them because hopefully they will be gone but also because both the Puerto Rico airport and the St. Croix airport are closed due to damage and power loss.
I called to cancel our flights and process the claim with the insurance that we paid 300 dollars for and Expedia's company that processes the claim said that our reason was not a covered reason on their plan and that had I had a hurricane at my current location it would have been covered but because it was at a location I am traveling to that it was not covered. They also said that if my house had been damaged it would be covered but it doesn't cover airports that I am traveling to that are damaged. I cannot believe how backwards their insurance is. It is basically a scam!!!
After reading others reviews and problems it is basically a way for Expedia to make even more money than it does with no intention of ever covering a claim. Also after them explaining in more detail what their policy covers I realized that it basically only covers for things the airline covers for or allows you to change your flight for. Death, illness or injury. Why mislead people to buy your insurance when it doesn't cover a thing. I think that Expedia should be prosecuted for false advertising and that people should be made aware that their insurance policy is a scam and nothing else.
Expedia Company Information
- 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
