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Reviewed May 13, 2016
I have been on hold for 2 hours with Expedia. I booked a trip months ago, 2 weeks before we are due to leave there is a change in flight times. I need to be back for work and school, so the flight is no longer an option. Expedia told me that I can get a refund for the flight and book a new flight (2 weeks before departure the prices have doubled) so now that is out of my pocket, or stay on the flight that gets me home a day later!
I have been a member of Expedia and although not their direct problem, they should provide customer service and also help find comparable option since the changes were not my own doing but the airlines. The airline and Expedia should make up the difference in the changes. If I change my flight, I am expected to pay a change fee. Why shouldn't they provide the same thing for the customer? So, I am either out the total of my trip or I can come up with an extra $1000 for the difference in getting a flight that would get me home on the day I originally planned.
Reviewed May 11, 2016
In my life I have never experienced a worse customer service team. They are obviously outsourced. I held on a call for 2 hours, on hold for at least 1 of that as they transferred me to three separate departments. This was all for an issue that they created with my flight itinerary. They used an old account with my maiden name in it. I told the rep three times while booking my full name (married 15 years and new account name for 15 years). Shocked they are still in business.
Reviewed May 11, 2016
Expedia misspelled my last name, told us we could still take trip. When we got to airport they would not let us on. Called Expedia numerous times. They would not change the spelling. Kept us on hold each time. Was at the airport at 12:30. Plane was leaving at 4:59. Finally we had to tell Delta to cancel so we could get our luggage. When we got home we were notified that we would not get a refund due to the fact we cancelled. I'm retired and this was my retirement savings. We had insurance and they still would not fix my name and we could never have made it if they had fixed it at 4:45.
They blew us off at 7:45 am and the 4 times we tried to fix it while we were at the airport. It is not my fault we didn't get on the plane. I was there all the time waiting for a correction. And it was them that did the typo in the first place which made it impossible to leave. This was my once in a lifetime trip to Germany. We have also lost our money on a nonrefundable hotel in Germany.
Reviewed May 11, 2016
As I sit here, I have been on the phone (3 calls) for 2.5 hours today just trying to apply a credit to a new booking.
Reviewed May 11, 2016
I have been using Expedia for years and have never had a problem with them until recently. I was in Puerto Rico last month and I had booked several tours through Expedia's website. Several of the tours were cancelled due to poor weather or not enough people signing up (not Expedia's fault) but since the tours were cancelled by the tour company and weren't because of us, I assumed Expedia would automatically refund me for it. That wasn't the case. The money was not refunded a week after the tour was cancelled so I called Expedia. I was told that the money would be in my account in 5 business days. I never received an email confirming the refund and I waited 6 business days and I still hadn't received it so I called them back again. I did get the email confirming the refund this time but it says that it can take up to 15 days for it to post to my account! 15 days! That will be more than a month after the tour was cancelled.
I am also fighting with them about another tour we had booked and ended up missing because on Expedia's site, it said that the tour company provided round-trip transportation. We were waiting outside our hotel 5 minutes before it said we would be picked up and after 20 minutes, no one had come. I called the tour company only to find out that they only pick up from a select few hotels and they would not come back to pick us up even though we were only 8 minutes away. That was the first time we had heard anything about having to go to another hotel to be picked up. After getting home, I've tried calling the other company to refund me the money for the missed tour because of the miscommunication between the two companies. They told me I needed to talk to Expedia about it because they're the ones with my money.
I've tried getting my money back for this tour when I called Expedia about the refund for the cancelled tour and they are refusing to do it. Since I haven't had this issue resolved through the phone, I decided to leave a review on Expedia's Facebook page. They responded to my post within a few minutes and told me to send them a private message, which I did. I told them about the problem and how we missed the tour because Expedia had the wrong information on their website. They tried telling me that during booking, it listed zones and said what hotels were the pick-up locations for each zone but offered to call the other tour company to try and get me a refund.
I responded saying that nowhere during the booking process, in the confirmation email, or my itinerary did it say that we were supposed to meet at a different location and that I would like them to call the other company because whenever I've called them, they've told me I need to talk to Expedia about it. It's been almost 19 hours since I sent that last message and I haven't heard anything else from them. This is some of the worst customer service I have ever had and I will not be booking any more trips through them.
Reviewed May 11, 2016
I booked our trip to Germany through Expedia. Within 24 hours I found cheaper prices so I cancelled and booked again. When I rebooked the lower price, made all the selections and entered my credit card and went to confirm, the price jumped from 7575.14 (I have the print out) to 9910.10. So unethical, as a senior citizen traveling with our grandchildren, it makes us doubt the integrity of anything we try to do. They also said they couldn't get the same hotel accommodation so I had to change that only to get off the phone and find it on their site!!! They said they couldn't let me out of the hotel reservation without a penalty, so I called Germany direct and they changed it no charge.
I have spent hours and hours on the telephone, and if you are lucky enough to get someone fluent in English you may get help getting credits for your cancelled booking. We are overcharged both for our flights x5 and hotel x5. Please, use another site. Expedia has turned we trusting people into sad and fearful skeptics and tainted our trip of a lifetime.
Reviewed May 11, 2016
I bought 2 tickets to Sweden. Expedia changed my return flight from a 14 hour/2-leg trip, to a 20 hour/3-leg trip without notifying me. I found a better flight for my return and called Expedia customer service who were to respond in 24 hours. No response. Checked my flight status again on their website and my flight from FL to NJ had been removed (?!). Now I had no flight leaving and a horrible flight returning. I used my flight package insurance to cancel the trip and received only a PARTIAL refund - they are keeping $1,000.00!!!
I have called customer service 2x where I am transferred and then placed on hold for ONE HOUR and then disconnected. We have to join forces and fight Expedia. I am willing to do whatever it takes to spread the word about this travel scam. Who wants to join me? Thus far I have complained to BBB, FL Attorney General, FBI Internet Crime and I am willing to travel to Washington state to picket their corporate offices. Please contact your local news markets to spread the word and help other avoid the pain of dealing with this despicable company.
Reviewed May 10, 2016
Have been on the phone for close to 4 hours trying to change the date of a return flight. Never book through Expedia. Use them to search for prices, then book with the airline itself. What a complete waste of my day. They barely speak English. I have been disconnected once. And have been on hold for 3 hours combined.
Reviewed May 10, 2016
Booked flights a year ago. One of the flights had to be cancelled and an email confirmation was received from Expedia advising I had a credit to be used by Jun-16. Called today to clarify how to access the credit and was told that neither the phone number or the email address I gave them matched the phone number/email address on file with Expedia. Accordingly I cannot access the credit. The phone number I gave them is my home number and has been used since September 1991; the email address has been used since January 1998 - my information is correct, their information is wrong but there's nothing I can do to correct the situation. Talked to an Expedia agent, moved on to a supervisor but after about 40 minutes, the call was disconnected. Nice scam they've got going there!
Reviewed May 9, 2016
I booked a two-way flight for my boss via Expedia. I needed a business class seat only for one way, going back to Toronto. The Expedia online booking only gives you option to choose either all economy seats or all business class seats. I purchased economy seats first and called Expedia customer service IMMEDIATELY after I received my booking confirmation by email, only a few minutes after I did the online booking. The voice prompts advises you to call the airlines directly for any changes in booking. I called KLM right away. KLM said Expedia has not "ticketed" my booking yet. I called KLM again the following day to give Expedia that time to "ticket" my booking. Only to be advised by KLM that I have to call Expedia directly because my booking was done through an "agent."
Clearly, Expedia website and customer service voice prompts had misleading advice! I called Expedia and waited patiently for over 15 minutes to talk to a call rep to explain everything only to be transferred to their ticketing department, and wait again. And then to my utmost shock, I was advised that there is an exorbitant change fee of $300 (per ticket!!!) to upgrade the seats. They will say it is airline's policy, not theirs. And it costs more to cancel the booking. Because you have already paid for the booking, you do not have any choice but pay for the changes! HIGHWAY ROBBERY! With Expedia, if there are changes that need to happen, you are screwed! You are better off dealing directly with companies you want to purchase a product or service from.
Reviewed May 8, 2016
While trying to cancel a bundle deal for airline and auto reservations, I had to make two simultaneous phone calls. The first call I was on hold for over an hour, and the second call I was on hold for 40 minutes. They were waiting for "support" to cancel the itinerary, as the representatives were unable to do so. They said they would keep checking back with me while I was on hold, but never did. One representative said that this was normal, and the only way to be helped was to stay on the line. The phone calls ended up getting disconnected, and nobody has gotten back to me. My reservations are still not canceled. I feel like I have been scammed.
Reviewed May 7, 2016
I recently purchased a ticket to Jamaica, after completing the necessary details for the purchase, a message popped up on the site that the card is invalid and I should contact the bank. I proceeded to use another Debit Card to purchase the tickets. A day later both cards are charged, contacted Expedia and Cambrie the representative have the nerve to tell me, that I should check my account again as there is only one charge. Then she proceeded to give me the number for Caribbean Airlines which I flat out refused, this booking was done through Expedia's website, you all need to fix it. Waiting patiently for a supervisor to call me back. I am never booking anything through expedia again.
Reviewed May 6, 2016
Stay away from Expedia!!!??? I was on the phone with customer service today for 2 hrs 26 minutes after finding out that my seats were not assigned. I made my reservations with an agent and she NEVER told me that my seats were going to be assigned upon my check in. I'll be traveling with 3 minors... They simply told me to arrive early to see if I could get my seats with my family. They're misleading!!! They also refused to give me a refund or make any changes to my reservation in spite of the fact that they did not disclose ALL the important facts/information about this flight. I'M BEYOND DISAPPOINTED!!!
Reviewed May 5, 2016
Unfortunately Expedia outsources their customer service to India or Bangladesh and I couldn't understand their rep and their rep couldn't understand me. I was on the phone for over an hour with Expedia customer service to find out about my points. Rep #1 couldn't help me so she sent me to a different department. Rep #2 didn't know how to help me so she sent me back to the initial phone number that I called and I had to go through all of the automated system for a second time. Rep #3 tells me that he can't find all my past bookings and finally I got so frustrated that I had to hang up. Customer service is a bloody joke with Expedia. Very frustrating.
Reviewed May 5, 2016
I heard good things about Expedia so I decided to give it a try. I have an upcoming work trip to Kansas City coming up at the end of the month so I booked my hotel through them. The price was pretty decent, so I decided to go on the hotel's website and see how much I was saving by comparison. Turns out I wasn't saving anything... I was actually paying more than if I would have purchased direct. So I took a screenshot of the total it would have cost me and filled out the online form. I checked the criteria checklist and I was good to go. Two days later I get an email stating that I did not meet the criteria because the cancellation policy was not displayed. So they went to check the website...
Two days later and told me the price was a hundred dollars more. I am completely disgusted. I will never use their service again simply because I will always have it in the back of my mind that I could get a better deal elsewhere. I should have checked them out online beforehand instead of just going by word of mouth. Turns out other people have had bad experiences too, just like me. Just thought I should share with other people.
Reviewed May 5, 2016
I had booked a flight on May 3, 2015 for $1518 and the next day found that it was about $150 cheaper. I submitted a price match claim and I was at my job rushing to do it within 24 hours and forgot to attach the flight numbers and my claim was denied. I went back online today to verify the flight numbers which were the exact same and the price has dropped even more to $1200. I called to dispute this issue and was told "you only have one chance to make a price match claim and that's it, nothing else can be done..." And this was from a supervisor. How can nothing else be done? This is just being cheap and unwilling to accept that I made a human error and forgot the flight number...
Reviewed May 4, 2016
I booked hotel and paid. When I got to hotel reservation was cancelled. I had to pay again. Expedia have not refunded money and spending hours on phone with customer service who can't speak English. Never use them or Travelocity or any of their other companies.
Reviewed May 4, 2016
I rented a car through Expedia in Punta Cana, DR in March at Thrifty. The car was not available and Thrifty told me to rent at another company. I did so and the rental rate was over $500 more (for one week) than through Expedia. When Thrifty did not have a car I tried to call Expedia but by cell plan would not let me make an international call from DR. When I got back from my trip I presented the new bill to Expedia and asked them to refund the difference. They refused saying that they did their job (by taking the reservation?!) and I would need to talk to Thrifty. They were extremely rude. Basically telling me it was my fault for taking a car with another company! Never again!
Reviewed May 4, 2016
I will absolutely NEVER book ANYTHING through Expedia EVER again!!! I cannot even fully express my shock at the level of complete and total incompetence of the customer service and horrible website! Expedia used to be good but it has clearly gone down the toilet! I had booked a trip for my husband and myself (our one year wedding anniversary trip, no less) only to have MASSIVE issues with the website over a three day period. Well, that should have been my first clue to NOT book with them. But I continued to try and finally after three days I was able to book the trip... or so I thought!
I completed the entire booking in about 60 seconds, entered my credit card info, hit process and suddenly it tells me that I need to call the customer service line to complete my booking. I call and a customer service rep confirms all of my trip details and repeats back the price to me... the price that I have in front of me on my screen. Great. She goes to get my CC info and then suddenly says, "Oh hmmm... okay the price just went up $400". WHAT??? So she passes me to a "supervisor" to "honor the original price". I wait on hold for 35 MINUTES (not kidding) only to be HUNG UP ON!!!
I call back... get to a "supervisor" again, Tracy or Trish I think her name was. She was useless so what's the difference? Only to be put on hold AGAIN, this time for 16 minutes, only to have her come back on the phone and tell me TOO BAD, this is the new price and you have to pay it if you want to book the trip! WHAT!!! This is total fraud!! I have never experienced such horrible business practices in all my life!
She tried to tell me the "price went up while I was booking" BULL! It took me 60 seconds to book and I am LOOKING AT THE LOWER PRICE right here on my final screen!!! If it went up, it did so when you idiots had me on hold for an hour! So I literally waited on hold for an HOUR only to be told there was nothing they were going to do for me. What a joke! Now I know why everyone hates Expedia. They have gone completely downhill! Never again! BookIt.com, here I come!
Reviewed May 4, 2016
This is my second time using Expedia and I told myself after the first mishap I wouldn't use them again. So, I booked a trip to Tulsa, OK for business from April 23rd-May 6. So, I no longer needed the rental car which was a piece of trash anyway from Hertz (PLEASE NEVER USE THE HERTZ AT TULSA AIRPORT. THE CUSTOMER SERVICE REP BETTY ** IS VERY RUDE AND DISRESPECTFUL) and her boss Joshua never returns your calls. Anyway, I called Expedia to find out who would be refunding my money. Well I had the pleasure of speaking to someone name "MITCH", which sounded like a female but I could barely understand her/him who informed me that a supervisor would have to call me back in 24-48 hours because she/he was unsure of who would refund my money.
Needless to say this was after a 35 min wait on hold. Well today is Tuesday and I have yet to hear from a supervisor. So I call because I need to change my flight day and I speak to someone again who sounds strangely like "MITCH" and they tell me I will have to pay 200.00 to change the flight. Okay, fine. So I ask if I should just contact the airline. "IT" says "oh no they will just refer you back to us because you booked your flight through us." So, I say "fine no problem with the 200.00 but I would like to speak with your manager."
So after 28 mins on hold Manager Julie gets on the phone and I proceed to tell her how unhappy I am with the service and I want to change flights. Now she tells me it will cost 200.00 + 359.00 to change my flight as she reminds me Expedia doesn't charge to change the flights. I then inform her that is not what the other young lady tells me. She then says, "Well you heard her wrong." Really??? This is the way they speak to people. So after she yells at me I tell her I would like to speak with someone else. She says, "Oh you can speak with my manager. It will be 30-40 mins", and places me on hold. Current hold time 55 mins and counting...
Reviewed May 3, 2016
Made airline reservations, paid for cancellation insurance. Plans changed, requested refund. Was told that travel cancellation insurance does not cover a refund for changed plans, they follow the airlines guideline. What a waste. Don't use Expedia.
Reviewed May 3, 2016
I have booked international from Australia and the sector was India to Australia. They have charged me $3,150. That was ok and when this transaction done they charged me $3,400. That was pathetic, unbearable. Please don't do any booking from this. Beware guys, please don't do.
Reviewed May 3, 2016
Stay away from Expedia!!! Their customer service is the worst I have ever experienced in my life. And to think that they came to replace thousands and thousands of knowledgeable travel agents that really care for their clients. Here my story. 9 hours on the phone and counting. Booked a flight and hotel combo over the phone. It took Expedia's Agent Bruce 1 complete hour to book the package, please note I already had all the details of the trip when I called him, so the only thing he need to do was to book my selections.
After I received the email confirmation that same day I realized Expedia's agent book us in the wrong flight despite I told him the exact flight number we wanted to book in three different occasions during our call. The flight combinations the Expedia's agent booked for us will not give us enough time to make an international connection (including customs and immigration). I called Expedia to try to fix the error caused by agent Bruce just after two hours of my original purchase. I spent two more hours on the phone with Agent Dwight, Supervisor Ram (Who was totally rude), and Manager Gene. Finally Manager Gene said there was nothing he could but to cancel the flight portion of my reservation. He also mentioned that the money would be refunded to my credit card in no more than 72 hours.
Since I didn't receive an email from Expedia confirming the reservation cancellation that day. I had to call again and ask an agent to send me an email confirming my reservation was actually canceled A week later and over 6 hours on the phone with 4 different agents (actually I am on hold right now), Expedia has only refunded half of the fare (2 tickets). The other half remains pending and they are clueless about what to do. In fact after over two hours on the phone just today they still can't figure it out. I learned my lesson, from now on I will be booking directly with hotels and airlines.
Reviewed May 3, 2016
I booked a hotel at the airport in Paris through Expedia. I get there and there is no room booked, so I need to pay for it again. I call them to get a refund based on no service rendered and they say I'm a no show and they aren't giving me a refund?! I suppose that this is a scam that they do a lot. DO NOT BOOK ANYTHING THROUGH THIS SCAM SITE!
Reviewed May 3, 2016
I'm not sure if this was Delta's fault or Expedia's, but in any case, I missed my flight to Cancun to my best friend's wedding for a "name mismatch". Let me elaborate this, I'm from Spain, where you have two last names, not one and usually 2 names. Apparently Expedia didn't understand that, and wrote my middle name and last names together as one. When I got there one hour and 40 minutes in advance (ok, I wasn't there 2-3 hours before as they recommend) and tried to do the self check in, the machine didn't want to let me check in, because it looked as if I was a different person. I had to stay in line for 40 minutes and when I got there, and convinced the person who was attending me that ** was the same person as ** (she had to check with her supervisor to make that decision), the check in for Cancun was already closed.
They wanted me to reschedule for the next day, which made no sense since the wedding was right at the time I would be landing, so I asked for a refund. And that gets tricky. Every time you ask for your money back, it gets tricky: both companies try to blame the other; Delta claimed that because I did it through Expedia, Expedia should be accountable for that. I called Expedia who had me on hold for 30 minutes and to tell me that it was actually Delta's fault and now I'm on the phone right now again with them (I'm on minute 28) trying to figure out who is going to give me my $530 back. My advice, never use Expedia. Go directly to the airline and if something like that happens, it's the airlines fault, they can't blame on somebody else, and clearly Expedia is not reliable to amend their mistakes.
Reviewed May 2, 2016
AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL!!! Spoke with an agent from Expedia, booked a room for 3 nights. Received the reminder and itinerary from Expedia with an additional $65/night overcharge. Contacted Expedia, explained situation, kept getting transferred to another and then another and yet another representative in the Philippines. Asked them to call me back when they found the supervisor and not keep me on hold. They said that they couldn't do that. (I believe that they are BANKING on people getting frustrated and hanging up.) Eventually spoke with Tier 2 or 3 representative, literally 2.5 hours later, and he stated that I needed to submit billed amount after trip and they will credit account.
Well that was in early March, two months later and no refund. Perhaps the CEO needed my $173.00 to help with his meager $83,000,000 bonus in stocks. Hotel stated that they are the WORST travel agency to deal with and continually receive complaints. I will never book with Expedia again. Dishonest, unreliable, extremely (and I mean EXTREMELY) poor customer service!!! I have placed a stop on my credit card! When credit card company contacted Expedia they said that the higher amount charged was correct! Apparently, in addition to the wretched customer service, this company does an excruciatingly painful and incompetent job of communicating amongst departments!!!
Reviewed May 2, 2016
Booked a room in Halifax, they charged me 2. They actually owe me $198. It takes up to 15 days to get my money back. (I'm 13 hours away from home). This morning, I booked another room, and they cancelled my room. Now they owe me $384 and I repeat, I am 13 hours away. I need this money to go back. Don't trust them. I am crying wondering how the hell I will not sleep in the streets tonight since I have no room - no more.
Reviewed May 2, 2016
We booked 3 hotel rooms for last night with Expedia. We were going to a wedding and my husband and I stayed in one room. My daughter and grandson in another room and my son and his wife with their 2 small dogs in the third room. That was the plan and the reason we booked with Days Inn is because Expedia said they were pet friendly. When we got to the hotel there are signs everywhere "No Pets Allowed". We had just driven 4 hours to get to the hotel only to find out no pets allowed. Days Inn said they have never allowed pets and they have asked Expedia several times to have the pet friendly removed. I realize that Days Inn shares some of the blame since their follow through sucked.
I started wondering how many others like us booked Days Inn through Expedia and had this encounter. On the bottom of our itinerary from Expedia it listed "additional hotel services". Under that was a pet deposit of $100 and a pet fee of $20 per night. Where did Expedia make up those prices from? Expedia did credit us for the room my son could not use, but he was now in a different hotel. Just saying, call the hotel first to make sure they are pet friendly. Don't believe Expedia.
Reviewed May 1, 2016
We booked a hotel in Flagstaff Arizona through Expedia. We needed an extra bed and the website stated that a roll away bed would fit in the room. We checked in and paid extra for the roll away bed and then went to the room to find that not only did the regular beds hardly fit in the room, but we wondered where a roll away bed would possibly fit. The only place to possibly squeeze the bed in was RIGHT in front of the door... a serious fire hazard. We immediately contacted Expedia because the advertisement was false and there was no way a roll away bed would fit in the room. After multiple phone calls with Expedia, we found out that they do NOT stand behind you as their customer, but rather have to work with the hotel to see what payment they can come up with.
We ended up staying at the awful hotel for that night... risking our lives that we would never have been able to escape if there had been a fire. We ended up being charged more for the one night at that hotel than we were supposed to pay for all the nights we would have stayed there. Expedia did absolutely nothing to stand behind us and support us moving to another hotel. I will NEVER use Expedia again!!
Reviewed May 1, 2016
I booked a flight on Expedia, then they send me a confirmation email. However, when I tried to check in on the flight date. Staff in check in desk told me that the flight has been canceled. I called the Expedia customer service, asked them what happened to my flight. Attention, they just said they have no idea what happened, and refund me immediately. See, they refund me even I did not say a word, and when I ask them to be responsible for this. They ask me to wait, after 30 mins, the customer service came back and told me that it is me that canceled the flight!!! What the **!!! I never canceled the flight, and if I canceled it, why there is no email!!! They just do not want to take responsibility and pass the all ** to customers.
Reviewed April 30, 2016
0 stars is more like it! I reserved a room for one night while traveling through Memphis, TN. I reserved the room one month prior to traveling. It was a non-refundable reservation so Expedia charged my credit card upfront. Five minutes after making the reservation I realized it was the wrong date. I called, spoke with a woman who told me she would switch the date but the room fee was $30 higher because my rate was no longer available - AFTER FIVE MINUTES?? After finishing with her I went back to the website out of curiosity and the lower room rate was still available... first lie.
Upon arriving dead tired at our hotel the other night we were told there was no reservation for us. I only had the Expedia itinerary number, no hotel confirmation number. I called Expedia from the lobby and got the same woman. Must be a tiny operation to speak with the exact same woman a month later. She blabbed her way through her excuses which boiled down to the fact that she had not made a reservation at the hotel which was now sold out. I was astounded as I could not believe they just didn't make the reservation. I would give anything to put them out of business - what if this had been a remote location with no other hotels. I HATE THEM! Please do not use Expedia - it is not worth it.
Reviewed April 29, 2016
I booked a flight through Expedia to Vietnam, which I unfortunately had to cancel. Cancelling the flight was a simple and easy process, and I was given a credit voucher to use toward a future flight (with some stipulations), minus an airline re-booking fee. Not ideal, but I figured it was fair since it was my fault that I had to cancel, it is only fair that the airline would impose a penalty. My husband and I decided to plan a trip to Mexico to celebrate our anniversary, and decided to use my credit voucher toward the cost of the flight. Expedia only lets customers redeem credits by booking over the phone, not online, so I called.
Two hours later I'm still on the phone battling to redeem the voucher for money that is rightfully mine! First I talk with a representative who just barely speaks English, and we literally can't communicate. I thank him, hang up and call again. This time I'm connected with a woman who is helpful but completely clueless. She asks me 10 times for the flight information that I want to book (not exaggerating), while putting me on hold in between asking. She then comes back and says she can't find the flights in their system. I tell her that I'm looking at them on my computer screen on Expedia's website. She puts me back on hold, comes back 15 minutes later and tells me that she found the flights, and the price will be $2800 per person. I tell her that is impossible as the website is showing the price as $490 per person. She puts me back on hold, and her supervisor comes on.
He keeps repeating the price and asking me to refresh the website and that I will see the price increase soon. A price increase of $2400?? No. I suggest that we walk through the booking process over the phone together. He does it with me, and I realize that he's entering my flight until "multiple destinations" instead of "roundtrip." I explain that multiple destinations will make it more expensive and I want a roundtrip ticket because I'm just flying from point A to point B. He selects the roundtrip tickets and gets a price of $490 per person, like I did.
WHY DO I HAVE TO TEACH THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE AGENTS TO USE THEIR OWN WEBSITE?? He puts me on hold, comes back and says that their system is showing $2800 per person. I say I will only pay the website price and I expect Expedia to honor that price. He suggests that I just book through the website to get the cheaper price. I say if I do that I can't use the credit, which is my entire purpose for calling in the first place. I'm now back on hold waiting for a manager. I'm literally on the verge of tears. I think they're purposefully making it difficult to redeem my credit. Expedia you have lost a heretofore loyal customer for life!
Reviewed April 29, 2016
I'm very disappointed in Expedia. We are out over 600.00 until it gets credited back to our card. Not only that we lost out on two of our trips because Expedia never booked them. Now our last day in the Bahamas is ruined. All my husband wants to do is go home. Thanks Expedia for letting us down on my husband birthday wishes.
Reviewed April 29, 2016
I booked a room in Quality Hotel & Suites At The Falls, Niagara Falls from Expedia, but by mistake entered a wrong check-in date. As it was a non-refundable reservation, I immediately called Expedia customer care and they upon getting authorization from the hotel told me that the hotel has agreed to allow them to change reservation dates without any charges. They then cancelled my booking and re-booked for the correct dates. But I got bills for both the cancelled as well as the new bookings. Upon endless emails/phones calls with Expedia to sort out this matter, they didn't help me at all saying different things. It's pathetic service from Expedia and they cheated me. They should have told me upfront that they cannot change the dates, instead they told something and did something else.
Reviewed April 28, 2016
We booked a flight/hotel package to Las Vegas on 04-21-16 and flew out on the 22nd of April. Ya, less than 24 hours later we were gone. During that time about 8 hrs after the initial booking we looked again and they had the same flight/hotel package, with a lay over and it was $500 cheaper. We advised them and they are still 1 week later denying any "price match" as they guarantee. We are not a big business, and don't know what they tell their employees to do, but we do not try and take advantage of the average vacationers. I, we will not be traveling with them ever again, and I only want any future travelers to review their past "credit" history and make the right decision in their travels.
Reviewed April 28, 2016
On April 16, 2016, my wife received a message from the Superior Court of Arizona that she was selected to do jury duty. I had booked a flight to Europe around March 1, 2016 which included 2 airfare tickets with United and a car rental. Because of the jury duty I cancelled the trip with Expedia and got a voucher for the full trip amount. However, it stated that the airline would impose a $ 600 re-booking fee for the next flight. I checked with the United Airlines website and found out that jury duty is a reason for full refund. So, I called Expedia and they said that in their rules the jury duty is NOT refundable. They even said that I should have booked directly with United! So, in all, I will NEVER book any flight with a travel agency again.
Reviewed April 27, 2016
I am a blue member of Expedia and have booked through their website many times. Today I tried to book a hotel and every time I hit book the price increased. This was not on one hotel, but everyone on the page. How do they get away with this? I would consider that false advertisement!
Reviewed April 26, 2016
Thank you kindly for not returning a call on an inquiry I made about a booking. I understand a non refundable policy at the same time when ZIKA breaks out in Brazil. I would think a company like yours would at minimum have a conversation... Maybe even work something out, a credit, a penalty. Something! All the Airlines had no issue with full refunds. Even Amex couldn't get a reply. Bad business.
Reviewed April 26, 2016
I recently booked a hotel in Japan for October, 2016 -- six months ahead of time as part of a two-week trip. I also purchased Expedia travel insurance to cover cancellations. I had to change my itinerary and no longer needed the hotel so had to cancel. Even though it stated "no changes or cancellations allowed" on the hotel information on Expedia, I persisted. After all, I wasn't going to be there.
I called Expedia Customer Service --800-397-3342-- three times and spoke to different representatives over several days. They reportedly contacted the hotel, and finally, got the reservation cancelled. Canceling online was not available with this particular hotel. All the representatives were very professional and courteous. I am very pleased that they were able to cancel this for me without charge. Mind you, the customer service page online was BLANK-- or non-existent --during this time. Nor was the customer service phone number on their site. That's a black mark for Expedia. But the phone service was good once I finally got it, so in the end, I am pleased.
Reviewed April 26, 2016
I booked a trip that had the 24-hour cancellation option. The next day I selected my trip and cancelled it. I looked at the trip status and it shows the 2 dates of my trip, followed by the words "Canceled No need to reconfirm"! followed by the total $ amount of my trip. I assumed the trip was canceled. I was only refunded for 1/2 the trip. After more than 5 hours on the phone with them which including 3 different people and multiple dropped calls (2 of reps did not speak English very well) I'm told I only canceled one leg of my trip as clearly shown if I paged down 3 times on the screen showing my status. I tried to tell them that since the top line of my status says canceled, shows both my travel dates and the total $ amount that anyone would think this trip was canceled. I emailed them the screen 7 times but it never got to their system (even though it got to my other email accounts for testing). I even faxed them a screen print but they could not read it.
I told them their website is designed wrong and is showing misleading information (I'm in IT and know why it is wrong...) - they did not care and continually kept quoting to me that I was acting as my own travel agent and should read all of the information and very clearly told me I would not be getting a refund. I asked to speak to someone higher and was told there was no one and I was put back in their phone queue that dropped me after another hour. I'll keep pursuing other means to lodge a complaint. I had an issue with them before but gave them the benefit of doubt but now I wonder how can such a large company treat customers this way and get away with it! Maybe I'm just getting old and expect a different type of (or just some) customer service...
Reviewed April 26, 2016
I just made a booking with Expedia - and they put on hold some amount without confirming my booking. No reason for that, as the web site says "Your card did not go through." I made screenshots and on the phone with them, asking to confirm the price for the tickets and hotel - and I get "No" - what else can I do? Any efficient complaints process? How to use Twitter to defeat them?
Reviewed April 26, 2016
I booked a flight for my mother through Expedia from the U.S. to Europe. A day before the flight I received a message from one of the airlines that the flight has been cancelled due to a strike in Germany. I called Expedia and after being placed on hold for about 45 minutes the Expedia agent simply hung up. After reaching Expedia again I was informed that all flights are confirmed and still valid.
Several hours later, I received a call from my family in Europe asking if I have rebooked my mom's flight since all the Lufthansa flights have been cancelled. I called Expedia and the agent was completely unaware of the cancelled flights and insisted that the flight would go on. In the meantime, I have reached the airline and the airline confirmed that the flight has been officially cancelled more than a day earlier due to a strike. Upon my insistence, the Expedia agent went on Lufthansa's website to confirm the information. Minutes later I was placed on hold for another 40 minutes. The call was disconnected by Expedia while I was on hold. All in all I had to call Expedia five times and the last time I was told that the flight was valid and that my mother should proceed with her travel. Have I trusted Expedia, my 80-year-old mom would've ended up stranded in Frankfurt.
Eventually I called the airline directly, the airline and I was able to rebook the flight within minutes. How was it possible that Expedia's call center and its so-called customer service didn't know about a massive Lufthansa strike that has been prominent in the news already for days? Expedia's own system was showing flights as valid even a day after they were cancelled by the airline. Expedia's gross incompetence and complete lack of customer support makes it perhaps the worst travel booking agency in the world.
Reviewed April 25, 2016
I had booked return flight for travel on 14th April 2016, Edmonton - Delhi - Edmonton. On 9th April I changed the travel date to 15th April by calling Expedia customer service & paid additional CAD 660 for same. However, to my surprise I realised that after the request my return ticket unilaterally got converted terminating midway at Toronto instead of Edmonton.
Despite numerous personal followups & formal complaints to Expedia Customer Care since over a week (Case No. **) my complaint/request to ensure flight/ticket (already paid for) termination till Edmonton has fallen on deaf ears. Every time a new seemingly ignorant agent assures resolution within 4 hours only to endlessly loop me around with no action. It is a sad breach of customer trust & terms.
I once again request Expedia to arrange & confirm my committed & paid for return ticket (New Delhi - Frankfurt - Toronto - Edmonton) before my scheduled return travel flight (1st May 2016 for the Toronto to Edmonton leg); failing which I shall be forced to sue Expedia for willful cheating & damages as well cost of additional ticket I shall be forced to buy for the return flight.
Reviewed April 25, 2016
This plan is very confusing and alluring with the brief introduction when you purchasing it. It makes you think you can cancel or modify your trip or flights anytime because you paid extra money for this so called "protection plan", but actually it is nothing but a cash cow to them which they used to steal your money!
Reviewed April 24, 2016
Myself, my boyfriend and two other friends booked a trip to Mexico through Expedia. It was a nightmare from the start, but losing our trip and $4000 was the biggest nightmare of all. The original date which we booked happened to not work for my boyfriend due to school (which isn't a reasonable reason for the trip insurance we purchased), so we called and asked about canceling and rebooking on another flight ($250 a person). That alone was a lot of money, as I work full-time and my boyfriend is a student.
I told them that I would have to think about it, little did she tell me that I didn't have long to think about it because in a couple days it went from $250 a person to half once it was 45 days before our trip. So when we decided that we were will to spend the $250 each and called back to rebook, they told me I could do so for $900 a person, trying to fly on another Air Transat flight wasn't a option because they only fly a few times a year out of St. John's NL. So instead of losing $1800 they said if we booked from another airport and got ourselves there we could switch flights for three days earlier than our original flight for a extra $100 a person. Not including the cost of plane tickets from St. John's to Toronto. So we switched our vacation to start out of Toronto and then booked flights with Air Canada the day before to get to Toronto.
Unfortunately every flight on Friday April 22nd was canceled due to zero visibility fog. We needed to be in Toronto for 3 am to check in for our Air Transat flight. So when it was obvious there was no way for us to get there on time I started calling Expedia. Having to talk through them in order to talk to Air Transat when I was upset was making the situation more frustrating. The only options that after paying $4000 that I was given was to get our own flight to Mexico, and then come back on the original booking, or pay a extra $244 a person in order to book a one way ticket to get on the Air Transat flight out of Toronto the next morning to the same resort. We did not want to fly on a different airline and then have to get a cab from the airport to the resort in Mexico. We also did not have another $500 to lose a day and then possibly not be able to get to Toronto the next day either.
They told me that because it was 24 hours before our trip it was nonrefundable so they were doing me a favor even giving me any options. We paid you $4000 for a vacation we weren't getting because of weather. The supervisor of Expedia offered me a $200 travel voucher "out of goodwill." I would never book through them again. Nor would I fly with Air Transat ever again.
Air Canada went out of their way to try and do everything for us because our flight was cancelled. She tried everything to get us to Toronto so we wouldn't miss our flight. She was also mind blown that Air Transat wouldn't put us on the flight on Sunday. Then when there was no flight that would get us for our Air Transat flight she totally refunded the money we had paid for the flights with them.
I work hard for my money, but having to save for this trip and booking time off of work made this vacation very important to us. Losing $4000 (not including costs of items for the trip) and not getting a vacation, and having to go back to work on Monday instead of being on a beach in Mexico was definitely not what I paid for. Expedia and Air Transat showed the worst customer service I've ever experienced and I want other people to know what happened to us so it doesn't happen to other people.
Reviewed April 24, 2016
I booked the extra cost exit row for both legs of my flights as I am tall when I first booked a couple months ahead of my travel dates. But when I went to check in, I could not book in online as I apparently had not paid for the seats. So in calling the WestJet agent we were told that our agent, the normally competent Expedia, had "forgotten" to charge us for the seats. I did a little digging and their contract clearly states that Expedia has not any control over the extra charges airlines charge for things like seats. Wish they had told me in bigger print, so I could have used a different service. So the WestJet agent had to cancel our booked extra cost seats, so we could check in online. I guess I will not be using Expedia again in the future unless they grow up and make it possible to pay for my extra charge seats, like other travel agents do.
Reviewed April 23, 2016
I have yet another example of Expedia's abysmal customer service. On Saturday 2 April I made a booking through Expedia for return flights with Ryanair from London to Malta for my family and I. I received a travel confirmation from Expedia in relation to those flights on the same day. Shortly thereafter, I received an e-mail from Ryanair confirming our return flights from Malta to London. However, I didn't receive any e-mail from Ryanair in respect of our outbound flights. Accordingly later in the day on 2 April I called Expedia to find out whether there was a problem with our outbound flights and was told that it sometimes takes a while for the ticketing to be confirmed and that I should wait for 24 hours before getting back in touch.
As I had still not received a confirmation from Ryanair, on Sunday 3 April, I called up Expedia again to speak with a representative. After several frustrating calls, I was told to wait for a further 48 hours to see if Ryanair confirmed our outbound flights and, if no such confirmation had been received, I should make my own booking with Ryanair. When I expressed concern about waiting for this period and the impact that this might have on the price (and availability), I was told that Expedia would compensate me (within 7 days) for any increased cost, as well as the additional credit card booking charges. I had been led to believe that this process would be straightforward and efficient. I also asked why Expedia couldn't go ahead and action the original booking, but the Expedia representative was unable to provide any sensible explanation.
As I had still received nothing from Ryanair by the afternoon of Monday 4 April, I decided to go ahead and make a booking with Ryanair direct. However, given the intervening period of time since my original booking through Expedia, the cost of those flights had increased significantly. Given the increase in cost, I sent an e-mail to Expedia on 4 April, with a copy of the travel confirmation that I received from Ryanair in respect of our outbound flights, requesting compensation on account of the increased cost of our flights (and a refund of the £20 credit card fee that I had been charged at the outset by Expedia that I had not been advised of).
Later in the day on 4 April, I received an e-mail from an Expedia representative (called Alam) confirming the reservation of our outbound and return flights. This e-mail dishonestly suggested that our outbound flights had been successfully booked through Expedia as per the original Expedia travel itinerary. This was categorically not the case.
On 7 April, I received an e-mail from another Expedia representative (called Dipenti) indicating that the claim in my e-mail of 4 April could not be processed as the e-mail from Ryanair was not considered sufficient proof on account of the fact that it is editable. As explained to Dipenti in response, I had received no other communication from Ryanair in relation to our outbound flights. Accordingly I re-sent this e-mail as an attachment, together with a pdf copy of my credit card statement showing the payment made by me on 4 April direct to Ryanair. Later in the day on 7 April, I received an e-mail from yet another Expedia representative (called Deepti) saying that two attempts had been made to call me to discuss my claim. This was an outright lie (my mobile phone was with me throughout the day).
On 10 April I received an encouraging email (from Dipenti) indicating that my refund would be processed within 5-7 days. However, despite several further emails to Expedia asking after the whereabouts of the refund, no refund has been forthcoming. I am presently dealing with, you've guessed it, another Expedia representative - Hemant. I have no hope of getting my compensation any time soon and am therefore considering making a legal claim against Expedia through the small claims court. My opinion is that Expedia does everything they can to frustrate customers' attempts to obtain compensation/refunds. Interestingly, the Expedia representative that I spoke with on 3 April said that the problem that I have experienced occurs in "only" one in twenty bookings. Given this terrible statistic, my experience (and those of others) should serve as warning of Expedia's poor service and utter disinterest in customer satisfaction!
Reviewed April 23, 2016
Cancelled itinerary within time limits. According to page I was supposed to receive back 8537,23R and I got 7778,91R. No email, no customer support to answer my question. Why you didn't give me back the whole amount that I was supposed to receive. If I knew you would charge whatever you want I wouldn't cancel the ticket the first time.
Reviewed April 22, 2016
Booked a return flight and days later realized I had to be there earlier. Called to change the departure date and got prices twice as much as it would cost if I were to book it myself through the airline. Opted to not change the flight through Expedia and booked directly with the airline. Called Expedia to tell them to cancel our departure flight we booked with them (didn't ask for any money in return, just a courtesy call so they could re-sell our seats) and they informed us we would have to cancel the entire flight. I said I would just not show up to my departure flight and they say my return flight would be canceled. The only option they gave us is to cancel the entire flight, pay $500 to get back a credit. Why do I have to pay to get a credit? I asked why they can't just cancel our departure flight and they blamed it on the airline saying that is their policy.
We called the airline direct who was very nice and accommodating and they said if Expedia contacts them they can cancel our departure flight and leave our return flight. We called Expedia 4 times explaining this and they played the part as they would indeed do this for us however anytime time we were close to succeeding they hung up on us even AFTER giving them a number to call if we are disconnected (they never called back when disconnected). I 100% believe with no doubt that when they are feeling pressure they just hang up so they don't have to deal with you. Everything costs money with them and they don't care to try to help. We were not asking for any money in return, all we wanted to do was cancel our departure date and maintain our return flight. Very pathetic customer service if you ask me and we will never use Expedia again.
Reviewed April 22, 2016
I purchased the Expedia Travel Protection plan only to find out that it does not work for anything other than medical (as confirmed by doctor) or weather changes. Simple schedule changes are not covered. It is better to just purchase straight from the airline if you plan a trip.
Reviewed April 22, 2016
The call center service is just horrible. To make any change of reservation or any contact I stay at least 45 minutes at phone, and looks like the call center people are confused about everything. All they have to ask someone and takes long minutes. I am now changing, cancelling one reservation and I am more than one hour at phone and still could not finished.
Reviewed April 21, 2016
I had to reschedule a flight and I called customer service. I assume that it was a call center in India. It took the first customer service guy 30 min to get all my data. Then I had to wait another 15 min to get his supervisor and it took the supervisor another 45 min to get my flight confirmed. Next time I hope that I can do this online. Awful experience.
Reviewed April 21, 2016
Expedia Ownership of Errors. The hotel would be billing me for the first night and they declined. That is very disappointing. By the way, I immediately did a search on other search engines such as Hotels.com and immediately hotels from Sanford popped right up. That precludes the defense that Expedia provided alternative hotels as everything in Sanford, NC was sold out. Not true at all. Moreover, I even told the customer service agent that I still needed a reservation for Sanford, such that they still would be breaking even at best. To no avail, I was still thrown under the bus. Guess the thousands of dollars that I have spent with Expedia just came to grinding halt. I oversee a mortgage bank, consult and own rental properties. I have just told all the employees to stop using Expedia going forward. Thus, this will cost Expedia tens of thousands of dollars in lost income owing to their incredulously unfair customer service.
Reviewed April 20, 2016
I booked a flight through the phone but the representative mistakenly set a wrong information, when I called them back to alter it, they claimed that they would charge penalty fees. Furthermore, when I wanted to upgrade my flight ticket, they offered me a wrong information and reported a very high price!! I think they just wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible. I will never use Expedia again.
Reviewed April 20, 2016
I have booked a flight to YYZ via Expedia, however, 20 minutes later I realized that I did a typing mistake in the travel dates, so I called Expedia to modify the dates for me. They told me that I have to cancel that flight and rebook a fresh new flight and the amount will be refunded in 3 to 5 business days. After 5 business days I called Expedia to inform them nothing received. They told me to contact my bank because they authorize it from their end. But when I informed him I have online access to my bank account and nothing is received, he kept repeating the Same information: "Check with your bank" like a machine.
After 2 weeks, I called again because I checked the bank account and nothing received. He told me the same thing: "Check with your bank." This time it was over for me, so I told I need to raise a complaint and take legal action to secure my refund. He said, "Ok, give one some time to check it." After waiting, he said, "This will be transferred after 8 weeks only because charges paid to airline!!!" That it, no more details. I am really not sure if this will be refunded within 8 weeks, but I was surprised that why they to rush and cancel the flight, why not modify the dates?? And why not being told from the start that this will take 8 weeks to refund? I am totally disappointed with EXPEDIA Services and I would rate it as 1 Star.
Reviewed April 20, 2016
Planned anniversary trip using Expedia. Worst mistake ever. Scheduled to arrive at noon. Still in airport on standby. Thousands of dollars down the drain. Expedia will take your money but when they make a mistake they put you on hold. On hold over 4 hours and no resolution. Buyer beware. Don't use Expedia.
Reviewed April 19, 2016
After reading the numerous complaints about Expedia, I'm not sure how they stay in business. My problem is way too long to type here, but in a nutshell, there was a price difference of $1,000 from website to customer service rep. I ended booking through the rep and was told two completely different things. First, the price was wrong, then I asked if transportation was included in my fee and the girl assured me it was. After a few days and the extra $1,000 charge, I called Expedia to get a breakdown of the fees, and the rep told me he would have to transfer me to a supervisory (just an F.Y.I., these reps are very nice and did what they could do), I was told there was something wrong with the special I should have got and that was why I had to talk to a supervisor.
Anyway, an even longer story short, I was told numerous times I would need to talk to corporate after they listened to the recording of that day. Not once did corporate call me back and when I finally got to speak to corporate, they told me the documentation (not recording) agreed with what I was charged, then I asked about the transportation which was not actually included, and she told me they didn't have any documentation to prove this.
So after not getting anywhere with this conversation I decided to write letters to the four top executives at Expedia, within three days I received a call from a Jammal ** in the executive resolution department stating they were working on it and would have an answer to me in three business days. Six weeks later, I'm still waiting. So I tried an instant message on Facebook, they contacted me and said if I don't hear back from Jammal by the end of the day to let them know, well that was about three weeks ago, nothing again.
So in the meantime, I sent follow-up letters to the executives again, this time, they must have my address posted up and that I'm some crazy person, all of the letters were returned unopened, return to sender. Weird, they were there three weeks prior, all the execs just got up and moved apparently. My last try on social media was Twitter, got a reply two days ago asking me if anyone has responded, again I said no, and again I sit and wait and wonder how they stay in business. I've wasted numerous hours of my time, not even worth the $1,000 anymore, now it's just the principal.
Reviewed April 19, 2016
I am sorry, I would give -1 star if I could for their service. They are just terrible. I tried to book a fly and a hotel together in order to take advantage of their "great deal of booking them together" and I was surprised to get almost the same price as I would book them separately (only 32$ difference). I wasted almost 2 hours online, talking with a representative (who doesn't have any fault, honestly for working for this awful company). And also, after a long waiting time, I was able to talk to her supervisor who did nothing, as always. This is the way how Expedia takes care of their Gold Card Customers. The thing is, a good and honest travel company is really needed on the actual market. It is always good to have competition.
Reviewed April 19, 2016
Expedia travel insurance is a scam. I can't believe they can get away with this. I booked a trip to Mexico and bought the Expedia insurance policy that said I could change my flight one time, and would be reimbursed flight change fees. I did change my flight by a couple days. I submitted a claim on the insurance policy I purchased. I called Expedia many times about this issue. Every time they said someone was working on this and I would be paid shortly. It has been 3 months and I have not received a refund. I called again tonight and waited on hold for 3 hours.
Finally someone that was supposed to be a supervisor came on the line said that they would pay the exchange fee of $40 but not the change fees for the airline ticket changes that are supposed to be covered. In addition, over the 3 months I have been trying to get this resolved, nobody has ever called me back or tried to resolve this. They think it is better to do nothing and hope you will go away and let them keep your money.
Reviewed April 19, 2016
Omg! Never again! On phone for 4 hours rebooking a flight and I have been put on hold and disconnected 4 times now! It's 10:30pm and just got disconnected again - tired and want to go to bed!!! Now I have to call back and explain to someone new and start all over again! So frustrated right now! Never again using Expedia!!! Never again!!! I am literally crying because I am tired and soooo frustrated!!!
Reviewed April 19, 2016
Tonight we went to purchase airplane tickets and hotel, the agent misspelled one of our names. After being on the phone for an hour and a half we were told WE have to contact the airlines (there are two of them!) ourselves! It's Expedia mistake!!! Ridiculous!!!
Reviewed April 18, 2016
I tried to book a holiday to New York and received no confirmation email and was kicked out the website when entering payment details. Telephoned Expedia to be told no bookings. Proceeded again and tried booking again. On checking my online banking 2 payments had been taken as the original holiday had been booked and checking it appears I had input an incorrect digit on my email address. Contacted Expedia immediately only go be told non refundable airline tickets!
Took 7 days to investigate and be told my mud take so no refund. Sent further emails and made extremely costly phone calls and kept being promised response within 24/36 when in fact each time it took over 7 days. I contacted the airline myself who informed me that the Tucker's were non refundable but were transferable as long as used within a year. Expedia did not have me this choice and again told me their policy Is non refundable and it was not their mistake but mine for entering an incorrect email address. I would like to point out that the email address was non existent and they would have received a non deliverable message! The customer service I have received is utterly disgraceful and never in my life have I felt so upset and have been very ill regarding this matter whereby I have list a substantial amount of money that we work very hard to earn!!
Reviewed April 18, 2016
Best Price Match guarantee is a scam. Expedia says they would respond within 48 hours... Several days later they respond and I still cannot a response.
Reviewed April 18, 2016
On February 5, 2016 I booked a trip from Atlanta, GA to Cancun, Mexico from April 11, 2016 through April 14, 2016 through Expedia. Twelve hours before my flight was scheduled to depart from Atlanta, Spirit Airlines sent me an email informing me that my flight was canceled. I called them and they only offered me a flight which would get me to Cancun the following day. Since that was unacceptable I called Expedia and asked if they could find me an alternate flight since I booked the trip through them.
Their customer service was terrible and kept putting me on hold, then ultimately hanging up on me. After 3 hours of trying to get their help with no success I decided to cancel the trip. I received a refund from Spirit Airlines but haven't gotten anywhere with Expedia regarding the hotel portion of the refund. They keep telling me that I did not give proper notice to qualify for a refund. I finally got through to a manager named Daphne on Sunday but still have not received my refund. I feel like they stole my vacation and my money. I plan to use every resource known to man to share my terrible experience with Expedia.
Reviewed April 15, 2016
One of the worst experience. I wanted to book a flight based on the itinerary I found on the expedia.com site. I just wanted to talk about the pricing. I called the customer service. 4 different people spoke to me and put me on the call for 4 and half hours and they were unable to find the itinerary that I was looking at on their site and finally they give up. All the while they were complaining about the latency in their systems. Come on guys, please fix your system as your job demands it. And finally they put me on hold as I wanted to talk to their supervisor who never answered my call. I was put on hold throughout listening to stupid music. WORST service by Expedia!! HORRIBLE JOB BY YOU GUYS!!
Reviewed April 15, 2016
Called to cancel a flight. Was put on hold for 1 hour 10 minutes and then told that she "couldn't figure out" the airline's cancellation fee. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? Call the airline to try and cancel and they tell me I have to do it through Expedia. I am writing this as I am on hold again going on 1 hour and 49 minutes. NEVER USING THEM AGAIN!!!
Reviewed April 15, 2016
I booked a flight in February to depart in April and return a week later. I also booked hotels. I noticed that the return flights and hotel were showing on my itinerary when I checked at the beginning of March, but could not see a departing flight. I called customer service and after 6 hours of holds, back and forth they confirmed that they had charged my credit card but had not been able to get me on the flight that I had booked through them. They did not contact me, I contacted them because of the missing itinerary. They then informed me that the flight costs had gone up and that I would need to pay the difference to get on the same flight. I spoke with a supervisor and they agreed to reimburse the difference, but I had to pay it up front to get a booking. I did and they reimbursed the difference, however, once again they did not actually put me on a departing flight.
I have now spent a total of 11 hours on the phone and at least 2 hours on email requests and responses and still do not have a confirmed departing flight a week out from my flight. They did however fully charge me for the departing flight. I have also just returned from a trip where I had booked a hotel through Expedia and my email said I did not need to reconfirm. I happened to choose to reconfirm with the hotel because I was arriving late. The hotel told me they were full and that Expedia cancelled the booking because they were full. It would have been nice for Expedia to contact me instead of me having to contact them in both these situations. Additionally, although I had paid them, they made it my problem to find another hotel (choosing to reimburse me for hotel and let me deal with finding my own place in Atlanta during spring break at 9 p.m. at night). Do not book with them. They are not cheaper. They have cost me hours of time.
Reviewed April 15, 2016
I used Expedia for the first time. It has been a nightmare times 500. Not only did they change my initial information on my flight requirements the charges went on and on to fix what they screwed up. Over and over. I spent so much time on my laptop and again on the phone. Because they changed my flight info it has cost me so much more money. They play ignorant and "Oh so sorry let me help you but it will cost 200 per person more." They gave me flights I did not request. Which is the reason for the extra cost. I had no choice since I was leaving the next day. I was completely scammed. I have told many people along my travel - never ever use Expedia ever. The hotel we are staying absolutely agrees.
Reviewed April 15, 2016
I was penalized over 33% of my air/hotel package to Berlin from Fukuoka, Japan, after canceling immediately following the Paris attacks, even though I had purchased their "no questions asked" full-refund travel package protection plan. Their customer service was atrocious, waiting more than 20 minutes for an agent to pick up, only to be put on hold for another 10, and pleading my case, being put on hold again, only to be hung up on. Calling back with a reference number didn't help either, having to start from zero again. This was repeated at least four times. Their manager wouldn't respond to my email, and when they finally did, over a month later, they did so with a non-return address only to say how much my total in penalties was. What a rip-off.
Reviewed April 14, 2016
I recently booked a car rental through Expedia to pick up a car at Manchester airport in the UK. We had been asked by Expedia to pay $110 up front in car insurance, but when we picked up the car, it was apparent that we were being charged the insurance again. The rental company said they have this problem all the time with Expedia's insurance not being recognized. The result was an extra $140 which I have been trying to get refunded. But this is only the beginning. Today, I have spent four and a half hours on the phone trying to get this resolved. I spoke with 3 reps, the final one being a Tier 3, which I guess is someone who has the ability to make executive decisions. They agreed they should refund the previous insurance payment - but they had no record of the paperwork so asked me to email it, which I did.
We then proceeded to be on hold for a further hour waiting for their email address to 'receive' my email with attachments. They gave me no less than 4 email addresses to try. It ended with the rep saying that their incoming email takes so long to arrive - often more than 2 hours - that it would be best if I called back tomorrow. I could have cried. All that time on the phone and still no physical results. Meanwhile, I have resolved to never use Expedia again, which is a shame, since I have been using them for years. I just cancelled a future booking with them as a mini-protest. I believe they have been going downhill lately and certainly based on this round of customer service, I would never recommend them.
Reviewed April 14, 2016
Attempted to make a change to my reservation yesterday; was on hold for 1 hour and 45 minutes while the agent kept checking in to tell me that she was still "working on it". During that time I asked on multiple occasions if she could call me back when she had made the change and I was told "no - you will have to start from scratch if you hang up". At the 1 hour, 45 minute mark I asked to speak to a supervisor. The agent told me that a supervisor would tell me the same thing. I said that I would still like to speak with one so that they could explain why this change required such a long time to make. She put me on hold for another 25 minutes!
The supervisor came on at the 2 hour and 10 minute mark. I told her my problem and the reasons I was so frustrated. She immediately put me on hold. After 15 more minutes my phone battery finally ran out and I was disconnected. No one called me back. Today I called again and asked for a supervisor. I have been on hold for the past 20 minutes! I am an experienced traveler and I can honestly say that this is THE WORST customer service I have ever received regarding a trip. Expedia should be ashamed of themselves. I will make it my mission to let everyone I know that they should NEVER EVER use expedia for their travel plans. I'm hanging up now (which I guess is what they want me to do), and will never to do business with these clowns again.
Reviewed April 13, 2016
I was told by an Expedia clerk that I was getting a better deal through them than I would be getting with my 30% discount with the Red Roof Inn (RRI). The Expedia clerk told me the 30% would be off the regular rack rate which was much higher than what I would be paying through Expedia. This was not true but I didn't know until I checked in at RRI. What I paid through Expedia anyone would have paid without any discount and without needing Expedia at all. What's more, when I was web searching for the RRI website to get a number to call to make a reservation, I went to a search result which appeared to be an official RRI site but the phone number took me to Expedia, which was misleading. There seems to be no way to communicate my dissatisfaction to Expedia through their website.
Reviewed April 12, 2016
I have a very bad experience with Expedia BPG. Even after submitting all proofs and document, they reject my claim saying that lower price website is a consolidator website and hence cannot process claim. Terms and condition does mentioned anything about it. Then after discussing with them, they said you cannot book ticket on their website and it redirects to other website. After proofing that you can actual book ticket, they went back to earlier reason. Finally they ask me to call them. When I call them, they ask me to send email as BPG is only supported via email. Expedia put customer in a helpless position, in a infinite loop since they don't want to pay for something you are eligible for. They conduct their business that is guided by what is wrong and not truth. I assume they think customers are fool and believe they would make them fool every time you carry business with them. STAY AWAY FROM THIS FRAUDSTER!!!
Reviewed April 12, 2016
Absolutely disgusted with the experience with Expedia.com customer support. The process of changing a flight took 3 hours and required speaking to 5 different representatives who still could not figure out what they were doing. Customer service representatives hung up the line TWICE and required I call back and go back through the entire queue. I will NEVER be using their service again and recommend everyone stay away from it at all costs.
Reviewed April 12, 2016
I did a hotel booking over phone on March 28th. The agent identified herself as Sheena. While doing the booking, I found a much lower price through BookIt.com and asked her not to proceed with the booking. She looked at the BookIt.com price, ensured it is for same hotel and same room type and offered to proceed with the booking and refund the difference within 2-3 business days and in addition $50 per room coupon. I trusted her and let her proceed with the booking. It is 2 weeks now and there is no trace of either the coupon or the refund. I called customer service yesterday. After about 30 minutes to track my booking and understanding the issue, I was told that a senior will talk to me. Either the person hung up or the call got disconnected. No one called back.
I called again today and spoke to Jyothi. I went through all over again and explained what had happened. This time I told her clearly that if I get disconnected or hung up, if I do not get called back, I will instruct credit card company to stop payment. Jyothi was very nice. She also said senior will talk to me. She stayed online for some time and then kept assuring me the senior will come online. Finally after long wait a senior came online. She went on saying 'This is first warning. If I do not hear back I will disconnect.' I was saying hello, hello etc... She issued second warning and then third and disconnected!!! Unbelievable. I am waiting for a callback. If I do not hear back by end of day, will report fraud to credit card company. Hate to do it, but can not accept getting conned by Expedia.
Reviewed April 12, 2016
I recently made an accidental double-booking of a hotel overseas. Upon realizing my mistake, I called Expedia and spoke with one rep who assured me she would call the hotel for me to cancel the second reservation. The hotel did not have anyone who spoke English at the front desk, but the rep told me that the hotel would have an English-speaker on shift in a few hours and promised me that she would have someone call the front desk later that day and then get back to me via email. No email.
I called again the next day, and spoke with another representative. He said he couldn't do anything yet and to call back in several hours because this was an issue under the "Expedia department of reservations" and they weren't open yet. So I did just that, and called back. Eventually, I managed to connect with a representative in the department of reservations who was able to successfully cancel my reservation, with a full refund. The refund was promised the next day, but did not show up in my account until nearly a week later (though this may have been the hotel's issue, not Expedia's). So, in conclusion: yes, they were effective and eventually procured my desired result. But it was a hassle going through their chain of command.
Reviewed April 12, 2016
Despite the fact that I paid for travel protection, I paid more in total fees for less expensive flights than my original reservation, even when factoring in the additional cost of travel protection. When I did call to make a change to my travel day (because you cannot do that online), I was told that I had a $200 penalty for each ticketed flight. I had to tell them that I had paid for travel protection, and they only reversed the charges by inquiring with the airline. Finally, even though I called well in advance of to change my first reservation to a different travel day, my first flight wasn't even cancelled by Expedia. It eventually became a no-show, which Expedia would not take responsibility for. I found out about that three weeks after the date of the first flight, and only after being on the phone with Expedia for over 2 hours.
Reviewed April 11, 2016
I tried to find an address for complaints and problems, but I don't find it listed on their site. I have been a consistent user of Expedia and Expedia-aarp sites for many years. I had been moderately satisfied with the service until my most recent experience. I live and work in Europe, and I travel for business frequently. I had booked a Novum property in Berlin on their affiliated Expedia-aarp site. The room information offered several options, pay now, pay later and FREE CANCELLATION. I selected a room from July 12-16 for my upcoming trip under FREE CANCELLATION since I knew that my schedule for business might change.
It did, and imagine my surprise when I tried to cancel online only to find that I'm being charged 90% of the room fee for 4 nights when I'm well in advance of the cancellation date. I find this practice where the small print holds all the details quite deceptive, and as a result I will avoid EXPEDIA sites in the future. Two of their agents with whom I spoke did a very good job trying to get the hotel property to waive the cancellation fee ($219.00 USD), but the hotel refused. I am most unhappy with Expedia, and I will post on social media my situation so that other business clients aren't duped by this false claim of FREE CANCELLATION. I own my own business, and I assure you that I wouldn't have ONE client if I deceived them in this manner. I am not a happy customer!
Reviewed April 11, 2016
amount there can be, even if it's a dollar. A global company like Expedia, who is proud of its customer service, could not satisfy one customer. A real disappointment!
Reviewed April 11, 2016
Expedia stole my vacation and so far I haven't been able to recover my hotel or ground transportation fees. Partner airline cancelled my flight and decided to refund my air fare after graciously offering to deliver me only halfway to my destination a day late. I was on the phone mostly holding for six hours last night and two and a half hours this morning with no resolution. Representatives, supervisors, and managers have disconnected my calls several times.
Reviewed April 10, 2016
I tried booking online. It wouldn't allow me. Processing was too slow. The lady I spoke to that book my room, I specifically asked her NOT to book the manor. I called to confirm to find out she book me for the place I told her not to. She told me today the pricing went up, and she will need to credit the difference if I want the place I originally purchased, and I credit. ALL I want is what I paid for. I give Expedia a 0. 4 customer care rep's later.
Reviewed April 10, 2016
I'm more than 4 hours trying to make a change about a package that I made in the same day. They looks like are not paying attention for what we are explaining. They don't care for how long we are waiting and didn't look how is looking for a solution. They just put us to hold in the line till the call off and do not call us back. I'm in my 4th time trying to talk with somebody and always when they answer they put me to hold for a hour and after send me to the beginning of the call again. UNBELIEVABLE HOW THEY TREAT THE PEOPLE. THEY DON'T HAVE ANY RESPECT FOR THE CLIENTS.
Reviewed April 9, 2016
Flight change insurance nightmare. I had to change my flight and cannot get reimbursed. I will never use EXPEDIA again.
Reviewed April 9, 2016
When the price of the package I purchased dropped (within the 24 hours of booking) I immediately called to get the lower price and GUESS WHAT!!! Oh yes well you don't have a claim because they are located in EGYPT and they are working on a different time zone so according to them and their policy I was not within THEIR 24 hour period. (I booked at 7 pm and called the next afternoon) I was told READ THE FINEPRINT CAREFULLY!!! SO BUYER BEWARE... Go to any other site but EXPEDIA. It has the worst service you could possibly imagine. WHEN you call to say you would like to speak to a manager be prepared to wait a long long time... Over an hour guaranteed waiting period.
Reviewed April 8, 2016
I've used Expedia from time to time for airfares in the past and not had an issue, but it would be for shorter flights. We just went to Portugal and booked our flight and one of our hotels with them. The flight there we were on two United flights and the way back we flew TAP Portugal and United. It was all booked at the same time with Expedia. United showed our TAP flight, but TAP didn't have our United flight and refused to check our bags through to the US. Somehow, Expedia forgot to notify them... We had to collect our bags at our layover and re-check them so they would make it home. Having never been to Portugal and our go to hotel brand of Hilton not having a hotel in Porto, we looked to Expedia to find a good family hotel centrally located. I put in that I only wanted 4 star hotels and up. I selected one that seemed nice.
When we got there it was not a 4 star hotel. Everything was old and looked outdated to the 80s - very plain and a little shabby. The neighborhood wasn't the best either. The room they had told us we would have they didn't give to us. I had done the pre-paid rate through Expedia. We checked out of the hotel the same night we arrived and found a different place to stay last minute. I tried to get a refund through Expedia. The terms on the confirmation said if I was a no show I would only be charged for one night. They tried to get the refund from the hotel and were denied. I pointed out the terms on the confirmation they sent me and they said that even though it wasn't stated because I pre-paid there would be no refund. Talk about bad customer service! I will never book through Expedia again.
Reviewed April 7, 2016
Yesterday, April 6th, 2016, I called Expedia to change the date on my departing flight (from JFK to LAX) from April 20th to April 21st. I was very specific and repeated several times throughout the call that I did not want to make any changes to my returning flight that was set for April 24th. Unfortunately, Expedia's telephone agent made a mistake and as he changed my departing flight he CANCELLED my returning flight. (After I had paid for an upgraded seat in Virgin America, which I now have lost). He was not able to fix the issue so I had to wait for TWO hours on the phone while he communicated to the support team.
Then, I got to speak to a supervisor, who very honestly explained the situation and took responsibility for the agent's mistake. He gave me a case number **. However, he committed to calling me in two hours (meaning at 11:00 p.m. NY time last night) or writing an e-mail if he couldn't reach me on the phone, which he didn't. I woke up this morning with no solution to the situation.
In a nutshell, I waited two hours on the phone (which was very upsetting), I spoke to a supervisor who promised a solution in a two hour time frame and it's the next day and still no solution or no communication from anybody. I have to reach out to Expedia for them solve their mistake instead of them reaching out to me. I have to have the uncertainty of what will happen to the money I paid for my TWO WAY ticket or even the uncertainty of my trip because nobody from Expedia is giving me a solution. I am attaching the receipt but this receipt is incorrect. It has the value of the one way ticket that I have now after their mistake and not the value of the two way ticket that I actually paid, which was evidently higher.
Reviewed April 7, 2016
My last two bookings with Expedia, have not been good at all. The first when I booked a flight from Kingston, Jamaica to Brisbane Australia with Expedia i.e., was told I would not see my luggage until I arrive in Brisbane! I had to collect at Gatwick to transfer to Heathrow airport, and in Sydney to check-in to Brisbane... Not very happy considering I was travelling alone with 5 suitcases. I was told that I could check my luggage in online, which is so not true... you can only do this if you book directly with the airline.
Have just booked a flight with Expedia.com to book a holiday package from Brisbane to Fiji. Two days after booking there had been a flood. Contacted Expedia, who contacted the Hotel, to be told that the hotel is ok, but you would not be able to reach as the road from the airport to the Hotel is flooded, so Hotel advised to cancel and refunded the money. But when it came to my flight with virgin, they said they would not refund but would give a credit. So I suggested another destination, in which there was nearly a $300 fee on both tickets to reroute! Example package to Bali hotel and flight $800 per person advertised on their site. So when I asked if I could use my flight for this package as it was still virgin - they said costs $1,200 each for the flight and $500 for the hotel... but I said the package is cheaper at $800. Their response was, "But you're not getting the package, as we are using your credited tickets."
So tell me... if I purchase a holiday package from Expedia, I am looking at a package... they should go together. The Hotel was good enough to refund as there was no way I could get there despite there being nothing wrong with the Hotel. The Airline could also get me to Fiji, but the package did not include a boat, so there was a missing link, as I was not prepared to fly to Fiji to stay at the airport for 3 nights. So I should be entitled to another package at the same cost with no penalty. So now there is a problem, the so called package deal becomes two separate entities, Expedia passes the buck - we are just the middle man, but they are happy to collect your money. Do not use this company.
Reviewed April 6, 2016
The airline changed our departure time and we were never notified by Expedia. The airline told us we would have to rebook and pay the change fee and difference in price. This was over a $1,000 dollars. To make matters worse it was during the busy spring break holiday and there were no flights out for 2 days. Expedia did nothing to assist us. We rented a car and drove the 16 hours home. We have been contacting Expedia for a refund on the airfare with no results. We were continually put on hold for up to 1 hour. Repeated phone calls produced the same result "A representative will contact you within 24-48 business hours." We never received any callback. I also emailed them with no results. The website states their policy for contact regarding changed flight times and none of this was done. DO NOT BOOK WITH EXPEDIA.
Reviewed April 6, 2016
If you have to change anything on your flight, good luck. Was on hold for 2 hours before I could talk to a supervisor. Then the call cut out and there was no callback. So had to wait for another 1.5 hours to talk to someone regarding changing the flight.
Reviewed April 5, 2016
We recently booked a night in Spokane. When we arrived at the hotel we were told we did not have a reservation. I called Expedia. Gave them the confirmation number and customer service had made my reservation for the wrong month and even wrong date, and not just one night but they booked me for 3 nights. Charged me well over 200 dollars. Expedia would NOT refund my money at that time. So now we are short almost 300 dollars and still had to pay for our nights stay at the hotel. We had to cut our vacation short because of Expedia's screw up. Thanks so much Expedia. I won't book through you again.
Reviewed April 4, 2016
Booked flights to Perth Oz in January 16 for travel dates in Sept 16. The return flights through Expedia were £968 each - flying with Emirates. On the Expedia website it stated non-refundable and non-transferable. Checked with Google difference with non-transferable and non-changeable. Non transferable was can't change names on tickets and non-changeable was can't change dates. Our trip I'd to see our son who has emigrated to Oz. We then received a call from son confirming he and wife are pregnant and the due date was a week after we were due to travel back to UK. As you can imagine a change in dates was needed and as it is well over 6 months off.
This is where the heartache has started. Contacted Expedia who confirmed they do not make any charges for changes and this is on their website. The new dates we wanted were in November now 9 months off. Expedia are selling these tickets (exactly same flights just 6 weeks later) for £649. They could have been more a chance we were taking. Emirates direct are selling the same tickets for £667. When I called to change the dates I was quoted £200 each ticket admin charge to change the date and then the price of the new ticket was £1007 each - that's £1207 each. I have tried to talk and message Emirates as Expedia are saying it's not them and Emirates will not even discuss or confirm they are making these charges as my tickets were bought from Emirates.
They will however happily take money from me for upgrades or any extra baggage allowance I want! There was nothing on the website for both companies that I may be charged an increase in flight price or that I have already a ticket therefore am not eligible for the first time customer price of £667 or £649. I get an admin charge but the rest is an outrage. By the way the supervisor from Expedia call center advised me this was how Emirates make their money and ABTA confirmed they would not allow this to occur with any company registered with them. Expedia is not with ABTA - never saw that one spotted the ATOL cert. Be careful using these 2 companies. I for one will never use them again and it has already impacted on what should be a lovely time waiting to see my first grandchild later this year.
Reviewed April 4, 2016
The insurance is a ruse. Earthquakes and volcano eruptions are covered. Customer service waits are 1/2 hour or more and you will be referred to the insurance company. Use Expedia if you want to spend more money than you would otherwise.
Reviewed April 4, 2016
This is to confirm that my stay at the Beach Walk hotel in Florida was horrible, unacceptable, beyond level of advertised 4 star Hotel and below are the reasons I had to change hotels after 2nd night. I complained to front desk on the first day of the stay about my experiences. They advised me to contact Expedia, who was the provider of the reservation. I expressed my complaints to Expedia and had asked them to relocate me to another hotel nearby. Two days in a row (on 12/29/2015 and 12/30/2015) I spoke to Expedia representatives, who assured that they will contact me within 24 hours. No response were made by Expedia, so I was forced to rebook another hotel on my own. Both of the conversations were recorded and upon request I can provide my conversations with Expedia.
When I arrived home, I contacted Expedia again and was issued a credit for unused nights in the amount of $1770.45. Few months later this credit was reversed for unknown to me reasons. I can not be a hostage of the situation and be trapped in the position, where I book a 4 star hotel with serious room and service issues, who just rob people by using "no cancellation" policy. On the first day I spoke to front desk and asked what the cancellation policy was. I was told that I should give them 24 hours notice, which I did and stayed there for 2nd night beyond my wishes. The rest they advised me to settle with 3rd party provider. Expedia DOES NOT respond to my inquiries, nor calls me back. Once Expedia issued the credit, I received an e-mail from them stating that the case has been closed.
So why, 3 months later it's been reopened again? I called again, and as before, did not get respond from Expedia. If hotel does not address these problems, Expedia should protect the customer since they were the agents, who advertised this Hotel as 4 star Hotel. They are in the power to charge back the hotel for inadequate service or maybe they are in conspiracy with the Hotel and simply do not want to lose their commission on the deal? If this case is not resolved in a civil manner, it will be brought to the Attention of the Federal Trade Commission, as well as Better Business Bureau and heavily noticed in social media. Below is the list of the issues with hotel:
Dirty rooms, filthy windows, A/C unit in room covered with inches of dust. Inoperable safe, nonworking TV - had to sleep with TV ON since remote did not work and I did not want to tamper with equipment at night. Shower room without rubber mats and door handle (broken handle was just laying inside the vanity cabinet), making it hazardous for anyone who takes showers in the cabin. Shower head not installed properly, exposing the hole in the wall. NO shelvings in shower cabin, making it impossible to use soap without bending down on the slippery floor of the cabin.
No towels on the second day, had to ask several times and wait for 5 hours for them. Sheets on beds were dirty and not properly made. Sticky refrigerator inside. No garbage cans and mirrors in the room, only in bathroom. Upon discharging from the hotel the lines of dissatisfied customers were so long, it took us over an hour to check out. I believe all these facts, which I prove by attached pictures, make this cancellation reasonable, valid and refundable beyond the "cancellation policy".
Reviewed April 4, 2016
On 13 March 2016, I booked a flight Liverpool-Barcelona and hotel package by telephone. I did this because I wanted to be absolutely sure there would be no mistakes. My travelling companion is a pensioner with health issues so I wanted to be sure we were in the city centre. I made this clear over the phone to the agent who dealt with my booking and even asked him to double check that we would be in the centre at the end of the call. He reaffirmed that we were central. It was only when we got into a taxi late this evening at the airport that we found we were actually staying in an industrial estate more than 20 km outside the city. The taxi fare alone cost 80 Euros. I just rang and spoke to someone called Amar. He put me on hold for so long I hung up.
Reviewed April 3, 2016
I called Expedia over 1 week ago asking to have them correct 1 letter that was misspelled in my middle name. I was told it would be corrected. I called several more times telling them it had not been changed. I was told again it would be corrected. Here we are less than 14 hours until depart and it's still the same. I've been on the phone for over 5 hours going back and forth with them and finally they tell me that the airline we are flying with can change it for $25.00 and I tell them why wasn't I told this over a week ago?
Anyways I tell them fine and give them cc # and they tell me all 3 cards are declined! REALLY! My husband's had no limit on cards. Anyways, we call cards and they tell my husband it's on Expedia's end. I tell Expedia they are doing something wrong on their end. So here we are almost 6 hours later and they tell me they are going to try something different but I'm still on hold. SMH... SMH... Whomever does their training needs to be retrained also!!!
Reviewed April 2, 2016
I booked a vacation package with Expedia to Key West. We were bumped from our connecting flight in Fort Lauderdale without notice. I have been on hold with customer service trying to correct the fight for over 4 hours! I would not recommend Expedia and want to request a full refund!
Reviewed April 2, 2016
My fiance and I were booking a trip to Key West. We made our flight reservations through Expedia online on March 9th, 2016 because it was showing them $40 cheaper than direct airline websites. It also stated that we could change the flight and get full refund within 24 hours. My fiance had a last-minute work meeting come up so we had to cancel it on March 9th and instead booked one to leave in a couple of days. We booked our next flight on March 10th.
After we returned from our trip on May 23rd, I got online and noticed we still had not received our refund from the first booking on March 9th to my credit card. I called Expedia immediately on the 23rd and the manager apologized and said we would be getting it refunded from 5-7 days. Now it is April 2nd and I checked my account again and it still hasn't been refunded. So I've called them up again and been passed around to several different people and have been on the phone for 2 hours. They said there was a delay in the payment, but they will submit it again and we should be seeing it within 5 business days. I also said my bill to my credit card is due on April 4th, so now it will not be paid on time. They said they are issuing a $100 coupon to go towards another Expedia booking, but it can only be put towards a hotel or package. What a mess this all was. I wouldn't book anything with them again.
Reviewed April 2, 2016
Booked two tickets for the observatory deck at Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Cancelled my reservation following all instructions and well in advance before deadline and still struggling to get the refund. Called many times from Italy, written at least 10 mails. Agents completely unprofessional, raise thousands excuses not to refund. Unacceptable! Keep away if you don't wanna lose your marbles!
Reviewed April 2, 2016
A Nightmare!!! Waking up in a cold sweat. I admit that I double booked a flight on Expedia so I called to cancel one of the duplicate flights. No big deal. I even purchased cancellation insurance with the round trip flight. I expected a 10 minute phone call for Expedia to issue a credit and cancel the extra flight. But NO. It was 5 Hours of hold time spread over two days. Their prices are great but their customer service is a minus ten. Very nice people but completely incompetent. Pray you have no problems when you book because if you do, say goodbye to your weekend.
Reviewed April 1, 2016
I booked a hotel, well I thought hotel but was a rundown bed and breakfast. It came up under hotel only search and when I tried to change hotels when I got there 3 and a half hours went by with multiple disconnections, lies and hold time. Was never able to talk with supervisor. The bed and breakfast/hotel was resendeza de spada in venice. I tried to be as polite as possible but when I questioned a 20 dollars city tax he said he could have police come. Such an ignorant statement. I would not wish to have a dog stay there.
Reviewed April 1, 2016
Booked a room or so I thought... Get to where I'm going. Look through emails and no confirmation email. So, I have no idea where I'm staying on Spring break. Call hotels, finally to book another room. Look through phone one last time, so I'm not charged for a room I can't find. Get charged even more than quoted. Call once I'm back home about a refund. On hold for over an hour. Still no refund.
Reviewed April 1, 2016
I have purchased advertising from HomeAway.com for many years but am at my wits end with the current changes they are undergoing since the Expedia 2015 purchase. I rely on this ad, which I pay hundreds of dollars for, to generate the income that keeps my beach house afloat. So now this money-hungry, greedy outfit decides they will start charging folks who are interested in my property a hefty service fee and block my contact information so renters either pay up or pass me by... and it seems they are passing by. Of course HomeAway says it's my fault that pay-for-service is the industry standard and I need to educate renters of what wonderful perks they get for this fee...
However, I don't hear from renters anymore! I have visited my own listing incognito and have found Expedia now tags each time I visit and drops pop-ups for Expedia, Priceline, etc. on my computer for discount hotels in the area of my rental property! Heavens! How can this be legal? I feel like they have created a monopoly and are going to damage this industry.
Reviewed April 1, 2016
For anyone who wish to place an order with expedia.ca, especially if you buy plane tickets, be cautious with your credit card since they are freezing twice the amount for a certain time; I was told this could take up to 5 days. Nobody will warn you on this eventuality when you buy. Moreover, I found unacceptable the way their employees are handling this situation; they are very rude, some of them barely speaking one of the current languages, and even yelling at you.
Reviewed March 31, 2016
I purchased a package to Cabo San Lucas, but had to cancel for half the people who were going. I called well in advance of the trip, and was told everything would be handled. I received a credit voucher for the flight that same day. I NEVER saw anything about the hotel cancellation. When we got to the hotel, they told me they never received a cancellation from Expedia. I called as soon as I got home and have been having daily run-arounds ever since. Apparently the room was never cancelled and they have no record of it being cancelled. I was told this morning that they had a call from me on March 19. I called and have an email response from them on the 18th. When I called back later, all the notes and phone logs from 3/10 to 3/29 were no longer there. Beware! Double check everything!!!
Reviewed March 31, 2016
Beware of Hidden Charges. They got us the WORST room in the hotel (RIGHT next to the elevator shaft) and then we got hit with surprise charges of 18% of the cost per day added onto our bill. Upon checking out, we had a list of fees for $35 a day, which added up to an extra $210!!! So much for savings...
Reviewed March 31, 2016
On March 5th 2016 around 9:30 pm my fiance and I decided to book a room thru Expedia at the Tux Creek Inn for that night. However when we got the itinerary it said check in is no later than 6 pm and to call if we were checking in late. So I called and no one answered. I then called Expedia to refund my money bc we weren't sure about check in and no one answered. I think that is a simple request. I called Expedia over 5 times. They said they needed to get in touch with the hotel. Finally today I get an email from Expedia saying that the Tux Creek Inn denied my request for my refund. I've already filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau last week for Expedia. I guess I'm gonna have to file a complaint for the hotel to the BBB. My next step is to file a complaint through the federal trade commission. It's not right that my hard working money was just taken from me.
Reviewed March 30, 2016
My Expedia account confirmed my hotel cancellation but I was charged for a no show by the hotel for $84.00. When I spoke to Expedia TAAP support I was told that the hotel was contacted and my money refunded. This never happened. I cannot get the charge off my credit card. Expedia support not responding for further questions. Contacting Expedia for a reservation is quick. Contacting with a problem has me on hold, listening to loud music for 45 minutes, at least and then they hang up on you. Expedia cannot be counted on for backing up their reservations.
Reviewed March 30, 2016
I recently booked hotels through Expedia.com by talking to a representative because I had to have a handicapped accessible room for each hotel/night (6 reservations total). This rep promised me every room was handicap accessible, so I paid Expedia for the whole trip then and there on the phone. We drove 12 hours to get to the first hotel and the reservation was wrong, so I had to go to another hotel chain down the road to get a place to stay at 4:30 in the morning, out of my own pocket. I had a meltdown over the phone, after 3 hours of getting the runaround or being hung up on because each representative I spoke to did not or would not help me.
Long story short, 3 out of the 6 reservations was wrong, I ended up spending more on hotel rooms than originally planned, and am so thoroughly disgusted with Expedia that I want everyone to beware of their incompetency. They did refund 2 of the prepaid rooms, but when I called about the 3rd wrong reservation, someone named "Heba" promised she refunded my money. After waiting more than a week I didn't see it in my bank account. I just called back, again, and according to "Gia" there was no refund processed, and the previous inept representative, Heba, had not even documented the conversation. I will NEVER NEVER NEVER use Expedia.com again, and I want everyone to beware of their representatives. Be wise, and don't trust them. My handicap friend, who cannot walk and is in a wheelchair, was only able to take 1 shower in 7 days.
Reviewed March 29, 2016
I've been using them for years and years primarily for one stop shopping for hotels. Never had a problem until this year. I usually select the "pay later" or "pay at hotel" option rather than prepaying for my room as my plans often change and it isn't worth hassle or lost money by paying in advance when they do. Lately, I've made my bookings as always, received the usual confirmation from Expedia, only to find that days later, my reservation was cancelled with no notice (I just happened to check). When I called Expedia, their answer to me was that "the hotel simply prioritizes prepaid guests over others."
In other words, they can't tell me why the reservation was cancelled and the confirmations are meaningless. This didn't make sense to me as I've never had a hotel cancel me or a cancellation occur without notice or confirmation, irrespective of who initiated the cancellation. So I started calling these hotels - 3 separate ones - and each was horrified. This is not a hotel's customary practice but rather, Expedia's. Lesson learned. Unless you get a bang up rate through Expedia and your plans aren't going to change, book directly with the hotel.
Reviewed March 28, 2016
I recently booked a flight and hotel package to an all-inclusive resort in Cancun as a birthday gift to my fiancee. When we arrived to check in, the hotel receptionist asked me if I was interested in purchasing the all-inclusive option. Perplexed, I informed him we had purchased the all-inclusive package. He apologized and informed me that was not what my reservation stated. I immediately turned to my iPhone and pulled up my itinerary. The itinerary confirmed our stay but did not specify one way or the other. The reception agent then asked me to look for my confirmation letter that I received after purchase. The confirmation letter did indeed state room only when you scroll down. Shocked I said "I don't understand how I could have overlooked this!" The hotel receptionist was immediately apologetic and told me "don't feel bad this happens all the time."
He continued to empathize with our situation and also urged me to call Expedia free of charge at the concierge the next day to clear things up. Now at this point I'm feeling this is completely my fault but that feeling would change after asking questions during the next 24 hours. I'm not going to name any roles or names and I'll explain why in a moment. However 3 different employees all said essentially the same things, "This happens almost every day. Often multiple times a day guests are confused by the website. It's out of our hands because you booked through Expedia. All you can do is call Expedia and sometimes they will give it to you." They also warned me it would take a long time on the phone, which proved to be true. So the next day I went to the concierge and called Expedia customer service. I'll spare the details of the conversation as it was predominantly lip service and a complete waste of my time.
The call was nearly 2 hours and I was on hold the majority of the time as (I was told) the issue was being reviewed and escalated through 2 tiers of management. During this 2 hour period, my fiancee was waiting for me in the lobby and observed 3 separate parties checking in HAVING THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM (booked through Expedia). When I finally spoke to the senior supervisor I again explained (for the 3rd time), "there is clearly a problem with how you are advertising this hotel package if so many customers are under the impression they have purchased the all-inclusive upon their arrival." And when I told them some of the hotel staff had expressed it was a common occurrence, they emphatically denied it was true. In fact, rather than assuring me they would look into it or offering any kind of action on their part, they were only interested in finding out which employees gave me that information.
I told them the hotel staff was very cordial and simply trying to calm the situation and mitigate what is obviously a common problem. I went on to tell her about the 3 parties my fiancee observed having the same issue while checking in just in the amount time we have been on the phone. With that, the conversation ended abruptly. She became defensive and told me there was nothing she could do for me. In my opinion the details of what you are purchasing should be clear. Not hidden in the fine print and not misleading. I'm not claiming that Expedia did anything fraudulent. I'm only saying if customers are continually confused by what you are advertising, there is a problem. My chief complaint is how it was handled. They denied the problem existed in any way which is clearly untrue and more disturbing offered no solution.
They were only interested in which hotel employees were leaking that information. I can only assume to put a stop to it and ensure they were reprimanded. To me this is terrible business practice. I would like to point out I did a query on the same hotel today and to Expedia's credit they have since changed the ad so it is now very clear. Too little too late for me and my checkbook unfortunately. I refused to let this ruin my fiancee's birthday gift and coughed up close to an additional $1000 for the all-inclusive. I will be more cautious moving forward. I will also be hesitant to use Expedia anymore for my travel needs because of this experience.
Reviewed March 28, 2016
I tried to make flight and car rental reservations on Expedia. They had a computer system outage and my booking was not successful. I also checked my account on their website multiple times and confirmed that it hadn't been reserved. I decided to book by another method. Even though their email and website showed that the reservation was not made, they charged me for the flight and car rental. I spent over 3 hours on the phone with their "customer service" on Easter. They were not able to provide the 6 character record locator for the flight. I wouldn't have been able to check in for my flight.
The customer service supervisor would not speak to me, the customer. Any customer service supervisor that refuses to speak to the customer is not executing the central mission of a customer service department. In addition, their computer system wasn't working and they couldn't receive the documentation that showed their error. Yet, they expected me to show them their email! I was treated badly, given no respect and frustrated. I'd like to tell EVERYONE about this experience with the hope that others will not have to deal with this type of treatment.
Reviewed March 27, 2016
This is the worst website to book and hotel reservation. You always get the worst rooms and no cancellation. If you don't like the room you are obligated to stay with it or lose your money. I was on vacation in Homestead and I book this hotel name Floridian. When I get there after Check in I went to my room and when I open the door the hotel room smell awful and the bathrooms has ants all over. I call the front desk and I ask them to change my room and they did but next room was even worst nasty smelling. I call one of the employees. They show up and surprise they don't smell anything. Of course they don't smell anything.
They are blind nose or they could lose their job and after three fails attempt to change my room I request a refund from my money and surprise they tell me to call the Expedia and guess what they can't refund me almost 200 dollars I paid for a ** hotel in town. This situation ruin my day. Please somebody do something and stop these thieves because believe me they are really ripping off people like me in a daily basis.
Reviewed March 27, 2016
Expedia makes it so easy to book your travel plans until you actually need to speak with an actual person. "Your reservation is confirmed. No need to call to reconfirm" is what my Expedia email read. I am not that traveler so I called to reconfirm the room. During my six-hour drive to my destination, the same date of arrival, I called Expedia to let them know that I would be arriving late. I was placed on hold for 25 minutes as Expedia could not find my hotel booking despite my confirmation code and my telephone conversations leading up to my travel day. Expedia advised that they never booked a room for me. The customer service reps had very heavy accents making it difficult to understand. I learned that Expedia customer service is based in India. I spoke with 5 different reps, all of who asked for a phone number where I could be reached if we were disconnected. I spoke with 5 because of disconnected lines.
Most frustrating was I received NO call backs. I had to call back every time, working through a relocation department, a "blue" team who said that they would handle my situation and call me back if our lines would disconnect. There was no rooms to be had as it was Spring Training in Arizona and the city was at full capacity. I had my family in tow with nowhere to sleep. Given my late start, I had to find a room on my own in the middle of the night. I will never use Expedia again and will advise others to find another way to book travel. They don't care once they book the travel. I was left high and dry having to pay premium rate and take a room across town from my event as I had children on board.
Reviewed March 25, 2016
Hello, I am having one of the worst experience with Expedia. I had booked flight ticket from Bengaluru to Portland on 01-APR-2016. I had called to reschedule the ticket to 05-MAY-2016 from Chennai to Portland by paying $45 but the associate working rescheduled the ticket for 05-APR-2016 by mistake and they are asking me pay additional charge for the mistake Expedia have done and I am on call with Expedia for past 3 hrs and still nothing has happened. Could someone from Expedia address this please or else I would rate Expedia to be one of the worst service provider. I have spent close to 8 hrs on call with Expedia with no mistake of me. My Itinerary # ** and I was forced to cancel this ticket as I got no help from the agents. I am going to spread this message on facebook to alert folks on this bad experience. Thanks.
Reviewed March 25, 2016
I booked a flight for 4 people to Manila at Expedia.com expecting to get the best price for the flight with their Price Guarantee. Out of curiosity I searched CheapOair.com and found a cheaper price by about 30 dollars less so I filed for a refund of the price difference since it was within 24 hours of my booking. I got a reply from them denying my claim for the reason that it didn't meet the criteria that the low price I found was not available to the general Public online, available from an English language website both of which met by CheapOair. I emailed them back that criteria they set was met but received no further reply from them. I will definitely not book my future flights from Expedia.
Reviewed March 25, 2016
I booked hotel in Sydney 9 month ahead with EXPEDIA. They advertise you pay now 0:00. You pay at the hotel. To my surprise the whole amount of my stay 2.326.5$ were deducted from my credit card right away from my credit card. TRUTH IN ADVERTISEMENT???
Reviewed March 25, 2016
I booked a hotel online and paid for it using a debit card. The charge was immediately taken from my checking account. When we arrived at the hotel they were totally sold out. The woman that I spoke to at Expedia was very sweet but really no help. Said she would refund my money in 10-15 days. What a farce- will never book anything with Expedia again.
Reviewed March 25, 2016
I called to redeem a credit that was never issued to me before the expiration date. Rep was not helpful. Supervisor was not helpful & hung up on me. Was placed on hold for hours before I was even transferred to a supervisor. Spent over 4 hours on the phone. Issue still not resolved.
Reviewed March 24, 2016
Worst online agency ever known. Reason: made a reservation online everything was good until I arrived to hotel. Hotel is been overbooked - no rooms available. I had to leave and search for a hotel. The next morning I see that there was charge on my credit card. I called Expedia several time. The news is after 1/2 hr staying on phone "I CAN'T MAKE THE DECISION. I WILL HAVE MY TOP MANAGER CALL YOU." They never called and I was charge.
Reviewed March 24, 2016
Normally I never write reviews but I such a positive experience with this site I had to. I booked a hotel in Rochester without seeing that the minimum check in age was 21 (I'm 20). It might have been in tiny print at the bottom, but I looked and found no information about age. When I received the confirmation email I saw immediately and clearly stated towards the top that the minimum check in age was 21; of course I was upset as I am a very broke college student and there was a no return policy.
So, I called Expedia and explained the situation. After getting nowhere when I called the hotel I did not expect much and was not optimistic, but the man that helped me was wonderful and so understanding of the situation. He called the hotel for me and got me a full refund plus a $50 coupon to Expedia. It was a lifesaver! A+ customer service.
Reviewed March 24, 2016
8 hours before my flight I find out that it was cancelled. Called Expedia to confirm and see what other options I have. I was kept on hold for a total of 3 hours. And when I asked for the reason why it's taking this long, I got screamed at and placed on hold again.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
In Jan.2016, I called Expedia to book 2 rooms for 2 nights at the Blue Heron Resort in Orlando Florida. A month later I decided to cancel that reservation and go some place else. I called the resort to cancel. I was told to go through Expedia. They booked my room, I had to call Expedia to cancel which I did. In March 2016, looked at my bank statement and 239.00 was taken out of account from the resort. I called Expedia - the representative didn't understand what I was saying to her/him. I request to speak to a supervisor. I was placed on hold for at least an hour so I called back, spoke another rep and had to start all over again of my complaint. I ask for a supervisor same issue - stayed on hold for another hour. I was so frustrated the very last time, I ask for corporate. Finally spoke to a supervisor who place me on hold another 45 mins but finally spoke to someone about my refund.

Reviewed March 23, 2016
Expedia has been using my personal cell phone to conduct unauthorized telemarketing calls. I have blocked every Expedia incoming number but they continue to call on different numbers. I contacted them to complain and was placed on hold for 20 minutes awaiting a supervisor but no one ever came on the line. I have never authorized Expedia to use my cell number for any reason. Consumers need the FTC to intervene and protect our privacy.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
My first experience with Expedia resulted in them not wanting to refund me over $1000.00 for a Cancun trip that was cancelled within their 24 hour guaranteed free cancellation window. It took weeks and countless "representatives" before they even admitted they made a mistake by not providing a refund. They eventually told me I was refunded without giving me a confirmation number of any sort, only to find out a week later from my bank that they never put the refund through. When I called Expedia they swore up and down they did, meanwhile they did not. I eventually was refunded after much headache.
2nd and most recent experience with Expedia has led me to never work with them again. I booked a trip to Las Vegas with their hotel and flight package. I need to change the departure date for my flight by 1 day. Expedia has a "policy" where they do not charge to change a reservation. Expedia told me the airline was charging $400 and they had nothing to do with the airline fee. I called the airline directly and the airline said that is a lie, the airline is not charging, Expedia is making up a policy for the airline, which the airline has nothing to do with. The airline company could not change my flight directly because I booked through Expedia so I was advised to call Expedia back and not pay their fake $400 fee. I called Expedia again and spoke to a supervisor, Jay, who refused to called the airline directly.
After getting nowhere with Jay, I asked to speak with someone else. He finally agreed to send me to corporate. I was on hold for OVER 3 HOURS when Demi from corporate finally decided to pick up the phone. She also could not provide me with why the airline company said they do not have a fee meanwhile Expedia said they have a fee. She also refused to speak with anyone from the airline company to clarify. Expedia is full of thieves.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
I was on vacation in Brazil, and booked a car rental from February 22 until March 19th. I booked a car rental online using my phone. I received an email confirmation about the car rental, but also received an email about car insurance, which I did not want since I am covered with my Visa card. Upon arriving at the Rio De Janeiro airport to pick up my car I mentioned the insurance and attendant told me no insurance was booked. I signed all documents and initialed all areas where the insurance offer was declined.
I arrived back home on Sunday March 20th and called Expedia to rectify the issue on Monday. I spoke with someone who assured me somebody would contact me within 24 hours. Since nobody called me, I decided to initiate the call. I called stating the case ID # ** which was given to me at my first attempt. No proper notes on my file, no details which were specifically given to the first attendant, etc. I am now on hold for 2:30 hours, a supervisor comes on the line every 1/2 an hour to tell me that she is in turn on hold with the insurance company who charged my credit card (Allianz).
I was charged $419.72 for something I did not signed for and was "tricked" into accepting while booking online, with no change of refusal. Expedia is a great online service as long as you don't run with any issues requiring HUMAN INTERACTION. The customer service system is inexistent. The hold times awaiting for resolution are pathetic. They will not call you back, according to them it's not allowed. They ask you for a phone number for them to call you back, but this is possible only if your call is dropped due to system failure. I am beyond myself, waiting for something that I might not even get a resolution for.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
Booked a hotel with Expedia for 5 nights. Checked out the very next morning. Awful hotel. Hotel that morning of check out told me all I had to do was call Expedia and that Expedia would call hotel and the reimbursement would take four to five business days. Called Expedia after checking in to another hotel. A hour later Expedia customer service gave me the amount of reimbursement and to look for a refund within five to seven business days. I have had to call Expedia five different times regarding this issue with no outcome. I finally went to my credit card company and was refunded within 3 days.
During my calls to Expedia I was transferred to several different people, disconnected and was even told to call back because after spending 45 minute with a customer service agent told me her computer was not working. I truly felt Expedia never had any plans on reimbursing me. I will never use this travel site again. I will also call out to as many family member and friends even strangers on the street not to use Expedia. I HATE EXPEDIA...
Reviewed March 23, 2016
I booked a flight+hotel+car package on Expedia to Niagara Falls. The room option offered for $0.00 additional was a "Standard, Partial Fallsview". This is the room I booked. Upon confirming with the hotel, the hotel said the room was a basic room with no view of the falls guaranteed. A fallsview room may be possible at an upgrade. I called Expedia, spoke to Brix, who took 15 minutes to understand I actually booked the package on Expedia and I did not wish to change the reservation, rather to have Expedia resolve the view of the room issue. Expedia refused to accept responsibility of the false advertising or to resolve the issue.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
You have to spend too much time to do just a slight change. They will never pick up the line again. They will tell you stay on the line until they will check the airline change policy, and I stayed on the line for 1 hours, three times. I missed my flight because of them. I booked another flight.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
Website stated free cancellation twice during the booking process, as evidenced in the photos I took of my screen, and only when I received the itinerary (after having paid) did I read in small fine print at the bottom that reservations on the dates included in my booking are non-refundable. How can it be legal for Expedia's website to state "free cancellation by April 22nd" when I book accommodation for April 25th - 29th & then state on the itinerary (sent to me after paying) that the dates included in my booking are non-refundable. I have unfortunately dealt with a Social Media Escalations representative from Expedia & she does not see any problem with bookings being advertised as having free cancellation, when they are non-refundable.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
Grateful that someone from Expedia customer care line contacted me back via email. After all the waiting and unnecessary transfers to supervisors and/or managers it appears that Expedia will honor the best price guaranteed. I was asked to submit upon receipt of trip all documentation so that Expedia refunds the difference from my planned trip.
Reviewed March 22, 2016
We will never use Expedia again and this is why we suggest that others do not use this service as well. We asked Expedia to eliminate Payless rental cars as one of their options for renting because the company clearly pulled a bait and switch scam on us. We contracted for a car with them in January 2016 for $188 Jeep Cherokee. When we arrived to pick it up a month later, we were told that vehicle was not available that day, and in fact, no other cars in that mid-size or lesser category were available. We were forced to take an upgrade we did not want (full-size SUV for the two of us!) and it cost us $311.
Expedia refuses to look into this matter and did not address my concerns at all. They told us to contact Payless, which as I described in my letter to them, we had already done several times. We have since checked the ConsumerAffairs website and found that the Orlando office is only one of many Payless car rentals pulling the same scam on hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people.
Reviewed March 22, 2016
I wish that I was half as lucky as the last person to review Expedia. I have only been able to speak to 1 person who was somewhere in Indonesia or somewhere like that. I am STILL on hold. It has been 1 hour and 45 minutes so far, hours waiting to speak to an AMERICAN rep. I noticed a few time they checked in to see if I was on hold. I do not even think they are trying to transfer me to anyone. I even have a second call into them from another phone and that one has been waiting to speak to anyone for 38 minutes so far. The only reason I give them 1 star is because I can't pick anything less. If you are planning to travel anywhere, DO NOT USE Expedia for making reservations for transfer service unless you have money to flush down the toilet.
Reviewed March 22, 2016
I bought a ticket on United through Expedia from Bangkok to San Francisco to travel around 3/21/16. I also bought travel insurance. When my traveling companion got into an accident, and I had to cancel the trip, since he fell down a steep embankment in a remote area of Thailand, and was helped by the local people who were non-western medicine men, he couldn't get a "doctors note" and therefore the insurance wouldn't pay. I canceled thru Expedia, and they said I had a credit for about $955 on United. I had to use it within a year, and to rebook there was a fee from United for $197. I called Expedia for clarification of my credit. They said I could use it on several trips, until it was used up; I only had to pay one rebooking fee; and I had to use the credit within a year. I used it once to book a round trip. The rebooking fee was $227. That was the 1st lie.
Then I made a 2nd booking, after spending 8 hours on the phone with a customer service person, then a "supervisor". It was a 1 way trip to Baltimore. The next day United cancelled my ticket. When I called they said Expedia never sent the money/credit. After waiting on hold for another 5 hours, and being bumped up to 2 supervisors, they rebooked a trip, but told me that I would lose $60 of my credit with United, and that I could only use the remaining approximately $450 credit I still had with United for 1 more trip (the 2nd lie). I have all the documentation with reference numbers, times, dates, emails at home. I am currently out of town, but wanted to submit this while it was fresh in my mind. I can provide everything as needed. Just ask.
Updated review: March 27, 2016
Grateful that someone from Expedia customer care line contacted me back via email. After all the waiting and unnecessary transfers to supervisors and/or managers it appears that Expedia will honor the best price guaranteed. I was asked to submit upon receipt of the trip all documentation so that Expedia refunds the difference from my planned trip.
Original Review: March 22, 2016
Booking for Liaison Capitol hotel was done in February. Found lower price on hotel.com and other sites. Expedia refused to do price comparison and/or best price guarantee. After being placed on hold for 3 hours company manager not only rude but did not apologize for the long wait. Every caller, supervisor and manager I spoke with gave different policy information. No consistency with reasoning for refusal of change but each answer was "no we can not help you at this time". Poor customer service, and uniformed agents of Expedia policy is with this company.
Reviewed March 21, 2016
My husband is being deployed with the Army and was notified with very short notice. I called Expedia just to remove him from the reservation and place my name as the room contact. Not only could she not understand what I was trying to accomplish after three attempts, she cancelled my entire vacation and informed me it was non-refundable!!! HORRIBLE SERVICE!! I will never use Expedia again... Please bring back the CUSTOMER into your CUSTOMER service!! I wouldn't even give a star if I had a choice!
Reviewed March 21, 2016
I booked a round trip flight on Expedia that used 2 airlines. I also purchased trip insurance for $38. I was not given any opportunity to pick a seat, enter a frequent flyer number or my Global Entry information. Within 24 hours I called to change the first flight. I had yet to receive a confirmation email. After 30 minutes on hold in a foreign country no less the agent I could barely understand charged me $80 for the change.
My insurance also was no good for the new flight. I waited patiently for an email so I could use the airline confirmation number to get a seat and enter my information and finally had to call Expedia again. The agent spoke such poor English. 3 people with me could not figure out the letters she was trying to communicate.
We finally got a supervisor. I did finally get an email with my flight information. A few days later I arrived at the airport to find I had been rebooked on another flight several hours later through a different city - no notice. I am now unable to complete the round trip due to a family member's health issue. Yay! I have insurance! Not so fast. Expedia first referred me to Delta who will of course give me full credit - with a $200 charge to change. Yay $38 left! Exactly what I paid for the insurance. When I questioned the insurance Expedia talked round and round about terms and conditions and finally sent me to the insurance company. I'm not holding my breath.
Reviewed March 21, 2016
I booked a bundled package on Expedia. Due to weather, Jetblue cancelled the flight and could not accommodate us until the next day, making our hotel reservation moot. I spent over 6 hours trying to get my account credited. It is obvious Expedia uses a call service in India and representatives can do nothing more than apologize for putting you on hold, which they do over and over again. I waited for 2.5 hours on-hold with a "supervisor" who kept telling me it would only take 2-3 minutes to credit my airfare about 20 times. They force you to stay on hold as "policy". Also, while I was on hold, they disconnected the call multiple times, forcing me back in the queue. Horrid company.
Reviewed March 21, 2016
On March 8 approx 12:30am I came across a GUARANTEED BEST VALUE price of $59.00CA plus $8.00CA in taxes for 3 nights, locked in by search engine TripAdvisor, which came back with various listings. EXPEDIA.CA had a GUARANTEED BEST VALUE price and I immediately jumped on it. I contacted expedia.ca to book and the operator said 'oh sorry' this price is advertised by the hotel. CAN anyone spell 'FALSE ADVERTISING'.
Reviewed March 20, 2016
Booked a flight through Expedia for our daughter... had to cancel due car accident. Expedia told us that we had a non-cancellable fee but could change the flight for a $200.00 change fee, and use later for another flight, which seems high but we agreed. After the change fee we have a credit of $300.00. Went today to use, and were quoted a price DOUBLE for the airfare inquired about vs. Expedia's OWN WEBSITE. We said "no, we want the price we are looking at, online, on your website and also on direct web site for airline." Expedia refused to honor after an hour and a half on the phone playing "let me get my supervisor" game. So I have paid $500.00... agreed to an outrageous $200 change fee. But even after that you cannot effectively use the $300 credit remaining as they won't book a fare at market noted even on their own web site, they mark up at least double for you to utilize.
Reviewed March 20, 2016
I think that any reasonable person while purchasing plane tickets, being offered an option for cancellation/change of planes for additional fee, would assume that charge is for having the option of making changes if he/she chooses to. We booked our flights from Boston to Sarasota, Florida to enjoy the sun and the beaches to get a winter reprieve. We also took the extra step and bought a cancellation/change of plans policy for $46 in case something comes up.
When we tried to make changes due to inclement weather according to accuweather.com, we were told that the policy only covers either a medical condition or jury duty. After asking to talk to a supervisor and then a manager, I was told that it is a "joke" by April, the manager from the Corporate office, that I did not read the fine print about the terms and conditions of the cancellation policy. It's a shame that you think you are going through an established company only to find out you have been had!
Reviewed March 20, 2016
We have experienced the most appalling service from Expedia. We called this afternoon to find out if we could cancel a return flight. My husband and I booked flights but needed MY return date cancelled. He specifically repeated that we only want to cancel my flight back. The Expedia service agent, Moraldo, confirmed that he is only cancelling the return flight for me- and gave my name & surname. So while still on the phone my husband gets an email- we were credited for a big amount- and my husband asked why we were credited for that much if he only cancelled the return flight. Moraldo then said he made a mistake... Then proceeded to put us through to somebody but got cut off. Never received a returned call. We called Expedia again & my husband was on the line for 2 hours to try speak to a supervisor.
Once we finally got through after being put on hold the supervisor, Conrad, told us that they will need to listen to the recording & get back to us within 2 weeks. We are meant to fly out on the 30th of April which is around the corner but must now sit around and wait to see if they will rebook that flight. I cannot wait that long as I need to be at our destination for work on the 2nd of May. What if there are no flights? All Expedia needed to do was rebook me on that flight (that the agent cancelled) but they cannot do it?? Now we are being held liable for Expedia's mistake.
It is ridiculous that they treat their customers like this. I am currently still on hold after the supervisor, Britney put me on hold an hour ago. It is now 10:40 pm here. Our first called made at 2pm. All she keeps telling me is that there is NOTHING she can do. She said that we can rebook the flight but WE must pay for it! After Expedia made the mistake we now have to either fork out more money or wait 2 weeks to hear back from them after they listened to the recording.
Reviewed March 19, 2016
My experience was horrible with Expedia. I booked a vacation for my oldest son for graduation and my mother for just being awesome to California. When I booked my flight/hotel/and car I was charged for all 3. My mom went to pick up the car and they told her it wasn't paid for. Funny because my credit card statement sure says it was. And the car company made her pay for it again. When I called Expedia (after being transferred 5 times... and being on hold for a total for 2.5 hours between transfers) they said that was IMPOSSIBLE because they don't charge for the actual rental just the insurance. I asked if $147 was a normal charge for insurance which it wasn't obviously. Then they told me to contact the rental company (even though they were the ones who charged me).
I called the rental company about 3 times and left 2 messages and never received a call back but on the 3rd call they told me they couldn't talk to me (even though I was the one who paid for it and my name was on the reservation as well as my moms) because my mom had the car. So... My mom had to take 3 hours out of their vacation to spend on the phone with the car company for them just to tell her that I needed to contact Expedia. KILL ME NOW PLEASE!
So I call Expedia yet again. Then I actually get someone on the phone that had a small amount of intelligence but still no help. So he has to give me to his supervisor (I WAS ON HOLD FOR 45 MINUTES WAITING). Then the fun really began. You would think a supervisor would know more than the rep I was talking to her before that but that was not the case so I spend 15 minutes arguing with her over what the rep just told me. She was very unprofessional and kept giving me the forced scripted "I'm sorry about that" with no empathy and completely fake and I told her to stop apologizing to me because I can tell she doesn't mean it and it's starting to just become a slap in the face. Then she told me I needed to keep this professional.
PROFESSIONAL. Try wasting 6 hours of your life while you have 3 kids running around, in nursing school, working a full time job, while you are just trying to give a good vacation to 2 people you love and adore, and you don't like having to pay double for a car over mistakes made in their company/the car company. How is this my fault? Then she proceeded to tell me that there was nothing they could do for me! WHAT! The car was paid for twice... and that's just okay? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
She told me to send my card statement to them then call back in 48 hours and they will have an answer back from corporate. "I JUST THOUGHT YOU SAID THERE WAS NOTHING YOU COULD DO FOR ME. NOW THERE IS?" "Maam I will not tell you again to keep this professional". Then I ended the conversation with this horrible woman in a not so nice way. Made me into a person that I don't like being. What has this world come to where your business... giving them your money leads to "we get to do whatever we want because we can and there is nothing you can do about it".
I WILL NEVER USE THIS COMPANY AGAIN. EVER. This was the first time I used Expedia and it will be the last. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING PRICELINE. I never have had issues with them and they have always gone above and beyond to correct their mistakes. Don't give your business to someone who doesn't care about your business.
Reviewed March 19, 2016
I have had so much trouble and poor customer service with them I could scream. I will just state a couple: I had to cancel 2 flights due to illness. They would only do a credit. Ok oh well. When I went to rebook later the prices were way out of line. (I checked the hotel and airfares from direct sites and they were much cheaper) but I didn't want to lose the "credits".
After 3 days of being on the phone for 2-5 hours each, on hold much of it, disconnected many times, I finally got fares that were expensive and cost more than the credit. Suspicious. I never got confirmations and it was not on my account. I checked the airlines and they were there. When I checked the airlines I saw that my husband and I were in different cabins. Called back again and had to be on hold again for 30 min and was told that the previous person booked us separately (why?) and there were no main cabin seats when they got to my husband and they put him in first class. Ok - then move me too - no that would sit @1400 more!
What? Then move to main cabin. No - no seats when indeed there were. If I cancelled I would have the "credits" again and be have the same excess charges. I also for a "supervisor" - hold again 30 min. She said for the millionth time "sorry for the inconvenience - I will fix this." Hold hold disconnect. I sent many emails and asked for written communication and was assured a "higher level" would get back to me. Nothing. This has been months. Called again and told them nothing on my account, wanted to fit this, hold again and disconnect. They still have credits on my account. I will probably lose them because I never never will use Expedia again. They never know what you are talking about, hold times are insane and disconnects are constant. They should be put out of business. I wish we could do a large person suit against them.
Reviewed March 19, 2016
My husband and I have been long-time users of Expedia and always purchase insurance when booking a flight. I've never had an issue canceling a flight in the past and didn't think it would be an issue when my mom got injured and couldn't make the flight out to see me. As it turns out, Expedia has changed their insurance plan that they offer and it is an EXTREMELY TERRIBLE PLAN FOR USERS. My mother got a doctor's note, but had to go back to the doctor to get a specific insurance company form signed, then I am told that if I cancel my flight I would not be refunded any of the cancellation fees which totaled to more than the tickets so there was no point in even canceling my ticket!
The insurance isn't worth it if the airline fees aren't paid and the process is so complicated, inconvenient, and painful to file a claim that it isn't worth the money. Expedia clearly no longer cares about their customers and is more interested in scamming customers out of money than having a REASONABLE cancellation policy. My husband and I will NEVER use Expedia again.
Reviewed March 18, 2016
I booked a Dollar Rent a Car through Expedia.com and when we arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico there were no cars for us! Two adults and 10 kids on their senior trip and we were told "too bad". I booked with an Expedia agent who had our itinerary number and knew that our flight arrived at 3:30 pm yet Expedia put 1 pm on our car pick up time?? We arrive and Dollar Rent a Car says there was a two hour guarantee only... NOWHERE does it say this in my confirmation email or otherwise.
So we had to wait around for another couple of hours to get a car with another company and rather than paying the planned amount of $183.78, I am out $536.61!!! Expedia's page says that the vehicle is "guaranteed"... what a joke! And then I sit on hold for over an hour only to be told I have to sit on hold another 20-40 minutes for corporate and that they likely won't reimburse me the difference? Here I sit... on hold... I will NEVER use DOLLAR RENT A CAR or EXPEDIA.COM if this doesn't get reimbursed along with some sort of perk for the hours wasted on the phone. Expedia customer service is just absolutely HORRIBLE!
Reviewed March 18, 2016
I have now been on phone for 2.35 hours. Have asked to cancel and refund charges since they can't confirm a return flight. They advise me to call airline myself and request refund. I advised them this can't be done since the flight is not confirmed. They have also said they can't refund the booking fee. I am still on hold with Marie in a foreign country. Another 30 min since they have been trying to get through to corporate in the U.S. This is sooo bad. I will advise any and all people to AVOID Expedia like the plague!!!
Reviewed March 18, 2016
I booked a Tampa, FL hotel through Expedia on 2 Mar. 2016 price $109 a night. On 4 Mar. 2016 the exact same room through Expedia was $95 a night. I contacted Expedia about this & their best price guarantee. They responded: "In our commitment to provide you the best price online, we will refund the difference and give you a $50 travel coupon 6-8 weeks once you have completed your travel, if you find a better one for the exact itinerary 48 hours prior to check in."
At that time, I could have canceled my reservation that I made on 2 Mar. & rebook at the new rate, but I chose to take Expedia for their word that they would refund the difference. Upon completion of my stay, I contacted Expedia for the refund. I was told that I could no longer receive a refund because I had already completed my stay! That I needed to submit for the best price guarantee through an attached link, but I was unable to complete the form because my stay was complete. Lying to customers outright! The quantity of money is not the issue, the manner in which they handle the issue or us as customers is! I will never use Expedia again & I am encouraging everyone I know to do the same.
Reviewed March 17, 2016
I can't believe how long I spent on the phone trying to cancel my hotel reservation. After speaking to 7 different representatives, I was told it was booked on the WRONG DATE. I spent a total of over 45 min. on the phone.
Reviewed March 16, 2016
I booked a trip to Portugal with Expedia.ca in the late fall of 2015. The online booking went fine, but then in December I received a notice that my reservation had changed. The booking agent had not left enough time (40 min.) to get to the last gate of our return journey in Newark, so we would have to wait 8 hours for this last flight of our three return flights. I phoned Expedia, and an agent tried to change it while I waited for a good hour on the phone, only to find the airline (Air Canada) using a United flight, would not comply, and we would have to wait the 8 hours or pay more.
I chose Expedia because I thought we could get a better deal, but this was not. Also I had difficulty checking in twice, when we left Canada and when we left Portugal because the check-in codes had changed, so I had to phone them again. On departure from Portugal, the code only checked us into Faro, and we were informed that we would have to recheck our luggage in Lisbon with United, which involved retrieving the luggage and going through the whole procedure again. The flights themselves were fine, but the last wait time was brutal, after being up for at least 14 hours. I think this could have been handled better.
Reviewed March 16, 2016
Do not purchased their insurance as they will rip you off! First of all, if you cancel your flight, they charge a fee of $300 for rebooking. Not only that, when you call to rebook it, it takes at least 3 hours to do so. After that, if you have any leftover credits, they tell "you have another year to rebook". Sure enough, you think you understand because the person you talk to speaks broken english and you can understand every other word they say and you repeat yourself to make sure you understand. 6 months go by and I tried to rebook my leftover credits, they tell me that my credits expire 9 months ago.
Why DID the person tell me I have a year left to rebook my trip from rebooking it? Spent 6 hours on phone for them to tell me basically there is nothing else they can do because the credits expired and the person who told me I had a year to rebook is probably no longer there or no way of tracking that person. What a waste of my time and money! Never using Expedia again for terrible communication and service! Good luck for those who are willing to try and gamble their money and time away! Probably better off going directly to the airline/Hotel.
Reviewed March 15, 2016
I recently booked a hotel through Expedia and noticed it was far cheaper on a competing website. I submitted it to Expedia with correct screenshots showing all of the needed info. Expedia responded saying it did not meet the requirement. It was a general response and it was tailored for a flight and not a hotel. I double and triple checked the submission and it was correct. I went to cancel with Expedia, but since they took days to respond the other site was sold out. Completely dissatisfied.
Reviewed March 15, 2016
I booked a holiday through Expedia, flight, car rental, cancellation insurance. I thought everything was all in order until we had an issue with a passport. I called to check on our cancellation insurance and it turned out we did not have any. We were billed for it, we paid for it but we never got it. They did say they would refund the cost of the insurance but I am still out the cost of the ticket and I thought it would be a good idea to confirm the rest of the trip myself. The other bookings appear to be ok. I am only out the cost of one ticket and an hour and a half of my time. The phone calls were toll free on the bright side.
Reviewed March 14, 2016
Rented a vehicle on the Expedia website 9 passenger SUV. Showed up to the AVIS counter and was told AVIS only has 8 passenger SUV's. Called Expedia and they said they would not refund the vehicle even now they admitted the mistake. Caused us to travel in 2 vehicles, definitely do not recommend using this service on their website.
Reviewed March 14, 2016
We booked a day tour through Expedia for a city while we were traveling. The night before the tour the tour operator cancelled as there had been an accident, and the intended vehicle for the tour could neither be replaced, nor repaired in time. Expedia has said they were "processing my refund" multiple times, but it's been 5 months and still no refund. They have a lot of excuses, and absolutely no desire to see the email I received direct from the operator explaining that the cancelled tour was not our fault and that a refund was due. They're happy to take your money, but not give it back. They have lied to me and other services I had involved about the provision of this refund. This is extremely poor service, and although I was a long time user of the site, I will not use it again. I have no faith in their trustworthiness as a company any more.
Reviewed March 14, 2016
I called expedia last week to book a flight and car for my family vacation in July. I was on the phone with the representative from the Philippines for one hour and 15 min., going over all the details. I got a good deal and was very happy. When I was ready to give my details to book the deal, I was told to hold on. The representative left me holding on for about 20 mins. Finally, after 30 minutes, I realized she is not coming back. I was very upset since this was a long phone call and this was my first time using Expedia. I decided to give it another try and called back again last night.
Again, I was on the phone with a representative from the Philippines. I asked her why I was not speaking to someone in the United States, Is this a foreign company? I did not feel comfortable speaking with someone who didn't understand some of what I was saying. She responded by asking me If I had any Philippine friends. I explained to her my experience last week and this is why I was questioning the call. To which she did not seem apologetic and simply had no response to it. I proceeded to give her all my details.
Again I was happy with the outcome and I asked if she now needed my credit card information. She responded by telling me, "let me just finish with the booking and I will take your details". I said "thank you", and was placed on hold again. Five minutes later, I heard a dial tone. I was hung up on again! I was now outraged, since this was the 2nd time and another lengthy call that took one hour, to no satisfaction. I called back the company and asked to speak to a supervisor, was put on hold again for 15 mins. and finally connected to someone.
Again I explained my experience to the supervisor. She apologized and said "let me help you". I gave her all my details. I did not get disconnected this time, but the deal she gave me was not as good as the two previous representatives. At this point, I was too upset to use this company, and wanted to file a complaint. I asked for a local number where I could speak to someone in management. I dialed the number she gave me and again had to wait about 10/15 minutes for a representative to come on the phone. OMG, I was given the number to the Philippines again, and they wanted to transfer me to the same department I just got off the phone with. All in all, I am very unhappy and will never call expedia.com for any travel arrangements again!
Reviewed March 13, 2016
My husband was traveling halfway across the country for military duty. I booked a hotel for him for his 2 weeks near the base through Expedia. When he arrived, he discovered the hotel - he has a reservation and does not exist! I called Expedia - to verify that we would not be charged for the reservation. I was on the phone with them for nearly 30 minutes. I spoke with two different customer service agents who each had to call and confirm that said hotel did not exist. They each came back on the line and said "Yeah - that hotel is not operational." - No kidding!
Reviewed March 13, 2016
The hotel I booked in Los Cabos cancelled my booking because AMEX was not accepted. I immediately made a complaint with Expedia. I did my research and found the hotel website accepts AMEX, hence I told Expedia about it next day after I made the complaint. The escalation team did nothing in 18 days, despite telling me that they will contact me within 5-7 days. A disgrace and appalling service insulting customers. I have wrote another negative review and they started apologising to me, with promises of escalating the issue. I'm flying in 10 days and they did absolutely nothing. I suspect Expedia cancelled the booking not the hotel. Outrageous. Expedia deserves 0 stars, not even 1! Don't ever book with them.
Reviewed March 13, 2016
I made reservations using my email and password. Now they have my money and my account no longer recognizes my email or password. I have asked to have password reset, 14 hours later no response... I thought it was automated. I will NEVER use Expedia again. Would not recommend anyone else use them either.
Reviewed March 13, 2016
Booked vacation and Expedia charged my CC. Week before leaving I checked with airlines and Expedia did not confirm the flights. Then I checked Hotel and again the hotel had no reservations. Tried calling Expedia 4 times to resolve and all 4 times I was transferred to a call center overseas. Not only I was put on hold for hrs at a time, I was hung up on and never received a call back. To re-book this vacation package would almost double the cost. So because of Expedia's bad service, not fulfilling their obligation, I had to call my CC company to claim fraud on Expedia's part.
Reviewed March 11, 2016
I have booked the traveling arrangements for my wedding thru Expedia as well as advised my friends and family that are coming to my wedding to do the same. This was obviously a mistake on my part, I've used Expedia my entire life and on the one special occasion I have booked, I've had the worst customer care. I just want to inform you of my recent phone conversations and just how they went so you can make a judgment if you would do business with Expedia since my friends, family or myself will not be returning to do any more business with Expedia.
On 3-1-16, I called Expedia after I noticed that my original flight reservation had changed. Keep in mind I checked randomly myself, I never received any email or phone call to inform me of said change. I live in Biloxi and am traveling to the Bahamas for my wedding. Travel dates are for May 22nd 2016-May 27th 2016. The original flight was booked as American Airlines GPT-CLT 6:00 AM -8:53 AM American Airlines CLT-NAS 9:45 AM-12:03 PM. The change I noted at the time was (A. I) GPT-CLT 8:45 AM-11:15 AM (A. I) CLT-NAS 9:45 AM-12:03 PM. As you can see, the flights no longer correlated with each other, that was my only concern.
So, when I called customer service to ask if this issue would resolve itself (change again) or if I needed to be arranged to a different flight I was almost immediately frustrated by the agent. He could not speak very good English and he definitely was having problems understanding it as well. The entire 30 minutes were very frustrating to try and get thru. All I was asking was do we need to reschedule our flight or will it change again and us just wait. He wasn't understanding the problem with the flight already so I repeated myself multiple times. After about the 4th time he then told me "No, This is not your problem... your problem is the first flight does not match the connecting flight." This being exactly what I was saying I agreed. He mumbled on about things I couldn't understand.
The conversation ended with me very confused and highly frustrated. So, when I realized the agent changed the flight completely where it connects now in a different city and instead of arriving at our destination at 12 pm we arrive at 5 pm. Which we already had plans set that can no longer happen due to the time change. I proceeded to call Expedia... Again to try and rectify the problem. Well, the second conversation was way worse. The phone conversation lasted 2 hours and 30 minutes with only the talk time being about 30 minutes. The first person a spoke with, another agent; I explained the problem and stated that I wanted either a full refund or my flight to arrive in the Bahamas at 12 PM like the original reservation that was changed without my knowledge.
She took me in circles offering even worse traveling options until I was so frustrated that I demanded a refund (which they say is no problem on their site). The agent then transferred me to her supervisor, Lessa. The supervisor was very nice and even though she had me on hold more than she was speaking with me, she told me everything I wanted to hear. She said she would fix the problem right now, she offered me another flight option that arrived at the times I originally had. I agreed to this offer, which is all I wanted from the beginning. After the supervisor agreed that this was an Agent error and I accepted the new flight offer she then said that the manager was the only one who could make the changes. Even though I had already been on hold for 1 hour and 25 minutes I had to be put back on hold for the manager.
After about 15 minutes she returned to the phone and said that if I hung up I would not be allowed to receive this offer again and that I must be on hold for another hour to wait for the manager. So, reluctantly, I stayed on hold because I badly wanted this issue fixed so I could have a good start to my wedding. So, an hour later, the manager, Victor, gets on the phone and after I repeated myself for what seemed like the tenth time, he puts me back on hold... Again. Then he gets back on the phone and says since Expedia conveniently didn't record my conversation where the first agent screwed up my reservation they could not prove it was the agent's fault. Therefore, if I wanted to make these flight changes it would be $400.
I obviously refused to pay that since it wasn't my fault to begin with and I was just told that these changes just quickly needed to be completed by the manager. The manager refused to give me a refund, he stated the airlines hold all the funds once it's paid and it was out of his hands. On the Expedia site it states they give refunds and make changes at no additional cost. My question to him was what is the point of Expedia if once I pay you it is out of your hands. He did not have an answer for me and the conversation ended with him stating that there could still be changes and have a nice day. I am way overwhelmed with this customer service. My advice for future shoppers, DO NOT USE EXPEDIA, your purchase is NOT GUARANTEED. Go straight to the source!!! (Airlines, Hotels, Etc.)
Reviewed March 11, 2016
I am a Gold Expedia member. This is the second time it has happened. I needed to change my flight. First time they booked the wrong flight and I had to fight with them and call like 8 times to get it changed. Every time call will go to Philippines and you start over. This is the second time after waiting for one hour to get authorization from the airline to make the change. Call got disconnected or was disconnected and no one called me back. If this is their GOLD support. I better find other travel agency. Expedia, better fix your support else you will lose customers like me who spend $ with you!!
Reviewed March 10, 2016
I booked roundtrip tickets and when I didn't receive a confirmation, access my Expedia account to find a 'note' to the itinerary that the price has increased by $300 giving me option to confirm if I wanted them. Naturally, did not. Booked another set of flights and received that confirmed itinerary quickly. Because Expedia is a bit difficult to understand - I called customer service to confirm I had not been charged for initial booking. Rep confirmed the initial booking had not been confirmed but 2nd booking was confirmed. The next credit card bill showed BOTH bookings had been charged - and the initial booking at the initial price! Although it has increased in price... I have called - spent HOURS being moved from person to person, re-explaining the situation, being put on hold for 10-20-30 minutes. Expedia will not return the money. Yet.
Reviewed March 9, 2016
Booked Air. Promised 55% discount on hotel as a "Special" since I booked air. Clicked. Offer changed to 35% discount. Searched and found a place. 35% off. 250$/night. On beach. Steep for us but we Booked it. Call 10 mins later from Property Manager. There is construction... balcony will be sealed. Noise. Nothing on Expedia site about this. After talking to my wife two hours later called Expedia Customer Support to express dissatisfaction and get a different but equal arrangement. Customer Service guy was so agreeable but ended up he really didn't hear a word I was saying. He cancelled and offered us a motel for 150% a night. Not near beach. He offered another for almost $500/night... too much.
Finally I said, "can we get our original reservation back. I'll put up with it." Answer "No." We had to contact proprietor. He gave us same deal but was huffy. Made me feel small. I blame it on Expedia. No upfront info on Construction (glad the guy called us). Customer Service Rep not empowered to make us whole... didn't even try. Lots of runaround and bad feeling after whole experience. Never again Expedia. The Expedia Rep said nice things but basically he was just using the Website like us to give us another deal... not empowered to solve our issue at all or address Expedia's oversights.
Reviewed March 9, 2016
We were going to Ft Lauderdale to visit a sick friend. We booked a bundle deal flight, hotel and car. There were 4 adults. I know I asked the girl whether the car would have a GPS and she said yes. I also said at times there may be 5 adults in this car. She responded that will be fine. So we trusted her and when we arrived at the airport we had a car would only fit 1 large suitcase and 4 adults squeezed in like sardines. They said the only thing to do was upgrade. Another 175 dollars to do that, at first we were going to upgrade. Everyone was really aggravated about it and I felt like a donkey because I did all the planning. We put a 29 inch in the back vertical the 21 inch in the front on someone's lap and somehow made it to the hotel.
I called 3 times when I came home since this is the 3rd time I have used Expedia. They said I had no recourse and I could tell they didn't care. I told them I will never do this horrible company again. First of all why would someone give you a golf car for 4 adults with no room for luggage? If she had of been upfront when I was on the phone I would have agreed to it but she wasn't at all. I have been in retail for 17 yrs and I know what customer service is and this company sucks. Now 4 people will never use them again and I will tell as many people as I can not to use them too. Goodbye Expedia and thanks for the lies.
Reviewed March 9, 2016
I booked a one night stay at a hotel using the "mystery hotel" to get "deep discounts of up to 40% off". This is where you don't learn the name of the hotel until after you book and pay for the room. I have used this feature on other websites and received fairly good deals... Not tonight. Tonight after I received the hotel's name I went to the hotel's website to get their rate for the room. Imagine my surprise when the rate quoted on the hotel's website was less than my "deeply discounted price" quoted was more than the hotel's website price!
Then to add insult to injury when I tried to email the company and wrote up my experience, the system said the email form was "off-line", so I lost the whole write up. Since it then suggested I call if I still had an issue I did and spent 25 minutes on line with Alora who tried to get a manager to help me. Finally, after trying to politely hang up twice (they can call you back if you hang up, but they cannot call you back when their manager is free... You HAVE to wait on hold in person) I finally convinced Alora that I was done talking and would simply post my experience.
Reviewed March 9, 2016
I reserved a hotel in Cabo San Lucas over the weekend. Expedia emailed the confirmation and itinerary to me. On Tuesday I received an email that the reservation is canceled. I was on the phone for hours with Expedia that night. The result is that they don't know why it was canceled and they want me to rebook it again only now it is about $500.00 more. I have never used Expedia before and I never will again. What a scam.
Reviewed March 9, 2016
My first few calls to Expedia were for information only. I was looking at Cuba initially, and when I called Expedia it was to question where would I travel to get the best value for the Canadian dollar. I was told Mexico was the most favourable for the exchange rate and value. I booked into the Iberostar Del Mar, and the deciding factor was that I could use all five resorts' facilities from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., but had to be back on my resort for dinner and entertainment. Based on this information I booked the trip with a male agent. The cost was about $3400 including travel insurance.
During my next call, the female agent advised me that I had been misinformed, and that I could only use the facilities of the Beach and Del Mar resorts, that I would have to upgrade to use the other resorts' facilities. I immediately asked for a refund, and was denied. I asked to speak with a manager, and was told I would get a call back. I called back in the next day to again complain, and asked that the taped conversation I had with the male agent, be reviewed by a manager, and again asked for a refund. Again denied! It took three days for the manager to respond to me, with a brief message asking me to again call the queue and leave another message for a call back.
Two days before my flight I had not received my electronic tickets, and called back into Expedia to find out why. I was on the line for over a half hour, while they arranged to get my tickets to me. When I got to the airport I had two Air Canada itineraries with my correct name and my Air Canada tickets missing my middle name, so the automated check-in asked me to line up. Staff at the airport at 4 a.m. is not readily available, and I ended up in three different queues, before actually getting to the right one. This was pretty poor, and the same thing happened on the way home. I tried to use the airport terminal, and it advised me that I would have to wait in line again.
These are my questions to Expedia when I returned from my vacation: Why was I initially misinformed about the resort? Why did it take 3 days to get a manager's call back? Why did the manager not leave a direct line for a call back, or try to reach me again later? How could the tickets be issued missing my middle name? Why have I still not heard back about the recording, to prove the agent misinformed me? Why has the manager not followed up to ensure that I am a happy client??? All of these questions are customer service gaps that impact the quality of the customer experience provided by Expedia. Will I use Expedia again? It depends on how they address my concerns and questions. I am still waiting.
Reviewed March 8, 2016
Every time I start a reservation but don't complete it, the rate increases when Expedia causes me to start over. Sure rates can change, but not EVERY TIME a reservation times out during the reservation process. If this happens to you, go direct to the airline and book your flight/ trip. Don't give them the sale. Thieves. Post it here.
Reviewed March 8, 2016
My family booked a cruise through Expedia online. In our booking we requested early dining seating. When confirmations arrived we were booked for the late seating. I called Expedia directly to inquire about the mixup. I was told that there was no early dining reservations available for our cruise and to keep calling back and possibly there would be an opening or else upon arrival to the cruise "ask" the Maître D' to change our seats. I have since called back three times with no progress. There apparently are two waiting lists open (not 5) so they could separate my family from one another. I asked the operator on the phone to connect me with a Manager so I could share my disappointment with Expedia and have been on hold for 1 hour waiting for a manager to answer. This travel agency has no clout or concern about their customers. I would NOT recommend Expedia to anyone under any circumstances.
Reviewed March 7, 2016
I booked a weekend trip through Expedia over two months ago. Our reservation was for a three night stay in a single room with two queen beds at the Columbus Marriott Northwest in Dublin, Ohio. Three days before our trip I called the Hotel to confirm our reservation. We were informed that Expedia had only booked us for two nights instead of three. Our confirmation email that we received months ago confirmed that we had been booked and PAID for three nights. I called Expedia and the woman I spoke to assured me that although there had been an error on their end it was fixed and we would be set to check in for the correct amount of days. We got to the Marriott at 1 am on the night we were supposed to check in (due to a snow storm) and were informed that there was no reservation for us until the next night and that they had no available rooms so they had to turn us away.
Not only did they say that but they also informed us that they had to turn away MULTIPLE people that night who had booked through Expedia for the same reason. Once again I spent about an hour on the phone with Expedia trying to fix this situation since we had to be up early the next morning for our trip. Then ended up sending us to another hotel close by for that night which was extremely inconvenient because it's now 2 am and we had to unpack everything to get ready for the next day and then repack by the next morning to check out which wasted time on our short vacation.
We asked if Expedia would just switch our reservation to that hotel for all three days so we wouldn't have to waste time and part of our trip moving to the other hotel in the morning. They told us that we would be responsible for cancellation fees and that they would only cover what we paid for the Marriott since the hotel they CHOSE to put us in was more expensive. I think that this is AWFUL customer service. If your company makes a mistake not once but twice on someone's reservation the least they can do is cover the part of the trip that they messed up. Not only did they refuse to give us any consolation for the hassle that they caused us, but the woman I spoke to got annoyed with me for being upset about the situation and informed me that she didn't have to fix anything if she didn't want to. Terrible business move. So we decide there's nothing to do except spend one night at one hotel and then move to the Marriott the next day.
Morning comes and we are all packed and ready to get our trip started. I run into the lobby of the hotel to hand them our keys to check out. The woman at the front desk informs me that Expedia booked that room for TWO nights (that they already told me they won't pay for) and we can't check out because there is a 24 hour cancellation policy. Once again I find myself wasting time on the phone with Expedia because now we have TWO hotels for the night. I'd like to point out that every time I called Expedia I was transferred multiple times and had to re-explain the situation over and over again. Expedia tells me that if we chose to stay at the Hotel that is more expensive (even though they booked it for two nights because they screwed up... again) that we would be responsible for paying for that night. So an hour later of just sitting in a lobby on our vacation Expedia finally cancels the one hotel and sends us on our way to the Marriot.
We checked into the Marriot and got into our room with two double beds, not two queen beds. This wouldn't have been an issue normally but we had two larger people on the trip who could barely fit into the bed together. We called the front desk to see if there had been yet another mistake and they informed us that they don't even have rooms with two queen beds. So the information that was on Expedia was not true. At this point I was so worn out with Expedia that I decided to just let it go and our friends had to make it work with two uncomfortable nights. I never write bad reviews for places. I am very flexible and laid back but this was just unacceptable. If I had a business and my employees screwed up THREE times for a three day weekend trip I would do anything I could to make sure that customer was happy.
I wasn't expecting them to pay for our trip but I do believe we should have at least been given the courtesy of staying in the nicer hotel for three nights with them paying the difference between what we had already paid. Instead we had to move around while we were supposed to be out enjoying our trip. I spent a total of three hours and fifteen minutes on the phone with them during this "vacation." This added so much stress to our trip and set us back with our arrival times that we missed half a day at our convention that we paid to be at because of them. I will NEVER book through Expedia again and the three others on the trip feel the same way. I hope if you decide to take the risk with them you are prepared to waste time and energy trying to fix their mistakes on your vacation.
Reviewed March 7, 2016
We have booked our honeymoon back in July 2014, with a returned ticket from Istanbul to Perth through Expedia, flying with Air Malaysia. After the crash on the 17th of July of MH17, the airline released the following statement: "In light of the recent tragedy of MH17 on 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines will adapt the below policy effective immediately until Thursday, 24 July 2014. Passengers who wish to postpone or cancel their travel plans can obtain a refund, including for non-refundable tickets." So we did ask for a refund. After 100 of emails, phone calls to your contact center, providing all our bank statements and everything we could have think of, we never received our refund.
We took your company to court here in Perth, but no one showed up. We won the case. But still have to chase our money... 2 weeks ago, we have decided to send another letter with the court order to your two offices, we believe, in Sydney and also head office in the USA. We have received finally a phone call, where AGAIN, we need to send all our bank statements. Today, so 20 MONTHS LATER, we have received our money back! $1473.06, with just an email to confirm refund. Not even an apology, or compensation with the time and money spent calling, court fees, stamps, interests that we have lost for that time... And STRESS! We will definitely not recommend your company and will NEVER book anything with you either. I'm sure we are not the only one, and you must have make good money from all of us. An advice for others like us: NEVER GIVE UP!
Reviewed March 7, 2016
Booked a round trip ticket to Kelowna Canada from Baltimore, MD for a Helicopter ski trip. Expedia's website said after booking the ticket I could go to the Air Canada website to get seat assignments. This of course turned out to not be true. On the website it said I would need to call Air Canada to get my seat assignments. So I call Air Canada only to find out it would cost an additional $200+ to reserve a regular seat, not an upgraded seat of any kind. Obviously after paying nearly $700 for a round trip ticket I was not going to be reamed for a regular seat. They then told me I could book for free less than 24 hours before take off. Well with a trip costing over $7000 I was not anxious to take the chance that the airline would be overbooked and miss the shuttle which is a $2000 shuttle to the lodge if you miss the regular shuttle.
After an hour+ on the phone with Air Canada I then called Expedia and informed them that their directions to reserve seats on aircanada.com was not a possibility and that after calling the airline was informed there would be significant additional costs. So 2 hours on the phone with Expedia and a customer service supervisor and then with someone in their corporate office, yielded no help whatsoever and I was told they had no responsibility for what they put on their website. Absolutely did not care and took no responsibility for their booking mechanism. So my advice is never book on Expedia. Worst customer experience ever and their lack of informing the customer of the actual booking terms is just a way to get your booking and money upfront, then ream you for some more money.
So I called Air Canada again and explained that Expedia had incorrect information for booking a ticket with them. They also agreed Expedia should have made the terms of booking a ticket on Air Canada through Expedia available before booking of the ticket was finalized. Fortunately for me I got a great guy at Air Canada customer service named Conrad who booked my seats and gave me a discount despite the fact it was not Air Canada's fault as their terms are made quite clear if you book on their site. Mind you I still do not like the idea of paying just to reserve a regular seat after purchasing a ticket at a not so cheap price, but at least they inform you before the purchase and I could at least have elected not to book that type of ticket.
I will continue to fly Air Canada and book directly through them as they saw fit to take care of me as the customer. But I will never book as much as a 1-day car rental through Expedia. They really do not care about their customers or take responsibility for their lack of information when booking an airline ticket. Avoid them at all cost and use someone else like Kayak or Priceline. At least they stand behind their product.

Reviewed March 7, 2016
I booked a flight + hotel for my family to NYC through Expedia. The room I selected, at the Courtyard by Marriott Chelsea, showed a king bed with a sofa-bed. Under its room information, it also said "sofa bed, iron/ironing board, and desk." But when I called Expedia immediately after booking our trip to verify that we would have a sofa bed (which we needed for our kid), they said that our room didn't actually have a sofa bed. They said that Courtyard by Marriott Chelsea was sold out of those rooms. I was put on hold for 20 min before talking to a manager. I then called Courtyard by Marriott Chelsea and got a very rude and condescending reservations woman who offered no help. I don't know who's to blame at Expedia - Expedia, the hotels, or both - but getting a different room than the one you PAID for is blatant, illegal false advertising.
Reviewed March 7, 2016
My friends and I received a cancellation voucher to Cancun, Mexico for AeroMexico. I was on the phone with Expedia callcenter 6 times within 3 days, each times averages about 3 hrs long. I've been hung up, placed on phone for 30 mins without returning, checking up on me even with their Supervisors. I spoken to Ann, Stephanie, James and another Ann then Damaria in both locations Philippines and Central America. Both supervisors made their promises and never contacted me. Each time, I complained and informed James the supervisor at Central America (El Salvador) to please call me back should we get disconnected and of course he did not.
I waited for him 20 mins and of course no phone call. I had asked for a direct dial to James. He said there's no direct dial and they don't make outbound calls. That's a lie. I'm currently on the phone with Damaria, a customer service rep. I ended up hanging up after 30 mins since I can't wait any longer. Damaria actually called me back so there is outbound calls. I am still waiting to use my cancellation vouchers about $3K from Expedia on my flights. I don't suggest booking for a third party. Why is it so hard just to rebook and use my own credit? Do not ever use them. Very disappointed!
Reviewed March 6, 2016
The airline cancelled my flight and I had to change for a much (would be) cheaper flight and they would not offer anything to make the situation better. They put me on 3 long holds hoping that I would go away and kept repeating the same thing over and over which was not helpful at all. For some reason whoever you talk to is a "supervisor". I think they look into the garbage for idiots and pay them nothing and give them a title to make them happy (truly a corporate attitude). I will never deal with them again. The good thing is that internet companies can go down as fast as they come on top. Good Bye Expedia, you are on your deathbed.
Reviewed March 5, 2016
Where to begin. Last year we booked a trip through EXPEDIA on memorial weekend. They took our money and we drove 6 hours to our destination to find out they canceled our reservation with no warning and no refund. It was Memorial weekend so there were no hotels available and EXPEDIA did not care at all and did nothing about it. So dumb of us, we tried to book another trip with them where they so-called do price match guarantee. False advertisement!!! We sent them 10 emails and they kept declining it with no reason. We canceled the reservation with EXPEDIA and will never book anything through them again!!! Be warned! They don't price match and they only care about taking your money. Their customer service is the worst.
Reviewed March 5, 2016
Well I was in the process of booking my trip to Florida for my son's wedding. At the end to make the payment of booking my reservations, it showed a message, "sorry unable to process, try again." So I did over and over and over again 5 times which took me approximately 8 hours, each times the price went higher. My tickets the first time would had been $300. So by the time I was so frustrated I called the 1-800 # to see what was the problem.
After explaining to the man my situation, he just kept telling me that their systems were down and that he will try to give me a coupon for $25 for my inconvenience and that he apologize for what I went through. When I told him that $25 wasn't enough, because now my tickets cost $395 I then tell him I wanted to speak to a manager. He said for me to hold. Next thing what happened was that he hung up on me. I wanted to kick his assistant for being so unprofessional. I'm 62 yrs of age and I didn't deserve that disrespect of someone that was suppose to help me. So, I will never use this site again (Expedia). So, I went to another site and got my tickets with no problem and cheaper. I was just fuming at how mad that person made me.
Reviewed March 5, 2016
I booked a cruise on Expedia as they were one of the companies in the marketplace for my employer, therefore I earned points on the purchase. This was the only reason I did not book through the cruise line directly. I was told I was guaranteed a balcony on the deck or above that I chose, but then find out when I am booked in the lowest category available that this is untrue. I contact them immediately but am told the cruise line has no other rooms on the level I selected and offers me a onboard credit since they were more than 200 higher than the cruise line. 30 minutes after the call I book and pay for my parents' room as a balcony guarantee only to find out they are assigned the level I requested.
I speak with the cruise line today and I am advised they had the room last week and still have it today. I call Expedia back regarding this only to be laughed at by the customer service agent and called a liar once again when I refused to pay an upgrade fee since the rates have increased. Had they booked it last week when I requested the rates would not have increased. I speak with a manager who is no help either and therefore because of having a child with a disability I will be spending my entire cruise in the room while my family and other children are having a vacation. I learned a valuable lesson and will not ever be using Expedia for anything again and may not be using the cruise line with which I have sailed with many times. There is no accommodations for disabled customers when using Expedia.
Reviewed March 5, 2016
I booked an all inclusive trip for 4 adults to Riviera Maya Barcelo Colonial through AARP Travel powered by Expedia. Expedia says Best price guarantee. I booked over the phone on Feb. 18th. They farm their work out to foreigners that are hard to understand. I got hung up on once just as I was going to pay. Had to call back and start all over. The very next morning they lowered their price. I called immediately and got the runaround and had to book the whole vacation through the online process and submit a form along with screenshots. I supplied everything that the person on the phone told me to. I got an email saying I would be contacted in 48 hours. I sent an email back when I did not hear anything. I called 6 days later and again got the runaround and was on the phone for over an hour and a half with no resolution. I filed a complaint with AARP hoping for resolution.
Today March 4th, I get a call saying they apologized for not responding in the time they said but unfortunately because I did not send a screenshot of the hotel room I selected, I was ineligible for the best price guarantee. What a crock! If they had responded as they said in a timely manner, I could have gotten them the information and once you select which room you want, that screen goes to the next screen. They are running a scam! I will never book through AARP or Expedia again. I'm Apple Vacations all the way. I have always used Apple with no problems but thought I would take advantage of my AARP membership. Boy am I regretting that decision. I wasn't even asking for a price match from another company. It was their very own company. They agreed the day I called that the price had dropped. But they refuse to honor their "best price guarantee"... Boo on them and AARP!
Reviewed March 4, 2016
After cancelling a trip I spent over 3 hours on the phone re-booking another flight. A simple task that I could have accomplished in 10 minutes myself online turned into a 3 hour ordeal with repeated transfers and foreign customer service reps that were not very good at their jobs!!! Do not use under any circumstance.
Reviewed March 3, 2016
Pay for my cruise. They twice and first time they said payment didn't went through and got a email of payment. Paid again, they collect the money and send back to my bank. Now no payment went through and now they want $600 more for the same cruise. Never again. BE CAREFUL. THEY PLAY YOU and nobody knows what's the problem.
Reviewed March 3, 2016
Just booked a weekend in Ft. Lauderdale through Expedia. I had a very bad room and called to complain. YOU ARE IN NO WAY GOING TO SPEAK TO AN AMERICAN PERSON. I was double charged and thank you to my bank for reversing the charges. First call was to Central America, the next to Manila. I still have not spoken to an American representative. Concerns were never resolved. The website is not even working fully so you can leave an email complaint. I will never use them again.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
Like most people, I have a middle name that I go by instead of my first name. My Expedia.com profile has my correct travel profile (among others including family members and coworkers). For some reason when I booked my multi-leg trip with multiple airlines, it used my user profile which has my middle name as my first name, and no personal information associated with travel (DOB, address, frequent flyer profile, etc.). I fully understand that it is my fault that I did not catch this right before hitting "purchase" as I am used to seeing my middle name.
Past the 24 hour post-booking full refund window (which I now have no confidence that they would have even honored in this case), I noticed this error. So I called customer service to have this corrected. "No problem, let me check the airline policy, you may have to pay a $50". OK fine. They come back and said that I had to call the airline carrier, and that they're the ones that can change it. I call the airline carrier, and they tell me "No problem, we can do this with no fee... oh but wait, since this reservation involves another airline, if we change this, it will corrupt your reservation so we can’t, you need Expedia to do this.” The second airline carrier basically stated the same thing when I called them.
2nd call to Expedia; different agent but explained the situation, “Ok, let me speak to my supervisor and call you back”, I gave them my number but they never returned my call. 3rd call to Expedia; yet a different agent who insisted on the same recommendation as the first agent, that I had to call the airline carriers to make the change. I asked if I could simply cancel the reservation and rebook using the credit but with the correct names. They said that the airline carriers would not allow it, even though I explained that the airlines individually agreed to the name change. I asked to speak to a supervisor and was put on hold for more than 30 minutes and simply could not continue waiting that night as it was late.
4th call to Expedia the next day; same response. So I had the idea to call the airline agent and have a 3-way conference call with an Expedia agent. Understandably, after 40+ minutes of Expedia wait music, the airline agent had to leave. 5th call to Expedia, I decided to try the reverse at a later time, I requested that the Expedia agent attempt a 3-way call with the airline carrier. After 20 minutes of airline carrier wait music this time, the Expedia agent told me that he had been talking to the airline “on the side” and a conference call was “not necessary” and that he can go ahead and cancel and rebook under my correct name. Great! He was in the middle of rebooking and the call dropped. But I remembered his name. Eric!
6th call to Expedia, I explained that “Eric” was in the middle of rebooking my flights because [long explanation blahblahblah]… “Ok, let me put you on hold and speak to my supervisor.” Call drops. Mind you, I had to endure average wait times of 20+ minutes at the start of each of these calls. 7th call with Expedia, this time a call back from that previous agent. “We couldn’t find this Eric agent, but I see in your record what the problem is and sorry, you have to call TSA to make the change, as much as I want to help you, there’s nothing we can do.” TSA!!!
At this point I was ** losing it. Again, I asked if I could cancel and transfer the credit, and they said that the credit is directly associated with the specific name on the ticket and is not transferrable, so basically, I could never use it, unless I officially swap my first and middle names, or find someone with my middle name as their first name and my same last name and have them pay me to give him my credit. Ridiculous, but my mind went that far.
I decided to contact the first airline carrier and to have them change the name forfeiting the flights with the second carrier (since they were cheaper, I had planned to rebook and pay that fare again). They ultimately would not, citing again corruptions to my reservation that they would not be willing to be liable for. They told me “you could risk it and just try to board the day of travel.” Unfortunately, my official travel documents do not list my middle name.
In the end after 6+ hours on the phone, completely defeated, I rebooked the flights at full cost forfeiting the entire Expedia reservation and value. Can’t win them all. I am simply flabbergasted that a multibillion dollar company like Expedia has created a massive wall of a system completely devoid of providing simple, logical, and reasonable communications and services to resolve what in my opinion is such a minor customer request but with significant consequences. As a result, I will NEVER use Expedia services again and am making an effort to prevent this experience from happening to other consumers by sharing mine. Thank you for reading.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
It is March 1st, 10:29 PM (MST). At about 8:30 pm, I went online to book a round trip from Phoenix to Atlanta. Frontier was offering an amazing deal so I went ahead and proceeded with the booking. I was able to choose a return flight (Delta) at no extra cost. I proceeded to put my credit card info in and clicked submit. While waiting on the process the screen goes away and I am back at the original screen where I put in my account info. So, I check my bank account. I now have a pending transaction for Delta and a transaction of $4.00 for Expedia so I call Expedia immediately. Rep gets on the phone after waiting 5 minutes. I proceed to tell him what happened. He of course apologizes and states that the system has a glitch.
I asked him if he showed any type of confirmation on his end of my booking or the funds pending for just Delta. He states no. I asked him to remove the transaction. He states he cannot do that but assures me that the transaction will go away in 24 hours. I reply by telling him this is not going to work for me and that as easy as it was to create the transaction then it is easy enough to remove the transaction. He states he cannot do this. I ask for a Supervisor. Now on hold for 52 minutes. Alex the supervisor gets on the phone and I have to go through the whole ordeal once again. It has been an additional 23 minutes. So, while on hold again I use a secondary phone and call Delta. I speak with a rep to find out if she sees any of my info or a booking. She states she sees my name but no booking, no flight.
Supervisor Alex gets back on the phone with me from Expedia only to tell me that the booking is not confirmed and that it will take at least 72 hours to see the transaction removed. I get upset and tell him that I am going to report Expedia to Consumer Affairs. That does not phase him. He continues to apologize. He then tells me that I can call back in the morning and speak to their credit card authorization department. So, we hang up. I get back on my bank account only to see a transaction for Frontier for $104 then I get an email from Frontier airlines with my trip confirmation number and my flight info. So, go straight to Frontier's site and input my last name and trip number. Nothing pops up. So, it is now 11:00 PM (MST).
I call Expedia back, sit on hold for 10 minutes. A rep answers and I go through the whole ordeal once again. This time informing her that I now have a booking confirmation for Frontier, a transaction from Frontier, a pending transaction from Delta, two transactions from Expedia and then a reversal transaction from Expedia. She flat out ask me if I booked my flight through Expedia. I about died. I could not believe she asked me that. So, I asked to speak to a supervisor once again. MING - Supervisor gets on the phone and pulls all my info only to find there is no confirmed flight through either airlines. I said "that is not possible, I can send you an email confirmation from Frontier, give me your email." She states that I would not get any email from an airline but only from Expedia.
So, in a nutshell I have to call back in the morning, sit on the phone for two hours waiting on the credit card department to get on the phone, go through my whole issue only for them to try and remove the transactions quicker than 72 hours. I do not even understand why the airline services allow this company to book their flights for them. Though a trip may be cheaper, the airline services are losing more money because the flights are not getting booked. I just don't get it. I am not worried about my funds. My bank will clean it up I am sure about that. But, as the other 3000 consumers out there who have complained about Expedia, BUYER BEWARE!!! Do not use this service. It is not a service.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
I picked up my wife at 6 pm this evening excited about our trip to Punta Cana. Having told me that a storm in Toronto had cause a delay in our departure. Disappointed but what can you do. She was on the phone with agents at Expedia trying to make the necessary arrangements to accommodate the hiccup. 5 1/2 hours later and countless number of transfers and the most appalling customer service later, we are forced to pay for a night in a hotel that we will not be in, forced to pay for a shuttle service we cannot use, forced to rebook the shuttle and pay again, forced to pay for a seven-day trip when only getting six, forced to do the milk run of flights with no guarantee of seats from Toronto to Miami and getting the proverbial shaft up the backside from a company that claims to provide the best customers service.
I now take it on as a personal mission to inform any and everyone I meet and that will listen that if they wish to be ripped off and spoken rudely to, by all means deal with Expedia. It would seem like it's their mission to get you to pay for a service and provide nothing in return. All this cause we didn't want to pay for a room that we will not be in. Every person she spoke to had a different story and attitude. Mostly rude, condescending, arrogant, and just plain disrespectful. Job well done Expedia, you moved to the front of the line with regards to the most useless company ever dealt with. Bravo on ripping us off.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
Here is what I wrote to Expedia in their customer experience survey they had the gall to send me after refusing to help me. I spent over an hour with them on their phone service trying to get the information I needed and being completely refused and after calling again the next day they said they would send me an e-mail in 24 hours in order for me to go through the whole ordeal again and now here it is 48 hours later and they still haven't sent me anything. I highly doubt they will actually pay attention considering how many customers are dissatisfied with their service and there seem to be no results for the horrible customer service.
They probably just take the dissatisfied customer's surveys and trash them. Hopefully enough people will see these dissatisfied reviews on all these sites and not use Expedia and maybe Expedia will go out of business. Anyway, the following are my exact statements to them without editing in all of the blocks they had for writing why we were dissatisfied with their service (I was able to rant in 3 different blocks. Do you think I got my point across? Probably not. They probably don't care. ):
(For this first survey they asked how they could do better in the future. The first sentence "Provide excellent customer service" was my blunt response to how they could do better. The rest of the sentences are my angry response to how they monstrously failed to provide such excellent customer service.) - Provide excellent customer service.
I requested that Expedia send me a statement either written or in e-mail that I owe Expedia a balance of $0.00 and was told by the "superior" over one of the phone clerks I talked to that Expedia's Policies and Procedures statement says that is not allowed. This is not true: nowhere in Expedia's terms of service and other statements to the public does it state that Expedia cannot send their customers a statement saying that our balance owed to Expedia after purchase is $0.00. I need that statement saying I owe $0.00 in order to not be required to pay back my employers the money they LOANED me for the hotel stay as well as for food, gas and other amenities.
Now that you guys refused to give me a simple little statement and powerfully failed to provide excellent customer service, I am now out $1,500 in my next paycheck. I have bills I need to pay with that money. I have stayed at several hotels in the past and they were all willing and able to provide a $0.00 balance statement. I do not understand why Expedia can not provide the same. I had never gone through a third-party place before, and now because of Expedia's appalling lack of communication skills and especially nightmarish lack of customer service skills, I will NEVER use Expedia again. I will also NEVER recommend Expedia to anyone and I will warn EVERYONE away from using Expedia.
All I require, for me to not have to have that money come out of my paychecks was a TINY LITTLE STATEMENT; very easy to provide, saying I have a balance with Expedia of $0.00 for the trip I made to the Nordic Motel. Had Expedia provided me that statement, I would have given Expedia TOP ratings and would use Expedia or EVERY future business trip and unrelated vacation trips I make and recommend Expedia to everyone.
Now I am going to find Expedia's biggest competitor, and use them for every business trip and unrelated vacation I make instead and with them I will use the most expensive and extravagant hotels available as well as the most expensive rental car company just to help fund them and I will also recommend them to all of my business associates. However, IF Expedia decides to provide me with the statement saying I have a balance of $0.00 for "Expedia itinerary number: **; Expedia booking ID: **; Hotel confirmation number:**" THEN and ONLY then will I reconsider my standing on this and MIGHT be persuaded to trust and use Expedia again at which point Expedia will start reaping the benefits of all my travels.
This is Expedia's choice to make. However, I will never use any company that directly nor indirectly causes me to lose out on money. No customer would ever want to use a company - YOUR company - that loses them money. Expedia's actions have shown a considerable lack of willingness to cooperate with their customers. Expedia's actions have also shown them to be an inept company, incapable of thinking on the level of an experienced business which would draw customers in instead of driving them away.
I would have been better off going directly through the hotel, then I wouldn't have to pay my employer back the $1,500 out of my next paycheck because the Nordic Motel would have given me a $0.00 balance (and the Nordic Motel DID give me a $0.00 balance on the receipt when I booked an EXTRA night through THEM. But they could only give me the balance for which I booked through them, which makes complete sense to me. They know how to treat their guests.).
Again, Expedia has atrocious customer service skills (in reality, Expedia has NO skills of which to speak). Especially after I had to spend about an hour or so on the phone trying to get them to send me this statement and being repeatedly refused. No apology Expedia makes could ever negate the stress I had to endure (and am still enduring as I have no idea how I will now be able to make my bill payments and rent) and the money I have to repay unless, again, Expedia decides it is finally willing to provide me that $0.00 balance statement for my trip. That is ALL I am asking for. It really seems unbelievable that you guys are able to provide this statement. I and my family, friends and co-workers are astonished that this is impossible.
Again, Expedia's utter incompetence at providing a simple little request of showing a $0.00 balance in a statement to me so my bill shows as paid to Expedia makes Expedia's prices the worst prices ever paid. I completely regret not going through the Nordic Motel itself to make my reservation. At least when I added an extra night with them through them, they provided me the $0.00 balance for that (and only that) extra purchase on my receipt. They cannot provide the $0.00 balance statement for the reservations made through a third-party, which I completely understand since it was Expedia that I paid, it should be Expedia that gives me that information. Expedia can't even do that much nor was Expedia willing to when I called.
You, Expedia, have THE WORST customer service skills I have EVER had the misfortune of dealing with. Not even Wal-Mart could do as poorly as you and I loathe Wal-Mart and their customer service skills. I hope this clearly gets my point across and even if it does, I still have to say that Expedia's customer service skills are worse than one of the worst-rated and most hated retailers. Your company, Expedia, cost me $1,500. There is not a strong enough word in any language that could express how dissatisfied I am with your company and how low on the totem pole you guys are in your seriously lacking skills in customer service.
Do you comprehend a loss of $1,500? Do you realize how big a loss that is? Ask yourselves if you would be willing to refund that much to me. You wouldn't. Because you'd be taking a major negative balance on that because my motel stay only cost $548 from the purchase through Expedia. So whatever Expedia made off of that (which I'm sure wasn't much in comparison), Expedia would be losing in addition to the rest of the hotel purchase and then the remainder of the $1,500. Now, perhaps, you understand how I feel about losing $1,500 all because you will not provide me a statement saying I have a $0.00 balance remaining of the $548 purchase I made through you. Does this make sense to you? Because it sure doesn't make sense to me. If I were to have a customer who needed the statement, I would be more than willing to provide the statement for them, so that they would not lose out $1,500.
A simple e-mail with the $0.00 remaining balance for the $548 purchase, versus an angry customer who loses $1,500 because that statement is refused to them. Let me put this another way for you: say Expedia entrusted $1,500 to a person to take to a bank and said person just happens to lose the $1,500 somehow. Well, sure, your insurance could probably give that back to you, no problem, but would you ever entrust that much money or more to that person again? Would you even continue to employ them or the company that does those runs for you? I don't have the luxury of having insurance against a company who costs me $1,500.
Reviewed March 1, 2016
I booked a cruise thru Expedia. Afterwards I wanted to book some excursions thru the cruise line. They made it sound like I was going thru the cruise line, but Expedia has their own excursion company and they booked us thru their own company. I did not find this out until on the ship awaiting my tickets. When they didn't have any for us, I questioned the cruise line. They check out my confirmation and on the very bottom of the page there was a website. On top of the confirmation it stated the name of the cruise line, the specific ship and the date of sailing, making it look like it was from the cruise line.
I had the scrabble to book excursions thru the cruise line the night before we were to take it. From on the ship I called their emergency phone number to try and straighten this out. I was told it was too late to do anything about it. I'm not even sure yet what that call is going to cost me. EXPEDIA IS DECEITFUL AND DECEIVING and I will NEVER BOOK ANYTHING THRU THEM AGAIN.
Reviewed March 1, 2016
I tried numerous times to book a flight and continuously got messages to say that there was an error with card, please try again. Eventually I checked my bank account to see if I had made a mistake with my credit card balance. When I signed in I saw that Expedia had charged me twice but there is no confirmation of the flight. The assistant offered to book for me over the phone, not noticing that I could not book because my credit card was now maxed out because they had charged me twice. She told me she was transferring me to her superior but I waited 25 minutes and did not get through to anyone.
So I hung up and have called again. 15 minutes later I am still on hold. This is the second time this has happened me with Expedia the past 3 months. I want for now to be refunded my money but I will not book with them again. Too much time wasted on the phone for something that an established company like this should not have issues with. I used to have positive reviews about Expedia but they have gone downhill in my book.
Reviewed March 1, 2016
I purchased 10 airline tickets from Canada to Montenegro (family name, **). On two of the tickets I made an error by using common names, rather than legal names, Sue instead of Susan, and Jenny instead of Jennifer. Jenny contacted Expedia when she realized my error, unfortunately it was after the 24 hour correction period. The Expedia representative told her that she would receive a response within 24 hours.
48 hours later, and still no response, I called. They gave me the same response as they told her, someone would get back with me. At that time, I requested to speak to someone in management, to let them know that this was the third time we had been told this and to ask them how I can rectify my mistake. After being placed on hold for over an hour, a manager finally spoke with me and I repeated my request to her. She said that she would investigate it and give me a response as soon as she had an answer.
Understanding that my request might take some time to contact the airlines, I waited on hold for an additional hour and a half, because she said she could not call me back and I could not call her directly. After speaking with the airlines, I would be assessed a $50 fee per ticket in addition to their increased costs, which were now more than $100 each. To pay more than $300 for a simple correction, when I had purchased 10 tickets seemed exorbitant, so I told the lady that I would call the airlines myself to see if there was something they could do.
The airlines confirmed the fee and sent me back to Expedia. I called Expedia back to agree to the additional charges. Again, I explained the scenario to the representative, and again, she said that a representative would call me in 24 hours. Then I asked if I could speak to a manager. I waited on hold for an hour until a manager finally answered. I explained the same story again. She said she would need to contact the airlines. It was as if I hadn't called previously. After waiting an hour on the line, I was hung up on. So I called back again. After repeating my story to the representative, I asked to speak with a manager. I repeated the story for a third manager. When she said she would place me on hold to start the process again and couldn't call me back, I asked to speak to someone in the corporate office to let them know that I had been on the phone with them for nearly 4 1/2 hours and I wanted to get this done.
I was placed on hold for an additional hour, waiting for someone from the corporate office to pick up. As soon as she answered the phone, Jessica started behaving defensively, telling me this is my fault (which I freely admitted my mistake), and saying that I need to purchase two new tickets and the cost for old ones would be lost, $1,727.40. I let her know that this is not what I was told previously. She claimed she didn't have records of my previous conversations and later said that I should have taken it then, this is the fee now. Jessica refused to let me speak to her supervisor.
Reviewed March 1, 2016
We booked flight and hotel for a 2nd honeymoon trip months in advance so we purchased trip insurance just in case. Three days before the trip, I collapsed at work and was taken by ambulance to the ER. My husband said we bought trip insurance so let's cancel for now and reschedule when I was completely well again. So we did.
Working for a public school, we have spring break coming so we decided to take a trip to FL and take our grandson with us. So we called Expedia to use our airline vouchers only to be told we would have to pay a rebooking fee of $200.00/each! We said we had trip insurance and was told they would check on it and came back, no we still had to pay but the good news was we would have a remaining voucher of $68.93 each. I asked if we'd have to pay an additional $200.00/each to use and she said good question! So I booked our flights and was told that we had to call the airline directly to book our grandson as he was underage. She gave me the confirmation number and ticket number so his trip could be linked with ours. I call the airline and book his flight. I receive an email confirming the information.
I didn't receive an email from Expedia concerning our flight information so I waited 24 hours, thinking it would show up before calling. I called and this time I wrote down the name of the person I talked to. Turns out, the person I had talked to the day before didn't really book the flight and the confirmation number and ticket number she gave me was the canceled trip!!! So now we have an underage grandson traveling alone!!! The person was kind enough to offer to help me remedy this and let's just say an hour and a half later, I have 2 tickets for us and had to pay additional money, way past the vouchers we had just so I didn't lose the money on our grandson's ticket!
My concern was the seating arrangements, I wanted to make sure we had 2 seats together so our grandson would be able to sit with one of us. And I was told I would have to call the airline and pay a fee for seating assignments! So I called the airline to try and get 2 seats together. $104.44 later, I'm hopeful that we will be together - I don't take any of them at their word. I wish I had read the Expedia reviews before! I will never use them again!!!
Reviewed March 1, 2016
I have made (1) reservation for one person and paid $88.01 for the room. I have made (1) reservation for two people and paid $91.50 for the room. My confirmation came back stating both of the room for one person only. I have sent an email to Expedia stating that one of the reservation is for two people. Their response is that I made both of the reservation for one person, non refundable.
I have called Expedia - spent 25 minutes talking to their representative and a supervisor. The supervisor Victor told me that I made both of the reservation for one person, it is non refundable, he offered to waive some fee to make a change but want me to pay $29.00 to add another person, I told him, "NO, I made the second reservation for two person and paid a different price for the room." I request to talk to his supervisor who was not available at the time. I am looking at the confirmation that I have received from Expedia and it is stating that 2 TWIN BEDS REQUESTED. What is wrong with the people at Expedia???
Reviewed Feb. 27, 2016
I mistakenly clicked on the wrong line of a dropdown menu that chose a shorter, common version of my first name, for the second half of a round trip flight across the country. At the end of booking, I noticed the problem and called Expedia, which told me to simply email a copy of my driver's license to the airline, but not to include flight information. Despite recognizing this as horrible advice, I did this, and the airline immediately responded and told me to send info. I did, and the airline immediately gave me a waiver but said to tell Expedia to call them. Easy, right? Expedia wouldn't or couldn't do it.
I've spent literally hours on the phone five times this week and meantime, Expedia says my ticket was canceled. The airline says otherwise. I am now into the 57th minute of my sixth call to Expedia which claims it is working on the change and will let me know "the status of your case" within 24 hours. Unfreaking believable that this company is still in business. Once Expedia confirms and I can print out an e-ticket, I will call the airline again and confirm, and then never deal with Expedia again. Go Virgin America!
Reviewed Feb. 27, 2016
I am highly upset with the misleading and what I feel to be fraudulent behavior on the behalf of EXPEDIA. While booking this particular flight on 8/2015 I had selected an early morning flight leaving around 6 AM to arrive in Asheville at around 11 AM; that would place me at my destination early in the day as the memorial service for my sister was that afternoon. I confirmed the times and requested the flight. Minutes later, I received an email with my itinerary. The flight times had been changed to PM. I immediately (within minutes) contacted EXPEDIA and was told that with this type of ticket they had the right to change the times. I was never prompted that there could be potential change to my times as the trip and my itinerary was time sensitive due to the nature of my trip.
I requested to speak with a supervisor and was told that "there was nothing more that I could do." There I was, booking my flight to go up for my Sister’s Memorial and would not have made it with this itinerary. Not only was I having to revisit the loss of my sister for this later date Memorial, but now was being rudely treated my an apathetic, insensitive phone salesman on the other end of the phone.
I explained that at no time was I prompted that the times could have been changed by EXPEDIA. His response was basically that I was stuck with the charge and did not even offer to assist me with changing the flight. I explained that I would have to purchase another ticket and he didn’t care… AT ALL. I feel that the whole transaction was misleading and in fact fraudulent as there was never a prompt notifying that my itinerary times could be changed.
I called several days later to dispute the charge again and was told by a young gentleman, “not to worry Mr. **, we will remove the charge”. After several months I noticed that the charge had not been removed, so I called back. The representative at this time notified me that there had never been a note of the previous conversation and he then began the second dispute for me. I feel that this type of fraudulent behavior on the part of EXPEDIA’s employees is unethical and extremely unprofessional. I was lied to and mislead once again by the first gentleman that allegedly was offering to help me.
I immediately booked another flight through PRICELINE on 8/20/15 after realizing what EXPEDIA had done to me. I never used the ticket from EXPEDIA because it was worthless. I am highly upset that at no time did anyone even attempt to assist me with my situation, nor did they even do their job in handling my first and second call regarding disputing the charge.
I am an upstanding member of my community and I am not looking for a free ride, but I do believe that the fraudulent and misleading behavior by this company, with no regards of the circumstances, is something that I should not be held responsible for. I pay my bills on time and take my financial matters seriously. This was unjust and I do not intend on paying for a ticket that I could not use. I reached out immediately to rectify the situation and as I have said was misled there as well. I will be taking the matter to my attorney and social media as I am hearing from others of similar situations.
I had no issue with my Hotel booking through EXPEDIA, but this matter with them changing my itinerary times and blatantly lying and telling me that they were looking into the matter is not good business and just wrong. I hope the matter can be resolved without legal recourse because I have no intention of paying for a misleading ticket that I was unable to use. I apologize if I come across course in my tone, but I am highly upset and as an honest member of society I don’t appreciate being taken advantage in this manner.
Reviewed Feb. 26, 2016
I booked a trip through Expedia, which included flight and hotel. Later that evening we decided we wanted to add a day to our trip. Expedia does have the 24 hour cancellation policy that is free. So I made the mistake of calling Expedia to make the change. Not only was I on hold for 40 minutes, the lady that I spoke to only canceled the flight portion of our bundle deal and then booked a new flight and added a day to the hotel stay. When I get my credit card statement 30 days later, I'm being charged twice as much. So I get on the phone, this time was an hour and a half, for them to tell me too bad. All they can do is read prompts. The more I thought about it, the madder I got.
So what happened is the lady that made the changes should have canceled the whole trip and rebooked everything and they are going to provide her training so this doesn't happen again. Instead of being reimbursed for her mistake, I was given a $200.00 hotel voucher to be used through them, and again this took over an hour on the phone to basically get nothing. Like I want to book anything through them again. Anyway when we went to check in to our departing flight, this same lady did not reserve our seats. Therefore, we had to pay another $34.00 per seat for the four of us and we couldn't even sit together. What doesn't make sense is that our returning flight had our seats reserved. This company cost me almost an extra $900.00 for this trip.
If I had known this was going to cost that much I would not have booked the trip. It's real easy for them to get away with this when you don't know until you get your credit card statement weeks later, by that time it's too late to cancel anything. Shame on them for conducting their business this way. Someone needs to step in and police these people so they can't continue to scam people. Another problem is that many of their customer service reps do not use English as their first language, so there is a bit of miscommunication because you can't understand what they are saying. Hold times are ridiculous. I think they leave you on hold that long hoping you will just get angry and hang up. They lack simple customer service skills.
Reviewed Feb. 26, 2016
I booked a flight through Expedia with the understanding that the reservation could be cancelled and a refund would be issued. After working through their third world English speakers I was put on hold (with really bad elevator music in the background) for 20 minutes until they cut the line. A call back resulted in the same experience. Both times my telephone number was requested to continue, so I imagine that now I'll start receiving more "customer surveys"/telemarketers which will require blocking. Overall, Expedia promises a refund if the request is timely made and then does not deliver.
Reviewed Feb. 26, 2016
After booking months in advance no seats were assigned. The airline stated that Expedia dropped the ball. Expedia was completely unresponsive and unhelpful in resolving the matter and 2 children struggled to navigate the system at the airport and sit separately on a 5 hr flight.
Reviewed Feb. 25, 2016
We used Expedia to book a trip to Dominican republic in July, 2015. We booked bus transportation from airport, from Expedia's recommended company. We had our luggage with us at the curb when the bus arrived, but when we arrived at the hotel, unfortunately our luggage was missing. Because of the language barrier, and because this was a recommended bus company from Expedia, relied on Expedia customer support to help us. They did not. 24 hours later, we had to rely ourselves to locate the luggage and deal with very unhelpful people at the hotel, the airport, and the bus company. We will not use Expedia again.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Without even departing on our trip Expedia has already ruined our experience by splitting us up on outgoing + incoming flights. Had I known this I would of never booked through them as I am terrified of flying! While speaking to customer service supervisor Jerome as far as seating arrangement being split up after booking a trip for my husband and I, we were casually told that it is their normal business practice for the computer to split seating among couples as well as families that book a trip and are on the same itinerary.
When I questioned him as to what would happen if I was traveling with a young child, would the seating still be split, his careless response was quote unquote "you get what you get". I will never use expedia to book any further trips. For the ease of convenience and saving a few bucks our comfortability has been sacrificed. Their customer service is no help as they point fingers at the airline yet My credit card statement shows a charge of 1400 to expedia NOT the airline! Very unprofessional!
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I booked room at the Westin Hotel in Atlanta Ga. Was not told on the Phone that the charge of 236.80 was non refundable. I cancelled the reservation and then found out that I could not get the reservation reactivated and I was just out the 236.80 room charge. This was done through one of their 3rd parties (CSI*Get a Room.Com). I feel like this is fraud pure and simple. As they are charging refusing to give me what I paid for. I disputed the charge with my credit card company. So I will just have to wait and see what happens.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I booked a motel in Pigeon Forge, Tn. 3 weeks before we were traveling there ($40. night/ 2 nights). 3 days before we left, a lady called me (from the motel) and told me she would not accept the $40. a night, the rooms were $125. a night (it was a Days Inn). When I told her we were unable to pay this, she said she was cancelling my reservation. I called Expedia, they said they couldn't really do anything about it. They could not "force" the motel to take the reservation. They offered me $50. off a future reservation with Expedia. Well, I made another reservation but had to change the dates. Since the dates were changed, they refused to honor the $50. off. What a rip-off. Stay clear of these people. They don't care how badly they burn you!
Expedia Company Information
- Company Name:
- Expedia
- Year Founded:
- 1996
- Address:
- 333 108th Ave.
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- Postal Code:
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