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    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???

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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...

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    After a positive interaction with Expedia, Taomi increased their star rating on March 27, 2016.

    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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'.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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!!!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.)

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    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!!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!!!

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    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???

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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!

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    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016

    Expedia web page says that if you book a flight and then cancel it before midnight the same day, full refund of the airline fare will be made. This does not apply for budget airlines. I booked a flight and then due urgent and unforeseen circumstances had to cancel it. I did so within an hour of booking by calling their given number. I was promised that a full refund will be made for my Sydney-Kuala Lumpur sector amounting to AU$636.54. However the amount returned was less AU170. I have called Expedia for over two times over almost 3 months. Each time they promised they will refund within the next week. This never happened.

    They asked for screen shots of the call I made to cancel the booking which I did immediately. They replied that they did not recognize the itinerary number. Subsequently they promised to send me an email that they will refund. Followed up the refund. Neither of this was followed through. On couple of occasion they said they tried to refund through my credit card and was rejected by the card. I gave another CC number and claimed they failed. They offered AU150 credit maximum to buy another fare through Expedia. I rejected. How could I book through Expedia again when they are unable to keep their promises. Still no response from Expedia.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2016

    1/27/16 booked with Expedia. We decided to do a family vacation in Cabo San Lucas. So I booked online from Spring, TX, along with my brother in Lawton, OK, as we conversed via cell and discussed packages on Expedia. We ultimately chose the all inclusive at Villa La Estancia, a beautiful hotel. My brother and I sorted via Expedia to target all inclusives, and this one popped up. The verbiage was such that the terrific price included everything... but upon arrival we were completely blindsided with the news that it was not all inclusive, and the manager advised us this has happened with Expedia before. The management was kind and called Expedia on our behalf. My brother and I both spoke with them and no offer was made to remedy, other than cancel and rebook, which would have caused us to lose what we had already paid.

    All I can say is buyer beware. Just because it says all inclusive does not mean it is all inclusive. I have gone back to the Expedia site and viewed again, and the all inclusive is only in packages that cost about $300/day more for two adults. Expedia needs to stop advertising all inclusive with not inclusive and post them separately. My brother and I viewed this package as all inclusive per verbiage on the site. It's when you view the upgrade for the rooms that you find this is not the case.... I've booked all inclusive in the past and NEVER had an issue like this. Again, buyer beware and read the small print. It will save you much disappointment when you arrive at your vacation destination. We had to move on and make the best of it and we did have a great time. Villa La Estancia is fabulous! Bottom line is that Expedia is not clear and our purchase was misrepresented.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2016

    I was trying to book a round-trip flight for 4 to London that came to a total of $4,704. When I clicked BOOK a screen popped up saying that there was a problem with my credit card. I quickly checked my bank account and $2,689.54 was taken out. The name of the company that took the money was Norwegian Air. When I called Norwegian Air, they had no record of any transactions with my name on it with Expedia.com or just me alone. When I tried calling Expedia, numerous times to numerous different numbers in different parts of the world, I got hung-up on every single time.

    On my 5th attempt to try and get in contact with Expedia, I finally was able to speak to someone in El Salvador! This person told me that there was no record of a transaction on their end too and that I have yet to book my flight. So in other words, no one knows where my money is. I finally lost my patience and hung up on them and called my bank again and filed a fraudulent claim. I still don't know where my money has gone to and who took it.

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2016

    I booked a flight from Hamburg to London through Expedia. When I got the credit card statement I noticed that it was charged five times. This triggered off a long saga of trying to get a refund from Expedia. Numerous phone calls, long waiting lines, plenty of promises, but no action. Customer services? Bah!! Is it incompetence? Or is it lack of integrity? Whichever it is, Expedia is no longer my online travel agent.

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2016

    I used Expedia to book flight tickets for my father who has a long first name and an even longer last name. I entered his full name correctly in Expedia which then booked the flight ticket for my father on Air India and I got an email to verify the booking which had the following lines 'Your reservation is booked and confirmed. There is no need to call us to reconfirm this reservation.' I checked the names of the passengers on the confirmation email and my father's name was spelled correctly. No issues and hence I did not check the reservation with the airline directly.

    A few weeks later I got an email Expedia notifying me about changes in reservation made by the airlines regarding flight take off times and I noticed that my father's first name and last name was cut short by a few characters. Concerned, I called up Air India who then told me that the name of the passenger on the ticket did not match with the correct full name of the passenger and that the passenger cannot board the flight. I was informed to call Expedia to cancel my father's reservation and re-book the ticket.

    I made a total of 3 calls to Expedia on 21st February to address this issue. During my first call, I was asked to wait and while I was on hold, some other rep cut my call saying 'Thank you for calling Expedia!!!' I called them second time around and I could connect to a new rep after informing them about the issue, again. I was told by Expedia rep that the data at their end is correct and that the airlines' booking system could not handle my father's long first and last names! I was told that I would be transferred to speak to an Air India rep who would handle this issue for me. When I got connected with the Air India rep, the person informed me that I am responsible for bearing the cancellation fees and I needed to go online and make these changes!!!

    I was so angry and I called up Expedia for the third time and I had to explain the issue to a newer Expedia rep, again. I also told the rep 'Why should I pay the cancellation fees when it is Expedia that messed up the data validation'. The rep connected me with a supervisor and the guy told me there is no issue here and it is standard procedure to cut short names if they are too long while submitting a reservation with the airlines website. He also said if I need to cancel that reservation, it's up to me and I need to bear charges for it. I asked him, if there is a character limit on his backend code, why aren't the users notified about it and for that he said users are not notified because there is no issue. He kept repeating there is no issue here but the airline clearly says the name on the reservation does not match the passenger's full name on the passport and therefore I need to cancel and rebook the ticket.

    I am going to go ahead with the cancellation and re-booking. Oh and the Expedia supervisor also told me that Expedia has really good lawyers when I told him that I will try to get justice. This whole experience was so bad and I cannot believe that Expedia can get away with a blunder committed by them for which I am having to bear the costs, literally! I did not do anything wrong and I want Expedia to do the right thing and bear the extra cost associated with my booking. Can somebody please tell me how can I take legal action against Expedia?

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2016

    In July of 2015, I was forced to cancel a trip to San Antonio. I was informed of my $817.76 credit flight voucher. Great, I thought, I will use this sometime in the next year. Upon further investigation, I read the fine print. I will be charged $400.00 for rebooking. Insane!!! It is now February and I have decided I would like to use the credit (even $400.00 less). I called Expedia, as they suggested, to book my trip with the credit. I have currently been on the phone for 1 hour and 30 min. on hold. Still listening to music as I type away. Insane!!! While on the phone with Expedia, my total price has gone up $129.00. This should be illegal!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2016

    The posted stories are all too familiar. I'm too a victim of their wild goose chase with hours holding on the phone, not having the right confirmation number, the same confirmation sent via email to me, passed through many customer service agents retelling my story of needing to cancel a duplicate hotel reservation, dropped calls as a possible resolution is insight and when all tactics are used, it is non-refundable. The crazy thing is the hotel agrees to cancel the reservation without charge and the agent took liberty to call Orbitz/Expedia and the same tactics were used on them. Expedia in the past was the best to deal with but we were informed they are bought by Orbitz. Stay far from them and I can't believe they are able to operate in this manner.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2016

    I am very dissatisfied with the rates, penalties and charges they put on us for making mistakes. I have to pay $330 for a name change to a flight, when I paid $348 for the flight itself. So basically they are charging me another flight because I accidentally put my wife's nickname instead of her real name. Nobody's perfect people, we all make mistakes and this is crazy, unfair and robbery. I have no choice but to pay because we already booked events in our destination and can't afford to miss our flights. I am never booking with Expedia ever, ever, ever again. Not that they care anyways, obviously...

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    Reviewed Feb. 20, 2016

    I booked and paid in full through Expedia for my family of 5 to travel from the U.S. to Costa Rica over X-mas (Dec. 2015) for a family vacation. The first half of our trip was confirmed at a hotel (Toad Hall) for a 2 br. family suite overlooking the lake. I called the hotel directly one week before our trip and was ultimately confirmed for our stay. After our plane ride and long car ride, we arrived in the evening to learn that there was no room for us. We were placed at the owner's home (which he bought days prior) that had hangers as locks and was formally a bar.

    I called Expedia and was put on and off hold for over 3 hours and no one helped us find alternative accommodations. We ultimately got a refund for this stay but we had no place to stay and had to literally go in to town and go hotel to hotel until we could find rooms. We had to move 3 times over a 4 night stay and paid notably more than our previous pre-paid hotel. This was a nightmare and Expedia did not help and the hotel did not attempt to place us in acceptable accommodations. I write this review to caution all travelers to stay away from this hotel and shame on Expedia for not helping a family in need - this hotel should be removed from their website at minimum.

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016

    I have booked through expedia before and never had to contact them for a change. This was my first time booking for an international flight. I wanted to change my return date. I called 4 times. The first time I was told I could not change until I had arrived at my trip destination. I called back. I was sent to a super and told it was done. Nothing changed. Third time I was sent to a super and he put me on hold. Disconnected. Fourth time I talked to yet another person and was told the airline will not do until I reach my destination. This woman was professional and I did believe her. Will never use Expedia again. No one knows what they are doing. Very frustrating.

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016

    It's been over 9 weeks and I'm still waiting for a refund for two tickets on canceled flight (by the British Airways). I called Expedia numerous times with the same result, "Very, very sorry. But hey - we have a solution: wait longer." They say, "We are just the middle man and we did all we could for the refund to happen," but did they really? British Airways say "It's not us, it's Expedia - they initiate the purchase and they broker the deal. They should refund the money directly." This is what I was told today by a BA rep from Customers Relations. Apparently they don't have the financial info for the transaction - Expedia does (according to BA rep). Expedia says differently. And then there is Amex. Their credit card was used for the transaction. They opened a case, but say - wait longer. Out of options at this point - I wish Expedia's offices would be in my city...

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016

    On Jan. 29th, I booked, through Expedia, a midsized car for Orlando to last a period from Jan. 29 to Feb. 18th... my confirmation said "Your reservation is booked. No need to call us to reconfirm this reservation." The reservation was with Economy Rent a Car, even though the paperwork states Signature Rent a Car. When we were shuttled in, after waiting for 45 minutes at the pickup spot for a shuttle, there were no cars available for me and while my counter agent conferred with someone in the back over the issue, I was exposed to loud conversations from other clients who were in the same position and one lady was literally shouting to her counter agent about her insurance issue and that they would not accept her proof of insurance even though she had her insurance agent on the line. I could hear the agent say, "Lady, I am not shouting at you so please don't shout at me."

    Consequently, we (eight of us) were shuttled back to the airport. I with a reservation made by Signature in my name and again through Expedia, for a one day rental from EZ rent a car... The agent there seemed to know my problem before even hearing it from me although the rental was for 14.23. All the other charges, including the toll pass came to 32.80. Signature told me that they would deduct the one day rental from my rate, which they did, but only the rental part and after arguing, they deducted my toll pass, however, all the surcharges, I would have to absorb. Then came the issue of insurance. They would not accept my CAA certificate or my gold card coverage and in spite of my insistence that I had coverage, I was told that I would have to pay 19 dollars per day for coverage from Signature but, I would get the coverage for a discounted rate of 14 dollars a day...

    Now I know what the discontent was all about on my first visit. This trick on their part, doubled my rental rate for the period. When they pulled my vehicle up for us, it looked like it had been in an Isis attack... It was scratched and dented everywhere and I made the car hop, put a big circle around the whole vehicle during the walk around even though he argued that dents only larger than golf balls count. Then when getting in, I notice the inside roof lining separating at both ends of the car entry and I was wondering what was actually holding it up but we needed a car and I was prepared to live with the issue, tucking in the edge, each time that I got into the car.

    The next morning as I got in to go for coffee, my tire light was on. I didn't think it to be a big issue and stopped off and had it inflated at the nearest gas station. The next morning, the same thing happened except after I inflated the same tire, the light still stayed on and I enlisted the help of the mechanic at Sam’s, who found two tires that were going flat. I took the vehicle back and the supervisor apologized and clearly sounded like he was accustomed to doing so as there was no surprise over my complaint. He attempted to give me an upgrade for just a few more bucks a day but I declined and was offered a Volkswagen Passat which I continuously kept checking for issue lights on the dashboard, but none came up for the period that we had the vehicle...

    In summary, I am firstly surprised that Expedia would deal with such a non industry standard provider and amazed at how slick the relentless counter agents are in trying to sell upgrades. But denying our insurance coverage was a new one to me and I have been renting vehicles two or three times a year for at least 20 years. I would have never rented from this provider as I normally am familiar with the brand name renters, however, I trusted Expedia and sadly was disappointed with the results.

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016

    I received a very bad service with Expedia. I booked a roundtrip flight from PBM-BEL for the 20th of February 2016. When I realized that I would not be able to leave anymore, I contacted Expedia (within the 24 hour FREE cancellation period). An agent assured me that the reservation would be canceled and we ended the call. On the 19th I contacted them just to double check the cancellation, since my credit card got charged. It's at that moment that the new agent informed me that the system stated that the last call got disconnected and that they've tried calling me back and couldn't reach me. This info is absolutely false! Because of the wrong info entered in the system, I had to be charged a cancellation fee of $150. This is very unprofessional! Expedia is not taking any blame on them, even though it's their fault. I would not recommend booking with them.

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016

    I called to cancel a booking but realized on the day of the reservation that the booking was still active. I called them and they never cancelled and blamed the hotel. Forget about cancellations and customer service with them. Always choose the option to pay the hotel directly.

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016

    I wanted to share my opinion about Expedia.com (yes, the popular website that some of us use to order flights, hotels and even rental cars from). So from now on just don't use them and listen to the following story: We are traveling on vacation on the Philippines and as part of this vacation we have ordered a rental to be collected from Manila the day we are arriving.

    We made the reservation via Expedia.com. Once we landed and went to pick up the car from the agency (Thrifty in this case), we were surprised to be notified that Thrifty have never got a request from Expedia.com and our Expedia confirmation number is not valid in this case. After our long flight into the Philippines we had to look for another agency to rent us with a car because Thrifty did have any spare car for us. The search took us ~ 3 hours and cost us more than we were planning when we booked with Expedia.com

    Once I was able to send Expedia.com a message I did so but was extremely surprise with the answer, "We apologize for the inconvenience this matter may have caused you. Like many travel vendors, car rental companies sometimes overbook their inventory based on histories of previous no-shows. Ordinarily, this does not create a problem for their customers, but when it does, it can be very frustrating." Even you booked with Expedia and you get a confirmation number. they do not hold themselves accountable for the reservation. Watch out from Expedia.com.

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2016

    Last year I booked our flight to Europe thru Expedia. Within 2 days of booking, I realized that I had put the wrong name on my flight - didn't match my passport - so I called Expedia to see how I could fix this. The agent I spoke with seemed to really try to help, but finally he said all I could do was cancel my flight and book again with the correct name. The mistake was mine, so I agreed and I received a "cancelled flight credit voucher", in the amount of my fare and good for one year.

    This week I was ready to book another trip and I wanted to use my voucher to cover my new fare. It is well within the one year time limit. The credit voucher specifically says I must call Expedia to use this voucher. So on Monday I called Expedia and asked to use the voucher to book a 1st class ticket to Honolulu. I was looking at the Expedia website while I spoke with them. After a lot of time on hold, the agent told me the only flight available would arrive in Honolulu an hour after my cruise ship would leave Honolulu. I could see on their website a number of available flights but she insisted they were not actually available. I asked for a supervisor.

    After another really long wait on hold, another person named Snooky came on the line and miraculously found flights at acceptable times. When she told me the price, I asked her if this was a 1st class fare. She said "no," and put me back on hold. She came back on the line with a new flight and then told me the price of that round trip flight. Now, the fare on their website was $2250. She quoted me a final price after applying my $1300 credit voucher, of $2600. I asked her what the original fare was and she said it was $3600.

    When I questioned that, she said it was because I was "rebooked" flight. That was what American Airlines was charging for a rebooked flight, plus a rebooking fee. So I pointed out that if I booked a new flight without the voucher I would pay much less, and she agreed that was true, but fares change all the time. I refreshed my computer and agreed with her - the fare did change - it was actually lower! She was adamant that this was all American Airlines doing and she couldn't do anything about it. I also pointed out that my credit voucher was virtually worthless. She said she understood, but couldn't help it because it was AA that was the problem. Naturally, I was extremely displeased and did not book the flight. By the way, I was on the phone for 1 hour 57 minutes.

    I decided to give them another chance and I called Expedia again on Wednesday. I started fresh with an agent named Tristan. I told him I wanted to book a flight to Honolulu using my credit voucher and gave him the number. After a long time on hold, he came back and told me my credit voucher had expired! The voucher clearly says that it doesn't expire until June 8! But he said AA told him the voucher was expired and he was unable to do anything about it. It only took 22 minutes to get this information. When I asked if I should call AA he said I could but he was done with me.

    I called AA that afternoon. It took just a few minutes to connect with the right person who found my credit voucher, booked me on a new flight, and booked my husband's flight as well. My credit voucher was fully applied to the fare posted for the flight. I was charged a $300 rebooking fee but I still saved $1000 on the flight. And this took 20 minutes from start to finish, including the time I spent gushing to the agent about how nice and helpful she had been.

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2016

    Hello from Anilio Plaza, I manage a hotel in west Peloponnese in Greece. I cooperate both with expedia.com and booking.com and have for that reason a channel manager that has parity rate and availability to both channels. I found that in expedia.com website Anilio Plaza, my managed hotel, was bad presented without photo and description etc.

    I called Expedia Greece department and a lady told me that "this is because you have availability in booking.com and not in expedia.com." I was surprised because as I told both channels have the same availability and I had closed availability in channel manager. After my investigator trial I found that booking.com has a fault in her system and it is not my fault but neither channel manager fault. So Expedia behave in such way without calling me and I have a question!!! How can Expedia exclude information from its system realizing whatever wants and before inform me to see the reason? This is not legal behavior of Expedia!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2016

    I ordered a package and the total price was $622. I confirmed my order but after a minute I received a receipt for $748. I called Expedia customer service line and was told that their prices change every time and to my respond that I took a picture before submitting my order (which I always do) the customer service lady kept saying the same thing over and over again that the system changes price all the time and she offered me $100 coupon that I did not agree. I asked to be transferred to the manager and after 57 minutes wait I was told by manager that the website can change the price every minute or so.

    She did not want to listen to what I was saying and said she could do nothing and that it was not company's fault and no one can help us with that issue. I was so angry that I hang up the phone for that moment. After 10 minutes I called again to solve my problem but no one picked up my phone call. I guess they see who is calling and did not want to deal with me. It seems Expedia is fooling people. Many people don't have time to call back to solve their issues or wait on line for hours to return their money. But I will not leave this issue unsolved. I will go further.

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2016

    My wife and I booked a flight through Expedia to Washington-Dulles. After securing an itinerary w/ insurance and Prior to our flight departure, our son had a heart attack. We had to cancel the flight. Expedia advised that I would have to contact a specific telephone number for processing; a telephone number which connected me to an operation in the Philippines. According to Expedia policy, I can cancel my ticket for a medical emergency within the family. I receive a credit voucher with a one year limitation, but assessed a re-booking charge totaling $400 [43% of the original cost of the tickets]. Flight are already over-booked and always have standbys to fill the seats. So much for the graciousness of Expedia. I do not believe the Airline is aware of the poor business practices that have no sympathy towards travelers and undoubtedly reflects back to the airlines.

    Shortly thereafter, I booked a flight once again with Expedia [paid the $400 booking-fee]. Final destination was clearly defined as Washington-Dulles airport. Getting a service agent who spoke clear English was difficult, at best. When the itinerary was provided, they listed the destination as Dallas, TX. When I called back to point out the error, the service agent apologized profusely, but offered that the ticket would have to be canceled and another booking-fee [$400] would be charged. Highway robbery is too kind of a term to describe the incident.

    I would strongly advise that air travelers avoid Expedia and deal directly with the airlines. I would also advise traveler who use Expedia and have similar problems, contact the Federal Trade Commission, your representatives on Capitol Hill, and social media to spread the word. P.S. My travel insurance supposed to cover the booking-fee, but I warn everyone this encompasses 8-10 pages of documents that are not worth the time. I have to send medical forms to my son who has to go to the emergency room where he was treated. I was also advised by the insurance carrier that a "lawyer" would be reviewing the forms and talking to the doctor that attended my son. It is the last time I use Expedia and travel insurance carriers.

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2016

    It began when I tried to book a flight from Munich to Thessaloniki, Greece online. I got that done, then I attempted to book another one-way flight from Thessaloniki to Berlin. For whatever reason, their online system thought I was booking a second trip, on the same day, from Munich to Greece. I didn't discover the mistake until I got the email a couple of days later. I called Expedia, whose agent said she would be happy to cancel one of the flights. I would be charged $50 by the airline, even though it was Expedia's mistake. They then said they booked my return flight. Communications were difficult because the rep was from some Asian country, her inflections were strange, the call was punctuated by long silences, and she hummed a lot.

    I checked my email the next two days, and received no confirmation. I called again. The rep I got this time said the booking did not go through(?!) She was going to try it again, but by now the ticket price had gone up $40 over the original booking. I told her to forget it and booked the flight through Orbitz. I won't use Expedia again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2016

    I booked a trip to Costa Rica and purchased travel insurance. 10 minutes after my booking I called Expedia back with the question. My hotel is a 5-hour car ride from the airport. How can I get there? The agent was both baffled and annoyed. Apparently it was not his problem. I told him to just find me another hotel closer - no changing of flights, just location as I couldn't possibly get to the arranged location. I found a hotel on the Expedia site and asked that he switch it. Bottom line, the first hotel was non-refundable, many hours wasted, a terrible company. Consumer beware. They're not the company they used to be.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2016

    Worst customer service I've ever received. Booked my trip, reservation was lost and I've spent 6 hours on the phone with this multi-million dollar company with no hope of refunds or credit. Hung up on by first manager I spoke with.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2016

    I made a car rental reservation through Expedia with following details: Budget Standard SUV Chicago (MDW). Reservation dates: Sep 4, 2015 - Sep 9, 2015. Itinerary # **, Confirmation # **. Total: $317.56. Base Price: $170.10. Taxes & Fees: $93.46. Travel Protection: $54.00. As you see I booked a standard size SUV because we had party of 6. But when we reached to Budget Car Rental they said they don't have any SUV but just standard sedan. So I had no choice to take one sedan. I was advised to call next morning to see if they have any SUV available. I called many times to facility and to the manager directly but no one responded to my call.

    I contacted Expedia and a ticket was created but they did not take any action. When I was trying to call Expedia again they were recognizing my previous complaint and putting me on indefinite hold. When I sent email I was told to call, but as I try to call same result, indefinite hold. In email asked for refund but did not get any response and was advised again to call.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2016

    Booked a flight and accidentally chose wrong date online, call within minutes to change the date. I was told that I couldn't if so it will be a $200.00 fee. I never went on flight and I was told there will be a credit for ticket amount and a 200.00 cancelation fee. Credit is good for a year they said. 4 month go by now I'm told that my credit is not valid. They got me on hold as I'm writing this review for 45 minutes now, and they hung on me. Calls back and places me on hold again. Expedia is very unprofessional and I advise people not to use these Clowns. I definitely won't use them ever again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2016

    I booked a business class flight with Expedia because I wanted the flexibility of making a change as I wasn't certain of my return leg timing. As it turned out I had to make a change on the website but there was no facility to do so. I contacted customer CARE three times and did not even get the courtesy of a reply. Like many, I will never book with Expedia again - this wasn't the first problem I have had. The company do not deserve to be in business and probably won't be if their customers continue to be abused and ignored.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2016

    Hi Folks - I would like to share something worst experience I had with Expedia. I tried to book my flight tickets for 16th Feb 2016 from Sao Paulo to Delhi on 2nd February using my friend's credit card details. Expedia failed and no tickets were generated. Hence, I tried to contact Expedia group on 3rd Feb 2016 and asked for my ticket provided the email and telephone number to track the ticket because they haven't generated the itinerary number.

    After having 10 emails exchange they said my ticket is not there - I have to make another reservation. My friend suggested me to book with agency hence, I booked new ticket. However, after 12 days on February 14th, 2016 Expedia send me a ticket and now my friend who received the ticket started asking me to pay him the money. And I don't know what I'm spotted to do. The ticket which I booked on 2nd Feb I haven't received next 12 days and out of blue I received an email that my ticket is ready. This is insane and worst experience I had in my life-time. I really don't understand we pay so much money and still we suffer. And there is no one who can help us.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2016

    My son's flight was cancelled due to weather. In trying to rebook his flight I was disconnected once, put on hold several times ranging from 5 mins to 40 mins, they suggested I call the airline directly to rebook after the airline told me I had to work through Expedia as I booked thru them, they sent wrong flight info after first rebooking on wrong flight, and as of now I've still not been successful in rebooking and I've been on the phone for over 90 mins total at this point. NEVER USE EXPEDIA.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2016

    In August 2015 I booked a return economy class ticket from Harare to Wellington, New Zealand. The ticket was a gift to a friend. Later, because of problems related to visa, I had to reschedule the booking which I did without any problem. On or about 15 December I had to request another change. I was told that there were no economy seats available for the new dates and that only business class was available. Reluctantly I agreed to this and the additional payment of over NZ$7000 was taken from my account. Subsequently it became obvious that my friend could not travel on that date either and we decided to postpone the visit until 2016. I re-booked the now business class ticket for 24 March 2016 returning 24 April 2016. Having made these arrangements I thought I could relax and enjoy the Christmas Holiday.

    When I had made bookings with Expedia.com in the past the tickets arrived within 24 hours. When the ticket had not arrived by 13 January I decided to make inquiries. I did this by contacting travel@support.expedia.co.nz. The reply advised me that: "Your itinerary is already pre-loaded into the Expedia app" and suggested that I download the app which I had no previous knowledge of. I followed the instructions and found the itinerary. However, I was horrified to discover that, while the ticket had been upgraded to business class the dates had not been changed, it remained Harare to Wellington on 17 December 2015 and Wellington to Harare on 7 January 2016, dates then well passed!

    I immediately requested a reissue of the ticket for the dates I had last requested, i.e. Harare to Wellington on 24 March returning on 24 April. Since then I have done this several time. Each time I receive, promptly, a largely irrelevant pro forma response which does not address the issue concerned. I am becoming increasingly frustrated by this treatment and have resolved not to book with Expedia.com again. I have spent over NZ$10,000 on this experience and received nothing in return.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2016

    Bobbi is an absolute jerk of a supervisor at Expedia. I attempted to book a flight for two passengers today via online. My account was debited the funds for the tickets and I received a message that their system overloaded and my flight was not booked. I called the customer service line and was placed on hold for one hour then sent to a line that said that their office was closed. I called back and spoke to Nadia and Richard - STILL NO REFUND FOR TICKETS I NEVER RECEIVED AND STILL NO TICKETS.

    I've asked for a supervisor at least three times, finally Richard put Bobbi (a woman) on the phone who had a horrible attitude and told me that she can't see the charges that they deducted. They can't do anything about it but I can try to call the different airlines that they so called booked a non existing flight with, with no itinerary. To add injury to insult her attitude was horrible. Never again Expedia. There needs to be a class action suit for the theft that is going on with this company!

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    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2016

    Was told after waiting 20 min by a supervisor that there is no way to transfer your "points" accumulated from a previous e-mail account if you have a new e-mail account as I have, because I moved and couldn't keep the old account because of lack of service to my area. Thanks Expedia, I think I will try Travelocity for my future bookings.

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    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2016

    I will not be using Expedia again. I got kicked off the site while booking a trip to San Diego. I was finalizing the deal when I got kicked off. The price was $1400.00. I immediately called and was told the price was now $1700.00 and they were sorry, their system was being updated. I was on the phone for over an hour and then got disconnected with this rep. I called Expedia again and the new rep was very difficult to understand. This time I was told the price was now $1891.00. After booking Expedia sent an email telling me I would get a could cancel in 48 hours however they would not be sending an itinerary to me for 4 days. I called Expedia again and held some more. Each time I was told, "I am so sorry." In general Expedia seems disorganized and lacking in customer service. There are enough alternative sites where I do not have to use Expedia again and I doubt I will.

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    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2016

    I had booked a flight and hotel on January 20th 2016 for February 12th 2016. To make sure that my reservation is booked and accurate, I had decided to call the hotel the day before I fly out. The hotel notifies me that no reservation has been made even though I have a confirmation email from Expedia. Expedia had me on hold for 3 hours and still counting "trying to resolve the issue". I had asked to get transferred to the manager and all I keep hearing is please wait few minutes for the past three hours. I have been transferred from one customer service representative to another. Disgusting service, ruined my Valentine's day weekend. I will never book through them again and none of my friends/family will book through them. The worse service I had ever experienced.

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    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2016

    The initial error was a glitch in their payment system when booking a flight + hotel package - declining payment even though my bank confirmed there wasn't a problem. Then I realized that although the Expedia portion of the payment had not gone through, they had put the airline payment through and that money was frozen in my account! So here I am with still no booking, but with my bank balance a grand and a half lower, with a vague promise that it should be released in three days. What adds insult to injury, though, is the shocking level of customer service. I'm used to dealing with busy and less-than-competent call centers, but this was a new low, especially considering we're dealing with transactions in the thousands of dollars.

    I spent four hours on the phone, mostly on hold and getting bounced around among people with limited English and zero ability to provide technical fixes. Never got to talk to a supervisor (they literally seemed to be coming up with any way to avoid passing me to a supervisor, whether just leaving me on hold for an hour, or pretending not to understand, or just hanging up). It's amazing, there is literally no way to talk to anyone at Expedia who is responsible for anything - they're probably laughing it up on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean on the profits off the rubes who book through them (they sure didn't), while their underpaid and disempowered minions haplessly attend to the outraged customers.

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    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2016

    Wedding plans changed so I had to change two flight days and times. Same airlines. Shouldn't be a challenge for Expedia, right? 3 phone calls, repeatedly put on hold for long waits, 2 disconnections, 2 agents, 3 supervisors, 5 different stories and never told the same change/cancellation fees. I had no idea who was telling the truth. I gave up. I'll never use them again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 11, 2016

    I booked a flight, I called that afternoon to change the spelling of one of passenger's name. The woman I spoke to told me I needed to wait 24 hours to change the flight. I called back today and they tell me they need to charge me $50.00 to change the last name. I said, "Cancel the flight." Then they send me a voucher for $226.20. Where is the balance of my $170.20. Expedia is the worst. They liars and thefts. This is how they rip people off. I will never ever use them again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 10, 2016

    Do not trust the free 24hr cancelation. I tried to cancel online and it wouldn't let me cancel and told me to call. I called the number and was hung up on. Called again and the guy assured me he canceled it only to find the next day that it still wasn't canceled. Now calling again today and of course was hung up on again. Now my phone shows me I have been waiting for almost an hour back and forth with people who don't want to help me and that are telling me there was no record of me canceling. Such a scam. I cannot believe such a large company would be this shady!!! Shop around, there are better discount sites to use. Do NOT give them any more business.

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    Reviewed Feb. 10, 2016

    I have used them for years to try and save a buck. I repeatedly regret it as the hidden fees that show up always equal more than the money saved. They package deals for you, and then you find out that the hotel adds on fees after you get there that were not included but are mandatory. It is a scam. May as well say the package is only a dollar, and then let everyone add on hundreds of dollars in "guest" fees after you've already paid. Even the hotels themselves are starting to do this with direct booking, but at least you can deal directly with them. My latest experience had the hotel blaming Expedia and Expedia blaming the hotel. Neither would help resolve the problem. Won't use them again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 10, 2016

    First I tried to make an flight reservation on their website. The site was easy enough to navigate but after I selected a flight and provided all info needed to complete the reservation, I kept getting a response that the booking could not be confirmed. After several attempts I decided to call them directly. The first person I spoke with was friendly enough and was able to locate the flight I had selected. He also had an issue trying to complete this reservation, but insisted this would be worked & they would mail me a copy of my itinerary. I would receive emails from Expedia none of which included my itinerary. I checked my bank statement online & found the entry from the airline showing the fare had been deducted from my account, still no email confirmation. I again decided to call them directly. I spent an 1 1/2 hours with (3) different persons trying to even locate or confirm my reservation.

    Each person I spoke with were unable to locate or help me confirm if I had a reservation or not. Finally during one of the many times I was on hold, I contacted the airline directly and lo and behold they found my reservation, emailed me a confirmation while I was on the phone with them. It turned out someone at Expedia had misspelled my email address, and that was the only issue. Further while I was on with the airline, Expedia came back online and said they would refund my bank account. Before I could update them this person hung up. I advised the airline what happened and contacted my bank to advise them to stop and refund, which they could not guarantee they could do. I again called Expedia back to inform them I no longer needed a refund. But with their usual lack of efficiency this was not accomplished and the person I spoke to even though courteous could not resolve this issue. So in essence this situation is ongoing...

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2016

    I tried using Expedia since last year for several bookings to include airlines, hotel, and car in several different countries. Last year, I spent 4 hours of international calls from Hong Kong to try and change flight dates. End result... I lost $847 on a one-way trip back to the U.S. This year, I mistakenly input dates for a hotel in New York, USA. I paid with PayPal which doesn't show you a confirmation of dates when you confirm payment. Instead of 3/20 - 3/23, I needed 3/23 - 3/26. Of course it was my fault for entering the wrong dates, but within 15 minutes, I caught the mistake and contacted Expedia.

    The first representative at Expedia assured me there would be no additional charges and my request would be handled. She was very polite and called the hotel only to tell me that reservations were closed and would reopen in another hour due to the Eastern Time Zone; however, no need to worry as my request would be forwarded to a supervisor and I would be contacted between 24-48 hours.

    Not wanting to wait, I called Expedia again after the hour had passed. Unfortunately, this representative clearly did not understand English very well, kept apologizing for a "glitch" with his computer, but was kind enough to call the hotel again. After 45 mins on hold he told me that I needed to send an email to the hotel requesting the change in dates. I called the hotel and the reservationist on duty told me that she explained to the Expedia representative that "He" needs to send an email since it was booked through them. I called Expedia again and apparently the robot voicemail automatically sent me to a "supervisor" since I had called three times in the past 24 hours (it was actually two hours). The supervisor could speak good English (thank God), called the hotel, and sent an email. He then told me that I had two options: call the hotel after 24 hrs or call Expedia to confirm the dates had been changed.

    The following day, I called the hotel but no changes had been made. The reservations representative told me that they will waive the charges, but Expedia needs to make the date changes. I called Expedia and another supervisor answered (multiple calls in 24 hours seems to automatically get a supervisor). He called the hotel and told me that I could change the dates, but I would be subject to price fluctuation. I agreed. Expedia charged me $300 more for the change in a mere 24 hours... ridiculous!

    The moral of the story is that if I had booked directly with the hotel, I could have saved $500+ because their rates were CHEAPER, they could have changed my dates with no problems, and I would not have to spend 5+ hours on the phone with illiterate representatives. No more 3rd party reservations to try and save a $100 when I can gain membership points with the hotel, airlines, or transportation company from booking directly. Having worked in the hotel industry for 20 years, I am very ashamed to admit my mistakes, but I can only hope this will help other discount-hunter travelers.

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    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2016

    After many years of doing business with Expedia as vacation consumers, we have experienced constantly declining levels of service. During the booking and verification process for an upcoming trip to Central America (February 2016), not one element of the trip was properly booked, priced, or verified by Expedia personnel. This was discovered when we began to make an itinerary change three days prior to the originally booked date (we were adding time, spending more money).

    During the numerous telephone conversations with Expedia in an effort to simply extend our travel time, exorbitant hold times, misunderstood communication (we are English speakers), repetition, and further errors ensued. Ultimately, it was necessary for us to directly contact the hotel, airline, and transfer companies - several times each - in order for us to undo the errors and reconfirm plans. Telephone time on one single day exceeded four hours. In addition to this, multiple, erroneous charges were placed on our cc's by Expedia. This began the necessary process of monitoring these transactions/corrections over the next weeks (more time, stress).

    Perhaps most importantly, we gave Expedia management an opportunity to adjust their fees and compensate us for hours of telephone time and aggravation. I have actually worked in travel/transportation for over thirty years and the fact that some days are just rolling "disasters" is well understood. Expedia would only offer "points" toward a future travel experience. This is an experience that we won't be having. No "stars" (This form required at least one star in order to submit). Choose an alternative service, as the loss-leader pricing will rapidly grow and the experience will become negative before you even head for the airport. Elective travel and certainly, vacations, should be fun.

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    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2016

    While booking a flight online, I promptly entered information and was brought to the booking confirmation page, on which I entered my credit card information. The page returned "There was a problem with your payment, please try a different card or contact your card service". I promptly called my credit card company, which I had more than ample funds to cover the costs. The company stated they seen a hold for $0.00 created for travel, and they were not declining the request.

    I called Expedia, while the customer service rep was nice and helpful, we went through the process of rebooking my flight via phone, hoping maybe their system would accept my payment (but it's likely the same web service for processing payment). Upon finalizing the details, she stated that the balance would be 800, and I'm like "No, it's 520 on my screen right now". "Sorry sir, the price of the flight has increased recently from 230 to 380 or so recently, so it will cost that much now". "No thank you".

    I closed my browser, logged into Expedia.com, returned to my itinerary, it still stated the original price, and would let me continue to the payment screen again. Again, my payment was not accepted. After trying 3 different cards and getting the same result, I decided to try customer service again. They could not find the itinerary number that still shows on my account today. They can't find the itinerary because "the price may have changed".

    If you can't honor the quoted price, remove that option from booking. If the price changes, say sorry - continue to the new price? Why act like you're accepting my payment and then just "have an error processing my payment". I have never had an issue with any service of this type before this, and I understand about market fluctuations and supply and demand, however, I do believe with the way that this was handled that this is more of a bait and switch type scenario. Because of this encounter, I'll be using other avenues for booking instead of Expedia. Regardless if it's a planned occurrence, or a one time glitch in the system, it's very irritating, and makes me lose 100% of my trust in this company. If it's planned, don't do business this way, if it's an error, document this and find resolution.

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    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2016

    I have no idea where to start. I made 2 separate reservations for my business trip to New Hampshire with my 2 co-workers. However, there was an occasion in my company so I decided to stay in the office and send only the 2 co-workers. Since I made the reservations, I had to change the Itineraries because there were my names under hotel and rental car service. I called them and cancelled the flight first. Then, I explained the situation and asked them to get rid of my name from the reservations. I also provided my co-worker's name as the primary holder for itineraries. Since rental car was Alamo, and Alamo was as stupid as Expedia, I called Expedia several times to make sure everything has been updated. I found out that my itinerary shows only 1 hotel room, instead of 2 rooms. I called them and asked them (with 15 minutes call-back thing), they said that 1 room has been cancelled.

    I paid over $2000 for 2 rooms with 2 nights, and 1 room cancelled without my awareness. I asked them if any refund has been released, they said they will find out, put me in hold. I was waiting, and phone got disconnected. I called them again, explain the ** whole thing again, repeated this. One guy name Ronald asked me to book a new room (WHAT?!), so I asked for supervisor on the line. He said he will transfer me to supervisor, and I waited on the phone around 40 minutes. Music played, I was listening to it about to explode, and phone was disconnected. I laughed like a crazy person. I called again and confirmed the itinerary for hotel and rental car. Still, only 1 room is on the itinerary. Name for rental car still not changed. Also, they put my co-worker's name, as they mixed up his first and the last name. It was hilarious because I strongly emphasized his name numerous times (because the rep kept asking me back).

    Now, I used my cellphone and office phone simultaneously. One line is fixing my rental car name, and the other line is for speaking with supervisor (if there is any). If they said that they cannot make any alteration, they should have told me that. They did not. They said that they would take care of that. And they cancelled one room. Also, put my co-worker's name with first and the last name backwards. Moreover, no refund has released for the cancelled the room yet.

    What the heck are they doing now? Trust me, I narrowed down the story. I started calling them around 4:30 PM, and now it is 8:20 PM. I spoke with about 7 representatives so far. It is still a ** mystery, that the one rep cancelled one hotel room.

    Expedia should fix this whole situation. If their representatives are not smart enough to make changes on itineraries, they need to educate their employees well.

    Also, if they believe that their employees are too stupid to do such things, they should hire better programmers and change their website for making changes online.

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    Reviewed Feb. 5, 2016

    I booked a flight from Bangkok to Tokyo on Jan 7, 2016 online (Itinerary # **). Then when I check in on website Japan Airline, but reject because wrong name. Then I contacted customer service of Expedia 3 times: first time said no mistake and he will call me back later. Second time another boy answered, tell me no problem, I can check in in the evening; third time, a girl answered, she said I have to wait 8 hrs because Japan Airline Office office closed. Finally, I contacted with Japan Airline Thai office, and pay 2000 Yen to amend name. I am confusing why this can be happened? And why I have to pay for Expedia's mistake? There are not any feedback place in Expedia website. Can Expedia learn something from this case? I paid for it for Expedia already.

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2016

    I booked a ticket for four people to travel from Houston Texas to Punta Cana on February 10, 2015. One person couldn't make the trip, so I called Expedia to cancel the ticket. I was charged a $200 fee for cancelling, but issued a flight credit through Expedia that I was PROMISED that I would be able to use (personally) since it was booked through my Expedia account and with my credit card. The caveat was that I had to rebook through Expedia, not United. No problem, I thought. Almost a year later, I am trying to use the flight credit of $563.10, and after nearly two hours on hold and being transferred from domestic, to international, to package team, to help desk, I was told that there is a "glitch in the system" by someone who barely spoke defined English, and that I needed to talk to United. I tried to explain to him that I didn't want to speak to United, I wanted to speak to a manager, but he transferred me to United anyway and hung up.

    John at United easily found the cancellation and the notes the United rep had put in the system when the credit was issued. United said they clearly explained to Expedia that the ticket was non-transferable and that I would not be able to use it. The "system glitch" was a cop out so that Expedia didn't have to tell me that they messed up and shouldn't have issued me a credit I couldn't use. Essentially, I flushed that money down the toilet and I really needed to use it for an upcoming flight.

    Lesson learned: Expedia lies to their customers. The flights are always just as cheap through the airline, and without all the hassle. The hotels (if you call them) will always price match Expedia and then you have a direct booking. Just DON'T EVER USE EXPEDIA. They have horrible customer service, and poor follow through, and refuse to help you out even when you have spent thousands of dollars with them. Lots of empty promises, and people that can't communicate in plain English. Just save yourself the hassle and don't do it.

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2016

    We made a mystery booking at Expedia, only to find out the Orlando Westgate resort Expedia was going to send us to was not worth its three stars, had many bad reviews. The complaints ranged from bugs, cockroaches in the rooms, dirt, noise, impossible staff, no guard, but also theft, negligence, and credit card fraud. We called Expedia about it, and had to wait a long time before we got a final answer. It was then stated by a guy called Mahmud that our booking was non-refundable, because that is part of a mystery deal. That there was nothing he could do because the hotel would not allow it. Mahmud did not listen to anything we said and did not transfer to a manager, what we had asked for. It was a vain call.

    So we called the Westgate resort. A woman called Edda said there was nothing she could do, because it was up to Expedia. She was also deaf to everything else we said. Only when I asked her who had given her resort the three stars, she admitted that was Expedia. Then we called Westgate Corporate Management. Useless to say, there was nothing they could do, because it was up to Expedia. We asked to be placed in another Westgate location, but even that was impossible.

    So there we are, stuck against our will, in a scheme. For that is how I call such interlinked companies. Any product I buy in a store, I can bring it back and get a refund or an exchange when I am dissatisfied. Anywhere in the US, people regard customer service as one of the highest values. But not at Expedia or Westgate. I cannot believe American law allows companies to get away with such strict reservation policies, that it is impossible to cancel, even right after the booking was made. But because American law apparently does, I do the only thing left in my power, and that is warn other potential customers to NOT go ahead with Expedia, and leave Westgate too. They have stolen our money, and will steal yours if you don't watch out.

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2016

    Booked a hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada [Bellagio] from 1/25 to 1/29 4 nights, also got flights their computer generated and recommended. I called a few times to make sure everything was correct and no one said it wasn't. To our surprise 24 hours before our return home flight was to leave we went to check in with American Air/United to get our seats but we couldn't get through. Finally after many hours of calling we got someone at Expedia that knew enough English that we could understand that told us the reason we can't get through is because our flight left the day before. We asked Expedia to own up to their mistake but they wouldn't, we asked for return flights home free and they refused, we asked for them to make things right so we could go home and they still refused.

    It ended up WE had to pay another 600 dollars plus 50 dollars each for carry on luggage on Spirit airlines. The Bellagio on the other hand was very nice to us, sorry to see us leave early and gave us our money plus taxes for one night back. We didn't even have to ask [189.00], the difference between a good business and a PISS POOR business. My itinerary at Expedia was **. Don't make the same mistake as us... Use a different company when booking flights and vacation.

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    Reviewed Feb. 3, 2016

    I recently booked a trip to Cabo with Expedia.com. I chose the option when books to pay later (ie upon arrival at hotel). I was sent my confirmation number and was excited about my upcoming trip in May 2016. I booked the trip in January 2016. I was shocked when I received my credit card statement this month with a $2000.00+ charge on it from the hotel I will be staying at. I immediately called Expedia to ask what happened and then to have the charges removed. They told me they can't since this is a deposit the hotel requires and they didn't know about it. So I had two choices cancel the reservation and book somewhere else or pay the deposit. They kept trying to tell me it's only a deposit and as I repeatedly tried to tell them I owe this to the Credit Card company in 30 days or I will be charged a finance charge. Expedia wouldn't do anything for me! They are Liars and Have AWFUL customer Support... I will NEVER use them again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 3, 2016

    I booked a hotel room through the website and cancelled it within 2 hours of booking. I was then charged for the hotel three days later. When I contacted Expedia they put me on hold multiple times and I spent a total of 1 1/2 hours with them trying to resolve the dispute. They said that there was a glitch in their system and that is why the hotel did not receive the cancellation.

    I had to speak with a supervisor many times because the other representatives who answer the phones had no way of helping me. The representative who answered the phone both times I had to call could not help me in any way. I had to speak with a supervisor to get anywhere in resolving the matter. They refused to acknowledge the fact that they had done anything wrong and did not want to admit that they were wrong for not contacting the hotel in a timely manner. Expedia is not worth the trouble and pain to try and book anything through. In the future I will only book through other places.

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016

    Booked flight online using Expedia.com from Denver to New Orleans. We selected the "cheaper" flight to make a stop in Florida first. What we discovered later is that the Denver trip to Florida is not a connecting flight to our Florida to New Orleans flight. Meaning we not only have to go through security after getting our bags and re-enter the airport after getting off our flight to get on our next flight but we also have to pay the extra baggage fees associated with taking what they call "three" flights to our destination. When I call to discuss this issue and request a CONNECTING flight so we don't have to go through the hassle of security lines and pay more money for baggage, I receive people who don't speak clear English and who want to blame the airlines and not take responsibility.

    When I ask to speak with manager I spend 2 full 8 hour days waiting for someone to pick up to only be accidentally hung up on. When I finally get them to pick up, they go through the process again. No one at Expedia has the knowledge or ability to do anything. They pass the buck onto someone else and keep you on hold. This is how they handle problems and avoid resolutions. I book reservations often. I will not use them again. This is insane. I am fine with a connecting flight. What I got though is absurd! Why on EARTH is it okay to have ANYONE go through this when they book with Expedia?

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016

    I bought flight tickets with Expedia using Expedia Bargain Fare for the first time assuming it is 24 hour-FREE CANCELLATION like my other tickets purchased in the past (which is also standard nowadays). But to my surprise, I found out it is NOT, only after I called Expedia customer service to cancel. Throughout entire booking process, I did not notice such clause that it is NOT their regular ticket which subject to 24 hour-FREE CANCELLATION. This is such a very critical information that should be revealed upfront especially this is their NEW promotion introduced recently and many customers like myself are not familiar how it works. I am attaching screenshot of booking pages. For example, in the search result page (Screen Shot 2016-01-30 at 10.35.48 AM.png), other regular tickets does not show "24 hour free cancellation" clause. So it is misleading that SAME policy applies to all the search results.

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2016

    I recently booked a roundtrip flight from Phoenix to Ashville. The first time I tried to book through the site, I received an error message that indicated there was a malfunction and the purchase did not go through. I quickly went through the process of booking again so I could secure the lower rates. I did not realize until 5 days later that the first purchase went through so I was double booked. I called the customer service at Expedia immediately the next morning. At first, they tried to charge me $200.00 to cancel the 2nd reservation that resulted from their website's malfunction. I said that was unacceptable, and they proceeded to put me on hold... for 3 1/2 hours.

    After this insane wait time, the rep answered and said that they were going to charge me $75.00 to cancel. I tell him that I was not paying anything and he needed to escalate the topic. He put me on hold again for another 30 minutes, and transfer me to American Airlines (no idea why). When they answer and transfer me back, there was a 2-hour wait to get in contact with another Expedia rep. I explained the situation to the new rep only to hear the same comment that they'd be charging me $200.00. I dispute this, and somehow we get disconnected. Both of the times that I got disconnected, no one called me back. I unfortunately do not have the time to sit on the phone for hours upon hours to get this resolved. At this point, I still have two roundtrip tickets bought for the same day/same time booked within minutes of each other. I honestly am flabbergasted that a company can operate this way with such incompetent employees.

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2016

    Cancelled hotel due to flight change with one week notice, say they are charging. Same hotel has 24 hour cancellation policy. 2 years ago they booked me at the wrong hotel, instead of near Bush International they book near small private airport 100 miles away. They rebooked me at a hotel 40 minute taxi ride and billed me for both.

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2016

    I was trying to book online, but the total was over my CC daily limit. So I called Expedia and told the call center lady. After realizing there was a limit, I told the lady that my girlfriend would use her CC and we would just reserve ourselves online. In the meantime she tried making 14 charges according to my bank, one of them for thousands of dollars. I spent over an hour on the phone waiting and being transferred; yet, no one would authorize a removal of the hold on my bank funds. This is ridiculous and in my mind, this is nothing but a crime. I WILL NEVER USE EXPEDIA AGAIN!!! Book the trip with the airlines and the hotels yourself...SCREW THESE THIRD PARTIES!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2016

    I believe a customer service agent changed my email address without my permission (missing the last letter of my name). Therefore, I could not log in to my account. Requiring me to painfully call repeatedly only to be hung up on at least 3 times before speaking with an agent just to change my email address!!! I was unable to change my flight from the US to South Africa despite calling the airline directly and then saying I have to go through Expedia and then when I called Expedia they don't have the flight schedule available. The only option that I had was to cancel my flight for a $450 fee (when the ticket cost $500) or go on the flight. To make matters worse, they kept transferring me and the phone would get disconnected while I'm on a landline and every time I called, as soon as the phone would ring I would get disconnected.

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    Reviewed Jan. 29, 2016

    Saw a good deal that is about to expire on Expedia. Wanted to call them to clarify some details before making the booking. Called their toll free number, told them the deal would be over in 15 minutes the MOMENT my call was answered. After some questions being answered, I was ready to make that booking. I have expressed multiple times that I was concerned about time running out and the price may not be available, which I was reassured that it will be taken care of by Expedia. I got the booking in, only to have the guy tell me that it has passed the offering time and the original deal has "changed" as he was entering my order. So now I have to pay 60 bucks extra because his computer didn't load fast enough.

    I tried to reason with them, only to have them transfer me to a different department, which was suppose to be able to change the pricing, but I got 2 minutes on the phone with this department, then it was just a long hold of 30+ minutes of what was suppose to be "Please hold for a moment, let me check with my supervisor." Turns out, the hotel I wanted to stay at still has that offer available through the hotel's very own webpage. Same price, same policy, same fine prints, but without all the crap that Expedia was giving me.

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    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2016

    I literally made an account on this page JUST to complain about Expedia. I've currently been talking to them for over two hours now and am still on hold with them after being transferred 4 times which is why I have the time to write this review. I called them to ask one simple question about a special offer they are having with their Expedia+ members. I had just signed up for their special offer, "Punch your way to 10,500 Expedia+ points" this morning only after booking 3 nights at one of the qualifying hotels for this offer a week ago. So naturally, I am wondering whether I can get 3 punches on this virtual punch card for those 3 nights I booked at a qualifying hotel a week ago.

    I have asked 4 different Expedia representatives and NONE of them knew what I was talking about when I mentioned this offer. How can you not know your own deals for your company?? I've tried explaining it as simply as possible to every single one of the reps I've spoken to and all of them have given me completely irrelevant responses that don't address my issue at all. This is not the first time this has happened to me with Expedia customer service so I've finally decided to write them an email WHILE being on hold with them since I have nothing else to do while listening to this elevator music. If you are considering booking with Expedia, PLEASE stay away and save your time.

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    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2016

    I booked a vacation package through Expedia - flight, hotel, and transit. Within 24 hrs I called to cancel and booked a different vacation package through them. They said the refund would be processed in full within 24 hrs, though it may take a week or so for my bank to process. Great. One month later and only half of the costs are refunded. Every time I call to billing I wait 5 times longer than the estimated time, then get hung up on. It happened twice where the agent answers, and promptly hangs up the call.

    Most recently I called and the prompt said 9-minute wait. 32 minutes later a guy answered and said "Thanks for your call, I'm being told by my manager that we're having a call systems upgrade and you should call back in 30 minutes." First of all, that is patronizing ** and can't be true. And if it is true, they could have told me 30 minutes earlier to call back in an hour.

    Today I waited 20 minutes on, again 9-minute wait time. (Do they just say that every time?) A guy answered "Thank you for calling..." and transferred me to their commercial agent division. The lady there couldn't help me and told me to call the other line again, no way to transfer. The customer service of this organization is atrocious and their business practices shady. I've worked in call centers before so I get it that there can be dysfunction at times - but dear god it shouldn't happen 90% of the time. Figure out what the hell you're doing, and don't just staff the new sales line but also to support your billed and billing clients. I've written this review in the time I'm on hold - again - to get a basic question answered. Very unimpressed with this company's customer service standards, and would not recommend working with them to my worst enemy.

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    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2016

    If you book a hotel through Expedia be sure to read very closely the refund and cancellation clause. Many places will not give a refund or cancel a reservation if made through Expedia, even if it is 800.00 and you are in hospital and cannot get there. Very Frustrated! And it is 6 weeks prior to reservation and less than 48 hours after it was made.

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    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2016

    I used Expedia a lot. Recently, I booked airline tickets from Expedia. Before check out, they suggested to add "Travel Protection - total protection plan" - I get refund when I cancel the trip so, I bought it. Cost me about $244. I tried to cancel my reservation, it said I have to call... so, I called and they said I only can get airline credit which I have to use within 1 year. I only can get a full refund some emergency situation!! I can get full refund from airline if it's emergency, why I need Expedia protection plan? Why I buy protection plan if I cannot use it? It is useless and rip-off. I'm so disappointed by Expedia. I have to look for other travel agent websites now.

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    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2016

    I ended up having two accounts with Expedia following a typo. I asked them to consolidate them and spent almost an hour on the phone today and another hour a couple of months ago without getting anywhere with them. Then followed a series of e-mails with different reps who obviously did not read my e-mails and kept asking me to call and call and call. This is enough. I am now convinced they will never credit my points to the only account I now have access to. They lost one more customer. They stink.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2016

    I just spent over an hour on the phone with Expedia trying to do a simple flight change. I was very patient as they shuffled me around to various departments, placed me on multiple hold, and repeated myself at least 5 times because both the agent and supervisor did not speak English well. At the end of his hour the rates had gone up by $30. I explained to the supervisor that their inadequacies should not be my penalty and asked him to honor the difference as I have been a loyal customer for several years. Not only did he take that opportunity to save my business but he did not even acknowledge the inconvenience. Expedia will be out of business soon. Google Flights is not only a superior product but also much more convenient and customer focused. Do not waste any more time with Expedia.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2016

    I have a brother who is practically on his deathbed in the hospital. His heart is giving out and it can be a day, a week or a month before he passes. No one knows but he is sedated. I have been trying to get a hold of Expedia to see if I canceled my hotel reservations if they would return my money in the event I can't make the trip to Arizona from Cleveland. I have been on hold well over an hour when they told me waiting time is 8 minutes. I called the hotel in Phoenix and I have to take this up with Expedia. It does say on my contract if I cancel I will lose my money, but in the event of death they have no remorse to anyone?

    I will never in my life and I mean never book anything with them again. They should really be ashamed in their policies. They are nothing but a bunch of money hungry, non-caring company that I feel rips people off. Why can't they refund my funds because of a possible death in the family? I'm at my wit's end and will probably lose around 1000.00 that I have already paid for and can't get a phone call or thru to this company. I'm sure you have heard this story over and over with Expedia. Thank you for reading this email.

    Updated on 1/28/2016: As I mentioned in my earlier review Expedia said they would call me back in 8 minutes. Well it's been 3 days and I haven't heard from them, so I'm basically giving up because again I was on hold over an hour and have not spoken with anyone concerning my issues. I hope that anyone is thinking of booking with this company gets an attorney to read their policies and I'm sure they won't book a bicycle ride with them.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2016

    My initial flight was canceled and the Expedia was changing the flight for more than three times. I lost track of those changes. After I called and ask about the possibility to make a refund since they were not able to provide a different airlines options, they without hesitation refunded me the money, no fees. And the refund was done so quickly that very surprised me. I didn't ask for a refund. I only asked for a possibility and the representative called the airline and made a cancel for the flight that I already made a check in. So how can be done so quickly without any interest on their side?

    Usually when you call on a regular basis, they can't provide a refund in a such fast way and they usually have fees, I would say immediately. But they made a refund so fast so they can resell my flight with a higher price. I didn't give my final decision, I just asked for a possibility to get a refund. How can they run such business without having the best customer service? Bunch of charlatans and non-professionals who can't even speak English clearly. I had a lot of trouble to understand what they were saying. I will never book anything through them. To advise anyone I would say, just book directly through an airline.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2016

    My wife and I had booked a holiday to Vanuatu for early February 2016. A few days back we got an urgent email from Expedia to say that the airline had cancelled our flight. We phoned Expedia and they said we would need to cancel our package because the airline had cancelled our flights and provided no others - and the reason was "runway". We had no idea what that meant and neither did the Expedia representative. We agreed to the cancellation, as we had no choice, since no flights were available. The rep told us that the hotel would refund us within 5-10 days and the airline would within 8-12 weeks!!!

    We phoned the airline directly and they explained that they would no longer be flying to Vanuatu due to runway maintenance being poor. So now at least we knew why. They were shocked by the 8-12 weeks to repay and said it's only 5-10 days. They offered to process my refund directly, but then said they couldn't, as it was booked through Expedia. Then they said they couldn't refund Expedia either! After conversations with their supervisor, they finally decided to phone Expedia on my behalf. After a 15 minute wait, Expedia came on the line and repeated the same story - 8-12 weeks. But this time they said Expedia would be paying me, not the airline. Previously they claimed the airline would repay into my account. When I asked why, if the airline took 5-10 days, I would have to wait for 8-12 weeks for Expedia to repay me! The only response they would give is that it takes time for these things to go through the departments necessary.

    So Expedia initially told me the airline would reimburse me, and the next time, they said they would. They will be keeping my money for 7-11 weeks AFTER the airline has paid them. From what I can make out, the airline was paid directly from our bank account, as they have our bank details. Yet the airline can't repay us directly, and Expedia will enjoy the use of my money for 7-11 weeks! And I have no holiday and am out of pocket for this time. I will NOT be using Expedia again.

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2016

    While booking my 1 way ticket to Perth from Bangkok. I was charged a extra $200 dollars. I am a frequent flyer every month and never had this problem. Never use Expedia again...

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    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2016

    I have had thousands of pounds "pre-authorised" from my account by Expedia.co.uk after trying to book a holiday. The website kept telling me it was busy and to click again. I did but I was called swiftly by my bank's fraud team who told me every time I tried to pay and the screen was telling me the booking had failed, Expedia was trying to take payment anyway. As such, my accounts have been locked and I can't access them for up to 2 weeks. Expedia customer services, particularly "Nanja" based in Bangalore, India, was rude, obnoxious, and sarcastic, and totally unwilling to help. In effort to get me off the phone he promised me a call back from his manager. This never arrived. I am at a serious disadvantage now as a result of Expedia, and also without my holiday!

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    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2016

    Cancellation due to double booking, same flight, same destination, return date few days later, received less than $50.00 credit of $611.00 ticket purchase after penalty. Took days and hours of holding on phone to finally receive such wrong treatment. Deal straight with airlines and you will be treated much better. American Air said, "No problem," until they found out Expedia, then said we had to deal with Expedia and its policy.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2016

    I booked plane reservations through Expedia for my daughter. I am always careful with dates and have never had a problem doing this until today. However, after booking, paying and then printing up the reservations, I noticed that the return flight was on the same day as the outgoing flight! I immediately called Expedia to change the flight. I was put on hold for close to an hour and told that I would have to call back after two hours as their computers weren't working. I then called the carrier directly. The carrier asked me if I had booked through a third party and when I said, "yes", they said that this happens several times a day. The airline operator said that Expedia will change the ticketing day to keep the price down. I was able to rebook through the airline directly and resolve the issue. However, I will not use Expedia to book any travel plans again.

    I also emailed them to let them know how dissatisfied I was with their service and received an email back telling me to contact the carrier directly. They had not read my email because I told them in the email that that is what I had done to resolve the problem. They do have an actual person sign the email, but perhaps the person isn't real as they don't seem to read what I wrote to them. I very seldom if ever write reviews, but I thought I should take the time to write this one as an example of what occurred today; perhaps to save someone else the time and hassle that I went through. Expedia seems to have minimal standards for its customers.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2016

    We live in Fuerteventura and have been trying to contact Expedia.com for weeks. They don't reply to emails so we tried phoning. Yesterday an agent in Spain was trying to get us connected for over an hour, eventually he phoned us back and transferred the call to us, after ONE HOUR we gave up. Our advice never use Expedia.Com, their customer service is non existent.

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2016

    I am 13 weeks pregnant. My husband and I booked a vacation package through Expedia to the Caribbean for later on this February. A couple of weeks after booking, we were advised by our doctor not to travel to the area and to cancel our plans because of the recent issues with the Zika Virus and its threats to pregnant women and their babies. We had a doctor's note in hand explaining the issue. I called American Airlines to cancel our reservation and get refunded, and they said there would be no charge to do so; however, cancellation had to be done by Expedia. So, we called Expedia to cancel our trip and get a refund, and we were told by the company that the airline was going to charge a fee for cancellation, which was a lie based on their itinerary confirmation email and the airline representative.

    When we told them that we had spoken to the airline previously and this was not the case, we were told they would look into it. Between waiting for call backs, managers, and a resolution, we waited for approximately 5.5 hours on hold before the call being dropped. We came to the conclusion that nobody at Expedia would be able to resolve our issue, nor was there a desire for anyone to help from their side. We have now thrown up our hands and filed a complaint with the BBB. Their poor customer service and wait times make it impossible for customers to get what they want, even when it's a matter of health and advisories by the Center for Disease Control.

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2016

    I would like to say that I think Expedia has a deal with Telco's and receives some kind of remuneration from all the calls to their sites. The average waiting time is around 45 minutes to one hour. Why else would this company not allow clients to communicate by email? Last year I had a little problem with Jet Blue and received very good communication by email and resolved the problem completely. I do not advise using Expedia because, as many complaints testify, they tie up the airline or hotel to communicate ONLY with them and it takes too long and costs too much to reach the right person. It is far more satisfying to deal directly and that is what I shall be doing in future. My original problem was about a credit from Emirates for a flight from Perth Australia to NYC and return via Dubai. So much better if I could have dealt with Emirates direct.

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    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2016

    I had purchased a flight from Newark to Las Vegas with the insurance which by the way said 'cancel anytime, receive a refund'. Yeah right. A couple of days later I decided to change my trip and fly from Newark to Los Angeles rent-a-car out there and drive to Vegas and from there I would fly back to Newark. When I called to change flights the agent I spoke to said I needed to cancel my previously purchased tickets and I would need to buy a new ticket but I would be refunded the previous one as long as I fill out the insurance paperwork. She never mentioned that I wouldn't be eligible to receive a refund for the reason I was changing the itinerary. Isn't it obvious that if I would have known I wasn't going to be eligible to receive a refund I wouldn't have bothered in doing any changes?

    Now the worst of it all is they make you call a customer service call center, which is pretty difficult to understand because of the accent. I called 3 times and I waited online about 1 hour each time I called. On one of the calls after waiting more than an hour, either we got disconnected or they hung up on me. Then I call back, wait again, had to explain the whole situation again only to receive an answer that nothing could be done because that was the insurance policy.

    On another note, I did receive airline flight credit voucher but I have to pay 200 per flight for re-booking fee. My first flights was worth 299 - what logic is there to go that route? And to top it off, after explaining everything for the 3rd time, she says to me "all I can do is give you a Expedia hotels 50 dollar credit voucher (!!!) but that's it"!!! What nerve still to say "that's it". Definitely not worth it. Invest a little bit more and go directly with the airline.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2016

    Booked our Cruise through Expedia for a New Year's Eve cruise aboard the Carnival Elation. When they advertised they said there would be a shipboard credit in the amount of $**. When we got the bill, the credit was not on the statement, so the nice people at the desk called Expedia and a manager at Expedia informed us that after we received paid bill there was a site at the bottom whereby we would have to ask for the credit. I am not a computer savvy and had to get help to make the reservations. Why should we have to ask for something they advertised as a part of their package. If you did not read the fine print, you did not know you had to ASK for it. It is not the $** as much a principal. So, Expedia, we can promise you we will never recommend you nor use you to book another trip of any kind with you. YOUR LOSS, WE TRAVEL A LOT!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2016

    Be careful if you book a flight through Expedia and get their insurance policy. We booked a trip for medical reasons and got the policy in case we needed to change our return flight, which we did. After changing it, we were charged a change fee and had to report a claim to get it reimbursed (I thought the purpose of insurance is so you don't have to jump through these hoops). After many calls, emails and forms, their policy doesn't cover medical trips. If we would have gotten sick while on the trip we could have changed our flight with no fee. But since we changed the flight before going, we are stuck paying the change fee.

    I understand this policy information is buried in the actual description of the policy but Expedia should spell out what is and isn't covered. Ensure the policy you are purchasing actually meets your needs. Expedia misleads consumers by advertising that their insurance policy will cover your needs, when, in fact, it doesn't. So we had to pay for the insurance and the change fee.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2016

    I had to cancel a trip to Miami for March 2015 I had booked with Expedia on February 25, 2015, because my dad passed away. When I booked the trip (airfare and hotel package) I inquired about travelers insurance. Expedia told me that the insurance they offer would allow me to get a refund back for my hotel, and a credit with United Airlines so that I could book another flight within a year. All I would be responsible for was paying $200 for the flight change, which Expedia would then reimburse me within 2 to 3 business days. I would also be responsible for the difference in the fare price. I purchased the travel insurance thinking it was a good thing to have. When I cancelled my trip the amount I had paid for the hotel was credited back to my credit card.

    Fast Forward to January 18, 2016. I was trying to book a trip using my airline credit through Expedia for March 11th to March 14th to Key West. I was told by the representative that I would not be able to use the airline credit on those days because I had received a special fare last year since I purchased a hotel/ airline package. So I would have to pick other dates that they could offer me. I explained to them that I would gladly pay the difference if I could just utilize the amount of the airline credit I had paid for last year. The representative did not seem to understand what I was trying to tell him, so he transferred me to his supervisor, who then told me I was not able to just pay the difference, because of the insurance policy guidelines.

    I was then transferred to a manager who confirmed all this. This was not explained to me when I purchased the insurance originally. I was on the phone with Expedia over an hour and a half with no resolution. Now, not only have I lost the airline credit, but I still have to purchase airline tickets to Key West for March. I wonder how many others have experienced this. I will never book through Expedia again. Their customer service and policies are ridiculous.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2016

    I booked three rooms in the hotel "Dream Bangkok" through Expedia. However, the circumstances changed (two of my family members are not able to join us for the trip) and I had to cancel one room. I went to the Expedia website and found out that this reservation is not eligible for cancellation. I haven't done complete research but I think this is hotel policy because some hotel reservation can be cancelled in Expedia. I decided to call Expedia as I didn't wanted to pay for the room we will not need. The way it works is you put your phone number on Support website and someone from Expedia will call you back within five minutes.

    I got an incoming within fifteen seconds. I explained my story to the customer service representative and he told me about how this particular reservation cannot be cancelled, but however, much to my surprise, he told me that he is going to call the hotel and see if he can get the hotel to agree to cancel reservation for one room. After being few minutes on hold, he came back and said that no one with the authority is available at this time (it was 3 AM Bangkok time) and I should call Expedia back in few hours.

    I obliged and called them back. The second customer service representative was equally helpful. She said she found some notes left by the previous representative and she is going to call the hotel right now. Long story short, she managed to cancel my extra reservation. This is the most helpful and not to mention sympathetic customer service experience I ever had. I am of course happy to get my refund but more importantly this was a very pleasant experience through and through. Very well done Expedia!

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    Reviewed Jan. 17, 2016

    I purchased 5 round-trip tickets and needed to only panel one of them. I contacted Expedia customer service but they could not communicate correctly. I tried to explain to them what I wanted but they didn't understand what I needed. I tried to contact them several more times hoping that I would be able to speak to someone that spoke good English, however I had no luck. I became very frustrated and looked online to find a phone number in the US, but could only find the number that is located in India. I will never used Expedia to book any of my travel plans again. I wouldn't recommend anyone using Expedia unless you want to become frustrated.

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    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2016

    Expedia's customer service is not one of their priorities. Agents are like talking to robots and you can find the same deals doing travel accommodations yourself. While trying to change a flight date/time that was a clear mistake, I tried talking with someone from corporate because the agents either did not speak English well enough to understand or they could not say anything besides this is our policy. Once a corporate representative was available to talk, he made it clear that Expedia was a business and their motive was to make money and not make customers happy. These exact words came out of a corporate officer's mouth. I would recommend spending 5 extra minutes to book flights and hotels yourself.

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    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2016

    Signed up for Expedia business since I do a lot of traveling. Was awarded reward points for hotel and car rentals. Upon booking it shows how many points would be awarded. After completing checkout reward points were cut in half. Also experience hotel credits are not properly credited. Each hotel booking over $50 is suppose to award me 1 hotel credit upon receiving 10 nights am suppose to get awarded $100 credit. Have stayed more than 10 nights and account was tampered with so I could not get awarded coupon. Also was very close to being awarded gold member but account was tampered with to prevent me from becoming gold member.

    Also asked customer service how many reward points does it take to turn into an Expedia dollar. Since I have almost 10,000 reward points and just under $70 in Expedia dollars. Contacted customer service multiple times to get disconnected or put on hold multiple times. Was told system was down and they would contact back. Have spent more time on phone trying to straighten stuff out than allowed time for travel. Hotels prices were raised after completing checkout. Each and every book Iog resulted in me needing to contact customer service to adjust account but was never properly done.

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2016

    I booked 4 different hotels and flights. Every single reservation was charged to my credit card. Day later I got an email stating the reservation was cancelled. The money was returned after several days every time however I had no hotel and no flights. Had to rebook at a higher cost due to the timeline. Hours on the phone, poor customer service, lies, incompetence, no explanations, promised calls back... nothing but the runaround. I will NEVER NEVER use this company again.

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2016

    We have been struggling to get we duplicated itineraries straightened out! I have repeatedly been told that the hotel would be reimbursed, and we would get travel vouchers for the airline tickets. But the charges for the hotel still has not been reversed! To recap, I initially made a reservation online and didn't get an email confirmation, so I searched for it online and contacted a customer service via email and was told I didn't have a reservation. I assumed I must not have clicked through on a button somewhere and made the reservation again. When I got to the end of the reservation confirming my purchase, I recognized the screen and called immediately and explained the situation. I was told that one would be deleted, and there was no problem.

    There was a problem! We found we were charged for both, and one was not reversed. I have spent hours on the phone with various customer service reps and supervisors and have had them admit it was Expedia's error and STILL THE HOTEL CHARGES HAVE NOT BEEN REVERSED!!! I am extremely dissatisfied that we can't have it all reimbursed but settled for the hotel to be reimbursed. Only, again it has not been reimbursed. When I call, there is a 2.5-hour wait to talk to a representative?

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2016

    Booked a flight package with Expedia 2 days ago - website changes days you're trying to book each time you select a different flights. After viewing several options- I picked one without realizing the website changed the date of departure. Nothing is solidified after 24 hours so when I received a confirmed itinerary I realized the date of departure was wrong. Called to change it, the system was down so they said they couldn't call me but that I needed to call them. Explained that if time runs out for me to change my itinerary that they should be responsible. After many calls in asked for a supervisor and they wanted $200 more to change it. Will never use Expedia again - be careful with Expedia.

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    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2016

    I will never use Expedia again. I am being charged 5 days for 2 days of hotel stay thanks to Expedia. I called Expedia to make changes to my reservation, but for whatever the reason, they did not. I called back few days later and Expedia denied that there was a record that I made the call. I showed them the proof from my phone bill that I called them for 16 minutes, but Expedia told me that doesn't prove anything. The manager from Expedia was so rude. He went as far as saying I could be waiting on the phone for 16 minutes, and I will not get the refund back. Thankfully I took the issue to my credit company. They said that's enough as a proof, let's see how it goes.

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    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2016

    I received an error message on the website while booking a hotel and flight, so I assumed perhaps the flight was booked and picked another acceptable option. Just to be sure, I wanted to call customer service and make sure the original flight I wanted was booked and that's what was causing the error message, just so I knew I was getting the best deal. After dealing with the online chat help (which didn't help at all and gave me options $500+ what I started with), I called and representative assured me everything was fine with my original flight that was causing the error message and took all my information for my desired hotel and flight times. After about twenty minutes, everything seemed to be good to go, until he told me the flight I wanted was booked.

    So we picked another (more expensive flight), and the same exact thing happened again, and again, until it was $150+ my original quote with much worse flight times. By that point, my backup flight was hundreds of dollars more expensive. While I understand flights book and prices change quickly, both the representative and supervisor were very unapologetic and refused to do anything. Ended up going through another site and saved $100 my original desired flight anyway. I've usually found customer service to be somewhat sympathetic even if nothing can be done, but this was truly horrible. Will never book through Expedia again.

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    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2016

    I booked a hotel using Expedia. I carefully read the cancellation policy. It said I had 24 hours to cancel the reservation. Unfortunately, Expedia doesn't adhere to that policy and when I attempted to cancel they said I would still be charged the full $750.00 for the room. Buyer beware.

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    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2016

    I truly wish I could use negative stars for Expedia. We've been on the phone for about 7 hours today dealing with a glitch in THEIR OWN COMPUTER SYSTEM!! My mom, brother and I purchased a package deal to Jamaica, we printed out our itinerary - turns out they forgot to charge my brother for a plane ticket BUT assigned him a room in the hotel. We patiently called Expedia asking them to revise our itinerary to add the plane ticket, but they couldn't seem to figure anything, and I mean ANYTHING out. The manager finally says, after four hours, there is nothing wrong with the itinerary.

    UM we're missing a family member. Not only did 3/4 of the representatives my mother spoke to give us incredibly rude attitude, but they failed to resolve the issue - resulting in us having to cancel our trip. I am so infuriated that a business this big and a business we've been loyal to for several ongoing years cannot figure out their own glitch. It is so sad that none of their employees seem to enjoy their own job. I advise all of you to never use Expedia! SAFE TRAVELS!

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    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2016

    Reserved a 3-star room, no rooms available. Expedia charged me and no one will answer the phone, automated operator only. Hotel was far from a 3-star, Expedia is less than a one star. I will never use Expedia again. Expedia is definitely a trash organization!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2016

    Probably the worst company I have ever attempted booking with. I tried booking flights with this company and it said the booking had not gone through and to try again. I tried multiple times and each time it said the same thing. I then checked my account and the money had been taken out of my account without receiving the tickets. Never booking with this company again.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2016

    I've been trying to get my monies refunded for a cancelled flight since October 17th, 2015. Expedia now just hangs up on me or ignores the fact that I'm calling. I've filed an affidavit with my bank proving that the monies were never refunded. However, Expedia just continues to hold my money saying that they did refund it even though the affidavit from my bank shows otherwise. At this point I don't know what to do.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2016

    We prepaid for a night's accommodation but when we got there the hotel had a different date. We asked the hostel if they could help but they said we had to go via Expedia. There was a free call number which we called and the hotel and it DID NOT WORK. We were now stuck in a foreign country with no accommodation. There was no way an email was going to sort this out so the only other option was to find a phone number that worked. We did, and it cost - a lot. We managed to sort out the booking (after missing out on half the things we wanted to do because it took so long!) and we had to downgrade the accommodation!! However Expedia are now refusing to refund the cost of the phone calls even though the booking mess up was 100% their error. The fact the phone number didn't work was beyond a joke. What if we didn't find one that worked? Were we supposed to just give up a night's accommodation?

    I have contacted multiple times and been told someone will call. I've been waiting about 2 months for someone to even want to SEE the phone bill. Is this seriously how this is going to be handled? Ignore until I go away? If this is not sorted I will be telling EVERYONE I know (and I know A LOT of people that travel and work for various travel companies) to make sure NEVER to use you guys. Sort this out. It's a joke and is now a matter of principle. FYI I've already tried email and FB and do not want to be told to 'send another message'. Regards, Really past annoyed.

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2016

    I was promised a free shuttle to Flamingo Resort in Cancun. Expedia said they lied. I want my 100 round trip shuttle money back.

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2016

    I have done a flight reservation through Expedia.com 2 weeks ago to Rome from Istanbul... And for USD 590 ticket fee, they got 70 USD for travel protection, almost 12%. Today I wanted to cancel my reservation due to health issues. However when I call the customer service the lady told me that the ticket is non-refundable and if I had any medical injuries or accident or DIE or broke my somewhere etc. I could apply for claim of refund. SO THEY ARE CHEATING THE customers of hiding something... They have to explain and wrote very clearly when I do booking what and how I do get my money back if I cancel or changes. I realized that I will never make any booking on Expedia. Booking.com is much better than Expedia. Even Kayak.com is better. I am even gold member of Expedia and they do not care the customer satisfactions.

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2016

    My deepest concern is the customer service that Expedia provides. I have been Expedia customer for many years, and everything was smooth since I did not need to contact customer service before. This time - due to certain circumstances, I had to make changes to the itinerary. I had to call Expedia agents and most of the time I was getting contradictory information from the agents. During the calls, some of the agents were telling me that it is possible to make changes to the itinerary for additional cost and some agents told me that it is not possible.

    Also, the prior conversations were not documented by the agents, and I had to tell the current agent the issue all over again and also what was told to me during the prior call with Expedia. Combined, I have spent over 25 hours discussing the issue with the Expedia agents. I was calling Expedia (to a US customer number) from abroad so encountered hefty phone charges (as Expedia call back system was not functioning). During the discussion with the agents, the line had been disconnected several times during the conversations with Expedia and I did not receive call backs though I provided my phone number to the agents. During one of the calls, the agent advised me that Expedia would communicate back the outcome of the discussion to me via email, which did not happen. I am still chasing Expedia to provide me details of the documentation over email, as I need those details for the discussion with the airlines.

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2016

    At time of booking, the TOTAL was $724.00 for a car and hotel 5 days. The charge on my C.Card is $823.79. Called twice and they promise refund. 2 weeks past and $0 refund. What should we do? Please help.

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2016

    Thought I bought a ticket for $352.20. Being told only 1 ticket left!! Ended up ticket was $182.20. Why? I called, after being on hold for 20 mins. was told tickets can change even while you are buying them. Really? With 1 ticket left? Such a sham... will not be using this site again. By the way they offered me $50.00 towards a hotel or package.... what a total sham!

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2016

    I have had an ongoing issue with Expedia for the last 3 months. The airline changed my flight which is fair enough. I paid for a flight from Sydney to Rio de Janeiro. It has 2 stops, 1 in Auckland and 1 in Santiago. I received an email from Expedia advising me that my flight had changed, that was it. I logged on to find that my itinerary only showed my flight from Santiago to Rio. So I had to email them to find out what my flight details were from Sydney and to Rio and they sent the only flight I could see on my itinerary which was Santiago to Rio.

    I then emailed again asking which Sydney flight I was on. It's not until I jumped on the Facebook page to complain that I actually got a response. They finally updated my itinerary to show flights from Sydney to Rio. A couple of months later, I am still arguing with them as my flight from Santiago to Rio departs before I even land in Santiago. Well done Expedia! Never never book with this company. Save yourself the stress and hassle.

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    Reviewed Jan. 1, 2016

    We booked 4 nights for 5 people "all inclusive on the SITE" but when arrived we have to pay for our Breakfast meal. The Hotel Wyndham resort in Orlando also treated us a second class because they only deal with the company who booked for us ("Expedia"). About 5 hours later Expedia spoke to staff at Wyndham and told them breakfast is included, but then they (expedia) only submitted a stay cost. No wonder it's cheaper with them an hour after Expedia told us they can only pay for two person (really). We booked 5 people and pay for it isn't? We pay the cost of breakfast in our own pocket and send them the cost of two only (what a joke). Got charge in US Money 1.40 higher but expedia refunded in Canadian at 40% less. Be warned with this false advertisement or inconsistencies. You don't have a way back once you get to your destination.

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    Reviewed Jan. 1, 2016

    I have used EXPEDIA for years, but on a recent booking for a flight and a car I needed to make a change in my return date for the car - the resulting process was excruciating and completely unacceptable. I spent two hours in the phone (put on hold - eventually bumped back into the queue) to make a simple change - move up the return date for my car rental a few days. I was told by the EXPEDIA agent that I would get a counter credit from the car rental company for the early return. When I returned the car, they said the booking was through EXPEDIA so any credit would come through them.

    I called EXPEDIA after the trip and after being put on hold once (and bumped back into the queue again) I asked to talk to a supervisor who ended up telling me (5 times) that EXPEDIA does not give credits for early rental car returns. That all took an hour. If I had dealt with the car rental company directly, the changes could have been made in minutes and the credits would have been reflected on the final bill. As it is I am out three hours of my time and a couple hundred dollars of car rental fees. I will NEVER use EXPEDIA or any of its affiliated companies (Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Travelocity and Orbitz) for anything but price discovery.

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    Reviewed Jan. 1, 2016

    Do not book with Expedia if you can help it! I booked a Bangkok Airways flight from Bangkok to Koh Samui on Thursday 17th December around 4pm to fly on Sunday 20th December leaving Bangkok at 2100 (Flight number: PG 187Y). I received no confirmation of this booking despite their website outlining that I would receive confirmation within 24 hours. On the evening of the 18th December at 23:17, I received an email from Expedia stating that the flight time had changed to leave Bangkok at 1930. In the email it states that I had been charged for the itinerary yet which suggested that the flight had not yet been confirmed. I also have the Expedia app on my phone, in which all the flight details were present in my account, leading to confusion whether the flight was confirmed or not.

    Upon arrival at the airport, (in which we arrived 6 hours early for the flight as we were confused about the confirmation and to allow for any further flight time changes) we were told by a member of Bangkok Airways staff that our details were not even registered on their system and that we did not have a confirmed flight. This lead to a lot of stress as we had no confirmed flight for the evening and we had previous accommodation bookings in Koh Samui over the Christmas period. I have to now give credit to the Bangkok Airways staff who spoke with us at the airport because they dealt extremely well with the mistake made by Expedia and found us a new flight to go to Koh Samui that evening.

    However due to the lateness of our booking, this flight ended up costing us £100.20 when the original cost around £78.00. Therefore due to Expedia's mistake it not only encountered lots of unnecessary stress to our holiday, but also the loss of much needed funds when we assumed our flight had already been booked with them. We are travelling on a tight budget and as you can see the figure we paid is considerably more than what we had previously booked. On top of this mistake made by Expedia, we were outraged to receive a further email from them on the morning of the 21st at 03:29 (The day after the scheduled flight) stating that our flight had been cancelled. Fortunately we had already made it to our destination of Koh Samui by this point.

    During our trip, we have used many different booking companies successfully and are disappointed and shocked that such an established company can be so negligent towards their customers. We have complained to Expedia and expect a apology from them and a full explanation as to why our flight was first not confirmed, then changed, then cancelled - the day after we were due to fly! Thankfully, Bangkok Airways staff have such a high level of customer service and we made it to our destination on time.

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2015

    It has been several weeks since I changed my reservations for a earlier date. I paid the insurance and am now fighting to get my refund back. I am on hold again waiting to talk to a manager because the broken English speaking phone person said that the refund has been deposited into my account... Nope not yet. And she told me that they would not give me an email or a tracking number to show that they refunded me the money... Please be aware and dont use EXPEDIA.com.

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2015

    Hotel not as advertised by Expedia.com. Boutique Hotel Palacio on Calle Duarte 106 is not a 3 1/2 star hotel by any means. After arriving nothing worked in the room, no wifi, tv on top of door 12ft high, toilet not flushed properly, etc. Abandoned building right in front of hotel, with garbage thrown out in the street everywhere. We had paid for seven days between flight and hotel a total of $1,986.00. We had to leave the hotel two days later and head back home to Miami, USA. Additional cost of airfare to leave was another $230 per person or $460. The hotel agreed to give us back $388 out of the days we did not stay. We were not able to contact expedia from Santo Domingo, their 1800 number did not answer. Expedia told me that their information on some hotels are not updated. But who pays for all I lost, my vacation time and money spent.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2015

    I booked a car with Economy, an off-site rental car agency, this past week for what seemed a good deal thru Expedia. Unfortunately, the experience was awful given: (1) no car was available to me at that rate provided by Expedia, (2) economy car rental service was rude and lied about availability given other customers did get cars after us- we were told NO cars were available at any rate, and (3) economy sent us to an alternate car agency with a presumed slightly higher rate, but that was deceiving as they tagged the cost a day short.

    My cost was twice what we booked with Expedia and added 2 hrs of time consequentially. Off-site car agencies at airports are a scam, and Expedia cannot guarantee rates provided. I have talked to a number of car reps to confirm the former. The latter is a statement by Economy Rent a Car. I, for one, will not use Expedia or any other service again unless this practice is stopped.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2015

    On 12/15/2015 I purchased 2 first class round trip tickets from Phoenix, AZ to San Juan, Puerto Rico on Delta Airlines from Expedia.com. The confirmation from Expedia.com was sent to my email account. Everything seemed in order. On 12/26/2015 I received email notification of schedule changes that changed one leg of trip by a few minutes but no flight number changes. Then I noticed they had changed 2 of the flights from first class to coach but offered no reason. I checked with a Delta Airlines who confirmed there were in fact 14 first class seats available on both of these flights. Contacted Expedia and was told cost would be 2K to fix. Was put on hold and disconnected 2 times after waiting over 2 hours. Can't come to a satisfactory resolution on this matter.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2015

    I call the customer service department to rectify my name, resulting in a cancellation by the automatic system. The voice on the recording never said something about cancel. Just asked me if I want to change something on my itinerary, I said yes. And then the voice said "your itinerary is cancel". Just like that. This is the second time dealing with Expedia horrendous service at all levels. The first has to all AA and the person on customer service confirmed it, they are the worse (Expedia). SAVE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME AND DON'T GO THERE FOR ANY OF THEIR SERVICES.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2015

    I was booking a package deal with Expedia, flights & hotel. I was finalizing my purchase and entered my card information online and waited while it said processing. The next page then loaded and said to use a different card as it wasn't going through. At that moment I received an email from my bank, Chase, that the amounts of $1,295 and $202.50 was removed from my account. I immediately called Expedia and informed them that I do not have an itinerary, and the site is telling me I have not booked anything yet, the amounts were removed from my account.

    I spoke to a representative named Madonna, and she informed me that she was not able to help me with this as she does not see anything in their system with this transaction made. I told her that the funds were removed from my account so how is it that there is no transaction in their system?! She said there wasn't much they can do, and that they can return only the $202.50 that was taken from Expedia, but not the $1,295 from Turkish airlines. She said that I had to call back because their authorization team isn't in yet to return the money? She also said that I had to call Turkish airlines myself and tell them to release the hold! I told them that I booked with Expedia and they should be able to help out their customers. She said there was nothing she can do!

    Thankfully I called my bank chase and they were able to release that hold temporarily and grant me a credit of $1,295 to book my flight, but they said I need to use that money before midnight or the credit will fall through. So I was able to book my flight through Orbitz and everything went through fine. The next day I received a -$1,295 on my account as Turkish airlines tried to take the money again, I called Turkish airlines and they stated they had no transaction with my name and there was no history of me ever purchasing the flight. I am furious!

    I called my bank and explained the situation again, and they stated that the amount is currently pending and will either fall through or post on midnight, in which the claim I processed will then kick in and help me to retrieve my money back. Thank goodness for Chase for helping me through this process. One thing is for sure, I will never ever ever book with Expedia again! They have horrible customer service, they do not know how to help you what so ever, and they took my money without having any history of doing so!

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2015

    I have been trying to get a refund from Expedia for a month now. I had cancelled a reservation on 11/27/2015 for a stay in Pelican Inn Hotel in Cambria on US$603.00. Every time I call the customer service to check it out the attendants can't find the cancellation request and I have to start the whole process all over again. I find this dishonest and don't intend to request any kind of Expedia support on reservations anymore.

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2015

    We placed a reservation for three bedrooms at the Clarion Hotel in Buena Vista Orlando on Dec. 27, 2015 and using Expedia online. I paid $364.44 for 3 bedrooms and using a 56% discount they offered me. By when we arrived to the hotel by midnight and by no reason, all reservations were cancelled by EXPEDIA -- no additional explanation was provided, and finally no more rooms were available at that time. It took me three hours to find another hotel in the whole area. Next day, by when I tried to contact Expedia for any logic explanation, no explanation was provided and as per them, the problem was because of the hotel and not because of Expedia. They said they will contact the hotel and get back to me. Finally, after so many attempts to contact Expedia, a representative told me: "Mr. ** we have excellent news. In two weeks we will give you your money back!!!". Thank you EXPEDIA!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2015

    Our first flight was cancelled so I had called both the airline (where I was on hold for three hours and then the call was disconnected) and Expedia where I was told that the soonest we could get out was January 3rd and we would be coming home from Hawaii on the 7th so that was pointless. The trip was cancelled and Come to find out the next day that there were other flights that could leave sooner.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2015

    I have usually had good luck with Expedia, but God Forbid you have to change your reservation. As I type, I have been on the phone for one hour and counting as the poor woman on the other end of the line tries to find a flight I ALREADY FOUND for her. It's not her fault, I'm sure I couldn't speak a second language as well as she speaks English. But PLEASE Expedia, for complex flight changes on international travel, get a native speaker in whatever country you're serving.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2015

    I called to inquire about a refund that was processed on 12/14 and today is 12/28 and it still hasn't shown up in my account, easy right? The wait time was longer than usual, I sat on hold for 58 minutes. The agent that answered couldn't assist me, I needed to be in another department so I was transferred... to the same queue that I called in the first place. So I had to sit on hold again for another 30 minutes to be given another number to the other department that I needed. I called that number and every number I selected took me to a recording then ended the call. They have had my money for 14 days, all I want to know is that its being refunded and possibly a ballpark time that's going to happen but I can't get assistance!!!

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    Customer ServiceOnline & App

    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2015

    I booked a hotel, The Best Western, in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico for vacation. On the web site it looked great and was rated 4 stars. When I arrived I found the toilet not working properly. It was rigged with wire and the lid had to be removed after every flush to stop the endless water flow. The carpet was filthy and stained, the door lock was barely holding and could be jiggled to open it. I called Expedia and informed them of the problems and of my intent to check out early. They told me they needed to call the hotel and negotiate so that I may receive a refund. Expedia told me they were instructed to send an email requesting the refund and that the hotel would respond to that. There was no response. I had to call Expedia over 5 times with them having to "call the hotel" for me every time.

    I had spoken to the hotel's reservation manager and was told that if I had been a regular customer off the street, I could have received a refund but that since I am an Expedia customer that there could not be a refund because of their policy with Expedia deals. When I originally confirmed the reservation the Expedia site informed me that if I cancelled or didn't show up for the room, that I may be penalized one night not the eight nights I was charged for. Expedia points the finger at the hotel who does the same and points at Expedia. I believe this is their tactic to discourage customers from continuing to seek a refund.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2015

    I study in Canada and from Turkey I booked my flight with Expedia thinking it is extremely good price but they had fail to tell me that I would need an American visa to even change flights in Boston and Zurich. So about a month before my flight, I called them all (Air Canada-Swiss-Expedia etc.) and wanted to change but no one including and specially Expedia helped me regarding refund or change to current flight. I am extremely upset as I will not be able to come home for summer because I had to pay twice and I cannot afford to pay any more. It's so sad that they refuse refund in all ways possible. I will never ever buy from them again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2015

    Expedia refuses weather-related flight cancellations, despite thousands of flights being cancelled nationwide. I was not asking for a flight refund or a flight change by choice, but a weather related change. Tornadoes and ice have cancelled thousands of flights, and I wanted to change a flight to avoid ridiculous weather. Expedia repeated their "tickets are non-refundable" line, ignoring my situation (serious weather related conditions, not changing a flight because I felt like it). Poor, poor customer service. Won't use Expedia again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2015

    IT MAKE BE BETTER TO HIRE A LOCAL TRAVEL AGENT. Booked private car transportation in Rome from Expedia and the provider was a no show. I called the provider from the airport and there was no answer - we were forced to hire another car service. I called Expedia after returning home and they agreed to refund after the (Rome) service provided did not answer their call. This was a 45 minute call. Today, I am on the phone for 2 hours and 40 minutes. They hung up after waiting on hold for an hour. Waiting for a manager now. There is not anyone that can make a decision to refund my credit card for services NOT provided. I am being transferred from one person to another and put on hold for 30 to 40 minutes at a time. I have just now received a case number so I can call them back tomorrow and wait on hold while they call the Rome provider. WHO IS RUNNING THIS PLACE.

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2015

    I found out today that when you do an Internet search for a hotel room it is highly likely that you will end up with an Expedia telephone number. When I called number they booked my room, while the whole time I believe that I am taking to Marriott people. They do not disclose that they are Expedia and refuse to help you with Marriott Rewards cards or discount cards. You are told time and time again to ask at the desk when you arrive. When I arrived and asked, the Marriott employees told me about this problem and how many people never even realize it. The problem is when you book through Expedia you can not use discount cards or reward cards. Expedia never tells you this. Expedia gave us the runaround while trying to cancel. It was only with the help of the Marriott general manager that we could rebook. I still have to check if Expedia did in fact reverse the charges to the credit card.

    Pretending to be Marriott people and giving a lot double talk, buyer beware. When we called to cancel Expedia pretended not to have our confirmation number and tried to tell us we must of booked with someone else. Lucky for us it was the same girl who booked us and we called her out on it. Then she found the confirmation number.

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