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

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    Reviewed March 16, 2014

    On February 4, 2014 I booked a flight through Expedia online. I was traveling to Philadelphia with my daughter's dog. I had researched online before booking my flight to see which airlines would transport dogs. I went back on Expedia and booked a direct flight on AA. I didn't print my confirmation at the time but did so a month later. My confirmation confirmed AA flight; however when I printed off my itinerary, it said AA (operated by US Airways). I didn't think anything about it because it was the first time I saw that on anything, just figured there was a merger. I never received anything from Expedia saying there was any change in my flight.

    I knew US Airways did not transport dogs so there was no way I would have booked a flight on a US Airways flight. Long story short I got to the airport and my flight had been literally changed to US Airways, I had to turn around and go home because there was no other flight available for me. Expedia saw the cancelled flight and sent me an email. The airline was nice enough to leave the ticket open for me to use within one year's time; however, there would be a $200 change fee.

    I contacted Expedia to tell them what happened and said I thought them responsible and felt they should pay the $200 fee. I was on hold for over two hours and spoke to 3 different levels of management. They all said the same thing and refused to take any responsibility and put it back on the airlines. Even though I said I had documentation they said I was wrong and they wouldn't pay me anything. I will never use them again.

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    Reviewed March 15, 2014

    I have used Expedia's services for at least ten years and spent thousands and thousands of dollars with them. I have a European flight leaving in four days and went online to Expedia to print out itinerary. The flight was missing!! I had to spend three hours on the phone with Expedia, being put on hold once and disconnected after forty minutes, the same thing, another disconnection, after 20 minutes only to find out after yet another twenty minutes on hold for a supervisor, twenty more minutes on hold for her to call Delta, to find I could have checked online at Delta to see everything with my flight was as planned. What a waste of time for me! I must say the people were wonderful but they are overworked, overwhelmed and ill trained. They should have checked online with the airline immediately (as I should have) to save me hours of grief. I have four more itineraries with them. After that, never, never, never.

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    Reviewed March 15, 2014

    I tried to book an advertised flight from EWR on 4-26-2014 on United flight 1552 to CZM and returning on 7-16-2014 on United flight 1546 as it was advertised for $538.76 round trip. I called the customer service as it would not go through online and they told me that they would help me fix the problem. They had me on hold for 29 minutes and then cut me off. So I called back and explained the problem. And was on hold for 32 minutes while they were fixing the problem and was told that the fair was no longer available because the plane was full.

    I checked United website and the plane only had 5 seats taken on a 737 plane. So I called back again was on hold for 22 min. with an agent. Then was transferred to a supervisor and was on hold for 36 min waiting for the supervisor. And then was told the fair was not available and they hung up on me. That was on Thursday 3-13-14 and today is 3-15-02014 and they are still advertising that fare. By the way travelocity is doing the same thing.

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    Reviewed March 10, 2014

    I booked a room in New Orleans about 3 weeks ago. We thought we were getting a room near the quarters, double bed, open deck, pool. Instead we pull up to this crummy hotel called the empress. They had space heaters for heat, the beds were wrapped in some type plastic and very hard, roach traps all over the room, one handle on sink, one chair in room, broken chair with some old mirrors on the wall and a cut up rug on the floor. Had to leave key at front desk every time we left and through Expedia they carted us 89 bucks a night when the rooms were only 39 a night with horrible most worst 3 nights of my life. Oh they advertised a pool and jacuzzi that we or the hotel crew could find. Expedia should check out the places they book for.

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    Reviewed March 8, 2014

    Stay away from Expedia!! I called customer service to ask a simple question about my recent purchase. Apparently, there are 2-3 tiers you have to go through just to speak to a supervisor. While attempting to speak to someone to answer an infantile question; I was disconnected 3-4 times after waiting 30 minutes each call. In the course of two days, I have been on the phone with Expedia for (7) hours. Meanwhile, their calls are all outsourced and it is extremely difficult to understand the vernacular of any one person affiliated with Expedia.

    Before officially booking my trip, I had spoken with a Customer service rep who was forcefully trying to have me purchase my trips through her, and telling me that the prices were only going to increase from that point. I booked the trip 10 minutes later for a cheaper price. To my astonishment, I randomly saw that the price for my trip decreased $150 per person. Moreover, I booked over 7 separate itineraries, and spent between $4,500-$5,000. I called today to have a supervisor adjust the price of each itinerary, b/c after all their website does say "best price guaranteed"!

    Once again I waited on the phone for an hour, then Audrie, the rep, said that she was transferring me to her supervisor. Unbelievably, I was transferred back to tier one to wait through the process again, then Expedia disconnected my call! I could write a novel about the cumbersome time I spent with Expedia, but I think I've said enough! I should have heed warning when I saw that Expedia received a (1) star! After speaking to over 10 different reps in the last week I have found that these reps appear to be trained to lie and deceive. Nothing about Expedia is honest or easy. The saying "you get what you pay for" pertains exactly to the dishonest business. Judging by the reviews of others, I can see I'm not alone with my horrible experience.

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    Reviewed March 6, 2014

    On February 15, I booked and paid for a hotel in Juneau, AK as I am returning home to Skagway in April. I will be in Juneau for 3 nights until the morning of April 11. I received confirmation but must not have read the confirmation carefully because when I looked at the e-mail, this morning March 6th, I saw the dates were somehow for February 14 the through the 16th. I called the hotel and they said I had to go through Expedia. I could find no phone number and have sent 3 form type e-mails wherein I could leave a phone number and nothing else. The number is not my number which appears automatically as my contact number as I am out of Alaska. I was able to provide Expedia with my confirmation number and submit, receiving a note saying I would be contacted within 1 minute. I have sent 3 of these. Can anyone provide a phone number or tell me where to find it?

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    Reviewed March 6, 2014

    I had booked a reservation for a flight from Newark to San Juan to Vieques PR. The return back flight was changed due to weather. After an hour and a half on the phone they changed my flight for me to another airport without a crazy layover. When I received my itinerary via email, they deleted the leg from Vieques to San Juan! I tried calling and kept on getting disconnected, so I had to book it direct and pay again for the flight. I called a few weeks later to get refunded for the leg and they after an hour and a half again on the phone (no exaggerations I kept records) they told me email my receipt for the flight that I booked on my own and It will reimbursed. I called again 2 weeks later, and they have no record of the phone conversation. How bad is that? Hours of my life wasted on this horribly run organization.

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    Reviewed March 5, 2014

    This is an excerpt from one of the emails I sent in regards to making a simple change on a booking that an Expedia agent made over the phone (not by me online). There have been 24 emails exchanged in regards to a simple change, and I have been on hold by phone for over 6 hours with no resolution. I keep getting the same email from their customer service dept., which is to phone the number they have provided. On each occasion while I was on the phone after being on hold for hours, just as I was about to be transferred to a supervisor, I was cut off and the call went dead.

    Here's the excerpt. "Like I mentioned, in the past 24 hours I have been on the phone with Expedia for over 5 1/2 hours. YOUR SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE DOES NOT WORK! I have now exceeded the 24 hour period in which I would have been able to make a change. THANKS. As for your responses to my emails in which you KEEP repeating that I should call..... well you must know what I think about that. I understand that you are limited as to what your policies permit you to do. If it weren't for that fact I would think that all these incipient emails that I've been receiving were sent by someone who doesn't care, lacks initiative, is simple minded and has a complete lack of knowledge as to what customer service means."

    This is a very condensed version of events. Aside from needing a simple change I was also charged in U.S. funds when I was on the Canadian website. Another mistake made by an Expedia agent which cost me an additional $2500.00 over what I was quoted by the agent.

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    Reviewed March 3, 2014

    Monday morning 2/24/2014 I booked a room for the night through Expedia for at Hollywood Dreamsuites hotel in Los Angeles. I spoke with Mariah. She gave me a number booking #**, and address 1800 Van Ness Blvd. I made sure I repeated all the information back to her to be I had it right. I asked about the parking, which I always do. She said there was plenty of parking.

    Later in the day I was looking for the hotel, set my car navigator & it took me some apartments. I pulled over & call Expedia. The guy didn't have me registered & said call back in 30 minutes. I looked up the address on the internet. It was 830 Van Ness Blvd. Then when I got there, they didn't have me registered. The lady asked was I sure it was the right hotel. I showed her my paper where I had everything written down. The name of the hotel, the confirmation/booking number, the girl's name that I'd talked to.. everything. They had rooms available so they registered me. They had no parking, but the lady said there was plenty of parking on the streets.

    I left & came back to the room around 7:30/8:00pm, couldn't find a place to park, so I ended up parking a block away in front of a school that said no parking between 8am-10am. So I set my alarm to 7:45 so I could go out & move my car be 8, which I did. By then there was parking in front of the hotel. I was thinking because there were so many houses on the street that people had went to work. I went back out to my car around 9 & had a parking ticket for $73.00. There was no signs there saying you couldn't park.

    Expedia lied to me, gave me wrong information, did not book my room, caused me $73.00 extra then they charged my bank card $72.09. Total price $145.09. I could have gotten a nicer hotel for less than that & had free parking. How is that for business? I would like Expedia to reimburse me. They did not give me the service they promised.

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    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2014

    To start, I have a $604.70 credit on Expedia with Delta. I understand a $200 change fee would apply when I use it, so that leaves what should have been a $404.70 reduction from a recent flight I tried to book. Thursday, February 13 placed flight on hold and called Expedia as directed to do so. Cost of flight $589. Called Expedia to complete booking. Message said due to storms, call volume was large and recommended calling back later.

    Friday, February 14 (approximately 11:50 am CST) reviewed Expedia website flight options. Cost of flight published on website at that time was $589. Called Expedia to complete booking of flight placed on hold evening before. Put on hold multiple times by service representative. She was friendly but extremely hard to understand. When she went to complete booking, she said the flight had increased to over $700. Since I was online, I pulled up Expedia and the flight was published at $589. I explained that to her. Put on hold again, and when she came back she asked for my credit card number to complete booking. I told her I needed to know the charge amount first. She gave me the price based on the $700+ flight minus my credit, + the change fee. I again told her the flight is currently on Expedia's website at $589. She put me on hold while she located a supervisor.

    Supervisor came on and I had to explain everything again. He put me on hold, came back on, and said the flight was over $700 even though the website said $589. I told him I would have to call back and deal with this later, I had no more time to spend. The call lasted over 55 minutes with no resolution. Keep in mind, I was at work, and had never expected the call to last more than 5-10 minutes so this was a huge waste of time for me and my employer.

    Shortly after I hung up, I received two emails. One booking the itinerary I had in hold, the other for the same flight. Both showed a rate of $589. I immediately went to My Trips on Expedia's website and the flights were not there. Friday evening, February 14 checked Expedia's website and same flight was available for $589 (with only two seats left that price). Saturday, February 15 - checked Expedia's website and same flight was available for $589 (with only one seat left that price).

    Sunday, February 15 (approximately 5:00 pm CST) checked Expedia's website. Preferred flight that best met my schedule was no longer available but I located an alternate that would work. Placed flight on hold and called Expedia as directed to do so. Cost of flight $557 Delta. Called Expedia to complete booking. Due to high call volume, the message advised an hour and 15 minute wait. I elected the call back option. Received call back at approximately 6:15. Explained the situation AGAIN and told the representative immediately that I did not have 55 minutes to spend on the phone. All I needed was the booking completed using the credit.

    Again, put on hold multiple times by service representative. She was friendly but extremely hard to understand. She went to book it and said she regretted to inform me that the cost of the flight had just went up and was approximately $100 more than the published rate. I immediately pulled up the online rate and it showed $557. I was speechless at this point. She put me on hold again while she talked with her help desk. Someone else got one and I had to explain everything AGAIN. In the middle of explaining, I was hung up on. Of course, I couldn't call that number back as it doesn't accept inbound calls. I called the general number and the message stated it would be over an hour wait. The call lasted approximately 45 minutes with no resolution.

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    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2014

    Booked flights for three of us to travel to Peru, my adult Daughter and Son. He is in the National Guard. We purchased trip insurance. He was activated due to weather problems in the Mid-West and will not be able to join us. Contacted Expedia to either rebook the flight or cancel it and get a refund, possibly via the trip insurance.

    To my surprise, anything related to the military is not covered by their travel insurance policy. You can lose your job and it's ok, you will get your money back. But be called to serve your country - you are out of luck. I would warn anyone in the military or their family members or anyone who supports our service members to aware of Expedia's policy and to use someone else.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2014

    I used the cancel flight option, paid for it, and was unable to make the trip. I cancelled and was credited $241.00 for my flight (the hotel was credited back to my charge card). Was told I had 6 months to book a new flight, which I tried 6 weeks later... First call, on hold 25 minutes before I got someone, then told I had wrong department. Second call, I opted for the return call, another 20 minute wait, but they did call back. They couldn't find my return flight, which I had pulled up on my screen and was ready to pay and book, just needed to know how to apply my credit. While I was waiting my reservation went up by $31.00! I told him, book it before the price changes! That guy left me on hold for over 30 minutes and I finally hung up.

    I made new reservations and found an airfare a little less than my first itinerary, called back and explained to the girl to just check in with me, which she did, thankfully, but also said she couldn't find my return flight info. After another 40 minutes of her saying she's still waiting for an agent, she finally said she would transfer me... while I was on the phone with her, another call came in, which I didn't take and it turns out that was the supervisor calling me... she still hasn't called back. I booked my trip at full fare and will NEVER use Expedia again! VERY bad business practice to make it so difficult and annoying to get your credit you have to hang up. I spent over 3 hours on this... Not how I wanted to spend my Saturday afternoon. If they had less than 1 star I would have used that option.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2014

    Expedia is duping the customers. 1) collects money for advance booking by offering huge discounts and again for really booking it (if booked again). 2) collect verification charge Rs. 100/- for booking and promise to return in 48 hrs, but do not return. Think the daily collection!!! This is fraud.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2014

    I tried to book a flight through Expedia today (Feb 22) over a period of several hours. Each time I chose my flight and went to pay, my payment was blocked. I was then directed by Expedia to "search again". I'd log back in and the flight price would have risen by almost $100. This happened three times. The price went from $1742.00 to $1811.00 to $1942.00 in less than one hour. Air Canada had posted the flight price at $1942 early today. I saw it on AirCanada.com. That price remained constant. In other words Expedia kept jacking up its "discount" price until it was the price Air Canada was advertising all day long. So where is the discount?

    Last year I had the impossible task of cancelling a hotel reservation through Expedia. I spent three weeks calling Expedia to cancel a reservation each time I was able to do so from work since Expedia accommodates EST rather than PST. I had to demand to speak with supervisors and was assured the reservation was cancelled after days and days of arguing and insisting and becoming unpleasant and demanding. In the end the reservation was not cancelled at all. While in Europe last summer I was sent a confirmation for my room (the one I had spent weeks cancelling) and I had to change my plans to just go in the direction of the hotel reservation since I was paying for a two-night accommodation anyway.

    Expedia is a disreputable company. It pretended today that the airline changed its prices and it was at the mercy of the airline's pricing. But it was Expedia which kept raising the price. Air Canada's price remained constant. I am sick of corporate greed. We are to feel pity for airlines struggling to stay afloat but they are extorting money from clients. Expedia is not an honest company. It should be forced to accept payment for a flight that is being booked at the price it was initially offered rather than wasting the time of clients as it continually stops payment so that a higher price can be demanded from those clients.

    Perhaps Expedia feels that after hours of wearing down and frustrating a client that he or she will just pay whatever the cost in the end, convinced the price will climb even higher the next day. I refuse to buy into this emotional and financial terrorism. I didn't buy the ticket. Nor will I buy anything from Expedia in the future. This is extortion.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2014

    I booked a flight from Orange County Calif. to Knoxville, TN thru Expedia. I booked departure on 3/19 and return on 3/23. When I booked flight I reviewed information and booked. When I looked closely at details a couple of days later I noticed both flights had been booked on same day. I called Expedia and asked what I could do, and why would I book the flight out across country and back the same day! I also stated when I submitted booking it was correct. The 1st person I talked to was not understandable and said we follow policy, I asked for supervisor, held for half an hour. She said the same exact same thing, she said she understood BUT she couldn't help me. She said it was my fault and there was nothing they could do except pay $200.00 to correct.

    I called United and they stated, that's what happens when you book thru Expedia. I explained I had become used to getting a Royal screwing when it comes to a company doing the right thing and correcting the problem. She wasn't a bit concerned. I stated I would write complaints and tell EVERYONE not to use Expedia. The lady said have a nice day and hung up. I will never use Expedia again obviously. Be aware that when you go thru these sites, not the airlines you will not be allowed to change anything, even if its not your fault.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2014

    It has now been over 72 hours and I have been calling Expedia since Tuesday of this week to try and get them to produce a letter to fax over to my credit card company on Expedia letterhead SO I CAN OBTAIN MY MONIES BACK ON MY CARD. MY TRIP IS FEB 27TH I NEED TO REBOOK!!!!! Info to be included: merchant ID, authorization code, date of transaction, my info, cc info, dollar amount to be released, the reason for the cancellation.

    Now as of 2:15 pm I have been told the agent can not write/compose the document. When in fact they can, a document was composed on 2/19/14 2/21/14 with the incorrect information faxed to my credit card company. THIS IS BEYOND RIDICULOUS.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2014

    I've used Expedia in the past and whenever there is a problem, their customer support has been very unhelpful. It felt like they just wanted to get me off the phone and kept saying the same things. I wanted to resolve an issue but they seemed to be more concerned about the money.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2014

    I booked 2 tickets to a Tang Dynasty dinner and show during a recent holiday to Xi'an, China. As the day grew closer, I became concerned that no contact had been made for our hotel pickup, and there was no answer from the phone number provided. I tried calling Expedia, was put on hold and then transferred to an overseas call center, draining all the credit on my Chinese prepaid phone in the process. No response.

    On returning to Australia I have called Expedia no less than 4 times, the first three times I was told I would receive my refund in 5-15 days, but nothing happened. I have been put on hold for lengthy periods to an Indian call center (at my expense, of course); yesterday's call to India went on for 48 minutes, and I am still no closer to getting my $208.00 refund. I didn't think things could get any worse, but the email I received today from Expedia takes the cake:

    "Thank you for contacting Expedia.com.au regarding refund of the activity booked. I apologize for the inconvenience caused. Your words carry a lot of weight with us, and I am concerned to hear that your experience with Expedia is not to your satisfaction. I surely value your feedback and completely understand that apologies would not solve the purpose however, on our end Expedia will make sure that this does not happen again. I have tried contacting the vendor however, they are not picking up the call due to non-business hours. I have sent an email to the vendor for the refund. However, it is not guaranteed as it depends upon vendor discretion. As soon as we will receive response from the vendor we will revert accordingly. I appreciate your patience in this matter. Thank you for choosing Expedia.com.au."

    "IT IS NOT GUARANTEED AS IT DEPENDS ON VENDOR DISCRETION"?!? In other words, I paid my money to Expedia, and they use the excuse of the non-responsive tour operator,] (the exact problem I encountered) as an excuse to not refund my money? Are you kidding me?

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2014

    Booked a room on Expedia’s site. The room type said you get a king, queen or double. We indicated 4 people and it charged an extra $40 per person charge. The confirmation comes through with a king for four people. We called. They said we have to call the hotel. The hotel say “We can't talk to you since you booked through a third party.” We call Expedia. Spent 1.5 hours on the phone. In the end they would not make the simple correction to change it to two doubles for four people and refused to refund the money so we could book 2 double beds. Further the Supervisor was rude. Will never use Expedia again. Afterwards I even saw other sites with the same deal, same hotel with two double beds for a lower price. I have filed a dispute with my credit card company.

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    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2014

    About 3 weeks after I purchased (and paid for) 2 tickets from Chicago to Auckland, Expedia sent notice that the itinerary had changed. I spent at least 3 hours on the phone trying to get rebooked and was unsuccessful. Expedia's service reps really tried but in large part, they didn't understand the journey and their English wasn't up to the task. I asked repeatedly for a supervisor and for confirmation that my tickets for the entire journey had been rebooked, all to no avail. One of their call backs occurred at 1:30 a.m. Their system shows we are booked for only part of the trip. No more Expedia for me.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2014

    My husband purchased a trip thru Expedia on 1/28 for the period of 2/18-2/23 and then cancelled due to a conflict of our schedules. I rebooked another trip that same day for the same period of time with the same airlines and the same hotel and they gave me the SAME itinerary number. After never receiving acknowledgment of the trip, I called them today 2/16 for our itinerary. The first time the rep said it has been cancelled. I called back again after waiting for a very long period of time on both of these calls. That rep said our trip had been cancelled.

    I then called our hotel and they confirmed Expedia had indeed booked my trip and it gave me a confirmation number. I then called the airlines and they said the later flight was indeed booked and gave me a confirmation number. I called Expedia to see what our itinerary was and spoke to Ariel (sp) a male who after 25 minutes without notifying me put me on hold and never came back then the phone was disconnected. I called back and waited another hour to speak with Ms. **. I informed her that this was my 4th call and I wanted to speak with a supervisor. She announced she was putting me on hold, came back to transfer me to a supervisor and was disconnected again. At this point, after 5 hours trying to confirm my travel arrangements, I am going to wing it and hope we will be fine. NO MORE EXPEDIA for us!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2014

    Do not trust Expedia. Worst customer service. We booked our car rental with them several months in advance of our trip. When we get to Denver they gave our reservation and we had no rental. When I call Expedia for help they said the couldn't do anything for us. I asked if they could find us a rental and honor the price we had booked it for, they said that they couldn't do anything for our group, that we would need to work with the rental company. I told them, "but we booked with Expedia!" and I was hung up on. Never again would I use this site and won't recommended it to anyone.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2014

    Booked a flight on Expedia.com website. Found the same flight for lower on carrier's own site the next day and Expedia.com's own website also lowered the price on the same flight. Customer support refused to honor their price guarantee saying the carrier's website was not US based even though they are partnered with them and despite the fact that I showed them another quote for the same flight on their own Expedia.com website.

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    Reviewed Feb. 15, 2014

    I AM in the middle of experiencing this same problem. They kept me on the phone for OVER AN HOUR to refund my trip in the first place (I am skipping the first part of this story, that's another novel in itself)! She finally got on the phone and said I would be refunded. Well, I was shorted $250, the amount of the coupon. Was told at first - "system error". Then was told it was the insurance. Then she said it was the coupon but was insisting that they refunded me in full. THEY DID NOT. She refused to listen to me - I tried talking over her, she put me on hold for 20 min then disconnected me.

    I am unable to email them through their website. They do NOT want you to call them. I am now on hold AGAIN for another HOUR and AM LIVID, I MEAN REALLY LIVID. I WILL NOT EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER use them again. I booked our trip through BOOKIT and they have been wonderful. I am on hold with them now and want to just SCREAM at the person that answers the phone!!! Still trying to get somewhere with this. I will not stop until they do the right thing!!! Expedia is a bunch of crooks!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2014

    I booked 2 itineraries back on 10/22/2013 for one and for the second itinerary booked on 11/29/2013. After I booked them I called Expedia customer service for my reward points, and I was told that I booked my itineraries as a guest account on their website, but the customer service then told me they will credit me the points after one month of my trip. So after one month passed, I called customer service on 02/09/2014 for my points, and customer service put in a request to credit me my reward points. And after three days I checked and log in on Expedia online for my account, I did not see any point, so I called and I was denied my point saying booking was made before.

    I have explained to them that I called and I was assured to get my points after I came back and now I'm denied. I made my effort and a good faith that this practice is a complete misleading and illegal business practice. I need this bureau of consumer affair looking into this business conduct and investigate this matter. I would appreciate that there is justice out there looking for me.

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    Reviewed Feb. 14, 2014

    They called me to cancel 5 flights I had booked for over 2 weeks. They would NOT transfer me to other flights. They refunded 100% of the air $4000 (Because they cancelled it), no cancellation fee. However, they have told me numerous times I will receive credit for the trip insurance ($258). But it has never happened . Now have filed a claim against them with credit card co. Don't trust their customer service. Don't trust Expedia!! Hope they're not around in the future..

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    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2014

    I made and paid for a four-night stay in a hotel but checked out one night early. After three months of frustrating communication, they have denied any refund. Don't go through this! They are almost impossible to contact by any method.

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    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2014

    I did booking with Expedia on phone believing that Expedia is perfect. So what happened I decided to book a return flight from Auckland to New Delhi on 12th February 2014 departure 10th April from Auckland and return 26th April From Delhi Southern China Airline. So we done it on the phone. I gave the guy my details and card details, he said it's processing and something happened in their system and he said it's unable to process. The flight was 1325 NZ dollars and I was charged for that money. But I did not receive any confirmation because he say he was unable to book for some reason system error. Because of that I lost money from my card and I do not have enough fund to book another and now the flights are getting more expensive and I still have not receive money back.

    And the technical support says I will receive in 72 hours but it's almost 24 hrs but they say they can not book me another flight because I do not have more funds in my card as they took my funds already and wanting me to pay more to book another. Who knows same happens again I lose more money. Due to this I will be having damage of about 500$ and waste lots of time to figure out how will I receive money, where is the money and how can I book ticket. I did checked with my bank and they say money is being held by Expedia. And now is it my fault that I booked my ticket with Expedia and due to which I may miss the dates which I booked and the price is going high.

    And in return they say they can't do anything, I need to have more money to book ticket again because previous fund is being held by them. Why do not they right in the main head that "If you want to book ticket with us you need to have at least 6000$. In case we are unable to process your ticket, we may able to charge you and hold your funds." So to book again you need enough funds twice as the ticket so they may charge you twice and hold your funds and you can't do anything.

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    Reviewed Feb. 10, 2014

    I received an email from Expedia on 1/29/2014 for "Invite Only Email Exclusive Deals", so I followed the link in the email and booked a vacation package for 4 to St. Pete Beach on 2/4/2014. When I reviewed my reservation the price came out to approx. $474 per person, so I clicked Book. As the site was loading it suddenly malfunctioned. When I returned to the Expedia site, I found out that my reservation had been completed; however, whatever discount I should have received somehow got removed between the time I hit Book and the site crapped out. The new total was now over $400 more than when I confirmed my reservation.

    I called Expedia Customer Service, and the first person I spoke to put me on hold for 50 minutes and never returned. I called back, and I also spoke to Ronald. At first he seemed helpful when I explained the situation, but then he became very hostile and condescending for no reason. He claimed he could find "no record" of the email I received, but that he "believed" I received it and wanted to help me. He then said he was going to transfer my call to someone at the Help Desk that could look into my issue further. This never happened. I got sent back to the phone tree, so I called back to cancel my reservation.

    Because it was within the first 24 hours of booking, I was informed I was eligible for a full refund of $2,312.52 and should expect to see it reflected on my credit card statement within a few days. When I checked my statement today, I noticed I received two credits, one for $1,182.20 and a second for $1,030.32, which totals $2,212.52. I called back again, and I have been back and forth for almost an hour trying to explain that my refund was incorrect by $100. Finally, I was put through to a manager, who now says this was a "glitch" and is going to manually correct it.

    My issues now appear resolved (since I ended up booking with Orbitz instead), but it is unacceptable that I have had THREE poor experiences with Expedia Customer Service regarding one reservation. I am both glad and disturbed to see that other people have also experienced technical issues/"glitches", and condescending, incompetent customer service staff. I have also submitted these same comments via email and in the customer satisfaction survey I received, but Expedia has yet to respond to either. Never again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2014

    PLEASE PLEASE do not trust Expedia!!!!! My son had a flight and rental car booked through Expedia, flight was fine, when he arrived at Edmonton Airport the car rental tried to charge over $1800.00 as we had confirmation of $873.58. I called Expedia thought we had it worked out to a degree, but then go to find out from Expedia agent the car rental place after telling us we had an hour to get back there proceeded to close leaving him stranded. The agent on the phone was very helpful, expedited to higher and told would receive a call back within 72 hours. Ha ha, did not happen. Now I have been on phone for over 4 hours and keep getting put on hold. Please do not trust any confirmation cause they change it when they feel like and say oh well!!! Customer service dept are rude and do not know what customer service is.

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    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2014

    I booked a hotel in Myrtle Beach for the Christmas break back in November 2013 through Expedia.com. It didn't have a good explanation of the kind of bed the room had. When I arrive at the hotel to check in, the hotel representative told me that I would want to upgrade the room to a standard king bedroom because the bed that I reserved might be small. It was almost 10pm at night. So, I had to call Expedia asking for an upgrade. First, the customer support was telling me that I would have to pay a penalty for upgrading but it might be waived if the hotel doesn't charge the fee to Expedia. Over a 20 minutes wait, Expedia called me back saying that the hotel wouldn't charge any fee for upgrading. I had verified with the Expedia representative for the differential price for the upgraded room and the representative said that they would e-mail me a confirmation, and after that I would be all set.

    When I get the e-mail confirmation, Expedia had charged me a completely different room price, for a Deluxe Room instead of Standard Room. So, I called Expedia again to correct their mistake. However, they were not understanding this situation and told me that I have to pay a penalty for downgrading the room. I explained them a million times what happened and their customer representative seemed not understanding English. All this time, the call connection was also really bad and it got disconnected 3 or 4 times and that I had to re-explain the whole story all over again.

    Finally, I requested that I speak with a supervisor. The supervisor was very mean to me. I was very angry and tired since it was past 11 pm, after a long drive from New York to South Carolina. I told the supervisor that the mistake was from Expedia's side and so, I would pay a penalty for downgrading. The person couldn't understand me. Finally, I just requested to cancel the whole trip since I cannot accept their policy of paying a penalty for their own mistake. The supervisor told me that I will have to pay a cancellation penalty. I requested my credit card company to dispute this cancellation fee but it was not given.

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    Reviewed Feb. 8, 2014

    Let me start by saying that Expedia didn't do anything illegal. I feel very slighted. I booked a cruise which offered onboard credit if I used my Master Card. I was in a hurry and booked the cruise thinking that the onboard credit would follow my booking due to the fact that I used a MC. In small print, it said that I need to fill out a redemption form at least 21 days before the cruise. I admit that I missed this and booked the cruise only 23 days before it departed. I had to catch this within 2 days after booking. The bottom line is I called Expedia customer service and they flatly refused the credit. I was transferred to their promotion department and was told that they will not do anything about it. The bottom line is this is the absolute opposite of client-centric. For someone who spends a lot of money on personal travel, I will always avoid Expedia.

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    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2014

    I booked Double Tree Suites by Hilton New York City - Times Square to celebrate the New Year 2014 mid-October 2013, paid $3,117.23 for seven (7) nights and accepted all conditions, like the reservation is non-refundable and cannot be cancelled or changed. To avoid any problems I confirmed our booking with the Hotel. Everything seemed to be in order. About three weeks before our departure somebody from Expedia sent us an email that there was a problem with our reservation. Expedia sent a no reply email so it was up to me to chase them.

    When contacted Expedia, firstly I was informed it was a computer glitch, the hotel made a mistake in pricing the booking and I had to pay extra $541.84, which I agreed to pay. Few days later, I was informed the Hotel was overbooked and we were moved to a different hotel. When I contacted the Hotel directly, they informed me Expedia cancelled our booking. Expedia did it without my knowledge or agreement. The fact was the Hotel was not overbooked and, for whatever reason, representatives of Expedia were simply telling me fibs. To stay in this hotel we agreed to pay an extra $2,300.50 directly to the hotel. I think there is something terribly wrong with Expedia services and I am not sure if I used Expedia booking again.

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    Reviewed Feb. 5, 2014

    Do not trust Expedia!!! Their price match policy is a bunch of **. I found a cheaper price from the airlines directly and filled out the Price Match form online and submitted it within hours of booking my flight. I received an email back denying my claim since I made my reservations as a guest and not under my account. They find a way to weasel out of everything. Stay away from them!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2014

    My husband booked my flight over the phone to Las Vegas (I was sitting in the room when he did it). I was supposed to be flying out of Toronto Pearson International Airport on Feb 6th, returning on Feb 9th. I never received an itinerary or confirmation of any sort from Expedia.ca. When my husband called the airline they sent me a confirmation, which had me leaving Toronto (to Las Vegas), and returning to Toronto on the same day.

    I called in and was told that my husband booked the flight online (which was not the case). I was told that 2 return flights were in fact booked. One with the correct flight information, one with the mixed up flights. If I cancelled, I would get a credit, NOT A REFUND. I would have to use the credit within the next year, and I would be charged an additional $200 fee to use the credit to begin with. So I end up being out of pocket $700, on top of the flight I am actually taking. In addition, I cannot transfer the passenger to someone else. I find this completely unacceptable. Neither company (Expedia.ca or Air Canada) would refund my money. Neither company would do anything to help an upset customer. And what really upsets me is that Expedia.ca completely denies that my husband booked the flights over the phone. These companies are such SCAM artists. I am very unhappy!

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2014

    I used Expedia to book and pay for a multiple-city flight in May 28, 2013, for travel in late August. My plans changed and I called Expedia on July 24 to see if I could cancel the first leg of my trip from Tokyo to Manila. I was told that if I paid a 20,000 yen (I live in Tokyo) cancellation fee, the balance would be refunded to my credit card within two weeks. I thought 20,000 yen was reasonable so I agreed and even re-booked and paid for another Expedia flight.

    After a month, I noticed there had not been a refund, so I called the call center and was told that it would take 3 months. Each time Expedia's refund time frames came and went, I contacted them repeatedly and each time I was transferred until someone eventually disconnected my call. I made careful records of each person I talked with, the times, dates, and the results. Each time someone transferred my call to someone else and I began to feel like they were evading me.

    My total flight ticket was for 93,380 yen, and my refund for 73,380 yen has still not been refunded, nor has anyone given me any further explanations. I have tried numerous emails to the help/support online, but always end up talking to representatives in India who put me on hold and keep me there until someone disconnects the line... usually about 30 minutes into the call. This is so unprofessional and I feel a sense of total exasperation when I think how little my voice counts to Expedia. The worst was today... I begged with the representative not to put me on hold but he insisted it would only be for two minutes while he talked with his superior. He refused to give me the name of the superior or to let me speak directly to that person. After being put on hold the phone was disconnected after 30 minutes. I feel utterly helpless here!

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    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2014

    I have booked many trips in the past and now looking to use my rewards points only to find zero points. I have called Expedia only to be put on hold and then disconnected. The best was they put the phone down and I could hear them talking for over one hour then they hung up. The say I was just a member from 11/2013. I have an email about my rewards membership dated back to 2/2012. I find it hard to understand why they do what they do and stay in business. I buy from them and I get NO rewards that I have coming to me? Well I guess it's time to use a different travel company.

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2014

    On a holiday to Tenerife in December 2013, I booked and paid in full return flight for 2 adults plus 10 days' car hire. On return to the UK, I found a charge of 64.07 (75 Euros plus foreign exchange transaction fee) on my credit card statement from Avis the car rental company. I queried this with Expedia & explained to them that I returned the car with a full tank of fuel & according to the documentation which I was asked to sign when I picked up the car upon arrival at Tenerife South Airport, the 75 Euros "car refuelling service charge" will not be levied if the car was returned with a full tank of fuel. Although Expedia refunded 61.54 (the small shortfall can only be attributed to incompetence on the part of Expedia's complaints handling team), I am far from happy because of the time and effort spent in making my complaint to Expedia and to my Credit Card Company and also because Expedia appear to have given me a goodwill credit, i.e., the refund did not come from Avis the car rental company.

    So despite my complaint, Expedia has done nothing about Avis, its contractor. Expedia demanded to see my Credit Card Statement yet it had made no demand of Avis to supply the documentation in support of their fuel (rip-off) charge. Expedia seemed completely oblivious to the fact that Avis will continue to rip off other customers of Expedia's. I am extremely angered by my experience and feel very disappointed that Expedia is paying so little attention to check or vet the procedures of some of its unscrupulous contractors (like Avis) which could have helped to protect customers from being exploited & overcharged in the way that I had been.

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2014

    On 1/26/14, I booked a travel package for three (all inclusive hotel + airfare) for a total charge of $3256.38. I received an itinerary and summary charges from Expedia and figured that everything was set. A few days later, I check my American Express card and see that I've been charged a total of $4606.73 - from Expedia, Travelscape LLC, and Hotels.com, all subsidies of Expedia (confirmed by American Express when I called them). I call Expedia to dispute the charges. First, they tell me I should have been charged $3293.86. When I asked where that number came from, they said, "Whoops, we meant $3256.38." I said I was charged much more than that and reiterated the charges on my AE card. They told me they couldn't see those extra charges on their end and there was nothing they could do about it.

    I asked to speak to a manager. 30 minutes of being put on hold, no manager. I hung up and called back the next day. I spoke to Ronald, one of the Expedia customer service reps, who was condescending and completely disrespectful. At one point in the conversation, he told me to "listen up" so he could explain how the process worked there. He had no record of what was discussed in my phone call the previous day. He didn't offer to have me speak to a manager. When I asked to speak to a manager, he said he didn't know how long I'd have to wait. It might be "30 minutes or more". He said he couldn't see the extra charges and there was nothing he could do.

    When asked if this conversation would be documented for future reference, at first he said every representative goes through the same process for handling customer complaints, then he said every agent is different. I asked what happened if I called back, will anyone have a record of what was discussed/left unresolved or will I have to go through this whole damn process again. His answer, "I don't know, depends on the agent." Wow. Thanks, Expedia. You really care about your customers. I'm calling American Express and cancelling these charges!! I'll never book on your website or recommend you to anyone.

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2014

    I booked a trip to Cancun back in December 2013 for the family. I purchased the insurance for the trip as well. We had to cancel the trip and so I called Expedia to get my refund for hotel and airfare. To date I have not received my refund for $1,900 dollars. I have checked my account multiple times for the refund and to date no refund. They continue to lie to me and tell me that they issued my refund. I also asked to speak to someone in their accounts payable or anyone else! Their reply is that there is nothing they can do. DO NOT USE EXPEDIA! You are taking a big chance.

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    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2014

    I recently went to book a hotel in Tampa, Florida for a business trip. I went to the Ramada site and somehow, through redirects on the pages, ended up at Expedia. I entered my information to include my credit card information thinking I was reserving my room and when I hit enter I ended up pre-paying for the room for the two-day period I was scheduling at the Ramada. The day before I was supposed to show up in Tampa, I received a call from one of my business associates saying the Ramada was substandard and they were moving the meeting to another hotel. He advised me to cancel my room. I promptly picked up the phone and called the hotel.

    Because it was booked through Expedia, I had to call them and cancel. When I called Expedia, they were happy to cancel the room but because I was giving them 21 hours instead of 24 hours notice they were going to charge me a full day to include tax for the room. I was upset and while voicing my displeasure at this draconian policy, the Expedia representative hung up on me. I will never use Ramada or Expedia again. It was almost the single worse experience I have ever had with a travel site.

    The worse experience I ever had occurred on another occasion where I booked a flight through Expedia to Washington, DC. The return ticket ended up being changed to within 2 hours of my arrival in D.C. If I hadn't discovered it while in the airport, I would have missed my return flight and had to pay for another ticket to get home. EXPEDIA SUCKS! I advise everyone to stay away from this site. I will NEVER use them again. And I will NEVER use Ramada again since they are in league with this unprofessional, ridiculously run travel service.

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2014

    On Jan. 9 I booked a one night stay at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio using Expedia. According to my phone records I called Expedia back with 27 minutes of making the reservation noticing I had made a mistake in the reservation. The call lasted 8 minutes and I was assured my reservation had been canceled and that there will be no charges. WELL, of course now the hotel is charging me a fee because they think we never showed up and didn't cancel the reservation. Why do they think this? IT's because the staff and management at Expedia is very unprofessional and have not done their jobs.

    I can prove that I called them back and was told that the reservation would be cancelled and that I would not be liable. I have a name, time and duration of the call. Some human error on their part resulted in the hotel not being notified of the cancellation. I believe the hotel. The reason I so easily believe this is that on both occasions when I called to initially cancel, and then again tonight to look for assistance there was such loud raucous in the background I could not clearly hear the agent I was speaking to so I have NO idea if they could hear me at all or for that matter if they could even focus on their jobs.

    At one point in my call this evening while I was speaking with the first representative I could actually hear a young woman or feminine man yell the phrase " I have to fart," and everyone laughed. Including the operator I spoke with. They are so unprofessional there and have no regard for protecting the rights of their guests. I will never use their service again and I will tell everyone I Know of what happened to me. Most appalling to me is their indifference. This could have been very easily handled to my satisfaction. I am notifying BBA and all the ratings sites I can.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2014

    Anyone using Expedia at this point is taking a serious risk. I won't even go into the litany of problems with their "customer service", except that it will entail hours on hold being transferred from Asian call center representative to the next until you are told that there is nothing they can do. Their computer system and customer service is so convoluted and outsourced that it is nowhere near capable of the tasks. You will be left high and dry.

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2014

    Expedia website prominently displays $0 cancellation fee for last-minute reservations. Only in fine print do they inform you that the hotel will go ahead and charge you the full amount of the room anyway and that THEY (Expedia) will not charge any cancellation fee for themselves, WHICH THEY SHOULDN'T DO ANYWAY!! This is technically legal and I will admit that. The full contract was disclosed to guess what: Expedia has GREAT Lawyers. They also have mislead and abused CUSTOMERS.

    Expedia: Try being a little more honest and less abusive to your customers and the legal stuff will take care of itself. Do you need to resort to false and misleading web graphics and display technology just to get 1 more booking commission from me? I was a customer for 10 years, NO MORE. I'm done, over and OUT!! To anyone who reads this, if you can help me find a way to screw them over like they did me, please let me know. Thanks.

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    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2014

    I was looking for a nice hotel in the Mendocino County area for a romantic weekend getaway. Not really knowing where to even start to look for a nice, reasonably priced hotel by the beach, I decided to try Expedia's Unpublished Rate hotels found near Mendocino Coast which guaranteed up to 40% off a 3 star hotel. The site said they couldn't say the name of the hotel because of how much of a discount you were getting. The following sentences are cut and pasted straight from their website: Prices this low require us to hide the name until immediately after you book. Our 3-star suppliers include Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts, Radisson Hotels & Resorts, DoubleTree, and other respected hotel brands.

    What I actually got was the Best Western Vista Manor Lodge! Not only is this far from a 3 star hotel, but if you go directly to their website their largest room with a king-sized bed goes only goes for $114.99 a night! When I tried to call up Expedia to complain, they said that there was nothing they could do, no refund, no changing hotels to an actual 3 star hotel; sorry nothing they could do. I asked to talk to the supervisor and was left on hold for over 20 minutes only to be told the same thing. The whole thing has left a really bad taste in my mouth.

    Their list price on their website for this exact same hotel is exactly the same amount as the price quoted to me for the unpublished rate. In other words, I paid the exact amount had I just picked this hotel from their list, except without the privilege of being able to cancel if necessary. As it is, I am unable to cancel, or get my money back. And I certainly did not get up to 40% off as advertised!

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2014

    My boyfriend and I phoned together and booked an online promotion to Dominican Republic through Expedia Canada. We informed the travel agent where we would like to stay for our vacation. When we booked our trip, we clarified that we were in one room. Expedia informed us that there would a small one time fee of $161.00 when my boyfriend checked into the hotel that was to be paid to the hotel as a second guest. Upon my boyfriend's arrival, he checked in with no problems and was not asked for the fee. Upon my arrival, the hotel did not have me registered as the second guest in the room and required a further $2140 for the 10 days on top of the $2400 we already paid for the room. We got onto the phone immediately with Expedia. We were put through to a Supervisor and were told they would review the taped phone call and get back to us. She never did.

    In the meantime, the hotel put a hold on my cc so that we could have access to our room (the hotel locked our room until we gave them some security). We phoned everyday for the next few days to resolve the issue, were put on hold for an hour and then the call was disconnected. Upon return to our room after a few days, the hotel locked our room. Upon inquiring at the front desk, the hotel wanted to be paid. After negotiations with hotel management, we had to pay an additional $1530US. This situation is still unresolved with Expedia. This put an extreme damper and stress on our holiday. We are taking legal action against Expedia and filing complaints with numerous organizations and will not stop until Expedia refunds our money and makes restitution for what was suppose to be long awaited holiday for us to be together. If anyone else had the same experience and had their issue resolved, please let us know.

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2014

    I booked a flight for my son to go to New York. I never received an email confirmation and there was no record of the reservation on my account. So, I panicked, booked a free flight on United. Lo and behold, 3 days later I receive an email from Expedia, "Have fun" or whatever and they DID book the trip. Sooo, long story short, I had to cancel my free trip (United charged me $200 for the pleasure) and I do have the Expedia flight. Expedia would not give me the cancellation money. I will never use Expedia again!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 12, 2014

    We booked a flight for our daughter’s semester abroad through Expedia from Baltimore/Washington to Florence, Italy departing at the end of January 2014, returning on the 17th of May. We received an email stating that the airline had changed the itinerary and to contact Expedia as soon as possible to discuss. The original itinerary for the return trip was Florence – Copenhagen, Copenhagen – London, London – Baltimore. My daughter called and was told that the Copenhagen – London flight had been cancelled. When she tried to book something else she was told that the only flights available were on a different day.

    This is unacceptable as she must leave on the 17th of May. Any earlier and she’ll miss a final exam. Any later and she’ll have nowhere to stay because the University there says she must be out of her lodgings at the end of the day on the 17th. She was told that they would call back with options and rang off. They never called so she called them back later in the day and this time was placed on hold while they went to consult the “help desk”. While on hold the phone disconnected. She gave up in disgust and handed the problem over to me.

    I spent over 3 hours and six phone calls trying to get her a flight back from Italy. Each of the different agents I talked to had a different story about the flights. The first one said that the flight had been rerouted and that my daughter would be flying direct from Florence to London and then on to Baltimore. I asked for an updated itinerary to be emailed. They said they would. Placed me on hold and the phone disconnected after about 2 minutes. No email came.

    Call 2: the Copenhagen flight was cancelled, they said, and needed to contact a supervisor. Placed on hold. This time it took about 5 minutes of Muzak before they hung up on me. Call 3: Flight from Copenhagen to London indeed cancelled but would it be “alright to fly from Florence to Barcelona to London to Baltimore” with a 10 hour layover in Barcelona? This one, too, had to consult a supervisor, placed me on hold and then hung up on me after a few minutes. Calls 4 and 5 were much the same.

    On the 6th call, after explaining everything again and waiting on hold for more than 40 minutes, the agent came back (which was a big surprise in and of itself) and said that she really didn't know what to do and that she was transferring me to British Airways (YES!). At least she was honest. When the British Airways agent came on I felt like I had been rescued from a shipwreck. He said that the London – Copenhagen flight had in fact not been cancelled but that due to a scheduling change there would not be time for my daughter to make the connection in London so they wanted to find her another one. He found a flight from Pisa to London, booked it, confirmed it and I printed off the updated itinerary from the British Airways website all in about 10 minutes. Pisa is only 50 miles and a convenient 1 hour train ride from Florence.

    Expedia: 6 different agents, not one of whom knew what was going on or could help us, 3 hours wasted, my blood pressure through the roof. British Airways: 1 helpful agent who knew exactly what was going on with each step of the journey and who was able to solve our problem and confirm the change in writing within 15 minutes. I coulda kissed him.

    The Bottom Line: if you need to book travel, don’t even think about using Expedia. Travel plans change. Things happen. Customer service really matters, and Expedia is simply not equipped to help you. My experience was really mild and cost me nothing extra other than some aggravation. I've read stories from people who have lost 10’s of thousands due to Expedia’s lack of customer service. I made 6 calls to Expedia trying to obtain satisfaction. 4 of them hung up on me. 1 promised to call back and didn't. I think that says it all.

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    Reviewed Jan. 7, 2014

    We will NEVER use Expedia again. I made a formal complaint with the BBB hopefully might redeem money lost back but I doubt it very much. We booked and prepaid for an inclusive vacation at Los Cabos, Mexico for 2 rooms for 4 people at the Royale De Cameron on December 26th thru December 30th. We paid $3600. However, one daughter had to work during those days so 8 days before leaving, we call Expedia to cancel one room and add my other daughter to our room. So 3 people would be sharing one room. My husband made sure that they understood that 3 people were staying in one room. The customer service lady repeatedly told my husband that 3 people will share one room all paid for.

    We got around $670 refund for the cancellation of one room and one person. When we arrived at the hotel, we found out that we had to pay around $800 for my daughter to stay with us in our room. We were completely shocked knowing we had already prepaid for her. We called Expedia customer service to confirm that my daughter was included in the price that we prepaid. They put us on hold then hung up. My husband called several times until finally he spoke to some sort of supervisor. However, the supervisor couldn't hear my husband on the phone saying I can't hear you, it's a bad connection. So I took over the phone call pretending to be the hotel receptionist. Surprise, surprise! The supervisor suddenly was speaking clear as day and could understand every word I was saying. I gave the phone to my husband but the supervisor hung up on my husband.

    He tried calling again but they put him on hold for a long time that he had to give up. BTW, they were not cheap phone calls. Needless to say, we had to pay the money for my daughter to stay. To be fair, the hotel staff were understanding and they gave us 20% off the amount. With the 20% off and the rate change, we ended up paying $588.00 for my daughter even though we prepaid for her. Outsourcing employees is a terrible thing to do. They DON'T care and I am sick and tired of their lies and immature games!

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    Reviewed Jan. 7, 2014

    NEVER USE EXPEDIA!!! I was booking a flight and the person on the phone was very pushy and insisted I book this flight and itinerary. After 4-5 minutes, I was so upset and concerned, I called back to find out it was never booked! And then I called back again, still not booked. With that information, I proceeded to make reservation without Expedia. The same flight, same hotel just different dates. All is good, until I receive my credit card statement showing charges for flight, etc. After hours of trying to reach someone, I finally spoke with a Delta person and yes in fact I was booked for this reservation that never had any confirmation, never any record of. So I sit with this ** credit . NEVER EVER USE EXPEDIA.

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    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2014

    On 1/4/13, I and husband were flying to LAX to catch an Air France BUSINESS/First flight to Tahiti. I had booked this trip through Expedia nine months prior and the tickets cost over $8,000. I had allowed a three hour layover in LAX so that nothing could go wrong but our Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland, CA was delayed and then sat on the tarmac for an hour. When I realized we could miss our flight to Tahiti, I tried to contact Expedia to have them call Air France to cancel and reschedule the flight SO THAT I WOULD NOT LOSE THE ENTIRE VALUE of the tickets and would not lose the RETURN flight.

    Expedia was difficult to reach by phone and as one knows, my battery life was precious. On the third try I was told the wait time was 1.5 hours! That would be too late to cancel. Twice I was hung up on while waiting to get through and my cell was losing power. I tried to call Air France and their office was CLOSED at 9PM PST, some three hours before take-off of our LA flight. When we finally got to LAX an hour before take-off, I left my husband to collect baggage and literally ran to Air France. They had no one at the check in at all. I called Expedia again and again the wait time was over 45 minutes. I left my number for a call back. One and a half hours later I got a call from Expedia and they said they could not call Air France and would not give me the TRIP INSURANCE information (I purchased this from Expedia for $300!) or help. Then they hung up on me mid conversation and did not try to call back ever again.

    I now have lost a total of $17,000, $8K for the flight and $9K for the hotel in Tahiti. There are no flights available on Air France (or partner Delta) until at least 1/8. Expedia did nothing to help us. I had to call Air France (which lied and said they have a 24 hr line) and then Delta many, many times over the next 12 hours at the airport. What was to be a LUXURY trip was ruined by Expedia. They just take in money and offer ZERO help when you need it. Clearly they are understaffed except in the area on taking your money. The insurance, as far as I can see since I am on my own to research the policy I bought, is useless as well. I incurred additional expenses at LAX looking for an available hotel at 2AM - had to stay with a taxi looking at over six hotels (all booked) and had to book a flight home the next day.

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2014

    I reserved a car through Expedia for the 24th of December 2013 in August already to be on the safe side (At least I thought so). The reservation was confirmed at the time of the reservation and on the 22nd of December saying, "Your reservation is booked. No need to call us to reconfirm this reservation". When I arrived at the airport with my 76-year-old mother-in-law, my wife and two small kids - the car was not presented at the Airport and I had to take a taxi to get into the city and spend the afternoon and next morning to try to find another car. Can you imagine a better Xmas? Of course the price became much higher- not including the taxi costs.

    I called Expedia twice, they kept me hanging on the phone in a long distance call for once 40 minutes then 20 minutes, not even taking back the call. Then I wrote them an e-mail explaining what happened, and they wrote me back that yes they see I have a valid reservation, but they cannot do anything about this, the car company was possibly overbooked. They wrote me that every customer is very important for them, but they did not make any action. I answered their e-mail three times and I received the same standard message again and again under different names, taking no responsibility for a 300 Euros loss they caused. Their "customer care" is ridiculous. It is only sending prefabricated answers. In one case they did not even fill out a part between brackets (insert rental company name here) which was the only main difference between the four answers I received.

    When I arrived home, I received an e-mail from them, that my rental is complete now and they hope I enjoyed my stay. What? Since then I have googled the net and can see that many other people had the same experience with Expedia. I can only hope that people will avoid using this company and not get into the same kind of trouble. It is strange that this company can still exist. I hope they will get what they deserve and disappear from the market. If I would live in the US, probably I would take them to court, but here in Hungary I cannot turn to any legal bodies.

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2014

    I purchased a trip through Expedia on 1/1/2014. It was the best price that I found through any of the other packagers and placing the order was very easy. I was glad to see that Expedia had a Best Price Guarantee that said if the price you pay drops within 24 hours, they will refund the difference. The next day within 24 hours I went on Expedia's website and re-ran the package. Everything was exactly the same but the price was about $116 less. I even copied and saved all the screens that showed the lesser price and the details proving that the packages were the same.

    An hour or so after submitting the claim, I got a rejection letter simply stating that the claim did not meet the requirements. Not reason why - just denied. It was obviously a "form letter" email. When I wrote back and asked why, we started a series of emails from their Customer Support area giving me one invalid excuse after another (not within 24 hours, not an apple-to-apples quote, not signed into my Expedia account, etc). These are all false and my saved document proves it. After several exchanges with various CSRs, each with a new attempt to find a way out, one CSR finally said (paraphrase), "I understand that your documentation does show what you say it does, but it still we still have to follow our rules." It makes you wonder what other rules they are following.

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2014

    I will Never ever book anything associated with Expedia again. They do not make any mention of the fact you cannot use a debit card to reserve a room, they also state you can use a credit card to reserve a room and the balance will not be taken out of your account until departure, however 2 months before we were due to travel the full amount was taken. Every time you call customer service numbers it's a different customer service rep based in Bangalore, India or Delhi, India. They fob you off, promise to call you back and never do! Every time you call back after being on hold for a 23-27 min call, you have to start over and explain again. Disgusting.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2013

    Christmas morning our daughter became ill and our prepaid trip booked through Expedia to Cabo San Lucas, hotel Casa Dorada had to be cancelled. We called Casa Dorada at 7:00 am and they advised that the trip was booked through Expedia and Expedia would have to cancel. We called Expedia and the agent put us on hold while she called the hotel. Expedia came back on the line and confirmed that she had spoke with the hotel the reservations department was closed for Christmas and they could not make a change to the reservation. I called the hotel back and confirmed what Expedia had said.

    Casa Dorada advised that their cancellation policy is one month in advance of stay but that our travel agency's policy would prevail. Expedia's policy: Cancellations or changes made after 12:00 AM (Mexico Standard Time) on December 24, 2013 are subject to a hotel fee equal to the first night's rate plus taxes and fees. Cancellations or changes made after check-in on December 25, 2013 are subject to a hotel fee equal to 100% of the total amount paid for the reservation. Today Expedia tells us that even though we have confirmation from Expedia stating the cancellation policy, our entire $2400.00 prepaid stay is lost.

    BEWARE of EXPEDIA and Casa Dorada. Expedia refuses to connect us with any sort of manager or supervisor. They will not identify themselves with anything more than a first name. Even though they sent us a confirmation of their cancellation policy they actually are refusing to honor their own policy and siding with the hotel and their one month prior cancellation policy. It's a disaster.

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    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2013

    We ordered a package for Punta Cana for 2 adults, air and hotel. We bought a waiver in case of cancellation or illness. We had to CX the trip because my toddler got sick and we had to stay home. We got full reimbursement from the hotel, but the airfare as credit to be used within a year. There is something important that they fail to disclose about the voucher! Apparently when you try to use your flight credit voucher With EXPEDIA again YOU CANNOT BUY IT AS A PACKAGE DEAL, meaning that YOU would be paying and LOSING 60% of the cost of the credit.

    We found a package deal for $5,000 (flight and hotel) EXPEDIA online for 11 nights at the same hotel, so when we called to order this package we were told we can't book it as a package because our air credit apparently can't be used as a package. We were told our package would cost $600 more; we were upset as hell. We said we will think about it and decided to sleep on it. Next day, we spoke to another representative who gave us a price of $800 more. Then abruptly hung up on us when we asked for the manager. Basically it's a scam, you purchase unrefundable air tickets, on top of it a useless cancellation insurance only to find out that you are stuck later buying the same package for a lot more money. BEWARE.

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    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2013

    I traveled with Expedia booking for airfare & hotel from Los Angeles, CA to Johannesburg, South Africa for the Mandela funeral. I called the hotel direct to confirm reservation two days prior to leaving L.A. & was assured someone would pick me up at airport. I saw the van driver at the airport. I showed him my reservation & he called the hotel to ask if he should pick me up? They told him no, because I didn't have a reservation. I called & gave them my confirmation # with Expedia. They still wouldn't pick me up. I took a cab to the hotel, they called Expedia several times before they finally e-mailed the reservation to the hotel. This hotel was supposed to be 5 stars, it wasn't. They put me in a room that was dirty, stains on carpet, soiled spread, 2 stars at best. I told them I would not stay there at which time they said that was the room they put Expedia people in, if I wanted a better one I would have to bring them 500 US dollars.

    So many other things happened, too numerous to mention. I would never ever use Expedia again. I have spent half of a day trying to clear this up. I was sick the entire time there. I could not get another hotel, they were booked for the funeral. Several of my friends stayed in hotels nearby & they were lovely, this was a dump. Trying to get Expedia online, I got the Philippines 8 times & was disconnected. I called several times when I returned home. I am a seventy-three year old woman & I am still recuperating after being home several days.

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    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2013

    I booked Westin hotel Cancun thru Expedia. I got quite ill. I've been to Mexico before and never got this. I had only eaten at a Westin restaurant. The hotel staff wasn't helpful at first. No one had heard of this infamous affliction - Montezuma revenge, the Aztec two steps, etc. This could kill a person. Expedia has not been helpful. No one to talk to. The point is the water/some foods are still tainted. Travel associated corporations are in denial. Big name hotels are not exempt from tainted food.

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    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2013

    We booked a mid size car and were told on numerous calls to Expedia it would be an all wheel drive. When we went to pick up our car we were told that "there is no such thing as an all wheel drive mid size car." I have called Expedia several times the last for 53 min. and AGAIN they have hung up on me. Do a Google search. This is typical of their customer service or lack off. I will never use them again. PS they don't speak English very well. Awful company!

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    Reviewed Dec. 18, 2013

    I booked a hotel reservation because it was a special low price deal. It is understandable, in a way. However, when I checked Expedia website again, and the same deal, with the same price is labeled as "Free Cancellation"! The Expedia people told me that the Free Cancellation meant that Expedia won't charge a fee for cancellation, but it all depends on IF the hotel would allow it to be cancelled. It is really a misleading information. I do not want to say bad words about Expedia, but Expedia truly sucks!

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    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2013

    I live in a small developing country in the Timor Sea. This means I have to book over the internet. In September 2013, I booked flights to travel between Singapore to New York City in April 2014. I paid with an Australian MasterCard and awaited the confirmation email they promised. I didn't take down the confirmation number (dumb!), but the page was open on my computer till we had a power cut and the whole thing had to be re-started (common!). I waited, watched the money in my account leave to go to the US and still no tickets. I finally contacted Expedia and they said they had no record of my booking. But they have my money: there is a record of it (which I gave them). The email said should call the US... from East Timor, that would probably constitute half the country's GDP.

    When I was home in Australia briefly in October, I tried to trace the details through my bank, who then concluded (this week) that THEY didn't have enough documentation to pursue it. But then I don't have any documentation because Expedia didn't send any! I will be back in Australia on Christmas Eve, so little chance of getting anything done till the New Year. I have no tickets, over $2000 behind and worried that I won't get any replacement tickets. How can this happen when there is a record of them having the money??? Looking forward to an annoying and expensive call to the US...

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    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2013

    I called Expedia in September after my mom's funeral to get my kids a little joy since New Year's Eve would be bad without Grand mom... They checked me in with a room inside Disney for 4 adults and 2 kids... I encourage my sister and my niece to come with me. My sister paid a very expensive air ticket to be with us. The idea was support each other since we miss Mom a lot. Today going over all my paperwork for this vacation time, we called Disney directly to announce our arrival on DEC. 27. Then Surprise... Disney said that the reservation made by Expedia is wrong... They don't have a 6-people room and the max occupancy is 5 with a 50 dollars a night extra charge. To complete my luck, they said that because holidays they won't have the extra 5 person available... Called Expedia and I got the most stupid answer...

    First they told me that I was lying. I told the guy I have the reservation paperwork for six... Then they said that the reservation was only for 4 adults... After that they transfer me to a manager that finally can speak clear English. After a 35 minute hold the manager told me that I have 2 options... one cancel the trip or use the room for only 4 adults. I guess my kids can sleep on the car and my sis can dump my niece on the way to Orlando using Expedia ideas... How come some ignorance complete the year for my kids and niece like this... It's not enough with my mom passing that I have to deal with this people.... BTW I asked for another room but they said any extra charge is my responsibility.... about 3,000 dollars if I find a room.

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2013

    I attempted to book a package for 2 to Cancun so I called Expedia and was told it would be an $800.00 deposit for the 2 of us... I told them I only had $700.00 and the lady said it's okay we can still reserve the trip so I said okay. I later found out that the idiot Philippine lady only reserved the trip for myself and when I went to add my friend onto my booking they said no, can't do it, he has to get his own booking therefore our separate bookings will cost way more per person... I've been calling them for days trying to get someone that's knowledgeable but they keep canceling and rebooking my trip and taking more money from me wiping out my checking account and now I'm stuck waiting for them...

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2013

    Note: the following deals solely with international flights - I have no experience or opinion re: Expedia.com for domestic flights, hotels, etc. Speaking recently with an Expedia manager (I'll call her "K") over the phone, I asked her if she could identify ANY benefit of booking with Expedia versus through the airline directly. Her answer tells you everything you need to know about this business: no. So, should you book your flights through Expedia? Well, take K's word for it. What can you expect from Expedia.com? Bait and switch pricing, incomplete flight and pricing access, adherence to policies which the airlines themselves don't enforce, and terrible customer service.

    First, let's talk bait and switch. I had called to move up a flight, as unforeseen family obligations required us to travel sooner than expected. When I first called, I spoke with an agent who quoted me a reasonable price for the change, one which reflected the fares and change fees on the airline's website (let's say $2000). She didn't say anything about the price being an "estimate," nor did she state that the price was contingent, conditional, etc. I said hey, go ahead. She put me on hold for ten to fifteen minutes (a sure sign of trouble), and then returned to tell me that she was transferring me to a "supervisor" with no further explanation. The supervisor confirmed the flight numbers, locations, and times, and then said he had to check something. I was put on hold again for five minutes, so by this point I knew something was up. Sure enough, the supervisor came back on to tell me that the price had increased by approximately 50% (so it's now $3000). The supervisor told me that the original price was no longer available, and that the airline must have adjusted the pricing between the beginning of the call and the processing of the transaction.

    In other words, Expedia.com offered a price, I accepted, and then that price was revoked. The supervisor's justification for advertising a price which Expedia.com neither intended nor was capable of fulfilling: Expedia doesn't control flight pricing. This brings us to the second issue - if Expedia.com has no control over the price, then aren't you better off booking through the airline? The answer is a resounding YES. The flight I wanted was available for the lesser price on the airline's website, though NOT through Expedia.com. Further, there were other even less expensive (though also less timely) options which were either unavailable on Expedia.com or far more expensive on the site. So, if you want to see only a limited subset of flights which may cost significantly more than they would elsewhere, Expedia.com is for you.

    As the supervisor offered nothing to remedy the bait and switch I mentioned above, I asked to speak to a manager and was transferred to K, who claimed to be equally powerless. Fine. I asked her to cancel that itinerary (and booked a new one directly through the airline as she did so) - no problem. Not wanting to give Expedia.com any more of my business, I also asked her to cancel a separate four-flight itinerary, so that I could have a clean break with these folks. Here's where the third concern comes to light: as with prices, Expedia.com also does not control the refund procedures applicable to flights booked through its service.

    Thus, K told me that this flight was non-refundable, as for some reason it "belonged" (her words) to one of the two airlines involved in the trip - conveniently, the one with a more stringent refund policy (we'll call it "C"). Oddly, there was only one flight with C on this itinerary, and it was not the first flight nor the longest. Even more oddly, I had reason to inquire with both C and the other airline on this itinerary concerning the possibility of refunds/changes, as I feared that family obligations would interfere with these flights as well. Representatives told me that as I had booked through Expedia.com they could not issue a refund to me, but that if I had booked directly through them, I would have received a total refund less a nominal fee (around $100). Oddest, perhaps, is that K insisted that was acting in accordance with C's policy, despite that C itself indicated that the ticket was indeed refundable.

    To justify this position, K contended that Expedia.com was bound by airline policy, with which she could not interfere. So, Expedia.com doesn't control price or policy - what exactly are you buying, then? Other than poor customer service, which is the golden thread running through this whole episode. An hour and thirty eight minutes on the phone, the only thing they ever told me was how the airlines dictated the process, so they couldn't help me. Well, that sounds like an awesome reason for me to deal with the airlines directly in future, right?

    Tl;dr airlines can give you more complete access to their flights, will often have better pricing, and in my experience have less rigid refund policies. And, if airlines offer you a price, they're no less likely to honor it than Expedia.com. So take K's word for it: you have nothing to gain by booking through these folks. Cut out the middle man: don't book through Expedia.com.

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2013

    We reserved a room at the Crowne Plaza Key West and were not informed that the hotel was under major renovation. We have traveled to Key West for over 15 years and believed booking at the Crowne Plaza would be great. To my astonishment, we arrived on 12/8/13 and the whole main floor was under construction. Was never alerted to this by Expedia and would never have paid the price to stay there had I known. Really bad business practice and now I question Expedia. Note, I warned others via a review but has not been posted yet.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2013

    Booked an ocean view room which they charged me for it but gave me a lower level room. Admitted they made a mistake via email after 3 hours of calling customer service, but have not adjusted the booking. So angry!

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    Reviewed Dec. 11, 2013

    I attempted to book a flight this morning and after I entered all of my information, including credit card, rather than a confirmation number, I received an error message stating that the flight was no longer available. However, they charged my debit card a $1 holding fee. After I called my bank, they asked how much the total charge was because unless I get them to issue a cancellation on that charge, my card will be debited the entire amount.

    So then I called Expedia's customer service line, and after an hour on hold and being hung up on, I finally reached someone who I could hardly understand. She kept asking me for an itinerary # and I kept trying to explain to her that there is NO itinerary, therefore no number. She finally understood what I was saying and was able to find me via email address and said that Expedia did not have my card information and would not be charged. I kept trying to tell her that there is a $1 charge from Expedia so they DO IN FACT have my card info. She then promised that it was canceled and I asked her to send me an email verification that it was canceled, which she agreed to do. It's been hours and no email yet. I've already re-booked directly with the airlines, but I'm worried now that I am going to still be charged by Expedia. If anyone has had any experience with this... please let me know what happened. THANKS!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 10, 2013

    Tried to book a hotel 2x and got an inline error message after trying to book. Decided to then book directly with the hotel and when I was done my 2 Expedia reservations were shown as confirmed on email. Been on the phone 2 hours now trying to remove and they won't refund my money. This is fraud and I will never use them again!

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2013

    We have spent the last three days on the phone with Expedia attempting to have them reverse the multiple charges that appeared on credit cards and Visa debit. We had originally attempted to book online and when I entered my card information, it didn't go through which it showed right on the webpage. I received no confirmation, no itinerary, no confirmation number, yet three charges by Visa DEBIT (which according to the website didn't go through) came out of my bank account. We weren't aware of this problem though when my husband called to book online. He spoke to "Tom" which certainly had a poor command of the English language. He had to give him four different credit cards as apparently they weren't going through (all cards had zero balances which was very odd). Tom reassured my husband that the charges didn't go through. Finally, Tom told him he had success and he was sent the itinerary, confirmation, etc.

    What followed was a nightmare. All of the credit cards were charged multiple times. The original trip should have cost $2,900. IN addition to the $2,900 over $5,000 was charged to our credit cards and the money that was debited to our account. We then spent the next three days trying to get resolution with our money bank and were told that we had to wait 7 - 10 days to fix. When we then received another call from a credit card company with a fraud alert, I called Expedia once again and spent three hours on the phone. Finally spoke to the supervisor's supervisor who then took down all of the information and told us he would take care of it in the morning. Although he was quite helpful (last person I spoke to), I am not confident my troubles with Expedia will be over. I have started a twitter feed @ExpediaSux with hash tag #expediasux and will tweet away. I have also posted on their Facebook Expedia corporate site and Expedia Canada site and posted (and will continue to do so). I think that this is ridiculous and what happens when corporations outsource. #expediasux!

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    Reviewed Nov. 25, 2013

    I would like to share my experience with Expedia. We booked a trip for my husband and on the last leg of the 30-hour trip, it turned out that Expedia sold him a ticket for a flight that does not exist (or was cancelled depending on the customer care rep version). The end result was 2 hours on the phone with Expedia who did absolutely nothing to resolve the situation, 6 hours at a Rome airport and no reimbursement for any of this regardless of that fact that in EU any delay of more than 4 hours is subject to reimbursement. Expedia even claims that they have nothing to do with the airlines in which case I totally do not understand the nature of their service. They could not prove that indeed they were offered a slot for a nonexistent flight so that we could prove damage and get priority on booking the next flight option. Their advice was to stay at the airport and wait. I wrote this first to let anyone who does not know that you are entitled to a reimbursement if you get delayed for more than 4 hours, and second - to let you know that if you expect Expedia to take care of its customers - please don't. You are on your own.

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    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2013

    They do not understand English. When I asked for an American, they just put me on hold, then transferred me to someone else who does not understand English.

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    Reviewed Nov. 17, 2013

    We recently have had some bad experiences with Expedia and will never use them again and are actively encouraging others not to use them as well via social media. and word of mouth. We find that once they have our money they really don't care if there is a problem with the hotel or with the reservation. The final straw just happened as we were cruising out of the Port of Miami on November 9th and I had made hotel reservations for the 8th of November. We got to the La Quinta in Miami on the 8th only to be told the reservation was for the next night (we would be out to sea). We called Expedia and after talking with I don't know how many people who do not know how to speak English, they finally got the problem fixed. Mind you, this is hours later and we had already fixed the problem by checking into the hotel with my boyfriend's credit card. I would never use them again as there are any sites out there that offer the same if not better rates, have better service and from what we have recently discovered, actually care if you are happy.

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    Reviewed Nov. 5, 2013

    I bought a air ticket Sydney Alice Spring on Jan 4th, with EXPEDIA. Once bought the plane ticket, EXPEDIA pops up: "Why don't you take a hotel room as well in this nice hotel?" I made a couple of clicks to accept. They recover all the data you have just inserted for the previous order, you just confirm it and it is done. Then I notice that the date of the night stay at the hotel was Jan 3rd!! The night before my arrival!!! I didn't check the date, it's true, but EXPEDIA never asked me to confirm and they put THE NIGHT BEFORE MY ARRIVAL!!!! I try to tell them (very difficult) and they just keep on saying that they are sorry but the room is not refundable!! This is called "circumventing clients."

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    Reviewed Nov. 5, 2013

    Booked a hotel located in China with Expedia in October 2013. I accidentally booked one more night and only the next day I realize it. After knowing it, which is within 24hrs, I called in to Expedia and requested their help to refund me one day. Spoke to Tiffany on 8th October 2013, 4.20pm and she replied that booking cannot be changed and it is non-refundable. I requested her help to check if there is any way since the booking was done in less than 24hrs ago. She took my number, requested to call me back and I waited. After she called several times to check on the confirmed check-in and check-out date, she managed to help to cancel the additional night I have booked unintentionally. If she's not willing to help, she can actually just leave me alone and insist that it is not refundable but she did not. Thank you, Tiffany and Expedia for refunding the 1 night money within 2-3 business days.

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    Reviewed Nov. 2, 2013

    We were quoted a price if 129 for a room. My husband gave the rep his card information and then she told him the card was charged 174.00. My husband asked her why. She said for taxes and the third person in the room. No mention of this fee at all. At that point we wanted our money back. We kept being transferred, put on hold for long periods of time and we also had to call back a few times. We were never given a manager to speak with. No resolution. We just want honored what we were quoted online. False advertisement!! Especially since we booked for 3 adults and were given the rate of 129. We felt as if we couldn't find anyone who spoke English that really understood our problems. They offered us an Expedia credit. We don't want it. We will never use them again!

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    Reviewed Oct. 31, 2013

    I reserved a hotel, car, and flight. Upon arrival to the hotel the room I found it to be filthy with many cigarette burns on the furniture, totally dirty floors, walls, bathroom, carpet, walls, drapes, ceiling, and bed. The hotel was clearly a halfway house. There were shady people doing transactions in the parking lot and in adjacent rooms. I called Expedia to inform them of the situation and to request a new hotel location and room. After 80 minutes on the phone with them they were not able to find an alternate hotel and or room anywhere. I had to pay for the unacceptable room for one night and had to find and pay for an alternate hotel, which I had to find on my own, at a huge additional cost. I followed up with this situation upon my return home only to get a credit of 40% of the original cost associated with the hotel room. The whole experience was very stressful and had no reasonable result in the end. I will NEVER use Expedia again.

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    Reviewed Oct. 30, 2013

    My wife made a flight reservation on Expedia. A week later she realized that she had accidentally entered the wrong date for the return flight (actually, the system automatically selected a date based on her last entry and she inadvertently did not correct it). She promptly called Expedia and after 90 minutes on the phone, being re-routed to 3 different people she was told that the only way they would change the date was if she agreed to pay a $200+ "change fee" on top of the change in price for the flight. I will NEVER use Expedia again and I will go out of my way to tell everyone I can about their exploitative practices. It's clear to me how they make their profit - off of other people's misfortune and/or mistakes. I look forward to reading about their eventual bankruptcy in the future.

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    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2013

    I purchased two round trip tickets on Expedia from Boston to Lisbon for $1,672.60 and less than 24 hours, I find out that the fares when down $420, I call the customer service number 18003973342 and all I got was that my 24-hr cancellation period was up. I ask to speak with a supervisor and they put me on hold and got disconnected, called back, spoke with another arrogant "customer service agent", explained my situation and got the same answer that my 24-hr cancellation period was up and it wasn't true.

    I ask again to speak with the supervisor and I was on hold for a long time. Finally, I got the so-called supervisor that was also unhelpful, didn't get anywhere. The customer service agents need to be retrained and the Expedia rules also need to be changed because they are not in the best interest of the customers. I will NEVER use Expedia again. We should file a class action lawsuit!

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    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2013

    Terrible!!!!!!! Booked a ticket in December of 2012 and purchased insurance along with the tickets due to my line of work. We cancelled the ticket due to work conflicts. We were told we have a credit of $557.70. We used the credit to book a ticket to CO and was told there was a refund for $150.00 for the insurance and a loss of credit for $77.00. We have been waiting for a month for the refund and was told by three representatives that it was "processing". Called today and was told it was not coming due to a non-charge. Liars!!!!!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 28, 2013

    Complaint over Travel Booking done through Expedia: I had done flight bookings through Expedia for my family and myself in June for travel in December (Mumbai - Singapore - Mumbai). This was by Malaysian Airlines, hence a stopover at Kuala Lumpur on the ongoing and return journey. After booking the flight, Expedia showed on my Itinerary that "Your reservation is booked and confirmed. There is no need to call us to reconfirm this reservation." In a chance review on Oct. 19, I found that for the ongoing journey, the flight from Kuala Lumpur (KL) to Singapore (SIN) was missing. I wrote to Expedia, and got a call back in 2 days mentioning they would get this corrected in "3 to 5 business days".

    With no correction in my itinerary in 5 business days, I called Expedia and found that my travel from KL to SIN was done, but on checking the timings, I found that the flight from KL to SIN would be leaving 2 hrs before I land at KL. On checking with Expedia, I've been told that they will look into it and will come back in 5 to 7 business days. There is also mention of an alternate itinerary being presented to me, and if not acceptable I would get refunded by the Airlines.

    My concern is around the hotel bookings I had made once I was told by Expedia on their website that my flight reservation is booked and confirmed. The hotel bookings were made through Expedia itself, and these are non-refundable. There is no guarantee being given by Expedia about these, despite the fact that they were made to sync with the flight bookings.

    This is VERY VERY POOR SERVICE BY EXPEDIA. I need to have this looked into IMMEDIATELY by the Expedia Management, as this is causing huge concern to me and my family. We have invested a lot of money and emotion in this travel, and we trusted Expedia with the flight and hotel bookings. PLEASE HAVE THIS LOOKED INTO ASAP, AND CORRECTED TO THE ORIGINAL SCHEDULE!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 26, 2013

    My husband and I booked our flight through Expedia 6 months in advance. Today, two days before our flight he went to the airline website to make sure he was familiar with it in order to check us in 24 hrs in advance and they had us sitting across the plane from one another on the first leg and unassigned on the second leg. He called the airline who was unable to help us because we booked through Expedia. So my husband called Expedia who basically told him they did not care and he should have read the fine print. We had to pay nearly $190 more to get our seat somewhat next to each other.

    I will never use them for anything ever again! I will do my best to get the word out about it. The kicker, the friends we are going with heard of the great deal on the tickets and they call the airline directly and got the same deal. In fact they were able to go online to the airline website and see their seat assignments, which were together, with no trouble and did not have to pay an additional $190. The lesson in this is use Expedia to find the lowest airfare then call the airline to book it. Do not book through Expedia!! Thanks for jacking my vacation before it even starts Expedia!!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2013

    I went on their website to book a flight. I picked my departure and then picked my return flight. The total cost was $1274.40. I pushed the Book It button and it took me to a page to list all of the passengers, which took about 2-3 mins. The total at the end of that was $1645.00. I called Expedia and was told the cost must have gone up while I was putting in the information. I told them the price should have been locked in when I pushed the Book It button and not go up $400.00 because I had to take time to input information they wanted. Told the lady to cancel the flight and I would like to speak to a supervisor. She said she would and then transferred.

    The Supervisor confirmed what the other lady said... They have no control over the airlines upping the cost, and that there was nothing she could do. She then asked me if I would like to cancel and I told her, that the other lady said she would do it. I was told it wasn't cancelled yet, but that she would cancel it and that it would take 72 hours for a refund. I told her no... the amount would be cancelled now and if she couldn't do it, I needed to talk to someone who could. She put me on hold and 30 minutes later after no one had come to the phone I hung up. I will never use them again... think they are running a scam. Once I hit Book, the price should be locked in and not go up $400.00 in less than 5 mins. I should also be able to have my card not charged if I cancel within 10 mins. of booking.

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    Reviewed Oct. 19, 2013

    I booked a one night hotel reservation 45 days in advance through Expedia at the Sheridan LA hotel. I was immediately billed $219. The day of our travel, our flight got canceled and we could not travel until the next day. I called Expedia and the hotel to cancel the hotel reservation. They deferred me to each other. The hotel said call Expedia, Expedia said to call the hotel. Nothing resolved. Be aware when booking through Expedia that your booking is final. I will not use Expedia again.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Oct. 18, 2013

    I am writing to bring to your attention an unpleasant experience I had with Alitalia and Expedia. I bought a plane ticket in July from Los Angeles to Turin via Rome Fiumicino. On departure day, I showed up at check in counter at 11:50 am, for the planned flight departing at 15:50. After a queue of about 40 min, I handed my passport to the Italian lady behind the counter who did not find my name on the passenger list. I then handed the confirmation of the reservation from Expedia. At that I realized that the last name was not the same. They informed me that it would not be possible for me to leave that day.

    Realizing that I made the same error during reservation, I pointed out that the passport was printed in my maiden name and on the reservation, my husband had put the married name. The young lady informed me that they could not do anything and that only the company that made the reservation could change the name. I indicated that I was the same person, that I had the passport and documents to prove U.S. (green card and driver's license), but it was useless. I contacted Expedia at 12:48 and I was with them on the phone for 19 minutes explaining the emergency situation in which I found myself.

    During the conversation I was put on hold more times while the officer contacted an employee of Alitalia. I was then advised from Expedia to contact the staff at check in again to find a situation, more times the employee of the travel agency urged me to submit documents of identity, American, or to speak with the TSA to have the travel authorization. I tried again to talk to an elderly lady with a strong French accent behind the check-in counter that was a supervisor. Very rudely, I was told that she was very busy with travel practices of other passengers and that could do absolutely nothing for me. She told me just to contact the travel agency, "Because only Expedia could change the name on the reservation."

    I call again at 13:15 Expedia and stay on the phone for 44 minutes trying to find a solution. Same story, they put me on hold many time while they contacted Alitalia. Time passed and of course I lost the flight. I complained with the airline company and they said that the flight was not cancelled two hours before the departure so my itinerary is considered a NO-SHOW. The two ladies I talked to during my horrible 3 hours at the airport were nice but not even once during that stressful experience did they inform me of my right to cancel and rebooking of the flight to a future date. The second lady from Expedia I was on the phone for about 44 min. even informed me that I could buy another ticket for the day after for about 1800.00 dollars.

    In your website rules, there is a note that says: "If your flight is non-refundable, you will not receive a refund, but the airline may issue you a flight credit for a future booking. If you want to rebook your flight instead of cancelling, the airline will charge you a rebooking fee, and you'll need to pay any difference in fare. To review the airline's rules and regulations associated with your ticket, go to your online itinerary." I don't understand why I was not informed by your staff about this opportunity. I was on the phone with your employees two times for more than an hour and not even once did they tell me about my right to rebook the flight paying a fee of course.

    ALITALIA Informed me that Expedia is responsible for the rebooking of my flight. I admit it was our mistake, the confusion about the name on the reservation, but the consequences could be avoided by more information from your side. I lost the possibility to visit my mother and the loss of $1,224.50 is really a huge amount for my family. Expedia just informed me that they are not going to refund my ticket or rebook the flight to a future date. They cannot do ANYTHING for me, but they were also guilty, because they did not inform me of my option of cancelling the flight. I WILL NEVER BOOK ANYTHING ELSE ON EXPEDIA.

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    Reviewed Oct. 16, 2013

    Horrible, horrible, horrible. I have had MANY problems with Expedia. The last time I had an issue (spent AT LEAST 5 hours on the phone to fix a problem, was hung up on at least 6 times by customer service agents), I told myself and fiance, NEVER BOOK EXPEDIA AGAIN. Well, I made the mistake of giving them yet another chance. After attempting to book an unsuccessful vacation, I soon found out Expedia held $1400 of my money, although I did not purchase a vacation. The woman I initially spoke with from Expedia could not tell me why they had my money. All she would tell me was I needed to contact the bank.

    As soon as the bank opened (3 days later), they informed me I would need to contact Expedia, as THEY were the ones who were holding my money, although this was my original reply to the woman who blamed my bank. I have never had such horrible customer service in my life, not to mention $1400 of MY money was unavailable for almost a week, thanks to them. I never received an explanation or any sort of compensation. From now on, I will book Hotwire. Goodbye and good riddance, Expedia. Nothing but a headache.

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    Reviewed Oct. 15, 2013

    I made a hotel reservation with Expedia and was flying into San Francisco that same evening due to arrive at midnight. I immediately received a confirmation after I paid in full.. The email confirmation states clearly that "no confirmation to your reservation is required once you've received this email.." So I assumed I had a hotel room that night once I arrived in San Francisco. Nothing worked out as planned... Upon my arrival I called the hotel van. Clerk informed me that if I didn't have a reservation I could not be picked up. Of course I said I did.... read him the information off my confirmation email, and was told that there was no existing reservation and that the hotel was full. He directed me back to Expedia.

    I was furious but immediately called Expedia. A customer service representative answered and gave me the "yes I understand your pain" speech... She said Expedia hadn't made a reservation and the hotel had overbooked. Unfortunately at that time she could "transfer me" to their "relocations department..." Really??? :( It was midnight in San Francisco and I was exhausted. I commute for work back and forth from Houston to San Francisco. I'm an avid traveler and I'm quite familiar with the chaos of finding a last minute hotel in San Francisco, that's why I made my reservation early on. At that point I can honestly say you spoke to 2 different customer reps and 2 supervisors... no one had a response to my crisis and no one offered an immediate solution. I never received an apology but furthermore there was NO ACTION taken to remedy the situation!

    All the last supervisor offered me after he ignored my ranting and raging was a refund... I told him "thank you for my refund. I deserve that and more sir!" I had to find my own hotel room that night at midnight. Half of San Francisco is sold out most of the time especially around the airport and yes I paid a crazy amount for a very short night at a horrible hotel. So thanks Expedia for not providing amazing customer service but furthermore for not having solutions to your "mishaps..." Disappointing indeed :(

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    Reviewed Oct. 14, 2013

    Before reserving American Vacation Homes I personally called Expedia to make sure that the information they were providing was correct. The offer that they offered was "Four bedrooms. One bedroom with 1 queen bed. Separate bedroom with 2 full beds. Another separate bedroom with 2 full beds. Separate bedroom with 2 twin beds. Separate sitting area. Television with cable channels. Private kitchen with refrigerator, microwave, and coffee/tea maker. Clock radio and iron/ironing board. Air conditioning" which I had to pay more in order to have the specific amounts of beds. Also, while I was speaking to an Expedia representative they explained to me that the location of the house was ONLY 7 miles away from the attraction park (Universal Studios).

    When I arrived to the house it was 22.8. miles away from the attraction park. Once we got to the house it was a four bedroom house, 1 queen bed, 1 full bed in 1 room, one full bed in the other and 2 twins. Prior to that I was already upset with the distance. Luckily they had an emergency # that I was in contact with the supervisor. She gave me various locations that were still available but nothing fit my request. She was very helpful and understanding but she explain to me that Expedia only gives the company my name, contact info and the check in/out dates, no other description. Some of my party had to sleep on the floor and others on the couch. If that were the case then I could have saved me $80.00 on this reservation. And all Expedia could do for me was give me a $50.00 credit. I am seriously so upset that I strongly believe that I will not be using Expedia anymore.

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    Reviewed Oct. 14, 2013

    XPEDIA STEALS FROM CUSTOMERS. On 16 August 2013 my husband and I bought two plane tickets for our honeymoon from Venice to Prague via Expedia with Alitalia Airlines at a cost of $264.40 USD. He found cheaper tickets and before cancelling the flight with Expedia, he checked their cancellation policy which stated that the tickets were 100% refundable. So he cancelled the tickets and received a mail confirming the cancellation and 100% refund (REF **). A month later he had still not received the refund as promised. He contacted Expedia but they ignored me for a week until he complained via Facebook and Twitter.

    After taking to social media, they called and apologized - promising that he would receive the refund within 45 days. But first he would have to supply them with a whole range of supporting documents (bank statement, proof of payment, etc) which he did. I waited, nothing happened. On Friday 26 September 2013 I received a mail from Expedia that they have no record of the booking. Expedia has continued to ignore us and has refused to take any responsibility. Expedia has lied, cheated and stolen USD 264.40 from us. A cunning company - Expedia has mastered the art of tricking consumers with a blatant disregard for their well being and an absolute lack of integrity. Please be wary. Expedia is not to be trusted!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 11, 2013

    My sister was traveling from Kolkata to JFK with Qatar Airways. Ticket was confirmed with Expedia.com. At Doha, they couldn't give her seat to JFK and no luggage space in Aircraft. She was directed to Washington, DC and connecting flight to JFK where in DC, time was only 1 hour few minutes. She missed the p[lane and no one helped from Qatar Airways. She was traveling to the US first time. Eventually someone helped with all her luggage which was supposed to come to New York on JetBlue and charged her $40.00. Already complained to Expedia but two days over. No help came yet.

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    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2013

    I have booked my round trip travel flights through Expedia.com countless times in the past. I will no longer refer people to Expedia.com for the best deals, as their competitors, CheapOair and Southwest have better deals. Also to mention when searching for a round trip flight and entering the from and to destinations with the dates, I have continuously been prompted that there are no flights available! This is impossible when searching for flights weeks in advance. I contacted customer service and explained my issue and the rep was giving me the flight/price information when simply, all I wanted to do was see it for myself! The updates for the Expedia.com are terrible and it has a poor search engine. EXPECT NO FLIGHTS AVAILABLE!!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 9, 2013

    I have tried to book two trips on Expedia on Sunday. The first booking went through smoothly - during Check-out, I realized a typo and against the advice on the website, I pressed the 'back' button. The booking therefore remained 'unbooked', but, to my surprise, my credit card was debited anyway. That's a technical issue and possibly my fault. What is extremely upsetting is the fact that nobody at Expedia is willing to assist me with resolving the issue! I sent them mails with confirmations about both transactions, I gave them the authorization number from my bank, nothing. Emails to them were first responded to, then I was told I must call their Call Center; those agents didn't cooperate, sending a mail again resulted in an automated mail telling me that mails won't be responded to and I must log my inquiry on their website. After logging the inquiry on the website, I received mail telling me that this was the wrong address and I should rather send a mail to, you guess it, exactly the same email address I had tried unsuccessfully before. Eventually I received mail from yet another address asking me for a phone number where they could contact me to resolve but - two days later - nobody has contacted me. Very disappointing!!!

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    Reviewed Oct. 7, 2013

    Since 1 of September, 2013, I sent at least 12 complaints and made 2 long distant calls to Expedia and asked for compensation but never solved my problem. Today, 7 of October, I got a reply from their customer care. It says: due to their system, If I want to claim, I have to call them so I did. I live in Macau (Asia) so it was costing money to make long distant calls. A lady who attended my phone was incredibly unhelpful and I have never ever seen such a poor customer service! Every time I called, I have to repeat my details and my story but sadly get no help! If Expedia want to expand their business, professionalism and service excellence are the keys to winning the trust of customers. After such bad experiences with your company, I will no longer do any business with them.

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    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2013

    We've booked our travel through Expedia and we're trying to make a change. Willing to pay the fee, willing to pay the up-charge. Simply disconnected by their MORONIC offshore customer service 6 times in a row. Over and over and over again. They answer, take all the info, and then put us on hold to eventually time out and disconnect us. TRIED TO CALL THE CORP OFFICE and got the runaround - we were connected twice to a voice-mail box with a very unsympathetic announcement telling us they will call us back in 3 days. THREE DAYS and we travel on Monday. Expedia has lost a customer... putting this up on Facebook for 500 other potential customers.

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    Reviewed Oct. 3, 2013

    I live in the Middle East. Sadly my mother passed away on May 13 and my husband was due to fly to UK on 19 May for a course in UK. Due to our bereavement we had a military compassionate travel on May 14 and so my husband did not require the flight. We contacted Expedia and the airline carrier to advise them and seek advice. Since then, we have been ping-ponged between the carrier and Expedia and neither want to give a refund on compassionate grounds: death of a parent (death cert was sent as proof). The carrier have now confirmed that they are not liable as we booked through Expedia as 'the Agent'. How can this happen? We didn't cancel willy nilly - my Mum died!

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    Reviewed Oct. 3, 2013

    My name was quite long and I have already entered the name correctly when I first booked a flight on Expedia.com.au. The email confirmation that came through had the correct name. The Expedia system truncated one letter of my middle name and now they want to charge the change of name even though it was not my fault. It seems that the website could cater for a long name but their back-end system could not cope with it. I have even provided the itinerary downloaded from their website, which has the correct name but Expedia Australia refused to budge. Stay away from this dishonest company!

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    Reviewed Oct. 2, 2013

    Monday, Sept. 30th, I purchased a ticket with Expedia. I looked at my itinerary as I was talking to my friend on Oct. 2nd and found out that I was not coming back at the date that I reserved. I quickly called Expedia and they mentioned there would be a 200-dollar fee on top of the change in reservation, because my 24-hr cancellation period was up. Just to change the date (to the date that I chosen from the beginning) would cost $569 on top of my original flight price. ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? I chose to keep my flight as it is and stomach through this issue. I will never, never, never use Expedia again! Expedia plays games!

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    Reviewed Oct. 1, 2013

    Advised if purchased flight insurance we could change flight one time if for family issue or medical concerns. Insurance plan: Expedia Streefree™ Flight Protection. Expedia honors nothing. This is a complete scam. They hand you off to an outside insurance rep, Berkeley Insurance. It takes 3 weeks to process a claim thru Berkeley. The tickets Expedia sold us were non changeable unless you buy insurance which we did. Now we learn this not the case at all. This is a complete scam to sell worthless insurance. Stay the heck away from Expedia!!!

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    Reviewed Sept. 30, 2013

    I booked a flight package through Expedia for three other ladies and myself on August 19, 2013 for a trip from Philadelphia to Miami leaving on Sept. 27, 2013 returning on Sept. 29, 2013. Everything went well until the return flight home. We got off our flight from Miami to Charlotte, N.C. for our connecting flight to Philadelphia. We were scheduled to leave on the 8:10 pm flight and arrive in Philadelphia at 9:45 pm. When we got to the gate, we were told the flight was overbooked and there were no more seats available. After, speaking with the supervisor at US Airways and explaining that we were confirmed to fly through Expedia, we were told that Expedia had not assigned our seats and that this should have been done.

    The supervisor then told us that she could ask for volunteers to give up their seats so we could fly. She told us that if no one volunteered, we would have to take the morning flight. We explained to the supervisor that 3 of the us had to be at work this morning and we really needed to be on this flight. Fortunately, she was able to get some volunteers and we were able to board the flight and return home. My problem is first, why were our seats not assigned by Expedia? We booked over a month ago ago. There was plenty of time for this to by done. Second, when I called to speak with a customer service representative, I spoke with an agent named Elton.

    After explaining my problem and waiting on the phone for him to confirm with the airline, I was told I could complain to US Airways. I explained to Elton that we had spoken to US Airways but we were told that our seats should have been assigned by Expedia.com and it was not done. I also told Elton that we booked and paid Expedia so there should be some accountability on the part of Expedia. Elton then hung up on me. I called back and spoke with an Agent named Stephanie. She heard the whole story again, and told me she was checking with her superiors to see what kind of compensation she could offer. She put me on hold and hung up after I waited over 15 mins. for her to return. I called back a third time and spoke with a supervisor named Joe who apologized for the behavior of the other 2 co-workers and offer me a $100.00 coupon to be used on future bookings.

    I have been using Expedia for several years. I have booked hotel rooms and flights. I just booked a trip to LA back in June of this year. Up until this point, I have not had any problems. While I understand that US Airways overbooked the flight and that Expedia does not control that, I do not see a reason that we did not have assigned seats in the first place with over a month to get this done. Fortunately, the supervisor at US Airways worked hard to get us all on the flight and thankfully she was successful. Totally unacceptable behavior from the agents at Expedia to hang up on a customer, especially, when I was not belligerent or irate with them. I simply needed someone to take accountability for this mistake. I was most disappointed at the response because I really recommended Expedia for travel booking and I can no longer trust that this a good place to book and I will be using some other site to book my travels.

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    Reviewed Sept. 30, 2013

    Our family looks forward to vacation all year. With airfares being so high, we have not been to Europe as a family in many years and carefully planned our eight-day trip to London and Paris, using Expedia, what we thought was a highly reputable online travel agency (or website). Our focus was to plan out the trip so that we could use time efficiently and see as much as possible so we booked everything with Expedia, including a one-day trip on Eurostar to Paris. As soon as we reserved our trip to Paris, Expedia emailed to us the confirmation number and tickets (vouchers to be exchanged at the train station) immediately. Having this confirming information/documents from Expedia one would think that the trip to Paris on Eurostar is booked.

    One day before our excursion to Paris, we found out by accident that Eurostar does not have our reservations. Expedia was absolutely no help, confirming that they made a mistake and we are stuck with a ruined vacation. As a result, a large part of our vacation was ruined. Even though Expedia refunded the charge for their mistake, we still didn't see Paris and will need to travel separately from US to Europe to do so; this will be another enormous expense. Expedia did nothing to compensate us for a vacation that they ruined and that is just unacceptable!

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    Reviewed Sept. 26, 2013

    Bought a flight - NY to Montreal - on Expedia in July, to travel in September. I was extremely careful to book the correct time since I would have to meet with a friend coming from Toronto, at the airport. I am sure I made the correct reservation. Before finalizing, I checked many times. After buying I printed the ticket but never checked what was being printed. Well...2 months later, I found out that my flight was not AM but PM time and I am sure I didn't buy PM because I was very careful when picking up the flight. To fix the problem I had to spend much more money. I would love to know if someone went through the same experience.

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    Reviewed Sept. 25, 2013

    I had made a reservation for the advertised rate of $77.00 Cdn on what I thought was the motel website in Thunder Bay Ontario. Having made the reservation and receiving a confirmation, I noted the final charge was $101.53 Cdn. That was 23.5% in extras. I immediately phoned the motel to find the breakdown of the "taxes and fees" and was told I had made a reservation through Expedia, and had to talk to them. I was surprised and the clerk advised that the Expedia site was very similar to theirs and I had to be very careful to know otherwise. Expedia in turn told me I had to contact Hotels.com which is part of Expedia. Hotels.com refused to return $101.53 on my VISA card which they accepted. It turns out that I will receive $91.00 in US funds or $88.38 Cdn. (today's exchange rate). Expedia.com/Hotels.com have cost me $13.15 Cdn, or more, if the bank charges for foreign funds conversion. Expedia should not be allowed to disguise as hotel/motel websites. To advertise full refund is obviously a lie. I am angry and feel I have been scammed.

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    Reviewed Sept. 24, 2013

    Recently, I was very annoyed as I had a very bad experience with Expedia.com.us. I sent at least 6/7 letters to them asking for refund. Either no response or they didn't really want to solve my problem. Due to their travel@customercare.expedia.com system. They are not able to expedite my request without having me on the line with them. I need to get in touch with them by phone and so I did. And yesterday evening (Macau time 18:50), a lady who answered the phone didn't really understand what the story was, excused that she couldn't read my mails so I had to repeat all over about my experience on my flight reservation with Aeroflot-Russian Airlines.

    Eventually, she tried to phone the airlines but the answer was: the airlines is closed. And seems to me she can't do anything further nor solve my problem. Until today September 24. I have no way to contact them by e-mail. And people who attended the phone also made no help. It really annoys me to no end. And I found their system is ridiculous. I really hope they do better to improve themselves. Otherwise, there are more & more people stop using them again. And here are my bad experience below:

    I sent Expedia a complaint letter on 1 Sept. but so far no reply. I had booked a round-trip air ticket from Hong Kong to Moscow for Sept. 1, 2013 through Expedia. I live in Macau and so, I took a ferry to Hong Kong Airport at 7:30 a.m. and needed to be 1 hour in advance for ferry check-in. By the time I got to Hong Kong Airport and check-in, the lady at the counter told me that the confirmation of the booking and passport names were the same, but the name from airport check-in computer system was different. It was a mistake of a sequence of my name. And so that they didn't allow me to get into the plane. I couldn't believe that and spoke to the supervisor of Aeroflot but no help. Then, I called the number 1-877-255-9093 for a few times for help but no answer. I made a few roaming calls to Macau and Moscow for help as well. Eventually I was deported from Hong Kong to Macau and had to book a new R/T ticket for the next day.

    The new airfare is (970.70 USD) and have spent a round trip jetfoil tickets which cost me (496.00 HKD). Moreover, I had to buy another ferry ticket to HK Airport again for the Sept. 2, cost me more 246.00 HKD. All my losses were entirely unexpected and I'm looking forward to a refund or compensation.

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    Reviewed Sept. 16, 2013

    Expedia CruiseShipCenters is a booking agency partially owned by Expedia.com. However, they have different business practices, DO NOT SHARE the same pricing on cruises, AND they DO NOT offer Reward Points. Their ambiguous answers lead one to think they are connected when indeed they are NOT. Expedia has Foreign Customer Service Centers staffed with all foreign speaking people who have a poor grasp of the English language; good luck!

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    Reviewed Sept. 15, 2013

    Tonight my husband and I saw a lovely trip on Expedia to Salt Lake City, Utah for $842 per person. We are avid Minnesota Timberwolves Fans and thought that it would be nice to see them play in a different city. Well we tried booking the trip using a coupon and much to our dismay we found out that we could not use the coupon and the price of the trip had increased while we were on hold waiting to speak to a customer service representative. The first rep, Havi, spoke terrible English and kept repeating "me no can do" in reference to honor the price of $842 per person as well as honoring our $100 coupon. I then asked to be transferred to a manager and he called me an inappropriate name! When I asked him why he did this, he got nasty with me and told me that cursing is not tolerated! Well after an hour on hold I was connected to Gavin who was an alleged manager and he told me that it is not his fault that the price went up and he would not help us.

    I then asked to speak to his manager and I caught him talking about me in the background in his native language (don't fool me I am a secondary Spanish teacher) when I questioned him as to whether he would honor the price that I saw on the site he said "no can do". I then asked to speak to someone above him and he put me on hold for half and hour and claims to have called corporate. Well after an hour and half on the phone and having to deal with being insulted they allegedly honored the price of the trip and credited us the difference of the coupon back to our credit card. Should be interesting when we get our credit card statement. In the past they have advertised "breakfast included" and did not honor it when booking. In fact they did that for our trip to Dallas at the end of this year and now the Hyatt won't honor it either. Expedia is a huge rip off and they use off shore offices to avoid American regulations. Also, their staff doesn't speak English and they insult their customers. It is going to be a long time till I deal with these con artists again.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 12, 2013

    I sent you a complaint letter on Sept 1 and Sept 10 but so far no reply. I had booked a round trip air tickets from Hong Kong to Moscow for Sept 1, 2013 through Expedia. Itinerary #**. I live in Macau and so I took a ferry to Hong Kong Airport at 7:30a.m. on Sept 1 and need to be 1 hour in advance for ferry check-in. By the time I got to Hong Kong Airport and check-in, the lady at the counter told me that the confirmation of the booking and passport names were the same (** Chi Iam), please refer to your own confirmation of the date August 2, 2013, but the name from airport check-in computer system was different (Iam/** Chi). It was a big shock for me. How come the names were different? It was so obvious that it was a mistake. And therefore, they didn't allow me to get on the plane.

    I couldn't believe that and spoke to the supervisor of Aeroflot but no help. Then, I called the number 1-877-255-9093 for a few times for help. Also no help. I made a few roaming calls to Macau and Moscow for help as well. Eventually I was deported from HK to Macau and had to book a new R/T ticket for the next day. The problem is I couldn't wait for your answer (it takes 48 hours) as my girl friend was waiting for me in Moscow. The new airfare is (970.70 USD) and have spent a round trip jetfoil tickets which cost me (496.00 HKD). Moreover, I had to buy another ferry ticket to HK Airport again for the Sept 2, cost me more 246.00 HKD.

    Expedia is supposed to be a good & trusted company and this incident bought me a lot of troubles and inconveniences. This kind of silly mistakes not only caused me money, also my valuable time. I have been very annoyed and frustrated. All my loss was entirely unexpected and I'm looking forward to a compensation and your prompt reply.

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    Sales & MarketingPricePunctuality & SpeedOnline & App

    Reviewed Sept. 9, 2013

    Expedia is offering "Expedia Bargain Fare'" on flights where you will only know the airline and flight times once you purchase the ticket. When you are on the last screen about to buy the ticket, it says "Free Cancellation within 24 Hours. After 24 hours, standard flight rules apply." So, I bought the ticket and less than 24 hours later the "Bargain Fare" had been reduced by $20! So, I called Expedia to cancel the ticket and they told me it is nonrefundable! I pointed out that it says right next to the buy button "Free cancellation within 24 hours" but they told me that doesn't apply. I don't know how I could know that it doesn't apply even though it states it very clearly on the website.

    So, then I told them to refund the difference through their "Best Price Guarantee". Once again I was told that since I didn't "login" to my account first, the trip is not eligible for the best price guarantee! I replied that during checkout, there was no place to login (the only option given is to create a new account) and I didn't want to start the process all over after logging in as I wasn't sure this "special fare" would still be available. Moral of the story is that Expedia is using false and misleading advertising to get you to buy tickets through them. Who wants to join me in a class action lawsuit!?!

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    Ease of Use

    Reviewed Sept. 7, 2013

    EXPEDIA Hotels and Flights Application is also Garbage and rip off. Not user friendly, the layout is clumsy crap. The selection input interface forced me to choose wrong date after I placed correct one. This will ultimately cause you to book wrong and together with Hotel refund policies will rob you. Had to file chargeback because of this lousy app check the reviews of Expedia. They own Hotels.Com! Explains why they can do this crap.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 5, 2013

    I went online to make a Christmas reservation and every time I changed a date or screen, it automatically reverted back to September (and not even the date I was making the reservation). I couldn't check my email conformation until the morning past the 24-hour date and after speaking with four different females (at least 2 who had a heavy accent and I couldn't understand), they still refused to cancel my reservation without the $200 fee and wanted another $400+ to change the dates. I was so angry and upset by the time I hung up the phone I literally wanted to scream! Why would a website revert back to another month repeatedly when I had to change it constantly and didn't realize that by the time I got to the pay out, it had changed back again???

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    PriceOnline & App

    Reviewed Sept. 4, 2013

    Expedia seems to have tricky & misleading wordage on the website. They did not give the best rate & will not work on giving a refund on a cancellation. They say it's the hotels policy & the hotel will say it's Expedia. I will NEVER use Expedia again as they mislead on the reservations & would not even think about how they charge the customer being even staying at the hotel. We won't even be traveling & the hotel room goes unused, but paid for. X on Expedia & all hotels that use them.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 3, 2013

    Today, I googled hotels in Albany, NY. I got a list and decided to book one for the 1 night I needed. The rate was $109/night. I entered the date I needed, the 8th, leaving on the next day. When I entered the cc #, etc it confirmed that they had charged me for 3 nights on days I wouldn't even be in the state! It took me one hour of making 3 separate phone calls, being put on hold and talking to people who were reading a script back to me instead of having a conversation. This woman did finally delete the charge on my CC. Then I tried to book for the one night I actually did need. Instead of $109 + %14 tax, they said the rate was now up to $159+ tax. I said I couldn't do that. Finally, I just called my local AAA and they did a booking for me at a very Reasonable rate, $103. I will never use Expedia again!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 1, 2013

    I made reservations to Courtyard Marriott in Nashville DIRECTLY through the Marriott site. The site was hijacked by Expedia/ReservationsCounter.com. I thought that I was dealing directly through Marriott. When I got to my location and tried to cancel my 2nd night, I was told by the hotel that I was unable to do so since I made my reservation directly through Expedia. When I called Expedia, they told me that they had no record of me. When I call ReservationsCounter they said they could not cancel because the hotel would not allow it. I intend to dispute all charges with my credit card. I do not know who is involved in this scam but it appears that Marriott allows, condones and accepts this service. Unless I am assured that Marriott will disavow and correct this practice, I will no longer book at or through Marriott hotels. This is not right. I do intend to post the scam on Ripoff Report and Trip Advisor.

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    Punctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2013

    On/About June 17, 2013 I booked online with Expedia a flight (with connections) from Austin, TX to Charlotte, NC and return (with connections), to occur on August 19, 2013 and August 28, 2013 and received a printout confirming the reservations, including seat assignments. Upon checking in for the flight at the airport on the scheduled day for the flight, the airline could find no record of my having booked the flight. Upon calling Expedia regarding the matter, they could find no record of my having booked the flight. As a consequence, I had to purchase tickets directly from the airline at a priority price and reschedule the flights for different days, disrupting my and my colleagues schedules.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Aug. 26, 2013

    Price difference noted when booking third room (lower rate) was not honored. I booked three rooms and two of them were $400 higher (all same category next to each other). Expedia says "Talk to Princess Cruises." Princess says, " Talk to Expedia," and no one does anything while I waste two hours on phone with them. No one on Expedia answers emails. I will NEVER BOOK WITH EXPEDIA AGAIN > WORST WORST SERVICE EVER!!!!! They advertise partial ocean view rooms and there is complete obstruction of the view from the window. Ocean view is view of a tender boat!! Why pay that much more to see NOTHING!!!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2013

    I booked a room in Wilkes Barre, PA. Expedia said it's a 3star hotel. They booked me in to a Day's Inn, not 3 stars. Arrive in, we were advised our room charge is 21 less than Expedia charged us. After contacting Expedia I was advised that the hotel was not supposed to give me the difference in price. I advised to customer service representative that this is something between Expedia and the hotel, not me and me as a consumer I should be getting a refund for the charge that was higher than the hotel was charging Expedia. The representative told me they're not going to give out your refund and is the hotel's fault not theirs.

    For company that works with hotels to point fingers at others it's pretty bad business practice. After reviewing some other complaints about Expedia I have seen that this is normal standard for Expedia. I understand if you need to make money but any problems between communications from hotel and Expedia is between those two parties not me. If I'm advised my hotel prices cheaper you should stand behind the promises of giving me the lowest price and refund me the difference, not argue with me as to whose fault that was.

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    Reviewed Aug. 24, 2013

    I called from my cellphone and asked information to connect me to Courtyard By Marriott. The person that answered said "Reservations". I asked if this was Courtyard By Marriott, yes it is. I went on to book 2 rooms for 2 nights. When I returned home from my travels I noticed two charges on my CC from Escounter.com. I have since found out that this is a shell company of Expedia. Expedia has charged me for the room stay as well as the hotel. When you call in, the phone rings into the Philippines, not USA. I have denied all charges on my CC and refuse to pay these scam artists. Considering legal action. STAY AWAY FROM EXPEDIA.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2013

    I paid Expedia $141.74 for a room that I used last weekend. When I checked out, the clerk gave me a receipt for $114.89. Big difference there in my eyes. I wrote them an email and gave them all the info and I still haven't heard back from them. So much for CHEAP... I'll never do business with them again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2013

    I booked a hotel reservation for 4 nights @ the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas through Expedia.com. My confirmation email stated, "Your Luxor Hotel booking is prepaid and was charged at the time of booking. Any additional charges incurred during your stay will be charged directly by the hotel on check out." Upon arrival at the hotel, I was informed that I had to pay $80.64 which was a hotel resort fee/tax of $20.16 daily. Expedia never stated this in any of the paperwork . Hotel informed me that I'm not the first guest to experience this problem with Expedia and advised me to contact Expedia upon my return if they failed to inform me of these fees.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2013

    Tried to cancel a hotel reservation that was made through Expedia 14 hours earlier the same day just to find out that the hotel had a cancellation policy of 7 days prior to the arrival date. I made the reservation and tried to cancel the same day, DID NOT HAVE 7 DAYS. This was not disclosed until my CC was already run through. When I contacted EXPEDIA, I was told that there was nothing they could do and that I had to take it up with the hotel. I did not do business with the hotel, I conducted business with EXPEDIA because I was under the impression that EXPEDIA would protect the consumer. Apparently Consumer Protection with EXPEDIA is non existent. Conclusion, I lost $201.38 because EXPEDIA did not protect me.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2013

    I am in SHOCK. Got an extremely rude operator when I called Expedia to book a package. I ended up hanging up... She has since called me back TWICE to say, "** you"... She has my phone number! I don't know what to do about this!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2013

    I made a Cancun reservation for 3. They charged airline tickets twice which is $1711 each time. I called and spoke to American Airlines and AMEX and confirmed that they charged twice and only Expedia can reverse this reservation because they made it. I spoke with 13 Expedia representatives and supervisors. None of these people helped me and kept saying they did not charge on my credit card. I replied, "Wow, you did not charge and I still have itinerary. Then, it is free vacation?" And he said, "Congratulations!" and showed me attitude. Since he could not find the transaction with my credit card number, he told me to call banker to check. Why do I need to call my credit card company and whether I paid with right credit card? Anyways, I called AMEX and we did conference call and confirmed that my credit card was right and they charged twice. Then, Expedia rep hung up. What a nice service???? Both AMEX rep and I were shocked.

    Anyways, I'm still calling to Expedia and on hold over 6 hours. Finally, the supervisor, Chris, told me that they made only 3 tickets on the system and I begged her to go to Aa.com and check how much they charged. I told her "Please" 3 times and she replied whatever she wants to say and hung up. I called American Airlines again and explained what they did and how much I tried to fix. After the rep heard my story and sympathized with me, she decided to call Expedia and confirmed there were 6 flight tickets purchased. After AA rep explained and hung up, Expedia rep turned back to the way they were. She refused what they double-charged and kept telling me that they charged only 3 tickets on her system.

    Now, I called my credit card company and disputed charges. That was the only way I could resolve the issue. Expedia should issue a trouble ticket and try to find why this happened. Damn Expedia. What a nice company!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 29, 2013

    I booked 4 flights for my family and when I didn't get confirmation from Expedia and could not find my flights on my itinerary account, I contacted them to find out that they had booked me on the wrong flight, a flight that gave me a return flight before a departure flight. When I contacted them they said that I had made the mistake myself and if I wanted to change the flight I would have to pay $800.00 to do so. I contacted several people on June 28 less than 48 hours after my booking to complain and they said that there was nothing I could do. I was literally on the phone for 7 hours being transferred from one person to another and being hung up on by the supervisor. UNBELIEVABLE! There is no answer for why there was no confirmation from them or the airline for booking. Needless to say I am out a lot of money and flights with nobody to help me!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 26, 2013

    Three times I have booked a hotel over the phone, then given the wrong confirmation number and no emailed confirmation as promised. Then spend hours on the phone to find out they have debited my money and booked the wrong hotel or room type. Credit cards have so many numbers yet they always get that right!!! Strange that.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPricePunctuality & SpeedOnline & App

    Reviewed July 24, 2013

    Misleading advertising and charges not disclosed until after my credit card was charged. I booked through Expedia a hotel for four adults, one room for one night for $132 not including fees and tax. AFTER I put in my credit card information I received a confirmation email showing charges for $212 - charging $53 for extra guests. I immediately called customer service to find out why I was getting charged for extra guest. Expedia told me that the price shown was for two adults, NOT four like I was searching for, and to add two guests is $27 per person. I asked them why they would show me a room for two adults when I was searching for four adults, and customer service could only tell me that the extra guest fees are in fine print.

    I then asked them to cancel the room and refund me the full amount paid. They said they couldn’t because it was within 48 hours of the reservation. I insisted that couldn’t be right because I literally just paid for the room 15 minutes ago, despite the room booked was for two days later. I have never had a problem with Expedia, but after this I probably won’t be able to trust their website price listings anymore.

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    Online & App

    Reviewed July 23, 2013

    Hidden Fees. Booked a hotel using Expedia. I thought, like Priceline and other similar services, that it was free. It is not free and when I cancelled my hotel stay I got charged not only by Expedia but also by the hotel for a one night stay!! They do not make it clear on their website that this is going to happen so be careful!!! I will never use them again.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 21, 2013

    "My last experience with Expedia" - I reserved a flight and hotel at Expedia. I received an email about the flight: "Thank you for booking with Expedia! Your booking is confirmed!” Unfortunately this statement is false and even borders with fraud. Based on this email I reserved the hotel which was a non-refundable rate. Following I received an email and subsequent phone calls telling me that the flight is NOT confirmed and as I have no ticket # I have no right to assume it's confirmed...

    When I stated that not only I received an email confirmation from Expedia and my CC was charged, why does the same flight still appears at the Expedia site?? The answer was: This is not Expedia's responsibility... The Airlines do that and it's their responsibility. Expedia suggested an alternative flight at more than double the cost (+$2200!!). OK, I said, if you cancel my flight, please cancel my hotel as well. The reply was: This is not possible, you have to contact another department which handles hotel reservations. Is this serious? Expedia misleads with false information about flight being confirmed. I would expect a clear note to say: Do not make any other arrangements based on this booking until you receive the ticket itself, Expedia is not responsible for the flights advertised... or similar legal notice.

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 20, 2013

    Booked a two-bedroom for two adults and two children through Expedia.com, but was offered a one-bedroom. Learned that the two-bedroom selection was not a reservation but a request. A hotel clerk told me that I am the 3rd person today and the clerk already reported similar incidents to upper managements in the past but nothing happened. Expedia reservation website misled me to believe that I booked a two-bedroom for two adults and two kids. I'd like to join a class action lawsuit regarding this if there is any.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 14, 2013

    THIS IS A COMPLAINT TO EXPEDIA MANAGEMENT. I have had one of the most terrible and worst service experiences ever. I called about my itinerary to make a simple date change to my tickets - Tokyo to London with Aeroflot from 25 July to 24 July. They are fully changeable (date change with no fee D/Z) business class fares. I called at about 1am Tokyo time on July 14th. When I first called, I was on hold for more than 30 minutes. Then an agent answered me and took about 20 minutes, and then said I will be connected to a supervisor. The supervisor said they must contact the airline. Then my call was dropped (I did not hang up).

    I called back and was put onto another operator. This operator was on the phone with me for 60 minutes and still could not change my tickets. The operator said to wait until the service desk calls me. After another wait, the service desk called me and said the flight does not have seats any more at my fare to change. However, there definitely were seats earlier when I called. I also checked while I was on the call online using ExpertFlyer to confirm there were enough Z fares during the long call. Basically, because all the Expedia agents took so incredibly long and keep passing me from one agent to another, the seats were not available by the end of the three hour call.

    When I said I have waited three hours because the Expedia operators took so long and then the seat was not available in the end, he did not even apologize and simply said the standard line about airline policies. After three hours on the phone from 1am to 4am in the morning in Tokyo, I was so upset and frustrated and worse, the operator did not try to apologize properly. I am very upset and disappointed. I bought full fare business class tickets and have spent many thousands of dollars over the years on Expedia.

    This morning I called Expedia and asked to speak to a manager. I voiced my complaint and was simply told to wait to speak to a manager again. I was told to speak to a manager named Barbera, but after again a 30-minute wait, the call was dropped instead of transferred! It was incredibly frustrating. This is one of the worst customer service I ever had. I have also spent more than $100 USD on international calls today for this matter to call from Japan and no result. I want proper and formal compensation and apology from Expedia.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 12, 2013

    Don't be fooled by Expedia's claim of "Lowest Price". Their "unpublished" rates can come with quite a surprise. I booked two rooms in New Orleans only to get the email listing a slew of "OTHER CHARGES THAT ARE CHARGED DIRECTLY BY THE HOTEL"!!! These charges were not disclosed until AFTER my CC was charged and "of course" their special unpublished rates are NON-REFUNDABLE!!! Then when I called them to discuss this, I waited on hold for over 45 minutes only to speak with Peter, who kept repeating that those charges are levied directly by the hotel - I know that, Peter - but I booked through you and paid EXPEDIA directly. When you advertise the lowest price, it should actually be that - not have over $50 in extra fees per room per night hidden from the consumer!!! Of course, Peter disconnected me with the guise of telling me he was transferring me to a supervisor. I called back twice and spent hours on the phone!!!! STAY AWAY FROM EXPEDIA!!!

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed July 11, 2013

    Made a hotel reservation through Expedia, called the hotel the day before I was leaving to find out about late check-in for the next day, but they had no reservation. I had to find another hotel, which was 45 minutes from where I wanted to be (it was the 4th of July). Then I found out that Expedia had made a reservation but gotten my name wrong. The hotel asked me to cancel so it could free up the room, and Expedia (who said they didn't) charged me a late cancellation fee. When I called Expedia that night (the 3rd), they promised to call me back. I was on the phone for two hours that night; no call back. Have to call again.

    I made the second reservation through them, too (before I knew it was them that screwed up the first one), and while at the lodge, I found out they charge $239 per night (I found that out when I got there) while Expedia charged me $305. Seriously, don't use them. For hotels, the best thing is to call directly. If not, Obitz...maybe. BUT DON'T USE EXPEDIA!

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    Staff

    Reviewed July 8, 2013

    I booked a hotel on May 5th, 2013 for two rooms for July 6th, 2013. When we got to the hotel on July 6th at 11:30pm, guess what? No reservations!!! I ended up paying for another room just to have somewhere to stay for the night. When I contacted Expedia the next day, they told me that it was my fault! They stated that I must have put in the wrong date, NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE, since I booked two rooms. Like I am stupid enough, when I am asked, "What date?" hum???? How about tonight, yah!!! What the **!!! Come on people, what is wrong with them?

    Obviously it was their computer issue that submitted to the hotel for that night that I was booking instead of the date I chose and they are refusing me a refund! Well guess what, I will not stop until I get my money back! I work hard for every dollar I make and that is not fair! If it was my fault, I would kindly step back and say, “Okay, my bad.” But come on people, it is evident that it was them since it was booked the same day I booked it on the computer. Do not trust this company for anything!!! Please, it is not worth the discount you receive when you end up losing everything in the end!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed July 7, 2013

    Several months ago, I booked two seats from upstate New York to Spain on Expedia and made my seat selections online. The flights were on US Airways and Iberia. During the next few months, I received emails from Expedia updating me about changes in the times of some of the flights but saying everything else was in order. Then, the day before our flights, we checked in online only to find that there was no seat allocated to my husband on the US Airways flights. On calling US Airways, we were told Expedia had only put in a request for one seat. I tried to remedy this by calling Expedia Customer Service and after long waits and three tries got through to someone who could not figure out what I was trying to say in spite of my repeating it in several different ways. Each time, the person would put me on hold and then start from scratch and get the entire itinerary wrong. Eventually, I just had to hang up.

    US Airways was helpful but couldn't get my husband and myself two seats together on their trans-Atlantic flights and we had to pay extra to get the "choice" seats. This was not a voluntary upgrade! I have explained this in writing to Expedia, asking to be reimbursed for the extra expense, and every time I get the same rote message that allocating the seats is the airline's job and Expedia is not responsible for anything. A month and a half of trying to get through to the agents has brought pretty much the same standard responses, with two emails from "Tier 3 Customer Service" telling me the same thing but in a more elaborate fashion. Basically, Expedia put in a request for one seat and is now blaming the airlines; first it blamed US Airways and now it is blaming Iberia and refusing to refund the extra over and above the almost $3,000 we paid for the two tickets.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 5, 2013

    Attention, everyone reading this. I know you may have used Expedia in the past and it has been a good experience. I assure you they are horrible. They messed up my whole trip package that I booked. I booked transportation from airport to hotel and vice versa and both times they never picked me up and I had to get a taxi. I spoke with Expedia representative; they told me all this ** that they're not responsible and they contract with these companies but were not responsible. They rob you blind but don't want to help you. Their representatives over the phone are beyond useless and unhelpful and outsourced in INDIA and barely speak English. They know like 7 standard American words. Do yourselves a favor, book through APPLE Vacations or travel agents - Expedia knows how to RUIN your vacation, if that's what you're looking for!!!!

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed July 3, 2013

    I am writing on behalf of my daughter who will also be speaking her mind about the scam that is being run by Expedia no doubt at a later date, who charges a $60 for using a credit card when making a booking for a flight on France Air over the internet. You have no choice but pay by credit card unless computers now have slots for cash that I am unaware of. This is outrageous. It is nearly more than the flight itself. When she phoned Expedia to complain and question why this happened, they were reluctant to help and gave very little explanation then said after many tears from my daughter who has limited finances, they said they would look into it and get back to her probably in about 4 weeks.

    We are now into our 3rd month. She is on a flight today and nothing. I would never ever use this company and would highly recommend that anyone else use them. It is bad enough that some airlines charge $10 to use a credit card let alone $60. This is totally unacceptable and not being able to explain why is just not incompetent. No wonder there are so many problems in the world, so many people are so dishonest.

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    Price

    Reviewed July 1, 2013

    My family and I - wife and daughter - decided to spend the Memorial Day weekend in Rehoboth, Delaware. I did an online booking for the three nights, thinking I was doing so directly with the hotel. I should have known, because I didn't get a confirmation or receipt for my booking, and it was not until I was about to travel that I realized I didn't have the address to the hotel. I checked my credit card, and sure enough, Expedia had already billed my card for $755.00 for the three nights, with a no cancellation and no refund. Worse, upon arriving at the hotel, I was given a small cramped room with two small beds, where the bathroom was so small, the face basin was situated in the room itself. So I paid $250 per night for room that would ordinarily cost less than $100 per night. Someone needs to reel in Expedia.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2013

    I booked travel for 7/4 to 7/8. Instead it booked me going and coming 7/5. I never got an email confirmation. Luckily, I had screen printed my page which showed only my item#. However, on Expedia.com it didn't come up under my trips nor am I able to search for it. I have now called Expedia 8 times. Every time I try to get to a manager as no rep will help me fix it without a $375 fee, I get put on hold and then hung up on. Today, weeks later, I held for 1.5 hours, got a manager named Sapphire who then hung up on me. Now I am on hold again. Is this a mean joke and their way to penalize you for their mistakes? Who books a flight with just a few hours in between to Las Vegas? No one. I'm beyond frustrated and have no idea what to do from here.

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    Reviewed June 27, 2013

    Really, $100 in taxes and fees??? Come on, are you all for real!!! This is called bait and switch, and Expedia is involved. First, we had a problem with having 2 reservations (itinerary #**) when we only booked one... We called the hotel and talked to Charles (clerk), Celest (clerk) and to Patty (clerk) to confirm our reservation before leaving. At that time, they informed us that we had 2 reservations and that we had to call Expedia to get the other one removed. That they could not do it because it was Expedia's software. So we called Expedia and they assured us we only had one. So we then called back to check and was assured that Expedia did not cancel the one reservation we booked.

    Now when we arrived at the hotel, we stopped at the counter to check in and show our paperwork as we were worried and wanted to make sure all was correct. The clerk Charles went over our paperwork seeing all, including the rates per night. At that time, he did not say anything about the amount $84.00/night for 3 nights on the Expedia paperwork. Only at checkout did we, by accident, see the clerk's paperwork stating that we were to be charged more for the room clearly wrote in red ink over invoice... The lady clerk (Valery, I think) tried her best to hide the fact that they increased the room rates. Kathie questioned the amount after signing the paper, but Kathie crossed out the amount because it was incorrect.

    Then this lady snatched the paperwork and would not return the paper after we informed her the amount was incorrect and we were disputing the charges.

    I have contacted Expedia and Howard Johnson corporation after returning home and complained. Both called me back and told me that the hotel owner would call me to resolve the dispute... No call, so I called the hotel and talked to Charles. I requested the owner (Chris) to call after I've seen my credit card was charged for $364, not $245 stated by Expedia... As of now, I have not been contacted by the hotel in any way.

    It clearly states on the Expedia paperwork $84.00/night for 3 nights... and on the hotel's paperwork it states $84 for one night and $118 for two nights. This clearly is not taxes and fees. The problem seems to be that Expedia called the hotel for rates and was told by the hotel clerks the rate was $84 per night and that's what Expedia booked. It is not my fault the hotel did not state the correct rates to Expedia nor are we sure that happened. We booked for $84 per night for 3 nights and as such, the problem is between Expedia and the hotel (not me).

    At the time of this letter, I will be disputing the charges on my credit card, a copy of this letter and the receipts from both Expedia and the hotel, also to the BBB (what a joke. They are worthless) were sent. I agreed to $84.00 per night for 3 nights and should be charged those rates: 5/16/13 to 5/18/2013 - room charge $84.00, state tax $5.95, hotel tax $5.10 (x3 nights) for a total of $297.15

    Why should we use Expedia when we are being charged the same rate as if we walked in off the street! And that happened. As we were checking out, a customer came in off the street and got the same prices we were charged! Moral of this story... Expedia lies and the hotel benefits. Each blame each other, but no one is responsible! The hotel says it hates Expedia, but they continue to use them for bookings... Go figure what do they have to lose!! Pure bait and switch tactics to sucker money from the traveler... NOT THIS ONE!!! Not ever again. Not from Expedia... And never stay at Howard Johnsons or their parent group Wyndham. Learned my lesson for $100.

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    Reviewed June 26, 2013

    Don't bother with the 1800- Expedia number or the 1800931-5207 number. They take you to a call center outside the US and every single person is incompetent and don't have the authority to grand refunds or anything. They'll twist facts to put the blame on you, or make it seem like any discounts owed to you were already given to you. Call their corporate call center: 1877-843-7215. This is a "Tier 3" call center so these folks have a brain and have the access to look at your complete booking details, click-throughs - everything! So if there is a mistake on Expedia's part, these people have the authority to make good on any guarantees or promises.

    My story: Website wouldn't grant me a promo advertised on their website (glitch maybe)? I spent 2 hours on the phone with morons in the basic call centers. I found this number on a complaint board. And surprise, surprise: I reached someone in the US who helped me out. I explained my situation ONCE. Versus when I called the regular international call centers, I had to explain myself 5+ times to each person I spoke to. EXPEDIA: This is why you don't offshore your services. Cheaper - yes. But you're paying for cr.ap.

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    Reviewed June 25, 2013

    I booked a room for my fiancée to use in Manila when she went for her interview for her visa. I did this through Expedia and the hotel was Bayview Park Hotel. When my fiancée showed up with the itinerary, they refused to allow them to check into the room. I got in touch with Expedia and they said they could not do anything for me. I told them I should get my money back because they refused to allow my fiancée to use the room.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2013

    Never Ever use Expedia's so-called Unpublished rate hotel service! They are selling non-star Run Down Dump motel as Comfort Inn 2 Star level hotels, and you cannot cancel and get any refund. It is completely a joke and scam. I will NEVER EVER use this so-called unpublished rate thing.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2013

    I am sharing my frustrating and terrible experience as an Expedia customer with everyone, so do think twice about ever booking your travels with Expedia. The vendor of the tour, if I am not mistaken, is JWH Entertainment that also operates tours in other parts of Germany apart from Hamburg. Despite having used Expedia for many years, I will, for sure, NEVER use them again and certainly could never trust their operators in general from this bad experience. Until now, I have not heard back from Expedia despite having spoken to 3 seemingly "helpful customer service" agents who promised to follow-up and update me in addition to providing USD 50 credit - which I told them was even irrelevant despite being a nice gesture. All I requested was for a refund of the cancelled Beatles Bus tours. I did not even care for the credit or any other form of top-up compensation. Expedia deals with people like robots operating alongside machines; hence, if customer service is your priority, Expedia should be dropped off your list altogether!

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    Reviewed June 23, 2013

    I am in the process of planning a road trip from California to Texas for a family wedding. I am a single mom of 3 kids and we cannot afford to fly. We are on an extremely tight budget to get to the wedding and back. I was using several road trip planners along with Trip Advisor and other travel sites to select motel rooms on our way. I was looking exclusively at places that allow you to pay at the time of stay and could be refundable in case our trip was to go faster or slower or anything unexpected were to happen. I booked a room in Phoenix through Booking.com no problem. I then found another room in El Paso and was then routed to Expedia. They too had a don't pay now room and it was refundable. I gave my debit card info (required to hold the reservation but no charges now) and punched submit.

    AS SOON as I pushed submit, I received a message that $52.40 had been debited from my account and that my room stay was non-refundable. I immediately called Super 8, who was kind but said I needed to contact Expedia. I was on hold with Expedia for an hour. They gave me a huge bait and switch where they thought they could refund it, but then they claimed the hotel manager said no (who I had just spoken to). Then they said there was nothing I could do except maybe a coupon. I was transferred to a supervisor and after being on the phone for over an hour was told that this whole thing is my fault and there is nothing they can do for me. In the meantime, I am out $52 of grocery money until I get paid again and am stuck with no way to re-route our trip in any way. I am furious and will be staying away from Expedia forever. As it turns out, the Super 8 walk-in rate is less than the stupid "deal" I got through Expedia.

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    Reviewed June 23, 2013

    I booked Econolodge in Morro Bay through Expedia. I booked it through a different login ID, which I forgot. I could not find it so I called Econolodge. They denied I was even there. I had to book a different hotel. Finally, I found the booking was charged on my credit card, so I called Expedia who told me I had a booking. I complained to Econolodge and Expedia, but they said I could not get my money back. Econolodge finally said I had a reservation, but the manager or desk clerk, who was called **, said he would issue me a refund if they could sell my room, but he didn't know when he would sell it.

    I had a separate reservation at another hotel which I could cancel, but the Indian guy at Econolodge assured me that he would sell the hotel room and refund me through Expedia. Well, this never happened, and I am sure they sold my room because it was graduation day at Cal Poly SLO, and I booked a Saturday. I kept calling, and they said ** wasn't there. I kept getting the runaround, or they would just say they were too busy to talk to me, yet the Indian desk clerk, or whoever, kept saying they would for sure sell the room. I called several times. I finally called Expedia, and they said they would issue me the refund if Econolodge okayed it. I needed to know because I could have cancelled another hotel and stayed at Econolodge had I been unable to cancel. Yet, they reassured me it was okay. They would sell it for more money than I had paid for it. I paid $325/night, they were selling it for $375/night.

    But after calling back a week later and no refund, Expedia tells me that Econolodge refused to give me the refund. They talked to someone called Jack **. Also, ** was mysteriously no longer working there. I called Econolodge and the desk clerk woman said there was no such Jack **, or maybe he was another desk clerk. They had so many of them per her quote. I called again and the same Indian guy answered. He said he was too busy to talk to me, and there had been too many calls made to him already. By this time, of course, I realized I had been scammed. The Indian guy hung up on me when I asked his name. I called Econolodge again and the same Indian guy answers, finally stating his name was **, and that he would offer me a free night of my choice. He stated Expedia was responsible, and it had nothing to do with him. He was lying, of course, as he had been lying to me all along. I come to find out from his own mouth that he was part owner.

    Expedia was not helpful either. I called back stating all that had transpired. They lamely called the hotel, telling me that the hotel offered me that free night and that was all. They sold my booking for more, double charged for it (I paid Expedia for it, and they got paid through Expedia). Then offer me a free night because their booking usually runs a lot cheaper at other times, and not during graduation week. I feel cheated and scammed, and I think this is very unfair. I really didn't want another night, just my money back.

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    Reviewed June 19, 2013

    I booked a package from the Expedia website for our honeymoon. Flight + Hotel to Maldives. I booked a WATER VILLA ROOM & was totally SHOCKED & DISSAPOINTED that we were given a beach bungalow house, which was DEFINITELY different from what we have booked!!

    I called your hotline & spoke to one of your UNHELPFUL staff named DILA. She kept me waiting on hold for too long until I had to call Expedia again & speak to another person & explain everything all over again. Mind you that I was calling from Maldives & every second is costing me a BOMB!!! Then I spoke to your staff named REMA, who said that she will get the manager to call me back by 10pm, but hell, no one called me! I called Expedia AGAIN and spoke to an Indian guy who can't give me a solution to this. He then transferred me to your supervisor name DOLLY. She PROMISED to update me by today & AGAIN, I received no reply!!

    We are stuck here, staying at a beach bungalow which we do not deserve, as we have paid for a MUCH HIGHER price for a WATER VILLA. And MIND YOU, my HP bill for calling you has amounted to $400 plus. M1 even called me to inform me about the high usage. Who is going to pay for this??

    As of now, I am still waiting for a call from Expedia.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2013

    On June 8, 2013, I needed to book a room. I looked online to see where motels with available rooms could be found. I found a Best Western that I had stayed at before. I clicked on the link for the motel and put in my date. A room came up, so I quickly clicked Book Room. I filled out the online form and clicked Submit. I believed, at the time, I was going through the motel's own page but as it was an Expedia (alternate name Hotels.com, it is still Expedia). Seeing that I had the form filled in, I figured, what would be the difference. Then I didn't choose to pay more for canceling my room as I needed it that same night. I didn't feel I would have needed to cancel. Well, after I clicked on Submit, the date came up for a different one, dated Sunday, the 16th... So I quickly called Hotels.com to tell them what happened. Well, it was a 3-day battle and I lost my money on them booking me the wrong room.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2013

    Traveling on the road in VA, I called a hotel with my cell phone (used their #). The hotel didn't have any rooms available, so they connected me with someone who could help us find a room in the area. I didn't know I was connected to EXPEDIA. No one ever said who I was speaking with. We booked a room in another hotel and paid $150.00 (credit card). When we arrived, the desk clerk said the room was only $120.00 but since we booked through EXPEDIA, we were locked into that price. Next time I'll be sure to ask... They should (as a reputable company) tell people on the phone who they are speaking with!!! And have some English speaking people so we don't need a translator. LIVE and LEARN. I'll never use EXPEDIA for anything in the future.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2013

    I booked a hotel for myself and my wife through Expedia at their special price. Nowhere in their listing of the hotel was there a mention that the price was for only one person - even after I had indicated two people. When we got the confirmation, there was an extra charge for my wife that brought the fee for the room up to what was advertised elsewhere on the web. Because it was a special rate, Expedia said it was nonrefundable and unchangeable. I got nowhere with their customer service even though my credit card charges had yet to be posted by them. This was entrapment for a service that was not as advertised. BEWARE OF EXPEDIA!

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    Reviewed June 14, 2013

    On 12 June 2013, I was booking a ticket online from Expedia.com.sg, flight from Sydney (AU) to Bahrain, leaving Sydney at 15:50 to arrive Dubai just after midnight and leaving Dubai at 02:45 to fly to Bahrain. Before I booked this ticket, I sent a link to my partner and told him I am buying so we fly from Sydney to Bahrain together. He was confirmed; we booked this link I sent to him as he can go to work the next day and I started making the booking. After I entered the credit card transaction and it started processing, the booking appeared with a different flight at 08:30 am.

    So I was worried that it was a mistake of the booking system. I immediately called Expedia Singapore hotline given on the website, plus I emailed the issue at the same time waiting for someone to pick the call. Nobody picked my call for 3 minutes and no one replied to my email, although I sent three emails! I thought it was after hours and they went home. So next day, I called the call center again to explain it was the system error. The operator (Montee, I think) did not listen to my explanation and did not bother to understand, and kept saying there was no feedback/complaint at all.

    So she insisted for a 100AUD extra fee for change of timing and 300AUD for cancellation and kept on asking me if I could give her proof during the booking moment. I am assuming she was expecting me to screen print every key press! I told her I have sent 3 emails after this booking was done plus I have the email for the link I sent to my partner before booking from the internet and the phone call records shown on my phone (screen pictures) showing when I called after booking. She was not going to listen and did not bother to ask her superior/supervisor/manager or anyone who could think for a second!

    It is already 3 days; nobody cares to call back and reply to my emails. My partner also called and spent 20 minutes on the phone with Michael, then another 25 minutes with UK Expedia call center as Singapore proved hopeless. He was promised the floor manager and supervisor was going to call back to help. Ha ha, no calls as yet!

    I will never ever buy any ticket from Expedia Singapore. I have paid about 1735 AUD. This is simply cheating! If they can't sell this flight, they should find other ways instead cheating your clients! I was booking from the system and it showed every detail correctly. After I paid with my credit card, the transaction was approved, but I ended up with the incorrect flight. So the website says I can call Hotline for help. Nobody answers. I sent emails and nobody replies to email or helps me out.

    Next day, within 24 hours, I called them again for help. They wanted/insisted on charging me a penalty of 100 AUD or 300 AUD for cancellation and rebooking. And they blame the customer for their website mistake. Is Expedia Singapore allowed to do this and cheat customers, or is this a corporate policy??

    Expedia.com and Expedia.co.uk clearly say I have the right to change or cancel the same day or even the next day. Singapore does not allow this per the operators answering calls. This is inconsistent, unprofessional and unethical attitude towards customers and should be illegal for an international operator like Expedia.

    I will tell all my friends here and around the world, plus I will post messages on Facebook (over two thousand friends here), Twitter (thousands of followers) and others so they do not use Expedia, at least Singapore to buy ANYTHING and to go direct to the particular airline/hotel. Do not buy any service whatsoever from this Website, and be aware of the system that may be purposely created to issue wrong tickets so they charge extra charge/fee/penalty and additional costs.

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    Reviewed June 14, 2013

    I have an Expedia reservation booked last October 2012. The flights were canceled due to Superstorm Sandy. I just tried to re-book my flight, the same city pairs, same person, etc. It took 3 very long phone calls before I finally got an e-mail saying my flight reservation was confirmed. However, I felt uneasy, so I called the airline directly to confirm my reservation. The airline said that my reservation had been made and then canceled by Expedia! They canceled my reservation on me without telling me and have over $400 of mine from my original reservation. They are so difficult on the phone, with very poor English speakers who have no authority or ability to help. Don't ever, ever use Expedia, and I hope to find some advice about how I can get my money back, or a ticket re-booked!

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    Reviewed June 10, 2013

    This morning (June 10) at 1:00 am, I attempted to book a hotel room for 2 nights' stay in Half Moon Bay, CA after having successfully reserved online a rental car for 4 days' use. Everything was going well until I got to the payment/credit card information on the Expedia website. Even before inputting the credit card information, the credit card type was already filled in as a MasterCard. However, I was not using a MasterCard to book this trip. I changed the type from a MasterCard to Visa and continued to book the rest of the trip. When I clicked "Book Room", a message came up on the screen that said, "Sorry, your payment is unable to be processed at this time." I was a little confused and attempted to book the trip again. Still, it wouldn't let me do it!

    I called Expedia and was told that there was an issue with my credit card. I then called my credit card company and was told that the issue was NOT with my credit card - that there may be some glitch or problem with Expedia's website, so I immediately called Expedia (again!) and was told that it was not them; it was my credit card and if I wanted to file a complaint, I couldn't! I got really upset and hung up on the representative while he was still talking (something I don't normally do) and proceeded to book the hotel I wanted through the hotel website. What a completely miserable experience! Whatever happened to valuing customers? It makes me not want to book through Expedia ever again.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2013

    We booked a trip 4 months in advance and selected a king room at a luxury hotel. There was no discount booking this hotel through Expedia, but the "savings" was to be in flight costs. More on that later. Our reservation was confirmed for the king room. Our online vouchers confirmed the king room. Nowhere in the confirmation or voucher is it written that this is subject to availability. Upon arrival, we were given the key to two full beds. This was a special occasion and we splurged for this hotel. The hotel told us Expedia reserved us 2 full beds and that the king was subject to availability, etc. but was reminded if we booked directly, we would be in a king. Expedia needs to write more clear verbiage.

    At the time of booking, flight rates were high. Within 2 weeks, they dropped over $500 and Expedia did nothing. Also, a family emergency rose that required I travel from a different location that trip, i.e. my departure city changed. Expedia quoted me $1,600 to change the flight. The ticket from the new departure city was only $80. So I kissed another $80 goodbye and lost the estimated $300 ticket Expedia would not allow me to exchange. I called Expedia to complain and was offered a $25 voucher towards my next Expedia trip. I declined. Worst third party booking experience I have ever had. NEVER AGAIN.

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    Reviewed June 1, 2013

    On 15 February 2012, three friends and I were going to fly from Chennai to Port Blair with Kingfisher. On arrival at the airport, the flight (IT3633) was cancelled and we got documents from the airline's office stating a full refund should be processed. In August 2012 (after I came back from traveling) I started contacting Expedia.co.in for the refund, but after (not kidding) 9 months of mailing and calling back and forth, they now say they "can't process" the refund due to "a missing stamp" on the refund orders. You book, you pay, flight gets cancelled, they don't refund. How on earth does that work? Advice?

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    Reviewed May 30, 2013

    I booked and paid for a flight from Guatemala to Rome with Expedia. An agent from Expedia called me and told me that one of the flights was cancelled by the airlines and that I will have to choose another flight. I agreed to change the flight to American Airlines instead of Taca only if it was a non-stop flight. He also mentioned a one-stop flight with TACA and as a second option I agreed. Actually I have an itinerary update email sent directly to my email by Expedia's agent and it appears that they changed the originally booked non-stop flight with Taca to a one-stop flight with Taca.

    Nevertheless, when I entered my itinerary in Expedia website, it appears now that it is a 2-stop flight. I never agreed to that change and also the itinerary on the web is not consistent with the email they sent. After a 50-minute call with the Expedia's agent and supervisor, they hung up on me and did not resolve my situation. Do I have any option?

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    Reviewed May 28, 2013

    I searched, booked, and paid in FULL to Expedia an international flight. Along with the flight, I booked and paid Expedia for a hotel, rental car and travel expense. The Turkish airlines flight was delayed because the pilot did NOT know how to start the right engine (astonishing). This caused a domino effect making us arrive late to our final destination by 19 hours. When I spoke to Turkish airlines for a refund, they either: 1. hang up; 2. deny that I ever flew on their airline; 3. tell me that I am an Expedia customer, not Turkish airlines customer.

    I have been through 9 different people at Expedia. Final person is Woody **, Expedia Corporate Customer Service, Las Vegas, Nevada. He has NOT done anything to help and is making it clear that even though Expedia is the agent, was paid directly, and in FULL, I am not an Expedia customer. What is going on? Is this the way Expedia does business?

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    Reviewed May 25, 2013

    Booked a room in Venice for days 24 to 26, May 2013, and when I arrived at the hotel, they said the reservation was cancelled and that Expedia had to inform me. I called Expedia and they say the hotel was to inform me about the cancellation. The hotel guy offered me 1 night at a lower rate hotel for almost the same price. For the second night, they suggested me another hotel not as good for a higher price. Expedia.it could not find any other hotel, so I had to take what the first hotel offered me.

    Consequences are, that I have planned a romantic hotel in Venice, I had 2 nights spent in different hotels worse than the one I have planned, I have spent more, and I was in a very bad mood for being treated so badly by both the hotel and Expedia.it. I firmly believe the hotel does regular overbooking to turn overbooked customers to their second hotel not as good as the first. I also believe Expedia.it pretends not to know about the fraud, and when customers call to get another hotel, they can never find another place. I will not book anything else from Expedia until they continue doing business with such bad hotels. My itinerary number was **.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2013

    Do you know that Expedia allows you to book and pay online but denies a refund online? A fraudulent practice aiming at depriving you of your funds and making Expedia fatter! More than a month and at least 40 emails have been sent to Expedia for a simple refund of a travel segment, and there is NO REFUND!!! Reference: Refund for Qatar Airways flight from Hong Kong to Cairo.

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    Reviewed May 23, 2013

    In January of 2013, I attempted several times to submit several revisions of a negative review of Orbit One Vacation Villas in Kissimmee, FL to Expedia.com and was repeatedly told via email that my review needed revision. I have read and re-read their review guidelines over and over but each time I re-submit my review, they deny it without any stated reason. I have emailed Expedia asking them what is wrong with my review but they will not answer my question. This made me suspicious of them simply denying the review because it was negative. This suspicion is made greater by the fact that this particular resort has almost unanimous positive reviews despite being clearly very sub-par.

    I filed a complaint with the BBB in Washington state asking Expedia to do one of two things: either accept and publish the review, or explain to me what guideline I did not follow so I can correct it. They simply will not explain why they will not accept the negative review. Response after response to me through the BBB has simply stated, "Expedia.com has legal rights to control (e.g. use, modify, publish, remove) any review content." I remain highly suspicious about Expedia's review practices and believe they might be suppressing negative reviews for financial gain. By the way, the exact same final version of my review was accepted by another major trip website without hassle and remains there to this day.

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    Reviewed May 20, 2013

    I had booked a hotel stay, over a month in advance, at the Residence Inn Mariott on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, Illinois for May 18th through Expedia; it was a 2-bedroom suite that could fit all of our friends, for a bachelorette party. I gave a credit card to hold the room and I received a confirmation email saying my room had been booked. Come May 18th at my check in time, the front desk informed me that there was no reservation under my name. I was now stranded in the city with 7 girls with nowhere to go. I was then told to contact Expedia because they were the ones who booked my room.

    Upon calling, Expedia said they would take care of everything and get me a new room. This was a false statement. The hotel was completely booked, as were most hotels in the city due to a half marathon the following day. I spent 2 hours on the phone with Expedia trying to get a place for us to stay. They were not accommodating at all and insisted I give my credit card number to them to book another room. I wanted to know where I was staying before I gave out this information. They couldn't tell me where I was staying because they hadn't even found a hotel yet. I gave them the name of a hotel that had a suite available that was more expensive than my original room. I said I would pay the original amount if they would pay the difference, which was about $450.

    I felt this was a fair compromise, especially for a large business. This should be more than fair, seeing as they were the ones who originally made the mistake. They told me they could not do something like this because this hotel was not affiliated with them and they would have to look for another hotel in my price range. Again, they were unaccommodating and I was still stranded. They were not willing to give me a deal, or even work with me to find a place to stay. They messed up my reservation and I was the one who was paying for it. I wasted over 2 hours with them on the phone getting nowhere.

    The girls in our party were calling hotels, getting prices, and trying everything possible to get us a room. We ruined a large portion of our night and the bride-to-be was getting upset. We had driven over 2 hours to the city to celebrate with her and everything was a mess. A portion of the party had left and went home. We missed our dinner reservations with her family, and we missed the concert that we were to go to after. Over 2 hours on the phone got me a hotel, that wasn't in my price range, which was 18 miles away from the city. This was ridiculous!

    At that point all of us were on the phone with our families and friends trying to find a hotel somewhere else. We found a hotel on our own that was much smaller than our original room and some girls had to sleep on the floor, which wasn't fair to them but it was much better than driving 18 miles out of the city. I told Expedia I would never use them again. All night, I kept informing people to never use Expedia and most people said, "Yeah, they are awful, I never book through them." I wish I would have known that back in April when I booked my room.

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    Reviewed May 17, 2013

    After reading all the bad reviews about Expedia customer service, I was expecting the worst. I bought a sequence of flights from Indonesia to Dubai on Sri Lankan airlines with added trip cancellation protection because I knew my job might force me to change these vacation plans. I was uncomfortable after the purchase because I read a lot of reviews online that the trip cancellation protection that I purchased is a scam and that the description of my flights on the website said nonrefundable. In the end, I did need to cancel these flights after all just days before departure.

    I followed the links about canceling my trip through the website and called the 1-800 number listed for requesting a cancellation. The service representative from Expedia was very friendly and was able to confirm the cancellation of my flights quickly, and assured me that I would receive a full refund of the fare on the ticket. I did get a $50 cancellation fee (that they claim was an airline charge for cancellation. I doubt this) and I'm still convinced that I would have had the same result if I had not purchased the $33 trip cancellation insurance.

    Even with these few complaints about losing a little cash, in general I am very happy with the quick follow-up email confirming the details of my refund on the cost of the base ticket and the resulting cancellation fee. I anticipate the refund to appear back on my credit card in a few days, but I have the email receipt as assurance of the pending transaction in the meantime.

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    Reviewed May 16, 2013

    I bought a ticket online from Expedia to fly from Florida to Baltimore on 29th April 2013. I realized that I needed to be there earlier so I called Expedia to change it. I never had experience with travel protection plans but just in case I got it and because I didn't know the way it worked, it might sound funny but I tried to cancel it first and then buy a ticket so I wouldn't get charged for exchange fee. The customer representative told me that I couldn't do it that way; the only way was to change my ticket. So I asked her, "Will I get charged because of flight cancellation plan if I change my ticket?" And she said yes but that I would be reimbursed that money later whatever it says in the policy.

    I asked her several times just make sure that I got the right information and every time she said yes. So I did it and changed my ticket. Four weeks passed and I didn't receive any reimbursement. I called them; they told me that protection plan doesn't cover exchange fee. I was pissed off. The lady I spoke to in the first place gave me totally wrong information. I made some pressure on them telling why they provide with wrong information, why I am losing money because somebody didn't know. I had option not to cancel the ticket which I would have done if she told me they would charge me. All I heard were excuses and apologies which didn't mean to me a lot. I don't know where they hire people for customer service. The lady who gave me wrong information couldn't speak fluent English. You can clearly understand that English is not her primary language. I'm not going to use their services again. I paid extra 13 dollars for the protection plan for nothing!

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    Reviewed May 12, 2013

    I went online on September 24, 2012 to book a hotel for my brother for the nights of September 29-30 and October 1. I accidentally booked the Ramada BWI for the nights of September 24 through October 1. I immediately noticed my error because of the almost $750 charge that came up. I called the Ramada immediately, only to be told I had booked through Expedia, which I didn't know. I contacted Expedia/HotelsOne on line within 10 minutes and cancelled the reservation. They, however, took the $750 from my account.

    Since that time, and many phone calls, filing a complaint through my credit union, with the Attorney General's Office, and the Better Business Bureau, I have not been able to get Expedia to give my money back. I have proof (emails) that I booked at 8:58pm on the September 24 and cancelled within ten minutes. On my reservation email, it clearly states that the Ramada can charge me for one night if I cancel. Since that time, I've been repeatedly told that I had a non-cancellable room, and therefore, I owed the $750. I also have an email from Expedia saying my reservation never even went through, and I shouldn't have been charge, but that the Ramada would not agree to a refund. The Ramada, in my attempts to deal with them, repeatedly said they did not take my money; it was Expedia. Although I agree I did make a mistake, I certainly don't think it's fair. It shouldn't even be legal to be penalized $750 for a ten minute mistake. Please advise what I should do. Thank you.

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    Reviewed May 10, 2013

    If you make a hotel reservation on Expedia.co.in or through the 24-hour line of Expedia, be prepared for a rude shock when you check out of the hotel. The hotel will not give you any receipt for the stay and will ask you to get the receipt for the amount charged on credit card from Expedia. When you call Expedia, they will give all **-and-bull story about itinerary being the receipt. They are charging money but not giving any formal receipt of TIN for tax for government or invoice number which is a must for government to track tax evaders. My recommendations is don't book hotel room through Expedia if you require receipt (government approved) for reimbursement claim.

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    Reviewed May 2, 2013

    I submitted the following complaint to Expedia, who sent it back to me for "Review", I think, because it was negative. Is Expedia systematically purging negative reviews? My Review: (hotel name omitted because it really wasn't the hotel's fault)

    "This really has to do with a horrible experience with Expedia Customer Service. They assigned us a Smoking room against my wishes and profile, and the hotel could not change anything. Talking to customer service was in fact talking to Chechnya! Just like the cell phone commercial where the first agent passes the phone to her brother who calls on his "supervisor" who changes his accent to sound like someone else with no chance of talking to an actual US agent with authority to correct the problem. The result of all this was being forced to pay for a room my asthmatic wife could not sleep in. We stayed at and paid for a second room at a different hotel!"

    Expedia bounced it back to me saying:

    "Oops! Looks like we need you to revise your review before we can post it on our site. Remember:

    Don't mention specific prices or room rates (I did not mention prices or rates);
    Leave out any profanity (there is no profanity in my message);
    Don't reference personal information (and no personal information);

    Exclude photos containing inappropriate or unrelated content (and no photos).

    You can find the full list of guidelines by clicking on the Tips & Guidelines link when you get to the submission form. For your reference, a copy of your review is included below."

    The link takes me to Expedia which says I cannot change my review! I smell a class action lawsuit or FCC fraud investigation, namely, that Expedia is liable for false advertising by suppressing negative reviews, and the cumulative damage is that people make reservations on Expedia but do not receive the reported customer service because the reported customer service is more negative than the complete set of reviews would find.

    Has anyone else experienced Expedia suppressing negative reviews by refusing to post the review on their site, even when the review meets their published requirements?

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    Reviewed April 25, 2013

    I have booked a round trip transfer from Foz do Iguacu International airport to Das Cataratas Hotel through Expedia for $136. On our arrival to the airport, there was nobody to pick us up and they did not know anything about the agency that was supposed to take care of our transfer. As it turned out later, Blumar Travel, which is about 200 miles away from Iguacu Falls, has never received our reservation from Expedia. The local agency that was supposed to take care of us admitted that they haven't heard of us either and referred us back to Expedia.

    Their email stated Blumar informed them that the refund will be provided by Expedia (we must give our voucher back in order to get the refund). I've already spent multiple hours with Expedia without luck, multiple disconnected calls, transfers to all over the world, but no resolution. They offered me that I can call back in a few hours or they will contact me in 4-5 business days. In the meantime, I had to pay for our transfers and Expedia is sitting on my $136. This is my first and last experience with Expedia. Lots of red tape, lousy business. Stay away.

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    Reviewed April 22, 2013

    Kindly try to find a way out of that problem with Expedia.com as they still didn't change my ticket departure timing to be with my family on the same dates, as they did change my family members' ticket departure and didn't adjust it for me until now, while they already withdrew the amount of money required for that from my credit card account. Kindly review my case carefully. Here are my details regarding Expedia reservations:

    My itinerary #**. How come you supplied me with my tickets and changes with a cost equal to a total of $1,221.16, while you already charged me with $1,863.54 added to withdrawing $99.91 + $99.91 + $99.91 + $92.04? Kindly verify me with the actual deductions from my MasterCard account and refund me with the difference ASAP. Otherwise, I am sorry to inform you that I would take some steps regarding legal ways and authorities to verify my rights. Kindly be notified that I did call Expedia.com using my local mobile network for almost $300 USD for the last two days with dull results and misrepresentation from almost all representatives and supervisors regarding ticketing. Many trials regarding bank withdrawals from my MasterCard account were done and still are running by the amount of $99.91, with no reasons. Thanks a lot.

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    Reviewed April 21, 2013

    On 4-21-13, my wife tried to book a hotel through Expedia. After she gave the debit card info, email address, and phone number, she realized she was not dealing with the hotel itself, but rather, going through Expedia. At this time, she told the woman on the phone who was hard to understand to begin with, that she wished to cancel the reservation proceedings. Once she said this, she was immediately hung up on. She called back in an effort to confirm that the transaction was not processed, since they had all our debit information. She was again hung up on.

    I then called and asked to speak to a supervisor. I was given the runaround to the point where I was on hold for 40 minutes, then the phone hung up. I called again. The person on the phone was trying everything in her power to avoid putting a supervisor on the phone. I refused to answer any of her questions, since this had already been done 3 times. She finally put me on hold for 25 minutes and the line again went dead.

    I called about 2 more times with the same result. They tried to direct me to another customer service number. I refused, stating that the number we originally called was that one and that it was the supervisor I wished to speak to. Initially, she stated that there was no immediate supervisor present; then she stated that the supervisor was refusing to assist me in the matter as they had no access to account information. Really? How would they have processed our transaction then?

    Ultimately, a manager named Gilbert got on and as I was explaining my experience, the connection began to break up. He would come and say, "Hello! Hello!" The phone again went dead. I am surprised at the low level of customer care I received. It was obvious that their method of dealing with unsatisfied customers who request to speak to a supervisor is just to give them the ultimate runaround. I am shocked at this as Expedia is pretty reputable and I'm sure that there is company policy in place that dictates how this process is to be handled. I'm sure it's not the way my situation was.

    I am a police supervisor and I know for a fact that when a citizen comes in and asks to speak to a supervisor, a supervisor is who they immediately speak to. One would think I was trying to speak to the Pope. That probably would have been easier to do. I will never use Expedia and hope that those of you who do, never have to call them for assistance. If so, be prepared to be given the runaround.

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    Reviewed April 20, 2013

    I booked two tickets on 11 Feb. 2013 from Expedia.com for Singapore to Mumbai for the journey dated 17 March 2013. I paid the money for these tickets by my saving accounts and the transaction was successful and amount $620 ($310+$310) got debited from my account on 22 Feb. 2013. Again, the same amount was debited $620 ($310+$310) without any purchase from Expedia.com which you can see in the attached statement. Expedia mentions that the airline has made the debit but my question is why my bank details are shared with airlines. Now, the airline can make any debit on my account. For three weeks, there has been no response from Expedia, even after regular follow up.

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    Price

    Reviewed April 17, 2013

    On April 2, I booked a flight, Mexico City - Lima - Cuzco - Lima - Mexico City (so in total 4 flights) on the Expedia website. I received an email from Expedia that confirmed this booking and I also checked the booked flights on the Expedia website (using my itinerary number). The website mentioned that the assignment of the electronic ticket numbers may take some hours. So everything looked okay. On April 3, the electronic ticket numbers for two of the four flights - Aeromexico AM48 Mexico City - Lima and Aeromexico AM19 Lima - Mexico City - were not yet assigned. The website mentioned however a confirmation code for these flights with Aeromexico. The following day I was not able to check the Expedia website.

    On April 5, the two flights with Aeromexico disappeared from my travel schedule on the Expedia website - without any notice from Expedia! So now, my itinerary only contains the flights Lima - Cuzco and Cuzco - Lima with LAN Airlines, which is useless of course without the missing flights. I phoned to Expedia on April 5, and since then nearly every day. Expedia only says that they are working on the problem. It is now April 17, and the problem is not solved yet. In the meantime, the price of the tickets on the Aeromexico flights is much higher.

    Expedia is not able to solve this rather small problem in due time.

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    Reviewed April 16, 2013

    I called Expedia's customer service due to an error with my credit card while booking online. Once I started talking to a representative, I realized the issue with my debit card was the fact that the vacation package was over my daily spending limit. So I suggested that I would just call my bank, have them increase my funds for the day and then book online. She insisted that I call the bank and put her on hold, so I did that after I instructed her that it would be a long wait. After speaking with my bank and having Expedia on hold for at least 20 minutes, my bank said they would increase my funds for the day but it would be another 5 minutes. After confirming hotel and flight details with me, the representative kept getting a higher price than what I was quoted online.

    I reiterated to her that my price was lower and that I wasn't going to book over the phone with a higher price. She raised her voice and kept saying that the price she has is the only price available, and that I must have a different flight number or hotel room. After she argued with me about prices, 5 minutes had passed so I then told her that I would book online because it was cheaper. I then clicked the submit button and the reservation accepted my credit card. I received a confirmation number. When I told her that I received a confirmation number at the lower price, she then hung up the phone. Very disrespectful and not the customer service I expect to have. She had a strong accent and was rude!

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    Reviewed April 11, 2013

    I bought flight tickets with Expedia. The next day, I realized they had gone down a few dollars. I called Expedia, as their price protection is only 24 hours. Apparently, the few dollars did not match the minimum threshold for a price protection. That was fine. Two more days later, the ticket had gone down another $145! I called them, but of course, it was now past the 24 hours, and there was nothing they could do. I ended up paying the $150/ticket cancellation fee, and buying the tickets $150 cheaper elsewhere. Nothing gained, but a big ** to Expedia. I was a very loyal customer of theirs. I would never book anywhere else, but now, no more. I’m never using Expedia again!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed March 29, 2013

    Expedia booked a cruise, a hotel and air travel for my daughter and her husband. They elected to book an overnight hotel stay one day before the cruise to ensure they didn't run into trouble and miss the cruise. The return flight was supposed to be on the same date the cruise ended but instead it was scheduled for the day they checked out of the hotel and when the cruise began. They noticed the error while on their cruise and spent hours on the phone with Expedia, which was to no avail. They were put on hold for 45-60 minutes and then disconnected several times. It ended with Expedia charging additional fees and charges to issue new flight tickets and Expedia has taken no responsibility for the error.

    The company never even apologized or offered to make amends. Additional costs came to about $1,000. My daughter is disputing the charges with her bank but it is difficult because Expedia is the third party. I will never use Expedia again for any travel plans. Expedia booked a cruise, a hotel and air travel for my daughter and her husband. They elected to book an overnight hotel stay one day before the cruise to ensure they didn't run into trouble and miss the cruise. The return flight was supposed to be on the same date the cruise ended but instead it was scheduled for the day they checked out of the hotel and when the cruise began.

    They noticed the error while on their cruise and spent hours on the phone with Expedia, which was to no avail. They were put on hold for 45-60 minutes and then disconnected several times. It ended with Expedia charging additional fees and charges to issue new flight tickets and Expedia has taken no responsibility for the error. The company never even apologized or offered to make amends. Additional costs came to about $1,000. My daughter is disputing the charges with her bank but it is difficult because Expedia is the third party. I will never use Expedia again for any travel plans.

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    Reviewed March 27, 2013

    There was nothing wrong with hotel but Expedia was really bad. The second night I stayed was okay, but the first night when I arrived, I was told that Expedia had not confirmed with them and that they were overbooked. I went to a different hotel and phoned Expedia to explain the situation. The problem came when I tried to be reimbursed for the hotel I never used. After phoning Expedia several times when I returned home, I was given the runaround several times; I was asked to email, fax and send all kind explanations and justifications.

    Expedia refused to reimburse me because they cannot reach anybody in the hotel Dona Elvira who speaks English. I thought that Expedia may have some operator who speaks Spanish, but this option has never been considered. In one of my phone calls I managed to have my case escalated to somebody called Linnette or Lynete, who was actually quite rude and unsympathetic. I guess Expedia should include a disclaimer of this type on their homepage about not being able to refund you if the hotel is in a non-English speaking country.

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    Reviewed March 21, 2013

    I purchased the travel insurance plan online (they call it Expedia Vacation Waiver), which includes the airplane insurance for $186. But after 10 days, when I checked with their customer care, they couldn't find my insurance in their system. I confirmed with them 4 times. They just said I didn't purchase it! I used "choose seat" option to select 3 seats and it appears every one of my family got a seat. It appears each member's name and seat. 10 days later when I revisited Expedia, both the website and customer care said the seat I chose is not guaranteed. That means Expedia's "choose seat" option does not work! It is just a toy.

    Finally they said they will put another document to show I have the "vacation waiver insurance." When I talked to their customer care named Mike, he said the vacation waiver insurance is for someone who needs to cancel due to health reason only. When you try to talk to their supervisor or complain, they will never let you. I will never use them again. Nobody wants to be cheated! Beware of their low cost, 24-hour service select seats. Forget their company. You can purchase directly from the airline and hotel and get better rate. For example, I got the 7 days stay promotion from a hotel, which is not available in Expedia. I saved $180 for same room, same hotel.

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    Reviewed March 20, 2013

    I travel frequently and have often used Expedia to my complete satisfaction. Today, I was booking a flight and hotel package when in the middle of the process, the price went up. I had selected my trip, selected the Book It key and when my itinerary page came up, the price had gone up! I assumed that Book It would mean that I'm booking at the price quoted. If I order a meal at a price on a menu, it's not okay for the waiter to say, "We raised the price while you were ordering!" This feels like a bait and switch. I called to inquire and was told that the airlines can change the fares at any time. This doesn't seem right or even legal.

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    Reviewed March 12, 2013

    I had a flight canceled and changing the booking was time consuming. I spent 8 hours on the phone. Expedia said they paid the difference between the original price and the rebooking. Ten days later, the airline charged my bank account $900. For four days, I called and told Expedia the story over and over. Different agents wouldn't read the notes or accept my explanation. They would finally give me a supposed supervisor. The supervisors would try to call the airline but couldn't get through. Expedia can't get through to an airline, really?

    Finally, I was connected with the Corporate Office in the Land of Oz. The wizards speak American. (Nothing against the normal agents, I just find they're difficult to communicate with and they give robotic answers since they're powerless.) I was told that I could've just asked for the corporate office to begin with. I got an e-case number, like this: ** and fax: 702-944-6481. I asked if I could have a direct phone for the corporate office and was told I had to go through the regular agents by calling 866-510-9715. I faxed proof of the charges and a refund was processed within 12 hours. In the future, if I get more surprise charges, I'll call and ask for the corporate office and say I have a seven-digit e-case number.

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    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2013

    I booked flights with Expedia in early February and received an email 21 days later, stating we had to call them urgently as flights had changed and one was cancelled. I didn't speak to them as booking wasn't in my name, but my friend was told we had to change them and gave us some other options. She telephoned the next day to confirm and they advised her the flights were no longer available and she had to take a refund. She argued this fact, but it seemed the only way out, before being informed it would take 12 weeks to get a refund. I think at one point they even rang the airline (British Airways) who said we couldn't change them.

    Next day I saw the same flights being advertised on other websites and checked both the airline and Expedia's website. Alas, they were showing for one more than we had paid. They weren't there the day before as I had checked, but still the outward flight we had initially booked and the return flight we were told we could change to were now being advertised on their website again. I did ring Expedia to ask why and how they could do this. They blamed it on the airline and said all issues needed to be taken up with them. On ending the call, the gentleman had the cheek to ask me if I wished to book any hotels this evening? I politely replied I couldn't book any hotels as I had no money now as they had it, as I'd explained before, and are having to wait 12 weeks to get it back.

    Absolute joke of a company and if I'd seen all these negative reviews before, I wouldn't have touched them with a barge pole. Alas hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I certainly am not going to stay quiet on this. I just can't believe they can take people's money and then not give it back for 12 weeks (and I've read in many cases it actually takes longer!). And it's large amounts of money. As a friend pointed out, if you bought a top and took it back, you would get your money back there and then. They wouldn't say, "Well madam, we need to get the money back first from the supplier in India or China or wherever, and the refund process takes up to 12 weeks."

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    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2013

    We booked a room, The Old Wheeler Hotel, in Seaside, OR. The description on Expedia stated it was an edges room with a view of the ocean. No mention that the room did not have a bathroom. This is an important issue that should be advised. The room was booked three days in advance and I reviewed the description of the room on their website which states the room was delex and had numerous upgrades, but once again no mention of the fact that there was no bathroom. Two days before our arrival, I was contacted by the hotel and advised that the room did not have a restroom, and the restroom was across the hall. I requested to cancel given the inconvenience of this and was advised they could not and would not cancel reservation, because this was outside of the cancellation policy of five days. I explained that we made reservation only three days before arrival. This cancellation policy should not be applied. We were charged $142 for a room without a bathroom that is also a few blocks from the ocean.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2013

    Expedia are a bunch of crooks! They took +/-$690 for a booking from my Visa card after I booked with them. When I booked out of the hotel, the hotel said that they did not pay them so I had to pay. When I got back to my office, I saw that they/Expedia indeed took the money from my Visa. That was in September 2012 and it is now January 2013. After numerous efforts from me, nobody there seems honest enough at that excuse of a company to assist with the money they stole. At least Mark got a reply. Our company has, in the interim, stopped all bookings through this crooked company. Any advice, anybody?

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2013

    After booking a flight from Seattle to Oslo, my group had a third member join. In thinking that it would be easier to fly together, I attempted to cancel my original flight to Oslo and rebook for a cheaper flight to Stockholm. Upon calling Expedia and going through the process to cancel my flight, the agent neglected to inform me that the refund would come in the form of credit to the same airline. The ticket to Stockholm was on a different airline. While attempting to fix this problem, we received multiple different stories from agents of both Expedia and the airline. The solution to this was to rebook on the same flight, after paying the $250 cancellation fee in addition to the difference of ticket prices, $530. I'm never using Expedia ever again. I'm never going to let anyone who is thinking of using Expedia to use them.

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2013

    I made a reservation and I was going to pay for it, but my credit card was declined. So I called the bank. Expedia overcharged me two thousand dollars, so the bank declined. Thank God they did. I called back again to pay for my reservation. Expedia claimed that the price went up and they can reserve me another place for the original price. The place Expedia booked me looks like somebody's house with a small pool on the backyard. I asked to talk to a manager. I am still waiting. When I send an email, no one responds.

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    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2013

    I was double charged $500 - a fault of the Expedia website. Expedia admitted this. The money was never paid to the airline; it stayed with Expedia. Expedia first told me 7-10 business days, then another 5 business days. At 17 business days, they stated 1-2 months. I have no confidence that I will receive anything as no refund requires 1-2 months to process.

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2013

    In October of 2012, my daughter booked a flight through Expedia to come home for Christmas. She had two flights in her cart and after contacting me, she removed one flight from her cart, proceeding with the other flight. She was to leave Portland, OR on December 18, fly to Denver, meet her brother there and drive to Worland, WY on Dec. 21. No problem there. She booked her return flight from Billings, MT because that is the biggest airport close to Worland. She was to fly from Billings to Portland, OR on December 29. She was emailed her itinerary stating this from Expedia - stating this was her confirmation of flights. When she tried to check in online the night of December 28, she was unable to do so. She then contacted Expedia to see what the problem was.

    Expedia informed her that she has missed her flight because it was on December 28. They stated that she had purchased two tickets, one for December 28 and one for December 29, both leaving Billings, MT. She stated that she had removed from her cart the flight on the 28th. They stated that the flight on December 29th was cancelled and that she had missed her flight on the 28th. When asked who chose which flight was cancelled, they had no answer for her. They just stated that she had two flight scheduled within two days and the Saturday flight was cancelled. She had never received any confirmation email stating that she had a flight on the 28th, only the 29th. We spent three hours on the phone that evening with them and three more on Saturday morning trying to get this worked out. Of course, the bottom line was that she was at fault, not them - even though she had no knowledge of the flight on December 28th.

    Why would they have not emailed her the fact that she had two flights and ask her if there was a mistake rather than them deciding which flight would be cancelled? Of course, we could pay $150.00 to change the ticket that she supposedly missed and pay an extra $650.00 to fly from Billings to Portland. This is totally ridiculous! We also spoke to a very rude supervisor after we finally got to talk to one. We spent hours on the phone getting disconnected and never called back after the call was lost. The bottom line was that they were not responsible for any of this and we had to buy another ticket to get her to Portland. They have quite a scam going from the sounds of things that I have read. I'm not sure who is benefiting the most - certainly is not the consumer. I would not recommend using them to anyone.

    I am still furious that they would not admit that they were at fault by failing to notify us for the two tickets. They said it must have been a computer glitch. Funny how we got no itinerary for December 28, but did have one for the 29th and this still was not proof enough for them to take responsibility for their mistake!

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2012

    We are requesting full reimbursement from Expedia.com for the hotel cost for five days, from June 29th to July 4th, at resort hotel Divi Heritage Resorts, Sunset Crest, St. James, Barbados. We arrived at a reception area under repair. The security guard took us to an upstairs beach front room. It was a shock! The room was really dusty, the patio door was broken, the patio itself was covered in mildew, the sofa was dirty and stained, the fridge was old with rust showing at the bottom, the jacuzzi tub was filthy with dirt, and there was a bad odor to the room.

    At our request for another room, the guard took us to a second room on the ground floor. This room was larger and in slightly better condition, but it needed to be fully cleaned. The third room overall looked the best when compared to the others. With the assistance of one of the housekeepers, they changed the unclean bed linen, provided towels, and covered the chairs with sheets so that we would have a place to sit. The patio chairs outside were covered with animal droppings. Although we had some reservations, we were prepared to stick it out; however, there was no hot water, the pressing iron did not work, and there was a smell of sewage along with smell of mold from the room. We decided to go to reception, but it was closed and there were no personnel to be found by us at the time.

    We finally had to give in, left that night to look for other accommodation, and handed in the key the next day. We have requested a full refund from Divi Heritage and Expedia.com, which we hope will happen. However, Expedia.com is unwilling to provide full reimbursement despite speaking directly with Mr. Alvin **, the general manager of Divi Hotels, on more than one occasion who confirmed that he has requested Expedia to reimburse us for five days. I am writing for your assistance, as upon contacting Expedia.com, I was told by the representative that they could no longer speak with me on this matter which has gone to corporate. This was approximately two months ago. Thank you for your time.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2012

    I booked a hotel with them as they were offering a 25% discount. I arrived at the Avalon Waterfront Inn in Ft. Lauderdale and it was an absolute dump. I opened the door to the room and it looked like a rundown flea-bitten filthy room that had been used and left uncleaned. Immediately, I went to the desk for a refund and refused to check in but got no response from the filthy desk clerk. I called Expedia and got no help whatsoever to refund our money or even find us another place to stay. It's an absolute disgrace! It was a welfare hotel that rented rooms by the hour! Totally false advertising and I was so upset that Expedia left us in the street. I just cried and we had to walk to hotels to find another place.

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2012

    They did not inform me of a cancelled flight. Then the service person, and I use that term very loosely, hung up on me. I will never ever book travel through them again!

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    Reviewed Dec. 10, 2012

    I booked two flights for members of my family in early October. I received the tickets via email and mailed them to the family members. My brother checked on the flight several days before, December 6, and found that the flight had been cancelled. He was told it was cancelled 3 times, rescheduled and finally cancelled. Expedia said that this was due to a change in the air flight. They said they could reach no one by telephone. Why didn't they use the email address? When they rescheduled, it was the same exact flights that had been originally scheduled - only $350 higher. They refused to give me the original pricing and acted as though this was my fault. I had these tickets for over two months, I should have been contacted. I think this is a scheme to charge customers more. Not only am I dissatisfied with the service, but I feel this company cannot be trusted.

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    Reviewed Nov. 27, 2012

    I called Expedia to question why I never received their purported discount for booking a hotel and flight together. They said I should have to call within 24 hours to fix their error. I pointed out that the flight and hotel were the same price then as last week, but they couldn't see through it. I got no discounts, and it would have been less expensive just calling the airlines and hotel individually! I would have saved $120 by going directly to the source. They just kept repeating "I am sorry, but you didn't call within 24 hours." Then, to add insult to injury, "We can refund your money in a credit voucher for the price of the airplane tickets, but to use the voucher would cost you $150 per person, per ticket."

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    Reviewed Nov. 26, 2012

    On 10/5, I booked a 3-night stay (10/8 through 10/11) at Platinum Residence Hotel in Warsaw, Poland for my mother through Expedia. When I booked the hotel on Expedia, the hotel was labeled with free cancellation. Because of the uncertainty of the trip, I chose that hotel largely on the benefit of free cancellation. On 10/9, she tried to cancel her final night with hotel clerk Olga **. The clerk told her that only the booking agency could do that. That's when I called Expedia for the first time. The Expedia agent told me that there would no problems; just go ahead check out after second night and call Expedia back after checking out. We did exactly what I was told and called Expedia back on 10/10, after my mother had checked out. However, when I called the 2nd time, I was told it violated the hotel policy and I could not get my refund. There was nothing Expedia could do.

    I am extremely disappointed with Expedia for the following reasons: a) false advertising when booking about free cancellation; b) knowing each hotel had different policies, the first agent failed to make calls to the hotel to verify, before telling customers false information; c) understandably, the agent on the second call had limited authority, but the supervisor showed zero appreciation for a lifelong member of Expedia. The only thing I got was, "Sorry, there is nothing I can do."

    I have used Expedia for both my personal and business travel needs, even when Expedia was not the cheapest place, or when I knew I wouldn't earn points with my hotel brand. I'm a person who values long term relationship, and there are plenty of other places that provide similar services and value long term, loyal, repeat customers. I can also book directly with the airline/hotel/car rental service, where nothing could be lost by a middle man. Expedia just lost a loyal customer. I am also planning to file a complaint with the BBB and Consumer Protection Agency to alert other consumers.

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    Reviewed Nov. 19, 2012

    I have never been so disappointed with a company for two reasons, which I will explain in detail soon in this e-mail. It started when I booked a ticket for November 21st until December 31st by accident. At first I called an Expedia representative to see if it was a website error. However, I was deemed responsible for the error. The first thing I wanted was help, because I, **, booked the ticket through my mother's credit card for my little brother and it was supposed to be from December 21st until December 31st. During this first phone call, Expedia basically told me about the hundreds of dollars I would then have to spend because of this mistake including $150 for a change fee. My best option, according to them, was to see what I can get from Air Canada and they connected me to them. Air Canada did nothing for me as they said it was the job of the third party (Expedia.ca) to handle this mishap as I booked through your website. This is how my consecutive phone calls with Expedia representatives from then on went.

    Second call: Lady, whose name I believe is Sandy, tells me I have to pay $75 for change fees as well as the price for the difference in ticket prices, which I believe she said would cost in total $268. I was not agreeing to this. She then says I can cancel the ticket and keep the credit. I explored this idea and asked her to continue with this. She said okay and agreed that she was giving me a credit for an amount over $1,200. I knew that this was wrong and being the honest person I am, I told her the ticket only cost me $504. She realized this error, seemed happy, but brought me back to another frustrating state when she has me on hold for minutes to come back on the line and tell me that I cannot gain the credit for the ticket. This frustrated me as herself as well as the Air Canada representative both told me I could cancel the ticket and gain a credit for the amount I spent. She then says she will get her supervisor to give me a discount on the cheapest ticket which was December 25th. I accepted and she had me on hold for a long period of time and then tells me it will be okay and transferred me.

    Third call: I was connected to the supervisor and she tells me my total would be $253. I asked what happened to the discount. She basically said my discount is the $75 in change fees I went through this whole process to be quoted again. I told her what the previous employee had promised me and she argues with me and tells me that she did not offer me this and she did not tell me I could have gotten a credit on my first flight. Basically, it was implied that I am a delusional human being. If you can imagine my frustration, you can stop reading as it only gets worse. She tells me this is the best she can do and I told her I would call my mother before making this purchase and if she can document this, so that I can speak to her or someone else who will know the situation. I also asked for her name and if I heard correctly, she said Sue.

    Fourth call: After speaking to my mother, I called back to purchase this $253 ticket. This agent now tells me the $75 only applies to certain flights and that I will be charged $150 for the change that I am making. She also tells me that the last person I spoke with was not Sue but it was Sandy. She also reiterates everything from my first phone call and tells me I will be charged $328. She then has me on hold for almost an hour (no exaggeration) so that she could connect me to the help desk to see if there was anything they could do. She tells me she apologizes but I would still have to pay the same amount and she could give me a $100 voucher for waiting so long, but I had to use it towards a different flight, all while having an attitude with me.

    I am only 21 years of age but I know the importance of customer service to any firm. This brings me to my first reason for disappointment. Me and my family all travel through Expedia so it is safe to call us loyal customers. I contribute more to your bottom line than the price of this ticket and it was appalling how I was treated like just another number. Secondly, I saved this lady over $700 on her mistake (the $1,200 she was going to give me in credit), yet I was given no lenience for mine. I only hope this feedback helps your company to do better and maybe you will equip your front-line employees with the necessary tools to better serve its previously-happy customers like myself.

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    Reviewed Nov. 12, 2012

    On 8/15, I booked a round trip ticket to depart Boston 11/6 on flight 363 at 7:00 am departure to return from LAX on 11/9 on flight 366 at 3:45 pm. I printed my itinerary on 11/5, a day before the travel and right on the top of the print out, Expedia states that my flight is confirmed and I do not need to call in to them. I reached the airport at 5:30 am on 11/6 and was told my flight 363 was cancelled and I was put on another flight at 11:00 am. I had a meeting in LA at 2:00 pm PST and as I couldn't miss this, so I had to walk over to Jet Blue and purchase a one-way ticket for $600. To make matters worse, my flight 366 was also cancelled and I was moved to a red-eye without being informed. There was no way I was going to get on a red-eye and hence booked myself on Jet Blue flight 486 to leave LAX at 3:05 pm. This round trip ticket cost me $1,000.

    When I called Expedia, they refused to claim responsibility and tried to push it on Virgin America. They then got Virgin America on the phone and put me on hold for the longest time. I must have spent more than one hour on the phone with Expedia. After all this time, they agreed to refund $289 spent on the original ticket. I am assuming they are admitting to fault by doing this. When I called in to Expedia, part of the security questions is my email address. I can't imagine why Expedia could not send me an email letting me know of this flight cancellation providing me with a chance for alternate booking, not to mention getting to the airport at 5:30 am which means getting up at 3:00 am to make time to get there, park and get to the counter. It is amazing how these big companies can get away with stuff like this without any recourse whatsoever. I will not be shopping Expedia ever again and will also be telling anybody willing to listen not to as well.

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    Reviewed Nov. 12, 2012

    We travelled to Kauai Island on the 6th of November and when we came back on 11th, GoAir (Mesa Air) did not allow standard carry-on bag and charged $17.00 and inconvenience on check in. These charges were not declared at the time of reservation that GoAir will charge for standard carry-on bags. Four family members had to pay $60.00.

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    Reviewed Nov. 6, 2012

    When my confirmation came back, I realized the date was wrong and immediately cancelled it. A box popped up that said I would be charged $69 for the cancellation. It was 15 seconds after I had booked! It also said the hotel was charging this fee - not true. They called me and said it was Expedia! Are you serious? I could see if it was a week prior, or last min. cancellation but 15 seconds after the reservation was made. I will tell everyone I know not to use Expedia anymore. I hope they go under. Looks like they certainly have lots of complaints. Now I will deal with them through Legal Shield and my credit card. What a scam.

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    Reviewed Nov. 1, 2012

    As we all know, Hurricane Sandy destroyed the East coast and in my case crippled NYC where I am from. I was scheduled to visit Nov. 1st but due to severe flooding at the place, I was going to stay. I was not able to take the trip. With that said, I called Customer Service to cancel the trip and was charged $200 even though this was an act of God and I had no place to stay. It didn't matter to them. They stated to me that they couldn't even reschedule the trip. I have a letter from the airline stating they would reimburse their customers for the tickets, but Expedia has nothing to do with that. Ultimately, they just want their money no matter who was affected by this hurricane. I would never do business with them again especially after the "supervisor," Jesse, was condescending and rude when I asked for explanation.

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    Reviewed Oct. 31, 2012

    I booked a hotel through Expedia and all went well until the roof in the hotel started leaking! I got downgraded to another room and was informed by the hotel to contact Expedia to get refunded for the 3 nights. I called Expedia and they understood the complaint, told me that I would get a phone call from the supervisor within 24 hours. A day passed and no phone call from Mr./Mrs. supervisor, so I called them back and they said that they were too busy, that I just had to be patient. Two weeks later and still no reaction from Expedia (how patient must one be!). I sent them an email, waited 10 days, still no reply and so I sent another! Two days later, I got a standard email from a customer service guy explaining that they have a huge amount of complaints and that they are sorry for my inconvenience.

    In all honesty, they didn't even read my complaint! I sent the guy an email back telling him to read my complaint and that I asked for a refund and not just a sorry. Well that was 11 days ago and I still have not received a reply. I have booked many hotels through Expedia, but you only really get to know a company when you have a problem that needs attention and Expedia just doesn't offer that service! A company that has a loyal customer waiting more than 2 months that still hasn't received an answer to his complaint is just shocking!

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    Reviewed Oct. 25, 2012

    I bought over 10 tickets through Expedia in the last year alone. No problems, until this morning. The last ticket I purchased was last week. This morning, (bam!) I was charged $7 Expedia final sales fee. I immediately called my bank and disputed this charge which Expedia billed as monthly bill! I will never use Expedia ever again.

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    Reviewed Oct. 21, 2012

    We purchased a round trip ticket from Chicago to Kansas City for our daughter, a student in Chicago. There was a late change in the schedule for a class and she couldn't make the flight to KC. We called Expedia and were told a change would cost about $150, this for a round trip flight costing $196. We said that we would find another way to get her to KC. We then purchased an Amtrak ticket for $100. Expedia said nothing whatever about any policies. Then when we tried to get a boarding pass for her trip back to Chicago, we were told that it was cancelled because she had not used the ticket to KC. I called Expedia. They were in no way helpful, arguing that those are the airline's policies and we should have found out what they are. It was an attitude of too bad.

    We called the airline (American) and they tried to charge another fee for not using the ticket even as we were purchasing another ticket for the trip back to Chicago. They wanted to charge about $400 for fees and a ticket. Finally, we got them to sell a ticket for $200 one way. So this trip cost me $500. Expedia in no way explained these policies when we first called to change the flight. The airline got all the money for a round trip ticket that no one used. And then they charged double for a return trip to Chicago. My advice, stay away from Expedia and American Airlines.

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    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2012

    I scheduled a flight and hotel with Expedia in May 2012. By late May, I realized that I couldn't use the reservation I had scheduled through Expedia, so I cancelled it. Rather than immediately issuing me a refund, the employees at the call center in India proceeded to require me to go through some completely unnecessary steps. I repeatedly called them (using the office phone, as I didn't have one at the time) and through long wait times and dropped calls, nothing came of it. Then when I was able to get through, I found out the amount that I was owed (about $411); but again through disconnects and dropped calls, my refund was never issued.

    I then called again and found that the employees, instead of using my email address that Expedia had, closed my file completely, so no one could help me. Again, instead of being apologetic about the whole affair and issuing a refund, they demanded that I sign a Motion to Dismiss With Prejudice, which means that if I don’t get my money, I would have no legal recourse to get my refund. So, I obviously won’t sign such a document. They then dropped that requirement and asked that I lie to the court and say that the matter has been settled before they’d send me my money. I took them to court and won my case - still no refund!

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    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2012

    I called them to request a change of date for a return trip to India for my mom. They came back and said that there is no airline fare change, but there is charge of 5,000 Indian rupees, which they converted into around 91 USD (approx.). When I looked at my credit card history, there is a charge of $5,000. When I complained, they said that there is a glitch in the IT system and because of that, it is not considering the exchange rates. Apparently, they think that the whole world has one currency - worst mistake in my view. To my horror, they knew about it since she said, it is not only me, but other customers have a similar complaint. Instead of agreeing and fixing the mistake, they shamelessly process requests from customers in a similar fashion. Apparently, they are saying that fault is on the airline as they charged my credit card. What an escape! Shame on them for not taking responsibility.

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    Reviewed Oct. 8, 2012

    I booked three nights at the Hotel Carlisle, Carlisle, PA through Expedia. The hotel's hot water heater broke down not once, but twice! Two mornings I had to shower in cold water. The hotel said they couldn't issue a refund because I booked through Expedia. Expedia contacted the hotel and they wouldn't issue a refund because the heater was fixed both days. I expect to be able to have a hot shower before I go to work in the morning. Expedia just gave me the runaround and I will never use them again! I will never stay at the Hotel Carlisle again either.

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    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2012

    I got all the way to the confirmation page on Expedia and bam - the price for the flight went up $100. What a rip off - when I went to the airline directly, the flight ended up to be over $50 cheaper than Expedia. What good is Expedia? They are a true rip off with a bait and switch scam.

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    Reviewed Sept. 28, 2012

    I booked online a trip to Orlando. I typed in all names clearly. When I went to read the email confirmation, my husband, and two children, had his middle name as a last name, and now after 3+ hours on the phone with Expedia, they want me to pay $150 fee to change the names. I am outraged. They would not admit there might be a problem with the web page nor offer any resolve. These are hard times. This is not the first problem I have had with them, but it will be the last. I want this resolve before 10/4/12 when we are supposed to leave. We will not be able to get on the plane if the names are not changed. Please, can someone help me?

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