KAYAK Reviews

Advertised a no young rental fee through Dollar for a car rental. Paid 2/3 of the fee up front. When we picked up the vehicle, Dollar added on a $405 young renter fee despite us showing them the ad and total that Kayak promised. Tried calling Kayak 5 times. Hung up on every time on their voice system. Horrible bait and switch tactics, and atrocious customer service.

The do not provide good info, they route you to other unknown sites that has bad reservations -- missing important information. I will go back to booking to my other site. They routed me to Prestigia which was not good.

Kayak routed me to one of their hotel partner companies, Algotels. I found a hotel that fit my travel needs. When I was booking my room, Algotels added a $29 "Taxes and fees" charge on my $99.00 booking rate. I phoned Algotels and questioned the fee. I was told by their customer service representative that the $29 was, in fact, for the taxes on the booking. This would make the local taxes on a hotel room to be at a rate of 29.3%.

Kayak routed me to Chatdeal which is a company that they own. While Kayak is good as a search engine, they are greedy because they are making their money by scamming users if you want to make any changes on a reservation. They booked me on Finnair. When I asked to make a change, I either had to pay $8000 more for a one-way business ticket or absorb a $500 cancelation fee. That’s when I found out major carriers were literally less than half the price of Finnair. I spoke to customer service at ChatDeal and they said, "You have to talk to Finnair." I tried to talk to Finnair and they said, "You have to talk to ChatDeal." So, got nowhere but had to absorb a $500 cancellation fee. It’s a scam and it seems like there is nothing I can do about it other than advise whoever reads this not to deal with ChatDeal. When you get the prices from Kayak, then just deal book the airline directly.

I was looking for a ticket for my wife from MSP to LGA. I choose her date of departure and return. They quoted me my fare, I went to the next page, it was something different. I cannot go further and I show a view a deal. Something like that. I clicked on it. The price was the same and my traveling dates were changed without my knowledge. If I didn't double check I may be stuck with that date. Don't go with them. Otherwise you will be stuck with a wrong travel date.

These guys no checks add hold no liability. Half the offers are just gathered scams found anywhere on the internet. Yeah they will boast best rate, until you show up and the cost doubles, just a scam search engine, nothing more.

Booked a flight searching Kayak that sent me to chatdeal.com. Went to the airport and the airlines said the flight information was incorrect on the booking and my reservation was listed as "restricted". I called chatdeal and they said they would fix it but did not do anything and I missed the check-in time for the flight. I asked them to put me on another flight and they said they would but blamed the airline for not responding to their request. I called numerous times to try and get on the flight but they kept delaying and blaming the airline.

Everyone deserves honesty and full transparency in all of their business transaction. Mislead to increase bookings ie. said we could walk to the car pickup in d/t Vanc. from the Vanc. airport but it is a four hour walk. As well mislead via the price we booked thinking the booking was in Cdn dollars as the site provides no currency, but we booked in Canada at a Canadian car rental location. But it was in US. Hence they know when people pick up they likely won't cancel as it costs more to book on the day of a booking better to book a few days in advance or weeks etc.. to get the best price. This puts people at risk ie. if they don't have enough money in their budget to pay for the car or a shuttle bus from the airport as they think they can walk to their lodging from whichever airport they landed in.

I thought that I had booked a flight to Tel Aviv via Kayak which took me to FARESCAN (scammer emailed and called me via FARESCAN) saying my coming flight was not accepted by airline and that I needed to pay a difference, thankfully I didn’t but I now don’t have a fight. Scammer was willing to stay 15-20 mins on the phone until I had my credit card. He thought he had me. He even sounded upset.

I booked a ticket through KAYAK on 16th September 2022. Booking confirmation received the same time and it shows there is a problem in my booking. I clicked the link and, it shows, my booking has cancelled. I was so nervous and the seeing a mail from GOTOGATE agency located in Abu Dhabi, saying will be refunding my money back within 5 working days. It doesn't shows any reason to cancelled my booking. Reviews for GOTOGATE are so weird, they are doing the same for lot of people. KAYAK is entertaining scammers. If you wanna use KAYAK, check reviews for the sub agencies. Otherwise you gonna be scammed by people who born from **.