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Priceline provides travel booking services. The site allows users to book flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. Utilizing a Name Your Own Price tool, Priceline offers discounted travel options and express deals, facilitating budget-friendly travel planning since 1997.

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  • User-friendly booking process
  • Affordable pricing options
  • Quick refund process
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  • Poor communication from support
  • Hidden fees and charges
  • Inconsistent pricing guarantees

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    Customer ServiceStaffRates

    Reviewed Sept. 23, 2022

    Priceline is partnered with Booking.com. To resolve an issue with Priceline, I was transferred between the two without an answer. After two transfers and each rep giving the responsibility to the other company, I called it a loss. If an urgent matter arises, I don't trust that it will be handled in a timely and professional matter. I won't use either one in the future. Lesson: 1. Pay attention to the ratings. 2. Don't bother with VIP. After the first customer service experience, you might not want to take a second trip with them.

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    PricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Sept. 23, 2022

    Tried to cancel my trip or reschedule at a later time. I was told I couldn't cancel, then was told if I canceled I would be charged a penalty for my trip going and coming. So in other words no refund.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Sept. 22, 2022

    The hotel that was suggested ended up being in a very well known area of drugs and prostitution. Upon arrival the hotel clerk was rude, the room was not clean, linen was not clean and other people staying were yelling and fighting in the hallway. I felt very unsafe and left to book a different hotel.

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    Refunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Sept. 22, 2022

    Rented a car and needed to cancel my reservation. Priceline would not allow me to cancel because it was an "Express Deal". Refused to refund me when I didn't need the car. They did not explicitly label that the express deal was non-refundable. Absolute garbage and shady form of handling business.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaffResolution

    Reviewed Sept. 22, 2022

    Awful experience. Priceline clearly does not value its customers' safety or basic needs. We booked a hotel in between flights after our trip to Europe, for a hotel in NJ right off the highway near the airport for easy access, as we landed late and took off early the next morning. Our taxi dropped us outside the hotel we booked through Priceline, but the hotel was basically abandoned. There were blacked out windows and No Trespassing signs everywhere. Turns out this hotel has been permanently closed for TWO MONTHS. It's a reflection on the poor quality of Priceline that we were even allowed to book it. So now we are stranded on the side of a highway in Newark NJ at 11 pm and I'm also 5 months pregnant.

    We see another hotel a little ways away so we walk with our luggage on the side of the highway to see if they have any vacancies, while I'm calling Priceline customer service. Our reservation needs to be obviously cancelled and refunded, but we also need to be reimbursed for the hotel room we were able to find last minute, as this whole situation is the fault of Priceline. Of course it's a call center that's outsourced overseas, and they are unable to do anything but cancel and refund with some of the worst attitude imaginable.

    The first rep we talked to told me his name was Lucas, and he shushed me and talked over me multiple times while I expressed the situation and what remedies needed to take place. He started raising his voice saying that they could only cancel and refund the original booking at this time, they couldn't relocate us because we found another hotel on our own.

    After he told me that relocating would take up to 24 hours! I told him that Priceline put us in an emergency situation, we literally were walking on the highway with our luggage at 11 pm, pregnant and tired after an international flight, and had to make quick decisions. He had no sympathy for the situation and ultimately we escalated to his manager. She was sympathetic but ultimately had no power to help her customers either, saying we had already chosen the option of a refund for the original booking and they couldn't refund another hotel. Even though we were forced to book another hotel because Priceline let us book a hotel that's been permanently closed for months. Awful company, awful experience, awful customer service.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 21, 2022

    We booked a Superior King room with courtyard view at the guest house at Graceland upon arrival to our room the room was filled with ants. We were downgraded to a king room with no view. Made several phone calls only to have different countries and the employees couldn't care refused to send my call back to the United States. Bottomline I was ripped off. They totally refused to give any kind of credit. This is my first and last time using Priceline.

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    Contract & TermsRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Sept. 20, 2022

    I just drove three hours for a hotel I paid for in advance for the front desk clerk to refuse to allow me to stay in the hotel because my address on my ID is local. Even though all my other forms of identification reflect my new address 3 hours away. Now Priceline is also refusing to refund my money even though the property stopped the agreement, not myself. I will be keeping y'all informed on what a lawyer says about this in the next few days. DO NOT USE PRICELINE IF YOU DON'T WANNA BE RIPPED OFF AND YOUR FUNDS KEPT.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPricePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 20, 2022

    Priceline agents double charged me for a flight change, then canceled my hotel reservation because I disputed the double charge. 4 months later I have not been reimbursed and Priceline customer service refuses to even discuss it. I will never use them again!!!

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    Customer ServicePriceRefunds & PayoutsStaffBillingRatesHonesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Sept. 20, 2022

    After I gave a credit card to pay the difference of a flight credit I was using d/t COVID, in the process of holding, I was told that while making the itinerary, the price had just increased another $100. I told them I was currently on the AA site, and this price hike was not indicated, they stated they used “different platforms” from the actual airline and price is subject to change at any time. I got disconnected during this call. When I called back, I got another agent who stated that my credit card had been already charged the difference of $384. When I told her I did not agree to the second price increase and did not even want to use the flight credit, much less take the trip, they refused to refund the money. They billed this to my credit card as “American Airlines” when in fact, it was Priceline who billed the additional funds. Of course, their “platform” is the same when billing the credit card. They are dishonest and conniving! You are better off just booking through the airline.

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    Customer ServiceContract & TermsPriceOnline & AppRefunds & PayoutsStaffTimeliness

    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2022

    Took a vacation to Texas. Booked an extended stay from September 12th to 15th for $214. I do not have a car so it was important to be near the airport so that I could Uber in my budget when going home. For me $214 is a lot for 3 days but it saved me from have to stress about ubering hotel to hotel costing me maybe more. Being in a place where you only have yourself to depend on if something goes wrong is scary. PRICELINE made sure I understood how that felt because them overbooking my hotel became way more than a "oops! Sorry for the small inconvenience. Here's $33 extra dollars you'll be refunded with the $214 we charged you...IN 4 DAYS!!!".

    The customer service guy who I could barely understand told I would be refunded the following day. I was in tears. How could I afford a room without my money for the 3 days I already paid for? I asked Priceline if they can find me another hotel close and get me my room there using the $214 I already paid them. I was told no and sorry for the inconvenience but lucky me I'll have $33 extra dollars towards a room when I receive my refund in 1 day. So I had to find another hotel close and hope it wasn't expensive. Priceline wouldn't even help me find one. I was told to go on their website AGAIN and book a room!!!! WTF!!!!

    So at this point I'm irritated but I thought just a few more bucks and then tomorrow I'll be okay when I get refunded. I found a hotel and paid for 1 night at $82. The uber cost about $30 so that was already over $100 extra this inconvenience cost me so far... The next day I haven't received my refund and I had to check out from the night before. I called customer service and gave them every confirmation number I had yet for some reason they couldn't find any trip I had booked or refund I was suppose to get. I called Priceline 3x in tears thinking I would have to sleep in the streets for a night. I got nowhere and someone helping me and kept being told "I'm sorry maam, is there another confirmation number we can use? I'm sorry ma'am there's no one else for us to transfer you to."

    Again I asked if they can pay for the room I was at until my refund went through. I was told no and directed to the Priceline website. I ended up having to call my dad because I was short the money to get another night. Of course for some reason the hotel ended up being more than the night before. $6 difference but that was huge in my situation. So now at this point I have $0 and will need 1 more night the following day and still no refund. I call Priceline again because now my vacation has turned into me sleeping all day after crying and I'm hungry and stressed beyond belief. Still can't find my information and just keep asking me for the same number but this time I'm being told to email them with my info and eventually they'll get back to me.

    The first call that second day they hung up on me and another call they just sent me back to the menu options after putting me on hold. The 3rd day I already knew my luck was crap so I called my dad again and this time he paid for the room in full plus money for the uber I'll need the following day to the airport. Guess what happened the last night of my 3 day stay! I received only the $33 for the inconvenience from 2 days prior. I wasn't refunded until I got home and that was because I contacted my bank after day 2 of nothing. All I was able to do for my 3 day vacation was cry, stress, be hungry and sleep until I was able to go home. My dad wasn't happy with for borrowing money and It cost me over $600 for my trip but because of Priceline's little "inconvenience".

    The plane tickets, the ubers and the hotel rooms I paid for were pointless and wasted. I still can't find a number to call that doesn't send me to their overseas customer service center. Which is a joke when you need help. They literally just repeat saying they're sorry, asking the same question as if the last time they asked I just said it wrong. You ask for a supervisor or how to talk to someone else and they will tell you "I'm sorry" and go silent as if that should be the end to my issues or put you on hold redirecting to someone else you will have to explain it to all over again. I'm super pissed off at Priceline and I feel helpless and ripped off.

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    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2022

    Booked a 2 Queen Room. When I arrived it was a contactless check in, they had my key and info taped to the front office door with my name on it. NO ONE WAS WORKING AT THE MOTEL. Once I got to my room it only had 1 queen bed. I contacted the phone # listed on the paper work for the motel and left a message. I also texted that same #. Never had a response from them. I reached out to PRICELINE as that is who I booked my stay through. After being on the phone with them for over an hour while they tried to reach the motel management unsuccessfully. They told me I would get a refund but that I needed to send an email with a picture of the room and picture of the front office showing that no one was there. I did all that was asked and never received a refund.

    I reached out again to PRICELINE and they asked me to send another email with the same info and pictures to a different email address. I did and still have not received a refund. I called and they said they needed to send it to?!?! Stop jerking me around and give me the refund! BREACH OF CONTRACT. The Motel is ADOBE SANDS In Panguitch Utah. NEVER STAY THERE!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 19, 2022

    Terrible company, booked a car through them. Pickup said Vancouver airport. It was incorrect. It was at a mall, they provided zero information about a shuttle that was required. When tried speak to customer service they just said, "We can’t help you," & ended the conversation. The online help chat wouldn’t provide me a customer service email. They said they didn’t have one.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 18, 2022

    I booked my wife and I a trip which included round trip flights and a car. We had no issues with the first flight to our destination. It was the flight home that Priceline nearly screwed us. The night before our flight home, I went to check in to Alaska Airlines via the link Priceline provided and as I tried, I was given the error that I need to check in to American Airlines, Alaska's sister company. I tried doing that multiple times and was consistently given the error that our reservation didn't exist. I called Priceline that evening and spoke to someone who barely spoke English, so the language barrier made it very difficult to convey the issue.

    She finally understood our issue and confirmed that, in fact, there was an issue. She said she didn't have the capability to help and would transfer us to someone who could. We were then sent to a second person who barely spoke English and who was super rude and short with me. I first asked her to hold on the line as I tried to check in and she told me she would as long as I was quick, as she was in a rush. Great customer Service. She also confirmed that we were unable to check in and told us to 'not worry, just go 3-4 hours early in the morning and check in at the airport.' She also couldn't even give us a flight number so I had no way to even check if our flight existed or was on time. Our flight was at 7:45am and I told her that this was completely unacceptable and that I was not getting up at 3am in the hopes that I would have a flight.

    She finally asked if I wanted to be transferred to Alaska Air and I said yes. Within two minutes, I was speaking to someone that spoke English enough to understand our situation, informed me that they don't have any way to look up our flight with Priceline's info but was able to find it by looking up my name. This whole thing took over an hour just to confirm we were actually on a flight. I've used nearly every travel site and will never use Priceline again. Be aware. Absolutely horrible customer service and you may not even be able to check in to your flight.

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    Billing

    Reviewed Sept. 17, 2022

    Trip to Orlando Florida. Get to car rental and they wanted a major credit card for deposit. I travel with $1000 prepaid cards. They would not except them, or debit. Before the trip. They assured me all was good to go. We were not able to get the car form them. But they were nice enough to redirect us to someone else. Paid $166 more but we had a car. The car rental issue made our whole vacation go bad. So bad.

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    Customer ServiceTimeliness

    Reviewed Sept. 16, 2022

    Booked 5 international tickets and I cancelled the 5 due to health reasons. Received a email from Priceline that we will receive flight credit and did not receive any flight credit till date. Did multiple calls to them with no response.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 16, 2022

    On 9/15/2022, I attempted to cancel my booking (Trip# 1**, Confirmation #**, #**) via their "Chat with Priceline" option. I began the conversation at 8:46PM, requested to cancel my booking, provided my trip number, confirmed my phone number, my trip number was verified and I was given the message I would be transferred to a hotel agent. At 8:54pm, I received another message asking to please be patient while connecting to an agent, and a final message stating, "Our wait times are running longer than normal, so this may take a few minutes. In the meantime, if you are looking to cancel your Trip, make changes, or place a special request you can find these options under My Trips section. We will be with you ask quickly as possible."

    At 8:58pm, I received a message saying, "Hello! My name is Mary. I am reviewing the information you have sent. I may be needing additional information in order for us to proceed. One moment, please." That was the last message I received on 9/15/2022 and was never assisted any further. I opened the chat again in the morning, 9/16/2022, and noticed nothing had been sent and my booking had not been cancelled. So I began the chat all over, was transferred to a hotel agent name Tanisha, I explained our plans were cancelled due to a babysitter cancelling, etc. She said, "I understand you wish to cancel. I see there was a free cancellation until Sept 15 at 11:59PM and the room can no longer be cancelled." I explained I was waiting and speaking with a hotel agent the night prior and she said she didn't see an interaction with me the previous day.

    I sent her the screenshots of the conversation (see attached) and she stated "there is no record of interaction with an actual agent and not just with a bot. It is passed the time to cancel. The room is truly non-refundable. Thank you for your time." With that, she ended the conversation... this is unacceptable! I called the customer service number shortly after and was given the same information. I am outraged that I attempted to cancel within the free cancelation window, was not assisted, tried to follow up and explain my experience and was not even given the option of credit! Nothing was resolved and I am out $150 for a hotel room I won't even see. Absolute nonsense. I will never book with Priceline again.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceOnline & AppRatesFollow-Through

    Reviewed Sept. 14, 2022

    Hello I would never recommend this flight. I went on their website and it said and I quote, "241$ per person flight from Vancouver to Cancun total price 961. 72 American which is 1265.76." When I called in first lady said 700$ a ticket per person I called again 600$ a ticket called again 450 a ticket... When I told them about what their website said they told me not to rely on the website... Why have a website if you're not going to follow through with the price on website. Then I asked them to book it over the phone. I gave the lady the reference number and she said she was not trained to book flights so she transferred me to someone else and she said same thing. Scam scam scam.

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    Contract & TermsPriceRates

    Reviewed Sept. 13, 2022

    I used to use Priceline all the time before COVID-19.. The Southern California area was very competitive and prices, taxes, and fees were reasonable providing you looked carefully.. After the pandemic, the entire site has become a joke.. not to mention that because I did not book a room for an extended period of time, I suddenly lost my Platinum benefits as a member despite having spent probably more than $20,000 over the course of a couple of years on Priceline..

    Additionally, the 'taxes and fees' added to a hotel room now are absolutely ridiculous.. Only a sap would use Priceline... To put it mildly, a $49 hotel room will cost you almost 80 bucks after taxes and fees for one night.. $160 for two.. higher priced rooms' extra fees are worse.. Rental cars are also overpriced.. The only part of Priceline that I might consider using would be to book an airline ticket occasionally... But that comes out to about 10% of what I used to use it for... Sadly, you have to look elsewhere and you have to work harder than Priceline.

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    Sales & MarketingPriceRatesTimeliness

    Reviewed Sept. 13, 2022

    They are the worst company! My husband and I prepaid for a trip with hotel, flight, and car rental. The hotel was horrible it stunk soo bad in the whole hotel! It had black mold all over in the bathroom. I have pictures because I couldn't believe this was acceptable, it looked liked it hadn't been cleaned in a long time. We wore flip flops in the shower because we were Afraid to catch something. I asthma so it is a big deal to us but we had no other option since we prepaid for this trip so we were stuck there till we able to come back home and there was spilled whatever it was by the bed, no extra pillows.

    1st breakfast that was only two juices, two cereals and some Hostess coffee cake which were gone by the time my husband got there then the next day they only had cereal and some reduced price milk that was sitting out, and the last day they said due to emergency there is no breakfast and the housekeeping was demanding tips from us. There was fights and prostitution going on around the hotel and I tried to talk to Priceline about the hotel and all they could offer me was a 20% coupon compensation that expires on December 12th!

    My husband and I don't have any immediate plans to take a trip at the moment so that coupon doesn't even apply to us and they wouldn't do anything else for us. I will never book through them again, they will just take your money and keep it!! It saddened me that they can do that with our hard earned money, I will let everyone know not to book with them unless they want to just lose money and get crap in return!!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaffRates

    Reviewed Sept. 13, 2022

    I contacted Priceline and set up a trip for Miami, Florida in October this year. I asked for a ocean view. When I contacted the hotel, they informed me I was given a city view and there was nothing I can do about it. However, they said they can cancel and rebook the room for $150 more a night. However, the hotel told me there was no difference in the room rates, However they couldn't help me because I booked by the 3rd party (Priceline). It is pretty upsetting because now I am stuck with their mistake; unless I want to pay over an extra $800 for the 5 days. Lastly, most of the reps I spoke with barely spoke English and this could have been the communication era with them. Priceline told me they can put in a request, however I probably won't get the room I want. So, I am stuck and frustrated. I am not sure if I will use Priceline again.

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    Sales & MarketingPunctuality & SpeedOnline & App

    Reviewed Sept. 12, 2022

    I contacted Priceline to change my auto rental pickup time because I was running late. First I went through robot chat hell. Then I got a real person and had to answer all the same questions. After taking me through several questions and verifications I was told “no we can’t do that." Why all the run around! Plus, all I wanted to do was change the pick up time by a couple hours!!! I was told to use the app which is how I got here in the first place!! I finally found in 1point font on the app how to “modify” a reservation, but all it would allow me to do is rebook the entire thing!! And guess what? They have NO cars to rent! They didn’t even know what my request was!! OMG absolute inhuman HELL. DO NOT USE PRICELINE FOR ANYTHING.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed Sept. 12, 2022

    I've been doing business with Priceline for a while. I've booked flights and hotels through them with minimal issues. This was first time I had to go through them to get a refund. On the weekend of my anniversary, the air conditioning went out in our room. It was literally 100 degrees with humidity in Savannah, GA. Of course we complained, and the manager offered us a 50% refund on one night. Cool. A few weeks later, I receive a call from the manager stating that the refund has to be initiated through Priceline. No problem. I used Priceline's text service, and all was going well...Until I had to go back to work. I was unable to respond to the message that the refund had been approved and that I needed to give my approval to cancel the reservation. I didn't respond in time and it was cancelled. So, I called...Why the hell did I do that?

    The agent could barely speak English, and could barely understand what I was saying. When I explained that I had already spoken with someone and for her to check the notes, there were no notes. She instead went through the same process all over again - calling the manager, which I'm sure she was thinking I've already spoken with someone. Then I was told someone would call me back in 20 minutes, for which I still don't understand why. And as you guessed, no refund. Priceline - I'm sure you make enough money to hire better employees than this and I'm sure you can afford a system that notes the accounts so people don't have to be put through the ringer to get what they rightfully deserve. This tarnishes your reputation with me, and if I have to go through this to get a refund, I will think better of going through your site in the future.

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    Reviewed Sept. 12, 2022

    I had made a flight arrangement through Price for July 1st. Then I called a Priceline agent to reschedule my flight a week later to July 8th. Was sent an itinerary with new flight. Got to the airport and there were no tickets available and was on the phone 4 hours and ended up not going on my flight as the agent said that it was their mistake and that I would be getting a full refund of $4000.00 (3400 for first tickets and 700 for rescheduling). Every time I call for my refund, I keep getting told that it has been escalated and under review. It's been 2 months and 9 phone calls and I still can't get my money back. It is very frustrating and I always thought Priceline was awesome until this experience. I would never do business with Priceline again as now I'm in a position where I have to pay off my credit card while they hold onto my money. Agents are also rude and don't let speak and are no help to the situation.

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    PriceRefunds & PayoutsStaffBilling

    Reviewed Sept. 12, 2022

    My boyfriend paid for a hotel stay at the W for my friends and I. We paid online with PRICELINE for a one day stay and went to the hotel to pay the deposit which is $500. Upon arrival to the hotel with my boyfriend we were told my boyfriend can’t pay for the room/deposit if he is not staying in the room. We informed them we have already been charged for the room online. They said they can’t take his down payment. None of us had a credit card so we had to cancel the room. PRICELINE did not give us a refund and kept our $400 for a one night stay. No refund was issued even when we tried speaking to the manager at PRICELINE. We were told by PRICELINE that whatever the manager at the hotel decides that by their policy they stand behind the manager's decision. NEVER using PRICELINE again. They are travel agent scammers stealing your money.

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    Reviewed Sept. 12, 2022

    I recently purchased airline tickets as well as a car rental through Priceline. I had to cancel the car rental due to severe health issues. I had not realized that money had been taken out of my bank account without my authorization. I called the car rental company, Thrifty, and was told I needed to contact Priceline. I was treated more than poorly and was not given any options nor a refund. Priceline stole $330.26 from me and I am aghast. I am waiting for my bank to review this transaction. In the meantime, anyone reading this, please heed my advice and do not use this fraudulent company.

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    Sales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed Sept. 11, 2022

    Booking through Priceline was a scam. I thought I booked on the hotel's website and turns out it was priceline. They make it look very similar to trick you into booking with them. Charged me 80$ more than hotel site and didn’t not see those extra charges until after you hit book. Then, to top it off - the room is non refundable. What a joke! Lost 80$ and would have lost 240$ if I couldn’t make it when booking on the hotel website was 180$ total and you can cancel. Don’t fall for these scams.

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    Sales & MarketingPriceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Sept. 10, 2022

    This was a Hilton, yes a Hilton Hotel:… There was mishap after mishap after mishap that not only made me never want to book this hotel again but ever use Priceline again. From cockroaches being in my hotel room, to the daily parking charge not being disclosed, to not having a shower curtain, then being offered a 15% future coupon as an apology/compensation… It was laughable. The WORST experience deserves a refund. You are a 3rd party company collecting money from the consumer regardless of an unacceptable experience… I will never use Priceline again. If you can offer 15%, you can offer 100%. Cockroaches are a different level of unsanitary disgust.

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    Reviewed Sept. 10, 2022

    I was forced to sleep in my car because Priceline never sent my payment. Customer service was no help as they continuously made mistakes. I slept in my car and they won't refund my money. I thought they were a reputable company, they're not.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed Sept. 9, 2022

    So I booked a flight for my brother in law. Paid for it myself. He couldn't make the trip. Couldn't credit back to my account. Kept me on the phone for giving me the run around. Make sure if you pay for someone they can go or you are out of luck. The airline informed me that Priceline did send in a request for my refund. Yet I'm out of luck and no money returned or credited for my usage again.

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    Reviewed Sept. 8, 2022

    I book a flight with Priceline (United Airline) and knowing very well that my daughter passport could not transit in the EU twice they still book the flight and at the airport in a foreign country I was rejected and could flight because we could not have two transit in the EU that is Geneva and Brussel. When I call Priceline they told me that it was an error make by United airline and directed me to United airline and when I got to United they said I should contacted Priceline all this while I am at the airport in a foreign country. The error was from Priceline because they are the booking agent and were they on head our passport information from the time of booking. After spending two unplanned days in the country I finally pay a different flight costing both of us $4800.00 until Priceline does not want to refund my money nor the insurance that I paid. Priceline is the worst booking agent. Try it at your own risks.

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    PricePunctuality & SpeedRatesValue

    Reviewed Sept. 7, 2022

    I book "fully refundable" fares with United Packages (i.e. Priceline) for a vacation package. A week prior to the trip, the weather in the destination city was bad, which prompted me to cancel my travel plans. To my surprise, my "fully refundable" fares required an exorbitant $250 cancellation fee (more than 50% of the price of the tickets). If I booked directly on the airline website, I would've had much more favourable fare rules. Never book with United Packages. The potential savings are not worth it.

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    Reviewed Sept. 7, 2022

    09/03/2022. Booked a Super 8 in Rockford IL through Priceline. The hotel looked sketchy upon arrival but it was a long drive and we were exhausted. The room was said to be non-smoking but reeked of cigarettes so bad my daughter became ill on the few minutes we were in the room. There were cigarette burns on the bedspreads, carpet and all over the tub and bathroom floor. There were no towels or wash rags to be found and the chamber maid said they were all in the wash (this was at 5pm). The bathroom door had been kicked in and wouldn’t latch shut let alone lock and the wooden door trim was coming off the inside.

    We immediately went to the front desk and asked for a refund and she said I had to get it from Priceline. After about 20min of Priceline’s automated customer service telling me none of my information could be found and unable to get to a human we tried to find another hotel to stay and everywhere we called was booked for the holiday weekend so we had to drive 40min to a hotel suggested by a family member. The next week I was able to find a number online that got me a human at Priceline and told them everything, they said all they could do is give me 15% off my next booking.

    After several minutes of convincing the person to get me a supervisor he said he would have to get in touch with the hotel manager and it would be up to him to decide on giving Priceline their refund then they would refund me only if the hotel refunded them first otherwise I was out of luck. So it was basically a cat and mouse game between the two of them. Never again!

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    Reviewed Sept. 6, 2022

    The cancellation policy makes no sense. It doesn't align with the hotel's cancellation policy. I made a reservation at Best Western who is able to cancel it 24 hours prior, but Priceline refuses to do so. If I had known that priceline operates this way, I would've never used it. What's the point? I will never use priceline again. I gave them 2 stars because I figure if I used 1 star, people would think that I'm a bot. But I'm not, I'm a very upset human customer.

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    Reviewed Sept. 6, 2022

    I started a live chat with Jocelyn at 9:47 a.m., then it went to Mark and then Will. All three of them asked me for my name, email, phone number and trip number several times. I was furious by the time I got 2 out of 3 documents, which took 2 hours. Just now ended at 12:06 p.m. I don’t know if they are robot or real people, either or, they are very incompetent. What a NIGHTMARE!!!

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    Reviewed Sept. 6, 2022

    I reserved a car at Ace car rental at DFW Airport through Priceline. They said that the complete auto policy provided them directly from my carrier was not good enough! I could not rent the car. Left at airport with no car. They would not cancel since I went through Priceline. Priceline still charges me $52.

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    Reviewed Sept. 5, 2022

    Worst ever possible experience with Priceline, I don't know why federal government allows this company to run in the US which cheats customers at all the moments. Let me cut-short on my explanation, I booked Courtyard Mariott from Priceline, and it was mentioned clearly in the detail this way "- Free Breakfast" in the list of offerings, but in the morning, I came down for breakfast, and the person in reception mentioned that my reservation doesn't include free breakfast. I called the Priceline customer service, they said it's not included in my itinerary and contract.

    Is the "before reservation details" and "after reservation itinerary" supposed to be different? I called customer service, talked to the person called "supervisor", probably doesn't even have enough training to professionalism while dealing with dissatisfied customers, said that whatever I said is wrong, and whatever he is said is correct and I won't get free breakfast whatever was included in the description before booking, he mentioned "you may never book from priceline anymore, but can't do anything about it!". Is this the way would someone be treated from customer service when they want to claim what they deserve to get? Wasting my time to write is worthless, this is the summary of my 1 hour of argument with Priceline. This company cheats, don't reserve Flight/Hotel ever people please, go to company website directly, and reserve there, you will be treated better when there is any issues.

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    Reviewed Sept. 5, 2022

    It is/was the most worst experience that I have ever gone through. I will not be booking anything with Priceline going forward. I wish I wouldn't have booked with them this time but I've learned a good hard lesson.

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    Reviewed Sept. 5, 2022

    I booked a hotel in Carmel, Indiana through Priceline for a stay commencing on 8/25/22. On the day of my check in I developed symptoms and tested positive for COVID. I immediately notified Priceline Customer Service and the hotel that I am unable and unsafe to travel. Priceline refused to honor my request for a refund dodging the responsibility to the hotel. When I contacted the hotel they did the same sending me back to Priceline. I have used Priceline for a while and earned what they call "GOLD VIP" status. Needless to say their customer service is completely inept, lacks common courtesy and compassion. I urge everyone not to use Priceline ever as I intend to do.

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    Reviewed Sept. 5, 2022

    I found a lower rate on a different website and wanted to get a price match within the 24 hours. I called Priceline the same day booked and was on hold 40 minutes with no outcome. I then moved to text service to communicate with four different customer service agents. All of them said they would help me and never came back after a while. The following day, I escalated the case and asked for a supervisor. The deal was still lower on another site, I took a screenshots. All of the agents give the same robotic cookie-cutter response. I can’t find it on the other website despite Agoda.com being a partner of the company. After spending at least four hours to try to get them to honor their own guarantee, I was able to reach a supervisor just after the 24 hours that passed. I knew this was coming, the supervisor said the 24 hours have been over and therefore the guarantee not eligible.

    Yes he said he did find the deal as the 24 hours were passed, but no longer could honor. So basically they had me on hold, ignored my texts and did everything they could to avoid actually helping me within the first 24 so they could very easily say my screenshots were no longer valid. All of them said the same thing so it makes me realize that that’s how they are trained to operate. I am extremely disappointed with the lack of customer service and this is definitely not a reputable company. Even when I asked for their email, it’s not a simple email, it’s letters and one agent gave me the wrong email address five times. Customer service is dead at Priceline and they are not honoring what they’ve committed to.

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    Reviewed Sept. 4, 2022

    I had canceled my flight to Las Vegas July 29 for my brother‘s bachelor party and allowed my brother to continue the flight without me and return. I was given a credit for my departure but not return flight. I was trying to fly back from El Salvador to Houston on September 20 for the price of $256.70. The total amount credited was 183.60. The obvious difference is 73.10. They charged me 101.35. I plead with Mickey, the supervisor, after I spoke with an agent to allow me to speak to a supervisor to comp that amount as I had already lost over $200 on the return flight that I was unable to get refunded from that flight. He said that I had reached the highest point of supervisor level and that there was nothing he could do. This is ridiculous. I don't want any for free but to be fair as it should be. Unprofessional customer service at its best. He would not disclose his last name due to safety is what he told me but he is from the Philippines, Manila! Good people trained poorly.

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    Reviewed Sept. 4, 2022

    I went to check into my hotel that was booked through Priceline and was told me credit card was declined. I wasn’t allowed to use my reservation booked through Priceline. I had to drive home and found out that I was still charged on my card for the hotel stay. The charge went through, but yet I was denied my stay. I contacted Priceline and they passed the buck to their sister company Booking.com who said I tried to check in an hour early so I was denied my hotel stay. This all is fraudulent.

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    Reviewed Sept. 3, 2022

    My fiance and I were driving back to California from Tennessee, and when I got tired I wanted to book a hotel in Arizona. I searched hotels and click on one in Scottsdale Arizona, so I booked it but when I arrived it was booked for Moreno Valley California. I tried to call the hotel and they didn't answer multiple calls, so I called Priceline and told them that there was a mistake in the booking and that the hotel wasn't answering. So they tried to call and had no luck either. So they told me they would get back to me with an answer.

    My fiance and I decided to just pay the hotel in Arizona directly due to the booking error, I told Priceline I never searched in Moreno Valley and I couldn't understand how that happened. But unfortunately they told me they couldn't issue the refund for the mistake. I couldn't understand how that would happen when I never searched in that area to begin with and that my recent searches never showed it either, but at the end I was out 137 dollars. Priceline does not have your back as a customer and is only into making a profit for the hotels to rip us off.

    I used Priceline when we went to Cabo San Lucas and I had an issue there as well with the car rental that wanted me to pay an additional $5000 for a deposit for the rental even though I had already paid for it before we arrived. I will never use Priceline again, they have lost us as a customer, including all my family and friends.

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    Reviewed Sept. 3, 2022

    Stopped around to rent a small car for day, proceed to contact area source, received quote, include extra full cover insurance ($11.00 day) bumper to bumper. Then decided to go online selecting Priceline same car same place, saving $10.00 big MISTAKE. Proceed to book it, where it asks if you want extra insurance coverage (no price indicated) another big mistake ASSUMING cost was the same as the rental company previous quote, I selected yes. Only upon the transaction was completed and paid for, that I noticed the insurance cost $39.00 while car rental was $36.00. Immediately proceed to contact Priceline to cancel this absolutely unjustified charge.

    WELL this is where the disgusting situation started, all the running around, putting me on hold numerous times only to be told had to contact the insurance company (Allianz Global Assistance) directly, Another scam, UNABLE to get through their disgusting call centre, on hold for hours, no response. Trying Priceline virtual help, another big joke. Saying all that I’m stuck paying these scammers.

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    Reviewed Sept. 3, 2022

    Booked through Priceline. Checked into Roadside Choice Inn. Lobby clean people lingering about room, no ac, dead bugs, hairs, stained linen, live roaches, foul odor in room, halls to rooms dark, hot, smelled. Run.

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    Reviewed Sept. 1, 2022

    Had flight cancelled. Had to cancel hotel reservation and I was charged 250.00 penalty that Priceline claimed was the Hotel charge. Hotel did not charge the penalty and Priceline kept the money. They are profiting from customers' cancelled flights.

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    Reviewed Aug. 31, 2022

    They advertised in C$ but your final bill will be in U$, so you will be paying more than what they advertised even though it's very clear in their advertisement the currency price. This is deceptive. Never again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 30, 2022

    Booked thru Priceline with horrid experience. Sent to a hotel under total remodel and NO WIFI. Trash on the sidewalks and what's even worse is I could have saved $50 by booking direct on their website. They had only 1 elevator and was 3 feet square and could hold only 1 passenger. Don't waste your time.

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    Reviewed Aug. 30, 2022

    Priceline is the most disreputable company I have ever encountered! I have a credit from a trip that was canceled but they will not let me use it online and the price that they are quoting me for the exact same ticket, which I have to purchase over the phone in order to use the credit, is more than double what the online price is. Essentially they are telling me to just throw away the credit that I have and book online. Never again!

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    Reviewed Aug. 29, 2022

    Booked a cruise on Royal Caribbean Cruise line through Priceline for an Alaska Cruise. I specifically asked about the need for Passports, and she assured me we wouldn't need them because the cruise left from and returned to Seattle. We booked it and got the itinerary and that is when the problems started.... it ended in Vancouver Canada.

    I called her back and she said it was an honest mistake and said she'd work to fix it. Wanted to book us flights from Canada to home but the cost would add $1000 to our expense (we could get round trip tickets for $200 each from home to Seattle and we'd have to stay the night in Vancouver). Then she said she'd find us a cruise that started and ended in Seattle like we'd requested in the first place. After all was said and done, the different was $800 (more), and because she took so long, and the original booking was so close to the deadline for full refund, we were stuck.

    That extra was, according to the agent, even after Priceline supposedly waived their change fee. We then realized we weren't booked with a transfer from the airport to the cruise port and back. No help there since we didn't book directly with the cruise line for our airline tickets. We have always booked directly with the cruise lines in the past (this is our first Royal Caribbean Cruise and I'll review that after the cruise) and we've always had great experiences working with them, even when problems arose. I will not book with Priceline again. It seemed to me that the way things transpired it was almost like they did what they did in order to get more money out of us. In addition, adding a Third Party to anything like this makes it far more difficult to resolve issues than going direct with the Cruise Line so that's what I'll be doing from here on out.

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    Reviewed Aug. 29, 2022

    Hotel refused to accommodate my disabled Fiance. We requested a refund. Priceline called and requested. Denied. We asked for room key since they wouldn’t refund. Denied service. Priceline called and hotel lied. Priceline did not care and said they could not get a refund despite being refused check in. Absolutely absurd and when I say Priceline did not care one bit I mean they did not care at all. Will NEVER book through Priceline again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 28, 2022

    Priceline is not willing to help or work with existing clients. They will not let you cancel or change your reservation let alone refund your money. Our trip had to be moved up due to family and we were unable to move our reservation therefore lost our rental and our money. Book with someone else! Don't lose your money.

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    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2022

    So I am a host on Booking.com, and have my listings online, at a very good rate. But Priceline steals my listing from that website and puts online for lower than what I have listed. When customers come to my property they show me that they booked the room for $100 total or less, where my room is $150 plus tax in Canada. If Priceline wishes to steal my property and advertise then put the right price.

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    Reviewed Aug. 26, 2022

    Beware of this company - they are spammers and don't refund. I had my booking for Four Seasons Hotel Sydney on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - Friday, July 01, 2022. Booking was make on 23rd June and I cancelled it 2 days later. -NO REFUND even after 3 months of chasing up. They keep saying it's been refunded. Priceline deducted and charged full amount on my account. It's been 3 months now and they still haven't refunded the amount of $655. They have no contact number/email and they don't respond at all. Still an open issue and they don't care despite my reaching out through Facebook.

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    Reviewed Aug. 26, 2022

    ** forget about Priceline scam 100% especially on car rental. I wouldn't and never will do any business with them and don't recommend to anybody to do any business with priceline. No money back 100% if you get something with them and pay for it forget it. That's a free money you give them. We need some petition on this and need to take them accountable for fraud. Please help if you can.

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    Reviewed Aug. 26, 2022

    They are the worst company ever. We missed our flight because of a accident. And they would not rebook us even though we were on the line with their company over 8 hours trying to get any help. They are a unhelpful, greedy company and they have zero concern for the customer. We paid extra money to get on the flight the next day and they told us that we have tickets but we have to wait on airline approval. We waited till the last second of this second flight, and never received a call from them once. If you are booking any flights with Priceline don’t do it. Save the extra money and go through the airline. Absolutely the worst experience of our life. They dragged us through the mud.

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    Reviewed Aug. 26, 2022

    I rented a FOX rental through Priceline and paid $320.25 in full when booking. FOX provided a substandard car which is what they had available. After returning the car, FOX provided the contract and invoice showing the actual cost of the rental to be $269.64. I took this to Priceline and they said that it was FOX's mistake to show me the price Priceline had negotiated with them and refused to listen to the fact that the car I got was not the one I booked, and refused to refund the overcharged amount.

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    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2022

    My husband booked what he thought was a park, stay, and fly reservation through a third party agency on the phone that apparently used Priceline. We were required to pay the full cost of the reservation at the time of the booking under the impression that the hotel stay and the extended parking fees were covered. When we arrived at the hotel, we were told the hotel no longer offered extended parking for guests except for a $25 charge per day.

    Needless to say, we chose not to stay at the hotel and asked if we could have a refund due to the fact that the reservation was not what we were told it would be. From that point on we became part of a ping pong match between the hotel and Priceline to determine if we would get a refund. Priceline agents keep referring us to the hotel to get approval for a refund and the hotel keeps referring us back to Priceline. We have reached out to the hotel's corporate office and are waiting for a response. Priceline has not offered any exception to their cancelation policy given the circumstances.

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    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2022

    Once you reserve, you’re on your own. You can’t even review your trip, or the hotel you stayed at unless they select you to send a link to. There is no customer service, just chatbots, or agents trained only to make reservations.

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    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2022

    HORRIBLE COMPANY… DO NOT USE THEM TO RENT A CAR EVER… I booked a reservation through Priceline and paid for my booking on the site. My pickup time was for 9:30am on 8/19/2022. My husband and I were supposed to be traveling to Louisiana for a family member's funeral. We got to Sixt rental and was told we should’ve never pre-booked/paid because they require you to use a credit card. However on Priceline it does not have that in fine print stating that is a requirement it gives you the option to pay in debit/credit, Apple Pay, PayPal, etc.

    The company didn’t allow us to get the car because of this. The lady who helped us said she would cancel our reservation and we should receive a refund within 10-15 days. I never received any confirmation stating the reservation was canceled so I called the company’s number to be told my reservation was not canceled and I had to contact Priceline for that and for a refund. I contacted Priceline and they told me no refund would be given even though I didn’t get to leave off the lot with the vehicle I pre booked because Sixt didn’t allow us to. So I’m out of $200+ when I never got the service/ product nor did I make it to my grandmother's funeral.

    This company is the absolute worst and I will never recommend them to anyone. This company deserves to be put out of business… a total scam. They make money by scamming people to pay them to book reservations but Priceline fails to have what the car company requires to get the vehicle listed on their booking site then have the nerve to say no refunds knowing it’s not right that people pay their hard earned working money for them to just take it.

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    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2022

    After booking a package through Priceline we find out that the hotel is a dive and I mean a dive. My boyfriend is a disabled veteran 100% and we find out that the place has a bad stench and bugs, try to cancel reservations through Priceline and they will not cancel and refund our money. I will never ever use Priceline again to book anything. I can't believe they even have this hotel as an option on PKG. deals. Went on other hotel apps and most do even list this particular hotel.

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    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2022

    They're good for booking but once you need a refund or credit they owe you, they don’t want to talk anymore. They keep hanging up on you and the prices for vip is actually the same prices for everybody. It is a scam if you ask me. Been using this for about 3 years now and the prices is the same. I’m going to get a lawyer. They are a scam like I said, good for booking but no good customer service. No one speaks good English and they act like they don’t understand you.

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    Reviewed Aug. 22, 2022

    So, I bought a ticket to Missoula MT. My buddy had to change job sites fast. I had purchased travel insurance. Mind you I purchased the travel insurance, Never received a policy. Not one email confirming my flight from Priceline or from Allianz the insurance provider. I called to cancel the flight. No can do. This was a super scam. $31.00 for the insurance plus tickets. I tried to cancel two weeks in advance mind you. Never will I ever use either of the companies again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2022

    Today I went on Priceline to re-book the room I booked through them from the night before. I didn't want to change hotels because I was comfortable in bed. I'm in the process of booking and it decline three times. The fourth time I hit pay it went through and my confirmation came through and it was a completely different hotel. I immediately called priceline only for them to show no concern. I asked if I could speak to higher management, which never happened. I was forced to take another hotel that they tried to tell me it was 3 stars, but I don't think it was 1 stars.

    The priceline representative continue to blame me for booking the room, when it must have been a glitch in their system. The hotel I was booking price was over one hundred dollars only to receive a hotel that priced at seventy nine dollars. I've never been more humiliated in my life. I end up at a pet friendly hotel, when I'm not pet friendly. The floors of the room was dirty, table was dirty, and the spray they sprayed to freshen the are was super strong. People stood outside smoking the funny stuff, that's all you smell when you walking out. The noise was an extra masterpiece they through in. I was taken from the Ritz and put in Motel 6 (at least that's how it felt) for the same cost. I will never book a room with Priceline ever in life! They truly have lost a good customer!

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    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2022

    I rented a car for Scotland on Priceline and they made it with Rentalcar.com. I paid for the car in full 10 Months ahead of time. One week before we were ready to depart for Scotland, I was told by Rentalcars.com that my car was not available. If that is not bad enough, I have not received a refund, over two Months after this. I have contacted Rentalcars and Priceline well over a dozen times and they keep asking for the same information that I have provided at least a dozen times. This amounts to outright fraud! If you want to pay for a car that you never receive and like to receive the worst customer service in the Industry, then rent with Priceline/Rentalcars.com.

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    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2022

    Not cool to allow your customers (Priceline) to scheme!!! Almost 2 weeks of me dealing with this nightmare... Stay away from booking anything with Priceline or Booking.com. I'm still shocked and VERY disappointed with how Priceline/Booking.com gave me the runaround about a refund. I booked a room through Priceline at RIO Las Vegas, and the room was a make-believe room falsely advertised on the RIO All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas website. This hotel is promoted by Priceline and Booking.com.

    False Advertisement!!! On Friday, Aug 5, 2022, my husband and I arrived at the RIO All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. It took us a while to go through self-checkout. After receiving our keys for RM 7016, in the Masquerade towers. When we entered the room, I instantly was shocked by what we were seeing… the room looked nothing like the pictures on the website. The room furniture was outdated, the carpet was dirty, and there were several stains on the sofa. A slap in my face, and mind-blowing to see I had been taken advantage of, especially with me flying in for business and to be RIPPED OFF!

    I had to rush back out to catch my ride for the Lionel Richie concert. After returning from the concert, we experienced 10 mins of an emergency recording with loud horns stating it was part of the emergency signal. The next morning, Saturday, Aug 6, we checked out around 6 am. I shared with the clerk how disappointed and mislead I felt about the room looking nothing like the rooms on the RIO website. The clerk agreed and said "Yeah, the pictures on our website do not look like our rooms." The hotel recently opened back up after dealing with COVID and expects to remodel later. The clerk said she could only refund our resort fee but said I should give a review to improve customers’ experience.

    I have been calling the RIO Las Vegas, Booking.com, billing, and RIO Las Vegas customer service, since I returned home, on Aug 8, 2022. I have received NOTHING BUT THE RUNAROUND FROM PRICELINE/BOOKING.COM. I want and deserve my money back!! This has been a VERY STRESSFUL SITUATION and I WANT IT OVER WITH…. REFUND ME!

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    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2022

    I accidentally reserved a hotel room for the incorrect date. I contacted Priceline immediately who stated that a refund would be made within 14 days. No refund 14 days later. Contacted Priceline two more times and was promised a refund that I never received.

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    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2022

    Had a coupon THEY SENT and applied at checkout - I go look at the charge on the card & it didn’t apply like it did at checkout - Called to have it corrected & manager tried to pacify me with 20% off next trip that expires in two months - So they think I’m made of money I suppose and just travel every other month of the year .. In addition to that their prices are all over the place and the cancellation policy is subpar at best - Def stick to orbitz. Best experience thus far with a booking app - Worst first experience (AND ABSOLUTE LAST) with Priceline - they should call it PRICEYline the way they rob you blind.

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    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2022

    I usually pay my flights by myself. This time, I contacted Priceline because I was so busy. We agreed on economy class and all the flights were set. First, I suspected scam when they asked me to pay through Zelle. After paying, they called me to say one of the flights doesn’t have an economy seat, so if I don’t send another $800 to reserve a business seat, then I’m losing all my money. I asked for refund and they told me it’s not possible. When I called the next day, they hung the phone on me and blocked my line. This company is a scam. Be warned. Save your money.

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    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2022

    Wow. I booked a dog friendly hotel and priceline didn't share my requirements with the hotel. Due to this I was leveled with all sorts of penalties from the hotel when I arrived. I reached out to Priceline expecting some sort of 'whoops' instead they went to the mattresses. Told me it was all on me and that down in the small print it was up to me to have made arrangements to ensure I had a pet friendly room. The sentence that floored me was 'we said it was a pet friendly hotel, we never said there was a pet friendly room there'. Add to this, they actively crawl your data (I booked a separate flight direct with an airline and then I kept getting messages from priceline as to why I'd booked outside their system). Just. Gross.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2022

    Priceline robbed me with fine print. Beware. I will never use priceline again. The terms and conditions of priceline are hidden. I cancelled and tried to rebook flights unsuccessfully and lost over $5,000. Terms and conditions state that I will receive travel credits, however credits are not applied to my account to be used as $ to $. They have to be used on the same exact people and can only be used on one way flights since I was partially credited the other way flights in cash. Now I can only book one way flights with my credits and only can use 1/5th of my credits due to the fact the other flight I paid for were for other people. In short, I was robbed by priceline.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2022

    I booked by flights, hotel & car rental through Priceline. My flight got cancelled so I was stuck in Arizona. I called them that same. They explained the situation. They told me they would refund me then I get an email stating they cannot issue me a refund. Horrible experience, horrible customer service, horrible everything!! Do not book.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2022

    I have booked with Priceline many times. Something has happened in the last few years. Once you book with Priceline, hotels treat you like a second class citizen. I recently booked a hotel and was placed in a smoking room. I tried to work with the hotel who would not change it to a nonsmoking without charging another $40. The manager kept blaming Priceline saying they notify Priceline that they will be using their worst rooms for Priceline guests. Priceline would do nothing about the problem. Everyone we dealt with were rude and unworkable. Do not book through this company.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2022

    If you are going to book through Priceline, please be advised that even if your flights are delayed for any reason, you will still be charged for the first night of your hotel reservation. With the increase of flight delays due to staffing shortages, etc., I highly recommend NOT purchasing Priceline packages in the future. You will not get your money back, even if you cannot check in before the hotel lobby closes for the night. Luckily, my car rental cancelled without any issues, so I do recommend going through Dollar Car Rental.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2022

    Priceline recommended Ace Car Rental, so that is what we used. Upon arriving at the airport, LAX, we were told a shuttle comes every 15 minutes; there was no shuttle for Ace for almost an hour. When one came it dropped us off at a location near most car rental locations. Unfortunately, Ace did not pick us up & when calls were placed to the agency nobody answered the phone, there was only a recording. After multiple calls it was noted that the agency was closed. We were unable to get our rental & had to walk to another agency, Budget, & rent a car. That car cost us $358.75 vs $143.49 that Ace was to charge. Ace was very slow to respond to Priceline about our complaint & refund of $143.49 came weeks later.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2022

    I was getting air tickets from Priceline and on their website it says carry-on is included. When I check the airline they told me I need to pay for the carry-on. I called back to Priceline and explain them that carry-on is included. They told me carry-on mean is just a wallet and purse. I know no airline charges for wallet or purse. It says literally carry-on. So I told them it is cheating. I check a lot of other agents' website that says carry-on is not included. That mean we need to pay for wallet and purse? It doesn't make sense. It is a catch.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2022

    I needed to cancel one night only of my trip due to a family emergency. They said if I am not there the first night they will cancel my hotel and keep ALL MY MONEY. No refunds. They steal your money. Would not even try to work with me. DO NOT USE PRICELINE!!!!

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2022

    I searched 2 beds on the app and selected and booked a 2 bedroom but my email started a 1 bedroom so I had to contact them to ask for it to be fixed, they stated they have to contact the hotel to see if it could accommodate my request, then they told me I have to call the hotel myself tomorrow to ensure accommodations. It always seems to be one issue or another with them.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2022

    Priceline won't refund my money. Hotel has standing water, rat turds, filthy inside and out. Junkies everywhere staying here. No heat and priceline won't refund my money. I paid 469.00 and a 100 deposit. Please don't use Priceline. No telling where they will put you and don't care how filthy it is. Won't refund your money or let you move to another hotel. I'll never use priceline again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2022

    I booked a hotel and was saying free breakfast. No further details was given. When I went to the hotel I was surprised that the breakfast only for adults. This was not mentioned in the on the Priceline website neither on the confirmation I received by email. I messaged agent and they were very rude and not respectful, saying that the hotel has to decide. So basically they scammed the customer. Please pay attention. Personally will not use Priceline anymore neither my family and friends.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2022

    Priceline refused to cancel my rental car and reimburse my $380.00. Do not use Priceline to purchase rental car because they scam you by using Fox Rental Car Agency. I will not use Priceline for my future travel.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2022

    I called to ask a question about the location of my hotel, and then received an email that my reservation was canceled??? My fiance and I spent the last of our money on this reservation. Luckily, 5 to 10 business days is our refund, but OH NO, OUR RESERVATION IS TOMORROW! Thank you, Priceline for allowing us to sleep on the street tonight. I never canceled my reservation, so someone must think it's hilarious, but I do not. Can you guys at least provide a pillow?

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    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2022

    I booked the hotel reservation with Priceline and by mistake it took wrong date and I was trying to explain priceline and they took full amount. The person who spoke was really rude. I will not recommend booking through priceline.

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    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2022

    I reserved a ticket with American Airlines through this company and paid for specific seats. When I checked into American Airlines I found out that they booked my ticket with a misspelled name and did not reserve me the seats I paid for. Customer service can't do anything and their phone audio cuts in and out.

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    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2022

    I’ve frequently used Priceline and the most recent experience and how things were NOT handled properly, will prevent me from ever trusting Priceline again. My business is with Priceline, not with the disgusting hotel. We were unable to stay in the dirty, buggy, old, room. Reading reviews after would have alerted us to never stay there. Priceline said they will not reimburse, that we would have to have the hotel reimburse us. We called the board of health and will continue to contact Priceline. We have pictures, but no one from Priceline returns calls after they keep telling us someone will be in touch. Don’t trust the rating and the shame is that knowing what we have shared with them, they haven’t taken down this three star hotel as an option for their customers. I feel bad for a young family who may not have the luxury of changing hotels as we had to. It isn’t worth saving the extra money if we know there will be no satisfaction.

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    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2022

    While shopping hotels on Priceline I decided to book one of their "Express Deals" where you purchase but don't know the name of the hotel. They advertised the hotel as a 3.5 star hotel, so I booked it. The hotel turned out to be SureStay Hotel by Best Western SeaTac North. When getting dropped off by the airport shuttle I'm thinking this does not look like a 3.5 star hotel but going on the assumption that a company like Priceline would not use deceptive practices, I checked in thinking maybe the rooms are nicer than what the Hotel looked like from the outside.

    The room smelled and the entire hotel was clearly not a 3.5 star hotel. Personally, I was a little disgusted and really didn't want to sleep in the room. I looked online and found out the hotel WAS RATED AS A 2 STAR HOTEL. I immediately contacted customer service at Priceline and informed them I purchased a stay from them that was misrepresented as a 3.5 star hotel and was actually a 2 star hotel. I asked to be booked in a neighboring hotel that was rated at 3 stars or above. I was polite, I didn't overreact, I told the representative that Priceline misrepresented what they sold me. All I was asking for was for them to rebook me at a different hotel equivalent to what they advertised I was buying.

    The representative kept telling me over, and over, and over, and over that it was nonrefundable, and there was nothing Priceline could do. I repeatedly communicated that Priceline sold me a 3.5 star hotel and gave me a 2 star hotel, that was gross and smelled. All I was asking for was for them to give me what I purchased. Our conversation went on for 13 minutes, and she refused to help me. Her primary suggestion was to go talk to the front desk. I told her that is not going to solve the problem, because the front desk can't change a 2 star hotel into a 3.5 star hotel overnight. Priceline needs to be careful before some law firm files a class action lawsuit against them for deceptive selling practices.

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    Reviewed Aug. 11, 2022

    Priceline was "UNABLE TO HELP". I paid for an upgrade and got a downgrade. They stated I had to work out an agreement with the hotel. The hotel said they don't deal with the 3rd party. Customer service was horrible. I will not use Priceline again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 10, 2022

    I booked 25 trips in a year and was promised this vip platinum status for my loyalty, but look…. ain’t no status! My prices didn’t go down and I didn’t receive any special anything! Only thing special I received was points on my credit card for using my credit card! Guess they never expected anyone to book past 25 trips!

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    Reviewed Aug. 10, 2022

    Customer services at Priceline did not take my information correctly and ended up missing my room and lost all fees I paid. I am counting on the managers to resolve the issue. Booked Travelodge in Vancouver Airport. was horrible experience. No customer services and look like a scam. Took my fees for two night but never provided me with a room.

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    Reviewed Aug. 10, 2022

    My daughter and I had 2 family members die within hours of each other last week. We booked at the last minute 2 seats from Myrtle Beach SC to Asheville NC. To drive it is 5 hours. We weren't in any shape to drive. I just want to warn people in our situation to book directly the airline instead of booking sites. We used Priceline and for 2 economy seats round trip we were charged 2,361.31. Plus 60.00 for 1 checked bag. Had we not been so upset we would have asked for bereavement rates. I am kicking myself for this error! This is money that could have been used to help with death related expenses. Just be mindful that you are going to be overcharged using Priceline. 150.00 times 2 to make sure we were seated together. Never again.

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    Customer ServiceCoverageRefunds & PayoutsMaintenanceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 10, 2022

    We rented a car through Priceline for 8/6/22 - 8/9/22. We paid in full on Priceline and picked the car up at Hertz Buffalo/Niagara airport on 8/6. On 8/8 it started raining so we were going to drive to a few destinations. When we got in the car we found the windshield wiper on the driver's side was broken. We contacted Hertz and was told to DRIVE to a parts store and buy the part and fix it ourselves. There was no way to drive anywhere because it was raining. The wiper was broken, so we weren't able to use the car that day.

    When we returned the car to Hertz on 8/9 we were told they couldn't refund for that day because we paid through Priceline and that we should contact them for a refund or credit for the day the car was unusable. I called Priceline and they said "Sorry we don't do refunds or credits on paid in full car rentals". I have spoken to 3 customer service people at Priceline and they refuse to do anything. Lesson learned; DO NOT RENT CARS THROUGH PRICELINE!

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    Reviewed Aug. 10, 2022

    I had a problem with a reservation. Not only did they not help me resolve it and "worsen" the situation, but they also made me dizzy for days, sending me from one agent to the other, and leaving me in the middle of the conversation each time. Shameful service.

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    Reviewed Aug. 9, 2022

    I booked for a three bedroom suite with kitchen at the Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski, St. Moritz, Switzerland using the Priceline website and made advance payment. They sent the Hotel a confirmation for a one bedroom suite with no Kitchen. Priceline as well as the Hotel were of no help as they both kept on blaming each other without solving my issue. This was a clear case of Bait and Switch.

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    Reviewed Aug. 9, 2022

    I had hotel reservations however it was booked the wrong day. The date was the same day I booked it and I needed it for the next day. After calling 3 times to get the right date Junetta ** helped me.

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    Reviewed Aug. 9, 2022

    This is one of the worst services I have encountered, the hotel booked for us was a bedbug infested hotel which was very dirty and disgusting, hotel name (Sleep Inn). 2255 173rd Street, Lansing, Illinois 60438. I tried getting Priceline to change the hotel or refund our payment but they said they couldn’t do anything without talking to the hotel and that they will get back to me the following Monday to refund the money but after speaking to them they refused to take accountability and refund any payment. Avoid being ripped of and making a loss because they have bad representatives and are unwilling to refund your money for services not rendered. This is a terrible place to book and I do not recommend!!!!

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaffBilling

    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2022

    After purchasing a ticket for a flight we received our email stating that it was processing, nearly 24 hours later it was still processing. When we called to inquire about it we were told "just wait quietly. It can take up to 72 hours", when explaining that there was a time zone different that they were not accounting for as the flight would leave before that deadline, they hung up on us. We then received an email from the agent Ben who which included the option to provide him with a monetary Tip (Priceline are you not paying your employees? Why are they begging for tips?).

    After that we called again. Got someone else. Was refused the option to speak with a manager because "the manager doesn't want to talk to you" and got hung up on again. This time we called the customer support line and spoke to a man named Alvaro and found that the billing information mixed up with the passenger information so the bank denied the charge, after correcting the information at this point more than 35 hours after the initial purchase alvaro so kindly ended the phone call by being aggressive and hostile stating that "you need to just let us work" and "it's a very complicated process" so anyway the plane is full and the order is canceled. Not a dime spent on this company and after this horrendous experience I will never attempt to use this service again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 8, 2022

    I went online to book a hotel room as an express deal that said it was 111.00 dollars per night. As I was completing the transaction it told me that rate was no longer available. So, I selected the next lowest rate which was 152.00 for a room with a king size bed. After completing my reservation, I searched again and the earlier lower rate was still there. I called customer service immediately and after waiting on hold over an hour was told there is nothing they can do and I have the lowest rate. Apparently the lowest rate was for any available room they have.

    I said that’s fine, change my reservation to that as I would rather pay that rate. Nope. They refuse and will do nothing to accommodate whatsoever. After speaking to several reps I was told a manager would contact me. They never did. Another rep told me the manager will “tell me the same thing”. Apparently I am a VIP member. Well they didn’t treat me like VIP, they treated me like they couldn’t care less to have my business. After everything was said and done, they pretty much just said “the reservation will stay as it is”. This is a very bad company. Never again. I would rather pay more to a company that cares about my business.

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    Reviewed Aug. 7, 2022

    I booked several hotels on via Priceline website. One of my bookings was absolutely horrendous (uninhabitable)- it shouldn’t even be offered as an option on their website. They need to have someone in “quality control” to make sure the hotels they offer are at least somewhat decent. Too many unacceptable issue with the hotel to list but the pics in the Priceline website didn’t match what I saw when I pulled up to the hotel. Lots of false Advertising- between Priceline, hotel or both.

    Biggest issue is that I didn’t receive my coupon for being upgraded to the “gold vip status.” I had to call 3 times (was hung up on one of the times) and wasted over 2 hours with no resolution to my issue. The last “manager” I spoke to basically told me that there’s nothing she can do and that the higher ups aren’t going to care. Worst customer service EVER! I don’t know how they stay in business.

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    Reviewed Aug. 7, 2022

    Booked a flight from Istanbul to Frankfurt but realized afterwards that it was a month too late (I needed Aug 14 but ended up accidentally booking Sept 14 - partially that the site defaulted me into Sept). The site indicated that there is free cancellation if done within 24 hours from booking, so I immediately proceeded to cancel this reservation online. However the cancellation request was refused due to an error and was informed to contact customer service. When I did I was told that the flight had been cancelled so I proceeded to book for the correct date (Aug 14). But then I receive a vague email stating my credit card denied the charge, but when I went to my credit card it showed the charge accepted and pending. When I go to their website the trip did not even show anywhere so I was forced to go to a competitor to book the flight and hope I don't end up getting double-charged. As a result of this absolute mess, I am completely done with Priceline.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2022

    I booked an express deal and ended up at the wrong location. I simply wanted to move the reservation to a room about an hour away even if it was still hotel brand, they absolutely refused because it’s an “express deal” over and over even after I offered to pay the difference since the savings wasn’t worth the extra gas, they told me to call the room which doesn’t make sense since I booked through them and they picked it, I called the room & sure enough was told they don’t know why I’m calling since I booked through a 3rd party. Received a call from Priceline just to rub in my face no help. Totally ridiculous, the trip is 2 weeks out. Major disappointment. Will not be using them again. Got the coupon because I’m a “loyalty customer” which truly means nothing at the end of the day.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2022

    Do not use this service. Worst service. Terrible APP. Useless customer service personnel. I have being trying to cancel a reservation for over a Week and over 5 attempts and every time agents keep Telling me to wait a minutes and then closing the conversations. Again: useless customer service.

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & PayoutsStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2022

    The Priceline website clearly stated that my reservation could be cancelled up until 4:00pm the day of. When I tried to cancel they said the hotel would not refund the money. I pointed out that this seemed like a priceline issue; agent was not helpful and was rude!

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2022

    I booked a round trip airfare to Cairo Egypt last year. Because of all the red tape, I wasn't able to go. I could not get a rapid covid test WITH a QR code attached anywhere in Salt Lake. I was forced to cancel my trip 6 hours before departure. I was denied a refund and told I'd get a credit. Nine months later I attempted to use the credit to rebook a trip to Cairo Egypt only to be told I only had a credit of 1000.00. After questioning the credit, the Priceline representative insisted I only paid 1000.00 for a round trip ticket to Cairo. I was ripped off by Priceline who I've used before for hotel bookings also, but will never use again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2022

    Terrible website and customer support. Do not give this company your money. I was on hold for more than a hour and in chat they left without resolving my issue. I will never use this awful website again.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2022

    My 70 year old mother called Priceline while driving across country to book a room in Kansas City, MO. She very patiently explained that we needed a room with two beds and was pet friendly for 2 dogs. She was charged for the room ($148+ pet fees) and off we went. The hotel refused our reservation because they only allow 1 dog per room, and Priceline refused to refund the money because it is it was a “non-refundable reservation”. That they made on our behalf. We ended up having to drive another 180 miles and pay for a second room before the day was done. My advice.. don’t trust 3rd parties, call the hotel directly and make your own reservations.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2022

    I Booked a Hotel at Quality Inn Milan Sandusky through Priceline. Woke up to find bites on my daughter. Looked through bed and found bedbugs. Brought a dead one to front desk and they acted like it was normal. Hotel did nothing and Priceline refused to offer anything

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2022

    After reading the rave reviews on Priceline, I booked a room through them for the Showboat in Atlantic City. My ck in time was 4pm, I arrived at 4:15. The room am told would take an additional 20 minutes to an half hr to be ready. Then they gave me a room facing lower rooftop with dead birds lying all over it. I tried to contact Priceline and was on hold for almost an hour and their sister hit on and stated there was nothing could but call Priceline. I explained to him that was the number I dialed, he told me to try again. I will never use Priceline again, what a useless company.

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    Reviewed Aug. 5, 2022

    Absolutely the worst experience with Priceline. Never again booking on Priceline. I would never use Priceline to book another flight. Spoke Alicia at escalation department, not helpful at all. Waste of time talking to them.

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    Reviewed Aug. 4, 2022

    Watch out if you're booking with Priceline Canada. Their default setting is in USD. I got a nasty surprise when I checked my credit card statement a few weeks after booking and my order was 150$ more than I thought it would be. Customer service was useless.

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    Reviewed Aug. 4, 2022

    The hotel room I was put in was very dirty and unsanitary. When I reported it to the front desk, they tried to give me a partial refund, but was unable to because I booked through Priceline. They gave me detailed information how to receive my funds back which I did. Priceline REFUSED to return any of my funds. I will NEVER book through them again, nor would I’d advise anyone else to, because your hands are tired if you have problems with the hotel AND they will refuse to honor the hotel's request. STAY AWAY FROM BOOKING through Priceline, they should be shut down!!

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    Reviewed Aug. 4, 2022

    I booked a reservation through Priceline for a one way ticket to Denver. After I booked it I saw Priceline charged me $250 twice for two different reservations. Same flight. Same person. Something that is not even allowed by FAA. I called immediately only to be told they would cancel it and release my money within 24 hours then it’s up to American Airlines and my bank to put back on my account. Could be 3-5 business days. I explained my travel situation and that I should not be punished because Priceline took my money without my permission. Please put my money back on as fast as you took it. No help. No number for corporate. I was given no compensation other than being told, "I’m sorry you had to go through this and I understand how frustrating this is." The fact is the whole customer service experience is frustrating and a waste of time.

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    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2022

    I signed up to be a VIP member, received a 10% discount code and was given the price guarantee. I booked my car, have checked back a few times and found the EXACT car, dates and times for much cheaper. They will not honor their price guarantee and just keep telling me it is not available for cheaper when I can clearly see it with my own eyes online and on the app. They just keep repeating the same sentence like they are trained to lie directly to you. The price guarantee states an Express deal receives 200% of the difference. I'm not even asking for that! I just want the better price, which at this point is close to a $50 difference for 3 days. I will never use them after this again. FALSE ADVERTISING!!

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    Reviewed Aug. 2, 2022

    We hired a car via Priceline. We needed help to change the driver. Priceline pointed towards Sixt (at where the car was booked) and Sixt pointed towards Priceline. Priceline provided no help. When we then asked if the car could be canceled, Priceline did still just point towards Sixt (and then Sixt at Priceline). We did end up not getting the car that we booked, but Priceline does not even offer a way to contact them as their phone will point toward Sixt and the chat as well. We have not been refunded and do not even see how to claim a refund to Priceline and we did not get the rental car that we booked. You only get a contact to a chatbot and it is impossible to get any help. A total scam and fully recommend avoiding Priceline.

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    Reviewed Aug. 2, 2022

    After I cancelled my flight in less than 24 hrs I never received my refund and it’s been over 3 months. All they keep making is false promises and telling me to wait because the refund is being processed. They have very mediocre system for a big company. Never using Priceline again. If you want to give away your money for free this is a perfect company to start.

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    Reviewed Aug. 2, 2022

    I made a reservation for a hotel in New York and in less than five minutes of making the reservation, I realized that I made a mistake and booked the hotel of the same name but on the wrong street. I admit that this was my mistake but what I do not understand is what happened less than five minutes after booking the room. I was told that there was nothing that could be done. They allegedly tried calling the hotel but couldn’t get a response. I do not understand how there is not any grace period for simple errors. Very frustrating. While I admit I made a mistake, the inflexibility is mind-blowing.

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    Reviewed Aug. 1, 2022

    First of all I would like to start off same mess I’ve been with Priceline for a very long time. I booked a lot of rooms and trips and never had a problem until currently. My birth is this year. I decided to go to South Padre. I selected the express deal which gave me the option for two hotels which was the La Quinta and Holiday Inn express. Your system generated another booking for some place called the Blue Bay Inn. When I tell you it was horrific this place is unlivable. It should be tore down. The elevator smelt like urine. Someone had Peed on the bed and they didn’t even change the sheets. It was beer bottles all over. It was infested with roaches. It looked like something you would see in a very bad area.

    I spoke with Priceline. They said that they would cancel it and refund my money but that never happened. I do not like to deal with people that do not honor their word. I did not stay there. I had to check into another hotel and spent an additional $600. I will not advise ever booking with them because they’re very dishonest and the things that they show sometimes is not what it is. I know people have experiences that they go through and you learn from it but this it will be unforgettable.

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    Reviewed July 31, 2022

    I filed a complaint with the BBB on this. I was charged $247 per person just to re-book a flight 1 day earlier because the US MILITARY changing our sons boot camp graduation date. This is not supportive of US MILITARY families and an unethical business practice. We contacted American Airlines who said we should have called them and they would have gladly "without any fees" changed our flight. PRICELINE needs to do right by people. This was dirty, unfair, and on the verge of illegal.

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    Reviewed July 30, 2022

    I booked and paid for my trip through Priceline on 2/13/22. I received my confirmation for my booking on 2/13/22 from Priceline. The night before we flew out for our trip (7/23/22) I received an email from priceline/Booking.com that said I needed to contact the hotel regarding my reservations because my reservation is not confirmed. I contacted the hotel and the hotel told me that my reservations were made with the hotel but no funds were sent to the hotel for my reservations. Being that this was the night before we flew out, I had to pay for my hotel stay to secure our stay. So I have now paid for the hotel room twice. I had no problems at all with our plane tickets.

    I have contacted Priceline, they tell me I have to contact booking.com because this is their sister company and booking.com handles reservations. I then contact booking.com and they tell me I have to contact Priceline. I have talked to Priceline 5 times and have contacted booking.com 5 times. I have sent in proof to booking.com to prove that I had to pay for my hotel reservations. Booking.com has rejected my claim. No one can tell me where the money is that I originally paid for my trip on 2/13/22. Basically I am out my money. I will NEVER use Priceline or Booking.com to book a trip again.

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    Reviewed July 29, 2022

    Updated on 07/29/2022: UPDATE - The supervisor called after but he was of no help. He wanted me to call and deal directly with the 3rd party services (Car rental and Insurance). I shall never use Priceline for future services and will avoid renting from the car rental "Routes International".

    Original Review: I used Priceline to rent a car at Pearson Airport. I prepaid full rental cost and full insurance. I received a confirmation email for my rental stating that my rental is confirmed with unlimited mileage and other requirements. Then, I received a text message from the car rental (Routes International) asking for $1500 deposit and stating that my mileage is limited to 200 KM a day!

    I called Priceline asking for explanation and after I was bounced between 3 levels of "supervisors" I was told my reservation cannot be canceled and I had to deal with the rental company directly. I explained to Priceline folks that I paid 100% for rental and insurance and I am NOT receiving a 100% service of what I was sold (promised) and I asked to cancel my reservation. Priceline refused. I asked to speak to the "supervisor" of the last supervisor I was talking to and I was told they cannot transfer the call but promised that I will get a call back from this higher supervisor. Never received a call. I shall never use Priceline for future services and will avoid renting from the car rental "Routes International".

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    Reviewed July 29, 2022

    The worse 3rd party company I have ever dealt with! No help unless you want to spend extra money with them! Wouldn’t even fix a minor error in my reservation which needed up costing me $1000. DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT USE PRICELINE!!!

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    Reviewed July 29, 2022

    I booked a hotel & flight package with Priceline but the hotel was not as pictured on the website. The hotel was rundown, dirty and smelled of weed. There were cigarette buds everywhere, graffiti on the walls and as though the hotel hadn’t been cleaned since it was built. It was the epitome of squalor. I have no idea how ‘The Link Hotel’ couldn’t even be considered a hotel. It looked like it was apart of Gotham or where murders happens. I explained to the hotel front desk clerk that I would like a refund and she said that I would have to contact Priceline.

    After a 30 minute battle with the Priceline attendant they finally agreed to call The Link ‘hotel’ where they both agreed to give me a refund and I would be refunded with a few days. It has been over 5 working days and I am yet to receive the refund. I recently contacted Priceline once again where they said they would still have to ‘reconfirm’ my refund that was already agreed upon even after I gave them screenshots as evidence that the refund was agreed upon. This is the WORST experience I’ve ever had. Do NOT book a trip with Priceline. They are a scam and liars along with their ‘hotel partner’ which should be closed down.

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    Reviewed July 28, 2022

    I bought a vacation package and they canceled my flight a few days before we were suppose to fly out. Only refunded me $250 dollars for 2 people to fly to Las Vegas, but shocker I can go online through them and purchase the same flight tickets for us now for $489 for each person for the exact same flight. I don't have an extra almost $800 dollars. This company just ruined my 27 years wedding anniversary. I just had to purchase 2 new airplane tickets for over $1000. Don't use Priceline to book anything. They don't care. Have spent almost 2 hours on the phone trying to fix this and they don't care!!

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    Reviewed July 28, 2022

    If you have ANY issue with your hotel, your hotel won’t do anything about it and will refer to Priceline. And Priceline won’t do anything for you because they already have your money. My hotel (expensive hotel- Radisson) was rude, had no plumbing in my room, it was dirty, and the pool was unable to be used due to an incident. I wanted to cancel and just leave and drive overnight and I couldn’t cancel and they “had no other rooms”. I called the hotel after Priceline insisted they couldn’t reach them and then Priceline said “nothing was approved by the hotel”. So nothing was done. It was a waste of time and money. I’d rather of paid the additional $5 and booked directly through the hotel and then I could have at least been refunded and leave. Horrible experience.

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    Reviewed July 28, 2022

    I rented a car at Hertz Rochester International Airport through Priceline.com. I paid that rent in full with a credit card. One of the persons in our travel party got sick and we were not able to be there the first day of the rental period, July 8. The rental period was from the 8 to the 18 of July. Before the first day of the renting period I called Hertz at Rochester and the attendant told me they will provide me a car when I get there at the middle of the renting period (July 13). However, no car was available for us from Hertz when we arrived at Rochester. I contacted Priceline but they did nothing to solve our problem or reimburse what we paid even when we did no change to our schedule but arriving days later. Therefore we were forced to rent another car.

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    Reviewed July 28, 2022

    We booked a hotel room through Priceline and paid in advance. We flew into Charleston and got to the hotel with our luggage at 11 pm. They were fully booked. They said Priceline booked our room after the hotel alerted them that there were no more rooms available. We called Priceline in a panic. Back and forth for a hour. It's now 12 midnight. They said they could not help us except for giving us a refund. We said we had nowhere to sleep in a foreign place and could they please help us. They said they could do nothing except for give us a refund.

    We finally asked to speak to a supervisor, and the woman on the phone said she'd have to take our phone number and have a supervisor call us back. It's now 1:30 in the morning and we just received a call from the supervisor who insisted there is nothing she could do except for give us a refund. PERIOD. She did not care that we had nowhere to sleep at 1:30 in the morning. She said we had to start calling hotels ourselves to try to book a room. I have never felt more unsafe in my entire life. It is disgusting how they handled this situation.

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    Reviewed July 27, 2022

    DO NOT apply for their credit card when you book!!! The information is deceiving. I spent three days trying to resolve an issue over the card: I asked on the same day for them to cancel the card immediately - they didn't. I asked on the second day again - they didn't (They violated my 3 days right to cancel!) Also, do not book with them!! I accidentally under-booked my schedule by I day, and needed it changed. They would not so much as even accommodate me in any way what-so-ever.

    I must have spoken to at least 8 different employees including supervisors, managers, and the credit card company - ONLY to be bounced around!! They lie to you passing you back and forth - I spent over 6 hours in 3 days and nothing was remedied. Wasting my time and becoming highly frustrated. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! Find a decent agency and book with them instead. SAVE YOURSELF A HASSLE! (Disclaimer: The agents claim they are connecting you to a higher authority, but they just send you to another department. Plus, they refuse to give you a corporate number.)

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    Reviewed July 27, 2022

    I booked three hotel rooms and mistakenly entered the wrong city. I immediately contacted them and was chatting for over an hour trying to get the rooms cancelled. She was unable to help me after all that time. I contacted the hotel and they said they would cancel but we had to go through Priceline. I have been trying to get a refund for over a week and was just told that I would not be getting one. That’s 600 dollars for nothing. I will never use them again. Their customer service department is horrible.

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    Reviewed July 27, 2022

    I use Priceline to book a trip to California for hotels, the flight and a car rental. Frankly, it's been a nightmare. I was overcharged for the car rental by Hertz, the flight back had to do an emergency landing in Salt Lake City, and I needed a refund from one of the hotels. I am out hundreds of dollars and Priceline customer service was atrocious and refused to help me. I am out hundreds of dollars and the car rental issue is basically fraud. The flight issue was atrocious. I had been a Priceline customer for a long time but will never ever use them again.

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    Reviewed July 27, 2022

    I booked round trip flights through Priceline with Alaska Airlines. My confirmation email from Priceline had all the correct details. However, when I checked into the flight, my boarding pass showed a typo in my name. I tried to call Priceline customer support but was not able to speak to a representative because the wait time was over 3 hours. So I called the Alaska Airlines customer support and they were able to fix the spelling error for a fee of $75. When I was finally able to reach Priceline customer support, they said that this was a common programmatic error that they could have fixed for free but since I chose to call the airline, there was nothing they could do. I ended up paying a lot more for airfare because of Priceline. I will never book through Priceline again.

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    Reviewed July 26, 2022

    When called was made felt like this was my fault. Booked wrong and no credit or anything was compensated and used Priceline for years. Needless to say I will no longer be using Priceline to the lack of help and support by the customer service and the supervisor.

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    Reviewed July 26, 2022

    I booked a travel package to Punta Cana through Priceline.com 4 months before traveling. I was told at the hotel that Priceline did not pay the hotel. I called Priceline and talk to the representative for one hour then transferred me to Booking.com. They subcontracted Booking.com for hotel reservations. I talked to representative from Booking.com for another hour and they could not solve the issue. I had to pay the hotel directly at the spot. I was charged over $200 more than the package price. Called 8 times to Priceline and Booking and been pushed around for nothing. It seems they do not take any responsibility for anything. Never had any issues with Expedia before!

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    Reviewed July 26, 2022

    They didn’t want to refund me my money after I booked the wrong date by accident and still had to spend more money because I needed a certain date so basically spent 500 and some change for no reason, it’s not right.

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    Reviewed July 25, 2022

    Priceline is a scam! Its customer service is the worst one in this country! I booked a Hotel Red Roof Inn at Buffalo NY/I-90 with Priceline. The hotel seemed good in the Priceline review, however, it's the worst hotel I have ever seen. All rooms are broken to some extent, they could not give us a good room so we could stay, it's totally at Hotel's fault and they agreed to refund the total amount, and they did it as well. Now, here's coming Priceline's so-called excellent customer service, they verified 7 times that the hotel already refunded the whole amount to Priceline, however, Priceline hung me up 15-20 days to get the refund! Still, no refund was received! Every time I call Priceline, it spends 40-50 minutes following all bureaucratic procedures with no ultimate resolution. Their system is faulty, gauging customer money without any service.

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    Reviewed July 25, 2022

    I picked up the car I rented through Priceline and within 24 hours it broke down and needed to be towed. I have had to do ALL the calling, forcing a case number and doing up all the follow up. They tell me that they can't send me any emails, but that they have to wait for an email back from the car rental before they can give me a refund. PLUS they want to only give a partial refund due to having the car overnight. No mind to the fact that I was stranded waiting for a tow. They don't call back, you have to go through the game of pushing numbers and then being transferred around until the call drops. I will give it a rest for today and start back up tomorrow. NOT WORTH ANY SAVINGS THEY MIGHT PROMISE.

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    Reviewed July 25, 2022

    This is twice that I showed up with my paid Priceline purchased rental car and the rental car agencies had given my reserved rental car to someone else. When I called, they told be they would reimburse the difference in what I paid for the new rental car and my agreement with Economy. After two months a several calls since I turned in my agreement and asked for reimbursement, they told me today that they don't reimburse for taxes ($70) and other fees. I had a mandatory insurance fee with Fox (Even though my Nationwide insurance covered all rental cars), but Priceline would not reimburse for those either.

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    Reviewed July 24, 2022

    We travel all of the time and just got back from a trip to Wisconsin to visit our grandkids. We booked on Priceline for a 3 night stay in La Crosse and 1 night in Minneapolis. We booked and paid ahead of time for the better rate. On checking out of the hotel we were charged again for the 3 nights. This would have been $84 cheaper booking direct. I contacted Priceline I was told by a supervisor, that the additional charge they passed on to me was a better rate from the hotel for priceline only and their commission. That is untrue as I called the hotel and they confirmed we could have gotten it for that rate. All I wanted was the $84 refund we overpaid. I was told they would not refund me the difference. I will never use Priceline again. Just be aware of how they are ripping people off.

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    Reviewed July 24, 2022

    I find that on Priceline, they give you a price for a hotel. Then, when you go to book, taxes and fees are added in. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Problem is the initial price that Priceline gives you is quite low compared to what the price will be with taxes and "fees". You need to burrow down within the program to see what you'll actually pay. Then, when you do burrow down, Priceline frequently either (1) does not tell you what the "fees" are for - that is, Priceline will just give you one clump amount for taxes and fees, and not inform you what the "fees" are for, and why the clumped amount is SO high; or (2) lists out what the taxes you'll pay are, but those taxes CLEARLY do not match up with what the actual taxes are in the municipality you are staying in are - in other words Priceline APPEARS to be adding in significant amounts to what the ACTUAL taxes are. I once wrote to Priceline asking them about this. Not surprisingly, I received no response.

    So the above all has the smell of a scam to me, and after having used Priceline for a long time, I no longer use it.

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    Reviewed July 23, 2022

    Priceline changed my flight details without my permission stating the airline did ..Finally contacted airline. Flight had not been changed ..Priceline lied and to this day still didn't correct their mistake they represent the airlines etc..BOOK through EXPEDIA..Grave error if I had not questioned the nonexistent change I flew my originally booked flight. DO NOT TRUST PRICELINE.

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    Reviewed July 23, 2022

    Book a round-trip flight Tuesday night expecting to flight out on Friday. Got everything confirmed email etc. Thursday get notifications to check into my flight go to check in, it says no reservation. Called the airline because I thought my app was malfunctioning. They said that the flight had been canceled an hour after booking by the 3rd party which is Priceline. Call Priceline, they say “someone canceled it an hour later.” Someone who? Also, the money has already been taken. And they won’t return it until the end of the month. No email, no warning about canceling, had I not called the airline I would have been at the airport for nothing. My whole trip is ruined and I also have to wait for the money from the hotel I booked. NEVER AGAIN.

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    Reviewed July 23, 2022

    I booked a last-minute getaway with my daughter for 4 nights. We arrived at the hotel and within the hour wanted to checkout. The hotel nor Priceline has any ability to change the reservation or refund the additional days. They should not back this hotel period. It is nothing but a drug den and I can't believe I am stuck here with my daughter.

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    Reviewed July 23, 2022

    Driving to a funeral tomorrow morning, so I booked a car at the nearest international airport (PHF) via Priceline 2 days ago. They assigned me to Hertz (Priceline picked, for the price they quoted) for a pickup at 6 pm, since I figured I certainly wasn't going to need it earlier, and I didn't want to have to wait for them to wait for a customer making a late return. Pickup was at an airport that had flights coming in until at least midnight, so I wasn't too worried, although I should have been. No indication was made in any of the emails or "click here for additional details" pages that Hertz closed earlier than all of the rest of the car rental agencies in that airport.

    I arrived at 8:02 pm to pick up the car, and, although all of the other rental agencies in the airport had customers waiting in line to rent cars. The Hertz desk was empty. They put up a sign to say they were closed at 8 pm. A Hertz representative actually came over, but they were off the clock, and were only picking up their personal items. They did tell me I could come back at 9 am the next morning, but the funeral started at 10 am, and it was 1.5 hours away from the airport, so that wasn't a good option for me.

    They said if I booked through Priceline, I would need to call Priceline, because Hertz doesn't get ANY money if the customer doesn't pick up the car, and they wished me luck, and hoped maybe Priceline would move my reservation to one of the other rental agencies at the airport, since they were all still renting out cars, except for Hertz.

    I called Priceline, and their automated system recognized my phone number and my reservation, and immediately told me that if I had any issues, I would need to contact their "service partner" and automatically transferred me, without any opportunity to talk to a person (yes, I also tried their text line, which was also automated.) The number they transferred me to, of course, was Hertz. The Hertz customer service representative was very nice and attempted to find any Hertz location in 50 miles that was still open, but none were.

    I went back and attempted everything I could to get a Priceline customer service person, without any success. They absolutely pass you off to Hertz. When I went through the "modify my reservation" after logging in, they took me right to the lines that say my reservation was non-refundable, could not be modified or changed, and would be charged regardless of whether or not I picked up the car. It's interesting that they benefit with the full price of the reservation if you can't pick it up, and that they didn't make any note of the closing time of that particular rental agency, compared to the rest at the airport.

    Priceline used to be my go-to for booking rental cars, but this was the worst customer service, and an outright ripoff. I wouldn't have minded at all if they could have switched me to one of the other agencies right there, and if there had been a surcharge if they couldn't meet the original price, but taking 100% of my money and keeping it for themselves while foisting their customer care off on a company that is literally making NO money from the deal (leaving them no good way to negotiate) is ridiculous. A situation like this can't be that uncommon, and it is set up to disproportionately benefit Priceline, who keeps all of the money for themselves.

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    Reviewed July 22, 2022

    I booked a hotel stay for Oceanview with full kitchen; got to hotel and they said Priceline had me for a standard room without Oceanview. I was charged $45 upgrade fee per night because Priceline refused to take responsibility.

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    Reviewed July 22, 2022

    I traveled from New York (JFK) to Colombia with my carry on and personal bag without charge. But on my way back they charged me for the carry on ($105) and I was really upset. I asked how can that be when coming from New York I didn't have to pay anything. They said Priceline issued my ticket like that. Spoke to the airlines. They showed me on their monitor that On my way from New York to Colombia the fare was "S" which means I have the benefit to bring a carry on and personal bag for free..meanwhile on the returning flight (Priceline) issued my ticket to an "XS" fare which means I had to pay for my carry on. I was never told by them about that. They really snuck that in there without telling their customers which is really messed up. I spoke to the representatives from Priceline and they said they had no idea about what I was talking about which is **... I'm done with Priceline..never again will I buy from there.

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    Reviewed July 22, 2022

    I rented a car through Priceline with unlimited mileage, when I went to pick up the car, the company Next Car stated that they had a policy that states that Florida residents have a 50 mile per day limit with $0.75 per mile extra. That is outrageous! I figured I would pay with my AMEX and deal with it later and they would not accept it. Three hours later, Next car nor Priceline did anything to help nor honor the price! Very dissatisfied and disappointed with both companies! No customer service at all. They state we should read the fineprint! REALLY?

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    Reviewed July 21, 2022

    I had booked a car rental through Priceline and in the original booking, I was only charged the amount of the purchased insurance, and the remainder of the two days was to be paid to Ace Car Rental, upon pick-up. My flight was delayed and I was not going to make my initial booking, so I contacted Priceline again, to edit the pick-up time to later that evening. They stated they could not edit it, but could cancel it and rebook the reservation to the later time. They did not inform me that the reservation type had changed, but they charged the full amount just after our call ended.

    Due to further delay, I was unable to get the car until the next day, only using it for one day. When I contacted Priceline, I was told that they would not be refunding the day I was not able to use. Had it been rebooked like the original reservation, Ace could have refunded the unused day, but because they took advantage of my situation, I was not refunded the money. DO NOT USE PRICELINE. They are nothing but thieves and their customer service is non-existent.

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    Reviewed July 21, 2022

    I rented car through Priceline on website for pickup in Orlando at Hotel Plaza Blvd. Went to pickup car at Hertz at Hotel Plaza and location was closed since 3 years. Couldn’t get car at no other Hertz rental because they said all sold out. All Priceline could offer me of their own mistakes was to cancel reservation and say sorry. They promote cars under falsehood.

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    Reviewed July 21, 2022

    I never knew there were fees when using your travel credit. I called Priceline to redeem my travel credit of 234 dollars. The customer service rep tells me my credit was only 96 dollars. That's absurd! I told him he needed to explain to me why the deductibles from my credit which wasn't in the voucher in my email, might I add. He proceeds to tell me there is a booking fee of 100 dollars when I call in to redeem my credit. I've never ever heard of such ridiculousness. To make matters worst, he continued to put me on hold several times for more than 20 minutes.

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    Reviewed July 20, 2022

    Made a car reservation and prepaid. I know it’s non refundable. Got called into work early. I work on a fishing boat in Alaska. Tried to cancel since I wouldn’t be in town to get the rental. Was told they couldn’t do anything. So Priceline got $389 for free. I guess they need the money more than I do. Will never use them again.

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    Reviewed July 20, 2022

    I want to be clear that the customer service guy was nice to work with, but I am super upset with Priceline's policies towards customer service. I have been trying to change a flight for the last two days. Have spent a total of about 6 and a half hours on the phone, been hung up on twice, and finally when I found a flight that Priceline would let me book, it was cheaper than my original fare, which is great right? No...They originally told me that they couldn't refund me the difference in between my flights but they would wave the $75 flight change fee to try to offset it (said it was policy).

    I didn't understand why they couldn't refund me the difference because they make it clear that we have to pay the difference if the new flight costs more...but went with it. Then, after keeping me on hold for 25 minutes, they told me that "their system" won't let me book the new flight unless they collect the $75 change fee per ticket... I was frustrated, but it clearly didn't seem like it was the guys' fault...felt bad for him. Regardless, Priceline is clearly not trying to serve their customers well, but make sure they keep their margins high which is upsetting and not good business.

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    Reviewed July 20, 2022

    I reserved a flight with this agency. The flight has been cancelled by the airline (Air Transat) and they asked me to call the agency to have a refund. I've called them at least 10 times. And so far nothing. Don't lose your money. Avoid this agency and reserve your flight directly by the airline.

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    Reviewed July 20, 2022

    Priceline advertise a great price for a Days Inn hotel showing free wifi. But on receiving my itinerary after paying, it said that wifi was available in public areas. I don't want to have to work in the lobby. The hotel refused to cancel and Priceline sided with them over the customer who was gypped. I just wanted a quiet place to work. How I either have to stay with people I don't trust or go somewhere else to do my work.

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    Reviewed July 20, 2022

    Prices are low, but when have an issue, you spend hours trying to resolve it with no luck. I spent countless hours trying to reschedule a return flight. I spoke with multiple people and often they would say they could reschedule and then hang up on me in the process of changing it. Other times, I was told it would cost an additional $900 when the entire round trip was far less than that. I was also told I needed to contact the airline directly. The airline told me they cannot change third party travel. I was finally told to wait until I took my departing flight and to then call and cancel my return flight. I did this and received an email showing I would have a future flight credit. When I called to use the flight credit, I once again spoke with several people and received several different answers. First, I was told I could apply the credit but was hung up on in the process of it being applied.

    Next, I was told the credit didn't exist. Then I was told the credit was suspended and I needed to call the airline. I called the airline who said it shows up in their system that I didn't show up for the flight. I explained the situation and they told me Priceline is responsible for fixing the situation but they will try to avoid fixing it because its money lost for them and their employees get in trouble when the company loses money. They told me they are capable of doing much more than they say so they use tactics to avoid doing it such as hanging up on you, placing you on hold for hours, etc. He suggested I call and say I want to speak with a Sales Rep or Supervisor and that's the only way I will get anywhere.

    I did this and the agent said "they will just tell you the same thing as I am." I said I still want to talk to them and she reluctantly said okay, "but there's no guarantee they will help." I was on hold with a supervisor for about 20 minutes. She eventually told me that when I called to cancel my flight, the agent "forgot" to cancel it with the airline. Therefore, it was showing as a no show and that the credit didn't exist (even though I have a Priceline email showing the credit per passenger). I was then told they would contact American Airlines and put on hold for another 10 minutes. Then I was told they needed their IT department to correct the suspension in their system but that department is closed and to call back during their business hours. This is still not resolved even after days of trying! I will never use Priceline again, no matter how good the price is!

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    Reviewed July 19, 2022

    Never buy a ticket on Priceline if it is important that you get home. I was on a European trip when Lufthansa cancelled the first leg of my return trip five days before I was due to leave. Because I had bought the ticket via Priceline I had to work with them to rebook. However, Priceline was so incredibly incompetent that, even though there were flights from Zagreb-Seattle (my route) on the day I was due to fly with seats available, they could not get Lufthansa, who was legally required to rebook me, to agree to a single rebooking request with 30 days. So Priceline cancelled my ticket and I had to buy a new ticket out of pocket at a premium price (last minute in a busy travel season).

    To add insult to injury, I only got a refund for 2/3s of what I originally paid for the ticket (it was a round trip, and the way they calculated the refund, I got less than half the amount I paid even though the return ticket was the more expensive route). Not only did I have to rebook at my own expense, but I had to spend over 4 hours on the phone in a foreign country to even get to the point where I was told they would not rebook me. So simple advice - if you actually need to get where you are going (or need to get home) DO NOT BUY A TICKET FROM PRICELINE.

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    Reviewed July 19, 2022

    I arrived at hotel only to be told it would be cheaper to book with them directly and I owed another 25 for bringing our 5 year old daughter. Priceline never let me add her so why am I charged for her? Priceline says, "Sorry we cannot do anything about it." Really???? I had her listed on the reservation through Priceline. I will never use this business again. Expedia has my business now

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    Reviewed July 18, 2022

    Use Priceline at your own risk, if you continue to book with them after reading this well if they get you. You deserve it. If you read someone else's experience and keep on with that company that is how they stay in business. PRICELINE KNOWINGLY sent me to a hotel that was under construction. The hotel front desk does not have a working phone, there is NO POOL, NO WIFI, NO FURNITURE in the lobby, NO ceiling in the lobby. There was sink sitting in front of the hotel with several cranes working on the hotels, the electric was out in half of the room, there were ants in the room and overall the hotel is old and run down. It should have been closed during renovations, NO VENDING or ice MACHINES. Just a terrible experience. The elevator stopped working so we had climb three flights of steps. I want a full refund and I will not stop until I get it!! Advertised as a 3 star when it wasn't even one!!!.

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    Reviewed July 18, 2022

    Do not use Priceline. They will steal your money. Incompetent customer service. They will lie to you about your refund. They scam people of their hard earn money. They should not be in business. Stay away.

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    Reviewed July 17, 2022

    I was told by Priceline that they would not charge for my pets but when I got here I had to a $40 a day times 3 days. Also the add said free breakfast not a continental breakfast so I asked to change my reservation and was told no.

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    Reviewed July 17, 2022

    I finally have a chance to write this review. I will never booked through Priceline again for bundle package or any of my trip for the future. My flight and car rental was fine but the hotel canceled on me without any prior notice when I got to the place at midnight which I had to get up in 6 hrs for my conference that morning. The lady at the desk said, "You are the 4th person, we got overbooked and we don't have the room you requested". It's midnight and no one called or emailed me about cancelation way before. I was on the phone with Priceline, then they transferred me to Booking.com (not sure why) for hours, she was searching any available place for me. The places that she found for me is further away from where the conference was so I declined.

    Over an hour and half into it, they still have not found a place so I started driving to Riverwalk area to see if there is any other places which had any open rooms, I stopped by 2 places and they had none, then the girl on the phone said, there is a Homewood Hilton Suites but "the cost is too high and I need to get approved by my supervisor" so she put me on hold again, I finally got to Homewood Suites and asked the front desk if they have available room and how much, they said "Yes, we have rooms" so I was like, "I am done driving around and asking for any open rooms" then Booking.com said "it is expensive and my supervisor said they will have to find a place closer to where I was originally placed at Extended Stay."

    I said, "This is not ok as it's almost 2am and I have to get up in a few hours". She said, "You can send the bill statements to us and we may be able to reimburse for that stay". Yes, after I returned from my trip, I emailed my hotel statement and no one called me or contacted back, when I called 1-2 weeks later, they were going to reimburse me $50 for my $1000 hotel cost, I said, "Are you joking". If I would have known about the hotel cancelation, I would have found a different place ahead of time without costing me this much and they put me in a difficult position where I had no time to look for a place in a last second.

    The most horrible service and I will NEVER EVER BOOKED with Booking.com or Priceline ever again. Extended stay sucked as they are the one let the priceline and booking.com down. Right after I booked the trip, Extended stay messaged me about when I would be checking in and I said around midnight due to the flight landing time and car rental, that was it. Nothing else from them for canceling my room. While I was in the lobby, there was a family came in and the room that they got given, already had people in there, "TV was playing, the latch was on" so they decided to go without getting another room there. That place sucked. NEVER AGAIN.

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    Reviewed July 17, 2022

    I went on Priceline.com tonight to make a 2 night reservation. I found the hotel I wanted, and scheduled it accordingly at about $112 a night. After completing the reservation, I received a confirmation email showing a $125 tax fee added to the reservation. When I called to cancel, I was told that - even though I made the reservation just 5 minutes earlier - that there is a no-cancellation clause, and that since I cancelled it already, I'm now out $354. Adding insult to injury, I have no place to stay for the two nights. Mind you, every other site I have ever used will show the total cost before actually placing the charge, which I expected to happen. It did not! I will never use Priceline.Com again for anything.

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    Reviewed July 16, 2022

    Hotel was cheaper if booked directly. Used an express deal which allows Priceline to pick the hotel for a bigger discount. Apparently was just a lie. The hotel also looked nothing like the pictures and was dirty and run down.

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    Reviewed July 16, 2022

    Priceline booked a room at a hotel for me. When I to the hotel I was told they had no such booking. So I called Priceline to inform them that hotel told me I was not in their computer and no resv. Going back and forth with Priceline, sitting on hold for 45 minutes twice, they told me nothing they could do so I paid for a room I don't have and nothing they can do. Well my complaint to the BBB is next. Also I will depute this with my credit card company. Bad business dealing with Priceline.

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    After a positive interaction with Priceline, Darryl increased their star rating on July 21, 2022.

    Updated review: July 21, 2022

    After the double booking nightmare, I decided to give Priceline one more call. After escalating the matter again, there was someone who understood the situation and refunded me for the double booking. Priceline is back in my good graces!!!

    Original Review: July 16, 2022

    Well, double booked a car rental by mistake and fell into the dreaded no-refundable category, when they read a script of why they can't refund the money for the fake rental although it was 3 weeks before the rental takes place. Tried to navigate up the chain but everyone has the same script, so don't waste your precious time "escalating the matter". Very disappointed with Priceline and will definitely be taking my business somewhere else.

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    Reviewed July 15, 2022

    I had a flight and had to change it. When I did they gave me a $13.99 credit. I ended up having to cancel the entire trip and they gave me a second credit of $390.20. My boyfriend had the same original flights and had to change. At first, they gave him a credit of $197.60. Then when we had to cancel, they gave him $260.59. We had to cancel due to getting sick. It took me 6 hours to cancel. Now I have been on the phone with them for over 3 hours trying to use the credits. Only to find out that I have to use each one for a separate ticket. Which means we are losing money and having to pay additional money to them even though the new round trip flights are cheaper. DO NOT USE THEM!!!

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    Reviewed July 15, 2022

    My dear uncle passed in Canada. I was searching for flights and hotels to go for the funeral and memorial services. As I had many windows open, I clicked reservation by mistake on Priceline for a hotel. I immediately called and told them this was a mistake and I would like to cancel. But, after talking to a few people, they told me that they cannot cancel per their policy. I told them that I do understand the policy; but, in this case, I called them literally the second I clicked reserve on the website - so, this was clearly a mistake. But, they said there is nothing they can do about it. I have had similar situations in the past with hotels and other companies and in ALL cases I was accommodated. I will NEVER use Priceline or recommend anyone to use it. Much better to reserve directly through the hotel. At best, Priceline is only good to provide a comparison between different hotel prices. But, even for that Google hotel search is more flexible and works better.

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    Reviewed July 15, 2022

    They absolutely do not honor their price guarantee. I had booked a room and found it over ten dollars cheaper on two different sites. Was told they don’t honor other pew sites prices. What?? Isn’t that the idea of the guarantee?? It literally says "If you find a lower price, we will refund you 100 percent of the difference.” Customer service is VERY RUDE. AND LIARS. RUN.

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    Reviewed July 14, 2022

    When I searched on Priceline to book a hotel for my trip I put in the dates of my trip PROPERLY and even had my husband check it. However, when I chose my deal and booked the hotel, the dates of the trip defaulted to the current date. After numerous hours on the phone with Priceline, they refuse to assist me in a productive manner and refused to take responsibility for their software glitch. When you call or chat with customer service they are unable to make any changes to the dates of the hotel stay and only give you an option to cancel. Then the hotel can then refuse to cancel and you are just out your money. Even if you purchase travel insurance which is basically useless.

    This company is horrible and I would advise anyone to not use a third party booking site, especially Priceline. Save yourself a lot of money and headaches by just book directly with your hotel. I ended up being out an additional $100 because I had to make the changes with the hotel directly even though Priceline's software was at fault. Zero responsibility or accountability by Priceline makes them a bunch of Crooks!

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    Reviewed July 13, 2022

    I booked a trip through Priceline. I planned on leaving on a Tuesday and Monday morning woke up to my daughter very ill. Come to find out she came down with Covid. Shortly after others in our group started getting symptoms. Priceline refused my refund. She put me on hold as if she was going to help me only to get back on the phone to let me know the “hotel” would not refund me. What really got me is she blamed the hotel when everything was through Priceline. They could have rescheduled me for the following week or something. I begged them to just reschedule not to deny my refund. It’s a sad way to do business. So basically I paid for a service that I never used. I never checked in at the hotel, I never even got to leave town.

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    Reviewed July 13, 2022

    Don't use them!! I booked a rental car thru them for Hertz. I called Hertz cancelled the reservation and then called Priceline and they said they would not honor cancellation. They literally took $387.85 and will refund this money even though I cancelled three hours later the CROOKS AT PRICELINE FEEL THEY SHOULD KEEP $387.85. WHAT A SCAMMM!!!!

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    Reviewed July 13, 2022

    So me and my girlfriend decided to go to the taste of Chicago on July 9. We did a little bar hopping just enjoying the city. As the night went on we decided to just stay the night and drive back home the next day so we got on Priceline.com. Found a hotel to stay at but the hotel for the night that we was in the city. Get to the hotel, the hotel tell us that Priceline has booked us for July 10 and the check-in was for 3 PM so I tried to cancel my reservation because they would not let me get in the hotel and I was just out of her room so I called Priceline. They tell me that I had to go back to the hotel. Make a long story short I waited five days call back priceless. They tell me they can’t give me my money back after telling me it was a mess up on their end. They kept $273.53 so don’t go though them. They're Real crooks when he comes to your money and getting a refund back.

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    Reviewed July 13, 2022

    I booked a package vacation that included airfare, hotel and rental car. I paid an additional $600 for nonstop flight out of my pocket. Upon hoteĺ checkout the hotel made us pay the amount due. When I called Priceline they transferred me to Booking.com and they transferred me back. No answers out of either one. No breakdown or explanation.. Cost was a Thousand Dollars more. I will be hard pressed to ever use either of them again.

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    Reviewed July 13, 2022

    So I’ve put about a months worth of trips through Priceline this, is in July, I booked these trips back in November. Every single trip I booked with priceline there has been an extra charge. I’m talking to the tune of $400 at some places. The trip my wife took to Utah price line literally doubled what it cost us. I made multiple calls to customer service and they wanted to help me not at all they could barely speak English.

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    Reviewed July 13, 2022

    I’m having surgery and got a deal that the app chooses one of 3 hotels. It stated they were all downtown, which they were not upon booking. Now I’m stuck with a hotel far away from the hospital and they won’t even switch to one of the other hotels listed in deal that’s closer. And they have availability because I checked. Second time no one has worked with me for actual reasoning, like having surgery. The 3 people I talked to all stopped responding. Never booking through them again.

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    Reviewed July 12, 2022

    I made a reservation on 7/12/2022 for a trip on August 18th 2022 and was given charge of $570.39 for a 3 night stay at $159 per night using the "pay with Affirm" product. Once I clicked submit I realized that I had not entered the discount code which was provided to me by the hotel staff. I immediately phone Priceline and asked that the reservation be cancelled so that I could enter the discount code which would save me $20 a night x3 (so my total cost for the 3 day stay would be $471.79), The Priceline representative informed me that I would need to call the 3rd Party "Affirm" and ask them to cancel the transaction, so I did, when I contacted the "Affirm" agent they stated that the transaction was still pending on the Priceline side and that I need to have them release the transaction so that they could cancel it. So I called Priceline back and informed that that the "Affirm" representative told me that Priceline needed to release the transaction.

    At this I was informed that there was nothing they could do. I said then, "What about the 200% refund if I find a better price." I gave her the discount code, and she stated that she could not enter the discount code on Pricelines' website to confirm the rate I was given for $139. Per night (*Here lies the problem- me either). So consequently they would not give one of their so called VIP members any help in resolving the error. I'm so disgusted with this company and will never used them to book anything ever again!

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    Reviewed July 12, 2022

    You will get ripped off and stranded. Refunds, yeah, try again. You're BEST off going directly to companies for their services. Got charged for a car rental, but the airport didn't have it waiting. Need to contact them? Good freaking luck. You had better think again if you are under that impression. Think you'll get a refund, nope, don't hold your breath.

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    Reviewed July 12, 2022

    Hotel was fully booked but on Priceline’s website showed me that they had rooms available. They wouldn’t give me my refund, they are saying that they are not able to confirm that the hotel was fully booked that night. It has been 10 days now and I still have not gotten my money back. Horrible company. Wouldn’t recommend for anyone to book with them.

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    Reviewed July 12, 2022

    This reservation was paid for months in advance for son's wedding. I am in a wheelchair, when we arrived to the hotel, we were given a room, and when we entered the room, we found that it wasn't the room that I had reserved, my wife showed them the itinerary and she was told that they didn't have any rooms for handicap people and put the blame on Priceline! When I returned home from the wedding, I contacted Priceline about what took place, all I was given were excuses, and basically offered nothing for their mistakes and the discomfort that it caused me, a disabled veteran. It was clear that the person who I was conversing with didn't know how to do her job, there was nothing rectified during the conversation.

    Today, I contacted them today, because I had questions about the differences in cost between Priceline and another travel site, whereupon both are linked to a site that gives military discounts, I asked them how is it possible that Priceline room rate that is in the same hotel, same type of room, on the same day, that they were about 15 dollars lower per night than the other site, yet, when you calculated the cost for both sites, the other site was some 15 dollars cheaper than Priceline! I asked how is that possible, how can Priceline charge 170 in taxes and fees versus Expedia charging under 90. Again I was given lame excuses, and then they claimed that they don't give military discount, that they are already giving the lowest price! which is very misleading and disrespectful towards those who have served their country!

    I was wronged by Priceline in my june reservation and they did nothing to fix the wrong! they could have offered some form of credit back for the inconvenience and for their mistake, or could have offered a discount for a future reservation! So when I said that they are losing a customer and that I was going to a complaint! I didn't get a reaction from them. I am very disappointed with the treatment that I received and I feel that their commercials with the girl from the big bang theory, are misleading! I guess they got a big head, with the publicity over the years! I am not impressed by them.

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    Reviewed July 12, 2022

    Wish there was 0 start I can select. I will definitely select 0. I booked a flight on Priceline and had to cancel later on because of work. They say I get full travel credit back. However, trust me, with the full travel credit you have in hand now, you can do nothing. They have so many rules about those travel credits, like you can't book it with a round trip, but only a one-way trip or you literally can't use the travel credit with Delta to book anything and they had to spend 1.5 hrs to find it out and tell me that.

    Ever since I had to rebook the trip, I spent 4 hrs, just to communicate with what I want to do, the flight details, and eventually nothing was successfully done so in the end, I just gave up on the so called travel credit as I don't ever want to waste another second of my life with them. I wish everyone would be aware of what they will encounter once using Priceline. All the money could be gone. NEVER EVER USE PRICELINE!!!

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    Reviewed July 11, 2022

    I booked a travel package (airfare, hotel, ground transportation) for my 20th wedding anniversary. Priceline quoted me a package price for all three pieces and I booked it. We've come to the point where we are a few weeks before traveling and I was double checking the booking. I chatted with Priceline via their app to check everything. At that time they confirmed my booking was complete for air, hotel, and ground transportation. They also said I could call the ground transportation company to confirm the pickup at the airport. I called Mozio, and they could not find my information.

    I contacted Priceline again, this time by text chat, and was told the same thing, call Mozio. Then I called the Priceline agent to actually speak with them. After a very LONG time of being repeatedly on hold, the agent said that a supervisor would contact me via email within 3 to 5 days. Five days later I had not been contacted, so I called back in again. This new agent said that they didn't see anything logged for resolutions from a supervisor yet, but that the five days was not up until end of business that day, so I may yet get something in my email. I was told to call back again if nothing showed.

    Two days later, no email came, so I called in AGAIN. After a very long (~60 min) run around I finally was able to talk to a supervisor. I explained AGAIN (as I have for every single agent I spoke with) what happened. I told her that ground transportation was part of the package I booked and paid for, and that I wanted them to send the booking to Mozio so that I didn't have to pay the fee a second time. After a while she told me that I was never charged for ground transportation, and that she was "sorry, but there was nothing she could do".

    In the end, she provided me no help, and no resolution. I find it HIGHLY suspicious that none of the other reps told me I hadn't been charged (when I stated it multiple times with each agent), and that it came up days later when I said that I felt like Priceline had stolen my money. This was a package I confirmed on their site then paid for. Then they altered the package AFTER I had paid for it WITHOUT ANY NOTIFICATION THAT THE PACKAGE HAD CHANGED! I WILL NEVER USE PRICELINE OR RECOMMEND PRICELINE AGAIN! I'm glad I found the issue before I was standing in the airport of Cancun waiting for transportation that would never come.

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    Reviewed July 10, 2022

    Please do not use Priceline. When I looked up the reviews of the hotel they had chosen for me I was sickened to see many recent reviews of bed bugs and uncleanliness. They refused to refund or help me.

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    Reviewed July 10, 2022

    Booked a flight for my son from Rochester NY to Columbia SC. On his incoming flight from Rochester to Charlotte American Airlines delayed and missed his connecting flight from Charlotte to Columbia, and had to drive 2hrs to pick him up. On his return flight American Airlines canceled his flight all together from Charlotte to Rochester and rebooked him for 24hrs. A total mess on every level and American Airlines had horrible customer service, offering no other flight options. Save your money and drive. Airlines take your money and don't live up to their end of commitment. Y'all don't deserve our business.

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    Reviewed July 9, 2022

    Purchased 2 airlines one for myself, one for my mother with trip insurance. Called 83 days in advance to either cancel or credit "my" ticket alone due to serious health condition with pending surgery. They canceled and put my mother's ticket credit on hold. NOT MINE. 7 days later all flights are booked but 1 that I thankfully found by luck and paid 1400 which was triple the price she paid for while they "escalated investivate why her ticket was canceled without her permission". 96 hours after being promised it would to take 24 to 76 hours to resolve I have yet to hear from them. So now I'm out 595 which included trip insurance. She's out 600 which included trip insurance and I'm out another 1400. I have emails, phones calls and reservations to back up the truth.

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    Reviewed July 9, 2022

    I am extremely upset with Priceline. We had booked and checked into our room to walk into a horror story. From blood and stains on the sheets and pillows to unknown substances on the floor, a disgusting bathtub, this was a -5 star motel. And Priceline does not stand behind their polices. I had up to 11:59pm day of to cancel my reservation and pay a 48% penalty, leaving me with only 52% of my money back and the refused to give it to me. It clearly states it in the confirmation email that is the policy. I spent many hours talking back and forth between the hotel and Priceline to get no money back. They give me a 20% off coupon to use on future bookings but even that’s restricted and you can only use it on specific hotels that don’t even tell you the names of so you can’t even look up what you're walking into. What kind of business is that?! Just horrible. Priceline needs to step up and honour their policy.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2022

    We booked a car rental for a full sized car at an airport location. They lied, it wasn’t at the airport. Then car rental company only had mid sized car. We obviously had paid for a full size but Priceline wouldn’t do anything to help get us refunded the difference. Thank God after several emails and phone calls the car rental company is being honest and refunding our credit card. Priceline could care less once they get your money. I had given them a second chance as last time we used them they messed up our hotel reservation. I’m done. Don’t use them, they’re horrible! I wouldn’t even give them the 1 star but can’t put 0 or can’t leave a review.

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    Reviewed July 8, 2022

    I can’t review this company unless I leave at one star and it does not deserve the one star. I had the worst experience I have ever had with any company. Let me tell you if you make a mistake on your reservation or in my case if they make a mistake on your reservation there is no fixing it. I went through three levels of supervisors. They all told me the same thing that was written in fine print. I was stranded with my little boy because it was put in the computer that I was renting a car from Orlando and I would return the car from Orlando. That is impossible because I flew from Orlando to Denver. I was not asking for a refund. I was not asking for a discount. All I was asking for is a city change. They would not accommodate me in anyway. My reservation was with Hertz, Hertz could not do anything because they did not receive the money. Priceline did. I will never use this company again.

    I have used other third-party companies such as Hotels.com, Expedia, Kayak, Ladybug, etc. and never have I been left in this condition. My original reservation was $600. I had to spend an additional $800 in order to get a rental car in Denver because no one would help me. Read the find print and do not expect them to accommodate you in any way.

    This is horrible Customer service. It has been several several years. I don’t even remember the last time that I took a vacation. This is my first vacation with my son. I made sure that everything was in order to make this a great vacation for us. And I ended up spending More than I had budgeted for. If you have ever read a review and taking it to heart please listen to this review. This company should not be able to just take your money for no reason take your money because they made a mistake. I will never use this company again. And I deal with a lot of people day to day and I will spread the word and every chance I get. I will make sure that people know about my experience with Priceline

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    Reviewed July 8, 2022

    Changed flight to suit my 82 year old mother’s needs and was charged as much as a regular flight would cost AGAIN! Don’t fall for it. They milk you for every possible thing including a seat assignment!

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    Reviewed July 6, 2022

    I bought from Priceline and it was also non-cancelable, non refundable car rental for 3 days. When try to get the car they couldn't charge my credit card for incidentals so they did not give me the car. I was there for an hour talking to my credit card company nothing wrong with my card. Priceline said to me even if I couldn't get the car they still can charge me. So stay away from this company. It is all about money to them. They don't care what happens after they get your money.

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    Reviewed July 6, 2022

    I have booked flight tickets and then tested positive so had to cancel my booking. They refunded my booking amount and gave me a year of time to use the credit. But when I tried to book another flight using that credit that never happened- they dropped call, never return call, and then said I will be charged $100 to reuse the credit, whereas in the email it said clearly there will be no charge, I will just have to pay the difference. I tried calling them 3 times, every time I have hold for hours and hours and no luck. THEY SUCK!

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    Reviewed July 5, 2022

    My Priceline experience was terrible. Our plans changed and I wasn't allowed to cancel, I asked to speak with a manager and the rep said I would have to wait 17 minutes. I asked to be called back instead of holding and they said they couldn't do that...even though the rep called me back herself. The rep had noises in the background and it sounded like someone talking in her ear. I don't usually place poor reviews online, but I am compelled to do this when a company's policies and service is so poor. I will never use Priceline again.

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    Reviewed July 5, 2022

    On fourth of July I spent the night in my car because the hotel I had booked decided to have some surprise fees that I am unwilling to pay. I immediately called Priceline and their robotic customer service was not helpful in the least, never calling me back or coming to any resolution to the matter as I waited without a place to stay. In fact, their customer support team with their rudimentary English were trying everything they could to take the Hotels side. By the way it was written, this fee was completely unexpected and a scam. Meanwhile the hotel has my money and are not refunding it. That's ok, VISA has been contacted and and I've issued a charge back for the first time ever in 20 years.

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    Reviewed July 5, 2022

    This company keeps your money. I requested a refund no more than 5 min after I submitted and they refunded $900 of a $3200 vacation package. I asked for the refund because I didn’t realize it was usd.

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    Reviewed July 4, 2022

    My trip got canceled 2 weeks before my rental car reservation. They don't allow any cancelation on the reservation. I've never heard of a company doing this. Didn't think I needed to read the fine print to check for this. Lost $500 and they will just rent the car to someone else. That's a trash business model.

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    Reviewed July 4, 2022

    Don't ever book a flight with Priceline. They don't give a **. They just want their money. My husband and I bought a ticket through this horrible third party and what happened is that our original itinerary got changed. The new one has a flight landing in Mexico City at 8pm while our connecting flight would leave Mexico at 5 FIVE pm. If we maybe had a time machine we could make the flight possible. I don't know how many times we called Priceline trying to get a refund but they hung up on us MANY times. Still haven't solved the problem. You would rather not fly at all than buy a ticket with Priceline. Oh wait a minute, that's the exact same thing.

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    Reviewed July 3, 2022

    We had booked few international flights and after couple of hour, they called us back and asking us to pay more saying flight prices increased. We are not first timers to book these flights. It never happened before with other sites like Expedia, Orbitz. With them we get our tickets confirmed right after booking but this time we thought of giving it a try as prices are pretty cheap and to our dismay these are really liars, they just waste your time for nothing. Please be aware, they are not genuine.

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    Reviewed July 3, 2022

    My flight was cancelled couple times and one of the supervisor promised me the company would give my money back from the hotel if I made another reservation to match my new flight date. Priceline said it will never give my money back, I lost money on the second hotel and I am having hard time to get my money back from the airlines. Really horrible business and unethical employees. Do not trust in this company or their employees.

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    Reviewed July 3, 2022

    I reserved a price breaker deal with the full understanding I would not get to pick the brand name of the hotel. I did not know I would be placed an hour away from my location typed in their search engine. NO ONE has yet to show me the contract I agreed to that says location would be determined after payment. Customer service agents have been very good about disconnecting, making false promises and repeating the same statement “It was in the contract.” HORRIBLE customer service but Priceline prides themselves on!

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    Reviewed July 2, 2022

    I’ve used Priceline multiple times to book trips. Booked a hotel and read reviews and I saw several that said the room contained bugs, roaches, mold, and ** needles and was in a sketchy area. Called to cancel not even 5 minutes later and was told that they could not cancel my room. Never again Priceline!!

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    Reviewed July 2, 2022

    Don’t book with Priceline. I booked a Hawaii hotel with rainbow tower and ocean view, but somehow they changed it to another tower with ocean view. I called the hotel and found out before I checked in, so I argued with Priceline senior representative and she talked to a supervisor and promised me to reimburse me back the refund, but now no one is going to admit the refund and I have been talking to them for so many times and they are not got to solve it. This was the first time I booked with Priceline and never book with them again. Priceline just cheating consumers.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaffRatesTimeliness

    Reviewed July 2, 2022

    I booked a hotel through Priceline and received an email confirming my reservation. When I arrived at the hotel they had no record of my reservation. After being on hold for over 45 minutes a representative told me the reservation somehow didn't go through and they couldn't get me into the hotel as it was now fully booked. Instead they promised to book me into another hotel in the same area for the same price or less. Rather than fulfilling this promise they offered to reserve me a room at a hotel much further away from the attractions we were interested in and $50 more expensive. As a result I decided to end my vacation early after spending another 20 minutes on hold trying to get into contact with them, messaging their help line and emailing them, with no response.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed July 2, 2022

    Another company that went past the cancellation period, didn't listen, had dropped calls and miscommunication. $450.00 down the drain as a struggling college student, I can afford this. No-one understood, there was no compassion and it was all lined up with their KPIs. Key performance indicators on the call, no-one stepped above and beyond. No one.!

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    Customer ServiceRefunds & Payouts

    Reviewed July 1, 2022

    Priceline offered a "FULL" refund if the flight was cancelled within 24 hours, I even paid $50.00 more each person to have the "Economy Fully Refundable" flight. I cancelled the flight within 10 of booking and did not receive my refund. When I called the day that I had cancelled, I was ensured that the refund was processed. It has been 10 days and no refund. I call back today and was referred to call the airlines. I did not book with the airlines, the airlines did not offer the refund, PRICELINE did. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!

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    Refunds & PayoutsCommunication

    Reviewed June 30, 2022

    Pandemic Priceline honored a credit already paid and would expire 5/2022. They booked flight, canceled after 2 days and didn't notify me or find the reason OR reimburse me for what I already paid for.

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    Priceline Company Information

    Company Name:
    Priceline
    Year Founded:
    1998
    Address:
    800 Connecticut Ave.
    City:
    Norwalk
    State/Province:
    CT
    Postal Code:
    06854
    Country:
    United States
    Website:
    www.priceline.com