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Travelocity provides online travel booking services where users can book flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. Established in 1996, Travelocity offers a Price Match Guarantee and customer support for flexible travel planning.

Pros
  • User-friendly website interface
  • Wide range of travel options
  • Affordable pricing available
Cons
  • Frequent booking errors
  • Long wait times for support
  • Misleading pricing information

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 28, 2014

    I accidentally booked my flight for the same date leaving and coming. Upon arrival to the airport, US Airlines directed me back to Travelocity and Travelocity directed me back to US Airlines. As I was at the counter explaining my situation instead of notating the account, they marked my ticket as a no show. Travelocity stated the ticket has no value because I was a no show. I called 8 times and each time was left on the phone for 45 minutes and no one could resolve the situation. They finally stated I could purchase another ticket and pay a $200 service fee and pay twice as much to get a one way ticket home. The customer service for Travelocity is El Salvador and this is what happens when you employ foreigners while taking food out of the mouths of American soil. Big company making big money and Americans lose again!!! Who really cares about the people?

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed June 27, 2014

    Travelocity is the total nightmare and it is the worst customer service I have ever experienced. I booked a babymoon to Punta Cana through Travelocity. Due to my unpredictable work schedule, I purchased travel protection for $190 something dollars, as it was advertised that change/cancellation of the itinerary would be so easy. In about two weeks, we really had to change the date of travel, so we called Travelocity. Like many other big companies, we had to wait and withstand several transfers b/w departments.

    Finally, the agent told us that we can only change it over the phone and all other nonsense procedures must be complied. So, I told him that I would check the rates online to see what comparable options we have, and he at least acquiesced, implying that the rates that they would provide over the phone for travel protection would be the same as the rates online. So my wife and I spent hours in searching for the best rates online. However, when I called the second time, another customer rep informed us that the rates for travel protection were much more expensive than the rates online. I hated her I DO NOT CARE attitude so did I hate her supervisor's attitude. I would never buy this nonsense travel protection nor do anything with Travelocity anymore.

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    Reviewed June 26, 2014

    Booked a hotel that we felt unsafe at. The hotel had to give the refund and said it had to be a 24 hour notice. We booked it an hour before I tried to cancel. We actually stayed 20 minutes away at another hotel and Travelocity said the hotel will not give us a refund. Colonial hotel Long Beach...... pictures are deceiving and Travelocity will never use your service for promoting such a bad hotel.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 23, 2014

    Booked a hotel reservation through Travelocity. Hotel was disgusting and checked out immediately. Was told by hotel that I had to get a refund from Travelocity since it was booked through them. Went around and around with Travelocity for days only to be told that refund had to come from hotel and not them and that hotel manager was refusing refund. I will never book through a third party again. From now on I will book directly with hotel, airline, etc. Travelocity was useless and I do not believe you actually get a real discount by booking through a third party. They disconnected me a few times, left me on hold endlessly, told me conflicting information. I am out this money but I did write a letter to the CEO of the hotel chain and posted a review on their website. I am now submitting this on Travelocity. People Beware - do not book through a third party - not worth it.

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    Reviewed June 23, 2014

    My minor daughter was flying home from ICN to IAD through Seattle and connection to Minnesota. She missed her connection because she was given 1 hr: 17 mins to clear international baggage, go through immigration, go through customs and go through security for re-check in 1 hour 17 minutes. Is it possible? She missed her flight and neither Travelocity with whom we booked the ticket nor Delta wants to take responsibility! Meanwhile, my helpless suffering continues..... and no help from Travelocity or Delta, whatsoever!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 22, 2014

    I booked my trip a few months prior to my trip. My flight had changed so they contacted me to make changes to my itinerary. When I called them, they kept me on the phone for two hours. When I arrived for my first connecting flight, I found out Travelocity had messed up my tickets and was told I had to wait on standby until the next available seat came up on the following flights. I had to wait an additional five hours to get on my flight which made me miss my next flight. I will never use Travelocity again.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed June 21, 2014

    Website States Best Price Guarantee. Booked Trip. Less than 48 hours later, I receive an email stating that the price has dropped for my trip. I go to the website and the price dropped $341. I call in, after 4 representatives and an hour of waiting, I'm advised that it is only if I dispute within 24 hours. Not only did I not get the Best Price, as I was guaranteed, but they also are not honoring their best price. The staff is completely rude and demeaning - also unhelpful. (Also, why would they send me an email to let me know that the price has dropped, if they were not going to honor it?)

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    Reviewed June 7, 2014

    Please contact me in regards to travelocity class action lawsuit. This is a evil company with shoddy practice it seems and do not respect customer and could care less about the outcome of their actions. Greed, corrupt and left-handed.. Contact me. Seriously.

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    Sales & MarketingPricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed June 4, 2014

    Not being a frequent traveler, this small town girl went with Travelocity for its commercials of guarantees and customer support. Travelocity allowed me to book a a connection flight in Atlanta (I have never seen such a massive airport in my life!!!) with very little time in between. On top of that, the initial flight to Atlanta ran late (Delta for both flights), and didn't communicate that they had several passengers aboard connecting to that connection. Several of us missed that flight and I learned a LOT about air travel and the "price all at one stop" scam. The beginning of the first vacation I've had in years and I miss my flight. Travelocity should have red flagged those choices for me. I had no idea it could take 1/2 hour to cross an airport, how would I know that?? I blame Delta too, but theirs was secondary to Travel-atrocity's failure to me and my family.

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    Reviewed May 29, 2014

    We are having a HORRIBLE experience with Travelocity!! My elderly mother is traveling to Hawaii to visit her sister after a heart attack. She has 2 connections flights at busy airports. Having never traveled before, we decided to drive her directly to her last connection in an effort to avoid confusion. No big deal right?! Wrong!! Travelocity will not allow my mother to board at last connection without shelling out an extra $200!!! We don't even want money back from first fight - only to simply drop her off at the last flight direct to Maui. Sell the seat, keep the change Travelocity. Way to be human and show you care about your customers, especially the elderly.

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    Staff

    Reviewed May 28, 2014

    Two separate couples made separate reservations through the same agent at Travelocity and were promised a $400 hotel package along with airfare and hotel stay. When we arrived, we were told it had expired. The key is we didn't bring the 400 up - the res agent did. He sealed the deal with it. We were told because there was no cost incurred, there would be no reimbursement. So much for goodwill. Travelocity lied to us and did nothing. Buyer beware!!! Will never use them again.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed May 21, 2014

    Booked a flight for my daughter to visit from San Antonio to Florence, SC from May 15 through May 21, 2014. Flight was to arrive at 12:30. First flight from San Antonio took off 55 minutes late. When she arrived in Charlotte for the connecting flight it was taking off as she was landing. She was placed on stand-by status. Sat in the airport for 8 hours. Finally found a flight to Myrtle Beach SC which is 1.5 hours away. Drove in a horrible thunderstorm and finally got her home at 12:00. She missed a whole day of her vacation. Her return flight was departing at 2:16 on May 21. Arrive at the airport. Flight had been changed over 2 months ago and no one contacted either of us.

    She had to work that day. Flight was rescheduled for 6:00 taking her from Florence to Charlotte to Dallas and then San Antonio. She is scheduled to arrive there at 12:00 tonight, missing her scheduled work shift. Called Travelocity, was transferred several times and put on hold for approximately 40 + minutes only to be "conveniently disconnected" and having to start all over. I am tenacious and can call as often as I need to. After reading some of the above complaints, this company is stealing from its customers and providing false reservation confirmations and getting away with it. Anyone interested in a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT? I will be contacting local media and talk shows. They will not win!

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed May 16, 2014

    I bought tickets (2) for a trip on May 7/2014 to Istanbul. I had been checking for days for a good price but it seemed the ticket prices were going up!!! $1,593.00 X 2. When I checked today, $1,265.00!!!! Same flight. When I called to ask about price, on hold in Manila!! No help!!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 16, 2014

    I booked a travel package through this company (Travelocity) and was left stranded at the airport for over three hours because of a mistake on my rental car, in which I had to come out of pocket and pay for a rental that was already paid for with my package. I was told that I would be reimbursed for the rental within 5-7 business days, but it's been two weeks and nothing. So I called Travelocity and they have been giving me the run around for the last two days. Recommendation: do not book with this company unless you want to be stranded and left out to fend for yourself, and come out of pocket for something you've paid for.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed May 13, 2014

    I booked a package (flight, hotel, and car) through Travelocity and circumstances required me to cancel the reservation a month before my scheduled travel date. I purchased a travel reimbursement through Travelocity, but the fine print was confusing. I called Travelocity and, the first time, I was on hold for over an hour. Now, while I'm writing this, I have been on hold for over 45 minutes. I decided to email them my questions concerning cancellation since they claimed to reply within 48 hours. The response I got from them was, 'This is an unmonitored Alias and you will not receive a response to this message' which means they don't monitor their customer emails which leaves customers with no other option than to call and sit on hold for half a lifetime. THIS IS RIDICULOUS! I've learned my lesson and hope this helps other learn from my mistakes. NEVER book through Travelocity! Its more trouble than its worth.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 11, 2014

    I booked a hotel and car rental through Travelocity last month and when I was on my trip and needed to reach them, I was on hold for over 40 minutes and finally had to hang up. Now I'm trying to reach them regarding three flights I booked through them for Spirit Airlines in June and again I can't reach anyone in customer service after holding on over 40 minutes. I've tried both phone numbers listed on my travel confirmation. Horrible customer service. Will never use Travelocity again!!!

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    Reviewed May 7, 2014

    Booked a flight to Warsaw, Poland from Tampa via New York... Travelocity would not provide airline confirmation numbers, and would not return Any emails. Stuck in Warsaw without flight back to US.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 6, 2014

    My husband and I booked a trip (including flight and rental car) through Travelocity online with no trouble. Then, our plans changed and we needed to upgrade our car to a bigger vehicle. My husband called Travelocity twice and was on hold both times for >40 minutes. I tried to call again and go through "new reservation" instead of "change reservation" option and got RIGHT THROUGH to a rep (who, I might add, I could hardly understand because of such a heavy foreign accent). This guy, Ian, was trying to be helpful, I'm sure but he couldn't help me and put me through to another division...I'll assume it's the "change your reservation" people and I have now been holding again for 30 minutes.....Customer service of this kind is AWFUL!!!!!!!!! The only reason I continue to hold is so I can make a complaint and then I will be sure to cancel my whole reservation with them...and spread the word not to use them....WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 6, 2014

    I booked a trip to Long Island City, NY on January 26, 2014 through Travelocity. The reservation was at the Wyndham Garden hotel in Long Island City for May 2-4th, 2014. At the time of booking, my VISA card was charged in full. On the morning of May 2nd, I received an email from Travelocity reminding me of my trip and an overview of my itinerary. When I arrived at the hotel, the clerk at the front desk informed me that Travelocity had cancelled my reservation and that there were no available rooms for my family and I to stay in. I called Travelocity to inquire about this cancellation. I was on hold for 30 minutes before I got to talk to someone. I explained the situation and was again put on hold.

    I waited for 40 minutes this time and was transferred to the supervisor on duty. I explained the situation to him and he informed me that when the hotel went to charge Travelocity that morning, there were no funds in their account. I was very disappointed and upset that no one had called me or emailed me to explain this situation. I was not informed until I had driven 6 and 1/2 hours to the hotel. He again put me on hold for 30 minutes while he tried to "resolve the situation". By this time I had waited in the parking lot with my family for an hour and forty minutes.

    This is unacceptable. I was penalized for something that I did not do. This was Travelocity's problem and I am without a hotel room for the weekend. The supervisor got back on the line and took my phone number. He informed me that he was going to contact the manager of the hotel and call me back within 20 minutes. I had him repeat my phone number three times to ensure he had the correct number. Today is Monday and I am still waiting for his phone call. I called Travelocity back Friday after waiting 40 minutes again and asked to speak to the supervisor. The representative I got on the phone refused to let me speak to the supervisor. This is unacceptable customer service! Travelocity cancelled my reservation without letting me know, charged my credit card and I had to pay $720.20 for a hotel room for the weekend. My family and I are incredibly disappointed and missed out on a full day in Long Island City due to the lack of customer service and competency.

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    Reviewed May 1, 2014

    I bought an airline ticket and got insurance just in case I get sick. Well I get so sick that I cannot drive myself to a doctor and don't have anybody in town to help either. I find out later that because I didn't visit a doctor that I cannot get my refund. A simple thermometer can tell me I'm sick and I shouldn't need to spend any more money. American medicine doesn't ever solve my health issues and there are not alternative doctors in my hometown. So be American and robotic/sheep-like as possible if you want the insurance to work. Buying a ticket straight from an airline will prevent any of these problems from happening. The middleman has created the problem in this situation.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 1, 2014

    STAY AWAY!!!!!!!! Stay Away. Use Travelocity to see what's out there, then book directly with the hotel. I was double charged by a hotel which I booked through Travelocity. Travelocity has the attitude that it is between you and the hotel, even if you booked it through them. They don't seem concerned that their customers may be cheated by a hotel on a continuing basis. Their "customer service" is in another part of the world. They have difficulty understanding you and you have difficulty understanding them.

    I don't know how many times I had to explain to them that I was charged when I booked (according to my credit card statement) then charged again when I checked out. They will never call you back to see if the problem was resolved because THEY DON'T CARE! They want you to call them and then you have to repeat everything again. A GOOD COMPANY will follow the problem until it is resolved. I ended up resolving this with little help from them. STAY AWAY!!!!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 29, 2014

    I booked a flight on Friday, April 25th on 2014 to Miami, FL. The flight was for $373.00. I received a confirmation email where it show me going to a different city in Florida, so I immediately called Travelocity customer service and this agent by the name of "Richard" talk to me and said that since I booked my flight and it was the same day I was entitled to a refund and that I should receive it in the next 24 to 48 hours. Well 48 hours has passed and I'm still waiting so now I'm calling and when I tell them the reason on why I'm calling, they either hang up or tell me they can't find my name or trip ID # in the system.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 18, 2014

    I own a business and use several different hotel chains to book trade shows. I called Travelocity mistakenly for the Courtyard Navy Yard, DC. They assigned me to the Capital Skyline Hotel and I assumed the hotel was a Marriott! I was told I could cancel in advance! I NEVER received a confirmation!!! I called Chase/Marriott Credit Card and they could not tell me who was "on-line res" pending the charge. I called the hotel... They could not tell me which 3rd party company! I never received an Travelocity email confirmation they had promised or this incident wound not have happened. I spent over 1 hour on a recorded line with Chase and Travelocity trying to cancel on 4/17, the day I was to check in when I found out who the 3rd party was!! Travis at Travelocity kept staying the company policy and refused to find a supervisor. My charge is $846.68 and Travelocity will not refund. I will continue to pursue this issue. As a consumer I never received a confirmation email.

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    Reviewed April 11, 2014

    My wife booked a vacation in August 2013. By November they had changed the original flights four times until we were basically losing a whole day and not arriving until evening when original flights got us all there before noon. We have spent four months and while we have received the refund for the airfare (direct from the airlines) we have not yet received the "promised" hotel refund that took until March 10, 2014 to settle. Just now I have another "promise" that we will have refund in 7-10 days... We'll see.

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    Reviewed April 8, 2014

    Travelocity takes your money up front ($4,800 in my case). If you cancel because sickness or miss the first flight, they don't refund any money. Neither they refund hotel reservations nor car rentals. Even when I had bought a $56 in travel insurance, they kept all the money. Their Berkley Insurance Company declined my refund request in spite of providing medical letters as evidence. A smart way to plan for travel is this; 1) Look for flights, hotels and cars online. Compare and decide. 2) Buy air tickets directly from the airline, they do allow rescheduling. 3) Reserve the hotel, no money upfront. Able to change or cancel easily. 4) Reserve the car, no money upfront. Able to change or cancel easily.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingStaff

    Reviewed April 6, 2014

    My heart does go out to this lady who wanted her $58 hotel reservation at the Chicago-Ritz-Carlton. I do know that such decisions are supposedly come from the early days of modern, advertising (especially printing where ads may number into the millions) & combined with the fact that humans will make mistakes, the courts making such rulings to not allow such mistakes to put companies out of business & reward individuals whose only role connected to society was they discovered a typo in a print.

    But, what about IF Travelocity (that's the company referenced above) sold a hotel room to ME, I RECEIVED THE USUALLY WRITTEN GUARANTEE. But, when I arrived still my hotel they had no reservation for me and were SOLD-OUT of Rooms! After multiple phone calls, endless "hours on hold" and disconnected lines/delayed call backs to me, the Travelocity Supervisor Alex said to me, "Yes, Mr. **, we have confirmed with the hotel manager that they are completely sold-out," and he would make sure that I would promptly reimburse the money I had paid. That was the end of his statement.

    Is it me or did he forget something?? He would not, and confirmed that Travelocity policy was to refund only; not even to book another room for me. I was, and remain (this JUST HAPPENED to me!) flabbergasted! Is Alex right? Not even a free hotel room next time, equal to the one they lost the reservation? I will gladly settle JUST for my out-of-pocket costs because I drove an hour out of my way for the "deal" they promised... and that I had paid for already! MORE TO COME! Will save some for a follow-up! But, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? ARE YOU NOT SURPRISED, HAS THIS HAPPENED TO YOU? Tell us your story!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 3, 2014

    Trip was cut short due to illness in family. I tried to short my hotel reservation by merely one day- a week before. Multiple holds, multiple unintelligible accented customer service representatives, multiple holds to dead-end help. Nowhere to go now. Very angry and hotel is wishing to help but has hands tied as well. All this and they have no record of my itinerary. Yet they can look up that I spent over $2000 on my trip. What the **?! BAD customer service. I'm not asking for a full refund. I'm just allowing their business to fill in where I leave off one day early. Just refund me the $140 off of $2000+!!!! It should not hurt Travelocity if Doubletree stated in person it doesn't bother them in the least! I will for now on buy direct from the hotel. This is ruining my trip, as if I didn't have to have sorrow at the loss of a loved one during the same time. JERKS!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 1, 2014

    We booked a flight though Travelocity for 3 seats and 1 lap child. Due to the lap child we had to use a live agent. We needed a 4/4 return departure and when I looked at our confirmation we realized they had incorrectly booked it for 4/5. I called Travelocity customer service and spoke to a rep who said they needed 72 hours and it will be reviewed. I spoke to a "supervisor" who said it should be done in 48 hours. When I called back in 48 hours, I was told they need an additional 24 hours. After waiting a total of 86 hours, I was told by a supervisor that I should email consumer.relations@travelocity.com, which yielded no response whatsoever. I called by 6 days later and was told by a "supervisor" that they need till Monday to finalize and correct the issue (another 48 hours). When I called Monday, I was told they were still "working" on it and that I would get a call back in 4-6 hours. Of course once again they did not call back. When I called back 6 hours later (around 11pm) I was told that all "supervisors" had left and I will hear back in the morning. It is now 11:30am and I still have yet to hear from Travelocity.

    The frustrating issues are:

    1. Hard to understand reps
    2. Extended hold times (most calls are placed on hold and last 40-60mins)
    3. The "supervisor" that I speak with often picks up the general line which makes me suspicious as to whether they are a "supervisor".

    4. There is absolutely no transparency and you can't get past the useless "customer service reps". You speak to the same people over and over again and they all say give them 24 hours!

    We are definitely canceling our Travelocity credit card and never using Travelocity again!!

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    Reviewed March 27, 2014

    We purchased a travel booking for approximately $1705.00 and Travelocity states they give 24hrs for full refund. Yet they refuse to refund $91.62. After numerous attempts they continue to state they have refunded everything. My banking institution verifies there is no record of such refund. I highly recommend everyone use a different travel company. Travelocity tells lies, does not follow their policies, and will steal from you. Be warned and careful!!!

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    Reviewed March 13, 2014

    My husband tried buying a flight for me last year through Travelocity thinking it was a good deal. He saw a flight for $438 began purchasing it and realized that he needed a round trip flight instead. He clicked the back button to leave the page and fix the reservation but the site confirmed his reservation instead. He didn't realize this until he had made the second reservation and received both confirmations in his email. He immediately called to cancel the first flight for the same destination but was denied a refund and was given a credit instead. They told him he had a year to use the credit, but that was it. No other rules or regulations, so my husband calmly agreed to the credit. When we tried to use the credit they told us we would have to pay the Airline a fee to reissue the ticket of $220. Half of what our credit was! I talked to the airline and they would not agree to waive the fee. Both Travelocity and American Airlines walked away with $438 for no service. That is robbery. Do not book your flights through Travelocity. They are stealing from people and have no shame of it.

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    Reviewed March 13, 2014

    My girlfriend and I booked a trip to Bermuda for Feb. 20 to 23, 2014. I am unable to walk and require wheelchair access to get around. I requested an accessible room with a wheelchair accessible bathroom with a shower seat. Although the itinerary said it was booked "no need to call to confirm", I e-mailed the hotel to confirm. The hotel responded that they would allocate a first floor accessible room. When we arrived we could not even get in to the hotel, never mind an accessible room. We spent at least 3 hours on the phone with Travelocity, several times being disconnected, or put on hold. The charges on my cell for these calls was over $300.00. With no help from them, we then spent the next hour calling 5 different hotels until we found one with accessibility.

    The new hotel cost $1100.00 over the amount we booked initially. So it cost me $1400.00 over what we planned, and hours of stress. When we arrived home, we spent several more hours on the phone with Travelocity, again getting disconnected and put on hold for long periods of time. We spoke to a supervisor (supposedly) named Nicole. She gave us a number to call back with the following night. When we did, we went through the same process all over again. The girl told us it could be a 3-hour wait, so we agreed to hang up, being promised a call back with answers, within 72 hours. Needless to say, we have not heard a word (over a week later). I am a disabled veteran, and I do not want other people with special needs and circumstances to be put through this humiliating and unacceptable experience. No one disabled or able-bodied should pay for a service in good faith and be treated with such indifference from Travelocity and the Hotels they do business with. I hope people will pass this on, so that others will be aware of their business practices. I will make my own arrangements from now on.

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    Reviewed March 7, 2014

    Copied from the confirmation email I received for my reservations for a 5-night stay:

    Hyatt Place Birmingham/Inverness charges the following cancellation and change fees:
    1. Cancellation or Change Policy
    2. Cancellations or changes made after 4:00 PM (Central Standard Time (US & Canada)) on March 4, 2014 are subject to a hotel fee equal to the first night's rate plus taxes and fees.

    3. Cancellations or changes made after check-in on March 5, 2014 are subject to a hotel fee equal to 100% of the total amount paid for the reservation.

    HOWEVER, Hyatt Place Birmingham says that once our credit card is charged in total for the reservation (upon booking) Travelocity then has our money and it is out of the hotel's hands. So this is NOT a HYATT PLACE policy, as stated in their terms. It is something that Travelocity is doing - taking advantage of the customers' credit card information and making it look as if it's the Hotel's policy. BAD BUSINESS. DO NOT BOOK THROUGH TRAVELOCITY! I had a death in the family and was trying to accommodate the timing of that and my family's out of town travel to be with us. To say that this added undue stress to an already terribly sad situation is an understatement. I am disgusted with this company.

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    Reviewed March 7, 2014

    I tried to book a flight to Germany for Sept 2014, did get a notice saying your confirmation Email was sent. I checked my email several times and had nothing so I went to bed. The next morning when I opened my tablet, I had a big window in the middle of the screen telling me something went wrong and my booking was NOT complete. I immediately checked my email - nothing, no confirmation from Travelocity. Called my credit card, no charges has been posted. I wanted to fly out on that specific date and went back to Travelocity where I put my original travel date in and the system switched me to the next day, same day returning. Since there had been a notification on the offer that only seven seats were available, I assumed (yeah I know) every seat was taken and I had to take the next day's flight.

    I booked that flight, received a confirmation email within seconds. I checked my credit card later that day, had no charges for the flight price. When I checked my credit card 3 days later, my card had been charged double. Upon calling Travelocity, I was put on hold and had the option to be called back in 1 hr and 12 minutes. That call did not happen until 3.5 hrs later at which time I was at work. Later that night, I finally got a hold of a person and after explaining what had happened was hung up on. The next person assured me that Travelocity had only charge me once and I did not have two booked flights.

    I specifically asked her to check the day before and was again assured there was only one booking on my account. The service representative told me to check with my credit card about the double booking. I asked if she was making detailed notes about me inquiring about two bookings on two consecutive days and two charges on my account and was assured she would note this to my account. After calling my bank the next morning, I was told that there were two charges on my card which had posted the day before. 4 days after I booked my flight.

    I called Travelocity again and this time I was told again I only had one flight going out and the one charge had been charged to my card while the other was still pending. Again I called my card to find out if that was true and was told the charge had posted and it was definitely not pending. I finally called the airline directly and even though the very friendly representative could not give me much information he did verify that I had a flight booked two days in a row coming back the same day on both tickets.

    This time I asked to speak to a supervisor as soon as I got through, again I was told I only had a booking for the second time booking my flight. After I told her that I had contacted the airline directly and had been told I had a ticket for the day before too, she put me on hold. When she came back, she confirmed the double booking. I was put on hold for 45 minutes and when she came back was told the airline would not refund my money and she had to contact corporate. Again I was put on hold for 45 minutes and when she came back was told, she was sorry but there was nothing she could do and they would not refund me any money since they had sent me a confirmation email for the first booking.

    I told her that I had not received an email confirming my first choice travel date. I was told over and over that I had received an email for confirmation and had read the email so it was my fault that I now had paid for two tickets leaving the country on two consecutive days, returning under the same name twice on the same day. At this point I still did not have a confirmation from Travelocity nor an itinerary number for the original trip. I asked to have the confirmation forwarded to me and she promptly did that. On the header it said this email was forwarded from the account of "my name".

    When I asked her why for two days I had been told there was only a trip with the second date in my account and suddenly this confirmation says this trip is also on my account with them, she told me they would under no circumstances refund me the money nor change the name or date on the ticket because they had sent me a confirmation email from the first booking and their system showed I had read it. Every customer service representative for Travelocity I spoke to lied to me, their system sends faulty messages and I am still waiting for the original confirmation email. I am out a lot of money and will make sure all my friends and their friends know which travel site not to use.

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    Kimberly increased rating by 3 stars.
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    After a positive interaction with Travelocity, Kimberly increased their star rating on March 21, 2014.

    Updated review: March 21, 2014

    I would like to add that this issue has been resolved by Travelocity at this time. (3/21/14). It took some legwork by Travelocity but their higher level support was very professional and did what it took to make the change.

    Original Review: March 6, 2014

    I don't even know where to start. A family member booked several flights for a family trip to the Czech Republic in June. When he emailed me the itinerary I noticed he booked using my shortened version of my name rather than my full name as it appears on my passport. It was past the 24-hour window but I still was not in a panic because I thought, even if a fee applied, it would be an easy fix.

    Both of us spent several hours on hold (4+) to their call center in India. Initially, we were told, no problem Aeroflot is an easy airline to work with they will fix it no problem. Then they claimed they couldn't get through to Aeroflot. Then we were told because there was a connecting flight with another carrier, it could not be done. Ever. By anyone. Unless, miraculously I showed up at the Aeroflot office in NY or Miami and somehow then they could change it.

    The manager in India actually told me I should have booked it right the first time. When I asked what I should do - he replied "Buy a new ticket". As though, everyone just has $1200 laying around to buy plane tickets. Finally, after I Tweeted my complete desperation a higher up American rep called me and seemed to want to help. She was looking into getting a refund and having Aeroflot rebook a new ticket. No go. I was told they did agree to refund me the taxes. I was given a "special" number and a case number to call to facilitate this refund but that it would take many weeks (about $480 - which I later found out is required to offer by law for a non-refundable ticket)."

    The next day I call the number and give my information. I am back at the India (I assume it is India) call center and back on hold. She can't look at a case number. She looks up my ticket number and name and says she does not see me in her system and can't help me. I try to give her my case number and she says I basically don't exist. I am basically told by Travelocity that they are powerless. After all this I receive this email from Aeroflot:

    "Thank you for contacting Aeroflot call center. According to the rules, all modifications at completely unused ticket can be made only by the agency, issued the ticket initially. It is necessary to contact the place of purchase the ticket: LAS ** A TRAVELOCITY **."

    So, that is basically where I am at. I Have emailed back Aeroflot and told them I have been told that only they can make the change. No one can do anything - it's not even a material change. It would involve adding 5 digits to a name for a flight that is 3 months from now. I cannot afford a new ticket - Now, I do understand that an error was made on our end and I'd even be willing to pay a fair sum to have it made. However, now I am basically being told by both companies, it is the other company's policy that prevents the change.

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    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2014

    I have a Travelocity rewards credit card that I have used for several years with no problems until now. Something has changed over there. The ability to use points towards a flight directly from Travelocity.com has disappeared. When I spoke to a representative at the call center, I was told that the policy had changed and now I had to go to a different website to redeem the points AFTER the purchase was made. I told him this sounded suspicious to me and I was not happy with the new policy. He informed me that they were going through some kind of systems change. I asked him if I would be able to redeem the points immediately after purchasing the ticket online and he said "Absolutely". I was suspicious, but I did it anyway. When I went to the second website to redeem the points, I saw "No records found" under trips that are eligible to be redeemed.

    I phoned back the call center and this time I was told that I would have to wait 30 days before I could redeem my points for the flight. I raised a ruckus and was transferred up the line. THEN, the woman who answered the phone next couldn't find any account for me and said "Is this your first Expedia reservation?" I just about blew a gasket. I said "This is a Travelocity reservation!" She said I'd been transferred to the wrong department, and said she had to transfer me to the Travelocity department. More sitting around on hold.

    Now I'm sitting on hold (30 minutes so far) waiting to see what kind of resolution will be provided to me (if any), but I am already angry. While sitting on hold, I am going to file a complaint on every review website I can find because this kind of run around and misinformation is just not acceptable. I will figure out a way to use up my points (hopefully), but I'll then cancel this credit card and take my business elsewhere. Hopefully, others will see this review and not make the same mistake I did.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 19, 2014

    Tried to book a trip to Greece worth over $5000.00. Put bank card information 3 times, and 3 times it gave me an error. The money WAS in the account so I decided to check the bank. To my surprise they had already charged my bank account $726.33 3 times and I had NO CONFIRMATION FOR MY TRIP. I called customer service and was placed on hold for over an hour. Once a supervisor FINALLY got on the phone, SHE WAS UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE FACT THAT THEY HAD ALREADY TAKEN OVER $2100 AND I HAD NOTHING TO SHOW FOR ON MY END. I had to get my bank involved. They had to call, and we were connected to what seemed to be a call center in India (very thick accent and call quality WAS HORRIBLE). Still have not been able to solve anything, AND no trip. I will NEVER book with Travelocity AGAIN......BEWARE!!!!! Stop and smell the roses. BS....

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2014

    I had booked three tickets on February 13th out of Newark and the blizzard cancelled all flights that day. As a Travelocity package I had reserved three nights at a hotel in Denver with return flight on the 16th. I called the hotel on the 13th to let them know I wouldn't be coming and they said this had to be done through Travelocity. I called Travelocity and the rep told me she would call the hotel and find out their cancellation policy. She hung up on me and I never heard back. I called on the 15th and a rep worked on it for a while, had some difficulty finding my reservations, but said he would call airlines and get a refund, but I didn't hear back.

    When I called back on 17th the rep tells me there is no record of my phone calls, and she will call the hotel and put me on hold. Eventually she came back on and said the hotel had a record I'd been there. I said that was nonsense. She said we could all talk together. I spoke to the person at the hotel and explained the situation and she said she would speak to the General Manager. In the meantime the Travelocity rep disappeared.

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2014

    One would think that by purchasing travel insurance means that you can easily cancel and receive a refund. After having booked a flight through Travelocity and purchasing the insurance I learned that this is not the case. You have to contact the insurance company, complete a claim and if approved, you will get a debit card, not a refund on your original form of payment. The approval process required me to ask my aunt to go to my uncle's doctor so he could complete a questionnaire regarding the nature of his diagnosis.

    Considering what she is going through, I was too embarrassed to do this and subsequently lost the money. Travelocity was of no help whatsoever. I will never use them and if you choose to do so, don't purchase the travel insurance unless you do not mind asking your loved one to get a doctor's note or death certificate in order to obtain a debit card for your purchase price.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2014

    Booked flights on Travelocity and due to weather flights were cancelled. I have been trying unsuccessfully to rebook the flights, have spoke to six agents, have been told they have a new system and transfer me to another agent. I have been disconnected twice, told they would return my call and still I continue to call and am once again on hold. I am beyond frustrated and understand the increase call volume with this storm, yet feel their inconsistency and lack of customer care is unacceptable. An email perhaps could have prevented what has been a long and frustrating day never mind the important family event I will now be missing.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 12, 2014

    I booked a flight and the website said my order "could not be processed" at this time. I rebooked and then both confirmations came through. I called the service numbers and tried to cancel one reservation line as directed.. I am now on 6 calls - two hang ups while on hold and no one can find either reservation with the itinerary numbers listed in the email confirmation. They say they are in a system upgrade and to call back tomorrow but it will be past the 24 hours to cancel. I am on hold as I write and this is the 6th call and 4 hours of time invested.

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    Customer ServicePriceOnline & App

    Reviewed Feb. 9, 2014

    I booked a flight leaving from Charlottesville to San Antonio, 2/13-2/17 2014. I had my husband confirm and pay for my flight, just to make sure it was accurate. I received a confirmation email, when I pulled up the email several days later, the return date was not the correct flight and was an entire month from the date I had booked. I wish I had caught it within 24 hours, but everything look good on the initial booking. When I called them to tell them the return date was wrong (I could even see my history search on the website for 2/17 not 3/17), they wanted to charge me $200.00 plus to change the homecoming flight.

    I called both airlines that I was booked on and both of them assured me if I had book straight through the airline they would have made the change (United was the homecoming flight), but because Travelocity had booked it they could not make changes, Travelocity would need too. I look at the flight I actually chose and it has over 12 seats open on the first leg and 7 open on the second, but Travelocity will not change it. Such poor customer service when the airlines tell me they would have made the change, had I booked through them.

    I have disputed the claim with my credit card. Travelocity wants me to only have a credit through them, but when I rebook they want to charge me $200. I would rather not go on the trip than to give Travelocity that money. As I see from all the other complaints, this is typical of the company. I will only book straight through the airlines from now on.

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    Reviewed Feb. 4, 2014

    Booked a hotel, Royal Palace in Ft. Lauderdale. I have the paperwork with that name on it, which is where we thought we were staying. Booked with another address - not Royal Palace. The name was right there on my confirmation; however, when we got there it was another hotel. They had booked us somewhere else at a hotel with a different name, even though I have their paperwork showing that they booked me at Royal Palace. Walked in to register, looked at room and left. Told front desk could not stay there. The place was horrible... NOW, Travelocity will not refund my money, even though I did not stay there and it was not the hotel that they said was booked. Will never use them again, ever.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Feb. 2, 2014

    The flight tickets that I bought were absolutely useless since my flight would pass through Canada, and I do not have a Canadian visa. I have tried and waited for about 2hrs on your "customer service" line, which by the way is in India, and they have not been able to do anything about it. Basically, Travelocity is just taking my money and I'm left with useless tickets. Thanks! Terrible service, terrible experience, never again am I using Travelocity.

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    Customer ServiceCoveragePriceStaff

    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2014

    I purchased a vacation package on Travelocity and paid for the cancellation insurance (which was extra). I had to cancel so. First, let me say that I was hung up on 3 times and on the 4th try, transferred all over planet Earth before I got someone to help me. Upon cancelling, I utilized the trip insurance I purchased and got a full credit back for the hotel portion of my trip (which was nothing special since this would have usually happened even had a booked a hotel on my own since this is a usual practice with most hotels..... I cancelled 4 months prior to my trip).

    The Travelocity rep. then tells me that they will not give me a refund for the airfare portion of my trip due to the fact that airlines don't refund tickets; however, I can reuse the ticket towards the airfare portion should I book another vacation package and apply the airfare credit towards the airline portion of the package as long as I fly the same airline that the credit was issued on.... Here's where the lie comes in, they also said that with the purchase of the insurance (which I had) they would cover the $200 fee that the airline charges you to change your ticket to when you decide to reuse it. Well, I decided to reuse the ticket and book another package.

    Now Travelocity tells me that I cannot use the ticket towards another package even though I'm flying the same airline, and that I have to book the airline "separate" from the hotel in the package. By booking the airfare and hotel separately in the package, my additional costs was over $200! So, in other words, to make up for their kind gesture of "covering your fee charged by the airline", they "pad" the airfares by anywhere from $100 - $250 to make up for their cost of covering this fee without consumers even know it. For example, my cost of the air with the package was $485 and booked separately was $691. Can you smell the airline fee of $200 in this price somewhere? What rip off artist!!

    So, now I'm stuck with a United Airlines credit that I can only use through Travelocity and will have to pay an inflated price when I book an airfare (and oh, by the way, they say that they still have to charge your card for the $200 fee but will give it right back to you when booking). This was a lesson learned and I will never use Travelocity again! With all of the complaints filed against them (unanswered) exactly who are they paying off to stay in business??

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 30, 2014

    On 1/16/14 I attempted to book a reservation for 2 people for a flight thru Travelocity for a flight on AirTran. I received no confirmation at that time from Travelocity that the reservation was completed. On 1/28 and again on 1/29, I looked on AirTran's for confirmation of the flight only to see that there was NO record of any reservation for me. I then checked online with Travelocity and that site also said I had no reservation.

    Having no reservation on file with either the airline or Travelocity I made a reservation directly with Southwest for the exact same flight for the same two people. Later while checking our credit card we saw that on 1/16 Travelocity had charged my account for the two tickets. I then called Travelocity and was on the phone with them for over one hour, was cut off two times and talked with four different people only to be told that they would not refund my money even though the first three people could not find the reservation.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2014

    I had used Travelocity many times in the past with no major issues. After booking a flight for my honeymoon and trying to change the itinerary, I would not recommend them to anyone. The agents were confused, misinformed, poorly responsive, minimally communicative and my calls were dropped repeatedly. Overall, I was on the phone for 3 hours. One agent told me he fixed the issue but that I had to call back another time to continue with the change. Another told me I lost all of my money and I was immediately disconnected. I was offered a first class upgrade and a credit, neither of which ever materialized. My complaint to the corporation was replied to with a form letter. Very disappointing.

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    Customer ServiceSales & Marketing

    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2014

    This is the second time I tried to use my Travelocity rewards and was unsuccessful. I booked a trip from Boston to Puerto Rico. I have 21,000 points in my Travelocity account. When I went to check out and pay for my trip there was no box to redeem my points. I called Travelocity for assistance... needless to say I called at 4:00 EST and was transferred to customer service, travel specialists, security, overdue accounts dept. You name it I was transferred there all the way up to 6:30 EST!!

    The last person I spoke with said he could finally assist me. I explained to him that I had the itinerary on hold in my acct. Well Surprise... surprise! He was unable to access my saved itinerary. He had me give him all the details for the trip so he could book t for me. I gave him all the info and he told me "THE TRIP IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR THAT PRICE." I told him I had saved the last five tickets Travelocity was offering for that trip. His response was "I can book a similar trip for you right now." I said ok... what do you have? He found a hotel that had a less star rating than the one I had saved and it was $600.00 more than my original trip! I told him I didn't want to pay $600 extra. He told me... I can apply your $400.00 in rewards so technically I would be paying only $200 extra.

    After 2 1/2 hours of all nonsense… I hung up on him continued to book my trip which WAS still available and was unable to redeem my $400.00 in rewards! This is the 2nd time I tried to use my rewards and was unable to! No one knows how to redeem them at checkout. I will never use them again. I cut up my card... they can keep their points. As far as I’m concerned they're a scam!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 26, 2014

    We booked our vacation in Calif. Did an online reservation (very big mistake). We asked to leave in the AM on a Monday. We had paid in advance for all our activities for each day. When we got our itinerary it showed we were leaving at 8:20 PM instead. We called 7 times to get this corrected. We were told every time that their technical support staff would look into it. They would call us in 24 hours. When they never called back, we called them. This happen 7 times. We were lied to every time. I ask for a number I could call in the USA. They would not give me one. Said they did not have it. This call center is in the Philippines. End result, we lost a day of vacation. I would never recommend Travelocity to anyone.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2014

    I book flight Kuwait to Miami & Montreal to Kuwait by United Airline & I pick seats & meals in 17/12/2013. Every time I book they send confirmation email after booking. I call United Airline, they told me no booking in my name. I send email to Travelocity site to know if booked or not. They sent email if you are booked maybe your booking in the junk or you will find your booking after you log-in to the site or you do not buy. I contact with my bank in 21/12/2013 to refund the money & book new flight in 9/1/2014 to Europe.

    The bank call me on 16/1/2014 that the Travelocity refuse back the money. I send email to Travelocity again & they do not answer. I send email to FBI crime complaint. I see 3 complaint about Travelocity. After less than 12 hours Travelocity send me email that you are booked but we cannot give you the ticket until 24 hours before your trip. What the benefit now. I send email to Travelocity that I want refund the ticket or change the ticket to next year they do not send response to my email. I am sorry because I deal with Travelocity more than 5 years & first time site cheat me. I think if they do not return my money or change my flight time I will never ever deal with this site again.

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2014

    Yesterday I found a trip online and called your number to book the trip. The trip is from Toronto Ont to Montego Bay Jamaica leaving Feb. 8. The booking went well until I got my confirmation email and I noticed it was in US dollars. Not once did the lady booking the trip tell me it was in US dollars! I never would have booked the trip if I knew that. I called back last night and was transferred five times because no one could find my reservation on the system even with the confirmation number I was given. When I Finally talked to someone who actually found my trip in the system nothing was done, after I wasted over an hour on the phone being transferred over and over, being put on hold over and over. I will say this. We go away every year on a two-week vacation to Jamaica and this was my first time booking with you and I can tell you this will be the last time I ever book with you! The customer service is terrible!!!!!! Now all I can do is worry since it took so long to find my reservation in your system, you can understand my concern about everything going smoothly at the airport and hotel!!!

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed Jan. 11, 2014

    Had a 596.00 credit. Costs 115 to use the credit and 30 to use the phone to take up the issue with an agent. Cannot do online but they still charge 30 and then if the trip is lower than the credit you forfeit the balance and cannot use the difference to pay down the amount of the BS fees they charge to change your flight. And you cannot use it at Travelocity for vacations or hotels flights only. Wow, so my credit was 596.00. They charged 115 and 30 and (36 the difference not refunded) and 2 for being in Alberta. 413 so I basically lost 183. Wow... Never again will I use Travelocity!!!!

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    Contract & Terms

    Reviewed Jan. 9, 2014

    I also had a bad experience with Travelocity too, & it's my bad that I did that read the terms and policy of ticket cancellation or change of flight. I cancelled my flight reservation. They said that I can get a credit back for the price of the ticket, and that I can use it for my next future flight with the same airline. But I have to pay an extra $240 per passenger, on top of the difference of the airfare. Is that ridiculous?! I was just so disappointed, and I feel like I was just giving them my money. I will never use this travel agency again.

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    Customer ServiceProcess

    Reviewed Jan. 7, 2014

    I lost $3336.51 on a hotel reservation and I will never again use Travelocity or recommend them to anyone I know. They are eager to get my business but when there was a need for customer service intervention, they were incapable of dealing with the matter. The so called supervisors and the manager were so unbelievable. They kept telling me one lie after the other - thinking that I did not know better. Also, their attitude really disgusting. I made over 10 calls to Travelocity today and they would then put me on hold for at least 20 minutes, and of course no one has even tried to resolve my problem. I am now mentally exhausted by the process. My day is ruined and my money is gone - but I will never forget this experience.

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    Reviewed Dec. 25, 2013

    Travelocity airline tickets are a joke. I've never flown half way across the country on a commuter plane. Beware when booking airline ticket or you may end up spending the entire day in airports on tiny little planes that should not be offering flights so far away from your home base on Christmas. Travelocity should be ashamed of themselves and the airlines too namely United and American!!!!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2013

    My itinerary was changed 5 times. The final itinerary results in a 4-day difference from my original booking. The number left on my voicemail connected me with a United liaison who informed me that I needed to hang up and call Travelocity (after being on hold for an hour). When I called to secure an earlier Saturday flight, the customer service rep talked over me and therefore attempted to charge me a change fee. I asked to change my flight destination from Durango to Albuquerque to avoid a 4-day delay. I was told this was an exception and would require a supervisor contacting the airline. I was also told the supervisor would call me back in 3 hours.

    The supervisor did not call me back. I called and waited - on hold - again. A customer service rep said the supervisor was on another call and I would have to call back. I refused. He then said, "There are no flights available to Albuquerque leaving 12/22 anyway." He asked me to hang up. I refused. He then said, "Why don't you call United yourself and rebook your own flight?" I hung up. A supervisor called back several hours later and left a message unclear regarding my desired departure date for Albuquerque: the 22nd or the 23rd? The entire episode outlined above resulted in my flight being changed from Thursday to Monday. Every call was focused on booking a flight earlier than the 23rd.

    I call back. The woman advises that the supervisor has made a note: there is a flight on the 22nd to Albuquerque, but I have to pay the difference. At this point, I am extremely frustrated, and I tell her that. I also demand to speak to a supervisor. She cuts me off and places me on hold. I'm on hold for 10 minutes, and then a recording comes on, "please hang up and dial the 800 number again." I haven't used Travelocity on a regular basis and I will never use their services again.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2013

    Where do I begin? Travelocity cancelled two airline tickets I purchased due to problems with my credit card. This was then promptly cleared up with the bank. But the credit card was charged at least $100 over what Travelocity indicated as the charge. I tried to purchase two more tickets from a more reputable agent but my card was declined, due to Travelocity placing a hold on my money. I phoned Travelocity and they told me a full refund had been issued. I phoned the new agent again but yet again my card was declined. After being placed on hold for roughly an hour, I finally got a hold of 'Brian' from their revenue who said the money was released and that the bank should have no problem processing my car. 'Brian' said he would phone the bank with the authorization codes and cancel any holds. I phoned the agent again and guess what....the same exact results.

    After another 47 minute hold, I finally managed to get a hold of 'Mike' from Travelocity who actually made a three way conference call to my bank and spoke with a representative. However, due to the discrepancy of mismatched payments, the bank was unable to complete his request. As of right now, I am in limbo waiting for this mess to clear up. How it clears itself up will determine whether I seek legal/financial redress. Bottom line, I'll never give Travelocity one more penny, and I'll do my best to make sure no one is ripped off by them

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    Coverage

    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2013

    Purchased flight insurance, delayed in another country due to passport issues. Insurance wouldn't cover return ticket!!! $900.00 lost!!! Also took 3 months to decide!!!! Very ANGRY!!!!!!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2013

    I entered a valid discount code at the time of purchase, but was not credited with my discount. Called immediately, several times, but was either cut off or put on permanent hold. E-mailed, and finally got a response over three weeks later. Said they could not help, because the discount needed to be applied at time of purchase. I DID enter the code, but THEY did not apply the discount. I will not deal with Travelocity again. I would like to warn others to save them a similar fate.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2013

    For an upcoming trip, I booked my flight through Travelocity. Within 48 hours, my plans changed and I needed to reschedule for 1 week later. The fair was $244 + fees. The change fee was $240. Essentially, I lost the full ticket amount. This is an outrageous penalty, the same as the ticket amount for a one week date change. If I had booked through the airline, any change fee would likely have been small, or waived. Travelocity did not notify me of the magnitude of this penalty during the booking process. Travelocity's customer service blamed everything on the airline. Travelocity's customer service stalled and ultimately didn't allow me to speak with a supervisor. My advice, don't use Travelocity.

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    Customer ServiceCoverageStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 4, 2013

    My wife flew home this spring to visit with her family. She bought 'no hassle trip insurance' thru Travelocity. While home, her dad was rush to the hospital and my wife contacted Travelocity to let them know her plans were on hold. My wife got a very nice doctor's note explaining the health situation of my wife's dad. Travelocity then proceeded to jerk my wife around asking for more and more paperwork. I felt that the whole reason for the existence of the Travelocity customer service was not to issue a refund but rather to delay and delay and delay. My wife asked that I not refuse to pay for the credit card charged tickets and insurance as she was fearful of any hit our CR could take.

    Travelocity insurance is nothing but a rip off and thru extension, so is the whole company.

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    Reviewed Dec. 4, 2013

    I book a ticket with Travelocity. When my credit card bill arrived, I discovered an unauthorized charge on my bill. When I called them about it, they told me that it was a non-refundable charge from the airline. This was a lie as I had ordered another ticket through Priceline with the same airline at a later date and there was no charge.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceStaff

    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2013

    Travelocity put my son's 2nd middle name as his last name on his ticket. I spent 2.5 hours on the phone at airport with TWO guys named Frank in India (got cut off after 1st Frank was in the middle of 2nd 30 min call with Air Canada) then got ANOTHER Frank from India & had to start all over!!! Travelocity kept blaming ME for the mistake (OMG!) and could not fix this simple problem. I had passport, birth certificate, SS card...NOTHING MATTERED!

    Ticket agents said this happened ALL THE TIME with Travelocity. Travelocity said that it would be $350 to change the ticket and another $600 for the price of the current ticket fee right as we were supposed to leave the country!!! THEN, the 2nd "Frank From India" said that I could NOT use tickets now because Air Canada does not honor credits with Travelocity so we would eat the $2,000 tickets!!! Well, the Air Canada agents said that this was NOT true and they had documented that they told Travelocity that it is a simple $50 name change fee and to just cancel and rebook. Travelocity in turn upped the price to me and we missed our flight during all of this commotion!!! I AM LIVID AND WILL NEVER USE TRAVELOCITY AGAIN!!! Use SkyScanner or Expedia...ANYTHING but Travelocity!!! TRAVELOCITY IS A SCAM!!! We now cannot visit friends and family for another year!!! CATASTROPHE. Period.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 8, 2013

    While on holiday in Jamaica, I booked an hotel in Kingston through Travelocity. I received by email the confirmation and the ID Trip number. I thought everything was okay but, unfortunately this was not the case. After a while, Travelocity sent me another 2 emails "confirming" the cancellation of my booking without any further detail but advising me to call a phone number in USA. It was already 2 am in Jamaica when I could call by Skype that number... possibly of a service outsourced somewhere in India or Bangladesh!

    I spent one hour try to know the reason why my booking was cancelled to discover, eventually, that they could not get in touch with me to ask some information (who knows which one!) about my credit card. In the reservation form I had provided my business phone number that works throughout the world and I can definitely say that I've never received a phone call from Travelocity. I complained on the phone also about the advice the Travelocity agent gave me to make another reservation on the website despite the fact that, according to her, my card would have been rejected another time by the Protection Dept. Exhausted, at 3 am I made a reservation with Expedia. Never... NEVER again with Travelocity. What a horrible service!!!

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed Nov. 7, 2013

    I booked a hotel in a neighboring state online and had all the information entered and received a page online stating they were verifying the credit card - please do not refresh the page or use the back key. It never went past that page so I called Travelocity and some one in the Philippines answered and I spent 30 minutes trying to complete the transaction. The agent repeatedly asked the same information - then finally told me he could do another reservation but the price offered was $60 more than the booking I had tried to complete earlier. Do not use Travelocity.

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    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2013

    I booked some business travel through Travelocity with no problem. When I tried to book personal travel for my husband through my account, it was incredibly difficult to change the person traveling. I thought I had successfully did this and it turns out I didn't. I was then charged $300 to make a change to the flight to get it in my husband's name and Travelocity would not do ANYTHING except for the foreign call center agent apologizing to me! DO NOT USE TRAVELOCITY!

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    Reviewed Oct. 23, 2013

    I booked a hotel through Travelocity for a certain price and when I got to the hotel they charged me a cheaper price. I explained to them that I shouldn't be forced to pay the Travelocity price and that it was not my fault that the hotel offered me that price. I was told by three different people in customer service that I would be paying the price that I booked on Travelocity. Not very happy at all. It was almost made to seem like it was my fault. I will never, ever use Travelocity for any of their services. Never, ever. They don't want to take responsibility for mistakes made by their company and their hotel affiliates. Very sad. I am an angry customer. So sad.

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    Reviewed Oct. 10, 2013

    I lost $1,440 on a planned vacation today and I will never again use Travelocity or recommend them to anything I know. They are eager to get my business but when there was a need for customer service intervention, they were incapable of dealing with the matter. I was transferred overseas to individuals who spoke broken English - and it created a major language barrier. And then they kept telling me one lie after the other - thinking that I did not know better.

    I made over 10 calls to Travelocity today and they would then put me on hold or transfer me to someone else who would then hang-up on me. Eventually, I was told to call them back in 15 minutes, another said call back in 3 hours; and of course no one has even tried to resolve my problem. I am now mentally exhausted by the process. My vacation is ruined and my money is gone - but I will never forget this experience.

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    Reviewed Oct. 7, 2013

    I booked a hotel-car package through Travelocity. The site said this hotel offered free airport shuttle service. Since there were no time limitations in the ad and since there were in other ads (eg: shuttle operates from 6 a.m.-10 p.m.), and since I was arriving at midnight, I went ahead and booked. When I called to arrange the shuttle, I was told that the shuttle ran from 7 a.m.- 7 p.m. They said it says the hrs. on the hotel website, but I booked through Travelocity (a non-refundable package). I called Travelocity and they said it was my fault for not having contacted the hotel first prior to booking... though, it does not say that you must do that. They blame the consumer for not going to the actual hotel website, calling the hotel, etc., prior to reserving the package through them.

    After being on hold to get to Travelocity, speaking with a no-service agent for a lengthy period of time, waiting for a supervisor for over thirty minutes THEN being told they will call back in two to three hours, having them call back over four hrs. later... I was told I was to blame because the ad said "Call to arrange for shuttle service." But it did not state hours or limitations...so I did as instructed...booked and called. Now, I am stuck for the taxi to the hotel and Travelocity is blaming me entirely.

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    Reviewed Oct. 4, 2013

    Travelocity charged my credit card twice and still my flight was no longer valid. $688 for the original flight, $240 for the change. At the end, I had no flight. I called several times and got an overseas call center who kept transferring me and "submitting a ticket". After many emails and more phone conversations, I had to purchase the flight directly from the airline ($688 again). I finally talked to someone in the US about this today and they told me the calls were not recorded by them so they will give no refund. Please do not use Travelocity unless you want to be charged without getting your flight. FYI. I am a VIP customer at Travelocity and I am still being stolen from.

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    Reviewed Sept. 23, 2013

    I booked my tickets on Kayak through Travelocity. Travelocity verified and confirmed my payment information which was actually stored and used many times on Kayak site. Travelocity issued my tickets with confirmed trip ID number, ticket numbers and booking record number. One month after that, three days before my flight, Travelocity cancelled my tickets under pretext that they were trying to contact me on my cell at around 4 or 5 am to verify some info and I did not answer.

    When I came to the airport, I was told my booking was cancelled. So I missed my flight and had to book another one for the next day. It cost me $1800 more plus overnight hotel and taxi for a total exceeding $2200. Travelocity refuses to compensate claiming they tried to contact me. Will avoid Travelocity in the future. PS. Can somebody tell what can be done to force them to compensate?

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    Reviewed Sept. 22, 2013

    Website had a computer glitch and names of passengers were duplicated. Yahoo contacted immediately and said it was fixed. Names were edited before acceptance by myself. Input was correct. After many, many calls and talking to supervisors they said the thread on this issue was mine. Every response on this issue was different. I verified every reply with AA and they stated comments were all erroneous. Had to $50 to correct their error or I could not board the plane. After hours of being on hold and no call backs, I conceded. This was less than 24 hours prior to departure. Since this was a package, they never changed the name on the airport shuttle or hotel. Have to contact both to make sure our reservation was honored.

    Being a former travel agent, this with them is absurdly unprofessional. Since their location is Bombay, I requested a US agent. They advised to call back in the evening. On that call they said they did not have a US agent. Every response from every agent was inconsistent and not factual. I feel that they insulted my integrity to cover their issues. I do not believe they did a thread check since every agent said they needed to have it done. The airlines advised that this was a agent issue and they should have fixed it automatically. I am sure that I am not the only consumer who has had this issue with Yahoo Travel/Travelocity. I would like my $50 refunded for aggravation, time spent and total disregard for their customers.

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    Reviewed Sept. 17, 2013

    Travelocity is a ** joke! I wanted to change the date of my return flight and was told it would cost me $3000+ to change it!!! What a ** joke considering it's a single flight, the original return trip (2 flights) cost less than $1500. I saw on the Travelocity web-site a return trip (flights there and back) for about $1000 on the very date I wanted to change my flight to!!! ** ridiculous and I will do all I can to deter people I know and others to not book through Travelocity whatever the cost!!!!!!!!!

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    Reviewed Sept. 2, 2013

    I've traveled many, many times back and forth to the Republic of Armenia and Georgia, and broadly throughout Europe and the trans-Caucasus region, having family there. I live in the United States as a permanent resident, and have never had problems traveling there or about before, until this time. With my father suffering a stroke, and in an increasingly unstable condition, I booked travel through Travelocity, which connected me through two European cities, Frankfurt and Vienna, before continuing on to Yerevan, Armenia.

    Note in the process of completing my reservation, I did note to check my documents for visa requirements for my FINAL destination, which I did. So I arrive at the airport, bags in hand, with contingent plans at my destination with family, and was turned away by the airline and had my reservation canceled. I was directed to contact Travelocity, along with another group of travelers having the EXACT same issue having booked through Travelocity. Apparently, this is a consistent thing with people who have used their service.

    After two hours of back and forth at the airport, we try to field an independent solve with no help forthcoming from Travelocity customer service, and head back home. I continued the frustrating journey for answers the next day with their customer service team, who had zero answers for me, and continue to switchboard me to new people in a maddening cycle of confusion, until I'm finally told there's nothing they can do for me, and put me onto the airline who says they also can do nothing for me other than provide me with credit contingent on a higher future ticket fee, plus a $340 change fee, plus adjustment in travel fare.

    To give you all a taste of what this actually means, I had them run a separate ticket fare using this credit, and the additional dollar amount, including change fee and adjusted fare for my destination, was over $4000 on top of my credit. So, so, so helpful. So my $1300 is a complete wash and I feel like my money was stolen. A quick search now reveals this is an issue many, many people have encountered, to similar ends. How hard would it be to put a system redundancy in place to alert travelers to intermediary transit visa issues like this, outside of obvious final destination visa issues? SO INFURIATING.

    If they abided by their customer bill of rights, I'd at least have a solve or some clarity at hand. Zero assistance. All this is to say, do not use Travelocity. I've now booked a separate ticket leaving tomorrow, and having alerted them to me being a permanent resident, they provided an itinerary with ONE European transit point, instead of two, thereby allowing me zero transit visa issues en route to my final destination. Only cost me an additional $1600. Steep price, but lesson learned.

    Be forewarned, do your research on Travelocity before you use their service. It may cost you much more in real terms, beyond the minor savings advertised in a direct fare comparison with other similar services. My advice, book with a service who has your best interests in mind and who care about you and your customer experience, not just your money.

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    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2013

    Travelocity charged my credit card but did not reserve the hotel for our family. We traveled 4 1/2 hours to our destination; got there no reservation and Travelocity could not find us a similar place anywhere! So we were left 4.5 hours away from home, twin babies driving us crazy wanting to get out of the car and we had no place to go! They couldn't return our money until a week later! What if we didn't have extra money for our vacation? We are a family of 8. Travelocity worst nightmare ever! Beware! Don't use them!

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2013

    My issue revolves around a hotel booking I conducted through Travelocity and then canceled, but still getting charged for it. First of all, they emphasize so much the free and flexible cancellation. It's plastered all over their site with false backing.

    I had received an email from Travelocity with a promo code stating that if I spent over $200, I would get a discount. So I delved into the website, searching for a last minute hotel. I was confused about where to input the promo-code, considering most sites have it at the end where you check out. I saw no such place to enter the promo code and continued with entering my credit card information, expecting to see a confirm the information before finalizing the reservation page. Additionally, I saw a message reading "You will not be charged by Travelocity when you complete this reservation." I clicked the continue button and to my surprise, saw a reservation confirmation email so I quickly jump back into my email, search for my cancel the reservation. Literally within a minute (time stamps can confirm), I received a cancellation email.

    Afterwards, I check my Travelocity account and see that my reservation is marked as cancelled so I go on my way. It's not until 2 days later, when I log into my bank account that I notice I have the hotel charge on my card. It's not even a $100 hotel. I could maybe handle $100 error, but its a $306 error that I'm not responsible for. So I call the hotel and ask if we can resolve this. They say that TRAVELOCITY never notified them of the cancellation and that because I didn't show up, I got an additional no-show fee tacked on, and any attempt to get my money back will have to go through Travelocity. So I call the 1-800-number and they tell me that they're going to try their hardest to get me my money back but fail on that also. Neither the hotel nor Travelocity can refund me my money but I'm advised to email Travelocity my complaints via a 'special' email address.

    I email them and I get one of those auto-generated emails saying it will take up to two weeks for them to "review" my complaint. 2 weeks pass and nothing... so I literally have to call them AGAIN and see what the status is. I get put on hold so I can "talk to a manager" and 5 minutes later, the rep comes back on the phone saying that all managers have gone home for the day and that I will get a call back in the next 24 hours... It's been 4 days and I'm still waiting for that.

    Everything seems so fraudulent from their empty free and flexible cancellation promise to their empty Travelocity Guarantee. I wish I had conducted a Google search prior to using them. I would have known I am not the only person who is deeply dissatisfied with their "customer service".

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 29, 2013

    I took my 2 daughters to St. Thomas in April of 2013 and stayed in a very poorly run hotel called Sugar Bay Resort. It was an all-inclusive. We experienced such horrible service and I called Travelocity the second day I was there. They said they could do nothing to help me so I called AmEx. They couldn't get anything from Travelocity other than a lie saying I never complained. I even got a document forwarded by AmEx from Travelocity saying do not tell customer that price could be reduced. I called Travelocity 4 times and they either put you on hold for over an hour, lie and say they will call back, or tell you point blank they have your money and cannot refund.

    AmEx really doesn't help either. They have resent the same documentation to me 4 times saying they investigated but Travelocity states I never complained, although I have a complaint reference number. DO NOT USE TRAVELOCITY. THEY WILL NOT REFUND OR HELP YOU AFTER THEY HAVE PROMISED TO DO SO AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE HOTEL PACKAGES. SUGAR BAY RESORT IS A 1.5 OUT OF 5 STARS.

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    Reviewed July 29, 2013

    Booked a hotel in Destin Florida using Travelocity. Requested non-smoking, when I arrived was placed on third floor which was the smoking floor. From the time you step off the elevator it smells as if you are in a heavily smoked casino. Called Travelocity customer care trying to have them move us, received two different customer service reps which continually kept repeating the same message over and over, that top secret hotels cannot assure what type room you get…. they would not transfer me to their manager… Never again will I use Travelocity. I would rather take my chance of finding a hotel on my own. After reading all of the complaints it explains my whole experience. Their greeting message when you call says come and smell the roses well that is a false statement!

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    Reviewed July 22, 2013

    My brother booked a ticket from Chile to South Africa with his brother-in-law paying from UK. Travelocity cancelled the ticket the next day because they said they could not get through to the bank of my brother-in-law to confirm the payment. He is still awaiting refund on that ticket... A day or two later when the tickets are now $200 more expensive and the ones he wanted are gone, his sister and I booked and paid for the ticket and the same thing happened, ticket cancelled and awaiting refund. I spent 45 min. on a mobile phone from UK to USA (well an Indian call center) was passed to 7 different people none of whom seemed to be able to help in any way except to ask us to book another ticket... as I pointed out they now had 10,000 dollars and we have no tickets. The tickets are now more expensive and we dare not book another ticket through the company... Was beginning to think the company is a scam and doesn't exist... except that I seem to have found people who have actually used it!!

    I will spend another day trying to sort this... and as I pointed out I have now spent about 50 times the length of minutes trying to sort the problem compared to the two short bank phone calls which weren't answered in the UK that their employees made. How can they cancel a ticket so suddenly without any contact to the person making the booking or payment before they cancel??? This has been a very expensive and extraordinarily frustrating event for 4 working adults and we are no nearer to solving the problem as no one has another 5000 dollars to buy yet another ticket while the 7-10 working days tick by and the two other refunds are made!!!!!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 14, 2013

    This is the complaint I filed with both Travelocity and Frontier Airlines. All Travelocity said is sorry. Frontier has never emailed me or anything.

    I would like to file a complaint about my Trip that was booked with you for June 12th, 2013. My flight was scheduled to depart from DFW Airport at 6:55pm on June 12th, 2013 with 1 stop in Denver, CO and was suppose to arrive at Anchorage at 1:47am on June 13th, 2013. This day had started out good until I got to the Airport. First started bad as I walked up to the Elevator to see that it said OUT OF ORDER so I had to use the escalator which being Disabled is a real chore. On the way up, my carry-on back fell down and the guy behind me caught it. Then when trying to get off the escalator, I tripped and fell with my check-in bag landing on my legs which already hurt from my disability.

    Anyway, when I finally got to the ticket counter, there was a wheelchair close by so I motioned to him for help. I got my boarding pass and they said that everything was ON TIME. I was there a couple hours before check-in like they tell us and I waited in front of the gate from 4pm to 6:30pm only to have someone come up and say that the flight has been delayed until around 8:30pm. They said they would get me booked on a flight with American Airlines and they had me taken to another gate only to find out that American Airlines didn’t know anything about it.

    So American Airlines called Frontier Airlines to see what was going on and since Frontier Airlines kept American Airlines on hold so long, American Airlines finally had to release the last seat to someone else because the flight was being delayed too long. At this point I am getting a bit frustrated and upset. American Airlines did find another flight that said I could connect on Alaska Airlines in Portland, OR. From there, little did I know, I had to sit in Portland, OR for about 13 hours in a wheel chair because no one could authorize a motel/hotel and I wasn’t traveling with enough money to furnish my own room. By this time, I am MORE THAN FUMING MAD.

    About 4:30am Portland, OR time, Frontier ticket agent opened so I went to them and they said they were sorry but there wasn’t much they could do except give me some free meals for the day which being so stressed out and being Diabetic, I ate part of a breakfast and was sick the rest of the day. The ticket agent in Portland, OR said he couldn’t believe that I was sent through Portland to start with and he said he logged all my problems in the computer under my American Airlines Ticket number. Now I was in DFW Airport from 4pm until 10pm (6 hours) then about midnight (12am) until 12:55pm in Portland which is almost 13 hours in a wheel chair.

    It’s quite crazy to make a disabled diabetic wait around airports for that long of time with little or no assistance. I’m sorry but customer service has gone down the drain and I hope one day someone will do something about it to make it better. I’m sure I could go on and on about my experience but I know you don’t want to see me ramble on. I do hope my RETURN TRIP back to DFW in Sept is a hell of a lot better because I honestly don’t think I or anyone else should have to pay for this kind of service. Honestly would you pay for this kind of treatment or want your loved ones to be treated in this way? Something really needs to be done to this matter to compensate for the complete inconvenience.

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    Reviewed July 13, 2013

    I spent 3-4 hours trying unsuccessfully to redeem my points and closing my Travelocity card account. Unlike other cards, the service is unhelpful in the end. It may be that I was unlucky, but it seems that paying an annual fee for the credit card is not worth the freebies they promise but make hard to redeem. Given their poor customer service and the better service at other cards, I will flee this one card with Travelocity.

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    Reviewed July 13, 2013

    On July 11, 2013, I was researching vacations on Travelocity when I pulled up a particular all-inclusive that I was interested in. A box opened up and asked me to put my phone number in for additional savings. Therefore, I put my number in, and my phone kept ringing once and disconnecting. Then it appeared on the screen for me to call the number to get additional savings so I called. I spoke with a man who said that my price is going up and he will try and help save me money so I said thank you. I ended up paying more for the vacation than it was originally advertised for just minutes earlier and I was told that he would take $50.00 off but he could not remove the entire increase of $85.00. I said thank you and continued to pay for the vacation because he told me it is just going to continue to increase in price because I was booking a vacation for August 15, 2013.

    I got on my computer 36 hours later and saw in fact that the vacation price had dropped by $122.00. I contacted Travelocity and they said there is nothing that they can do. I was on the phone for over an hour and spoke to two different people, but they could not rectify the price difference. Additionally, my husband has a fear of flying and gets very anxious when in the air. I told this to the man that I spoke to and I said he does not want to be in a window seat and we prefer the aisle and the middle seat. He sat my husband and I in different rows. They were able to correct that problem. I will never book with Travelocity again.

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    Reviewed July 11, 2013

    Travelocity booked our cruise and arranged flights for us. We requested that they book flights that would have us arriving the day before our sail date. The representative booked flights for us that had us landing in another country (which means we had to go through customs) on the same day and 2 hours before our ship sailed! When we brought it to their attention, they didn't believe us and made us wait on pins and needles for a week while they reviewed the phone recordings. Although they said they would get back to us in a week, they did not. We called them and were told we were correct and they would fix the mix-up. They offered a $50 on-board credit (which we didn't receive). However, they say the check is in the mail. We'll see. They are rude, they have a superior attitude, they don't respond to emails, they don't return calls, their customer service is the poorest we've ever encountered!

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    Reviewed July 10, 2013

    While traveling through northern Mexico at midday, I was involved in a car accident. I was stranded in the desert in 100 F+ heat and car that needed towing. My American cell did not work for calls. I called my husband on my Mx cell and asked him to cancel the reservation for me before it got too late. He called the 1.888.614.1750 number from our Vonage number (I have the phone report). They told him they could not cancel the reservation but they would transfer his call. I have the phone records for his calls and they show 2 calls with waits each of 14:55 (it was cut off) and 13:54 minutes (still no transfer). So he spent almost 1/2 hour trying to get someone to cancel this reservation. All he got was music and no one to help. Then he tried to call the motel directly at 520-744-8189 and in 2:29 minutes they made it clear to him that they could not help him.

    I think this should have been an easy cancellation and I don't understand why the reservation number could not handle this call by giving another number or transferring the call. On June 26th, I sent the required complaint email to consumer relations and they now (July 9) have replied that the motel said that the fee is non-refundable. I was not told by anyone when I made the reservation that the charge was non-refundable. I am very unhappy with the service I received from Travelocity and I don't think that the motel blocked the refund. I think that Travelocity has this control. They will never get another chance to do this to me.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 10, 2013

    I was advised that Priceline would price match. I contacted them regarding my trip to Vegas staying at NY, NY. I paid $1500... which was airfare, hotel, a zip-line trip and a trip to the Secret Garden. When I called the night before my flight, I was advised that my trip indeed had dropped to $500.00 per person so I asked if I could be refunded and was told no, that it didn't apply to me because you had to call two days prior to departure not the night before. I asked to be upgraded to first class or to a suite at the hotel; again, I was told no. I asked to speak with a supervisor who basically said, "Sorry but nothing we can do."

    We arrived at NY, NY and our first night there, an employee stole a $340.00 voucher from me. Security took a report and two days later we found out they indeed saw him on tape and we should call back in three days to see what was going on; we advised that would require us to pay additional funds. We asked if we could use the money we lost with the price break. We again explained why we needed to change flights and we again were told, "Nothing we can do." So we spent another $490.00 to change our return flight from Saturday to Sunday.

    In addition, we paid for a zip-line adventure and a trip to the Secret Gardens which were not honored. We decided to not pay for the zip-line but did, in fact, pay again for Secret Garden. We travel on average three times a year with groups up to 6 people at a time using your service; however, I think given all the hassle we will no longer be using this service nor will anyone we travel with. I think if you claim to price match, you should get the lower fare at any time and yes, I know it wasn't your fault my voucher was stolen, but $490.00 to change flights was incredible even after I told them I was a former flight attendant.

    I never thought I was be made to feel like a victim again trying to get home. I offered to have one of your representatives speak with an NY, NY manager and to fax the incident report. Neither was accepted. I just feel very disappointed in the way the company handled the situation.

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    Reviewed July 7, 2013

    I was lied to by Travelocity customer service to book a vacation package to Madrid, Spain one night at 10pm. I realized the lie by 11:30pm but was exhausted and went to sleep. I called at 8am the next morning to cancel for the lie and fraud and they agreed only to cancel the flights. They refused to cancel the 2 hotel rooms, and lied by saying it is the hotel who refuses to cancel. I called the hotel and found out that Travelocity owns the block of rooms already and they are in full control of cancellation. I spent hours on the phone being transferred around between people who really only put me on hold to wear me out.

    It took days and weeks of battle and still they refused to refund the rooms, even though they refunded the flights and I obviously will not be in Madrid to use the rooms. On top of this - it was booked as a package! They purposely booked the package to defraud me out of the monies for the hotel rooms - $2,000!!! My friend met a Travelocity lawyer in a restaurant and told him what happened to me and the lawyer admitted it is the goal of the company to defraud consumers! How do they stay in business??? This is America! They should be put out of business and all the people who have been defrauded should get their money back!!!

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    Reviewed July 7, 2013

    I wish I could put zero stars but that's not an option. I was doing a search online for a hotel booking with a shuttle service for tomorrow night. I booked through AirportHotelService.com and clicked off all the amenities that I wanted, including the shuttle service. Then I received a confirmation email and none of the amenities was listed. I called the hotel in question to confirm the reservation this morning and found out that I had 3 reservations for the same room. I did not pick that room 3 times, number one and was going to be charged for 3 rooms with this company!! I tried to cancel all the reservations and then contacted them when I only was refunded $3.74 on one of the bookings. I told them that I only booked once and that the other two should be cancelled because I did not authorize that. I was put on hold for almost an hour about 5 times and was told that they DID cancel all three bookings in full. When I received my cancellation confirmations, only 2 were cancelled in full. The other one still had the only $3.74 refunded to my credit card.

    When I called them back about this, she said the other $143 was "pending" and would be arriving later this afternoon and it didn't happen! I called the hotel to confirm and was told all 3 bookings were cancelled through Travelocity.com and they had never heard of AirportHotelService.com (where I booked from). I inquired about the cancellation policy at the hotel and they said that I could cancel up to 4 pm the day of booking. However, Travelocity (or whoever) told me they had a mutual agreement with the hotel but they also say that the customer will have to pay a penalty for cancellations after 12 AM the day before! So in effect, this is a big conflict between the hotel and Travelocity. I contacted my credit card company and they said we will dispute the charges if the refunds aren't posted to my account within 30 days. The charges appeared as "wctravel".

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed July 5, 2013

    I had a similar situation to the New Jersey woman who booked a flight but through a computer glitch got the wrong flight. I booked two seats on a flight and did not immediately check the confirmation. When I eventually checked, I noticed that the departure flight was the wrong flight. I called customer service (misnomer) and was told the green sheets had to be checked and to call again after 72 hours. I did as directed and was told it was not done yet. I called again the following day and it still wasn't done. The next day, I was told it was an error on my part and was assured that the computers don't make errors. I asked to speak to a supervisor and was told all were busy and one would call in 4 to 5 hours. No one ever called. The next day, I was assured that a supervisor called and left a message (a lie). I was again promised a call from a supervisor in 3 to 4 hours (a potential improvement). It never happened. What a way to carry on a business?! I hope no one ever uses Travelocity again. All the calls were channeled through India and as well as the representatives spoke English, you could sense that they were well schooled in giving zero satisfaction. I wish there was a better way to shout out what a miserable organization Travelocity is. What a disgrace!

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed July 1, 2013

    I purchased two separate trips with Travelocity for two individuals. Both of the trips were cancelled due to what Travelocity said was, "lack of billing information." When I checked my credit card transactions, one of the trips were refunded but the other trip was charged. What is the most upsetting from this experience is that Travelocity never sent an email informing me that the trips had been cancelled. Therefore, I had to repurchase tickets for both of the trips and paid double the price. This problem could have been avoided if Travelocity had sent me a cancellation email.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed June 26, 2013

    I booked a flight for my son departing on June 14, 2013 and returning on June 23, 2013. Somehow, I purchased a ticket returning February 23, 2013 instead. I know that this was a computer error but unfortunately, I did not check the confirmation. When I called the customer service line, I waited on hold for an outsourced customer service rep who was rude and very well trained in not being helpful. I hate Travelocity!!!

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    Contract & TermsStaff

    Reviewed June 22, 2013

    The sales rep said my room was on the beach multiple times, but it was not. It was across the street in the golf course. After a week of calling and discussing that the terms were inaccurate, I received no resolution. I am disputing charges with my credit card company and filed a complaint with the BBB.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed June 21, 2013

    I am so sick of Travelocity. The runaround is giving me gray hair, if you know what I mean. They cancelled my reservation because they claimed they DID get me when they tried to contact me on my booking/ Billing information with my bank. My reservation was cancelled. Well, all is well. Then I turn around and book another reservation and would you know that I end up with Travelocity through another booking site, and my worries start all over again. I am getting a headache.

    I got a missing call and two emails telling me to call this 866 number because the billing address on the card with my bank is not connected and I must wait for 30 minutes and call back. I have been doing that since last night, 6/20/2013 at 12:00 am and again at 9:00 am to 9:35 as I am typing this comment. I cannot understand some of the customer reps. I am waiting patiently for someone to call me back from Travelocity Billing department to confirm my flight status.

    If this one doesn't go through, I will definitely stay away from these cheap travel fare websites. Because it is too much worry and stress to deal with, it is not worth it. They cancel one reservation and I had to purchase another one with a higher booking price. I should have stayed with the direct contact with the airline booking sites. Never again. There is this saying, Penny wise and pound foolish. It means you try to save a dime (10 cents) and end up spending a few extra dollars ($). Good luck to you. I will be sharing this information (Facebook, here I come).

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    Sales & Marketing

    Reviewed June 20, 2013

    Caution. We booked a hotel through Travelocity and because of some sort of online glitch, they booked the wrong hotel for us. They claim it wasn't their mistake and now we are being charged $150 for cancelling the hotel. They refuse to refund $150 of our hard-earned money and people should be aware of things like this. Don't use Travelocity. You should book your vacations through a service that won't rip you off by charging a cancellation fee TWO MONTHS in advance. We will never use Travelocity ever again. After reading other complaints, I realize the bait and switch is something they excel in.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2013

    I've used Travelocity a number of times and was formerly able to pick a seat before finalizing the reservation. Now only after booking does the seat choice page appear. Wouldn't ya know it... only one available seat left on that flight and wouldn't ya know it... in between two other seats. I'm sure they would have also told me the other two seats would be filled with obese passengers with bad breath and flatulence if they could. "Surprisingly," there were other available seats up front for "an additional charge". So much for the stated cost of the flight. So much for my future patronage of Travelocity. I wonder how much repeat business they choose to jettison through these deceptive practices.

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    Customer ServicePricePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed June 15, 2013

    My boyfriend and I booked a flight for July 26-30 round trip from DIA to Orlando and we never got a confirmation email. We waited and waited, so we finally called Travelocity because that is what Kayak booked us through and they said that our return flight was AUGUST 30th. Both of us checked 16 times before booking it that it was July 30th. Also, his history shows that on his computer and somehow through them, it turned to August 30th. Regardless, they were rude and unhelpful the entire time. I asked because of the mix up if I could change my flight to the 30th and they wanted to charge me $240 more which turns to each flight being $500 or more. They are unprofessional, rude and a horrible group to book under. I don't recommend anyone doing it through them no matter the prices because in the end, you are paying double the price. Oh and by the way, the guy on the phone could barely speak English and he said his name is John, and everyone knows his name is not John.

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed June 11, 2013

    I booked a return flight from Akron, Ohio to Bangkok, Thailand. I booked it on their site with Delta Airlines, with which I am a frequent flyer. It should have given me 17,500 frequent flyer miles. When I returned home, I discovered I was not awarded the miles. When I called, Delta told me that Travelocity booked me on flights for which they did not grant frequent flyer miles. When I called Travelocity, I was told it was my responsibility to check about the miles. Four such flights should give me 70,000 miles, enough for a return ticket to Bangkok ($1600 value). I saved $75 by booking with Travelocity, and lost $400 in miles! NEVER AGAIN WILL I USE TRAVELOCITY!

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed June 6, 2013

    I booked four flights on Travelocity and received a confirmation number. Then the next day, I checked my email and Travelocity had sent me an email, 4 hours after I had made the reservation that they have cancelled my reservation because they could not verify a phone number with my bank. I had never received a call from Travelocity and they just cancelled my flight. I called Travelocity and waited about 20 minutes to talk to a live person. I asked them why they cancelled my flight. They said it was because my phone number did not match with the bank's phone number. I asked them to call my bank so we can three way call and find out what happened, but they did not want to cooperate. They told me that they called my number and no one answered, so they cancelled the flight. They didn't even leave a message!!!

    I called the bank. All the information they have matched what I have given to Travelocity. This is ridiculous!!! Now I have to purchase my tickets at a higher price of $125 each per person. I even spoke to Travelocity's supervisor and he said that it is their policy to just cancel if they cannot get a hold of the person on a first attempt. What kind of protocol is that?! I booked with Travelocity to save a few bucks, but ended up with high blood pressure and higher cost of flight since the flights had gone up.

    If the cost difference is only $20, pay that and go directly to the airlines. They have better customer service and you know that you won't have to waste time sitting and waiting for 20 or more minutes to someone who doesn't know anything about customer satisfaction or service. Travelocity, you not only lost me as a customer, but you will lose many more if you keep this up. So for all of you out there, I hope you will think twice before booking with Travelocity. SAVE the STRESS and headache and book directly with the airlines!!!

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed June 5, 2013

    I booked a flight reservation on Travelocity for my boyfriend. We received the confirmation and travel ID. Two days later, I received an email the night before saying they canceled the reservation due to unverifiable info. This doesn't make sense. If there was inaccurate info, the reservation shouldn't have gone through, and we would have got an error message.

    Called the customer service number and spoke with a rep, but they weren't able to help me. I asked to speak to a manager and got transferred to a Supervisor. They were unable to resolve the situation. They transferred me to a manager, and they were just as unhelpful. He said they were unable to reach my bank, which is totally laughable. Well, Fargo is the biggest bank and it was a weekday. Then they said they tried to reach me and were unable to. Neither of us had voicemails or emails from Travelocity. So the flight we wanted was no longer available, and all they can offer us was to make another reservation for us?! All that was left was inconvenient times and expensive rates! We had to pay 2x the price we initially paid! Will never do business with Travelocity again!

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    PriceStaff

    Reviewed May 31, 2013

    I booked a hotel in Toronto - 1 night, 1 person. I arrived at the Sheraton Conference Centre that evening and found out I had chosen my departure date as the check-in date. My bad. But there was no vacancy (it was 11 pm) and they were not able (or willing) to help.

    I tried calling Travelocity (2x and 40 mins total) and was cut off both times. I found another hotel, Hilton, who told me the Sheraton could easily have given me a credit to stay with them, something hotels regularly do, apparently, with over-bookings and other problems. So my room that night cost me $490 (combined costs). I ran the battery out on my iPhone today trying to get thru to Travelocity.ca. After 5 tries, lengthy hold times (20 - 25 minutes each time), and speaking with people who were VERY hard to understand (English was not their first language), I was told "too bad - it's non-refundable!"

    So my wish is that every person at Travelocity, especially the management, get treated the same way they treated me! I will go out of my way to tell everyone I can that Travelocity SUCKS! If you buy a wrong size piece of clothing, you take it back and exchange or refund! If you change a booking with an airline, they give you a credit file and a nominal charge to do that. If you book directly with a hotel, they make changes and refunds!

    And - Travelocity was NOT cheaper! They were exactly the same price as booking with the hotel directly. NEVER AGAIN, TRAVELOCITY!

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceStaff

    Reviewed May 28, 2013

    Please note that this is my first experience ever with a company like this. I Always book through the airline carrier direct and will do so the rest of my days!!! The old bait and switch happened. My charges on my 2 flights from Birmingham to Curacao were quoted on the screen which I booked and when the charges hit my CC, they were $130.00 higher than quoted. I called customer service who gave me a "runaround" about the price changes, yet I was on the AA website while I was talking to her and was disputing her explanation. While she was very polite, I knew she was following a script. She could never explain the increase in price from the booking to my CC. I will call VISA and dispute and will NEVER use again.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 21, 2013

    I booked a hotel in Oklahoma and was supposed to check in today (the day after the Moore tornado). I am currently in Dallas and there is a very long band of severe weather, with tornado watches between me and my destination. Needless to say, I am not making that trip. So I called Travelocity and explained to them that I wanted to cancel. At first, he said it was too late because my check in date was today and they have a 1-2 day notice policy. I explained the weather situation yesterday and the fact that nearly 100 people were dead and they are predicting more tornadoes today, and the fact that the storm is between me and my destination.

    Then, he put me on hold for about 4 minutes (coming back to check on me half way and apologizing for the delay twice). At that point, he told me that my hotel had been canceled and there was no penalty. He also said, "Sorry to hear about the people. Take care of yourself, sir." Reading the above comments, I know that this is not the normal experience with Travelocity. But this is my experience; therefore, I will be using them again until I receive different treatment.

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    Reviewed May 20, 2013

    I am filing a complaint against Travelocity for this reason: We booked a September 1 Lufthansa flight to London with Travelocity online. We did not receive an e-mail confirmation. Since we did not receive the confirmation, we thought the booking did not go through. So, we booked the same flight directly with Lufthansa. Both the Lufthansa and Travelocity bookings came through on my American Express card. I tried to cancel the Travelocity booking and they refused to refund the ticket charge. We later discovered through talking with Travelocity that they had sent a confirmation to some e-mail that was not ours. Travelocity made the error and should refund our money.

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    Reviewed May 16, 2013

    I will never ever book with Travelocity again. They cancelled a ticket after fully confirming and sending me full details and confirmation that it is fully booked and confirmed. They claimed they were trying to reach me and couldn't. They did this three days before the flight was leaving. The credit card was never cancelled so no issues on that end. They just decided since they cannot reach me and it was a booking for third party (my daughter with my last name as her middle name). This is also after I had successfully booked and cancelled with them. The outsourcing of this place is a nightmare. I will never ever do business with them again as they cannot be trusted. I've also seen the same thing happen to several others.

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    Reviewed May 15, 2013

    I requested to stay in a hotel. It was booked at a motel (Quality Suites Inn) in Orlando, FL. The room was so dirty some area in the floor was sinking in under the carpet; large blue stains in the bathtub; unfinished plaster in circles on the walls; and rain stains in the ceiling from leaks. The owner of the motel agreed to refund the 3 nights but according to Travelocity, he has not done so. All of this was reported to a Travelocity supervisor, who agreed to return $179 of the total cost of the trip and has not done so. This was my birthday - the worst I have ever had. We had to pay an additional $512 to stay in a hotel.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed May 9, 2013

    I booked a flight and car rental through Travelocity on 4/16. I received a confirmation and glanced quickly at it. On 5/8, the business trip was cancelled and I cancelled the car rental with no problem. When I went to cancel the airfare, it stated that I needed to call customer service. I called customer service and the representative spoke with a thick Indian accent. I explained to her the circumstances and she stated that the tickets were non-refundable and that I could cancel them and then rebook, as long as it was the same people and done within a year. I was unhappy because nowhere did it state when I was purchasing the tickets that they were non-refundable.

    I asked her to check again because I explained that I would not have purchased the tickets had I known they were non-refundable. She checked a second time and said they were indeed non-refundable. I then stated that I would like to cancel them and she said that she would be more than happy to cancel the tickets and gave me the restrictions. Not only would it have to be the same people as we're on the original tickets (okay), we would have to travel within one year (okay), but we would also have to pay a $190 fee to rebook the tickets. What?! We only paid $206 originally for the tickets before taxes. I told her that that was ridiculous and she asked if I still wanted to cancel. I told her, "No!" and hung up. I went to the Travelocity site and completed a feedback form, explaining the problem.

    At 10:04 pm, I received a call from Travelocity, by the same woman(!) and she asked me to call her back. (I was sleeping because I had to get up early for work the next morning.) I did not have time the next day to call and I received an email from Travelocity saying they had left a message and to please call back. I called her the next day and a different woman with a thick Indian accent answered. But this time, I could not understand about every other word she said. I asked repeatedly for a manager and finally, she said she would transfer me. I stayed on hold for 40 minutes and then they hung up on me. Never, ever book airfare through Travelocity!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed May 9, 2013

    I booked my flight from Manila to Seattle through Travelocity last April 24th. The airfare was $1,159.00 on Eva Air flight #272 to Taipei continuing to Seattle. I went to the airport on my travel date, and after an hour wait on the check-in line, I was informed that Travelocity cancelled my ticket. No email was sent to my primary contact, nor myself as passenger about the cancellation. I called Travelocity and was informed that the Revenue Security Dept cancelled my ticket, but Call Center could not tell me what the reason was. So I picked up all my luggage in the standby area and went back home. I will be filing a complaint at the Better Business Bureau and will never book all my future/family trips through Travelocity.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed May 2, 2013

    These were unacceptable customer service and poorly worded "restrictions" that are not only making me an ex-Travelocity customer, but a vocal one as well. In summary:

    I had to cancel a flight I'd booked in April 2012 for a flight scheduled to depart in May 2012. Per the emailed restrictions, I made note to rebook within the year, i.e., prior to the date I booked the flight in April 2013. Well, when I went to rebook, I was told the credit had "expired" as I had to fly prior to the date the flight was booked, not just rebook as the restrictions sent to me at the time of cancellation had stated. The wording in the email provided was unclear and incomplete at best, intentionally misleading at worst. Here's an excerpt: "Carriers either require you to rebook before your original departure date or may allow 1 year from the date tickets were originally issued."

    As I read it, the wording states that carriers require the customer to rebook, not fly, within the one year from the date tickets were originally issued. Flight was scheduled to depart in May 2012 with the ticket booked/issued in April 2012 so one would assume that re-booking within the year of the date that the tickets were issued would mean prior to April 2013. It does not state anywhere that one would need to fly by that date.

    I also spoke with a Travelocity representative at the time of cancellation and no additional info was provided other than what was emailed to myself immediately following our conversation so that I made note of those additional restrictions: i.e., the $130 change fee, that rebooking had to happen through Travelocity, that it had to be booked over the phone not online, and that the flight had to be with the same carrier - all reasonable and understood. However, neither the email sent nor the Travelocity representative that I spoke with that day made any mention that when I rebooked, I would have to fly before the year anniversary of the date the ticket was issued, only that the ticket needed to be rebooked by that date.

    As many have done before me, I got on the phone with a Travelocity representative - today he was going by the name of "Dave", a supervisor from India who unfortunately was no help whatsoever, instead resorting to repeating whatever "policy" that was in front of him which of course did not address the poorly worded restrictions noted in the email sent to me by Travelocity, i.e., the "policy" that he kept repeating was information not included in the email restrictions sent to me at the time of cancellation. So how is a customer to know about these additional restrictions until they attempt to rebook their flight? It's wholly frustrating and unacceptable as I was simply trying - as it was explained to me both over the phone and in writing at the time of cancellation - to use the credit to book another flight with the same airlines within the year deadline.

    Needless to say, I will not be using Travelocity ever again (booking 3 trips right now as we "speak") and I will attempt to file a formal dispute with American Express, a bit trickier given the charge was incurred nearly a year ago. Hopefully, Amex will be able to resolve this somehow as I'm certain Travelocity will not.

    Avoid Travelocity at all costs! This experience set me back over $700.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed May 1, 2013

    I purchased four tickets for my elderly parents and my two sons to fly to South Bend for a graduation. My dad got ill and my parents could not make the trip. The travel insurance people were very understanding. No problems with getting my money returned. However, my sons were still going to make the trip and I needed to change only one part of their flight, and Travelocity wanted to charge me, get this, $2,000 to change a flight! Seriously? This is more than the total I paid for 4 flights. I was on the phone to India for over one hour and no help. Then at the end, the customer service rep wanted me to talk to his supervisor to see if I had received good service. I told him that he didn't really want to hear what I had to say and hung up. Totally ** me off ! Travelocity, you are done!

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    Price

    Reviewed April 26, 2013

    I tried to reserve the ticket to Europe, with price around $1,300 at competitor's sites. I found several times on Travelocity ticket for $1,250 or $1,100 and then after choosing seats and submitting credit card information, price jumped to $1,500. It happened four times during the 24 hours with different routes, so I do not think it is a computer glitch. I ended up buying ticket from other agency.

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    Reviewed April 25, 2013

    I reserved a room in the middle of a vacation and paid in advance to get special rate. We wanted to change reservation by one day. Travelocity said I lose everything if I change reservation. This sucks! I will never ever book anything on Travelocity again! Beware!

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    Customer Service

    Reviewed April 23, 2013

    I booked my reservations a month ahead of travel and was surprised when the charges had to be prepaid but that was my fault for not reading. The charges were $99.99 per night for three people and then there was a charge for $10 each night for the extra person. I was really surprised when the resort put my final bill under my door the morning I was leaving with charges or $87.99 per night and no additional charge for the third person. It is a Native American resort so the resort fee was smaller than what Travelocity charged me. I was charged $346.31 by Travelocity and the resort charges were listed as $273.89. After two calls to India and speaking to a supervisor, the best they would do was a $25 coupon for future travel. If this is their idea of good customer service, I will not be using them again. Their website says if you find a better rate, they will match it and give you $50 credit. I guess I have learned my lesson.

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    Customer ServicePrice

    Reviewed April 18, 2013

    At 5 pm Tuesday, I booked a hotel and flight package for $2798 with Travelocity and I have since found out that transfers to the airport/hotel are not included with my "all inclusive" price! I was not impressed with the situation or the quotes on the prices to get us to the hotel 90 min. away so I thought that the very next day, I would call and change the hotel, location anything. But my refund would be $1125, meaning that in less than 24 hours I would be losing $1673! That is more than half. Now, is that fair?

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 16, 2013

    We booked a hotel through Travelocity. After arriving at our hotel, we promptly learned that our smoke free hotel had 2 smokers (a pipe and marijuana reported to us by the Ramada North staff). No open rooms were available so we decided to check out, as we have yet to spend the night. Long story short, the Travelocity operator told us we would get a refund; we even spoke to the manager and told her that we were checking out. Now, Travelocity states that we never had that conversation.

    After checking into a hotel up the road at 11 p.m. (not sure who books 2 hotels under the same name on safe nights), they still don't believe we checked out of hotel A after we spoke to the Travelocity rep 6 times, for no less than 5 hours. If you have nothing to do and love being on hold, call this company. I am still not getting anywhere and even spoke to 5 different Travelocity reps and a manager. I don't mean any disrespect, but there seems to be a huge communication/language barrier with their reps from Travelocity. Also, the call connection is so poor I'm not sure if they took one of their own vacations and got stranded on a remote island.

    The reps are disrespectful, difficult to understand, do not stand behind their product or document the conversations they have w/ customers. Never ever will I book through this company again. I will gladly pay the extra to not go through this company. Oh wait, I already have paid extra as I paid double for a hotel as they still have not refunded my $200.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed April 10, 2013

    On February 12, 2013, I purchased a $100 Travelocity.com gift card for $50 as part of a Google offer. I then utilized the gift card on the same day to book a hotel in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Hilton Santo Domingo for 2/13/13 - 2/16/13. I arrived to check-in at the Hilton on 2/13 only to learn that my reservation was cancelled. I was informed that because my phone number was unable to be verified, the hotel room which I obviously booked through Travelocity.com was cancelled. I was informed that a customer service representative attempted to contact me via my cell phone to confirm my phone number, but as I was already out of the country, my phone was not on. There was no attempt to reach me by email (which did not make sense as I booked online and provided my email address as contact). I was thus stranded in a foreign city, out of the country with no lodging.

    I spent 2 hours on the phone with various customer service departments on an international call where I was consistently transferred to the incorrect department and forced to remain on hold for extended periods of time. After two hours of back and forth, I was informed that my coupon would not be valid for my current stay. My funds that were utilized to secure the reservation would be held for 48 hours or more, and I was basically on my own to secure alternative housing. I was beyond livid! I had the gift card number in my possession but Travelocity refused to reissue the coupon I purchased, even though they received tender and I received nothing in exchange. They also refused to release the funds I paid for the hotel stay that they were no longer honoring. I booked another hotel reservation on my own.

    When I returned to the states, I contacted customer service again (2/20) and was told Travelocity would reissue the gift card within 10-15 days. 10-15 days - absurd! One month later, I called customer service again - 3/20. I was told they had no record of my original request and would reissue the gift card, and again they stated this would take 10-15 days. Yesterday, I contacted customer service again - 14 business days after my last request. I was again told there was no record of my request, and I would need to wait another 10-15 days to receive the card. I protested and requested to speak with management. I was informed there was no manager on duty. At this point, I seriously doubt Travelocity has any plans of refunding my money or reissuing my gift card. This is fraud!

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed April 4, 2013

    One Tuesday afternoon at 1 pm, March 2, 2013, I purchased one passenger ticket for a colleague using Travelocity and my American Express card. They accepted my purchase and issued an e-ticket which was sent to my browser, my email and to the colleague's email address. More than 30 hours later, when I was at our church from 7 pm to 8 pm, they called my home phone due to a suspicion they had about the nature of purchasing the ticket by me a third party. When I did not answer their call, being out, they cancelled the tickets with no warning, and a terse email explaining that they had cancelled this ticket.

    I opened my email client, and almost dismissed the email notifying that that had cancelled my e-ticket arrangements but because I was concerned about the nature of the email, I found a phone call from an undisclosed number and name on my caller ID. So I called a supplied number and they explained to me that they canceled the ticket since I did not answer the phone (30 hours later). They would not reinstate the ticked but insisted that if I wanted the ticket, I would have to repurchase the number and call them immediately. This time, they called me in about 20 minutes after making the purchase announcing that my American Express card has been approved, etc.

    My complaint is this: Nowhere on any of the previous ticket was there any warning that they would call for confirmation, nor did they warn me that they could still cancel the ticket. It was, to me, an obvious poor business practice with my money. I have checked my credit card, and it still has not posted the charge. But they have reissued an e-ticket that is exactly like the first, only with all new numbers.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2013

    We booked a ticket through Kayak but because they are an affiliate, the booking went through Travelocity. We received confirmation through the airline, Kayak, and Travelocity. Our credit card was charged. The next evening (at 2AM) we received a phone call from the Travelocity fraud department asking us to verify our credit card number, which we did. The next day we received an email from Travelocity that our booking was cancelled, despite the phone call the previous evening. The first three times I called, I was on hold for 45 minutes. I had to switch to Skype because we are calling from overseas and I ran out of talk time.

    The first line of customer service reps were all rude and either hung up on us or transferred us to someone else before listening to what we had to say. I finally reached the supervisor in customer service and although he was nice, he could not answer my questions and kept reverting back to the script. This went on for 2 hours. His only fix was to rebook new tickets through Travelocity that were $400 more because the price had gone up. No thanks. We booked the more expensive tickets through the airline carrier directly. We still haven't even received our refund from Travelocity although they say it is going through.

    This is the worst experience (and most costly) that I have ever had with an organization. We usually love Kayak but because of their affiliation with Travelocity, we will no longer be using them.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2013

    We booked a vacation in January with Travelocity. Come March, the flights had been changed. I contacted Travelocity to find out what was going on. All the girl could tell me was that there was no availability on that flight. How could there not be availability when I had booked and paid for the flight 2 months in advance? I told her that I need that particular flight for family reasons, and that we want the flight that we contracted with them for and to not change my flights. She offered us flights that were completely out of the way and or at unreasonable times of day when traveling with a small child.

    I asked for a supervisor, but she would not transfer me to a supervisor and said that they could not do anything about it. She would not contact the airline to inquire what "no availability" means, because she did not want to wait on hold with the airline. I had to ask several times for someone to call me back with answers to my questions. I was told that I would get a call back from the resolution department within 72 hours. I got a call back 7 days later with a message that said there was no availability on the original flight, and if I have any questions to please call back. By the way, the call center is in India and the accent was difficult to understand even for me who has traveled to Asia and the Orient for over ten years.

    While all this took place, I called the airline directly and talked to customer service. They told me that the actual flight was canceled and that particular route is not running anymore. They were happy to change us to a similar flight and there were no issues. Two weeks later, I got another call back from Travelocity wanting to see if they can change my flight for us. I kindly told them to not change anything, to confirm our current itinerary, and to just leave it alone. I have used Expedia and gone directly to the airlines for travel, and I understand things change. But to not have an answer, not want to get the answer, and to basically tell me take it or leave in a roundabout way is unacceptable. I will never use Travelocity again and will never recommend them to anyone ever.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2013

    The hotel was not as described. We contacted Travelocity immediately and were promised a partial refund. Then they did not follow through.

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    Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

    Reviewed April 1, 2013

    I placed a reservation through their site for a hotel room for 2 nights that totaled $165. I didn't receive a confirmation so I called them and was told it was cancelled by them and the charges were pending but would be refunded back to me in 24 to 48 hours. I was on the streets overnight with 2 young children and they offered no solution, and I was on hold with 5 different people and hung up on 3 separate times. Here it is a week later and I still don't have my funds back! They are horrible and couldn't have cared less about my situation! I will never deal with them again or recommend them either. My bank says I have to wait for them to release the hold which could take up to 2 weeks! This is horrible!

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    Reviewed March 25, 2013

    On Thursday evening, 2/21/13, I attempted to purchase airline tickets on the Travelocity website. After entering all my debit/credit info and hitting next, the site froze. It wouldn't let me go any further. Assuming there was a glitch in their system/website, I decided to give up. The next day on my way to work, I stopped for gas to find my credit card was declined. At that point I immediately went home since my car was on empty and I needed to check my account online. Come to find out Travelocity charged my debit/credit three times and left me without a penny. This became a major catastrophe since I have two small children, $0, no gas and every time I attempted to call Travelocity I was either on hold for over 35 minutes or I was told by a supervisor it would be corrected right away. Instead, they left me all weekend without any access to my bank account.

    It was actually not until Tuesday, 2/26/13, at midnight that my money freed up and I was able to access. Considering how rude and unaccommodating customer service was, I have to assume they must not understand the devastation of going 5 days without any access to my money and having 2 small children to care for. Not only was it an awful situation, it was actually unsafe!

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    Reviewed March 12, 2013

    Travelocity delivers terrible customer service. They will transfer you all around the world and you still will not get your questions answered. Not to sound rude, but the representatives cannot understand English very well. You spend an ample amount of time repeating yourself over & over. They post false and misleading prices on their site then, when it’s time to pay, they jump the prices up. When you call, they cannot provide you with any explanation as to why. Terrible personal experience with this company!

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    Reviewed March 5, 2013

    I booked a room through Travelocity on 3/1/13 for Smoky Mountains Inns and Suites in Cherokee, NC. I was charged $109.81 and expected a nice room. Travelocity told me it was 2 king size beds and a suite. When we arrived, it was one bed and the TV was an old 19" box type that had such scratchy sound you could not watch it. There was no bathtub and it was not a suite. Front desk gave me a receipt for $82.05. That is a $27.76 difference in price. The front desk clerk was rude and said if I did not like it, to complain to Travelocity. At that point it was too late to book another room somewhere else. I called Travelocity on 3/4/13 and was put on hold 4 times. They told me they were unable to contact the hotel and it was going to their voicemail. I called the hotel and they answered right away.

    I want to know why the difference in price and why they will not call me back and resolve this situation. By the way, never stay there. It was awful and we could not wait to get out of there the next morning.

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    Reviewed March 4, 2013

    In response to the post I made regarding Travelocity and being ripped off, I received a very quick response back from Travelocity: "Thank you for contacting us with your concern. We sincerely apologize for any frustration. As a onetime exception, we are refunding the $30 booking fee charged on trip ID **. You should expect to see this refund in 7-14 business days barring any delays from us or your financial institution. I filed a complaint with the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General in Texas." I "think" that's why I got such a quick response as well as the $30 refund. So, if you've experienced being ripped off, that's the way to go in my opinion. Companies don’t like being reported to state agencies.

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    Reviewed March 4, 2013

    In December of 2012, I had booked a hotel reservation for one week. When I arrived, I discovered that my trip had been cancelled; and I was reassigned to a different location. The hotel said they had no problem with refunding my unused nights, but I would have to go through Travelocity. I called and was told to call again in the morning after checkout. I did so, waited over 20 minutes on hold, and was told it was taken care of. It was not, the charges still appeared on my bill. Multiple calls to Travelocity were unsuccessful, with them telling me the hotel would not refund anything.

    Again in February 2013, I made a hotel reservation through Travelocity, but later discovered my employer had made the same reservation direct with the hotel. I called Travelocity to cancel, but they said the hotel had a no-cancellation policy; and they could not help. I told them the hotel was receiving payment direct and could not be paid twice for the same night's stay, but they would not listen. When I checked in, I confirmed with the hotel that they had been paid twice. They told me to call Travelocity, and they would be happy to refund the second payment. Travelocity refused to help, and I paid for the same room twice. I will never use Travelocity again!

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    Reviewed March 1, 2013

    I booked a flight via the Travelocity website on AirTran. Not realizing that AirTran charges you to buy your seat, I found a cheaper flight on United. I called Travelocity within minutes and complained about them not disclosing this policy. I booked the United flight over the phone and was told I would not be charged any fee for the change. I was charged $30. I demanded my money and got the runaround, so I gave the rep an ultimatum to refund or I would file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General Office. He asked me, "Are you threatening me?" I found that rather comical. I said, "No, I'm telling you what I'm going to do if you don't refund me. That's not a threat; it's a promise." I still got the runaround so I just hung up and filed a complaint with the Texas Attorney General's office. I just filed the complaint today so no response yet. Stay away from Travelocity. They'll do practically anything to make a buck. In the future, I plan to do the same thing that businesses do and that is to inform them I'm recording the call. At the worst, I'm out $30 but I don't like to get ripped off.

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    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2013

    Travelocity rates 2-star hotels as 3-star hotels so you think you are getting a bargain. Every other site on the Internet rated the hotel I booked as a Top Secret Hotel 3-star hotel as a 2 star. When I saw the hotel, I immediately called Travelocity and pointed out this was not a 3-star hotel. I got someone in India who took about 10 minutes to tell me that Travelocity doesn't follow anyone else's rating system and it was not refundable. I consider this fraud and a violation of unfair and deceptive trade practices. I would never book anything else through Travelocity. They should be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorney generals.

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2013

    I had made reservations in Virginia Beach through Travelocity for 2 queen studios for 4 adults. They asked me the name of the person for the second room and I paid in full. When we got to the hotel, my friend (2nd room) had her queen studio, but they didn't have my name or my room. I ended up getting a double bed room, not ocean front (which I reserved). I am very mad. What if they didn't have rooms left? I am the one who paid and reserved, but my name was nowhere to be found! I had a very bad experience waiting for a room!

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2013

    We had a problem with our connecting flight coming from Narita Airport (Japan), connecting through Chicago, and the final destination to Dulles Airport (Washington, DC). The UA agent was not able to find our reservation and only after a more seasoned agent assisted did they find the reservation. From what I heard, Travelocity's tickets are not guaranteed, and we were chance passengers. This is the first time I’ve used Travelocity to book a flight and will be the last given their methodology. It was only because the flight was not booked that we were able to connect to our final destination. The United Airline agent recommended we go to the airline directly to avoid future problems, a practice I will adhere to from now on. They also lost 5 of the 6 checked-in baggage we have. It was left in Chicago because the United Airline staff failed to see the manual re-tag of the bags for IAD as the final destination. We’re not sure why only one made it, because they were all together when we surrendered the bags to the counter.

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    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2013

    I have used Travelocity for over 10 years to book vacations - this history was of no consequence when I, for the first time, needed to cancel a reservation. In February 2013, I booked a hotel, flight and car for a work trip. Unfortunately, the event I was attending was cancelled, so I called Travelocity to cancel the trip less than a week after booking it. While I anticipated I would not be able to get a refund on the flight but rather only a credit, I was not prepared for their explanation on not refunding my hotel. The first time I called to cancel the trip, the representative said she tried to call the hotel for over 20 minutes to try and cancel but could not get a hold of anyone. She told me to call back in an hour.

    Thinking this was weird, I called the hotel and was connected with a person who would cancel my reservation in under 2 minutes. The hotel representative told me the cancellation would not be a problem since I was doing it well within their cancellation window. However, since I went through Travelocity, I needed to have them finalize the cancellation. So, I called Travelocity again and explained the situation. They advised me this time that they could not refund the hotel because I was only cancelling a part of my reservation - I again explained I was cancelling the entire reservation. They put me on hold - as they had done for approximately 40 minutes by now.

    When the representative came back on, he said to finalize the cancellation, he was forwarding my call to their hotel representatives. I was forwarded - but only to another rep who had no idea what I was talking about or why I had been transferred to him. So, I explained the situation again. Again, I was put on hold. This time, when this 3rd representative came back on, I was told that the hotel was now non-refundable. By the way, this was nowhere on my reservation confirmation. He explained that this was so, because I booked in a package and got a lower rate by doing so. Curiously, I called the hotel and was actually quoted a lower rate than Travelocity was offering. All the explanations and runarounds are just a way to wear you down.

    I have spent thousands over the years using Travelocity - I will never use them again. Quite frankly, it is not worth the hassle especially since you can get lower rates by booking independently on your own.

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    Reviewed Jan. 20, 2013

    I booked a hotel for one night in Dallas well ahead of my trip. Three days prior I realized it made sense to be in a hotel on the other side of town. I called Travelocity and was told I would have to pay the full charge for the original hotel and the charge for the hotel to which I wanted to change. Where was this written when I made my original reservation? Nowhere. My original booking was $172. What if it was $60? Would I only have been penalized $60? I do not understand how this disparity, let alone the policy itself, is justified. They are keeping this money in their pockets to take four minutes to change a reservation. Clearly they do not need returning customers to keep this business afloat.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 17, 2013

    In September 2012, we booked some flight tickets through Travelocity. When we showed up at Pekin airport, it took us by surprise that we required a visa in order to board the flight, along with 11 other passengers. We were redirected to deal with the manager in turn for the airline (S7). The service was kind; the manager canceled all of the passenger tickets directly in her computer advising all of 11 passengers to contact our travel agencies to obtain full refund and that there will not be a cancellation fee of any kind. That moment, on the spot, I called Travelocity to inform them of the situation. I also passed my phone so an agent from Travelocity confirmed the situation with the manager of S7.

    Everything seemed to be okay. By then, we booked different flights and got back on our way home. Yet, a few weeks passed and I didn't hear anything from Travelocity, so I called to figure out what was the situation with our refund, to which their answer was, "We are working on it, trying to contact the airline." For about four months, I had the same story, "We can't contact the airline; there is nothing we can do." I placed complaints at the customer care department but it didn't help much. Another month went by and there was no answer yet.

    I literally called Travelocity at every possible hour, 2 am, 4 am, 12 pm, 6pm, 5 am, 4 pm. Every time, the same issue was explained, everything all over again each time on hold for no less than 1 hour, sometimes making me wait up to 3.5 hours. I started to get frustrated with the service. I have contacted Travelocity at other departments numerous times but I always achieved the same answer, "We can't do anything now; we will contact you back." They never did, and the one time they did, it was to tell me, "We don't have an answer yet."

    It has been over four months now (September to January 2013) and nothing got resolved. Two weeks ago, an agent from Travelocity informed me that finally I would get reimbursed but I would be penalized for it ($150 each ticket), to which I said, "No problem, just let's get this over with." I did not get refunded. Now, I am still at the same place with no refund, no penalty, no credit to travel again and no answer.

    I am wondering if there is anything I can do to get this resolved. Certainly, I'm disgusted by the service, over four months to get a hold of someone. Funny enough, it doesn't seem to take them that long to charge our credit cards for reservations. I am just extremely disappointed with the customer service up to now. I mean, 4 months! Obviously, I'm just not worth to them as a client. I place myself in your hands to make awareness of my situation. Thanks in advance.

    I believe I am entitled to a refund, an airline credit or Travelocity credit. I would prefer my card to be reimbursed and settled. I would like to experience having to make another reservation with them.

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    Tommy increased rating by 2 stars.
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    After a positive interaction with Travelocity, Tommy increased their star rating on April 15, 2013.

    Updated review: April 15, 2013

    Travelocity refunded the money after I complained about the safety of this hotel. There is no way I would ask my wife to stay in this location. High Crime Area.

    Original Review: Jan. 16, 2013

    Travelocity advertises these hotel rooms as 4-star for 2-star prices. They keep the name of the hotel secret until you sign a No Refund agreement. They then delivered a hotel that I would never stay in under any circumstances in a high crime area. 50 % of the reviews stated they would never stay there again. To top it off, they charged me $80 a night for this swell deal. Customer Service does not provide their name, so you have to figure that this is not the work of one incompetent worker. It seems to be a deliberate attempt to sell substandard rooms which could not be rented, otherwise at inflated rates under false pretenses. I have been a Travelocity customer for over 10 years. That is all history. They evidently are under new management and no longer consider the customer anything other than a profit center.

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    Reviewed Jan. 16, 2013

    Calling the general number to exchange a ticket results in routing to India where they have limited visibility to an airline exchange. Call the airline first to confirm the date, time, and exchange if you had bought the ticket through them. Second, call 570-760-2528, the Travelocity Executive Service. They will be able to contact the airline and make an exchange. Example: I purchased ticket for $933.60, called general Travelocity number - $841 Exchange fee to move return flight time up. I called the airline who confirmed time available to exchange return flight at the standard $200. I called Executive Service who worked with the airline to make the change.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2013

    I have been a long term customer of Travelocity. I have been making travel reservations through them for over 10 years and, after the treatment I received today, it appears that doesn't matter to them one bit. I needed to make a change to a business trip reservation. I needed to return one day earlier than my original itinerary so I called to make the change. The customer service rep made a good suggestion, if I were taking a personal trip that was not being expensed by my employer, but it was not a good fit for the current situation. I tried explaining my situation to the rep but instead of understanding or just letting it go, he started arguing with me. When I finally had enough and asked him to just update the current reservation, he made a snide comment to me that "if I want to have my company pay an extra $34, then that is my decision. "

    After dealing with this poor display or customer service, I decided to write a letter to Travelocity about the bad experience. I explained my position in the email and submitted it to Customer Support. They sent me what looks like a response written by a person but actually resembled more of a form letter. They didn't address any of my concerns centered around the rep's attitude but rather they responded by explaining what the extra charges are for and how they are applicable by law. Obviously, they either didn't read or didn't understand my complaint and I just got a generic response back where it looked like someone cut and pasted a form response in an email and hit send.

    To say the least, after all the money I have spent with them over the years and how they were my #1 go to for travel bookings, personal and business alike, I expected better treatment. It's time to move on and establish a relationship with another vendor. Stinks for them.

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    Customer ServiceSales & MarketingPriceStaff

    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2013

    So around 6 months ago, I was booking a flight on the Travelocity website to visit family. Near the end of my purchase, there was a promotion for signing up for the Travelocity rewards card. It said if I signed up, I would receive $200 credit towards my next flight as well as a couple thousand bonus points on top of the $200 credit. I am not a person who likes applying for every card that comes my way. But since I fly a few times a year to see my family, I thought it sounded like a good deal and could use the card in the future for other deals and promotions they may have. After I applied, I then purchased my flight and no money was credited. So I called customer service and the man I spoke with said I had to wait until I received my approved card in the mail and use it on my next flight. Okay, that makes sense.

    So now 6 months later, I'm ready to use that credit and visit my sister and her adorable children. So this time when I call customer service at 866-734-8040, they have no idea how to help me. So they put me on hold for 20 minutes then gave me Travelocity’s customer service number to call 888-872-8356. They also have no idea how to help me. So they put me on hold for 20 minutes and then they give me a different number to call. Guess what number? The first number I called. So I call them back, and guess what? They give me the second number to call again, only this time I said that wasn't good enough and I wanted to speak with a supervisor.

    So I was put on hold for 40 minutes! Only then to be told there were no supervisors available and wouldn't be one available for 24 to 48 hours, when of course in the meantime, ticket prices are going up and up. I am still on hold, probably for the rest of my life. My advice to anyone else is do not sign up for this card. It's a scam! Travelocity does not follow through with its promotions, and if you want help from customer service, they will give you the runaround until you give up or die.

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    Reviewed Dec. 10, 2012

    I needed to change the pickup time of a rental car that I booked through Travelocity because my flight time’s changed. It seems like a simple request but not for Travelocity. The agent seemed not to understand that I was not canceling the reservation, merely changing the pickup time. Well, during our over 1 1/2 hour conversation, during which I was put on hold for many minutes at a time, an email came over canceling the reservation! I told him about it and he put me on hold again and then said his supervisor told me to write a letter. I asked him to put his supervisor on the phone, which he refused to do. I asked for his employee number which he refused to give me. Write a letter? For what purpose? I wanted my reservation back but of course, the rental fee went up $120! Are they kidding? How can a company this disorganized and so totally awful in Consumer Affairs still be in business?

    Finally, I hung up and called back again! This time I insisted on speaking with a manager which took another 40 minutes of hold time. When he finally came on the phone, he said that they would have to do an investigation to see how the reservation got canceled. Maybe a ghost canceled it? He said that if they find that it was their fault, that Travelocity will refund the difference after I use the car. Sure and I have an island to see you! What a nasty awful company they are. Buyers beware!

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2012

    In July 2012, my mother purchased a round trip ticket from Travelocity. Her credit card was charged $414. She received a flight change in August 2012 and made her outbound flight on November 18 with no problem. We went to the airport for her return trip and were told she had a seat confirmed on the plane but American Airlines could not print the ticket because United Airlines had control of it. After the counter agents went back and forth, we we told that there was nothing they could do. She missed her flight and we went home and tried to call Travelocity. After five hours on the phone and being disconnected five times, we were told that she was on the same flight the next day at the same time.

    We went to the airport the next day and the same problem happened. We had to pay for a one way ticket again to get her back home. After numerous calls to Travelocity, we were told to send an email to Customer Support which we did and there was no response. Watch out for Travelocity. They will rip you off, take your money and leave you stranded without thinking twice and when you call to complain, you get a call center with people who you can't even understand. If you use Travelocity, be prepared to be ripped off.

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    Reviewed Dec. 4, 2012

    I was booking a new flight using a cancelled ticket and went through the process with Customer Service. I told them I had to get my credit card to pay the difference, and when I came back 10 seconds later, they were gone. I called back and the flight I needed was no longer available. I asked to speak to a manager, and the rep proceeded to blame me for not confirming the flight. The rep eventually hung up on me. I called back a third time and was put on hold for 15 minutes. I finally decided to hang up. I'll use the ticket I have but will never do business with them again.

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    Reviewed Dec. 3, 2012

    I don't mind that there are different charges for amenities on airlines. Who I fault with not explaining the "no carry-on without a fee" policy is Travelocity, which lists all airfares in a descending fashion and neglecting to be transparent about Spirit's carry-on costs. I'm 64 years old and don't own a regular bag. I have used free carry-on bags for the last 30 years. I travel extensively (for pleasure) and had never been charged for a carry on in all my years. Other sites that have "different" rules from the standard don't let you pay for the airfare without alerting you to the carry on fare(s) and one has to click on "no thanks" to eventually buy your desired ticket (which I would not have wasted my money on Spirit, had I known).

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    Reviewed Nov. 29, 2012

    OK, bear with me readers while I try to explain this mess! I canceled a trip I booked last June through Travelocity. I was refunded the hotel and the car rental money. I was left with $491.60 as a credit. The lady who took me through the cancelation process explained to me that the credit will expire within a year and it will be subject to a $190 rebooking fee. I also have to rebook by calling Travelocity, and the rebooked flight has to be under the same name of the ticket holder prior cancelation. Here six months later, I'm trying to fly to Portland on a $350 flight. In my thinking, they will deduct the rebooking fee of $190 from the $491; I'll be then left with $301. Since the ticket to Portland I'm looking at cost $350, I'll end up paying $49 and "Portland, here I come!” But when I called, I was told the rebooking fee cannot be deducted from the $491. I have to pay it out of my pocket, separately. And if the flight I'm rebooking is cheaper than the original (in this case $350 vs. $491), the airline will forfeit the remaining difference. This is not what I was told when I canceled my trip! I need a drink!

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    Reviewed Nov. 27, 2012

    Today, I worked on booking my honeymoon with Travelocity to St. Lucia for Jan. 2012. I had a question with regard to booking online, with maiden name or married name. Customer Service rep said to use name on passport, then he insisted he finish the booking over the phone. I insisted that I could do it online but he continued that it would be better if he did it. I had lots of questions and was not sure but he kept insisting. In the end, I did book.

    After booking I went back to the site and discovered today being Cyber Monday, there was a turkey10 that would save me over $300 on the same exact trip. I called the company, held until I had to start flipping phones due to batteries going out. They could not change the trip and take the discount. They could cancel the trip and I could rebook, but it would not come off my credit card for 5 days. I didn't have the extra money on the card to completely pay for an entire new trip since I'm getting married in a month with all the expenses.

    As of midnight, the deal is off. They offered a $50 voucher for my next trip. No thank you. I have a life to spend with my wife and will not be using Travelocity again. The customer service reps rip you off.

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    Reviewed Nov. 26, 2012

    I am writing with regards to a vacation I attempted to book on November 23, 2012. I was in the midst of completing my reservation and I wanted to check off the section that I was bringing an infant with me on vacation. I then read the ridiculous policy that I would not be able to add my infant until after I made my reservation and I would not know what the additional cost was. I contacted Travelocity Customer Service immediately as I wanted to book my vacation right away. As an aside, I must say that the fact that there is any charge for a child under 2 years old is absolutely ridiculous. A child who does not occupy a seat on an airplane should not incur any cost whatsoever.

    Regardless, I advised the agent I spoke to that I was booking a trip for 2 adults, 1 child and 1 infant to travel to Cancun, Mexico on February 2, 2013 for 2 weeks with West Jet. I then advised the agent that I needed to know the cost of my infant to travel. He advised me that he could not tell me the cost and would only be able to provide this information after I booked my $8000 vacation. He then said it was the airline's policy and not Travelocity's, so I suggested he call West Jet and find out what the fee would be for my infant. He refused. I then asked him what consumer would make a vacation reservation with Travelocity without knowing the cost for a party traveling with them. I then contacted West Jet myself and they confirmed that they do not charge any fees for an infant under 2 years of age and they advised that this policy was likely Travelocity's.

    I called Travelocity for a second time on Saturday, November 24, and asked to speak to a manager. The lady I spoke to said this was not possible. I explained my situation to her and what West Jet had told me. She said, "Well if they told you that, then there is no fee." I told her that I needed to be sure about this and that West Jet advised that this was not their policy. She refused to admit that this was Travelocity's policy and tried to insist that West Jet was misinforming me. This is not possible. I have traveled with West Jet with my infant in April 2012 and in September 2012 and had no issues and did not have to pay one cent for my infant. She then said, "Well, it's up to you - when you get to the airport they will charge you there!" I then asked for the CEO's contact information and she refused. After much debate, she finally relinquished the email address above after I advised her that I am a customer and I am entitled to this information.

    As a regular traveler, I find this policy preposterous. Why would any consumer want to book a vacation with Travelocity when you are forced to make a reservation for thousands of dollars without knowing what the cost is for your infant? Needless to say, I will not be booking my vacation with Travelocity nor any other vacation for that fact. I want people with children to know of this ridiculous policy to avoid booking anything with Travelocity.

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    Reviewed Nov. 16, 2012

    I would like to get the attention of anyone reading this post. I tried to book a flight from Newark to New Delhi for the 10th, Jan. 2013 and return on the 10th of Feb. 2013. After inputting all information and card details and when I submitted the ticket reservation, to my surprise, I received a message on webpage as "Due to a technical glitch you may not be able to book the ticket now. Please try later". I called customer care (date/time: 10th Nov. 2am to 5am EST) and a guy guided me on booking tickets. I tried again and the same issue surfaced again. Third time the customer care guy tried to book a ticket himself and asked me to pay US$30 extra for service. I declined as the problem is with the website and not me, and I tried myself twice. After an escalation, he agreed to book for free. He was also unsuccessful in booking the ticket for me.

    I checked my credit card statement just to make sure I am not charged. To my surprise, I was charged 6 times (2 records for each try), 3 entries for travelocity.com and 3 entries for Virgin Atlantic. These were Temp Authorized entries. The amount per transaction is US $1,185.18. The same time I made a call to Travelocity Customer Care and I was assured that charges will be dropped within 24-48 hours and I left the call then and there.

    Later, after 2 days when charges were not removed, I started making calls to the most pathetic call center of your company wherein the executive had no sense of talking and understanding the queries and was not able to answer my queries. Also, one of them asked me for full card information (including expiry date and secret code on back of card). I declined to provide the secret code and asked him to take his supervisor on call and I was advised that the supervisor is busy and he will give call back on my number. I never received any call though as expected.

    You may check the recording of these calls made from my numbers. Later, I initiated the same issue to my bank i.e. Bank of America. They declined to remove this as it's something Travelocity and Virgin Atlantic need to remove. After having 4 calls, I was finally able to catch hold of both customer care (Travelocity and BOA) on one call and after 120 hours, the charges for Travelocity.com were removed from my statement. Interestingly, charges for flight company Virgin Atlantic were not removed and the bank mentioned to me to ask Virgin Atlantic. Same was the case with Travelocity customer care as well.

    I called up Virgin Atlantic customer care and came to know all such charges are handled by Travelocity.com as this is something you booked from their website and not the VA website. It makes sense but the point is, why put charges twice for one transaction initiated by me? The VA people didn't have any answer to it. Now, I am totally pissed off with this and the amount is still pending in my statement. It's the temporary authorized entries which may not convert to posting and soaking up my credit limit, at the time when I have to use the card again to book another ticket. Below, the card statement is showing these three entries from Virgin Atlantic. The amount per transaction here is US $1,185.18 and total amount is US $ 3,555.54.

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    Reviewed Nov. 14, 2012

    I booked a hotel right before Hurricane Sandy knocked out power for over a week. The operator told me repeatedly I could cancel my reservation at any time as I booked with him on the phone. When the email confirmation came, it said that I would lose 100% of the money if I canceled. I called and they confirmed that I would lose 100% of my money. Total scammers. My wife is sick and I will lose $534 on this hotel reservation. I spent hours on the phone on hold and getting kicked around with this. Total scam company. Will report to Texas Attorney General and the BBB.

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    Customer ServiceContract & Terms

    Reviewed Nov. 12, 2012

    We booked a room through Travelocity for the Hilton Garden Hotel in Bakersfield, CA for Nov. 11, 2012 a month ago. Our plans changed and we needed to cancel the reservation and found out that cancelling even 48 hours in advance we could not get our money refunded. We found out that they charged our credit card in full when we booked and they do not pay the hotel until after we check out.

    In checking the Hilton website, we found out that we could have booked the same room for $5 per night less directly with the hotel and the terms were free cancellation until 6pm day of arrival. I finally found online a phone number for Travelocity to talk with an actual human and she was of no help or sympathy. It was basically they have my money and if you cancel, they will, but there is no refund. So the lesson is, never book hotels or travel with a third party company. They don't save money. They are scams. We are so disappointed in Travelocity. We will never book with them again. Word for the wise.

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    Reviewed Oct. 29, 2012

    This a.m., I checked airfares between TPA and LAS for certain dates. When I found the combination I liked, I selected the seats and clicked to pay. Before I was given the purchase page, I received a pop-up screen indicating that during my search, the price went up. Okay, I thought ... that can happen. An hour later, I tried the same search and got the same flight combination, at the first lower price. When I tried to purchase, I got the same "Oops, that price increased" pop-up. So, I waited another hour - same bait and switch. I will not trust or give my business to a company that employs such methods.

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    Reviewed Oct. 27, 2012

    We booked a flight through Travelocity on Spirit Airlines going to Las Vegas to celebrate our anniversary. Our flight was to leave Portland, OR at 6:55 AM on 18 October 2012. We were informed that the departure was going to be 1 hour late which turned out to be 4 hours. We were promised a $50 voucher per person to be used on our return flight. We never received the voucher. We tried to contact Spirit Airlines for the following three days but each time, we were hung up on, even after being switched to a supervisor.

    On the fourth day, we finally spoke to a supervisor and were informed the voucher was only usable on a future flight as long as it was before 14 December 2012. Our work schedule is such that a flight is impossible before 14 December 2012 and for that matter, we are not planning another trip in the near future. We certainly will not include Spirit Airlines in any future travel. We feel that Travelocity should look into the airlines they book travel with and also research the record and charges of those carriers.

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    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2012

    In January 2011, my husband and I were going through a separation and as a present to me, he bought me a trip to Hawaii on Delta Airlines (from MT) through Travelocity. He chose the dates for me to travel (to occur in February 2011), without checking to make sure they were open for me. However, he also purchased the Trip Insurance for $19.95 to cover any cancellations made on the reservation. I am a licensed and practicing attorney in MT and as it turned out, I was not able to go on the trip due to: 1) my inability to leave because I was actively working on the submission of a Supreme Court brief due during that time; and 2) a pending transfer to move from Helena to Missoula with my job; and 3) starting to file divorce papers.

    My husband cancelled the trip and received a cancellation notice on an email account which no longer exists. In February 2012, I called Travelocity to inquire about using the ticket and Travelocity was of no help - they did not tell me there were any restrictions on the use of the ticket or that it had an expiration date, nor did they say because I purchased the insurance, that they would honor their "guarantee" and ask me what I wanted to be done with the ticket (i.e., refund or credit). At that same time, I finally did transfer with my job to Missoula, freshly divorced, and immersed in a new position - thus I could not take a vacation at that time.

    Finally, this spring, I attempted to again contact Travelocity about the ticket and they said they couldn't help me, call Delta. I called Delta and they said they couldn't help me. Finally this summer I attempted to contact Travelocity's legal/executive department after getting nowhere with their rude customer service, as well as contacted the legal department with Sabre Holding, the parent company of Travelocity, to express my complaints to them - that they were not honoring the trip insurance I purchased. I finally worked with someone from Travelocity's Exec. Dept. who said I would need to take it up with the insurance company.

    I spoke to the insurance company, and now she is telling me that I can only have the insurance honored if I am sick. Well, a divorce and a Supreme Court brief occurring at the exact same time is more than grounds for getting any prescription for depression, stress, high blood pressure, you name it. Needless to say, they are not helping me at all. At this point, all I wanted was a credit to be able to use the ticket. It cost almost $700 and should not just be put in the deep pockets of some fat cats in corporate offices, not in these economic times. However, now I am so angry that I do indeed want a refund because I do not wish to travel with Travelocity or Delta ever again.

    I am asking for help on where to go with this. Again, I'm happy to take legal action on my own or hire someone who is more versed in this area, but am hoping someone else can look into this and tell me what to do or which agencies, BBB, etc, I can report Travelocity and the insurance company to to make sure this never happens to someone else. Thank you.

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    Reviewed Oct. 19, 2012

    Travelocity call quality - My work trip to Beijing was double booked by accident. I called within the required refund period to cancel the second ticket. The operator didn't know the cancellation policy, and put me on hold. I got cut off. I tried again, and asked the operator to please take my number in case I was cut off (these were long distance phone calls). He took my number and never called back. I emailed Travelocity and was told that their call records did not show me calling within the refund period. They would not handle my cancellation via email and referred me back to the call operators. I made another long distance call and was told that I was subject to a fee for the changes. They told me that KLM's fee for making a change was $190.

    Several weeks later, I called to change the ticket and was put on hold while they checked with the airline (even though I told them that another operator had already checked with the airline and said the fee was $190). I was cut off. I called again and asked for the same operator and was told that I had to deal with a new one. The new operator came back and said that the ticket was non-refundable. After four long distance calls where I repeatedly gave the same information, I'm still no closer to exchanging the ticket. Travelocity needs to keep a running record of the customer's request and deal with queries via email because it is obvious from my post and others that their call record system is faulty. There are a huge number of complaints about this company. What does it take to get customer service?

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    Reviewed Oct. 16, 2012

    I booked several leg flights from NYC JFK to Istanbul and then onto TLV in Israel. This was supposed to happen over a couple days where we could spend a couple days in Istanbul and then fly onto TLV and then return. Well then after booking the initial flight, we were considering changing our plans. We would just stay in Istanbul the whole time and then I would catch my leg coming back from TLV, Israel. I called Travelocity and asked about changing the tickets. It turned out to be half the price of the tickets itself.

    I then asked what if I just did not take the legs from Istanbul to TLV and on the return from TLV to Istanbul and just catch the leg from Istanbul back to JFK NYC. The Travelocity customer service rep placed me on hold for a couple minutes and then came back and told me that I would be able to do this. I double checked with her, and she said yes and that it would not be a problem. She even said that due to the airline rules, the airline cannot reimburse me for the legs that I will not use. So, I went on my trip and had a great time. The day before I am supposed to leave, I try to do an online check-in, and then I am told that the remaining trip has been canceled.

    I was shocked and dismayed. Just a couple hours before my flight, I find this out. I call Travelocity customer service and I am told that what I was told was not accurate and that my only option after speaking to the airline is that I have to purchase a last-minute ticket from Istanbul back to NYC for a whopping $830.00. I had no choice. I had to be back in NYC. I was told by this customer service rep that all calls are recorded and that I should email customer service and request a review of my case as well as a copy of the recorded conversation I had with the representative.

    Lo and behold, I received an email back from Travelocity customer service that they cannot locate the recorded conversation and all they can go on is what the customer service documents we speak about that is placed in my file. I just cannot believe this. Please forward to anyone you might know looking to book travel and tell them not to use them. They do not deserve our business.

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    Reviewed Oct. 13, 2012

    Travelocity does not guarantee you will get the seating you choose for airline flights nor do they notify their customers when the airline tells them the chosen seating is unavailable. So you have to go to the airline website and keep checking if you got what you wanted and then choose (again) new seats if you don't. I will never use Travelocity again - useless! When we found out we had no assigned seats, there were only preferred seats left that cost us an additional $75. Thank goodness we checked two days before our trip so we could go to the airline, choose new seats, pay for them, etc.

    Travelocity reps (three of them) kept saying, “We don't guarantee seating - you have to go to the airline to do that." Nowhere did we see that in their information. The American Airlines rep said Travelocity does not have the most current seating charts and they notify Travelocity if the client’s chosen seats are unavailable. Travelocity does not notify their clients so they can choose new seats - great customer service! Never again.

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    Reviewed Oct. 8, 2012

    In mid-November last year, I booked a seven-leg international flight with Travelocity and paid the full fare. Regularly, I checked with my account to see if there were any problems shown on the itinerary. Even today, the Travelocity site lists that itinerary unchanged with each leg booked and seating. Imagine my horror on the day before our flight when I called the airline for an online boarding pass for this, our 35th anniversary celebration, and was told that there was no such flight nor had there been for many months. In fact, only two of our seven legs existed on their files anywhere!

    For over four hours (until the wee hours of the morning) I was bounced back and forth on the telephone from the airlines to Travelocity to other airlines. Though the Travelocity staff was polite and horrified to hear our plight, they could do nothing. Eventually, I was able to secure the assistance of a Delta agent who took over an hour to sort the mess out. She was astonished to see that Travelocity was ever able to have claimed the security of such a flight, and thanks to her (fitly named Grace), unimaginable disappointment was averted.

    The trauma and pressure of the experience aside, there were some things that Delta's agent could not do. First, she could not give us seats for the flight. In fact, though we had booked with Travelocity eleven months before the trip, we sat in the back near the toilets for all five of the improperly booked legs and were not even able to secure seating together for one of the two flights we did retain. Second, we had to arrive at all legs' flights the maximum time before departure in order to ensure boarding. Third, the flights which Delta's angel, Grace, were able to secure on the night before departure required longer travel times by four hours each way, though our final layover was so short for the last leg that neither of our bags arrived with us.

    We literally had to race to the plane in Atlanta after 24 hours of travel due to no direct flight from Paris to Philadelphia being available. Finally, to add insult to injury, I was informed that the travel insurance that we had purchased would not have helped us with unanticipated room costs from missed flights or clothes purchases if the baggage had been delayed. All in all, I can't trust Travelocity with important travel plans again. Oh yes, I'm a Travelocity VIP member. I wonder how they treat the ones not at that level!

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    Reviewed Oct. 6, 2012

    Military families beware! Travelocity "Customer Service" is non-existent. I called asking for information between changing and cancelling a ticket for military post-deployment leave (dates are changing) before calling the trip insurance folks. Customer "Service" wouldn't answer questions, just kept repeating the charge policies (wasn't disputing them). When I mentioned "military" and that I needed the info because this might be first of several changes (hence the need for advice), was told they didn't work with military, period.

    Again, no request for special treatment, just info. 25 minutes later, still no answer, just on hold and then their script about change fees and cancellation policies again. I decided to try calling the airline directly for advice. The change made with no problem, in less than 3 minutes. We have booked with Travelocity numerous times before, but this is the first time we have had to change anything. The customer service agent was rude and unwilling to answer any question that took her off-script. The supervisor was only interested in defending why the script was the only correct response to any question. We won't use Travelocity again under any circumstances, so no follow up needed.

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    Reviewed Oct. 2, 2012

    This was the worst experience I have ever had with a travel agent. It was appalling and completely unacceptable. I called initially last Wednesday regarding a flight that had changed. The guy I talked to put me on hold, then told me that he was having a hard time getting through to the airlines so someone would call me back within 72 hours for a resolution. Nobody ever called me back within 72 hours, which is completely unacceptable, so my wife called again on Saturday afternoon. After spending an hour (mostly on hold) with her, she said that she couldn't change our US Air flight to a later flight because an error message came up. Then, I called back around 2 o'clock, and spoke to a guy named Justin. He understood our problem, and said that he would make a conference call with American and US Air, resolve the situation and call me back within an hour or so. He never called me back.

    So, around 4 o'clock, I called back asking to speak to Justin. Ashley, who I was speaking with, said he couldn't connect me with Justin, which I find unacceptable because he was the one working on the case and promised he would call me back. At this point, I was extremely upset. I could not even get a phone number to upper management to voice my displeasure, and Ashley told me that the 1-800 number was the only number that I could call. I let Ashley take the wheel and work on my case. 2.5 hours later, after being on hold several times and having a conference call with American Airlines, nothing had been resolved. American and I kept telling Ashley as well as Ashley's supervisor (who had gotten involved by then) that the problem was not with American, and that I just needed a later flight out of San Juan with US Air or someone else.

    You all kept blaming American and telling them it was their problem and they needed to resolve it when it was clearly in American's guidelines that they were not responsible for the flight change because Travelocity used multiple airlines for booking. Then, after being on hold for another 45 minutes or so, Ashley's manager offered a flight out of St. Croix on Friday night. I told him this wouldn't do because we had lodging and a car booked for Friday already, but he didn't care. It was that or a refund, no other options. We were very upset and disappointed but accepted it because he said it was our only option, being that we didn't want to rebook our flight (all other available flights were much more expensive). So, Ashley's manager said he would call back when everything was confirmed. He called back after 9 pm and said that the booking agent at the airline was closed and there was nothing he could do until Monday.

    Ashley's manager lied to us. We called both airlines and the booking agents said that they are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not only do your service representatives not call back when they say they will, but they are liars! We wasted our entire Saturday afternoon/evening talking to these people and getting nothing resolved. Anyway, we called US Air directly after this, and told them all of the problems we were having with Travelocity, and if we could book a connection later that day out of San Juan. They immediately helped us with our situation by booking us on a later flight. This is the only thing that we had been asking Travelocity to do for hours and days, which they could not accomplish for us. By the way, as of 3:30 PM EST Monday, Travelocity has not called back, which they promised to do on Saturday night.

    I will reiterate that this is by far the worst customer support/relation situation I have been involved with in my life, and I will never use Travelocity again. Furthermore, it's apparent that you outsource your customer service agents to a foreign country and they are very hard to understand. Not only the dialect, but the telephone volume was very low on their end. Furthermore, I intend to do everything in my power to let everyone I know through word of mouth, Facebook, Twitter, you name it, that Travelocity has no business being in this business.

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    Reviewed Sept. 18, 2012

    I got on Travelocity's website to find a hotel for Redwood City, California. I put in the reservation of check-in date of 9/27/2012 and checkout date of 10/1/2012. The first hotel that came up was San Mateo Marriott for $234, the second hotel that came up was Holiday Inn Express for $281 and the third hotel was Sofitel for $180. In the detail for Sofitel, it also says "Free parking. Pay for 3, enjoy 4." When I clicked on the "select hotel," it gives me a total of 4 nights total $720 and tax and service $94.86. Since it was advertised as pay for 3, enjoy 4, I thought that the calculation was wrong so I called Travelocity and questioned them.

    The first person I talked to at Travelocity told me that the offer is finished, but I asked him how it could have finished if it is still on the website. So I asked to speak to his supervisor. When the supervisor came on the phone, I was told the same thing, that he can no longer find the offer on his computer. I asked him to go step by step with me on his computer and he finally admitted that he can see the offer. However, he told me that he cannot give me the offer of paying for 3 nights and get the 4th night free as the computer does not calculate that way. I questioned him about false advertising and he simply said that is the way it is. Advise to everyone: Don't fall for Travelocity's false advertisement!

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    Reviewed Sept. 17, 2012

    This has got to be one of my worst experiences ever! I booked a flight for a family member and received a confirmation email. Few hours later, I received another email stating that I need to call Revenue Protection Department to verify my purchase. Okay, I called and spoke to an Indian rep named Clement. I have Indian friends who are great, but it's not great when you sound inexperienced, can't speak fluent English, mumbles constantly and your idea of security questions amounts to my name and the traveler's name and was told, "You're good to go." I never received the email confirmation after that call as promised.

    I called back the actual number on Travelocity.com and had an Indian rep, who promptly told me that I still wasn't verified and I have to speak to the Revenue Protection Department. I told her I just spoke to them and she said she has to transfer me because they are the only ones who can help me. I spoke to another Indian called Jake from Revenue Protection Department. He mumbled again, broken English, couldn't answer my questions and asked me my name and traveler's name and said, "You're good to go" and again, no email as promised. By this time it's already been an hour. I called the main number again and asked for a manager or supervisor and found out that I received an Indian "senior agent" named Harry.

    I asked him for his real name, he kept on insisting it was Harry. I said politely (though I was about to scream!) that, "You are obviously Indian, so you must have an Indian name." He finally mumbled his name and I worked it out with him for at least a few minutes before getting "Hitesh." I told him I wanted to speak to a supervisor and he transferred me to one who again, an Indian who couldn't speak proper English. While I was trying to address my concerns about Travelocity's lack of service and competence, he kept interrupting and asked, "But you got your confirmation email already right?" But that's beside the point. Why tell your customers you're "good to go" when obviously I'm not? And if things couldn't get any worse, he hung up on me while I was speaking halfway. I am never ever going to use Travelocity again!

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    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2012

    It’s an insulting and disgusting company. I am so angry right now that I can hardly type. One month ago, I purchased a ticket for my mother-in-law through Travelocity to Italy, and it was the biggest mistake I had made. I had been insulted and pushed to the edge. Alitalia made a change in the schedule that I did not agree to and since then, it had been hell. I have now called Travelocity about 11 times and my problem has still not been resolved. I even went over $120 on my phone bill. At the beginning, they couldn't get in touch with Alitalia and kept transferring me over to them so that I had to deal with them. The only reason I booked through Travelocity, was so that I wouldn't have to deal with any of this. But today, the greatest insult happened when I spoke with Marvin, employee # **.

    After a week of waiting for an e-ticket, I found out that Travelocity had still not requested one. He told me that Travelocity had already credited me $100, so my time had already been paid for and that I just had to wait. One more symptom of outsourcing is poor customer service. I am now suffering from stomach ulcer and have a negative $120 for the cell phone bill, without an e-ticket. When I started to get angry, he told me to write a letter. I can’t believe how disrespectful this employee is and how they tolerate this treatment to their customers. I have purchased tickets through Travelocity for over 10 years, but this is the last. Please don't book through them. They will take your money and then tell you that you have to deal directly with the airline. They don't take responsibility for their mistakes.

    Also, never believe them if they say they will call you back. I had spoken with four different employees who said they would call me back, but I had never received a call. The worst part is that more than likely, I will never be contacted by anybody from a customer complaint department because it doesn't even exist. For the love of God, save yourself some time and energy and just book through somebody else.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2012

    On June 28th, I made travel arrangements for 8/4-8/10 to fly from Chicago to Boston. During my time on the phone with the representative, we also arranged car rental. On 8/3, I went to print off the E-ticket but nothing would print. Apparently, the agent scheduled my flight for 7/4-7/17 and the car rental for 8/4-8/10. I immediately called Travelocity and explained what had happened. The "supervisor" told me that they would listen to the "recorded" call to make a determination as to who was at fault. He also told me that Travelocity would pay for any extra charges incurred by me for new tickets. I quickly booked my own tickets through the airline and continued with my trip. Today, I received a call from Travelocity to let me know that there was no recording, how convenient, so they were no longer obligated to take care of my $2,600 extra expense. Please help to get the message out that Travelocity is completely bogus. I along with everyone I know will never use this company again.

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2012

    There was no explanation of extra charges when I made reservations over the phone with an agent. I thought I could get some questions answered by calling someone at Travelocity (when booking my trip). The agent simply confirmed all the flights and hotel I had already planned. He didn't actually "do" any work. I guess he took this opportunity to consider the call a telephone booking. Not only did he not explain the charges that I was to incur, but he was slow in "making" the reservations and because of this, the prices magically kept going up as if they were on an auction table. This was the first (and last) I'll use Travelocity.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2012

    I booked a package deal for airline, 2 days hotel and 2 days car rental. The flight was cancelled after waiting at the airport of my hometown for 4 hours. I notified Travelocity of the trouble immediately. My trip was rescheduled for the next day. The Travelocity agent supposedly called the hotel and rental car agency to let them know I was not going to be there (said he did). The agent told me to complete the trip and call Travelocity after for the purpose of one night hotel and one day car rental refund. After the trip was completed, I called and got nothing but long wait times, up to 55 minutes on the phone. 3 days in a row. It was frustrating. Repeating over and over the events that took place, the dates and calls, I filed for refund through my credit card.

    Travelocity sent them an email from the hotel saying no refund would be made and a blanket statement that the car wouldn't be refunded. The package deal was nonrefundable. What kind of package deal isn't partly refunded when for no reason of your own, you can't get to the hotel or pick up the car! I'm not done with the fight, but I will shout loud and clear so all are warned about Travelocity. Well obviously, I will never book anything again with Travelocity. It's a ripoff.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2012

    I booked a resort hotel through Travelocity recently. The resort was fairly good. The problem was that Travelocity failed to mention the cleaning fees. I booked through Travelocity because of the coupons from Discover and no cleaning fees. I could have booked the same trip cheaper with another service. I got to the resort thinking everything was paid for, and they tacked on the cleaning fee. The resort told me that I shouldn't have used Travelocity and gone through Resort Quest, which mentioned the cleaning fees.

    I emailed Travelocity, and their response was, "Your prepaid reservation includes the cost of the room and most taxes. Certain service fees are charged for processing your travel reservation through our system. These are often bundled into the Taxes and Fees amount in order to maintain the opaque nature of the "prepaid" rate, as required by our contracts with our suppliers. The total price of your reservation may be different than the supplier sites and Travelocity.com. Incidental costs such as restaurant charges, laundry, mini-bar, telephone and parking are not included in your reservation rate."

    This is located on the confirmation page after you have paid. That's not disclosing information until after purchase, and still did not say cleaning fees. I was terribly disappointed. I'm a single parent and a teacher. The extra money I had to pay for cleaning fees had to come out of our vacation budget. It's just wrong to not be honest about services, and such a big company to do so.

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    Reviewed Aug. 6, 2012

    My daughter and I are meeting in NYC for a cruise. Her flights were changed, there was much finger pointing, unfriendly customer service, and passing the buck. She ended up with a double booking, paid a change fee, and still was unable to confirm the flights with one of the airlines. Travelocity is not helping clear the problem.

    My flights were also changed drastically and I was not notified by e-mail or phone. Departure was delayed 5 hours, which put me into the connecting flight "after" it departed. I was fortunate in that my customer service rep offered to change my departing flight to something that was agreeable with me. Travelocity has been my only online booking source for about 15 years. I have never had a problem before this trip. I have always recommended Travelocity, but never again. I will no longer use Travelocity.

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    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2012

    I booked a round trip flight itinerary from LA to Florianopolis in Brazil with Travelocity. There were three legs in each trip with connections at JFK and Rio de Janeiro. The US flights were on United and the Brazil flights on TAM. Everything went well until the last leg on the return trip. At JFK where I was supposed to go on a United flight to LA, there was no such flight. In fact, the UA rep at the counter told me that they never had flights to LAX from JFK at that time of day (after 5 pm). So, I called the Travelocity hotline and the rep advised me to either take a United flight the next day, or fly on Delta that same evening, for which she gave me directions. But of course, I had to buy a new ticket in the meantime.

    Later, I asked Travelocity to reimburse me for my Delta ticket and sent the paperwork. They said they contacted United and TAM. Apparently, Travelocity was blaming TAM for the non-existent return flight to LAX, but no response was forthcoming from United or TAM. This went on for about a year and nothing. I guess the plan was to stonewall and just wear me out. I didn't exactly have a lot of time on my hands to keep at it, so I finally gave up and just promised myself never to book through Travelocity again (and they were my favorite until then). This was in April 2009 and I thank you for this forum, which I just happened upon today. Let others beware of Travelocity's false promises and non-accountability.

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    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2012

    Terrible Travelocity service and extremely high fees for changes - I had a death in my family two days before I was supposed to leave for my trip. I wanted to change my flight to a few hours later so I wouldn’t have to leave the burial early. They quoted me over $5,000 to change 2 tickets that we had already paid for $2,600. I called to ask about their bereavement policy... I kept getting people from India on the phone and I could barely understand their English. They kept me on the line for long periods of time telling me they were "looking into it" over and over, kept putting me on hold, and on hold again; and when it all came down to it, they still held to the original statement, $5,000. I get the feeling that they were trying to wear me out by putting me on hold over and over again. I was at my grandfather’s funeral and did not want to spend time on hold, and I explained this. I was very upset.

    Also, there was a lot of finger pointing: "Well, the airline has these certain rules we can’t override". I called the original airline (Swiss Air) and they basically couldn’t do anything since I booked with Travelocity. Lastly, there are many additional terms and conditions that apply to Travelocity tickets such as "if you miss one flight, the rest of your trip will be cancelled". So, if I missed the outbound flight (the 1st of 3 flights in my schedule) due to my grandfather’s burial, the 2 other flights would also be canceled. I wouldn’t have been able to purchase another one way ticket and pick up the other flights as scheduled. Lesson learned: Never book with a third party, go straight through the airlines website.

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    Reviewed Aug. 3, 2012

    Uncooperative customer service: I booked an international flight with return ticket. A month before my return flight to the US, the airline cancelled my first flight with stopover to catch the next flight to the US. The airline booked me on the next day, but I won't be able to catch my connecting flight anymore. Travelocity sent me a notice that there was problem with the new itinerary and asked me to call them up. Several calls later and a thousand pesos I spent on long distance because they always put me on hold, I always give my local phone number where they could reach me. They never did. Finally, I went to the airline myself and fixed my flight. A day after I got into my final destination, I received an e-mail from Travelocity saying they fixed my flight back. I was so mad as hell. I promised to myself I'll never do any more travel arrangement with Travelocity.

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    Reviewed Aug. 1, 2012

    I book one night at a hotel through Travelocity. Our plans changed so I then cancelled that night at the hotel 1.5 days before the reservation. I received an email from Travelocity confirming the cancellation so I assumed all was well. I ended up being charged by the hotel for the reservation. After talking to Travelocity and getting nowhere, I called the hotel. They told me that Travelocity never informed them of the cancellation so that is why I was still being charged and because it was Travelocity's fault, they would not refund the money. I have talked to three other representatives at Travelocity and have sent two emails to their consumer relations (at the suggestion of one of the representatives) and still have received no resolution. The representatives at Travelocity are extremely difficult to understand and when I have asked to speak to a manager, I have not been allowed to do so. I never did even receive a reply from the emails I sent. I am so frustrated and disappointed in their customer service. I will never use them again.

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    Customer ServicePriceStaff

    Reviewed July 31, 2012

    After I booked international tickets for 4 people, I received an email from Travelocity informing me there was a problem with the last leg of flight. I contacted them and was told they were working on the problem and would get back to me within 2-3 days. Several weeks and 10 phone calls later, I was still getting the same old story. They were working on resolving the problem and would get back to me. Finally, I got upset and spoke with a supervisor. The same old story, only when I asked for the number to file a complaint did things improve. They finally issued a refund of travel insurance less booking fees. Additionally, we were told that Travelocity would issue a refund on the insurance but that the airline would issue refund on the tickets but would take up to 8 weeks. Needless to say, the new tickets we booked were more expensive now (3 months closer to travel date) and of course Travelocity says they did all they could.

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    Reviewed July 30, 2012

    False/fraudulent advertising - Special/hidden rate offer for a 3-star hotel at $135, a 45 percent discount from normal rate. To get this rate, the hotel name is not disclosed. When I was informed, it was a Comfort Inn (3 stars!). I called the hotel, which offered a room for $135. There was no advantage. We received the smallest room with a twin bed. Travelocity did not offer me any resolution. This was fraud. I will not be using Travelocity again.

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    Reviewed July 30, 2012

    I made a Travelocity reservation for America's Best Value Inn in Montezuma, Georgia for 06/30/2012. The hotel kept the Travelocity receipt and gave me a hotel receipt. The reserved price was for $47.96 plus taxes. The hotel gave me a receipt for $53.72. My credit card was charged at the time of the reservation $67.21. What gives? I have had good service in the past from Travelocity, but this is not right.

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    Reviewed July 27, 2012

    I checked flights using the filter for a.m. departure nonstop. I went down the list and clicked one for 8:30 departure. Lo and behold, the confirmation came through for an evening departure which was impossible. That is because there were no a.m. nonstop flights and it automatically gave me p.m. flights without warning me that the filter was not being used. So, I immediately cancelled the flights - there was a big red block to click, "Are you sure you want to cancel?" that went through and then a page came up confirming the cancel and noting that since it was done within 24 hours, there was no cancel charge. I then booked on Delta which did have a.m. flights.

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    Reviewed July 26, 2012

    I've been lied to regarding immediate charging of my credit card by Travelocity agent, refusal to refund monies the same night or use monies to find us a suitable motel/hotel after we arrived and refused our accommodations due to extreme uncleanliness (excrement in the bathtub, human bodily fluids sprayed in bathroom and on door, dead bugs in moldy water inside non-working refrigerator). After traveling 10 hrs by car, we were forced to scrape together last pennies to foot the bill at yet another motel. This left myself, husband, and 3-month daughter stranded. Where is the backing behind Travelocity's Immediate Satisfaction guarantee? Travelocity customer service agent refused to book us another place unless we paid again. I plan to make sure this experience is well known by people planning a vacation/get away and ensure they do not use Travelocity. 14 days is ridiculous to wait for a refund. Great guarantee, guys. Thanks for all the hassle.

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    Reviewed July 24, 2012

    I called to make a reservation after trying to use the website. I was only given a confirmation number. The person I was talking to spoke broken English and I thought I was making the reservation in Eagan, MN, but the reservation was for Eden Prairie (located 20 miles away). I called customer service and was told to call back on Monday to find out if I could get a refund for a Saturday reservation. I found another hotel and will fight the hotel charge with the credit card company after dealing with customer service.

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    Reviewed July 17, 2012

    Travelocity does not give discounts (false advertising). I booked a hotel for one night at Best Western Plus (in Oakland) through Travelocity which was $149 and then I called the hotel to compare their rates which was also $149. I’m so confused, what discount am I getting? None! After checking out, I asked the front desk for my receipt and she accidentally gave me the confidential statement that showed Travelocity paying $111.99 for the room + $15.68 tax = $127.67. That means Travelocity paid $127.67 for my room and made a profit of $31.50. What discount am I really getting and why would I want to give my money to Travelocity for no discounts?

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    Reviewed July 16, 2012

    I reserved 2 rooms, one in Chattanooga, TN, and 1 in Louisville, KY. I was planning on driving up from Orlando, FL to my grandmother’s surgery and staying a week to help her. Instead, her surgery date was changed to a week later. I called to get my dates changed. I was refused. I was talked over the entire time. I asked to speak with a manager. I was refused. Told nothing they can to do, but make a new reservation. No refunds, cancellations, or changing of dates. I was told too bad I have to eat the money. I'm out over $300 in hotel rooms and then hung up on after wanting to speak with a manager and was told I couldn't speak with one.

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    Reviewed July 6, 2012

    I called to change my flight that was supposed to be on July 3, 2012 but was booked somehow only on July 4, 2012 and my return was July 8, 2012. Long story short, after being told that it will be $180 more to change my flight, I was like that's okay. I will keep it. I then asked if I could only use the return because I was going to drive and I was told yes. I called today to check on my return and was told it's suspended because I did board my first flight and it's a round trip but I was told that I could use my return.

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    Reviewed June 30, 2012

    The airline cancelled our flight which entitled us to one free change. A Travelocity agent made a change without my consent. I went from a one-stop flight to a three-stop flight. Three hours on the phone later, I gave up and called their corporate offices. Corporate insisted that they would get back to me by June 11th. They never did. This is a terrible lying company which I will never use again.

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    Reviewed June 30, 2012

    On June 30th, they have advertised on their cruise portion of their (Travelocity) website a Canada/New England Cruise departing out of Boston on Sept. 23, 2012, ID# 61919 for $799 person. When I called to book it, she told me that the price is no longer available. It is $1,300 per person. Bottom line, they are false advertising a price and then do not uphold it when you try to purchase it. They continually do this on their website and as a consumer, I feel I should receive the advertised price. If they can no longer offer it, then pull it from their website. Bottom line is I would like the cruise at their advertised price of $799 per person.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2012

    In the end of May, I booked a trip for my family of three to travel from Geneva, Switzerland round trip to LAX. Both my personal and business credit cards (US) are sponsored by FlexPerks and gain 1 point for every dollar spent. As we've had these cards for over 6 years and never spent any of the points, we were very excited to find that we have more than enough to fully pay for the airfare of our trip with Air France. I navigated to the FlexPerks rewards website via my credit card website and proceeded to book the tickets using my points. The travel package area of FlexPerks Rewards is "Powered by Travelocity". Meaning, it is actually a subsidiary of the company.

    I found the flights I was looking for and entered the traveler information for my family including first, middle and last names for each passenger and dates of birth for each. I looked through the confirmation page before booking and satisfied, hit the continue button to complete the booking. I was then sent a confirmation email from rewards center and the travel information was right, but the names of the passengers were now wrong. My first and last name was correct, but it had given my daughter my middle name and named my wife with duplicate last and first names. Essentially, it had replaced all the name fields for my wife and daughter with elements of my own name. I don't understand how such a mistake can happen.

    So to rectify the problem, I called Air France. They told me the reservation was made through a third party (FlexPerks) and only them could reissue tickets with the correct name. These being reservations for flights to the US, security issues arise when changing passenger names (I fully understand the policy). When I called FlexPerks to solve the problem, they said that only Air France could fix the issue. I spent the next 2 days speaking with Air France supervisors and trying to get through to a supervisor at FlexPerks (which is actually Travelocity). To make an agonizingly long story short, it took 2 days of promises from the Travelocity call center before I actually spoke with a supervisor.

    Each of the 5 separate operators I spoke with there only quoted policy and refused to even give me the name of their supervisor, saying, "I have spoken with him and he will call you back in an hour." It wasn't until I had two operators on two separate calls walk into his office simultaneously that I got a call back from the supervisor. He told me there was nothing Air France would do to change the names and that their technicians were looking into the matter to decide if it was a glitch (their fault) or a data entry error (my fault). A glitch would mean that Travelocity would purchase my family a new set of tickets. A data error would mean that I would not be able to board the flight with my family, as the names are not the same as in our passports, although the family name is correct and the dates of birth are correct.

    My anger stems from the fact that FlexPerks and Travelocity take no responsibility for a website error (I am still waiting for the technicians to call back from India) and further, there is a good chance I will lose 210,000 flex points and have to purchase another set of tickets for roughly $4,000! When I approached the subject of points redemption with the supervisor, he was very quick to point out that Travelocity and FlexPerks are indeed separate companies and he was not responsible for my points. The thing is, I reached his office by calling FlexPerks in the first place! There are no supervisors at FlexPerks, yet when I finally got through to one, he hid behind a corporate firewall and avoided any responsibility.

    All I need is to change my wife and daughter's first names on our reservations. That's it. Even Air France said it is very unlikely that we can do this at the airport on the day of departure (07:30AM flight). I'm even willing to pay a change fee although it's not my fault (who in their right mind would call their wife Smith Smith and their daughter Karl Smith?), but what really gets me is the total lack of reason and humanity, replaced by policy and call center operators who have no vested interest in customer satisfaction. Plus the 210,000 points and the additional $4,000 I'm likely to pay for their inability to change two bloody first names!

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    Reviewed June 5, 2012

    Below is Travelocity's cancellation policy. I booked 2 flights at 12:15am EST, June 5th. Later the same day (June 5th), I needed to make some changes. However, according to Travelocity, my booking was considered to have been made in the CST time zone. As per their policy below, this was not clearly defined and a fee of $180.00 per ticket was going to be applied. When checking with the actual airline, Delta, they informed me that no cancellation fees would apply.

    You entered in the wrong information when making your booking: If you purchase electronic airline tickets and notify us by 11:59PM (Central Time) on the same calendar date of your purchase that you've booked the wrong dates, names, or flight times, we'll let you cancel your airline tickets without charging a cancellation fee (this policy does not apply to Porter Airlines, Spirit Airlines, USA 3000 Airlines or to packages).

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    Reviewed June 4, 2012

    Travelocity is the worst. Buyers beware, be very aware of everything you do before you pay them a penny! We have spent thousands of dollars on our trip with Travelocity and there was one mistake that we figured they would fix for us. We specifically requested round trip flights from one airport to another, received one of our confirmations and realized that it was not RT. It took us back to the same city but another airport. We are flying out of this airport back home so being at the right location was very important.

    We have spent many, many hours speaking to all kinds of people and they will only cancel the original tickets and reorder new tickets but the cost is 150% of the original ticket price. They have the worst customer service and I am a manager for a customer service department in California. It is appalling! This was their mistake. Their system booked the wrong trip but they refuse to take any responsibility. I will never do business with them again and to be honest, we travel a lot so this is their loss!

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    Reviewed June 2, 2012

    I called AAA and booked four nights, and I was told that I was booking through AAA four nights at the Hampton Inn in West Yarmouth. They told me that my credit card would not be charged until my arrival and I could cancel up to 72 hours. I received a confirmation on my e-mail that had the AAA logo saying that my reservation was booked and that my credit card was charged the full amount! This was not what I was told. My credit card should not have been charged until my arrival in August. I am an AAA member and trusted that I was dealing with AAA and not Travelocity or another vendor. This is fraudulent. I was also given wrong information about my credit card not being charged and then it was charged! I cannot afford this.

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    Reviewed May 29, 2012

    I booked a trip for my daughter and her friend through Travelocity as a graduation present. Initially, the site had problems with hotel reservation. I booked Gran Bahía Príncipe Sian Ka'an Don Pablo, but the confirmation came back with the Gran Melia Cancun. After several phone calls and speaking with non-English people who only quoted policies, I ended up paying an additional $200 for hotel changes and lost a day in hotel and air travel. The return date was initially set for Wednesday, May 30, 2012. With the change in hotels came a date change for Tuesday, May 29, 2012 leaving on May 25, 2012 7:00AM, flight 623 on Aeromexico - ticket #** and #**.

    The two arrived at the counter, one hour prior to flight. Mr. Jose ** told them they would not make it through TSA. Both parties informed Mr. ** that they had military IDs, which would expedite the process through TSA. Yet Mr. ** denied them entry, while checking in additional parties for the same flight both before and after them while they stood and watched, stating these passengers were already checked in. It seems that my daughter and her friend's seats had been given away. Mr. ** stated that all he could do for them was to book them on a flight leaving Saturday, May 26 at 7AM, flight 623, telling the two that the airport opens at 3AM. The following morning, the two checked in again unfortunately with Mr. **. Mr. ** told them that it would cost an additional $200 a piece or they could not board the aircraft. What warrants this type of behavior and arrogance? They had no other choice than to pay the additional fare (I paid via credit card).

    Mr. **, the harasser, totally ruined the trip, accommodation and present that I intended to provide for my daughter. Not to mention the cost in losing a day of travel, hotel fees and the additional $400 for the airfare. I contacted Travelocity for assistance (Dawn **, Saudi, Peter, Janny) and found once paid, they do not care what happens to the payee and only refer you to the airline/hotel directly. I contacted Aeromexico for assistance and spent three days on the phone where I filed a complaint, claim #**, and was constantly given conflicting detail on the policies and expected outcome by representatives Andres, Inan, Hores, etc. It takes 24 hours, 48 hours or fifteen business days to review, but no resolution to the problem was given or suggested. I will never use Travelocity again.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2012

    The hotel was not as nice as the pictures showed and it wasn't as close as we were told to the boardwalk. Also, no one seems to know about the shuttle service to and from the boardwalk. Plus, we were supposed to get a 20% off coupon at Denny's at check-in and didn't get that. What was promised came to nothing. We will never book with them again. And on top of that, when we called customer service, they hung up on us. Never again. I will pass my experience on to my friends and family.

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    Reviewed May 24, 2012

    I was over eight hours on hold trying to re-book tickets that I had canceled prior to flight. After eight hours of disconnects, holds and transfers, I walked away from $1,200 in airlines tickets. All customer service agents sound like they are in India. This company is terrible.

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    Reviewed May 17, 2012

    I booked a flight through Travelocity on American Airlines. A month after I booked the flight, the airline cancelled it and rebooked me on a different flight. The problem was no one notified me of this change. Two hours prior to my original flight, I received a phone call from the airline informing me of the change and that I had missed my new flight. Neither the airline nor Travelocity will admit to the error. All I know is there were no flights available for me to take and I ended up canceling my vacation and having to pay the resort a day's rate for canceling. I'm very unhappy with Travelocity and American Airlines. Whatever happened to customer service?

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    Reviewed May 15, 2012

    I bought a United ticket through Travelocity. A month later, United changed the departure by 1.5 hours and it did not work for me any longer. I called Travelocity and insisted on the phone conference with United. During the phone conference, United said that they issued the refund authorization, but the Travelocity agent has disappeared from the phone conference. The United rep said that the airline sent the authorization for refund to Travelocity and that I would have to call back to Travelocity to make sure that they process the refund. I called and the Travelocity agent said that the ticket is non-refundable and that the United rep said that too! What a lie! I have been demanding a phone conference with United, but Travelocity has been refusing the phone conference and is just saying that the ticket is non-refundable and that 1.5 hours was a "minor" schedule change that does not invalidate the ticket. Travelocity is criminal!

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    Reviewed May 10, 2012

    I booked a 4-star hotel on the Magnificent Mile and received a hotel 40 minutes from downtown Chicago, in Rosemont. Since I intended to stay downtown after a wedding, this trip to Rosemont was useless. I was told that no changes or refunds could be made, as this was a top-secret hotel. When I asked for a supervisor and explained that I did not get what I ordered, he explained that their duty is only to find a 4-star hotel within a "reasonable" distance. He agreed that Rosemont was not reasonable, but he only offered to forward the matter to his technical team, so that they could figure out what might have caused the glitch.

    Meanwhile, I was told to wait 72 hours for their phone call. Since my hotel stay was scheduled for 96 hours from then, I called them back the Friday before asking what progress had been made and if I would be refunded or booked in the appropriate area. I was told, after many hours of being on hold and passed back and forth, that the matter was still with their technical team and since they had not heard back from them yet, they could not comment further. They kept their word, just about every 72 hours.

    Since then, I received a call from Travelocity telling me only this that the matter is still being looked into by the technical team and I should hear back within 72 hours. Approximately 8 times, I was told the exact same thing - to wait 72 more hours. So today, a month later, I called them (since it had been more than over 96 hours since I had heard from them); and guess what I was told? "Our technical team is still working on it, and you will rest assured hear back within 24 hours." Hearing back is not the same as hearing a resolution. I gave them a month to decide how they wanted to resolve this, and I have received no further updates than "still working on it" and "please be patient." Enough.

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    Reviewed May 8, 2012

    In early March, I booked a trip to NC for my husband and me. I also made hotel reservations. We then realized that my husband had an important function with his job that he needed to be at, so I called Travelocity to change our reservations for the following week. They charged us $562 to change our plane reservations and would not refund us for the hotel. So we were charged $269 and would have had to pay another $269 for the hotel. Needless to say, I was not happy. Since when are you charged for a hotel reservation before you arrive? I have since found that booking directly with the hotel is much easier and they don't charge your credit card until you arrive. I will never use Travelocity again. Oh, and also when I called to discuss this, I could not understand what the agent was saying nor could he understand me.

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    Reviewed May 8, 2012

    The crappiest customer service I have ever seen. I will never book through you guys again. I just spoke to one customer service guy and he said he will charge me $16 to upgrade my room per night and he disconnected my call without upgrading. The next customer service guy said they will charge me $30, so they jacked up the price in 2 amounts. They also said the calls are randomly recorded and they cannot guarantee an investigation. This is a totally crappy service. Thanks for ruining my vacation before it had started.

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    Reviewed May 5, 2012

    I called Travelocity to change a departure time from pm to am. When I got my email, I discovered they properly changed the time; however, they changed my return date from Monday, May 14, 2012 to Thursday, June 14, 2012. I thought why would an hour change end up extending my stay from 3 days to over a month? When I called Travelocity to explain this, they wanted to charge me Travelocity change fees as well as airline change fees. Mind you, I already did this for the first change. They were unwilling to wave the Travelocity fees unless they could review the tape of my original conversation, which they told me they could not find. The airline fees would still apply. The first mistake (mine) already cost me about $1,200 and the second mistake (theirs) would cost me the same!

    I have been with Travelocity for about 10 years. They always helped me in the past, but now, you get someone on the phone from Mumbai India, and they have no power to do anything but apologize and take your money.

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    Reviewed May 2, 2012

    After 15 years of Travelocity.ca, this is my first complaint. I booked 7 nights in Southern Hotel Delhi, India. Arriving at 11:40PM, the hotel and rooms were disgusting in all ways (dirty sheets and pillows, bathrooms with feces, no shower, etc.). The hotel could not supply us with a reasonable room and we left immediately the following morning and found alternative accommodation. We phoned Travelocity the following morning and were told the computer was down. We phoned later and after being on hold for more than 1.5 hours, we were disconnected?

    Upon our return to Canada, we have phoned Travelocity.ca 5 times now (more than 7 hours in total). We were informed that it was TravelGuru (their Indian affiliate) who was responsible, but they would get back to us. After more than 1 week and all these phone calls, I cannot talk to a supervisor anywhere nor can I get anyone to call me back to get my money refunded. The photos I took would certainly substantiate our case, but no one is interested to resolve the problem. I always spoke highly of Travelocity, but this lousy, non-existent customer service has lost me as a future customer. PS, still waiting after further phone call made and "promised" that someone would get back to me immediately.

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    Reviewed May 2, 2012

    I purchased 2 tickets on 4/17/2012. When I did not receive my email confirmation the next day, I called Travelocity and they stated they had a computer glitch and did not have my reservation. I called twice over the next week and spent over 30 minutes each time on the phone attempting to find my reservation. I even did a three-way call with my credit card company and Travelocity, but neither company would confirm my reservation or release the hold of funds on my credit card so I could repurchase. On 5/1/12, I received a call from Travelocity (571-918-6490) stating again that they had a computer glitch on 4/17/12 and did I still want my tickets? They knew my passengers' names, amount of the ticket and date of travel. I confirmed that yes, I did want the tickets and they stated they would email me a confirmation.

    On 5/1/12, I received an email confirmation with a Travel ID#. On 5/2/12, I attempted to pull up my itinerary with the Trip ID but still, no reservation. I called Travelocity again. Currently, I have been on the phone for 30 minutes and counting. No one for the last 5 minutes as I wait for a supervisor. I highly doubt this will get resolved in my favor. How is it that companies are no longer accountable? I will have to pay an additional $250 now to purchase the same tickets and that is only if I can get my credit card to release the funds before the prices increase again!

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    Reviewed May 2, 2012

    We purchased through Travelocity two tickets and hotel for Las Vegas with a protection plan for which we paid $99. We were told at the time of the reservations that any cancellation will be protected by this plan so we don't lose any money. Now four weeks before our travel date, we called Travelocity to cancel part of our trip as my wife is pregnant and was advised by her doctor to not fly. We spoke with a supervisor named Kathy ** (employer ID - **), she said that Travelocity does not sell protection plan and we bought the plan from another company, even though it was sold by Travelocity at the time of reservation. They were not willing to give us any refunds and were extremely unprofessional. We spoke with three different people within Travelocity and they gave us three different stories which upon confrontation they changed. Travelocity is running this scam and it seems that there are many people who have faced this issue. You can read these reports on internet. There has to be some sort of government intervention to stop this fraud.

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    Reviewed April 24, 2012

    I called and tried to get help with booking in zip code 10512. The rep booked me in zip code 12528. For two weeks, I have been calling due to the fact that within five minutes of booking the reservation, I called back to tell them about the error. All I kept hearing was they needed to find the recording to confirm the cancellation. They took $134.21 of my money and were just flat out refusing to give it back. I called the hotel, and they confirmed with them that I did not use the reservation. This is considered stealing. I am a single mother of three children, and this amount of money is hurting me greatly. Yet again, I'm on hold for 45 minutes awaiting help.

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    Reviewed April 24, 2012

    I booked a trip through Travelocity and paid the additional costs for travel insurance (Travel Guard, Inc.). Due to weather delays, my family was looking at being stranded in South Carolina for 4 days. I made at least 6 calls to Travelocity before I finally got a representative whose English I could understand and who was actually able to tell me how to get coverage for my travel changes. The whole process took about 3 hours. The travel insurance was worse and they only reimbursed me for the cost of the rental car, which worked out to only $80 more than I paid out in insurance fees. They have horrible customer service, high prices and even more useless insurance. In the future, I'll go back to Orbitz.

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    Reviewed April 23, 2012

    I purchased air travel for my wife and I on 12/22/11 for travel to Reno, NV on February 16. When we arrived at the airport on 2/16 for our 8:40 flight, American Airlines told us they didn't have a flight to Reno at that time. I called Travelocity at 6:40 am EST for help and got their recording, and I was put on hold for 30 minutes. I finally gave up and asked AA what they could do. They said they could book us on a flight at about 2:30 but that we would have to pay. The 2:30 flight would have got us to Reno after my scheduled appointment.

    I walked to Southwest Airlines, and they had a flight that would get us to Reno in time. I paid $1151. I called Travelocity late that afternoon for help, got their recording, and waited 11 minutes before I was picked up. I was advised that there was nothing that could be done and that our return flight had been canceled. I said I wanted it back and was advised I would have to pay the change fee and the difference in fare. I told the CSR (who was almost unintelligible due to her heavy Indian accent) that I wanted my flights back with no charge, and she said Travelocity could not do that. I asked to speak to a supervisor and was placed on hold for 24 minutes, then I gave up.

    I called back later and spoke to a man, again with a very heavy Indian accent, and went through my explanation again. Again, I was told there was nothing that could be done. i asked again to speak to a supervisor. I was again placed on hold for over 30 minutes and gave up. Then out of the blue, a supervisor called me back 2 hours later. I again told my story and was assured he would get to the bottom of it with customer support at Travelocity and they would be in touch with me. I have heard nothing.

    What I want is simple--a refund of the $849.60 I paid Travelocity for a flight that didn't exist. I assumed that they would say it wasn't their fault the flight was canceled, and I am sure they are right. But it is their fault that we were never advised of the cancellation and we're forced to purchase flights on a different carrier to the tune of $1151. After hearing nothing as promised, I sent an email to consumer.relations@travelocity.com on April 3 and in their spot on customer support fashion. They have not contacted me.

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    Reviewed April 17, 2012

    I am currently in Afghanistan on a government contract. I booked a hotel on R&R dates. I received the dates and they were changed. I asked customer support to help me. I have no phone access and only have internet due to the area in Afghanistan in forward operating base. The first operator told me they tried to call the hotel to see if I could cancel but said no one picked up. I have to call myself. After two days of waiting for a response telling them I didn't have phone access, I got no response. I emailed again and was told they can't help me after the first customer support person said they could but just didn't want to call back.

    What's the use of customer support on the internet if they can't help you over the internet and just pawn it off to call the numerous numbers I was given after telling them my situation of being in a war zone with no phone access? I will no longer use Travelocity and will be sure to tell everyone in the military how customer support lacks helping people who are over here for them.

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    Reviewed April 16, 2012

    I booked a trip for three to Cancun through Travelocity. The rep on the phone spoke broken English and put me on hold so many times that we lost the 1st and 2nd flight arrangements, which were good ones! I told him this wasn't my fault and he should arrange something just as good for me. He told me he couldn't. It took him over 3 hours to book this trip and when I asked to speak with a manager, he told me they were all busy. I said, "Can someone call me back?" He said yes. Within the hour, nothing! I called back and asked immediately to speak with a manager and this rep insisted I explain why.

    After the long explanation he said, "So let me get this right, you agreed to book this trip and now you want to complain about it?" I told him the rep who booked it couldn't understand me nor could I understand him. His reply was, "So you want me to tell my supervisor that you were unhappy because he wasn't English speaking?" I said no, I just want a call back from a manager because I want some compensation for these lousy flight arrangements. His last words before I hung up on him were, "So you want me to tell my manager that you want something for free?" That's when I hung up on him.

    In the meantime, I have called 4 times and written 3 emails asking for someone to contact me and all I got is the reply saying they will respond within 12 hours. Well it's been around 14 days since my last email and I have yet to hear anything from this lousy company with the stupid gnome. I paid a ton of money for our last day at a beautiful 5 star, all inclusive hotel, when in fact we had to leave for the airport at 4:00AM. So I paid for 3 people and one entire day and had to travel from 7:25AM to 8:10PM with 2 kids. I just want to spread the word to as many people as I can to let everyone know not to book anything with Travelocity! Their verbiage says "We're with you every step of the way" and "We're all ears". They are not! Beware! Any company that never (and I mean never) has a manager available to speak with is most likely not a good one.

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    Reviewed April 14, 2012

    I would like to file a formal complaint against Travelocity for misrepresentation concerning their Price Guarantee that they advertise on their website and advertisements in the media. As you can see from the attached emails, especially the last from the executive offices, they admitted that there are discrepancies concerning filing for a refund, when there is a change in the price, as from "timely" to 24 hours. I highlighted same in the attached email.

    I booked a flight for two to Phoenix on 3/27/12. On 4/4/12, I checked both Orbitz and Travelocity site and found the cost of the flight went down over $100, on both sites. I immediately filed for a refund and as you can see from the numerous emails, I have been denied. I would not have pursued the refund if it was for a few dollars, but over $100 is a lot of money to be out. I even called Ms. ** of the executive resolutions team to see if we could discuss further and come to some arrangement. I left a message with a "Betty" on 4/10/12 and to date, have not even received a courtesy call back. I feel I am due a refund and would like you to look into this further, as all my correspondence has been met with the same standard answer. Thank you for your help in this matter. In these hard financial times, losing over $100 is a hardship.

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    Reviewed April 13, 2012

    Flight was cancelled, no notification from Travelocity - I made this reservation in September 2011 to fly to Spain; 3 nights in Barcelona, 5 in Alicante - for our honeymoon starting tonight through April 22. Travelocity never notified me that Iberia cancelled our flight to Barcelona for tonight, April 13. We found out as we tried to check in online. We are packed and ready to go. They kept the return flight for April 22, never questioning how we were supposed to get there. They did notify us that the return flight on the 22nd changed by 30 min (no problem!), but failed to mention our departing flight for tonight was cancelled altogether.

    The Travelocity agent had the nerve to tell me that it was the airline's fault that they cancelled. They did not understand that it was their job to notify us. I was told, it was not their fault, by 3 different agents today and one supervisor. They would not admit that they never emailed us about the cancellation. Planes cancel all the time, but hard to find another if you don't know about it! Travelocity is our agent... the company that is supposed to help us. We planned 3 nights in Barcelona, then have train reservations to Alicante on Tuesday. I reserved on Iberia only today for this Sunday at 6:20pm through Madrid, but we are very unhappy with this as we now sleep only one night in Barcelona (not sure our hotel will take us for one night), then have to leave the next day on the train. A waste of money even going to Barcelona, jetlag and all!

    Iberia said it is Travelocity's fault we did not get the proper message. That is so obvious. We have received all messages before from Travelocity, last one on March 22 saying our return flight had a time change, nothing about April 13th! They goofed and will not make good on this. They offered to help us book another flight for tomorrow for much more than we paid because my husband and I are "booking so late". This was to be our honeymoon. By the way, just to add to the frustration, I was on the phone with one agent in India for over an hour, and got disconnected on their end. How frustrating. I am going to go have a glass of wine now. I may take legal action. Do not use Travelocity.

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    Reviewed April 9, 2012

    On January 14, 2012, I used the travel site Travelocity to book accommodations at the Calypso Condominiums (by Oaseas Resorts) in Panama City Beach, FL for four nights from April 1 until check out on April 5, 2012. This was going to be a spring break vacation for my daughter (who is graduating and moving away) and my self. I had researched several of the different locations in Panama City Beach that were beachfront and made this one my choice. I prepaid $837.32, which was the cost of the room and service fees and tax recovery fees. I understood upon check in that I would be responsible for a cleaning fee and a damage deposit.

    On April 1, I drove 750 miles to the beach. When I arrived at the Calypso to check in, I was told that there was no room for me there and that my reservation had been moved to a property that was four miles away on the other end of the beach. I was supposed to have been contacted about the situation, so that I had the option to make other arrangements such as finding another property or cancelling my reservation. It seems that there were maintenance issues and then the unit was sold. I never received a phone call nor had any prior knowledge of what was in store for me. Needless to say, I was livid.

    I had chosen this property for its location and the fact that it was relatively new, and it's in walking distance to shopping and dining. When I asked if this property I was moved to was comparable to this location, I was never given a straight answer. I then called Travelocity to find out if they had any knowledge of what was going on here and to get assistance. You know your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. The customer service rep there put me on hold several times, trying to contact management for this company.

    In the end, I was told I could cancel my reservation and find somewhere else to go or take what was offered me. I had just driven 750 miles, and there was not a place to be rented (beachside) within a 100-mile or so radius of this beach, as it was spring break. And even Oaseas was completely booked up, and they own 8 properties that I am aware of. I had no choice in this. Had I been notified, I could have had the option to cancel my reservation and get a refund of my money or at least have the option of trying to secure another location to stay at or another destination, to say the least.

    When I drove the four miles up the beach to the alternate location, to say the least, I was not at all impressed with my new accommodations. The unit was not satisfactory for me, and I now had to travel to get to any dining or shopping. Travel took forever to do, because there were hundreds upon hundreds of kids on the roads and in the streets. Travel was bumper to bumper. At check-in, I explained the situation to the desk clerk and told her that I had been told that adjustments to my bill would be made when I checked in here. I had already paid more that the total cost of my new location.

    I still have not had feedback, as to a refund of the difference or what was going on. Had I been given notice of the situation at hand, I could have been able to make a decision on my circumstances. Had I been given a new location that was comparable to the reservation I had made in January, I probably would have been satisfied. You will say "Well, you did get to stay somewhere." Yes, but the problem was I did not have an option. I was 750 miles from home with no place to go. I did not have a say in this realistically. I feel that that there should be some accountability somewhere. Honestly, I feel that all of my money should be refunded to me and that someone somewhere should eat this financial disaster.

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