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Hi there,

I hope this message finds you well.

I showed up to HI NY on Thursday night October 13, 2022 as per my reservation. Upon arrival I was told that the room booked was not only NOT a private room but a dormitory room and that also I had apparently booked (I didn’t!) a bed in a male dorm room. Since I’m a woman the hostel would not allow me to stay in the male dorm. 

Then the receptionist said she couldn’t do anything for me since the whole hostel was booked. It’s Thursday night around 7pm, I’m in a foreign country in a big city I’ve never been to and I’m supposed to find a place to stay on a tight budget. 

And she also said that HI couldn’t do anything about this booking and that I would have to see with Agoda about cancellation and refund.

First of all, I didn’t book a bed in a male dormitory as I would not want that for myself. Furthermore, when I made this reservation I was led to believe by Agoda that this was a private room. I remember very well seeing on the Agoda site which said : Private, no dormitory available. That’s the reason why I made this reservation. There’s no way I would have paid 150$CAD a night (593,70$ for 4 nights) for a bed in a dorm. I would have continued searching for something else rather than pay that much for only a bed in a dormitory. Then the reservation said : Room type : Room assigned on arrival. This was clearly a private room I was booking.

So, imagine my astonishment when the receptionist said to me that not only it wasn’t a private room but it was a bed in a male dorm. How could this be possible! 

I asked the receptionist if this happens sometimes ans she replied that yes, it does happen often. Is anybody doing anything about this situation? When I got back in line at HI NYC, the same scenario was happening to two different people in front of me. They were also told that they had booked a bed in a male dorm... and that they couldn't do anything about it.

When I made this reservation I was well aware that it was final, that I could’t receive a refund in the case that I would have to cancel my trip to NY. That was fine by me as I was sure to go anyway. Which I did! But, there’s no way I could have imagine such a nonsense scenario! I was mislead by thinking I had booked a private room and surely I would have understood something was wrong if it would have said anywhere that this was a male room, which was not the case.

I have been trying to get a full refund from Agoda with no success. I'm constantly faced with the same automated response that HI NY Hostel is unable to honor the request due to booking's cancellation policy.

The thing is, I never cancelled anything nor did I want to cancel my booking. I showed up to get my room but HI NY and Agoda were not able to hold their end of booking.

It is impossible to receive a straight and truthful answer, one that makes sense on why nobody will allow a full refund.

I not only never got to sleep there, but also had to deal with the stress to find another accommodation and pay for it. This money is not Agoda to claim as I never received paid service and I am in no way responsible for this situation.

I also tried more than once to ask for some answer with HI NYC to no avail.

Booking ID : [protected]

Email address : [protected]@hotmail.com

Phone number : [protected]

Guest name : Melanie Boulet

Please let me know if you have questions

Thank you for your time and understanding

Melanie Boulet

1. I booked a Holiday at Ranthambore Tiger Inn Resortl for dates 20-22 Oct 20222 via a Travel Agency Agoda website with booking ID [protected] for Rs 29235.36 .The condition was that no charges will be levied if cancelled before 19 Oct 2022. During the booking I had to share my credit card details xxxx xxxx xxxx 1009 alongwith the CVV to the Agoda website.

2. I cancelled the booking on 17 Oct 2022 and the same was acknowledged by the Travel agency stating no charge was made and no refund due.

3. Despite the cancellation during the afternoon. a debit of Rs 28,890.64

occurred against my credit card occurred on 17 Oct 2022 at 10:52 pm ( SMS time ) and although I responded to stop the transaction with BLOCK 1009 to number [protected] on 18 Oct at 1:28 pm when I saw the message , but the transaction had already occurred. The bank confirmed that the amount was debited to Agoda.com

4. Since the website of Agoda website was the only place I had shared the necessary Credit Card details no other person or agency could undertake such a transaction. But Agoda has stated that the amount charged and refund due as both Rs 0.00 . This means the transaction was done but denied by Agoda or it must be done by some person who has access to Agoda agency data base.

5. My request is for Agoda to return my wrongly debited amount. I had disabled my compromised Credit Card account but it can be credited to my Phone Pe account ( in India ) in UPI ID kimslick.[protected]@okicici or I will be glad to share my bank account whenever contacted through my email kimslick.[protected]@gmail.com

Ng Kim Tonsing

Each and every step from the moment of our arrival were accompanied by a bigger and bigger shock and disappointment.

First impressions from the hotel were ruined by the very purely maintained territory. Everywhere around we could see fallen uncleanned leaves and tree's branches. The whole picture made an impression that the hotel is abandoned for many years and we are the only people here.

Instead of welcoming receptionist we were met by the only security (as no one were presented by the reception) who could barely explain anything due to lack of English.

Getting to the condition of the room...

First of all, security couldn't open the door from the first time.

We were promised the room with the ocean view, however it is very difficult to call "ocean" the swamp we saw. The room itself is very old and in a very bad condition. The AC is old and noisy, on the ceiling there is huge yellow leakage stane, the shower is rusty and leaking, no hot water, the water pressure barely allows you to clean yourself.

Because of the "ocean" outside, the room smells like rotten eggs.

I shall mention that instead of having proper rest after more than 24 hours being on the way and having so deserved vacation, we are forced to struggle in such conditions.

I booked a room on line for a twin room on the 5th November for 9th for two people.

i have been charged for the same night twice, confirmed by bank for a total of $288.00.

Booking ID as follows - [protected] - ID - [protected]

Transaction - Sat 5th November 11.16am - 11.17am AWST.

I would like to cancel both as due to this error l have cancelled my journey to Brisbane, l can no longer afford my trip away.

l would like confirmation on due process as l have tried to get in touch by phone with no success.

Please refund my money, l be waiting for a reply soon, Thankyou.

Dear Madam/Sir,

1. I have cancelled my Taj Banjara Hotel, Hyderabad, room booking vide Cancelled Agoda Booking ID757988213 Check-in September 23, 2002.

2. Though it has been incorporated in the cancellation confirmation intimation email that the refund will be made within 10-15 business days, the amount has NOT yet been credited into my bank account.

3. In view of the above, you are requested to do the needful to refund my amount FOTHWITH, please.

4. Please acknowledge receipt.

With Sincere Regards.

COL GOPAKUMAR P (VTN), MA, MBA, PGDM.

Subject: Fwd: Cancelled Agoda Booking ID [protected] Check-in September 09, 2022

---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: Agoda Customer Service

Date: Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 4:28 PM

Subject: Cancelled Agoda Booking ID [protected] Check-in September 09, 2022

To:

Your booking has been successfully cancelled

We have confirmed the cancellation of your booking at *Deluxe Golden Horn

Sultanahmet Hotel*.

Your booking has been cancelled for free. Thank you for booking with Agoda.

Make another booking

Book another room

Cancellation details

Original booking amount:

USD 584.39

Cancellation fee for this booking:

USD 0.00

Your cancelled booking

Deluxe Golden Horn Sultanahmet Hotel

Binbirdirek Meydani Str. No:1, Istanbul, Turkey

Binbirdirek Meydani Sok. No:1, İstanbul, Türkiye

Booking ID

[protected]

Check in

Friday 09 September 2022 (after 13:00)

Check out

Wednesday 14 September 2022 (before 12:00)

Lead guest

Moipone Magomola

Reservation

1 x Deluxe Double/Twin Room

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This email was sent by: Agoda Company Pte. Ltd., 30 Cecil Street,

Prudential Tower #19-08, Singapore, 049712

Inspite of the confirmation of my cancellation, Agoda is reluctant to refund me. I have sent numerous correspondence in this regard, producing communication between me and your company to no avail.

I trust that I will get assistance from this email.

Painfully in distress,

Moipone Magomola

Our stay at Motel Punt 14 have been rejected. According to the policy of the hotel as stated by the hotel personnel, children are not allowed, which is not mentioned on the agoda website. On the contrary, hotel policy on agoda website states that "all children are welcome". This was something I have especially checked when I make the reservation. 

On September 21st, I travelled all the way to the motel with my wife and 3 year old daughter, where we were not allowed to stay. At midnight we ended up being homeless, spending the night on the benches of the Barcelona airport. I could not sleep just before an important meeting the next day and my daughter get sick.

I should stress the fact that this inconvenience happened primarily because of the incorrect information on the Agoda website entirely against the property policy. The property allowed a free cancellation but this did not necessarily change the fact that we ended up going back and forth to the hotel, wasting lots of precious time, and spending the night on the benches of the Barcelona airport. On top of that, I needed to pay for booking another place for the remainder of our stay, which cost me more than twice what I was supposed to pay for the hotel booking. Extra costs we needed to cover here turned our trip into a negatively unforgettable one. This is the first time I have experienced this and I'm requesting compensation for all of these inconveniences.

Viewed on line website , On arriving the condition of the Hotel did not match my expectation of what I saw online . Filthy Slum , The room was Dirty, Ceiling mould ,Even the curtains did not reach the full length of the window ,No where to stand to undress ,The bed was up against the wall and touching the wardrobe See from the pictures attached .I refused to stay in this hotel room and asked agoda for a refund but they asked me to return to hotel saying they had changed room to find the next room in simular dirty filthy condition.

1) I understand fully well if points cannot be refunded due to our mistake or decision. But Agoda has once again allowed such mistakes to occur - hotel details were not accurate or updated... even emails not available etc.

These made difficult for customers to check with the property concerned. The recent issue I encountered with Baan Yuree hotel booked under Agoda - I tried to contact hotel but no success...or have to pay overseas charges (which is ridiculous to try) ...asked Agoda if you can contact the hotel for their email address or assist in conveying my concerns...but Agoda simply careless.

Also, it has not been easy to trace at first...Agoda reviews was short or unavailable on the hotels concerned...

2) In the end, I read reviews from other sources...and suspected some issues. So I finally contacted the hotel to clarify - this time I was lucky... managed to get a reply...a negative point that forced me to cancel the booking. How could Agoda allow such misinformation or outdated essential info to be continued to be posted by the hotel?

3) Another issue Agoda didn't resolve was the US$4 or $5 still owed to me. According to my booking, the agreed price was stated. But hotel says I had to pay the additional Booking.com fee incurred which is not shown in my price.

As I was already at the hotel with heavy luggage and car parked already, I had to pay the additional charges, hoping to resolve with Agoda when I got home. Agoda replied after I queried that they will investigate and come back to me - But till now since June, nothing happened...no replies in spite of several repeated queries sent to Agoda customer service.

V frustrating experience with all these recent bookings with Agoda!

Agoda standard of customer service or website updating has dropped v badly, I experienced.

Feedback

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Long time customer,

[protected]@hotmail.com

Hello my booking id: [protected]

Reference number: [protected]

I made a booking for Chic Capsule in Singapore and have chosen my selected capsule as lower bed. However, when I arrived at hotel the system has changed my bed to upper deck capsule. The system has automatically changed by bed which I never opted. On my Agoda app I can still see lower deck booking but on hotel side they see upper deck and some more charges.

I consider this is really incorrect and system issue. I faced lot of issue climbing upstairs and I really want it fully compensated now.

My email is: [protected]@gmail.com

Name: Rehan pasha

I have one night hotel booking with the Furama River front hotel in Singapore through Agoda on in 5th Oct and out 6th Oct.22 (one night hotel) from Kota Kinabalu to Singapore on 5th Oct. But very unfortunately I was tested covid positive and therefore was forced to change my air ticket from Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia to Singapore on the 5th Oct. to 18th Oct. instead. I have emailed to Agoda one week before to change and postponed the checking date of the hotel from 5th Oct to 18th Oct. for one night as I have spoken to the Hotel and they agreed to change provided that my Agent - Agoda got to inform them (the Hotel). But to my great surprise I received email from Agoda rejecting my request which is totally digusting and unreasonable and ridiculous. What kind of website is Agoda, really a great cheater. As a result I lost S$248.07 just for nothing as I experienced with other hotel websites they do cooperate as during this pandemanic moments anything canhappened even the airline ageed for me to change my date of travel from 5th Oct to 18th Oct. 22. Please arrange to refund. ot else I will speak to the locval newspapers in Australia. Thanks

I made a booking for Spark Hotel in Bangkok and have chosen my selected dates. However, the system continues to change my dates to tomorrow that I don't need. The system should not have a default date but should not allow user to continue until a date is chosen by user. I consider this cheating regardless of the deals you are offering.

My email is: siow.[protected]@gmail.com

Name: Siow Kin Thye

Good Day. I booked a unit which is named Heaven ‘s Den Transient Home located at Jose Abad Santos Avenue, 2000 Lagundi, San Fernando, Pampanga on October 18, 2022 with booking ID #[protected] for one night on October 23 to October 24, 2002 and it was paid beforehand through Gcash to Agoda company. After payment, it was confirmed to me on that day at 2:20 pm on my e-mail. So I assumed like any other hotels or places where I booked in the past, I will just go there to check in on the 23rd of October because it was already paid and I thought that I can find the place easily through Google Maps or Waze apps. So from that time since I am not usually using my e-mail and it didn't have any notifications from my phone, I wasn't able to check it and I haven't seen the messages from the property asking for my id's and vaccination card. So I was able only to saw their e-mail on the day of our check-in since I cannot find the exact location of the said property on any location map applications so I asked the property as well as the owner of the said unit but he didn't reply. We took hours to find the said property and waited for his reply until evening, but unfortunately, we didn't receive any reply from the owner until the next day. So we just decided to book another place for us to have a place to stay that night. My complaint is the owner didn't bother to reply that time even just informing us that we were not able to check in since we didn't provide the following requirements or conditions needed which did not mention or provide in their rules so that the customer will be informed beforehand. It's just disappointing that the owner didn't bother to inform us and let us wait without knowing where to go, considering that we have already paid that beforehand. I need a refund or at least half of my payment. Thanks

Palm apart hotel when we first booked in said that we had no breakfast. After explaining to the reception staff that we had breakfast booked in the package. The male staff replied with there is no breakfast on this side of the accomdation. Only on the hotel staff. The next morning another colleague was sat in the reception he stated that we did have breakfast but we had missed it. He then stated he will speak to the management and let them know. After waiting the whole day & no response we asked another reception staff. He replied with its to late for me to anything the manager is on holiday. None of the colleagues provided any adequate help.

My agoda account app has been deactivated by agoda because of a case that was closed for almost a year ago.

The booking(case) was already closed by me,agoda and the property.

After so many bookings I had with the app after that incident why opening a finished case just now?

I already e-mailed agoda. I also called the property already and yet there is still no action. Agoda wants me to send a receipt of that case. The case was a cancelled booking coordinated by the property itself. I don't have the copy of receipt already since it was almost a year ago. Why not Agoda and the property management talk to each other to clarify this case?

I made a reservation at the Econo lodge in New Ulm, MN on Oct 14. After I gave my payment information, I was given a confirmation number. I then called the Econo lodge in New Ulm Minnesota to confirm that my reservation went through.

They said no reservations were under my name. When I looked at my confirmation, it said that Agoda booked a room in South Carolina! WTF!

I called Agoda and they said they will call the Econo lodge in SC to get a refund. Well, I was only refunded half of my money. This is on AGODA not the motel.

We booked an accommodation via agoda two weeks ago for two nights in Ioannina, Greece. We got a confirmation email and reservation number. Today we got a message that our reservation was canceled. We contacted the owner to find out what happened and she told us that the accommodation was not available for the dates we wanted it and that agoda just hadn't updated the status. Therefore we have no place to stay because there is nothing else available for the specific dates!

I have made Hotel booking 6 nights for Crown plaza Dubai festival on10 oct 2022 by my credit card and my credit card bank have approved vide transaction id [protected] the booking is not confirmed by the hotel so far

my credit card is debited and no booking is done, nor i have not received back the money debited from the credit card

kindly refund the amount to my credit card bank so that i may use for other booking

Agoda is the worst, most unreliable, and biggest mistake you will do in life. no way to compare with booking.com. I booked a hotel and it captures my name from my email which is not the same as in my passport. I have requested to update my name and it’s been two weeks now they cannot resolve it. I will be traveling the next day. I contacted the hotel and they agreed to update my name but the Stupid Agoda system still won't do it because they need permission from their Chinese partner as per their customer service. What a shame! I swear that after this trip I will delete my account in this stupid app and will never book a hotel with this cheap and totally nonsense app. I admit that I made a very big mistake in booking my hotel with this company. Unreliable, Incompetent

In general, make a room reservations just need to hold the credit card amount , in my case, The hotel insist to make a payment when I want to booked a room in June 2022, I call to Agoda hope they can resolve this problem cause I never have this experience before. In my past, it's no need to make a payment immediately when I reserve a room. But Agoda said this is normal and told me I need to do that.

After, I cancel that room in Aug. 2022, Hotel reply me wont' refund to me and said they haven't take any payment, after investigation, Hotel refund to me but it's has delayed the refund for a month finally.

In the end, the exchange rate has dropped, and my refunded amount dropped as much as US$240. I claim compensation. Agoda told me to ask Bank, it's ridiculous.

I haven't use any service but I cost US$240.