Bought tickets for a company that was not in operation
I bought 3 tickets for a hop-on hop-off tour in NYC on Thursday, April 14.
Firstly, the directions on the confirmation link "get directions" took us to a completely different location that stated on the confirmation.
Secondly, when we got to the location listed on the confirmation there were no busses in sight. We waited for a while and even spoke to an NYPD officer who told us that the business was no longer in business.
thirdly, there was no business address or contact information for the business
and when we tried contacting Booking no one responded until 4/5 days later
fourthly, we had to purchase tickets to a different tour at twice the price
Lastly, Booking.com refuses to refund our money - they claimed the business said that they are operational.
This is the last time I will ever use Booking.com
Desired outcome: I would like my money refunded as the busses were not where they indicated they would be and thus I was unable to use the tickets
Payment has been made on going booking but before confirming my contact details
1) [protected]@gmail.com
2)Treebo Trend South Avenue Pondicherry
3)16/04/22 to 17/04/22
In booking. Com have tried booking of above mentioned place which seems to made payment to process without contact details. In which the payment made of 3512/- but not booked... After this I made a mail to booking. Com... They replied within 3-5 working days payment will be reflected back in your account. Yet I didn't get payment and the customer support whom I texted him now for two to three times doesn't reply.
Air-Ticket
Dear Booking.com,
I had booked Air-ticket on 23 March 2022 due to emergency travel of my in-laws. The flight booked was connection flight via Abu Dhabi.
Bahrain to Abu Dhabi by Gulf Air and Abu Dhabi to Thiruvananthapuram by Air India Express. We had reached Airport on time.
On reaching the Etihad Airways counter, they refuse to issue boarding pass due to fact that they have no tie-up with Air India Express. As per Etihad counter staff, they are not able to get Air India Express flight details in their system. I hope this is due to tie-up problem with the carriers.
We contacted Air India Express and confirmed the ticket booking. They have booking in their system from Abu Dhabi to Thiruvananthapuram. They send us the booking details by email too.
We showed the details to Etihad counter that we have connection flight from Abdu Dhabi and confirmation details. But they said, if you have Visa to Abu Dhabi, we can issue boarding pass. Which is practically not possible at that time.
Due to last minute, purchase of new flight ticket, arranging money and above all the tension and mental pressure was beyond its limit. The gate closed already when we reach to the flight entry gate and with the kindness they let us to travel.
Finally purchased a high value ticket and travelled.
Dear Booking.com, I need to get compensation on this loss.
I request your complete attention this regard and earliest reply.
Regards
Arunkumar S
00973-[protected]
Booking.com doesn't follow PCI requirements
Booking.com gives your credit card info in PLAIN TEXT to the hotel. Anyone working at the hotel can then use your credit card for fraudulent purposes.
I stayed at the Hotel Ponce De Leon on 4/15. They showed me a printout from booking.com.with my credit card info on it. The entire number was shown...not just the last 4 digits.
This procedure of sending hotels credit card info unencrypted needs to be changed.
Desired outcome: Booking needs to send encrypted CC info and use a token for payments.
Hotel booking
While searching booking.com I booked oyo property 81833 , hotel red rose at bagaluru for three adults (01 room) with break fast from 09.04.2022 to 11.04.2022.
On 04.04.2022 i received confirmation mail regarding hotel booking for total amount of rs 5668.15
As advised through confirmation mail i paid partial amount of rs 3196.67 on 05.04.2022 So that my booking will confirmed.
But when i reached hotel on 09.04.2022 at 08:30 pm i was not allowed to check in citing reason that rooms are not available.
Person at reception told me to contact OYO and we will be shifted to some other hotel and further advised to cancel booking then he will do something.
I have no option other than to look for another hotel. Just imagine at night i am looking for another hotel . Then i cancelled this booking. A message recd regarding refund of rs 1065 via upi id and this amount is also not credited to my account.
My question is that why rs 2131 is deducted from my advance payment .
You are requested to look into the matter and refund my full advance of rs 3196.67 other wise i will go to court.
I can also provide the taxi no and time which i hired from airport to hotel red rose OYO 81833.
Hoping for positive response.
Thanks
Bhupendra singh bisht
Refund request
I have been trying to get a refund from Booking.com for over two years now. In Feb 2020 I booked a hotel in Paris for a stay scheduled or later on in March 2020. As it got a little closer to the date Covid-19 meant that emergency travel restrictions were suddenly in place and I couldn't leave my country to holiday in Paris. I cancelled the booking and Booking.com sent me confirmation of the cancellation with zero charge. The hotel, however, still took the payment from a credit card that must have been supplied to them by booking.com.
Since then I have continued to try and make contact with the hotel and with booking.com to receive a refund. Booking.com asked me to email them proof of purchase/bank statement etc which I have done, and now I cannot even get through to them on the phone as they are saying they no longer recognise my confirmation number for the booking.
Desired outcome: Refund needed for stay that I could not complete and was cancelled free of charge.
BOOKING NUMBER [protected] dtd 3/11/22
Due to illness, I was not staying 3d night, very hard for me to get my refund, "partner EXTENDED STAY AMERICA SUITES" was unhelpful with this, please credit my card from this locale or respond with justification for not doing so, thank you, PAUL SIVERTSEN if this is too short, let me tell you about your arcane procedures' and how they are set up for the customer to always loose
Desired outcome: refund from extended stay america suites
airbnb
Thursday 14th April 22 4.00pm
arrived at the apartment to find that the description was rather misleading. but hey that's often the case and the place was relatively cheap so not too much of a surprise there.
however on the path leading to the apartment's front door first I came across broken glass followed by overgrown weeds and some rubbish lying in there. not a great 1st impression. next while looking for some extra blanket a piece of the wardrobe wooden frame fell off hitting me on the head. after taking a closer look the piece of wood was rotten and full of termites. this is only my first couple of hours in this Airbnb and I dread what will come out next and whether I will be sharing the accommodation with hordes of cockroaches. The apartment is clean enough but there are several holes in the various wooden frames and indeed i wonder what other wildlife i am likely to encounter. I do not wish to alter my accommodation plans at this late stage as i am already in Cyprus and have nowhere else to go to at such short notice.
Desired outcome: As I am not in a position to change my accommodation I do not expect a full refund but I would like at least a 25% discount on the original price.
Quarto Privativo em Condominio Address: R. Castorina Faria Lima, 117, ap 102 - Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro
Confirmation number
2183.724.782
PIN code
1046
Owner sells single bed bedroom with baby/child matress under the single bed as a twin bedroom.
At the date of arrival, impossible to cancel since everything's booked furing carnival time imn Rio de Janeiro.
After hours of talking, the owner installed an adult matress in this tiny bedroom which makes it almost impossible to open the door any more.
He asked me to input no show in booking.com since he "reconfigurated" the room. Idiotic crook. I did notm of course and, on the opposite, informed Booking.com about this scam after leaving that place.
Booking.com customer service, in a surprising and ridiculous way, finally told that I can not be repaid anything since the crook owner does not want.
Desired outcome: Payment back
Lack of refund
Book ref [protected] pin 7252
We booked this accommodation and paid in full. A few days before our holiday was due to start, my husband became ill so I messaged the owner to ask for change of dates. They messaged back to say this was not possible.
On 2/4/22 my husband had shown no signs of improvement so I phoned the property and left a message on their voicemail explaining the situation and that we were hoping to change our arrival date to 5/4/22 and that I would confirm this. I then re-scheduled our ferry for 5/4/22.
On 4/4/22 my husband was feeling better so I messaged the property to confirm our arrival time. I was completely shocked to receive a message back to say that ‘This was not possible’. I phoned over and over but each time it went to voicemail.
I phoned booking.com and spoke to ‘Rick’. He told me to hold whilst he phoned them.
He came back saying that he had spoken to the property and all I needed to do was to phone them now to reinstate the booking as it had been cancelled from their end.
I phoned over and over, leaving messages and to this day, no-one has phoned me back or made an attempt to contact me.
I looked on booking.com on 4/4/22 and the property had already been let to someone else.
We are absolutely devastated.
When we booked, on booking.com it said that the property would text me on the day of arrival to give me details on check in. IF they never received my voicemail stating that we would have to delay our arrival, why did I never receive this text? Someone listened to that message and knew we were arriving later. I can only assume this wasn’t passed on to the appropriate person (manager).
If however the owners English is so basic that they could not understand my message, then this MUST be stated on booking.com. It needs to say that the number can be used by French speaking visitors only.
Also, if we simply just didn’t turn up (which wasn’t the case anyway), why didn’t they phone me? Or text? Or email? They had all our contact details!
Not only have we lost our holiday but the financial cost has been huge. Accomodation, travel including extra costs to reschedule, AA cover for Europe, Comprhensive car insurance for Europe, Travel insurance, House sitter for our pets, time off work (as I am self employed), new holiday clothes for the family...the list goes on.
I have a devastated daughter who had all her bags packed ready to go. Many tears have been shed in this house.
At the very least, we expect a full refund from the property. At least we can put this in our holiday pot and start saving again.
It doesn’t make up for the money lost or for the sadness this has caused but it’s a start.
Desired outcome: Refund
Duplicate Charge by Booking.com
Please note that today I received my Bank Visa Card Statement, and it shows a Duplicate Charge relating to my booking of 3 nights (March 27th, 2022, to March 30th, 2022), Confirmation Number: [protected], at “The First Collection at Jumeirah Village Circle” as per the following transactions:
Description Amount AED
Hotel at Booking.com 2,828.82
27-03 Amsterdam NL
The First Collection 2,947.27
27-03 DUBAI AE
I was charged twice for my stay and hereby request Booking.com to correct the duplicate charge by reversing the charges of AED 2,828.82 soonest please.
Desired outcome: Please reverse the Hotel at Booking.com charges for the sum of AED 2828.82 charged twice to my Visa Credit Card unfairly
App problem lead client double charges
I booked for the first unit and pop out that the first unit been sold out and will proceed to fully refund to me, (as your booking,com app cannot been screenshot at that moment, so i no have the proof). Because the first unit been "sold out", so i go for second one, after the second one been successful, suddenly i been notified that I have confirmed booking for this 2 units.
Who will booked for 2 units to stay in 1 night?
Now is the apps fault and suddenly become our consumer fault, so as a consumer I have to bear the booking cost fee. There is very unfair to me as consumer.
For your information, confirmation no.: 3880.212.160.
Please upgrade your apps function and improve your customer services.
Desired outcome: Fully refund me the cancellation costs
Réservation Hôtel EDEN du 03/04/2022 N°3882.613.590 Code 7240
Nous n'avons pas pu honorer notre réservation ci-dessus pour cause de maladie (Covid).
Impossible de joindre l'hôtel, téléphone en dérangement, pas d'internet disponible.
de retour en France nous avons envoyé un mail en italien le 03/04 à 16h pour annuler.
Sur le site la réservation est marquée annulée mais nous avons été prélevé de 110 € au profit de l'hôtel EDEN.
Nous réservons tous nos hôtels depuis plus de 10 ans par vos services et nous souhaitons un avoir car c'est un dysfonctionnement de l'hôtel qui est à l'origine du problème.
Cordialement,
Jacques PECORARO
Merci de répondre en français
Canceled flight refund refusal
I puchased a flight ticket on booking.com with saoudia airline, I got cancelation information on saoudia app only but not from booking.com. I tried to get refund or flight change from saoudia directly but I just got an e-mail for cancelation of a flight from booking.com. But what is strange is that the cancelationtion is for a flight by qatar airways on 27 mars 2022 Muscat-Algiers, which is obviously not my booked flight.
Actually, both booking and saudia refused any cooperation or refund they just changed my flight to 03 april 2022, then canceled everything without refund, which should include my 10 extra days cost I stayed in a country, the trauma I lived far from by dying father which I couldn't assist even to his funeral
HIDDEN BOOKING FEES post sale
Hi there
I just wanted to highlight this issue with Booking.com, which could land people in serious distress.
• I use booking.com up to 40x per year for business
• When using the website, some hotels and accommodation companies are trying a trick: An extra £200 or higher deposit to pay via a 3rd party company after booking.
• On the description, there is no mention of an extra deposit being required.
• You have to specifically click on IMPORTANT INFORMATION in order to see this.
• If you then subsequently want to cancel the booking, you can not without financial penalty.
• Additional issue: If you did not have £200 available after the booking is made or at the time of check in, you would not be able to use the service you have paid for.
• You also have no guarantee that ultimately you will see this money reimbursed afterwards, because if there were a faulty bed or chair, you could be held liable.
I feel that this practice is very misleading, and unreasonable and could catch people out.
Someone literally had to go find the attached information on the app in order to demonstrate that it was stated in the small print.
But really I feel out of principle, that all hotels that require more than the stated room rate financially, should indicate this prominently in the MAIN DESCRIPTION, so that people are aware of what they are financially committing to.
It reminds me of the Ryanair practice of hiding all the hidden fees until they were forced to change their website to be more transparent.
If you booked a plane ticket and the price was £50, you would not expect to pay a £200 additional damage fee for up to 7 days in order to use your plane ticket.
Why should this be any different with hotels and accommodation?
When I asked booking.com to pay the £200 on my behalf they declined.
Out of principle, I would like to get them to highlight quirky practices, so that consumers are aware at the time of purchase and have indicated that they understand that they will be charged additional money after the sale.
flights
I have today booked accommodation in Lanzarote at the Labranda Los Cocoteros in Puerto Del Carmen, Lanzarote. [protected] to [protected].
That was fine. I was then asked if i wished to book a flight, which i tried to do.
The flights are with Ryanair from Manchester.
MAN-ACE LC1E7T ACE-MAN BF2ZXN.
I paid for the flights and also paid for check in luggage, which i thought was two suitcases to go into the hold. It transpired after payment that the cost of £60 was for hand luggage of 10kg each to go into the cabin. Having travelled with Ryanair recently, i know the hand luggage in the cabin is free. Your website would not allow me to change my booking, or indeed book my seats, which is normal practice. I called the BOOKING.COM office and spoke with Tanviar, who i might say is rude and not helpful at all. He eventually gave me a Ryanair number which i tried to no avail. I will say your website for booking flights is very poor. Not informative, and leads you astray. You should be told exactly what you are booking, and not have to find out later, or have to go to Ryanair themselves. This is very poor. I need this resolving as i go away on 19th April and do not wish any problems at Manchester airport. There are enough problems there already. Could somebody please call me on [protected]. Thanks
Desired outcome: A flight package with all the correct details.
Hotel at Booking Amsterdam NLD
Someone book this hotel Amsterdam NLD used my credit card. Please refund me my money back.. I have contacted my Bank to cancel that card. I remember went to Cell phone place Harwin. I was buying a new phone. I believe they are the one who hacked in people's account. They should be investigated. I went to store April 2, 2022 I noticed one of the guys who working In the shop was paying a lot tension what I was saying. FM Cellular on 7350 Harwin Dr. Houston Texas 77036. Lady who was helping me is from Amsterdam she asked me for my pin number on the cell phone. When I realized 3 days later that was a mistakes...
Desired outcome: This Is the first day I was aware of about this situation. I call my bank they cancel the card
Refund for a Double Booking (Fault of Booking.com)
I have been trying to contact this ridiculous company to facilitate a refund for a double booking fault from their side with no success.
The chats seem to go no where.
And my last interaction with them, as seen in the attachments, seemed like I was talking to a Bot or people who were taking me for a joy ride :(
When the bookings work, its all good, but try having an issue and these [censored]s will make you realise how big of a SCAM Booking.com actually is.
I hope there are companies or people out there who can help with this.
My email is nirvash.[protected]@gmail.com
Thank You.
Desired outcome: Refund for the double booking!
Suspected scam on a pensioner by ther group company gotogate with qatar airways
Tickets i paid gotogate for was declared void by qatar airways airport manager but offered to let us board the next flight as long as i paid her airport office $1200,this was for the same booking i paid gotogate for my call to gotogate to complain was meet with lies and falls excuses they also made a statement to skyscanner that they cancelled the tickets as i had no travel visa anothr lie im british i never need a visa i have requested evidence from gotgate and the owners of gotogate etraveli and booking holdings they responde with nothing but recorded stupid emails i have heard from booking.Com one of the same group who said its not company policy or company rulls to contact customers so i am suming that mr glen fogel the exective of booking holdings tells his staff sell as many tickets as possible but if customer has a complaint dont answer just keep there money
Hotel, Bait and Switch
Booking.com advertised a hotel room, Mayan Vidanta in Acapulco, 3 bedrooms, for the dates we wanted and we booked the apartment, received and received confirmation then we bought no refundable plane ticket jets. Then, the hotel contacted us asking to change dates. We called Booking. Com and we’re told that the hotel is complying with our original dates, then, the hotel tried to gives us a two befroom instead of three bedroom room. We said “No”, and they cancelled our reservation. Booking.com then offered us a residential house with an undisclosed address. We looked up Booking.Congo find the property and found our original Mayan Vidanta apt still being advertised. I booked it, my husband booked it, then we both cancelled. We are now scrambling one week before our family of 6 trip to find accommodation. There have been numerous phone calls to Booking.com. The last rep hung up on me when I asked to speak to a manager.
Desired outcome: The original reservation would be desirable, but I doubt it ever existed in the first place. Bait & Switch. It is still advertised as available.
Yes, Booking.com is a legitimate website, providing a platform for users to book accommodations, flights, car rentals, and other travel services.
Booking.com has security measures in place to protect user data, but it's always a good idea to read their privacy policy to understand how your information is used.
Most reviews on Booking.com are from verified guests who have completed their stay, but as with any platform, it's important to read multiple reviews to get a well-rounded understanding.
Booking.com aims to provide accurate prices, but it's still important to double-check the final price, taxes, and fees during the booking process.
Booking.com offers customer support through various channels, but individual experiences may vary. Be sure to check online reviews for a better understanding of customer satisfaction.
Property owners and managers provide the photos and descriptions, so while Booking.com attempts to ensure accuracy, it's always best to research the property independently as well.
Cancellation and modification policies vary by property and booking. Check the specific terms and conditions for each reservation.
Deals and discounts on Booking.com are generally legitimate, but be sure to read the terms and conditions to understand any restrictions or limitations.
Booking.com displays all mandatory fees during the booking process, but additional charges, such as local taxes, may apply depending on the property.
Booking.com uses secure technology to protect your credit card information, but it's always a good idea to monitor your statements for any suspicious activity.
Booking.com is part of Booking Holdings Inc., a reputable global online travel company that also owns Priceline, Agoda, and Kayak.
Booking.com was founded in 1996, and has since grown into a well-established online travel agency.
Like any online platform, Booking.com may occasionally be targeted by scammers. It's crucial to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity to their customer service.
The Booking.com mobile app is considered safe, but always download it from official app stores and read reviews to ensure you have the genuine app.
Booking.com offers support for resolving disputes, but the extent of their involvement depends on the specific circumstances.
Booking.com offers a loyalty program called Genius, providing benefits such as discounts and perks. Users should evaluate if the program suits their travel needs.
Star ratings on Booking.com are generally reliable, but it's still important to read reviews and research the property for a comprehensive understanding.
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