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Booking.com Refund

I have spoken three different times to your customer service and was told each time that I would have a total refund on my reservation confirmation number 2199.008.036 which was supposed to be for red carpet inn, norwalk, ct. 06851 telephone [protected]. I immediately cancelled after checking in because there was black mold on the shower. All three times your customer support spoke to the owner and I was assured that I would get the total rufund and not just half. The owner has lied. I will never use bookings.com again unless you can resolve this issue. This was on april 13, 2023

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Booking.com Refused to process the refund the motel 6 had already processed

Customer service by Booking.com is NON service. They repeatedly refused to process the refund from Motel 6 that I already had the receipt for. Even providing that and an additional copy of same from Motel 6 corporate offices wasn't good enough. They claimed 'REPEATED"attempts to contact the property. Turned out to be 3 attempts. 2 hours on the phone, demanding to speak to a manager finally got her to call the property. Suddenly, a verbal confirmation from the front desk person was"enough" proof. Then she put me on terminal hold for over 2 hours!

Recommendation: Use anyone except Booking.com

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I had a reservation at Motel 6 Albuquerque South for Aug. 3, 2023. The room, when I finally got the key to work, was NOT what I had booked. I immediately returned to the office, was told the room I had booked was not available and was offered a complete refund. The refund at Motel 6 Level was processed at that time to the virtual Master Card Booking.com had used to pay them. It was prepaid by ME using my VISA card. So the refund did not get processed by Booking.com back to my VISA card.

I contacted Booking.com on Aug 10, 2023 since my refund had still NOT been processed by Booking.com. I included the receipt that I had from Aug. 3. The refund was still NOT processed by Booking.com. I kept getting text messages from Booking.com that I had to make Motel 6 Alburquerque south provide proof to Booking.com that they had, in fact, processed the refund. I HAD ALREADY PROVIDED THAT TO BOOKING.com.

I contacted Motel 6 corporate offices on Aug. 14, 2023. Nick S confirmed that the refund had been processed on Aug 3, 2023 by the Albuquerque location back to the virtual Master Card ending in 0059 that Booking.com had used. JUST LIKE THE RECEIPT I PROVIDED SHOWED.

So Booking.com sends me another text claiming they could not reach the Motel 6 location to get proof of refund. Even though I had provided the email from Nick S with the attachment from the corporate records showing exactly

what I am telling you.

Now I had to spend over and 90 minutes on the phone with your csr's to get my refund. Because I refused to give up, suddenly, they were able to contact the Motel 6 and get confirmation from the front desk person. The claims that they needed a manager to confirm and were unable to "repeatedly" to speak to a manager is FALSE information.

You kept my refund of $63.53 for 11 days illegally. You forced me to spend 3 hours of my time to resolve this. I get paid $65 per hour. Since Merisol refused to give me a phone number for the department head to escalate my complaint I expect Booking.com to compensate me for my time and frustration. Stalling the refund by demanding that I force Motel 6 to contact Booking.com to provide proof when a simple phone call and verbal confirmation was all that was required proves to me Booking.com was intending to simply keep my money. That is theft. Theft is illegal. So, you can compensate me for forcing your employees to actually do their jobs. Take it out of their paychecks if needed. But you will compensate me for my time.

Kathy and Merisol in whatever country they are actually in should be fired. Jason M should be fired. Not doing your job, expecting the customer to do it for you does not deserve to keep a job you are not willing or able to do. If I had to do their job for them, I should get their paycheck. I will settle for the hourly rate I get paid for the 3 hours I had to spend to get my refund.

Attached are the "proof" documents I already provided and the misleading email from Merisol who claimed to be a supervisor but refused to give me the information to escalate this complaint. She also put me on hold and ignored me for over an hour. The reason my compensation went from 2 hours at $65 per hour to 3 hours at $65 per hour. If you show me proof you fired her and will NOT ever rehire her, I will consider negotiating the compensation.

Update by Robin Billingsley

Kathy, Jason M and Merisol should all be fired for NOT doing their jobs and intentionally causing the customer problems. Then refusing to hang up and leaving me on hold is over the top rude.

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Booking.com Complaint 1695

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Good day, Actually, this is not a good day, since the time of 08.00 h I have been trying to get two cancellations done, and I am totally frustrated with the LACK OF SERVICE, being blocked by the SO - CALLED Client service department! Recently I booked into two hotels via my account Booking.com is Spain, see the details above please. I never got the...

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I booked a hotel room through Booking.com back on 21 November 2023 The booking was for 1 room, 2 adults, on June 11th to 12th 2024 (1 night) so my wife and I could stay in Cardiff for the pink concert. Cost £82. This booking was pre-paid more than six months in advance, non-refundable and Confirmed in 21.NOV.2023 by email from Booking.com stating "Your...

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Booking.com Failed hotel check-in, request a refund

I went to the London City View Hotel and there was no staff at the front desk. I made many phone calls and no one responded.

This meant that I didn't stay at this hotel at all, so I applied for a refund on the platform.

I also spent a lot of time looking for a new hotel, but by then the other hotels were full and I sat at the train station until 5am, leaving London and returning to the city I live in, Leeds, which was very distressing.

Afterwards, I tried to contact Booking and the hotel to request a refund, the hotel said they hadn't received the money and I had to go and contact Booking, but I couldn't get hold of Booking's customer service at all!

Both sides are passing the buck to each other. Neither side will come out to solve the problem.

Claimed loss: 59.21

Desired outcome: 59.21

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I am writing this letter for a refund of my recent trip to Mexico through your agency. I addressed this briefly while down in Mexico at this so-called resort,. I claim both discrimination and disregard for an acknowledged, diagnosed disability. Plus seriously unacceptable accommodation as listed below. Further, a switch in my booking confirmed hotel and...

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Booking.com Website not working properly

I have been trying to change two of my bookings dates, part of the problem is the calendar on the site is not the customary Sunday to Saturday layout. I have tried to change two bookings dates and the pink bar says contact property. I emailed the property and they said booking.com has to change it. Booking.com has gotten too big and is no longer functional. I am a Genius Level 3 on their site and it is no longer something I can rely on.

Claimed loss: Loss of time, loss of positivity toward planning a two month trip, loss of a tool I use for travel.

Desired outcome: I would like the website to work, the information to be accurate and stop the run around, go back to just hotels and have the site work well, I do not use Priceline, Expedia and now you are just like them.

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Booking.com A booking I need to change

I am highly upset about the fact that I cannot get through to Booking.com through there telephone number nor their email and I get the same response to emails which seems to be a generic email asking for information about the booking I need help with. Every time I dial the number it goes through and AI automated voice asking for the confirmation number and pin number of which when I type it in it just repeats the same thing over and over and does not put me through to anyone to speak too. When I send an email, I have no joy with that either I need to change dates for my booking as the dates are wrong and I can't even do that on the site or through the app I need customer service to help of which they are non-existent. I am now needing to spend an extra £80 to book directly with the hotel of which I will lose my £80 from my previous booking as there is no refund options. I am absolutely disgusted and cannot believe the level of service from such a large organisation.

Claimed loss: £80

Desired outcome: I would like some type of feedback and a refund purely on the basis that I couldn't even make the changes I needed to make due to their lack of customer service options.

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Booking.com Not being able to speak to anyone at booking.com

I have been trying to contact booking.com and it is just impossible.

I have been trying to make a booking for Accommodation in Izmir Turkey - Facinating Sea Views & it allows me to fill in details & then when I get to filling in bank details it wont give me any selection for my card - visa & then I can go no further with my booking. So I dont have a confirmation no yet so cant phone on booking.coms no. & they say the email is no longer in use.

How do I get to speak to someone about this problem. Please help as I would like to book this accommodation.

Thanking you

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Booking.com Flights

We booked flights from Perth (AUS) to Kuala Lumper, with Air Asia through Booking.com. When we arrived at the airport for our scheduled flight we found that the flight did not exist! We had to book alternative flights with another airline to make our connecting flight. Booking.com have refused to refund our money saying that we need to make a request to Air Asia, we did this but Air Asia have said that as we purchased the tickets through Booking.com (a third party) we need to get the money back from them. We have send multiple requests to Booking.com complete with screenshots from Air Asia saying they cannot process a refund as we booked through a third party. Booking.com keep saying the same thing to us and will not refund us. This has been going on since the 16th December 2023.

Claimed loss: $1350 AUD

Desired outcome: Refund flight cost

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Booking.com Total filth this hotel should be condemned

110 east arbor rd Eden North Carolina. Econo Lodge. I booked through booking I am a member came here to visit family in the area. I have never stayed in such a round room in my life. It is totally disgusting. My bed spread on both beds have holes in them and the blankets I wouldn’t even let my dogs lay on EVER! The holes are huge pictures enclosed dingy towels filthy shower the hotel cares less. I made the issue to staff they don’t care. I paid in cash no refund too bad. Booking shouldn’t honor this fleabag which is exactly what it is not charge 118.00 a night loree graley customer 2/9-11/[protected]

Desired outcome: Refund

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Booking.com A booking that I had

I had made a reservation at the YOTEL in Argyll Street in Glasgow for Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd February. I did not take the cancellation fee as there was ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that we were not going to be requiring the accommodation. Unfortunately as the occupants for this accommodation were travelling from one of the Scottish Island the airplane did not make the journey so therefore they were unable to come to the mainland . I did send a message on that afternoon about this but I did not receive a reply...

I am aware that I did not take the cancellation fee but I do feel that under the circumstances that there could have been some "goodwill".

I would be very reticent to go through booking .com again [which I have used a lot over the years] due to this disappointing incident.

The booking number was [protected] at a cost of £206.55.

I would be very much appreciate a reply.

Best Regards. Mrs Walsh

Desired outcome: A reply would be appreciated

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My name is Bhavika Katariya and I am a student in JLU Giessen, Germany. I have booked a Vistara air ticket from Frankfurt to Mumbai round trip 40-[protected] (14 Dec 2023- 03 Jan 2024) via booking.com. Airline cancelled my ticket on 10th Dec because of their technical issue and a refund was processed to the booking.com team on 12th Dec 2023. Travel agency ha...

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Customer reference number, 40-[protected]. Good Morning, This is Adam Everitt. I have been a long-time faithful customer with Booking.com. I had to cancel my Flight from Honolulu to Manila on 03 September 2023 Customer reference number, 40-[protected]. I worked with Philippine airlines to get the refund and eventually they agreed because of the nature of...

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Booking.com Customer services

Contacted customer services to say we had been charged for a pet we don't have and would they refund. Told we had to send proof of payment which is not due for 4 days. Really unhelpful, very difficult to understand and felt like they really didn't care or try and help.

I would expect better from a companies customer services and an completely unhappy with having to provide invoices when its booking.com job and surely they already have that, absolutely ridiculous.

Claimed loss: £30.00 refund

Desired outcome: Refund £30.00 and improve customer services

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Booking.com Bad customer service...they just dont care

I had such a horrible experience with booking.com this past vacation that I would def not be booking with them ever again!

We drove 16 hours to our destination with 3 kids just to get there and find out that booking OVERBOOKED us.

I tried calling and they said I should start the process of relocating. So I did. This was around 8:30 pm….at MIDNIGHT I had nothing! No one would do anything, all the representatives from out of USA, WOULD DO NOTHING! Jjust tell me to wait for the email with a list of properties for me to choose from. Its been 7 days I did not get that email!

By midnight I was driving around looking for hotels ON MY OWN because of a booking.com mistake! I finally found one but it ended up costing double what I had pay to booking.com

This ruined out first day, our kids were miserable after a long day driving, our budget the trip was ruined and booking.com DON’T EVEN CARE! They will never see my money again…..

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Really disappointing experience that requires a senior bookings.Com to take charge of liwith a confirmed booking ~ checked at the time of the following event with booking.Com ~ the manager spoke to booking.Com and told her that they [hyatt] had cancelled the reservation - unilaterally. Before that, the manager, charlie rubalcava treated the situation a...

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Dear Sir/Madam: We are partners with a rental property under the name Serenity by the Sea, ID No.: 9425780, located on the Island of Bonaire at the Sand dollar Condos. As such, we have been trying for months now to inform your company that the individual who opened the account, and who is NOT the legal owner of the property, and who has been collecting...

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I have tried to register to booking.com as a property owner. I saw the mock ad at first but I was not done fixing my advertisement. Then on another date, when I tried to log in again to complete the creation of my profile, I could not log in. The username and passwords were not working. I tried several times to contact them but they only have the automated...

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I never received any information from Booking.com or Royalton Splash Riviera Cancun about their 14-day cancellation policy. If I had received correspondence about their 14-day cancellation policy from Booking.com or from Royalton Splash Riviera Cancun, I would have cancelled before the deadline; or in my case, I would have requested that the trip be...

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While booking for an attraction from Booking.com app on an iPad, the page refreshed back to the cart without giving a confirmation that the booking was done. This made me do the booking twice and both the times I did not get the confirmation page from the app. However, the next day I realised that my money was deducted twice from my account and two ticket...

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Booking.com Confirmation received but no booking by the property

I made a booking as early as April 23 on the Booking.com platform and was dully sent the confirmation thereof, after enquiring with the property I was informed that the property could not confirm the booking as it seemed that their (booking.com) platform was used fraudulently to list an existing property, therefore the real property had no record.

My real frustration is that booking.com is stringing me along making all kinds of promises (it’s being investigated, I will accomdated etc)

It’s now 3 Dec and no response from them.

[protected] Booking number

Pathetic service in resolving problems.

Claimed loss: I need my booking

Desired outcome: Accommodation to be honoured , booking.com to take responsibility and admit that there’s a problem , instead of avoiding

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