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Booking.com Mis sold an apartment

I booked an apartment named Hyde Residences in Pattaya, Thailand through Booking dot com

The advert said wifi is free of charge yet upon arrival we was advised it was basic wifi only and we had to pay additional fees of around 400 baht per week to upgrade.

After checking the apartment policies these additional fees were not mentioned anywhere.

We decided that we felt we could not trust this apartment and so we found somewhere else and left.

They refused for some time to give us our deposit back (we did eventually get that back) however to date we still lost £281 for the two week stay which we didn’t proceed with.

We have exhausted with booking com as we either get generic messages or they say the terms and conditions mean we don’t get our money back.

Technically the terms and conditions I feel have been breached as we were mis sold a property.

I don’t think I’ll be using them ever again not that they care.

Claimed loss: £281

Desired outcome: I want them to get the money back from the host or take the hit financially.

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Update by Katy Andrews
Dec 02, 2023 12:35 am EST

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Booking.com Paiement supplémentaire pour la location de voiture

J'ai réservé une voiture (C4 grand picasso) via Booking.com à LIsbonne.

J'ai payé pour cela 245.93 € 197.28 de location + 48.65 d'assurance complémentaire) à Booking. Lorsque nous avons pris la voiture à la coompagnie OK Mobility à Lisbonne, il m'a fallu payer 451.95 € (ok premium cover, fuel charge, etc). Je pensais avoir payé la location.

D'autre part nous avons eu une Dacia Logdy à la place d'une C4 Gran Picasso Citroen et enfin la caution de 200 € a été débitée.

Desired outcome: Remboursement de la caution et de la somme payée à OK Mobility

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Greetings, My name is Debra Engel and I live in Victoria Australia. My phone number is [protected] My booking was a nightmare and Booking.com agreed to refund me the full amount of 384.80 Euros. (Refer email from them below) I have had numerous emails, they even gave mean ARN number for my bank. ARN 15425953249002862360155. My credit card number end...

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Booking.com Customer service

They have stopped responding to my messages about a booking which had incorrect information, but which was only available after making a non-refundable payment.

Cascina cattabreghetta claims to have a shuttle service from milan airport - but that costs more than the room! Night of 5 to 6 dec 2023 booked sept 2023.

I have messaged customer service multiple times, who tell me to contact the property, which I did via booking.com, and have not received a reply.

And customer service reply to each of my messages in the app saying someone will reply within 24 hours - which has not happened since sept 30!

Claimed loss: Euros 83.16

Desired outcome: At the very least this fraudulent accommodation should be removed from the platform - and ideally my payment should be refunded to me by Booking.com if they are now unable to contact the property themselves, as they claim.

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Booking.com flight cancellation request

I am student from University of Westminster and I had booked the round trip flight from London(AI162) to India

(AI887) on 29th Nov and 5th Dec 2023 respectively. The purpose of coming was to appear for an exam however it got reschedule and in this situation I had to cancel my tickets. My Airline reference no is RRH5R9 and I was cancelling the ticket within 24 hours of booking the ticket, still 15000 INR was getting deducted. As per policy if the tickets are cancelled before 24 hours of booking full amount will be given and I am very disappointed with the customer handling service.

Claimed loss: 15000

Desired outcome: I would appreciate if they refund the full amount of my ticket which was 59000

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On Sep. 16th, I initially made a reservation on booking.com with confirmation number [protected], and pin code 0147, I cancelled this reservation immediately after I realized that the room was only accommodating 4 people which did not fit our requirement. Few days later I noticed my account was charged for $1356.63 and then refunded for $1284.74, for a...

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Booking.com Rental car

My family arrived at a rental location I booked on booking.com (routes car rental) when we arrived at the counter was greeted by the rudest agent in the world. She stated that they don't rent to local residents in which was not disclosed in my contract that has been confirmed. This ruined my family mini vacation in which we had to cancel. There is no one to contact they also charged my credit card for insurance services that I did not receive. This should be illegal. This is a form of discrimination.

Claimed loss: $48.00

Desired outcome: This company needs to disclose all information . ROUTES CAR RENTAL SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN. Compensation is requested.

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Booking.com Booking hotels

We booked a hotel stay in Santorini, Greece back in September 9, 2023, and we thought we booked with free cancellation before Sept 27, two weeks before check-in. Two days later we cancelled the reservation, but we found out that the confirmation was non refundable. We lost over US $1334. We contacted Booking.com customer service and it was not help at all. We think the website was cliched or not reliable and what the result from their website.

We attached the screenshot file that was similar when we booked the rooms.

Now we don't recommend anyone to book any travels through Booking.com and you can check other website like, Expedia, Kayak or direct from the hotels since the price at Booking.com was not cheaper than other sites mentioned. Other website might be easier to deal with customer service.

Claimed loss: US $1334

Desired outcome: Get a refund on Confirmation number: [protected]

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3 Experiences with booking.com Nov 22. I rented an apartment in Valencia with pictures of a terrace. We arrived and there was no terrace. The landlord said it was a different apartment yet the pictures were on my booking. Oct 23. I went to Cypress having picked an aparthotel with a pool. The hotel was basically closed for renovations, I could have still...

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Booking.com scam from booking.com

host beware. don't use booking. They straight up lie and don't care. they tell you to setup direct deposit then there is no direct deposit. you have to accept cash at booking which it doesn't tell you that on the site. who can be at your house every check in. like everywhere now.

government that condones bad behavior. criminals know this rent your house destroy it then leave. thanks book.com The people at booking.com no clue total different stories but all agreed that this is scam. they didn't agree because the website should be shut down until fixed. The call desk didn't even try to fix they just agree its a scam. first time for everything.

Claimed loss: 26000

Desired outcome: 2600plus a days work. nine hours trying to find numbers and figure this out.

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My wife and I booked a self-catering cottage in Somerset via Booking.com Upon our arrival on 5th August 2923, the place was filthy, smelt musty, and no cleaning had been done. Dirty sheets were still on the bed, old food was in the fridge, etc. It was not fit for purpose, and we could not stay there. We had travelled for 7 hours and were tired and...

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Booking.com Accommodation

Hello, I booked at this apartment on booking.com for 30 September 2023 upon arrival the place had no electricity and the pictures of the place where totally different place was smelling everything was very dirty could not sleep phoned host no answer and phoned bookin.com they took complaint upto now when I phone them for my refund they tell me host has not come back to them I want my refund as we ended up looking for another place to sleep which was now very expensive. I have realised everyone who has booked there has never slept in that place the advertised property is not the one physical and the property is disgusting I feel booking.com is letting this host get away with fraud/scam as they still let people book under that host have a look at the reviews

Booking Ref: [protected] pin 5136 guest Shamiso Muwande mobile [protected]

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Desired outcome: I want my money back for the property I booked and never slept in it.

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I booked a taxi on booking.com's website, in August. I have been trying for nearly 3 months to have payment taken from the bank card and have my Wallet reinstated. The cost of the taxi was: £411.28 – the full amount should have been taken from my bank card, but booking.com took £410 from my Wallet and the remaining balance of £1.28 from the bank card...

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We scheduled a car to pick us up at our hotel in Tokyo and take us to the cruise ship terminal. When I selected a location for the car to take us to, your website would not accept the addresses I had for the cruise ship terminal which was in Yokohama so I ended up choosing the international cruise ship terminal which it turns out is not the one in Yokohama...

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Booking.com Refund for buggage overdue

For my return to London from NY I received an email from Booking.Com

Booking.com sent me an email last minute stating they were unable to process payment directly to the airline for my luggage which meant I had to pay additional buggage fee to the airline in turn booking.com would refund me. It’s been over 2 months and I haven’t received my refund. I’ve called booking.com several times, raised a dispute form on the company website and still nothing resolved nor have I received any status on the dispute resolution form I completed.

Desired outcome: Refund from booking.com

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DATE: Sunday 28 May 2023 FLIGHT: 11.35am Fj920 I arrived at early attempt to check my suitcases in but informed I have to book return flight from Apia SAMOA. I inform clerk importance due to attending my Mother Funeral. I'm informed I need to book return flight first, while attempting to book return flight, I discover I have missed my flight. I'm...

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Hello, I've booked a 5 nights stay (28 Oct. to 2 Nov. 2023) at The Park Hotel (64, Belgrave Road, Westminster Borough, London, SW1V 2BP, United Kingdom), confirmation #[protected], via Booking.com, for the total value of 920€. The purpose of my trip was to visit a friend who lives in London. One day before the intended travel, I was informed that my...

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Dear Sir / Madam, I am writing to you to raise an issue about: Online travel agent The issue that I have experienced was: Dear Sir/Madam I done this villa booking in morocco they provided me with the contact details to get in touch to arrange for key collection this user is registered as English speaking before 3 days of arrival I contact the site for...

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K5H19JG: easyJet flight EZY2264 was cancelled on the 3rd of July 2023 and the booking was made through booking.com, i spoke to booking.com about the cancellation which was made by easyJet and booking.com had not been made aware by easyJet that it had been cancelled, well that's what booking.com told me on the phone. i was advised i would receive a refund...

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I booked to them and received official email from them that they need to verify my bank details. Take note that its official email from them with all my records. Then I received message from my bank that I got a deduction amounting x10 of the value. I immediately called my bank to block my card and cancel the transaction and immediately called the hotel and...

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