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I cancelled my accommodation a YEAR before the event as my travel plans changed. On the original cancelled booking date I received an email to say I was a no show and then immediately after I checked my credit card and the accommodation had removed cancellation fees and NOK to AUD conversion fees were also deducted. I called booking.com and complained. The guy BLAMED me for the incident and expected me to call the property in Oslo myself. Are you serious? I told him in no uncertain terms that it was booking.com's fault that this occurred. FINALLY, the guy came back and paid lip service and pretended that he was going to help me and that Booking.com would do everything to get the money returned by the accommodation provider. They have done NOTHING at all in weeks and have not even bothered to contact me again despite several attempts. Booking. com is a SCAM. They stole money off me and they will do the same to you.

I made a booking with Booking.com on 11/02/2019 where I was advised a cost of my booking for a BCN apartment in GBP. (£1150)
I was advised I qualified for their Price Match, which the agent could see on Expedia for cheaper & confirmed they would deal with Price Match separate to my booking. (£1015)

It later transpired that,
1) I should not have been quoted in GBP as my booking was for EUR
2) They couldn't Price Match my booking with Expedia because my screenshots from my mobile App didn's show all the T&Cs of Expedia's price (shock, it was on a mobile app) & I wasn't advised to get the T&Cs because the agent had already verified I qualified
3) The price of my Booking in GBP was inaccurate and much more.

I complained to Booking.com several times where no agent would deal with my complaint, nor allow me to speak to a manager.
I emailed my complaint and it was brushed under the carpet, saying they couldn't listen to the call recordings of any of my calls.

I raised the complaint with European Commissions (which they suggest on their own website). Again, Booking.com responded saying they couldn't listen to the calls but would offer me 50EUR refund. I refused to accept the refund.

I then raised the complaint with Resolver, which escalated to Gillian Tans - but to this date (more than 28 days) I have not received a response.

All I'm requesting is my booking to be the price I was advised on my first initial phone call from my booking which qualified for the Price Match.

Booking Reference [protected]

terrible customer service and faulty hotel, but I'm the one who have to pay - I booked hotel in xishuagbanna couple of months ago, intended to locked down lower price before the festival take place this weekend. i received the confirmation from booking.com right immediately. I contacted booking.com customer service Apr 5, was told that they contacted the hotel bla bla bla and provided us the info. Then I contacted the hotel directly but was told they couldn't find my booking. I escalated to the customer service multiples time within that few days and only today Apr 8, A guy calling my phone saying that the hotel has done some mistake during reservation and they can't give me the same rate. In fact, they ask me to pay the additional fee within 48hrs? else I don't know what will happen, should I pay the cancellation fee or no show or whatever. this is very terrible experience. Don't know what's the customer right. The guy told me you are from Dutch. wonder this is the approach in Dutch?

I was booked in the marigold hotel226 queen street east brampton. The hotel was filthy with prostitute fighting at night
I was unable to sleep so third day morning decided to leave and then booked at the diana-s place 41 lorraine cres, brampton, l6s 2r6, canada you confirmed the booking and took payment - when I got to the accommodation they denied it being confirmed. So I had to start looking for another accommodation which I did and cost me cad200. More.

Make sure I am not charged for it and I want refund in price difference I had to bear and compensation for the first hotel.

How can you advertise such properties.
Both booking were through you. I have been using booking.com for nearly 10 years.

As requested by booking.com, after we checked out, we completed and returned our review of our stay.
It never appeared on their site.
I can only conclude they show mostly-positive reviews only.
This may be good for them and the property.
It is dishonest for the consumer.
I deleted their app and unless I am provided with a convincing explanation I will not use or recommend their service again.

Dear all,

We would like to express our real disappointment concerning an hotel (supposed to be 4 stars and rated 8.5) booked via booking.com, which should be maximum 2 stars and not that highly rated.

Here is a list of the points we would like to bring to your attention:
- No lift and a lot of stairs - definitely not great with big luggages and no air conditioning
- Air conditioning in the bedroom not working
- Television not working
- Some lights and plugs not working
- Safe not attached and not opened - hence not working
- Bad smell in the bedroom
- Toilet not well attached in the bathroom
- Cleaning lady did not come after the 1st night
- Broken windows

We understand this is an old building - however it really needs to be maintained/refreshed and cleaned to provide good experience to customers, considering that is on top an expensive place.

One of the persons traveling had to avoid stairs and after asking the hotel manager, we got a bedroom at the first floor for which we had to pay an extra 150 USD for 3 nights. Having to pay a total of USD 300 a night for such a place and service is really disappointing and frustrating.

We trust that you will act accordingly so that other tourists do not have this kind of experience with that ‘hotel' in the future.

We are also wondering if booking.com protects us as clients, since at the moment of the arrival, our only option was to stay, considering that the booking was not refundable and the hotel manager told us that we could contact you if we wanted, but the money could not be refunded under any circumstance.

Is there any possibility we could get a compensation for these 3 days of vacation which were not really pleasant due to these conditions?

Many thanks in advance for your feedback.

Best regards,
Yoliana Bayona and Gaëtan Lepinois

They declined my booking and did not refund my money. When I email them about it they just don't reply.

This is an extremely unethical company.

Be careful. I also had a situation where after searching for a certain date about 100 times, they suddenly started flashing very attractive deals in front of me for the same date but a different month with strict cancellation policies. They basically wanted me to erroneously book that date and then not allow me to cancel.

I made a reservation at Taj Super Deluxe for the 19th of March to the 21st of March 2019. Confirmation number: [protected] Mrs R Lambrechts.
Upon arrival I had to make the payment for the booking. When I made the payment, I asked the manager about the breakfast. He stated more than once that breakfast was not included in my booking. He even showed me a piece of paper that didn't show the breakfast. I was puzzled because I paid a lot of money which in my calculations included the breakfast. I didn't want to get in an argument and wanted to make sure that I didn't make a mistake. For that I had to get back to my luggage for the complete reservation form. (Payment was made in the dining room, far from the room, in another set of buildings) I kept a lookout for him when we were at the guesthouse, but never saw him again. I send a message to the manager on the day that we checked out, telling him that he made a mistake and wanted to clear it up before we left. He didn't respond and was nowhere in the guesthouse. He only responded an hour and a half later. By that time, we were already very far away from the guesthouse on our way to the airport. He has been sending messages with different reservation costs every time. We have also send an email to the guesthouse regarding the whole problem. It feels like he is not even listening to my complaint. What should I do now? I have been using Booking.com for many years and never encountered a problem like this. He charged service fee and 5% credit card fee on the full amount (room + breakfast). I want a refund on the breakfast as well as a correction in the service fee and credit card handling fee. Please help me.

Long story short, I booked 2 rooms at the same hotel through the booking.com website with both of them on the free cancellation options (Conf# [protected] / Pin# 7779).

However, this week i have had some life events which have precluded me from getting to the hotel without causing a lot of heartache for my family. When i went to cancel, i saw that there was an issue with the cancellation on the queen room in that it was non-refundable which is not the option that i chose. Being that this is generally a hotel policy, i contacted the hotel in which i was told that i would have to email the manager which i did. I did not hear anything back from the manager at all yesterday, but what i did get from the front desk rep last night was that she couldn't find a reservation for me in their system. This prompted me to call customer service.

The customer service peron on 3/19 was actually nice to speak to (even though it was hard to understand her) she explained that it was a hotel policy and that she would need to send an email to the hotel. I understood that part and took into consideration her advisement and waited until this morning.

I send another follow up email to the manger this morning and received a response from the manger that the policies for refundable rooms were set by booking.com and that the hotel abides by those policies. This was somewhat contrary to what i was informed which prompted me to call customer service again.

This time, I received the worst customer service of the year. I explained to the rep what i wanted which was to cancel the queen room but that i didn't want to cancel the king room if the queen room couldn't be cancelled, i would just put my family through trash to get there as $600 is not a small piece of change. The agent acknowledged and during the call she seemed irritated to even be speaking with me. She placed me on hold and called the hotel and came back saying that she would have to email the manager. I said Ok.

Then, before anything else could happen, she cancelled the king room without me saying ok to it. Furthermore, when i stated that wasn't what i wanted the representative copped even more attitude with me. I then asked for a supervisor to which she responded she didn't have one. I then told her that i wanted one and to go find one because at this point in time, not only am i stuck with this room that i might not be able to get out of, but i don't have a fall back plan if i can't get out of it. She placed me on hold for quite awhile. When she came back on the phone she TOLD me (not informed) that i would be working directly with her and not a supervisor and that now i had a king room and the queen room. When i said ok (I couldn't talk through it further) she told me to have a great day (with some attitude i might add) and disconnected the call.

Additionally to the below email that was sent yesterday. I got the issue resolved and had two rooms booked again at this hotel as i was not able to receive a free cancellation. Both rooms were on separate reservations. I had also received a $150 credit from the supervisor as a good will gesture. While I wasn't exactly pleased with the outcome, i wasn't unhappy, just more indifferent.

However when i checked my reservations this morning, all reservations through booking.com had been cancelled. I called the hotel first and they are not aware of any issues. Along with this, I received an email from Axel (a sr rep I am assuming) saying that due to my account status, no further information can be given and to read the terms and conditions. As this does not make much sense to me as a consumer, i called booking.com support who advised that they could not give me any information which makes me think that the reservations were cancelled by him. This is all even though the hotel has already charged my card for the queen rooms.

I am very concerned and confused right now to the point that i am about to have an emotional breakdown as this impacts my family.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to express my dissatisfaction with the failure of Booking.com and the website's system error that was resulted in significant amount of charge of my credit card, and would like to request for assistance with this matter.

The problem is that I tried to reserve a hotel room for 7 days through Booking.com. I checked three hotels that were Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus Hotel, Titanic city Taksim Hotel and Fuga Hotel for the check in date of February 9th and check out date of February 16th but each time that I tried for reservation after I put my credit card information in, the website showed me a red text on the top of the reservation page saying "the room is unavailable" and I could not book any of the above hotels and there was not any payment or booking confirmation sent to me or shown on the screen (we never clicked on any button to finalize our reservation and nothing showed up on the webpage that any reservations were made). Hence, I gave up on booking.com and decided to reserve a hotel by a travel agency and they booked Titanic Down Town hotel for me from 9th of February to 16th and I stayed there for the mentioned period of time.

Unfortunately, when I was checking my credit card account 5 days ago I found that Booking.com has charged me for all three Hotels for the significant amounts of EUR 684.95 on 29/01/2019, for TITANIC HOTELS/AYGUN IS and 356.68 TRY for Fuga Hotel on 09/02/2019 and 4990.81 TRY for Hilton International C Istanbul on 05/02/2019.
I have talked with three customer service experts of Booking.com about my problem but they have just told me to talk with the Hotels directly and I the Hotels obviously direct me back to Booking.com.

As this is Booking.com system error and mistake, Booking.com should take the responsibility to compensate for the cost.

Here are my booking ids that Booking.com's customer service experts sent me around 5 days ago:
Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus ([protected])
Titanic City Taksim ([protected])

Given this situation I would like to request Booking.com ‘s customer service team to take full responsibility of this failure and compensate my cost.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Arash Motaghi

I booked 2 reservations through booking.com and needed to confirm with the hotel (I had selected to pre-pay and the hotel hasn't charged my card yet - after 2 weeks). I didn't have my reservation # on me, so I wanted to look at my bookings online. The booking.com website won't let me sign in - it just gives me a blank screen. I tried FireFox, IE and Chrome. I tried private browsing with the same result. In the meantime, the hotel found one of my reservations, but can't find the other one and they can't help me without that reservation number. This system sucks. From now on, I'm just going to call the hotel directly. If I have to pay more, at least I'll have a confirmed reservation in hand.

I had made a booking in fab hotel silver in in noida from 18-2-19 to 21-2-19. I duly checked in hotel & checked out on 21st feb. While checking out I paid charges due to me & asked for bill. I was told that it will be sent by email.

When I inquired about my bill from hotel later on, I was told that bill will be given to booking.com site only as they had booked the hotel. Other sites such as makemytrip never had such issues.

When I logged in booking.com site, I was surprised to see that my hotel booking has been cancelled. I sent complaint to them for sending me my bill but no answer. I submitted complaint in their system but again no response.

When I called them, they said bill will be sent to me by hotel itself.

I do not know now how can I get my bill for claiming reimbursement. Is such a simple thing so difficult or them? If so then what is the purpose of such web site?

Dear sir or madam
I reserved through booking. Com one night included breakfast in leamington hotel under confirmation no. [protected] start 12 March 2019.
When I reached the hote I found it under renovation and the room was a miss.
In the Morning they didn't have a breakfast due to renovation of the kitchen.
They told us to complain to booking.com.
I request a full refund of my payment to my credit card. As I consider myself a regular client to booking.com, And I do all my reservations through them, due to my trust on this site.
Waiting for feedback.

Hello,

I just booked a room in Athens, Greece at the Hotel Phidias.
Out of the options available, I selected a double room with single bed for 2 people.
My stay was for 3 nights and the fee I saw on the site for this service was 172.50 euro.( as per attached)
While I was making the payment I ended up paying for 228 Euro out of the blue.
The option I selected was non-refundable and now, the site shows different fees.
I only got the chance to take a picture of the options as they immediately changed after this.

This is not acceptable out of a site that has so many clients daily and I will make sure that other people learn of this experience in order to avoid this operator.

Respectfully,
Madalina Dragan

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are dealing with Booking.com since very long. But now we regret our age old association with you.
Booking number:
[protected]

We are writing to follow up on our trail conversation about a problem we are having to live with no mistake of ours.
Subject hotel cancelled the room when we arrived at their hotel and assured of NO CHARGES as it was their take not to grant us room.
Very next day we have message from our bank informing ‘ PIERRE &VACANCES has charged our credit card with Euro 206/-
Up on calling their admin, she was sounding apological for the incident and promised to refund same amount as soon as possible as it was their mistake.
Not to forget that we never complained about being on the street for that night with 3 kids in a unknown city.

Why is this delay if you accept your mistake and are ready to transfer the fund while on phone and your trail mail notification's

We are totally dissatisfied with your service & demand our consumer rights to be justified here ASAP.

European Consumer Centre in Spain- Please advise us in this situation how to proceed if the concerned still delays the agreed amount to be refunded, Appreciate your prompt response.

Booking.com, we need your immediate action on this matter.

Do contact me to confirm that you will honor my request. I have prepared a complaint for submission to the proper agencies for investigation and also will lodge a formal complaint with Consumer Affairs in my region as well as EU complaint cell /Barcelona/Spain.

We will not file the complaint if you resolve the problem within next 48 hours.
We would like to have this problem fixed quickly .Thank you for your anticipated assistance in resolving our problem.

I look forward to your reply and a resolution to our problem.

Waiting to have your revert.

Dear Sir / Madam,
I am writing to you as just by chance I have found out this "Hotel" is still listed on booking.com.
I had the unfortunate experience of staying at the "Addison Lodge" last year. How this is still listed as an hotel on your website is beyond belief.
I was further shocked to see it is still operating as a "Hotel"
If there were to be a health and safety inspection I am certain it would be shut down immediatley.
There are too many faults with this so called "Hotel" to mention.
However from what I have learned recently, the authorities actually closed it down.So why is it still listed on your website?
My friend and I questioned amongst ourselves that this really needs to be investigated in order to save any other unfortunate souls the experience of staying
there!
Please take the time to read the actual reviews, as recent as this month, February 2019.

Regards

C K

Confirmation no..[protected] pin 8389 l have just arrived back from a two night stay at the Highfield hotel in Middlesbrough.it was horrendous, very dusty, Extremely dirty and very warm, l did not stop sneezing or get much sleep the two days l was there..l had an extremely bad headache from the heating, and have made myself a doctor's appointment for tomorrow, to get checked out as l feel really ill.

Also there was no lift and l have a disability... absolutely disgraceful!

I want a full refund, l will never use booking.com again..l have used your services for years too.

On 21/02/2019, I booked a hire car with booking.com under the knowledge that it would cost me £60 for a young drivers fee (even though i've been driving for 6 years) and that i'd need to give a £1, 500 deposit. I was unaware of the fact that i needed to have a credit card registered in my name to be able to collect the car. After finding out this information from having to read the terms and conditions document, i went to cancel the booking within 30 minutes of making it, finding that i was now expected to pay £40 to cancel it! These costs are ridiculous. I want to refuse to pay the £40 just for the fact that i dont have a credit card!
Won't be using Booking.com anytime soon and i definately don't recommend them for car hire.

My Name is Harrison Chiger my email is [protected]@gmail.com. I am currently residing in Rome Italy for the academic semester. Last week I was trying to book a hotel for the dates 3/4-3/6. I found a hotel and went through all the steps on the website to book it. I entered my credit card number and clicked submit. The Hotel was called hotel Belleveder in Rome. After I hit submit with all my information inputed the website crashed. I waited an hour for a confirmation email but never recieved one. I went back on the website to try and find it again but I couldnt and my reservation didnt show up in the app. So I found a different hotel, called Love Vatican. I put in all of my information again and hit submit and that one went through. I immediatley got a confirmation email the second time and it showed up in the app. The next day I got an emial from booking.com saying that I had two reservations on the same dates. I called the customer service number and they cancelled the first reservation but were not able to save me the cancellation fee. I do not feel I should be responseable for that fee, I didnt even know my reservation went though there was no confirmation and as a result I booked a second one. On top of that when I booked the first hotel (Belleveder) I selected not to be charged until I arrived and was still charged the next day. I would like to be reembirshed for the cost of that room, I should not have to pay because your webiste did not confirm my reservation. Please get back to me as soon as possible I would like this matter resolved. Horrible first expereince with Booking.com