Agoda
reviews and complaints

We booked into golden shores motels in gold coast on 12 - 14/12. We were given a room with white noise of more than 70deci. Mind u a normal decibel of an air con shld b 20 to 30 max. Can u imagine we r expected to sleep in the motel for 2 nights with such sound. We didn't stay but to move to other motel as there was no more rooms. We seek agoda to help us to refund the motels we booked through them but they ding dong us to n fro w motel boss - harry. Of course the boss denied as he was not there n uncontactable n his admin said she was just an employee n cannot do anything. We only ask for basic - air con ok, bed ok n toilet clean. That's all. (in fact we stayed in some motels booked thru agoda, there r bed bugs n air con broke dw at night but we managed to settle w the motel boss in cairns to refund. We didnt trouble agoda but do u know how much we had to go thru after 11pm leaving behind our 2 stranded kids in a warm n stuffy room. Trying to check in 7 to 8 motels but no motels to check in as after 4 pm they r all closed. We got to pay more n settle in hotel). What I m trying to say. We r not un reasonable.in the case in golden shores motel. We r bullied n needed help ifnot we will not trouble agoda! That's why every year booking, we book agoda. This is a disappointment. If this case is not treated fairly. I will stop using agoda n inform n spread to others all the inconvenience we had to go thru n we rather book ourselves n pay more n we hold the $ n not to b bullied by foreigners.

I booked a room using Agoda. But that was the worst booking experience ever. When I arrived, they told that there was no reservation made by me. They could not find my name and confirmation number. I immediately called Agoda service and asked about my reservation. The woman on the phone was extremely rude and she put me on hold for 45 minutes. I thought she will call the hotel, but she didn't. I was there and no one called. I told the hotel manager that I already paid for my room. Well, the manager was kind, but he could not do anything. He said that there was no confirmation about that from Agoda. I called them again and gave the phone to the hotel manager. He spoke with them for almost a hour and I finally got my reservation. I was saved thanks to that nice manager. But there was absolutely no help from Agoda.

I have planned a Trip to Thailand Phuket in janaury 2016, as i have heard from friends and family Agoda.com is the best way to make a booking, had i known what I know today, I would never have made my booking though this company. I made a reservation at the bangkok Residence Hotel through Agoda.com - booking ID [protected]. I am not satisfied with this hotel and as a customer I request a full refund as agodas website states. Agoda does not want to give me a refund as they state the hotel policy is no refunds or cancellations. I have also made a better booking though Agoda.com for a better hotel which is also more expensive. If Agoda fails to meet my requirements I will be taking this further with my legal teams as this is thousands of rands we are talking about at the end of the day!

Hi, We booked a hotel on Agoda and when we arrive on the island we discovered that there was no way to reach the hotel other than by private taxi boat for a rate that represented twice the price of our night at the hotel. When checking agoda's website, we found out that there was indeed no indication that the guesthouse was not reachable by any other means. When asking agoda for a refund (knowing that we did not stay there in the end because it was too pricy), they simply refused and offered 10% on a next booking. It is uncacceptable, as consumers we have been minformed.

Agoda's alleged discounts seem allegedly and apparently to be false and to result in customers paying more than the hotel's own published rates. Specifically, I recently booked (number [protected]) a hotel in Olongapo, Philippines, through Agoda. Its website listed the hotel's normal room rate of USA$73.56 for deluxe and $110.35 for Suite; its rates (supposedly guaranteed to be the lowest!) were $27.55 and $44.33. However, the hotel's rates--listed right at the front desk--for those rooms were only 1, 200 pesos and 1, 800 pesos (which at the exchange rate of 46.0 were $26.98 and 39.13 !). This seems to be blatant false advertising. I caution all persons who seek to use Agoda to check first with the hotel itself for its own rates and then compare with the figures on the Agoda website Does Agoda simply make up the rates which a hotel supposedly charges? How can it get the rates so far wrong?! . If this is a widespread practice, then some governmental regulatory enforcement agencies should take corrective and punitive action against Agoda. I will be checking the past several reservations which I made through Agoda and the actual rates of the hotels. In the meantime, I have requested that Agoda refund to me the difference between its (lowest!) rate and the actual rate of the hotel.

Dear Customer Service, My girlfriend and I booked a room for 2 nights at Bich Duyen hotel in HCMC from October 23rd to 25th (booking id [protected]) In the middle of the first night, we had to leave our room urgently as we found out there were bed bugs in our room and my girlfriend had been bitten on her arms, back and legs (see attached pic). Left with no other choice, we were proposed to stay in another hotel room but this incident totally spoiled our weekend. Today, we would like to be reimbursed for the 2 nights that we had paid for. Thank you for your understanding and looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards Gauthier

Dear Customer Service, I booked a room at Bich Duyen hotel in Ho Chi Minh city for 2 nights (my booking id is [protected]). My girlfriend and I had to leave the hotel urgently during the middle of the first night (October 23rd) as we found out that the bed was infected with bedbugs and my girlfriend had been bitten on her arms, back and legs (see attached picture). Our weekend was spoiled after this incident. We are asking to be reimbursed for the 2 nights we were supposed to spend there. Thank you for your understanding and looking forward to hearing from you Kind regards Gauthier

My 18 year old daughter, a student, booked through AGODA for herself and a friend to stay at Monument Apartments in London for one night at a cost of £120.00 (a great deal of money for them to find). She completed the booking form on line completing the boxes requesting adult or children information, they both being over 18 she completed the adult box. She subsequently received confirmation from Agoda and the Apartment owners for the booking. She forwarded photocopy details of her credit card and proof of identity as requested by the Apartment owners in order to receive access information as the Apartments was an automatic access system. It was only when she 'phoned to confirm her credit card details that she was told the Apartment company did not accept bookings from under 25's. She immediately cancelled the booking with AGODA and only after she had done so did it indicate they would not refund her money. Subsequently she has been informed by AGODA they have also taken a cancellation fee form her account. AGODA accepted her booking and she completed the information requested on the on line booking form and it is AGODA who are in breach of their contract as the booking was taken and confirmed and she had completed the booking fomr as requested i.e. Adult or child and it is unreasonable to expect her to second guess that in this case Adult means over 25yrs old. Although she did cancel the booking it was efectively AGODA who had misrepresented the booking conditions in the first place and who were at fault in accepting her booking and she is entitled to a full refund. Booking ID [protected] Name Naomi Keeble Member ID [protected] Hotel - Monument One Apartments London Date of Stay - October 17 to 18th 2015. (one night)

I booked with Agoda.com and after I submitted my card I found out that I have placed the wrong one and I sent them email to tell them that I have an issue with my card and they sent me a new link ... I tried to submit the new card number few hours later but I was shocked that my booking has been cancelled ... I was too disappointed and sent them an email to see what went wrong they just answered me that my booking has been cancelled and I have to rebook again and they can't place my booking because they can't call the hotel as it is not confirmed, , , and I checked their website and there were rooms but the rate went higher I sent them another email telling them that you didn't indicate any deadline and I even called them but I didn't get any reply back ... TOTALLY DISAPPOINTING AND WILL NEVER EVER BOOK WITH THEM AGAIN AND I DONT RECOMMEND ANYONE TO DO SO... Bad service and they even charged my old card with small amount of money to assure the booking

I have booked a reservation at Agoda since July 15, 2015 but I did not receive any confirmation email or they did not contact me even I have been repeatedly told them that I need the confirmation. I proceeded to Surfer's Home in Boracay Sept. 15-18, 2015. My Union bank visa was charged for P 2, 700.00 since Sept. 1, 2015. I'm praying that the authorities would look into this matter. Thank you. Please contact me for updates at +[protected] and or +[protected] and email michelle.[protected]@yahoo.com.

I have booked hill n you (mount abu) from agoda with booking id no - [protected], we went there 4th sept, I reconfirmed it twice with hotel if there is any issue because I was going there on vacation with my 4 month old baby for first time so I wanted to make sure there ain't any problem and when I reached there they said we have a problem with your reservation agoda.com so we wont give you any room.
I had a shock of my life when they told me because I went there on big festivals so I didnt get any rooms.
When I request them and started to talk at the reception we were threatened like we did some robbery at their hotel. The attitude of manager is very rude. I was treated and shouted by him like im some criminal.

He made us wait for an hour. They didnot even have courtesy to ask atleast ladies to sit or offer a glass of water and they dont care if I am with 4 month old baby or not

So im not happy at all with your service of agoda it gives me pain.

I want 50% money back to ease our pain because the hotel you hve changedand given us afer 1 hour fighting not worth 3000 / - rs per day
I have face terrible experience and your executives dint call us and warn and made us wait 1 hour in hotel hillnyou so im also angry and disappointed with agoda.com

On the 21st 07 / 2014 you took out $117. 41 and that is not right because on the 29 / 12 / 2015 you took out @354. 41 for staying at the heathrow hotel bath road middlisex for the 18th 19th and 20th of july 2015 i would appreciate it if you rectify this. Trusting i will have your co - operation.

Mrs jean sanders 31 curtin way greenfields wa.

hi sir/madam,
i may need some help from customer service.
i have booked the vivatel on 30 of july through agoda.com.
but that is some error on system on it, the error was the date of booking.
i did the cancellation after that quickly.
i received the cancellation from agoda customer service too.
but my payment from bank still shows two transaction on it.
what can i do now?
can you kindly please give me some information.
thank you so much.

As you'll see from the other complaints about this company, Agoda is a dishonest and disreputable hotel booking company. I reserved a hotel for a long layover at the Bangkok airport. Because of my arrival time, I had to reserve for two nights even though I was only staying for one night. Agoda would not give me the hotel's telephone number, nor did it respond when I asked that if the hotel would send a shuttle to the airport. When I arrived in Bangkok after a long flight, nobody there was able to find the hotel's telephone number for me. I ran all over the airport, in summer heat, trying to locate a place where taxis or shuttles might be located. Even then, it was impossible to contact the hotel (which is very near to the airport) because a telephone number couldn't be found. In point of fact, as the hotel manager explained to me, Agoda will not give out the hotel's telephone number because it fears that the customer might try to deal directly with the hotel. Agoda might lose its commission! The company's greedy, selfish policy resulted in an extremely difficult, stressful situation for this traveler. Of course, the staff would not admit any wrongdoing and even claimed they had given me the telephone number for the hotel. What can you do when a company is dishonest? There's no recourse for the unlucky traveler who has been cheated.

I made a complaint in June with regards to a booking I made via Agoda.com for a hotel in Mumbai called Sea Palace Hotel. It was about the fact that agoda site showed that i was booking a room at a discount of 30% at this hotel in Mumbai for 2 persons. When I went there they said my booking was for a single room and gave us a single room but got us to pay an extra Rs 1200 a night for double occupancy. They refused to release our baggage if we did not pay up. When I initially complained to Agoda I did not get a response. However after I posted the complaint on this site, Agoda contacted me and offered to refund the extra money I paid. They did refund the amount to my credit card within a week. I thank Agoda for being a socially responsible business.

I attempted to do a booking using Agoda website. They advertised a rate for a hotel that i was interested in. However they have failed to honour the booking and the rate. Fortunately there are many other booking sites to use such as booking.com, hotels.com, otel.com hotelscombined.com. So i will never be using Agoda ever again.

Made a booking on www.agoda.com for the "the villa Langkawi" and payed by creditcard.

After 5minutes i recieved a conformation an headed to Langkawi by bus with my girlfriend and 2 backbacks.

10 minutes later, for no reason my booking was cancelled, Agoda appologized but still gives me no reason. Really crappy customer service and not friendly AT ALL!

And now... NO HOTEL, NO REASON WHY... AND NO REFUND OF MY MONEY THAT AGODA.COM TOOK OF MY CREDIT CARD. Really unrelieable company. For my from now on only Expedia.com

I made a booking with goda for a hotel stay in 15th to 19th november 2015 but I need to change the date of my stay to 12th november to 15th november 2015, as I have to fly home early, a very important date has come up to go into hospital for a knee replacement has come up iv had to change my return flite date, I have been emailing and telephoning agoda since may 2015 to change my date for my stay but nobody has emailed me or even returned my telephone calls iv been contacting them by fone 3-4 times a week and constantly emailing them !
Mand the date I need to change my booking to is, , , 12th-15th november 2015 please can you help me change the dates please my agoda booking code is, , [protected]

Agoda offers special "insider deals" that are very competitive. The trouble with ooking with Agoda, you need to take a screen shot of the special offers as proof as Agoda tends to leave out the inclusions on the confirmation sheet and without the proof, Agoda will not honour the special offer that one thought one had purchased. My example was for a free room upgrade, but as I hadnt taken a screen shot of the deal before I made the booking, and it was an insider deal only available for a short time, when I went back to check, the deal had gone. Thus no proof, no free upgrade! Beware and be pre-warned! Book with a more reputable company. I have yet to have this holiday so have sent a enquiry to the hotel itself to make sure the booking has been made.

I have found Agoda practicing a very subtle form of misleading advertising. When you go to their website they advertise rooms on the basis of standard and deluxe rooms and in the column for max occupancy it shows two heads (see screen shot attached). But once you click the bookings the voucher comes out for single occupancy. It is in the finer print and you may not notice it until you arrive in the hotel and they point out that you have booked a standard room for single occupancy. The hotel will demand you pay more for double occupancy. This happened to me recently with Sea Palace Hotel in Mumbai. When I investigated it more I found out that the price I paid for supposedly a double occupancy room is not a discount at all. They showed that the real price is about Rs 10, 000 and get over a 50% discount by paying Rs 3900. But when I arrived there I found that the counter price charged on their rate card for this room is Rs 4000! So no discount at all. In fact they demanded that I pay Rs 1200 extra for double occupancy but provided the same room that was originally allocated to me which was run down and dirty. Also the page for the hotel showed at the top a nice picture of a sea view rooftop restaurant giving you the impression that you will be having your breakfast and the meals up there. But this is not the case. The real restaurant of the hotel is in the ground floor with no views at all. The rooftop restaurant is with different management and it is open only in the evenings when it is crowded with young Mumbai couples on a date. The building is real run down old building (see picture) but the picture used in the webpage gives a completely different impression of the building. Agoda needs to have a hard look at its business ethics and also those of the hotels they partner to promote.