false feedback on hotels
Booking.com violates everyday the right of answer concerning guests reviews on Hotels. This means that comments can be made to the hotel, no matter what they say, that they won't be removed and answering will not be possible. Also fraud is possible, because hotel owners can make reservations on similar hotels just to make bad reviews and improve their own competitive conditions. Booking.com doesn't care about the hotels that they sell, no matter how stupid and unfair comments are. Maybe hoteliers would do better business in investing in Adwords Google campaigns directly instead of giving a commission to Booking.com
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poor customer service
Beware of Booking.com
I booked a hotel in Malmö, Sweden (Mayfair Hotel Tunneln) using this service on Dec 12 and I thought everything went smooth. I cancelled the hotel reservation around two days after (around Dec. 14) (good couple of days before the actual stay- Dec 18) and I thought the cancellation went through as I saw "Your reservation has been cancelled" message on the screen.
Stupid me I didn't notice that there wasn't any mail coming through with the message. Either that or I got a mail and it went directly to my junk folder. I didn't think there was problem since I saw the message on the computer and thought that the cancellation went through.
Only that I found out on the last week of December that my credit card had been charged by the hotel.
I called Booking.com and they wanted to see the confirmation message and by then I realised that I had none. I asked them if they could see me logging in to the website on Dec 14 and see any activity related to it and they LIED saying that they couldn't see me logging on AT ALL after I made my booking Dec 12.
I logged in either Dec. 13 or Dec 14 to cancel it and I logged it again the day after to see if the cancellation was indeed through. My booking was already gone from the page so I thought it went through but Booking.com said they couldn't see me logging in (with the pincode at all).
I told Booking.com that there must be a system failure here that cause the cancellation didn't go through and the fact that I got no mail but they persisted saying that their system was TOP NOTCH.
I tried to contact the hotel manager but they also failed to provide good answer and referred me back to Booking.com as the hotel didn't get any cancellation message from Booking.com either.
I went browsing the net and found that there were others with same cancellation problems like mine and it pisses me off that they didn't even want to admit the possibility that there MIGHT be system failure on their side and that causes me losing my money (around 750 DKK)
In the end, Booking.com sent me a message in Swedish that they were SORRY that they couldn't refund me.
So that you know you better beware when you book a hotel room through their system and cancel it. Check and re-check. Don't even expect anything from them and their useless customer "service".
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
I am sorry to hear about the issues you have had.
I would like to investigate this further. Could you please post your booking number?
Alternatively you can send it to customer.web@booking.com (to my attention).
Thanks and kind regards,
Jasmine
Booking.com Team
Please accept my sincere apologies for any inconveniences faced.
I have found your booking in our system and I will ensure that our specialised team contacts you shortly.
Kind regards,
Sergejs
Booking.com Team
Thanks for bringing this to our attention! We're very sorry to hear of your experience & would like to assure you that customer service is a top priority. Should you have any questions or concerns, also regarding cancellation policy or your bookings, please let us know by filling in our contact form: http://www.booking.com/wecare.
Best regards,
Your Booking.com team
DO NOT USE BOOKING.COM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES...
THEY ARE ROBOTS AND NOT HUMAN"...
Darren Hutton is the name of the CEO of Booking.com
I will post his email address after this message...
PLEASE EMAIL HIM DIRECTLY WITH YOUR COMPLAINTS...
DONT GIVE UP! GET THE JUSTICE YOU DESERVE...
I emailed him and I got a response from a investigation team saying the exact same thing. I had been told about 100 times before...there is no record of you cancelling...so basically leave us alone
I made a booking through BOOKING.COM then I cancelled that one because I found a better hotel.
Then I cancelled again because I was having childcare issues that were resolved on the same day. So I rebooked the same hotel, I am not sure if when rebooking the same hotel I had already cancelled this somehow confused your booking system.
Because of personal problems I had to cancel again. I followed the instructions via the website but got a message saying I would get a confirmation email of the cancellation but nothing came through. So the next day I did the procedure again but still no email, so I did it a THIRD TIME. and even though I got no email I was sure with my doing it THREE TIMES it must have gone through. I thought nothing more of it and then a few days later I got an email asking if I stayed at the hotel or not, I followed the link and I selected the reason for having to cancel and gave my reason. I GOT A MESSAGE ON THE WEBSITE SAYING WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. WE WILL REVIEW THE SITUATION AND CONTACT YOU SOON.
GUESS WHAT I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING FROM ANYONE.
I then checked my bank statement and the hotel had taken money from my card. I immediately rang Booking.com and spent nearly TWO HOURS speaking to various Managers all of them saying THERE WOULD BE A RECORD IF YOU HAD CANCELLED THIS. (I NOW AM FULLY AWARE OF HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE THIS HAS HAPPENED TOO.
There must be a record of this glitch in the system somewhere. BOOKING.COM are obviously aware that there is a problem because one customer saying that they cancelled and it didn't go through they would not worry about but hundreds of customers...THEY NEED A REALITY CHECK!
Booking.com THERE IS A PROBLEM SOMEWHERE WITH YOUR SOFTWARE...IT IS NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE. SOMEBODY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND LISTEN TO SO MANY DISGRUNTLED CUSTOMERS AND TAKE SOME ACTION!
the more people that write about there experiences on here the more the company WILL HAVE TO ADMIT THERE IS A PROBLEM!
So please let us join together if you have had a problem with the IT software and cancellation issues...and lets contact WATCHDOG.
please email me on andreanobody44@gmail.com
As I am very interested if this has happened to you?..
We booked an apartment in Sligo, Ireland in September 2012 through booking.com and were due to go in a few weeks time (Feb 2013). Received confirmation email from the apartments and the money was taken from my credit card. Yesterday, booking.com emailed me to say the apartments had ceased trading and that we had been rebooked into a hotel. Not pleased as we booked an apartment for the freedom to come and go as we pleased with our 7 year old and not feel restricted as sometimes hotels can be. However we got over it and contacted booking.com to say we would accept the rebooking. Received another email today from booking.com to say sorry...made a mistake...you are not booked into the hotel...you can cancel for free (bloody cheek...cancel what - the apartments are no longer trading!) Basically the email said cancel and rebook. I phoned them up and they were useless. I asked if I could transfer my booking to another hotel but they said they could not take bookings by phone but that I could use their website. When I asked about my money, they told me I had to contact my bank to get the money back on my credit card. So, long story short, I was told to go sort out my own break (out of my pocket) and get the refund sorted myself too! When I asked what booking.com could do for me, I was told nothing. The apartments were paid directly so booking.com did not want to take any responsibility. Incompetent and uncaring doesn't even cover it. I will never book another hotel through this company again and will make sure to let friends and family know about my experience.
I am having exactly the same issue and being passed back and forth between the hotel I had to cancel and Booking.com. I cancelled the room and I was told I did not. Beware of Booking.com - I will NEVER use it again, nor will I use Bewleys Hotel at Manchester Airport.
I see that this complaint was lodged before the 3rd of January. Booking.com's customer service team responded at the end of June?
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to cancel hotel reservation
Les clients ont accéss à la réserve de chambre sur le site de l'hotel, que fait le link avec secure-hotel-booking.com. Pour l'annulation, le link de l'hotel ne remet pas à celui de secure-hotel-booking.com. Avec mon avis, l'hotel a pris bonne note de l´annulation avant les 48 heures de la réserve. Par contre, j'ai pas trouvé le bon link d'annulation de la réserve avec le délais nécessaire. L´Hotel disait que c'était avec le site de réservation et, pourtant, je n'avais jamais pris en autre chemain que celui du site de l'hotel à l'internet. Il devrait être obrigatoire d'avoir le link d'annulation sur le site de l'hotel, car le chemain pour la réservation est chez l'hotel.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
I have found your reservation and can see that my colleague has already cancelled it for you.
Please note for future reference that the quickest way to contact us is by phone.
We are available 24/7. For your local phone number, please check this link: http://bit.ly/QS7nEI
Thanks and kind regards,
Jasmine
Booking.com Team
I am very very dissapointed after my last booking on booking.com.
Are they really out to con people ? I don’t think/hope so.
I have used booking.com a LOT (also with other logins for my sons and daughters travels), this is the first time I am hit in my face.
2 days ago I came to Rikkeshoeve and he showed me his booking paper where
1 person was stated instead of the 2 I had booked.
He said : check your email and indeed ONLY in the email I saw you had send me a
1 person booking ? While I NEVER asked for 1 since I was planning all along,
clicked all along that my daughter was coming along !
At 15:30 he promised me to ”open the booking again on booking.com, so that if he got a new booking, he’d refund me” (I’ll be honest in that, were his exact words)
Only to tell me the next morning when I asked wheter he had succeeded ”no, sorry, I close all bookings at 14:00, since I have to know what to expect”
Numerous messages and phonecalls to booking.com didn't bring a solution (I just need 70€uro back) for i actually CAN read and DID book for 2
Just try to make the same booking :
search for 2 adults
choose the 2 man icon room
choose 1 room
etc etc
you'll see everything will be showing 2.
Than you have your booking nummer (so you do NOT read the email) and than...you're cheated BIGTIME
In August 2016 I've booked a room with Booking.com for one night in Barcelona. I gave the hotel my credit card no without my CVM. Arrived there, this is not a hotel, is a room in an apartment in a block of flats. The room is small, two persons hardly fit inside, the bathroom is glued to the bed, the walls are thin and the noise from the other 5 (I think there were 5 or 7) rooms of the apartment can be heard easily. The room is far far away from what they showed on their Booking page. I said to the housekeeper I cannot sleep in such condition and that I cancel my booking due to the non adequate accommodation conditions. I cancel the booking online. Booking.com sends me a message on my Android app saying the cancellation was done free of charge. I check my account and notice the hotel took 155 E from my account for this improper room where I did not sleep. I contact Booking and they blame the hotel. But the hotel did not have my card details. Only booking had them and my data are not registered and not available automatically. So, aside the fact Booking gave my card details to this ''apartment company'' without my agreement, they promote this hotel which is totally lying about what they offer and Booking is telling me they take no responsibility for the hotels advertising on their site.
Booking sustains the fraudulent policy of this ''hotel''.
Booking.com is aware of all this and does nothing. They told me they are only an interface of the hotel and they do not respond for what the hotel is advertising on their site. BUT THEY CHARGE THE COMMISSIONS SO THAT THEY ARE SERVICES PROVIDERS AND THEY SHOULD ANSWER FOR THEIR DEEDS. Booking.com is an accomplice to this fraud.
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I have booked two Bedroom apartment at Nojoum Hotel apartment in Dubai from 24 th February 2013 to 1st March 2013 but found out that is a non smoking hotel. So I booked two room apartment at The Galleria Residence Hyatt Regency Dubai.for the same period of time. After booking was done I tried to cancel the Nojoum Hotel apartment but found it was missing in my all hotel booking summery.
Therefore please cancel my Booking at Nojoum Hotel apartments . My booking .com booking number for Nojoum is [protected] and Pin is 1755 and please confirm the cancellation to my e mail address mahinda@finagle.lk
Regards
Mahinda Ranasinghe Sri Lanka.
confirmation and
These guys are total clowns.
Basically, I booked a hotel 4 whole months in advance through this "company" and gave them my credit card details and received a confirmation from them and told my card would be charged upon arrival at the hotel.
2 months later... I was asked to give my credit card details again as the hotel could not authorise it and they were going to cancel the booking? I do not know why the hotel was trying to take money from my card 2 months early and even if they were... there was enough money in there for it to be authorised so I am unsure what was going on but I gave my credit card details to booking.com again and got another confirmation... 2 days later, and I got an email saying my booking was CANCELLED?
So even though I gave my details twice, they still failed to secure my room. I went to the hotel website direct and saw that the room price had now risen by a further 80 Euros... so thanks a lot booking.com for your complete and utter mismanagement of my hotel booking... God only knows what has happened with my credit card details and I am pretty concerned by this whole scenario...
please read the website. "CREDIT CARD" is needed to keep the booking not a debit card. this is your fault im sorry to say
I had essentially the same experience with a reservation in France. You cannot trust that your "confirmed" reservation through Booking.com is actually confirmed. In my case, the hotel cancelled two days before my reservation date, basically because they could do it without repercussion. The "excuse" given was that I had used a debit card rather than a credit card to make the reservation. Booking.com's response - "not our problem!"
Deal directly with the hotel! Except for last minute deals, you'll get the same price, and at least there will be some accountability in the process.
fraudulent invicing
Will put it shortly.
We had some bookings worth more than 1000 eur where the people did not come or as we call it no shows (One of them actually cancelled with us directly but booking.com refused to take itnto consideration)
We marked the before mentioned booking as no shows in the booking.com system but for some reason it did not save it, we wrote a letter at the end of the month before the invoice but the answer was that it is not impossible to change it and booking.com is now fraudulently invoicing us for 150 eur more than we should pay.
Here I am posting all the communication between us and the managers at booking.com and the oldest letters are at the bottom
http://www.tallinn-hotels-alternative.com/2010/09/bookingcom-fraud-or-how-they-want-to.html
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I am also being charged well over 200 Euros more than is right on cancelled bookings. They do not even have the right to do this under their own terms and conditions. Just bully tactics and threats of debt collectors. Written to head office twice and not even the decency of a reply.
Hi. The reason you might of had trouble marking as a no-show is because the option in Extranet is only avabilable after 2 days after the guests departure. Sorry to hear you had trouble using the feature.
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bad tactics regarding non refundable rooms
Booking.com and Vincci Vía - 66, especially Vincci Vía - 66 should be avoided. Their management is horrible and their tactics regarding your money and how they will hold it is criminal. Booking.com allowed them to do a bait and switch on their website which showed that a room was refundable within 1 night of showing, which is ideal for people securing...
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scam
On June 2, 2010 I have made a hotel reservation from booking.com on behalf of a friend of mine who was planning to visit Prague and stay in My Hotel Apollon from June 25 to July 6, 2010. This reservation was necessary for her visa application before coming to Prague, and the reason that I chose Booking.com was its flexibility in the cancellation process in...
Read full complaint and 28 commentsbooking.com's inconsistency with the hotel policies
On June 2, 2010 I have made a hotel reservation from booking.com on behalf of a friend of mine who was planning to visit Prague and stay in My Hotel Apollon from June 25 to July 6, 2010.
This reservation was necessary for her visa application before coming to Prague, and the reason that I advised her to use Booking.com was its flexibility in the cancellation process in advance in case the visa in question can not be obtained on time, which can happen quite often in the Czech Embassy in Istanbul.
As you can see from the link: http://www.booking.com/hotel/cz/apollon-prague.html?aid=304142 and the screenshots that I attached, the Hotel Conditions section for My Hotel Apollon clearly states that no fee will be charged on the credit card until the 24 hours prior to the booking start date. Based on this information, I logically I assumed that Booking.com would prove a trustworthy site which could be relied upon not to abuse the sensitive credit card information provided. Unfortunately, this proved to be far from the case.
On review, the "small print" of the booking on the second page was understandably missed given the clear assurances to the contrary on the first page of booking. Without noting the small text in the
Conditions column below, I therefore continued with giving my friend's personal data and credit card information, assuming that the transaction would be kept on hold until one day prior to the booking date.
Unlike stated on the website, I was informed by my friend that the equivalent of 423 Euros in Turkish Lira currency was in fact credited from her account by this hotel. On review of the reservation details on Booking.com, I noticed in a separate page that, in blatant contradiction to the flexibility so generously offered on the first page, that cancellation was in this case not a possible option after all and the reservation would be charged anyway.
I am very frustrated by the inconsistency between the information given on this site and the hotel's policy. Now my friend is having problems with getting the visa, and probably she will not be able to come to Prague on the stated dates. This is not only the abusive use of my friend's personal details, but also a big amount of lost money which has been illegitimately drawn from her credit card just because that booking.com didn't show My Hotel Apollon's cancellation policy in a clear and consistent way on their site. I am attaching some proof images, just have a look to avoid falling into this scam. I have contacted both the company and the hotel director, asking for a refund to compensate their negligence, but booking.com refused to pay my friend back what they have already taken claiming that this is the policy of the hotel and not that of Booking.com. I am going to share this unfortunate experience with everyone I know until they correct their mistake on their site and refund what they have taken from my friend's credit card.
As I have seen from the 1st picture you attached, under the hotel policy part it says this is the general hotel policy it may vary per room type...
I think most of us not even reading conditions of websites that we are shopping from...
double charges for stay
booked hotel vintimille france (ref :[protected]) in Jan 2009 through booking.com. gave credit card details as per booking format and for in case no show. Visited france Jan 2009, stayed at hotel, paid the full and final bill of 119 euros when checked out.Later after 15 days recieved CC statements, shocked that the also charged us on our credit card. Since then we have emailed and are in communication for refund of double charges which they have agreed but not sent us yet
zoeb badamia
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
i also faced the same problem on my recent trip to hollnad and london...used booking.com to book for hotel...duly stayed at the hotel reserved earlier...paid the stay in cash but ot my shock i was also charged on my credit card...never reveal your credit card detail online...it is a scam...
misleading, charged in full even though it said that I can cancel until day before arrival
I booked a hotel in Ottawa through booking.com and, even though on the page it clearly says "If cancelled up to 1 day before the date of arrival, no fee will be charged", my credit card was charged the full price, months in advance of my stay. Supposedly somewhere it said that the room is "non-refundable", what ever that is supposed to mean. For one, it is not visible, and second, it is never explained. I went back and tried to find an explanation, but to no avail. I was very careful to check the policy on cancellation, which clearly stated that I have until the day before the reservation to cancel. I saw no mention of being charged right away and not being able to make ANY changes to my reservation at any point during my reservation. Booking.com is deceitful, dishonest and misleads customers. I will NEVER book through booking.com again. Their customer service response basically says that they do not give a damn.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Same here - I cancelled online and was told on-screen that there was no charge. However, no email was sent out to me and, because of this lack of evidence, Booking.com charged me as a no- show. Polite rejection of my claim but not listening! Lesson learned and now using every opportunity to tell the world to avoid them.
Oh my god! I totally understand how you feel because exactly the same thing just happened to me. It states clearly on the booking page that "If cancelled up to 2 days before the date of arrival, no fee will be charged", and i made my cancelation 1 month prior to the arrival date. Still, 90% of the total fee was charged. The information given on the booking page and the confirmation page is totally different. They are misleading the costumers. Even though I made a call, sent the email to complain. Nothing changes. I will never ever use this website again.
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never give your credit card details to booking.com
I had been(!) using booking.com for years and during this time I felt comfortable about giving my credit card details to them. However, I realized that this was a big mistake because I understand that they just pass your credit card details to the hotel and feel no responsibility about it, they dont care if the hotel overcharges you or even charges you for...
Read full complaint and 235 commentscharged and then booking canceled
We booked to stay at the above resort for 7 nights, at the time of making the booking our card was charged for 6 nights. We later received an email informing us that the booking had been canceled as our card details were incorrect. Two weeks after our funds were stil not refunded and we were stranded in orlando with 2 young kids and no accomodation. When we contacted them they stated that we had insufficient funds in our account, they were not aware that they had charged our card. We have recieved no apology, and they have now refunded less money then they original charged.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Well I have booked with these idiots 4 months in advance and I have been asked for my credit card details again TWICE for confirmation despite them already sending me a confirmation!
Despite me already confirming it with my details twice... the booking was then cancelled "because I did not give my credit card details"
I am dealing with the hotel directly now but the price for the room has now gone up by 80 Euros... I am going to contact my bank now and tell them to watch out for my account being debited...
Wow, I just received the same email. I am sure that my car was fine, I am now really worried and will have to monitor my CC. What a scam.
Did book a Hotel in sunny beach Bulgaria (Dune residence)
The hotel description showing a Fake Drawing(hotel picture) on a 4 star hotel with pool and direct access to the beach.
When check in it show the hotel are just a condotel and a annex to a Hugh overcrowded charter hotel(burgas beach hotel).
The "Dune" have absolutely no amenity's and are 300 meters from the beach behind the "main" burgas beach hotel
booking.com take no responsibility for the Dune residence cheating the costumers with fake pictures and information on the website of "booking.com"
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bad service
My complaint is because bookings.com works with a hotel by the name of Bungalowpark Domaine de Chodes in Belgium, which apart from being of awful quality, also rips off their customers. In the confirmation they sent me they said that the credit card was only for reservation, and that they wouldn't apply payment. Then they asked for a wire transfer. I sent the wire transfer, and immediately after they charged my credit card. In that sense they charged me twice. During my unfortunate stay at the hotel I tried to get reimbursement and they gave me the runaround, it is 6 months later, and now they tell me that the rate was wrong... Clearly this is a fraud. My complaint is that booking.com should make a more thorough due diligence of the hotels they provide access to on their site. In this case I was robbed. Will never use booking.com again, and recommend that people be aware that the quality of the hotels they provide in very questionable.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
Hello,
I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. If there is a particular reservation that you have had issues with, I'd like to help. Please provide your booking number if this is the case.
Regards, Kelly
Booking.com Customer Service Team
I have located your reservation and I can see that my colleague has been in contact with the hotel and they have confirmed the incorrect information was listed. We are trying to resolve this for you, but were informed we will need to speak to the manager in the morning. You will be contacted as soon as an update is received.
Regards, Kelly
Booking.com Customer Service Team
I am sorry to hear about this.
While Booking.com requires a valid credit card to make a booking, Booking.com does not charge guests (a booking fee or process payment). All details are forwarded to the hotel, who will process payment within the terms of the booking, as selected by the guest while booking. However, as noted on every hotels booking page, each hotel reserves the right to pre authorize the provided credit card. A pre authorization does not remove funds from your account, but can create a hold on a specified amount. I would like to look into this further for you. Can you please provide your booking number? You can post it here, or email me at customer.web@booking.com. Please be sure to mention this post.
Regards,
Kristen
Booking.com Customer Service Team
I am very sorry to hear that the hotel could not honor your confirmed booking and did not relocate you to another property of the same standard. The hotel is responsible for maintaining their availability. The hotel should not have charged you if they were not able to provide you a room for your stay. I would like to help by looking into this matter for you. Can you please post your booking number or email it to customer.web@booking.com referencing this post and I will be in contact via phone or email.
Regards, Andrea
Booking.com Customer Service Team
Sorry to hear of any trouble you have had. All hotels choose what forms of payment they will accept. I would like to check into this matter for you to ensure the hotels payment policies are being displayed on the website. Can you please post your booking number or email it to customer.web@booking.com?
Regards, Andrea
Booking.com Customer Service Team
I am sorry to hear about this.
I do not locate a date on your post, so I apologize if this issue has been resolved.
Anytime there is a discrepancy between the amount the hotel advertises on our site and the amount the guest was charged, booking.com does try to assist the guest it getting a refund.
I have checked the hotels bookings and was not able to locate a booking for you.
Can you provide your booking number so that I can look into this?
You can post it here or email me at customer.web@booking.com.
Regards,
Kristen
Booking.com Team
I was really sorry to read your comment as we certainly don’t want any of our customers to feel this way.
Could you please provide me with your reservation number? I would like to get to the bottom of this.
Regards, Tal
Booking.com Team
We have been unable to answer your question of why our customer service is not dealing with this already because you have not provided us with your booking number to verify if they are dealing with it or not.
This matter can be investigated and resolved once you provide with the information we need.
Have a nice day,
Lissa
Booking.com Team
I'm very sorry to hear you feel this way. Unfortunately, in order to investigate what has happened I would need to have your Booking.com reservation number. As soon as you post it, I will ensure that your case is investigated thoroughly and you are contacted shortly by our specialised team. Also, we sincerely appreciate the feedback from our customers. With the help of feedback such as yours we are striving to make the necessary improvements, with the aim of providing an increased quality Customer experience and increase our service standards. Again, I would like to apologise for any inconvenience you have faced. Should you wish to accept my assistance so we can get to the bottom of this, please post your reservation number.
Regards, Sergejs
Booking.com Team
Customer Service may be dealing with this, however, without your booking number I cannot access your information to investigate. In regards to your second question, consumers have the right to share there opinions. We do try to address all consumer complaints, and would like to assist you. Kindly provide your booking number for me.
Regards, Andrea
Booking.com Team
You can also send us a private message with your booking number so that I can look into the issue. Posting your booking number in public is safe as you also need a PIN code in order to log-in to your profile or to be able to check your reservation.
I would like to follow up on this.
Regards,
Konstantina - Booking.com Team
I am sorry to hear you feel this way about the issues you have had.
I would like to help you regarding this matter. Can you please provide me with your Booking number?
Regards,
Lissa - Booking.com Team
Please note that our mutual guests have the right to leave their personal opinion about their stay at an specific property booked through Booking.com. We do not encourage hotels to contact guests directly regarding their review, however if you disagree you can contact us and we will be glad to investigate why the guest felt that way.
Regarding the cancellation for the double room, can you please provide me with the guest's Booking number to verify this further for you ?
Thanks,
Lissa - Booking.com Team
I am sorry to hear you feel this way. Please provide me the bookingnumber of this guest, and I will be happy to investigate what happened. If there is anything else I can assist you with, please let me know by sending an e-mail to customer.web@booking.com.
Kind Regards,
Angela - Booking.com Team
I am sorry to hear about the issue you had at the hotel.
Please note that you can call us any time in a situation like this. When you made your booking it was instantly confirmed and also sent to the hotel. If they cannot honor your reservation, they should let us know and assist you in finding a proper alternative.
Could you please post your booking number so I can investigate it for you?
Thanks in advance,
Jasmine - Booking.com Team
Thank you for the information above.
I contacted the relevant department and one of my specialized colleagues will contact you via phoneemail.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Have a good day !
Regards,
Tal
Booking.com Team
I am sorry to hear that the Parayso Hotel charged you incorrectly and would like to get to the bottom of this.
Could you please post your booking number and I will investigate this matter.
Thanks in advance,
Tal
Booking.com Team
I booked a non-refundable room, but the hotel weren't able to supply it and are instead forcing me to stay in a more expensive room. Because the room was non-refundable, I cannot get my money back and have had to pay £40 more than I agreed to.
Long story short.Booking.com cancelled my reservations as a no show, because we changed the dates.You all cancelled before our trip reservation dates. Now your telling me you charge to change the dates as if you cancelled. Unbelievable tactics, I would like a full refund. All of this was booking.com and oceana venice fault., not us the consumers. Please take responsibility for your actions.Stop taking people money this is so unfair to all consumers. It's called mis leading your consumers.
booking.com penny wise pound foolish
they cheat customer and government they pocket the tax. As I mentioned them before also that this way you will be loosing your business.
and you will be one of them it has come true and I can see so many companies with less price sometimes.Booking.com charge you 15 usd extra per night on each room. or they mislead you room size and charge you more if you compare other sites.
2. Also you see many complains against them.
3. I have saved so much money not going through bookin.com
I Booked a hotel in Nice using Booking.Com with a sterling price on website. On receiving confirmation I find that the amount will not be taken until I arrive at the hotel- 6 months time and in euros- by which time the price may have moved in a detrimental way. I made the booking thru Easy Jet but the booking was directed to Booking.Com- I would never have made this booking if I had known it was Booking.com- cannot get a reply on the phone.Desperate - pensioner and cannot afford the difference in exchange rate
I made a reservation on booking.com with a b&b whch accepted my late check in on the phone. However, in the end they didn't wait for me and me being alone in a foreign city in the middle of the night is not their problem. I told this to booking.com but they refuse to reimburse me because I had no evidence. Conversation was made on the phone and they told me they cannot help me with that. Eventually, I was in a bad situation and I had to pay for the hotel and no one helped me about it.
Never use booking.com they should choose their partners wisely and protect travelers.
Booked with booking.com for Beachcomber Hotel Surfers Paradise QLD..
I called the hotel to enquire about check in only to be told there wasn't the room for my family..
Called booking.com spoke to a Steven/Stefan only to be hung up on..
Then called back then again hung up on..
Called third time asked for a supervisior after 5 times requesting 1 finally got transferred to 1 only to be told its my fault nothing they can do then hung up...
DO NOT USE BOOKING.COM They are so rude...
Had the worst experience with Booking... REALLY unprofessional staff! i reserved a vacation home and when i got there Christmas eve, it was occupied! what a shame! after 2 hours of waiting on the line, they offered me a villa that is $906 more than what i already paid and said that they will refund afterwards... Well that NEVER happend! not even a compensation was offered!
Hi, I booked a room for 6 nights via Booking in Low Cost Bed Point Be Hostel on 24 october 2015, 16:38 with a free cancelation. I had to cancel in just a few hours which I did more than a month prior to check-in date: on 25 october 2015, at 07:45. My booking number is [protected].
However on 24 october 2015 my card was debited with 65 euro - a 30% deposit. My account at booking.com shows I have cancelled the reservation: "We have sent an email confirming your cancellation your email. We are in the process of updating your information. This change will soon be visible everywhere."
I received a confirmation email that the reservation is cancelled with 0 cancelation fee.
I contacted booking.com with the question when my deposit will be refunded and they promised to get in touch. Meanwhile the hostel changed the fine print by adding that the 30% deposit is not refundable. But as this was made post factum and it was not written anywhere during my booking and in my confirmation email, they still are legally binded to refund my deposit. Could you kindly look into this and refund my money back. Waiting urgently for your response. Kind regards, Y. Ivanova
Booked a hotel on booking.com for 1 week under their supposed special rates which were non cancellable. In under 24 hours i found that it was not a special rate nor was it cheaper but infact they was charging more. I contacted them and asked for a price match and terms and conditions match. They refused terms and conditions match. Their price match was still more than what was being charged elsewhere.
Arrived at hotel - not as described. It all made sense why it was non cancellable. People could see into our room from overlooking apartments. There was no privacy. The hotel added additional fines and rules. Which i could not agree to. I contacted booking for assistance and asked them several times for their complaints procedure. I am still waiting for this. But booking did nothing to help. I would never use booking.com again nor would i stay at that hotel again. Worst company ever
Booked 4 rooms; 2 adults, 1 child, breakfast included. Total 8 adults and 4 children
Was asked by the hotel to pay extra for the children breakfast.
Booking.com refused to honour the booking agreement
this is a scam!
My complaint is because booking.com works with a hotel by the name of Bungalowpark Domaine de Chodes in Belgium, which apart from being of awful quality, also rips off their customers. In the confirmation they sent me they said that the credit card was only for reservation, and that they wouldn't apply payment. Then they asked for a wire transfer. I sent the wire transfer, and immediately after they charged my credit card. In that sense they charged me twice. During my unfortunate stay at the hotel I tried to get reimbursement and they gave me the runaround, it is 6 months later, and now they tell me that the rate was wrong... Clearly this is a fraud. My complaint is that booking.com should make a more thorough due diligence of the hotels they provide access to on their site. In this case I was robbed. Will never use booking.com again, and recommend that people be aware that the quality of the hotels they provide in very questionable.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I used this web site and YES I GOT GOT. Booking .com charged me for a room at a hotel in Coatsville Pa and the hotel charged my card also and NOBODY will talk to you return your calls,the room wasn't that clean so I will write a review EVERY CHANCE I GET
Totally useless customer service and no ability to complain to them if a booking fails. I’ve written countless emails, to customer service, Glenn Fogel and others. They simply do not care that I lost my money on a booking at Best City Home Near Checkpoint Charlie and was stranded in Berlin.
i have sent you 2 pages of complaint about my booking at the bruce hotel in early june, please reply,i expect a full refund
I got my booking cancelled 3 days before my stay, without any explanation at all. And the property was available for those dates after the cancellation, only for more money! I wrote to customer service, but received no reply at all. We were already in Corfu at the time, with everything booked including 3 day stay in Parga, and just left stranded
Imposible to contact by phone or email. Have not got a booking reference so contact with bookin.com is imposable, accommodation has my booking, but I have not been sent a booking reference nor is there any record of booking on my account Hawthorn cottages Oban 25-27 August 2024
I paid Booking.com $1051.13 in January 2024 for 5 night's accommodation at Newport Beachside Hotel in Sunny isles Florida Conf. # [protected] pin code 858151. My card was charged, a few days after I checked out, by the hotel For $904, they claim that Keytel did not pay them so I had to pay again. Date of stay was 03/11/2024 to 03/16/2024
I made booking reservations for 2 rooms for 2 nights and Booking.com duplicated this request and booked me 2 rooms/2 nights twice and charged me twice.
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I bought tickets for dreamworld all day at booking.com . On the day we were about to split up, the park was closed due to weather issues, so we couldn't go. We live 10 hours away from there so we asked for a refund but they don't refund us.
My Booing number is [protected] PIN 2396
I was only supposed to be charged for a deposit but the Hotel Grand Mecure has charged us the full amount.
Is this Correct is there any thing that can be done.
Please write too me my email is kevard807@gmail.com.
kind regards
I booked my Ticket through Booking.com and its been 2 weeks no update on my refund and they have no deadlines to how much time it takes!
Simple one answer, we have escalated to Airline and its pending at their end.
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