eDreams

I have bought 4tickets from edreams in january. (ref 2tx4l4) on 11 april 2012 they gave me information about 4 hours changes in flight time, that I could not accept. I asked edreams for money refund. No answer, but automatic response. Since that time I have written 12 letters via all their e-mail adresses. No answer! No answer to calls! It seems they ignore me and do not want to refund money! In internet forums people say they cheat people but I did not believe... I am afraid this time this is about me...
Elena b

I work in the customer service industry and understand there are times when the customer must hold for 10-20 minutes for serviceget an email reply the next day. As a customer I know my rights. Here is what has just happened to me and I am hoping you will take this case as I am willing to provide you with my email conversations with EDREAMS.
I booked a one way flight with EDREAMS.COM, " for the first time on March 17 at 11:35 am..
EDREAMS replied immediately March 17 at 11:34 a.m. to my email : "Important", we have trouble with your credit card, we will not confirm your booking until we confirm your payment of $417.07 US..." "do not reply to this email".[protected]@edreams.com ; It will be confirmed once we processed your payment, at this time you will receive our e-ticket at your email address.
I have no contact email or tel# for EDREAMS on this email and no where does it show "non-refundable" (as it always does when you choose a flight with any companies). There are no indications THAT I CANNOT CANCEL THIS REQUEST and also SINCE THEY HAVE NOT PROCESSED ANYTHING OR TAKEN MY MONEY.
As I needed to book something asap with a confirmation (which all of the online bookings with other companies in the last 10 years confirm within the hour!) I searched for EDREAMS contact email address, I found "[protected]@edreams.com" and a [protected] tel# WITHIN THE HOUR I called the 1-900# # cannot be reached? I emailed EDREAMS customer service WITH SUBJECT: " CANCEL MY REQUEST NOW SINCE YOU DID NOT CONFIRM YET>Fw: Booking confirmation: 2623CR etc... dated March 17 at 12:49pm. I again sent another email March 17 at 12:50 with no reply. I assumed it will take a little while before they reply.
I needed to confirm our return from (my daughter and I) Amsterdam to Paris so we can catch our international flight back home! and did not want to get stuck waiting as I have much busioness work and events to take care of.
The next morning March 18 at 10:16 a.m. I receive what looks like an e-ticket from EDREAMS (agentid04827814).
I was shocked! I cannot believe that my emails were ignored from 23 hours ago! TAKE NOTE "my email to EDREAMS titled CANCEL MY REQUEST NOW SINCE YOU DID NOT CONFIRM YET, IS NOW 23 HOURS old! and EDREAMS CHOSE TO IGNORE MY REQUEST"?
I tried reaching them by phone1-[protected] (after searching the web for a tel#) I WAS ON HOLD FOR 1 1/2 HOURS WITH NO ANSWER!?They clearely provide no service! I was not able to reach anyone! This e-ticket NOW shows it is non-refundable? Not fair! I sent numerous emails to EDREAMS to agentid04827814 and to their customer service repeating my March 17, 12:49 p.m. email request to cancel prior to their process.
No replies until March 19 6:38 a.m. from gb.[protected]@edreams.com ; In reply to your email, we invite you to contact our Call Center in order to get the information you request. You can reach us by calling the following number: [protected]
Monday to Friday: 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays: 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Sundays: 7:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m
( US Eastern Standard Time )
If the above phone number does not work from your country, you can also dial + [protected].

CLEARELY THEY GET THE EMAILS! I am not spending extra $$ when they clearely get my emails. They just decided to reply to it after their transaction and ignoring my first emails requesting to cancel BEFORE THEIR TRANSACTION!
Can you help me get my money back please! I spenttoo much time on this, EDREAMS SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN ! I will foward all that you need for proof. from an extremely frustrated first and last time customer! Diane Bernard [protected]@yahoo.ca

Let me share my nightmare experience with eDreams. I already recommended them to change their name to eNightmare, it would be much more appropriate.

The premise

I wanted to buy 2 sets of tickets, for me and my wife.
I used 2 perfectly good credit cards, spent over 2 hours on phone with 'help', 4 times went trough purchasing process, send them money via bank transfer, had 3 pending payments on my credit cards, all that simply because I followed directions of eDreams website and eDream personnel. Price of tickets rose literally every time I contact them (of course).
At the moment (after 5 days of calls, repeated purchases and so many nerves lost), they are holding my money, i never got my tickets, so I went to Expedia, where I purchased tickets without any problem.

The plot

So I want to get 2 sets of tickets. My wife and I wanted to fly to different location in USA, meet in Belize and then fly together back home from Quito. So I visit eDreams, find tickets for my wife and purchase them. No problems so far (if she will be able to fly with them, remains to be seen...).

Five minutes after first purchase I wanted to buy my set of tickets. Purchase is made, reservation is sent to my email. Next day i received an e-mail, that error accured in my reservation.

I checked with my bank – payment is pending for some reason. So I called eNightmare. Everything but friendly person in support centre tell me to buy again (in poor english of course). I wanted to explain situation, but she didn't want to listen – just buy again.

So I buy again.

During the purchase process eNightmare site warns me that one reservation on my name has allready been made with the same dates (as if I wasn't painfully aware of that). I finish my purcase and of course ten hours later again e-mail – error accured in reservation – this time mail came in spanish language, probably to make my purchase experience even better.

So I call again. Slightly friendlier person tells me that there is a problem with America Airlines and I should try to use different Credit card. I asked, what to do with previous pending reservations – he assures me that those are not a problem.

So my third purchase with second credit card. Price went up for 100 euros already. Not to mention that price advertised was never equal to price charged (60 eur eDream commision, 7 eur commision for credit card payment, and who knows what else .) Again after 12 hours mail (in spanish of course) that something went wrong. I called again (eNightmare phone number allready on speed dial). So this person explains me that problem is in many booking pending (my previous purchases). I asked him to terminate those bookings, so I can try again. He promised to do so (I should know better...)

So my forth purchase. Immediately I knew that problems are coming – again message about previous booking pending. ž

So I call the friendly stuff of eNightmare again, asking them what to do. He inform me, that there is an option to make a bank transfer to them. Yupiiii!. So they sent me info where to transfer money, and I do so (15 minutes after my credit card purchase attempt. I sent them scan of tranfer document, as they instructed me to do. To be sure (after all, I do have some bad experiences with them), I call them to confirm the payment.

This time I even get a nice person, who is kind enough to inform me, that:

1. Ticket price on reservation is not correct and is higher that one on reservation (?)
2. bank payment will reach them no later than in four days and there is no way that my reservation will be still active in four days.

WTF – so why did your coleuage directed me to send bank transfer if it is virtually impossible to pay for tickets trough bank transfer? Of course she didn't know.

Next day i receive SMS message, that credit card payment was confirmed with American Airlines. So I send an email begging them to solve my problem.
They had my money I even gave them flexible dates for some of my flights, so they it would be easier for them to find tickets. The response was that I should deal with American Airlines alone and that they will refund me money I transfered. So I asked myself, why they are charging me 60 eur of commision if i need to argue with AA myself...

That was enough for me, I went to Expedia and bought tickets without any problem.

At this moment I have 3 payments to eDream pending on my cards (not so worried), hoping that they will refund me my bank transfer money (quite worried), tickets cost me 300 euro more, I spend over 50 EUR on phone calls, lost several hours of my life, not to mention my agitation and frustration...

Hi this company is doing frauds. I purchsed tikets on it and they charged 100 % more charges than ryanair. This detail was not given while purchasing tiket that this extra amount is only for edreams. What a benifit they have (100 % on each tiket) what an amazing business . Amount given to ryan air is 38 while charged to customer is 81..

After booking an international return flight from Barcelona to Bogotá, I got informed by eDreams during my holidays that part of my return flight was cancelled. They cancelled my flight and booked me on another flight, giving me only 30min time to change flights in Madrid, which is impossible. After mailing / calling them, they just told me to look for an alternative myself? Why did I pay them €50 commission?
Once back home, I contacted eDreams to complain about this service. They kept replying that they were not responsible for anything, blaming the airline company. A Travel Agent should take up their responsibility, instead of leaving a guest on their holidays calling airline companies to find a solution. Result: NEVER AGAIN eDreams, better to book directly with the airline company you want to fly with!

I attempted to book a round trip ticket London-Limoges. After having submitted all my personal details, they responded that they could not go ahead with the booking because of server problems with Ryan Air server. I was asked to rebook which I did. I waited for 24 hrs but there was no response from them in spite of me emailing their Customer Sevices Dept, backoffice Dept, Customer Complaint Dept...Meanwhile when I checked with my Credit Card Co, it was discovered that they charged transaction fee of 4.50 pounds twice.This company should be taken to court for FRAUD.

O not use edreams to book your flights etc, reason it will cost you ££££££££££'s to call their premium support line if you have a need to speak to them. This company rips you off on phone charges to sort out problems. I booked flights through them, then the airline cancelled the flight. I have been trying to conytact them for the last few days to arrangre a refund. There is no way to get through to them by email to sort out the problem. When you get through to them @£1.53p/min you get put on hold as alll their agants are busy and pay lots to listen to their on hold music. Repeat do not use them if you think you may need to talk witrh them, its very expensive with no guarantee of a solution before you run up a huge phone bill.

I too have had dreadful problems with edreams. The jury's out on whether they are wilfully fraudulent of wildly incompetent but either way they should not be used. I used them last week to book a flight to Amsterdam. The following day we received am email saying that there had been a problem processing the booking and requesting email or telephone notification of all our credit card details, passport nos etc. We immediately emailed to cancel the order. They emailed back verifying cancellation at no charge. The following day however the amount was debited twice from the account although one was described as a debit and the other as a correction. Despite repeated emails they have still failed to rectify this, so I have paid DOUBLE the amount for NO FLIGHT tickets!

Before this we had bought tickets from eDreams with success on 2 seperate occasions. But now, this 3rd time, we have become a victim too. On June 28, 2011 I booked a flight from Amsterdam to Bucharest for my wife with eDreams.com. We wanted to pay online with our MasterCard but this transaction 'failed'. We were supposed to use an alternative payment method: bank transfer. We sent an email to the customer helpdesk and they provided us with the details (account number (IBAN) + Swift code). account: IBAN: GB85DEUT40508129608901 BIC : DEUTGB2LXXX, account holder: Vacaciones eDreams S.L.
It turns out to be an eDreams' bank account at the Deutsche Bank in the UK. We emailed the customer department with proof that the bank tranfer had been done using screenshot of my online bank statement showing the transaction benefitting eDreams. (They wanted proof via fax but we don't own a fax machine)
Of course, the bank transfer succeded but after this nothing happened. My money (287, 59 euros) was gone but the ticket did NOT get issued and my wife would miss her flight. So we called and emailed eDreams many times. When on the phone they seem polite but they actually don't or can't help you. In the meantime we bought another ticket at another company because eDreams would not issue the ticket. eDreams mentioned to us that they did not recieve any payment from me in their bank account.
I've also sent my complete complaint via email to their complaints department on August 5, 2011, but eDreams did not bother even to confirm reciept of my complaint. Since eDreams did NOT issue a ticket we have been asking them to give us back our money. A month has passed and now it is September 5th and still no co-operation from this company. In future I will use other travel agents who will normally issue your tickets within 5 minutes via email immediately after the payment!

Recently I purchased a flight with edreams, unfortunately shortly after I had to cancel my trip. Luckily I took out insurance with the company at an additional €14. My reason for cancelling the trip was covered under the policy regulations yet still I have not heard back from them. When I first sought a refund I was e-mailing various people back and forth back and forth, every week they would request a new set of forms from my employer/bank etc. Finally the e-mails stopped and I successfully returned the extensive pile of forms (much to their surprise I'd imagine). It has now been two weeks since the last e-mail was sent and I haven't heard anything back from the company. That is a total of two months of ridiculous form filling and now there is a chance I may not even receive my money back as they have to 'study' the information I provided. It is absolutely ridiculous, at the end of the day I have a genuine reason for cancelling my trip and I even took out insurance. I am so annoyed how companies can get away with treating customers like this. It is a lot of money to me and I am so annoyed how they have wasted my time and mistreated me.

I booked a flight on the 18th of July from Lisbon to London on behalf of my partner with edreams on their website I followed the correct procedure and when I had put all my payment details in and the site accepted payment a notice then appeared to say thet the flights could not be booked and monies would not be taken from my account. This however did not happen and now I have £248.66 pending in my available balance and I am unable to buy another flight. So no tickets and no flight. I have emailed them on numerous occasions and have received one reply asking for more details and to have a nice day! This has been a complete disaster and the flights were for the 25th july returning on the 3rd August and now the cost has risen even further. I have also tried ringing but it costs £1.35 mer minute via a land line and more if a mobile is to be used and this is all I have. I am so disappointed and after reading complaints from other people it seems unlikely I'll recieve the money back in time to book with another company. I am a single parent and work hard and to have this amount of money taken from me without any explanation with the added insult of having to pay £17 debit card fee for the priviledge is a disgrace. Please help me. I wouldn't mind if they actually booked the flights for me now I would be eternally grateful if they did but they are now saying they have no record of any such booking.

I tried to book a flight on edreams but was lucky that they don't accept Visa Debit cards. I noticed that they charge £19 to process card payments, which I consider excessive. Also they ask for a passport number just to be able to register with them, something which other booking sites do not require . I was unable to get through to an operator on their call line and have yet to receive an email regarding a query I had. I ended up booking with travel republic which was cheaper because they don't charge for card payments. Their customer ratings also seem much better

I tried to book a flight with edreams but the online payment crashed half way through doing the transaction. An email came through to me to say that my booking was not confirmed. I checked that money hadn't left my account and waited for the 24 hours I was told to wait for a confirmation email. No email came and still no money from my card, so I booked a flight elsewhere presuming that this had been cancelled.

I checked through my bank statement and can now see that the money was taken from my card 3 days later but there was no further email about the confirmed flight.

I subesqunetly wrote to edreams and have had three appalling emails back, none of which actually answered any of my questions. I have threatened to call the police as this appears to be fraudulent and now no one replies to my emails at all.

I have used edreams twice over the years but never again. They are almost impossible to deal with by email and that presents problems when the Customer is outside of Europe/USA.

They have sent me incorrect flight details, then said "sometimes the system picks up these erroneous sectors... because the fare basis is cheaper".

I cannot fathom how some airlines allow edreams to operate like this.

ALSO, edreams CHARGES A PREMIUM FEE FOR PAYING BY CREDIT CARD. THAT IS IN BREACH OF THE CREDIT CARD RULES IN MY PART OF THE WORLD. IN NUMEROUS EMAILS edreams DENY CHARGING A FEE FOR PAYING BY CREDIT CARD. THAT'S MORE EVIDENCE THEIR SUPPORT TEAM HAVE NOT GOT A CLUE!

I recommend people deal direct with the airline, online of course. They are bound to be cheaper so long as you are willing to hunt around

edreams gave my husband a confirmation number and took the money for the flight out of his account. once he arrived at the airport he was told the seat was reserved but had not been paid for. Where is our Money? he had to pay for another flight. tried to send complaint and it wouldn't go thru. horrible experience.

dear sir or madam,
On the 5th of may i have tried to book a flight tichet on line, so i tried Edreams for a cheap one and for the first time, that nifgt i could not book anything although i put my bank details..., payment and booking was denied. so i tried and was succsesful on the 11 of may, i booked with bell air and the right amounth was taken out the same day.
then i looked i my statment to find out that Edreams limited took the amount of £72.54 on the 9th of may just after my failed trial of booking. i am very unhappy as you can't speak to no one, and the number they have on enternet not working. your sincerely malika jones

I purchased airline tickets from London to Venice return with Brtish Airways for this Oct using Edreams. Due to unfortunate illness we have had to cancel holiday plans. When I went to cancel the flight tickets Edreams told me that I had purchased non-refundable tickets. I asked for a credit towards another flight at a later time they told me I couldn't do that. I contacted BA directly and was told that no I could n't get a refund but I could make changes (cost 60 GBP per passenger) I conveyed this to Edreams and they said oh, yes I could make changes but it would cost me 90GBP per passenger. They then told me that I couldn't make any changes via email that I had to phone them directly. I live in Canada. They then sent me a phone number, which can't be used in Canada.I asked for another phone number and spent all day friday trying to get ahold of someone - no answer in the office. After reading the coments on this web-site I think I have just kissed my air-fare goodbye. I can't get a hold of anyone to help. Lesson to self: Always book tickets directly with the airline.

Edreams confirmed my reservation but not confirm the receipt of the payment. However, they have taken the 210.99 USD from my account. Then, Edreams asked me to fax or email my passport and credit card in the name of the security measure ! This is a fraud mafia. There are so many complaints on their fraud ! We should together do something. We should post the fraud of Edreams not only here but also on facebook and twitter. Facebook and twitter can topple the Tunisian and Egyption government, much less to say an Edreams. Let us fight for our rights !