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Expedia Bad customer service

Here is a copy of the letter I wrote to customer relations;

I can not believe the horrible service I have received from expedia. Ca customer service! I am absolutely appalled! Not only does expedia needmore phone agents but it is about time they better train the staff!

I waited on hold for 2 hours on friday november 16 2007 after receiving an urgent email regarding a flight cancellation. I was told the system had crashed and a debra promise me that someone would call me back on saturday nov 17 2007 between 9am pst-12pm pst - I waited and no call-backs! On
Sunday nov 18 2007 I called again and spoke to a male rep who told me that he couldn't help me and I would need to be transferred again - when I asked about the wait time - he told me he didn't know! I also told him I was to get a call back on saturday and no one called - he said that is not expedia
Policy - they do no make outbound calls - I was extremely frustrated - I asked for his name he refused and then I asked for his supervisor's name - he had the nerve to tell me for privacy issues he couldn't tell me! Ok - I have called many call centres and I have never heard of any such
Nonsense! Again after waiting 2 hours I finally spoke to a cordell. She told she couldn't help me either since frontier
Airlines was closed and she could call me back on tuesday nov 20 2007 - I told her I don't have time to wait for calls anymore - I was just told by the previous rep no outgoing calls were made & I have to believe him since no one called me on saturday - she said she would issue a full refund - I said ok - I also told her I wanted my expedia booking fee back and she said no! I told her it was not in my control that the airlines cancelled - she
Said the booking fee in non-refundable - I said if I went on the trip or re-booked - I would have to pay however I am not the one who is cancelling the flight - frontier airlines did - collect the money from them not from me - she said no! I am taking this to media and bbb in ontario... I am also going to blog this entire complaint on my site and facebook for everyone to
Know what a rip off expedia is! I have been a long time customer of expedia - a very loyal customer and I can't believe expedia values $27 more than a customer - what a shame!

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sheryl1
wpg, CA
Aug 12, 2010 3:17 pm EDT

I booked a flight through expedia website and needed to make a change to another flight. I was put on hold and waited one hour only to be disconnected. Then I tried for the next 4 hours to get through to someone to change flights and the same thing (for 4 hours) I was using 3 different phone lines to get through. Finally Expedia.com managed to get a hold of someone in canada and we were on the phone to him for an hour but he was unable to find the flight that we needed even though it was one the airline web site. He put us on hold to contact the airline and then we were disconnected once again. I will never go through them ever again and hope that others will check them out before taking a chance.
Good luck to you if you do.

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TedN
San Jose, US
Mar 04, 2011 7:38 am EST

Expedia.ca issued a voucher for their mistake, tried using it and it would not let me. Called their service center in India, spoke with an unknown rep who couldn't speak English very well, referred me to her supervisor, gave me his name as Ahmad Saad, real or not, who knows. He gave me the run around and outright lied. Finally gave up after about an hour. Hope this company and all their customer reps go to hell.

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jeff meyer
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Jan 29, 2008 10:49 pm EST

ok so i work for expedia and i'm telling you that all you ppl who do not read the rules and or don't care about rules need to shut up. we do all we can but unfortunatly we have to go by the air line rules and they have to be followed by us so sorry but we do our job the way we have to wich means if we have to follow rules so do you sorry

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Expedia Refund refusal

I made reservations to go to New York and thought I had a great deal. I was wrong! I chose to stay at a hotel in NJ, right outside of NY because Expedia said that it was only 8 miles from NY. They lied. It was about 14 miles. That's not the worse part.

I made the reservations on 11/12 and charged it to my bank card. Some one came in the next morning and recharged my card which meant I got hit with a double charge. When I contacted Expedia about this they claimed they didn't know anything about it until multiple phone calls later along with complete anger, that they finally got that part straight. While in the process of getting that straight previous charges came in and hit on my account and I was charged 5 overdraft fees. When Expedia and I contacted the bank to verify if the funds were available, Expedia didn't want to return the overdraft fees and told me I had to share in the responsibility of the charges. Are they crazy. The bank was nice enough to return 3 and Expedia doesn't want to return the addl. $68. They thought that they were doing something by giving me a $100 as a courtesy for my inconvenience but still doesn't want to pay my two overdraft fees. It was made clear that one had nothing to do with the other. I cancelled my reservations for the two nights and they only refunded my back for one night. What is wrong with these people?

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Apr 08, 2008 2:54 pm EDT

I totally agree ! Expedia is a fraud. I made a genuine error and did mispelled my husband name on a flight ticket that I booked through Expedia. As soon as I received the confirmation I replied straight away informing of the error. I informed them less than 24 hours of the booking. Now they are saying that the name can not be corrected and that I should have contacted them straight away after the booking. I made the booking at 12 pm, it was too late to call and did not think that the lines will be open at that time...

Anyway, they are adamant and say that there is no possibility to corect the mistake and that I will loose the ticket that is unrefundable ( £700.00) I am really angry at this situation. I have been trying to contact BA but they refer me to Expedia as I booked through them. Expedia refer me to BA.

I wonder if anyone has been in my situation by any chance and if anyone can be able to give me some advice.

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Expedia - Non refundable

Be aware of expedia's nonrefeundalbe policy I spent countless hours w/ an expedia custormer rep,when i couldnt get any where w/ her, i requested the supv, why even bother, he too claimed he could help me. My dilemma started when i booked a hotel and car package with this expedia. After booking my reservation i did additional search on the hotel i wa...

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Expedia Tried cancel trip to San Diego!

We tried to cancel our trip to San Diego, CA for Dec 27-31, 2007 due to unexpected personal reasons. Here is our nightmare experience: We called expedia. ca Customer service on November 12, 2007 to cancel our trip. We were put on hold to listen to music for 2-3 hours. We called at least 3 times that day, but each time we got the same problem: waited to listen to music when they transfered us to their flight department to cancel our flight. We gave up! We called them again on November 13, November 14, November 15... Same thing happened. We were put on hold & listening music when transfered to flight department.

The worst happened on November 15. It seemed There is nobody working @ your flight department After your support representative transfered our call to flight department and we were put on hold and listening the music through the night for 8 hours from 22:30 pm November 14 to 6:30 am in the morning of November 15 and we fed up to hang up the phone because we had to go to work!

We have continued to call their customer support rep @ [protected] and continued to be put on hold and continued to listen to music "hours to hours" since Nov 15 until November 16, I got hold of a manager. We request her to cancel our trip and get our refund. She promised to send our request to her head Office to check. We continued to call the manager November 19, 20 but no news... of decision!

We wonder the people working @ customer service expedia. ca are playing the game with their customers! We wonder the fight cancellation department is a"phantom" or "Ghost" department? try to fool their customers? As of today November 22, We have not been able to cancel our airline flight and get a full refund or full credit for use on future flight

This is a nightmare experience we want to share with all of you. Please do not use expedia. ca to book your travel vacation.

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Chrisy
Mississauga, CA
Nov 23, 2010 11:01 pm EST
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I am having the SAME EXACT problem right now and I am LIVID! Crazy thing is...their customer service caused me to dbl book a ticket because it didn't go thru online - then I got a call a month later stating that I had to call them to update my travel information - that's how I found out I had dbl booked! I'm typing this as I'm on hold waiting for the manager!
Their customer service is rude - their managers are rude - I can not deal with these people!
I will NEVER recommend Expedia.ca to ANYONE ever again!
Thier service is alarming! >:(

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jeff meyer
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Jan 29, 2008 11:11 pm EST

ok well about the flight cancelation shut up ok they tryed and unfortunatly they could not help at that time because of the flight department oh no sorry to hear haha not. and as for the car thing dud if you read the rules and ### there was a 50$ change or cancelation penalty in the rules befor you booked so shut up if you did not read the rules thats your fault boo ###ing hoo suck it up and stop being ###ing babys ok. [censored] you ppl piss me off. read the rules and regulations befor you go crazy k they are there for a reason if you choose not to read them thats your own fault no one to blame but your self. soo on that note...go suck big hairy balls...*HEY LOOK A BALL* *GET THE BALL YOU ###ING ###ED ###S*

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JayJay007
Moose Jaw, CA
Dec 11, 2007 12:57 pm EST
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I had booked a car through Expedia.ca For health reasons we could not travel. So giving them a resonable 30 days notice for the cancellation . They where more than happy to keep $ 50 of my money. The total retal was $ 153.66. So that seems far dont you think. I sure as heck DONT... never again!

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Nov 26, 2007 4:18 pm EST

Try calling the airline directly and telling them that you would like to check to see if Expedia did what they said they were going to do. Some people have had success with the airlines and some haven't. If you get an agent who is not willing to help hang up and try again with a different agent. I've had success with the airline.

I absolutely understand what you are going through and hope you get this resolved shortly. Good luck.

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Expedia Ghost credit card charges!

I was looking for flights on expedia in oct/07 and couldn't book due to a "technical error" when confirming the flight at ~$200. I phoned expedia and they tried to book over the phone without success and told me to try later.. Later the price increased to $630 and i did not attempt to book.

A week later i get a call from continental to tell me i need to check into nwa at the airport. I again did not book anything, phoned expedia and they said nothing is booked and my credit card won't be charged.. 2 days before the flight my credit card gets charged $630. I phone continental and they say it was booked through expedia, i phone expedia and they say it shows up as "not booked". I phone my credit card company and they say there is nothing they can do.

After several late phone calls and waiting hours on hold i get a csr in expedia that i convince to call continental to see my credit card is charged... They do and offer me credit for future flying, but then look into it more and offer me a refund of $620 in 7-10 business days to my credit card...

It has been 15 business days and no credit back... Soon i will be charged interest...

Don't use expedia website! It may charge your card for no reason whatsoever on itineraries you saved and did not book!

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Expedia Non-existent customer service!

I received an urgent e-mail from Expedia that an airline had cancelled 2 of my flights and I should call immediately to discuss alternatives. The first time I called I was put on hold for 1.5 hrs. I decided to call back in the middle of the night. Surely it couldn't be as busy then. This time I sat on hold for 3 hrs. befor finally giving up! There is not even a recorded message occasionally to let you know they haven't just gone home and forgotten you, and the worst part is the elevator music that just keeps repeating over and over hour after hour like some cruel form of torture! I will have to see if I have better luck calling the airline itself. I will never use Expedia again and will pass the message on to everyone I know!

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narosch
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Nov 16, 2009 8:47 pm EST

expedia is not responsible for every single mistake that is made. you guys have to stop pointing fingers at people before you know what is actually going on. It clearly states the airline has change 2 of your flights I dont see how expedia is to be blamed for that. and in terms of customer service, its a line based on when you call. If expedia has a long wait time that is not there fault. It just alot of people are deciding to call them so if your having difficulties reaching a call rep dont just blame expedia.

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James the 1st.
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Apr 29, 2009 3:30 pm EDT

Thank you for standing up to these customer unservice people of Expedia.not !. It's time to Unite and by-pass these people who take us for granted !. I thought in the real economic world the customer was always right ?.
Expedia, thanks for nothing !. If Ford or GM where like you, they would have been out of business by the 1930's.

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Expedia - Terrible experience! Don't hire them!

Originally I chose Expediant because they were nicer on the phone and gave me a lower initial estimate than other moving companies (although it increased quite a bit once I had no option of switching companies). I was promised that they would arrive at 9:00 AM on my move date, but come move date they didn't show up until 1:00 pm. They tried to charge me...

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Expedia Put on hold for over 2 hrs

I booked a flight and everything was confirmed then I get an email to call [protected], I did this yesterday, waited on hold for an hr then had to leave. Today have been on hold for OVER 2 AND 1/2 hrs.

It is crazy ,my neck is sore and that music is enough to drive a person crazy. When you ask that I call re a flight change have some why do I need to wait for hrs. Waiting is one thing but over up to 3 hrs is not right.

Darlene

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Lucie Kocum
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Nov 18, 2007 5:21 pm EST

Dear All,

I have been on hold for over 10 hours, and I'm still ticket less and out almost 600 bucks.

It all started with an email, telling me that my flight had changed. I thought it must be pretty significant, if I need to call in person.

Well, it took 4 hours on hold to find out it hadn't changed from EXACTLY what I could see in front of me in my account! BUT, since I'd had a couple weeks to think about possible changes (it took that long to finally get through, because it's not every day that I have FOUR HOURS to kill), I had the audacity to ask if *I* could change the flight. Not without paying a $107 fee, I was told. At that point, I asked for a refund. Well, of course I got a travel voucher which could only be used BY CALLING THEM AND BOOKING. 4 hours is now over 10 hours. My latest call, I was close to booking the ticket, finally, but they said there was some glitch with calculating the $107 service fee and that they needed time to fix it. Rather than keep me on hold (haha), they said they would call me back when it was confirmed. Oh, they took my $107 no problem, but just couldn't confirm that I actually had a flight.

They never called back.

Here I sit. I'm out $567. I have no flight. I just received an email informing me that I was sent a confirmation for my flight. I did get a confirmation just a few minutes ago--for a flight that's ALREADY PASSED!

Now what? I honestly have post-traumatic stress from the music they play when on hold. I used to love the Brandenburg Concerto... I'm serious, though. What on Earth do I do? I can't afford more time on hold! I want my money back, or at least the flight I booked months ago! Had I never received that useless email, I wouldn't be in this position right now.

HELP!

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Expedia Horrible customer service

I have recently spent over 5 hours today waiting to speak to a customer service representative. In the last 3 days in total my family has spent over 13 hours waiting to speak to a customer service rep. No one has talked to a human being in that time. The fact that you have to listen to elevator music during this time is bad enough however given the fact that I am spending my hard earned money on this company I would have thought that within 5 hours someone would have talked to me. I laugh when I read on their site for "immediate assistance" call 1-888-expedia. I thinkthey need to change that statement to "if you feel like wasting your time and listening to horrible repeative music call"... I would just like to put out there that I am never using this company again and would recommend the same for anyone else. The fact that they can not meet the demands of the company does not speak highly for them. I have definitely learned my lesson and am putting the word out to many people not to use expedia. All I can say is thank god for speaker phones!

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Oct 18, 2011 2:39 pm EDT

During the chaos that ensued during Hurrican Irene my wife and I were stuck in Spain. We had traveled to San Sebastian from Barcelona and were informed that we needed to cut our vacation short due to the storm and not knowing what the conditions of all airports would be in the following days. Panick erupted thousands of people flooded the telephone lines of Expedia. Being on hold for way over an hour without any update of how much longer I'd be on hold, my phone died. My hotel attempted to call the airline directly to book us new tickets a day earlier and see what our options were. After nobody picked up, we decided to book a new flight and worry about the details when we got back to the states.

When I called Expedia (who is acting as our travel agent) I had two 1+ our long conversations with customer support located in the Phillipines. They had told me that the only thing they can do is try to contact the airlines directly. After a 25+ minute hold time I received the same response that they weren't able to get through. I have written Expedia multiple emails detailing my frustrations and situations with them. The automated response I received was nothing short of inhumane. I will not ever use this travel site again and encourage others to find alternate ways of booking travel because if something goes wrong you won't be able to talk to a human for over 2 weeks.

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Oct 06, 2008 4:30 pm EDT

Exepdia.ca has the worst Customer Service skills ever. Their agents are supposed to be "trained" for all the information with their company. However, agents give out WRONG information to customers and company doesn't want to be responsible for it.

I called in to ask for information about my future credits on my account and asked for the expiry date. Then later I called in to book a trip, the agent told me I DON"T have any credits. I told them when I called early your agent told me there's credit doesn't expiries till 1 year. They told me the agent gave out the wrong information and too bad, there's not they can do. The company is not willing to help customer solve problem, they don't want to lose money or use their brains so they told me there's nothing they can do! They won't let me speak to their manager. This is horrible services!

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Brenda Pollard
Leighton Buzzard, GB
May 02, 2010 4:11 pm EDT
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I agree with every word said, I have been trying to talk to a human being about our flights to Bangkok for over a week, even sent emails (got no reply)

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Expedia No customer service!

Through Expedia.ca, we booked return flights for my family from Toronto to San Juan. They're all fine except the connecting flight from Montreal to Toronto. The flight to Toronto leaves Montreal 22 minutes before the flight from San Juan lands in Montreal. We have not been able to contact anyone after multiple 3 hour sessions waiting on the phone for one of the Expedia customer service reps and multiple emails. We will never call them again. By the way, isn't false advertising against the law because their Customer Support page is far from the truth!

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mike
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Jul 02, 2008 8:23 pm EDT

phone calls are more important then emails. emails can wait if it regarding a flight change you should call. If your house was on fire you would call the fire department you would mail a letter. Same goes with emails. a phone call always get the job done!

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Janette Delgado
Delray Beach, US
May 21, 2008 10:06 am EDT

Yep expedia sucks .. . you saved yourself maybe $50 compared to using a travel agent, then you would have had a face to go back to, a company that has visible presence in real communities. You brought it on yourself though . . . online travel agencies . . . caveat emptor.

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jeff meyer
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Mar 14, 2008 8:38 am EDT

Ok Mike from toronto your turn. it wasn't expedia that changed your flight it was the air line that changed it and expedia just got notice that it changed and is the one to tell you. expedia is not able to change flights out of no where it is the air line that does that not expedia. so befor you go yelling at some one know what your talking about.

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Mar 14, 2008 8:34 am EDT

dear Amida Dana i saw your "story" and must say that you have not looked at all the facts you say you shouldn't have payed any extra to change your flight. ok so you booked the day befor now the reason why you didn't get any thing like that was because it has to be the same day then if you called expedia they would have done a same day void but it was not the same day. so to call American Airlines when you booked throught expedia the reason they charged you was because your flights were through expedia and they had to then take over rights to the ticket. and about the e-mail i don't remember seeing any where that it says e-mals will be answerd in 24 hours where the hell does it say that? any way all iun all the air line had full rights to charge you what they did sorry

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Jan 17, 2008 9:55 am EST

I want to add my story : I had a problem with Expedia and no one ever ever responded. Not even when I wrote to the president:

Dara Khosrowshahi
President, Expedia Inc
3150 139 Ave SE #500
Bellevue, WA 98005 Nov 6, 2007

Dear Mr Khosrowshahi:
I would like to bring to your attention a problem I had doing business with Expedia.ca. I emailed the following message to customer service via expedia.ca site Sept 25/07, and never received a response.

I am very unhappy with the service I received from Expedia yesterday. I booked a flight Sept 23 eve and on Sept 24 am I called to change my ticket. I was put on hold for over 2 HOURS. When an agent finally took my call, she said she'd have to check about fines for changing the ticket. Then I was cut off. She didn't call me back, and I have yet to receive a response from the email I sent yesterday.

I called Expedia corp and they connected to me to an agent from expedia.com. She said she couldn't change my ticket because it was from Expedia.ca. I wasn't willing to be put on hold for another 2 hours and was desperate to get my flight re-booked so she told me to call American Airlines and make changes through them. They answered the phone quickly and re-wrote my ticket. However they charges me 53.00 $ to change the ticket, and a15$ booking fee. I don't think that is fair and I request compensation. Also want to make sure I am not being charged twice for my ticket.

There are several problems here. 1) Expedia promises to reply to email requests within 24 hours. 2) The agent should have called me back. 3) I made a change in less than 24 hours and should have been given a courtesy reprieve from fines. 4) It is unacceptable to be put on hold for over two hours.

This unfortunate series of events will influence my future buying decisions when it comes to booking flights online. I do hope you can find a way to resolve these problems.

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Mike Toronto
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Nov 13, 2007 6:38 am EST

Expedia.ca = Bait and switch.

These people are LIARS and SCAMMERS and SWINDLERS!

They changed my flight time from a 12:30PM arrival to a 9:50PM - what a joke and they won't switch it back. I will cancel at this point for any penalty.

I hate expedia! I will never use them again and I will be sure to tell everyone I know every chance I get about how crooked these rip off artists are!

I write this while I am on hold for hr #3.

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Caroline Mitchell
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Oct 28, 2007 12:10 pm EDT

Expedia.ca is unbelievable. They won't deal with problems via email (only to tell you there is a problem, but not what it is) only by phone. The problem is you can't get any one on the phone to help you. If you're "lucky" you'll get someone who'll put you through to the supposed person you need, but I have no idea how long you'd have to wait to speak to this person and if they will actually be able to help you. We waited on hold several times, the longest being 2 1/2 hours, before giving up. I've now contacted the airline directly hoping to find out what the problem is. Never again!

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Expedia Don't believe ratings!

Do not believe hotel ratings and traveler reviews posted in expedia!

For 6 month my husband and I were preparing for a vacation in europe, a trip of a lifetime. We booked all the details of our trip (Hotels, plane tickets, etc) via a travel agency based in us and everything was organized perfect by my agent. However, our last stop of the eurotrip was vienna, austria, and as our agent told us she did not work with hotels in austria, I decided to choose a hotel via expedia. It was my first and last time to have business with them! I picked hotel ambassador in vienna that was listed as a 4 star hotel, and had a very high rating based on the published customer reviews in the expedia website.

My experience in the hotel was horrible and after I came back in us (Aug 5, 2007) I wrote my customer review about the hotel. I have sent them several reviews and they refuse to publish them on the web, I talked several times to their customer service. Their response was that expedia has the final decision which customer reviews to publish and which to reject. They did not want to explain the reason for rejecting my review. I guess they did not want to publish the review because it was totally negative.

The hotel review I sent to expedia is attached below:

Hotel ambassador, vienna

This hotel is hardly even a 3 star!

Expedia refers this hotel as a 4 star, others refer it as a five star. However, the only high star thing in this hotel is its price! Once we entered the room it had a bad smell that made us immediately open the window to just hear the noise of the construction going on across the street. There was an ashtray on the table but the staff confirmed this was a non-smoking room. The room looked exactly like the single room of the expedia virtual tour. We have paid for a double room. The double bed consisted of two single mattresses put next to each other; so do not plan a honeymoon in this hotel! The carpet looked old and not that clean, same for the bathrobes. The bathroom was very small, and we had doubts if the fan was working. It had a shower cabin only, a curtain around the shower actually. The curtain was couple of inches shorter than it was supposed to be, so while my husband was taking a 5 min shower the whole bathroom floor was getting wet. Not to mention that when my husband tried to take shower for the first time the drain was clogged and we had to call for a technician. Also, the shower gel bottle was not renewed like it is done in the other hotels, the "ambassador" staff apparently thought that a single 1 oz bottle is enough for 2 people for 3 days. The breakfast was not included in the price like in the most of the other hotels. Also, it did not have a concierge desk and the receptionist was having these functions as well. I definitely do not recommend this hotel!

Damage resulting = consequences:

I do feel discriminated when my review was being rejected multiple times. If you look on the expedia web page and the traveler reviews about hotel ambassador in vienna, you will see 14 out 15 positive reviews.

It seems to me that in order to sell a hotel better expedia publishes the positive reviews, and rejects the reviews of the unhappy customers.

The damage was:

I paid a 4/5 star price for a hotel that could hardly be rated 3 and the last 3 days of my "dream vacation in europe" left me with a bad taste in my mouth for the whole trip, as vienna was supposed to be "the grand finale"... It was... In a way... But not the way we thought!

Damage for the other potential expedia customers:

By carefully picking which review to be published expedia creates false image of the travel destinations and misleads customers!

I also feel very much hurt from their customer service attitude. I was told expedia decides which reviews to publish and which to delete even without informing the customer who wrote the review.

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Teofilomax
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Jul 28, 2015 4:38 pm EDT

I had exactly the same bad experience with expedia, they have refused to publish my bad review of a hotel in Rome.They said they have the right to publish or not to publish my review. I feel discriminated as well. Not working with expedia never again.

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Expedia Worst moving company!

I am writing this letter to tell about my experience with Expediant Van Lines during my move from MA to PA.

I would not want anyone to go through the experiences I have gone through, during a process already difficult per se, i.e., moving. I think it is a total rip-off because not only they quote a different price and you end up paying (37%) more than the quoted price, but most importantly they impose so much economic and emotional costs on you that you get a horrible and traumatic experience in return for your payment.

First of all, company does a very poor job of informing you what to expect in terms of costs, not only their documentation is written very poorly to deceive the eye so that you would not see the small fonts, but they never tell you in person on the phone, even though you ask them. Second, and may be most important, they do not send the confirmation e-mail which includes such information, till the last minute, i.e., one day before the move, which is too late to cancel the service, and say, “oh there was something wrong with their e-mail”.

Third, the movers were never on time. And different people in the company tell different and inconsistent stories in regards to why.

Fourth, wait it only gets worse! They charge extra: the company tried to charge me for the extra pick-up, which I had already settled with the company earlier.

Fifth, one of the staff members got $200 from me to carry my stuff to and from the stairs (apparently they charge extra) and for the long haul way from the door to the truck, and said he would also do the stairs on the other end, in PA. Once my stuff came, he denied that I paid him for stairs, and did not want to do it. He said “ I do not remember you paying me anything” I had to remind him that I wrote him a check, and can ask for a copy from my bank to prove it if need be, then he unwillingly did it.

May be most importantly, the attitude of the moving team was unacceptably unprofessional, and almost to a degree of sexual harassment, such as asking if I am single, what is my phone number, and etc. Despite my warnings to the staff, that I do not feel comfortable with such comments, they had continued to keep at it, and even respond in a way that made it worse, such as “why not, you will never see us again you can feel comfortable”. Some of the staff members even offered to give me a discount if I had smiled in return, and won’t be charging me extra. This is unacceptable behavior, and I am sure you can understand that on the day of the move, it is very hard for someone to fire the company (but I wish I had) so I did my best to deal with them, which is basically keeping mostly silent, and praying they would do their job and leave. This was one of my most frustrating experiences in this country. But unfortunately these are not the only things that caused my frustration with the staff and company, these were only the harbinger of worse news in the days to come.

Unfortunately, last but not least, when they deliver your stuff, you are lucky if you get it on time, and actually all of it. When the truck arrived to my new destination in PA most everything in the truck was a mess; they had changed trucks and unloaded my stuff and loaded back again into another truck.

I have had many missing, and broken items, among them my bed, sofa, a nice leather office chair, kitchen items, lamps. Some of the furniture is so neatly broken that it made me think they might have done it on purpose so that it would fit the truck better. Also, they had disassembled my furniture but lost the screws.

In my complaint and claim process, they NEVER return my calls; whenever I call them, I can never get through a person of responsibility, and they never call/ contact when they say they would.

As you can imagine, moving is already a stressful process per se, and no one, but no one needs these extra frustrations. NEVER EVER HIRE EXPEDIANT VANLINES, NEVER!

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Aug 31, 2007 7:27 pm EDT

Well,

Of course you work with "very professional people", who first of all, try to do things under the table, and charged me an extra of $200 for stairs, and denied that later in PA such a payment was made. If you know your worker with the name Alfred Taylor, ask him, I can provide you the copy of the check that I wrote to him! And what is more, this company is already in the blacklist for movers for everyone's information, please check to see that similar complaints were made before, I wish I had checked that web-site before: http://www.movingscam.com/blackList.shtml

People, stay away from this company, I am yet to hear anything about my "insurance" for the items they have broken and lost during the move! Stay away from Expediant Van Lines!

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Aug 07, 2008 12:26 pm EDT

Contact:

Contact: Kristin Schrader, Tel.: [protected] or
[protected]

Consumers can help identify noncompliant household goods movers by calling FMCSA's nationwide complaint hotline,
[protected] DOT-SAFT) or by visiting http://nccdb.fmcsa.dot.gov. Prior to selecting a household goods carrier, consumers should also visit FMCSA’s www.protectyourmove.gov for information on planning a successful move and to search movers and their complaint history.

For a list of companies cited during the strike force, see http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/hhg-2008-05-results.

The strike force targeted states that received the most complaints in the National Household Goods Consumer Complaint database (http://nccdb.fmcsa.dot.gov).

Household Goods Complaint Disclaimer:

http://nccdb.fmcsa.dot.gov/hc_disclaimer.asp

Fines for violations of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations are set by Federal statute. Examples of the violations discovered include: holding shippers' household goods hostage, operating without proper legal authority, failing to follow tariff requirements, failing to provide shipper information, and failing to keep proper records:

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/news/news-releases/2008/hhg-strike-force-results-08-05.htm

I had to deal with this very issue during May 2008. We paid in full for a move, the 'brokered' mover showed up in a Penske truck. Friends stayed in our home during this ordeal.

The driver showed up with a man who claimed to be a hitch hiker, and was intoxicated.

When the driver arrived at our new home, he had another worker with him, who told us he was from Mexico and was given $150.00 to help the driver unload the Penske truck.

Needless to day, our items did not arrive in the *an*lines truck that we were told was going to be picking up and delivering our household items.

File a complaint, when the fines hit these brokers and moving companies in their pockets, maybe, just maybe they'll get the picture.

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Angry Customer
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Sep 05, 2007 7:25 pm EDT

Expediant Van Lines is AWFUL - STAY FAR AWAY!

These people are jerks. Basically they tell you everything you want to hear over the phone, then when they show up it's a completely different story.

First of all, Anthony Joseph is a sales rep, but told me he was the owner of the company to assure me that I should book with them. HE also told me they do not hire sub-contractors, although a contractor delivered my items, that my items would NEVER switch hands, and that the same person picking my items up would be the one delivering them. None of the above was true. The problem is that these were only phone calls and I do not have any of it in writing, however, I do have a witness since I spoke with him on speaker phone.

The day the movers arrive the estimate that Anthony provided jumped from $1100 to an OUTRAGEOUS $2100! The movers even tried to charge me for wrapping my furniture, which says a free service on the website. When I told him I didn't want his service for $2100 the price dropped to $1750. I still wasn't comfortable, but at that point, I needed my things to arrive and it was too late to book someone else. Then they have the nerve to tell you they need another $120 in gratuity to ensure the "safe handling of your items." They basically bully you into giving them more cash and make you feel as though if you don't they will intentionally damage your items. I also had a similar experience in the girl above in that Albert Taylor was asking me what size I wore and told me he bought some nice things at Frederick's of Hollywood that were my size and would look good. I am waiting for my things to arrive before contacting an attorney about what I can do about being sexually harassed by an employee of this company.

The timing explained above is also correct. Anthony guaranteed my items would be delivered the following Thursday after they were picked up. They are over one week late and I need to take an unpaid day off from my new job and had to go buy all new clothes to wear to work since my things weren't there. I also arranged for friends to be here to help me unpack. Now they have wasted a trip.

I am sure that if we all get together we can do something about this company. The only thing they excel at is not putting things in writing so that it makes it hard to take action against them. If customers could all get together then I am sure we could find resolution. I am currently working on information such as what percentage more over the estimate a company can actually charge, since mine was 50% higher than the estimate, as well as what I can do about their website claiming to have been in business over 10 years, when they recently formed this company less than one year ago, after being black listed under their other name and having to change, as well as what I can do about being sexually harassed by their employees. If anyone would like to join me please contact me. In the meantime STAY FAR AWAY FROM EXPEDIENT VAN LINES.

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Expedia Booked a hotel room that was not available!

I recently made the mistake of booking a hotel room for my wife and daughter through Expedia.ca. I received two confirmation #s from Expedia and my wife verbally confirmed the room. When they arrived at the hotel they were told that the room was never booked. Luckily the hotel took it upon themselves to find other accommodation for my wife and daughter as well as three other guests that had booked fictitious rooms through Expedia.ca.

I have used lots of other services to book Hotels and Airline tickets and never had a problem. This was the first and last time I will use Expedia.ca

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Linda
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Jul 27, 2008 9:57 pm EDT

It would be nice to hear that people can have a bad experience and not be abused by people who are just bored and want to swear at people. Like any corporation Expedia is very strategic and know very well that they are ripping people off daily. I booked a trip and the expedia person took it upon themselves to book the wrong dates and I have called every few days for over a month and they still take no responsability for the mistake on there part. then they charged us twice on our credit card for the same trip and still take no responsability. We continue to not hear back from them and they shift the owness on to the next supervisor which then you half to explain again. I have no way of knowing how to deal with this as they keep not responding. Customer service is hearing and making the appropriate decisions based on that information, but they will have no part in this. Good luck to the next poor sole that is stolen from. Theft of money and false information you would think is a crime.

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Dani
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Apr 28, 2008 10:19 am EDT

Ever heard of "overbooking" by hotels? It happens too... they sometimes have deals going with other hotels in their own group. I overbook here so I can send customers your way... Never mind, they send us a confirmation number...
That way they can again play the game and we cannot then ask for a refund on your behalf because "they supplied you with a room after all".

Airlines and hotels do it all the time...
there is nothing Expedia can do about it... we book, you pay, you have the confirmation number and the hotel oversells... just like airlines do.

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jeff meyer
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Jan 29, 2008 11:29 pm EST

hey guys you all ###ing suck monkey dick ok you dono the process it takes to do the ### they do so why don't you all site in your own stupid ### from your mouth and stick your fingures up each others ###'s k. oh and expedia is the best because you slap nut ###s say its not hahaha you all smell like dry donky ### hahaha oh and umm sorry for your bad times with expedia i am sorry it wasn't werse hahaha your heads are empty arn't they cuz there is no intelagent talk on here thats why i am here to bash you dumb ###s who wine about life all day and have nothing better to do but feel sorry for your selves and feel the world or in this case expedia owes you something ... like ### they do you owe your self a good kick in the ### for being retarted

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Kalen
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Jan 29, 2008 11:29 pm EST

I work for expedia and you're passing the blame to the wrong people. If you're room had confirmation codes, then it was booked. Expedia does not just pull these codes from their ###, the reservation is sent to the hotel and the hotel then sends us THOSE codes.

If you don't want to use expedia, that is definatly your choice, but at least know before you go passing blame.

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Amida Dana
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Jan 17, 2008 10:02 am EST

FYI: In view of all the complaints against Expedia, when planning your next trip , know that Expedia also owns hotels.com, Hotwire, TripAdvisor and Classic Vacations

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John Doe
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Aug 16, 2007 9:03 am EDT

It seem that EXPEDIA is bad everywhere. This is a list of recent complaints about EXPEDIA (including my case that proves EXPEDIA is a scammer). http://www.expedianews.com.

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Expedia Worst of all, very rude customer service people!

I have recently booked a vacation with expedia. Ca to disney world, figuring that I got a good deal and how hard could it be? Boy was I wrong! There have been nothing but miscommunication, delayed responses and worst of all very rude customer service people. I have been treated and spoken to by a "customer service person" like I did not have any comprehension of the english language and helping me was a waste of her time. I have lodged an e-mail complaint and have spoken to a manager, only to hear nothing... Not even a sorry.

I have been told different things about my package, i. E... Yes, I have the park passes included, no, you do not. And when you e-mail then about a problem do not be in a hurry to hear back from them if you ever do. It is not that I am a picky person, nor do I need to be coddled, but I don't wish for anything to go wrong with my $4,000.00, week vacation either.

So my advice, be very cautious when booking with expedia... I will never do it again.

Karen.

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Josie Strother
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May 06, 2022 11:46 am EDT

I will never use this company again because you cannot get a hold of anybody in customer service and all I wanted was request information so I can print my bill. All the bogus 800 numbers they give you will not connect to a live person whatsoever. On top of that they gave me a rate that was $30 higher per night than what the hotel I stayed at would’ve offered me if I had to call them directly. Expedia is a company rip off don’t use it

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Joseph Purrazzella
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Mar 21, 2022 6:56 pm EDT

Expedia screwed me again. I prepayed and then they won't refund the whole reservation. So don't use them for travel plans. Buyer beware. Expedia sucks.

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Bonnie Keyser
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Sep 11, 2018 4:38 pm EDT

I will never book with Expedia again. I bought tickets with travel insurance. Latter stated clearly 100% refundable through Travel Guard. When I had to cancel I found out that the “small print” limited cancellation to medical emergencies. Lesson learned.

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Marcel
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Apr 16, 2010 5:09 am EDT

I booked a reservation using Expedia for a hotel room at the Holiday Inn Express in Pocomoke City. I was told I would receive an email confirmation with the hotel information. I never received an email from Expedia. When we arrived to the hotel, we found that Expedia had gotten our arrival date incorrect and we had already been charged $189 for two rooms. We had to pay again for the correct dates. When I contacted Expedia about their mistake, they would only give a refund of $33. Please don't use Expedia - call the Hotel directly if at all possible. This has been the worse experience ever. I will never use an outside company again to book any type of reservations.

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Valerie
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Sep 01, 2008 2:40 am EDT

Expedia sent me a notice that my flight had changed, which was fine. However, I have been receiving copies of this message for the past 5 hours every 6 minutes! I have called twice, and written their support staff several times and so far nothing has been done and all I am getting is the run around. My e-mail is getting flooded with this repeated message and they have not yet fixed it. I will never use them again. So yes, I am a very pissed off consumer. This seems like it would be an easy problem to fix yet no one has.

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Valerie
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Aug 08, 2008 5:56 am EDT

I purchased a ticket for my daughter from expedia. It is a round trip ticket from Beijing, China to JFK and then to Baltimore Washington airport for January 25th with a return flight on March 17th. I sent the ticket registered mail. It went out on Dec. 5th and according to the USPS arrived in Beijing on Dec. 13th at 8:26 a.m. My daughter has yet to receive her ticket. She actually called and went to the post office where they told her NO SUCH CLAIM/TICKET NUMBER EXISTED AND THAT NOTHING WAS EVER SENT OR RECEIVED. I have contacted the USPS and after 5 1/2 hours of being jerked around, have filed for a international investigation. I was told it would take 60 days before I would hear anything. I called EXPEDIA and asked if they could confirm the ticket for Air China/American airlines and convert it to an E-TICKET. They refused. The only person who can use that ticket is my daughter, with her passport, her visa, her identification. Air china has confirmed that there is a s eat, her name, etc. EXPEDIA tells me to file for a lost ticket application with air china. AIR CHINA says I must pay for a second ticket, which is really the first ticket, and then WHO? is going to reimburse me? I am so fed up with the run around. EXPEDIA says NOT I; Air china says NOT I... and the USPS? who knows. I need help immediately. I must do something to get my daughter home. Any help or suggestions?

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Jul 29, 2010 9:10 am EDT
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Be aware that expedia.com does not truthfully tell you everything about this certain booking at this Hotel. WE spent most of the night trying to straight this out with expedia.com only to be hung up on, and told their was nothing they could do. They did after everything was said and done gave us a 25 dollar voucher when we use expedia.com again. Like that will happen. Everything they told me was a embellished except for the location. I had to pay extra for everything. So really, I could of stayed at a 4 star hotel on my own booking, not using them. Don't trust them. Don't know how they swing this, but they tell you exactly what you want to hear and make you think they are doing you a favor. I just stayed at the worst Hotel/motel what ever in my entire experience dealing with accomadations, and I am a professional traverler. But this was an emergency and had to get to a loved one that was very ill. Expedia.com and the hotel seems to be together on the ongoings of overchargin for this one night stay, Expedia.com you should be ashamed. Working people look for help from sites like yours, and to treat anyone like the stay we had in terrible to say the least. People look elsewhere before thinging about this one.

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Melissa Kimball
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Jun 28, 2008 4:59 am EDT

I purchased a ticket yesterday for my husband to come home from seeing family outta state. After getting my confirmation code that the transaction was approved they gave me his itinerary #. This morning he went to the airport to check in and was told that Expedia.com had canceled the trip. After calling expedia and holding several times including over a half hour for a supervisor I was told if I have a complaint then go to the website and email my complaint. They could no longer help unless I want to buy another ticket. WHY WOULD I DO THAT WHEN THEY CHARGED ME FOR ONE ALREADY! Now I am outta the money and he is still outta state.

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Aug 26, 2016 1:49 am EDT

Going to NM in July. Booked plane and car t hrough Priceline Apr 28 and hotels through EX. Four nights at three DIFFERENT hotels. Got confirms and because i had neer had trouble and because we weren't traveling til Ju, i didn't open them immediately. Few days later when i was to print them, I opened them and I had been booked for eleven nights at one hotel, six nights at another and one night (wrong date) at another----ALLl int he wrong month and overlapping.. La quinta and Ex DID refund the six night reserve, but Best West in Taos and Expedia are refusing to refund the 1200.00 I have been billed for the eleven nights . BW says it's up to Ex and Ex says if BW won't budge they won't. There WAS a computer malfunction because the Priceline reserves made at the same time went through just fine, and having done this a lot, I DO know how to make reserves..

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Aug 15, 2016 6:18 am EDT
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We made reservations for a hotel that was supposed to have 2 queen sized beds. We paid $166 expecting that we would have two beds. When we got to the hotel they said our room only had one queen bed. Expedia's code that they used was for a one queen room. After we got back from our trip I called and complained to Expedia. They tried getting out of it by saying that it was some issue with the room description. That isn't my problem, I shouldn't have to pay for someone else's mistake. Expedia finally agreed to put a $25 credit on our account. I believe we should have got money off of our room and then some for this inconvenience.

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Expedia Nightmare in Cancun!

To: Expedia Support Staff,

I have made numerous attempts to get some type of response from Expedia only to be told that my last submission was sent as an attachment which could not be opened for security reasons.

In August of 2006 I booked reservations for a trip to Cancun. My itinerary # was [protected] departing Hartford, CT on 19-Feb-2007, returning on 26-Feb-2007.

My package was to include the "senior Program/ Senior Upgrade.

I was under the impression that "all inclusive" included travel to and from the airport which it did not. Upon arrival at the "Oasis Cancun Resort Hotel" we were escorted to room # 2449. The "upgraded" room appeared to be a room under construction. Part of the room floor was bare cement, cover plates on electrical outlets were broken or missing, the room was dirty and the entry door had a 1/4 inch split down the middle. It was supposed to be a non-smoking room but there were ashtrays in the room.

This was just the beginning of our problems. As we entered the room we realized how cold it was and the air conditioner vents were putting more cold air in the room. I attempted to call the front desk and discovered the phone was broken. My daughter wanted to take a shower and found that there was no hot water.

I went to the lobby to file a complaint to the staff at the "Welcome Desk" only to be told that there was nothing they could do and I would have to take my complaint to the hotel manager who was out to dinner and wasn't expected to return for fifteen minutes. I came back in fifteen minutes to be told she would be out for another 1/2 hour. Frustrated, I came back in 1/2 hour to be told she'd be back in 45 minutes.

When the manager finally returned I had to wait in line for other parties who were experiencing problems similar to mine. I told the manager I wanted the upgraded room I had contracted for and was told that there were none available but they would have someone sent to our room to take care of the hot water, cold air and phone problems. This was at approximately 5PM so our day was just about shot so I decided to take my daughter to dinner, hoping they could make the room in a livable condition in the meantime. We returned from dinner and no one had come to take care of the situation. The room was so cold that I decided to open the slider door since it was warmer outside but when I tried to do that the door handle broke off in my hand.

I made six or more trips to the front desk to attempting to get someone to take care of the problems. My last trip was around 9:45 PM and again I was promised someone would be up to take care of the problem. At around 10:15 PM we got a knock on the door and a young man with a plunger came in. Yes, he had a plumbers helper and went into the bath room and came out in 5 minutes to tell us he had taken care of every thing. He had done nothing! We still had no heat, hot water or phone.

The next day after waiting an hour for the manager to show up and we were given another room, not an upgrade but at least it had tile on the floor and about 11 AM we finally were able to take showers. ( I found out later that many rooms in the hotel didn't have hot water.) The room we were given had a TV that didn't work. I made numerous calls and trips to the front desk and it was around 10 PM that night when a staff member arrived to confirm that the TV didn't work and get a replacement for us.

The trip was a nightmare and we tried to make the best of it but you can understand our dissatisfaction. While in Cancun I tried to get the emergency assistance number only to get a message in Spanish and a hang up. I tried to get some satisfaction on my return only to be told that I had to file the complaint by E Mail and then told that I had submitted it to the wrong addresses several times.

I am hoping that Expedia or Oasis Cancun can offer some reasonable resolution to my nightmare in Cancun.

Sincerely
Paul E Jonas
22 North Rd
Bolton, CT

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On May 4 I spent 25 minutes on hold, in Mexico at 5.00 per min., canceling reservation. This is after multiple attempts to make cancellation via website but was unsuccessful. After 30 min. received cancellation number and was informed of cancellation fee of $119.00, $100.00 of which would be deposited in an expedia account to be used as a coupon for future...

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Expedia Attempt to commit fraud!

THis case is too gruesome in details i'm running a website: http://www.victimsofexpedia.com to alert people.

I bought (online from USA) a roundtrip from Europe to South America. For this trip I needed a paper ticket (not e-ticket) that EXPEDIA failed to deliver to me (one ticket was lost and the second was sent me to a wrong address - I provided the right address- ). I have proof of this (tracking number from UPS). Anyway, one of their representative advised me by phone to go to Europe and they will arrange with the airline I get a ticket at the airport. They never did it. I called to EXPEDIA many times from Europe and the airline that I was supposed to travel with (KLM) also contacted EXPEDIA. EXPEDIA never did anything to solve that problem that EXPEDIA generated and they didn't give me another solution. I had to buy (in Europe) another ticket from a different travel agency and I had to spend 15 extra days in Europe plus one extra week in South America. I've also lost many days at my job. I had lost a lot of money and my trips were useless because I had to use the money I had to solve this problem instead of enjoying my trips. TO MAKE IT SHORT, I WAS ABANDONED IN EUROPE BY EXPEDIA AFTER THEY FAILED TO PROVIDE ME A TICKET I HAD ALREADY PAID WITH MY CREDIT CARD.

EXPEDIA claims that it was my fault (It is a lie because I have e-mails from the airline telling me that EXPEDIA never arranged my trip). EXPEDIA claims that they had put all the information in the airline system. But when I asked where and when they cannot give me that information. I have documentations showing how many times I called them (and copies of e-mails I sent to them), I also have an e-mail from the airline telling me that EXPEDIA never contacted them and never put on their system the information necessary to issue me new ticket from Europe. I showed that documentation to EXPEDIA but EXPEDIA just ignore it and never made an attempt to contact the airline. Why? because EXPEDIA can lie to customers but it cannot lie to the airline.

In summary, EXPEDIA charged my credit card for 1,254.96 U$D for a ticket that was never delivered. They advised me to go to EUROPE. Once I was in Europe, EXPEDIA abandoned me there at my own with no ticket. I had to re-schedule my trips by my own and I had to buy a new ticket from another travel agency in Europe to complete my trips. EXPEDIA ignored my complaints when I was abroad. After I came back to USA, EXPEDIA tried to keep the money EXPEDIA charged in my credit card for that ticket I never had a chance to use. EXPEDIA lied to me many times and tried to keep money from my credit card in a fraudulent way. Thanks to my credit card I could recover (after almost 7 month) the full amount of that ticket but I suffered huge monetary loss due to that trouble that EXPEDIA generated.

This was EXPEDIA's official response to my case:

During my trip (before returning to USA). One of EXPEDIA's supervisor "admitted" that it was EXPEDIA's fault and told me to submit all the receipts I had for "extra expenses" . This was done by phone, however he also sent me an e-mail confirming the address where I had to send it. (read that e-mail). I sent to EXPEDIA all my receipts and a detailed amount of all my expenses. But it was another lie, EXPEDIA's "customer advisor team" (a higher level than supervisors) denied all responsibilities.

1) First, EXPEDIA try make it look as if it was my fault and they reimbursed me part of the ticket (800 U$D) they never delivered (read the e-mail EXPEDIA sent to me). Is this fair? Does it make sense? Why EXPEDIA will reimburse money if it they are sure it was my fault? They just tried to make me happy with 800 U$D and actually steal part of my money (> 400 U$D) because EXPEDIA actually never provided the service (this is simply fraud).

2) EXPEDIA tried to steal the rest of the money. It didn’t work: With the help of my credit card (VISA) I recovered another 429.99 U$D.

3) At this point, EXPEDIA still kept 59.99 because EXPEDIA charged my credit card in a way to cheat me and my credit card (see details). It didn’t work again. With the help of my credit card I recovered the rest 59.99 U$D. This was after almost 7 months. Does an honest company keep customers money for seven months? This long delay only showed that EXPEDIA tried to steal (and failed) my money no matter what. I could recover that money because my credit card fought for me and because I showed them overwhelming evidence of EXPEDIA’s lies.

4) EXPEDIA claims that I could not use the ticket I bought because the airline gave me wrong information. If this is true, EXPEDIA can provide me with names and dates when EXPEDIA contacted the airline to arrange for my trip. If I have that information I can stop bothering EXPEDIA and complain to the airline. Moreover, EXPEDIA can show that is an honest organization that care about their customers. I asked many times for this information but EXPEDIA was not able or did not want to give that information. Why? Because in fact, EXPEDIA never arranged my trip, thus, EXPEDIA has no proof of what they claim. EXPEDIA can contact the airline and clear this point with them: EXPEDIA never attempted to contact KLM.

5) I forwarded to EXPEDIA e-mails from the airline where the airline tells me that they tried to contact EXPEDIA and EXPEDIA never responded (Read the e-mail from KLM). EXPEDIA responses were several “automated” responses (since early april-2006) telling me that someone “in the appropriate department” is working on my case. But no one from EXPEDIA called me or e-mailed me after that. Even after showing them another letter from KLM telling me that EXPEDIA never attempted to arrange my trip EXPEDIA ignore my complaints.

6) When I asked for proof that EXPEDIA indeed contact KLM to arrange my trip I received THIS E-MAIL (more lies)
7) The last thing EXPEDIA did was to disable my account I had with them (and I used to send e-mail to them) and completely ignore my e-mails I sent using another e-mail address.

This was the very last message from EXPEDIA:
From: Expedia Travel Support
Mailed-By: customercare.expedia.com
To: [protected]@z2mail.com
Date: Jul 19, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: Other questions, comments, or feedback - Case ID: [REQ:[protected]]
Dear XXXX
Thank you for contacting Expedia.com.
I wish to apologize for the fact that you have not been contacted. I have once again forwarded your request to the appropriate department and have earmarked it with high priority, within 72 hours you should have a response.

If you have further questions regarding this concern, feel free to reply to this e-mail or contact Expedia.com customer services at [protected] and reference case ID [protected]. You can also visit the Expedia.com "Customer Support" page (http://www.Expedia.com/daily/service/default.asp) for more customer service information.
Thank you for choosing Expedia.com.
Melody
Expedia.com Customer Support Team

In response to my message: :
From: xxx < [protected]@zmail.com>
Mailed-By: zmail.com
To: Expedia Travel Support
Date: Jul 19, 2006 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Other questions, comments, or feedback - Case ID: [REQ:[protected]]2
Dear Sir/Madam

(Case ID: [REQ:[protected]]
It has been around one month since I received this e-mail from you regarding the e-mail address or postal address of your CEOs and regarding documentation proving that EXPEDIA indeed provided the information to KLM (as you claim).

Why are you denying me that information?

Comment: I was updating my web site: (http://www.victimsofexpedia.com), as usual I'm asking you to tell me if something I put there is wrong. Please visit the site regularly and just tell me if you find something that is wrong or untrue.

Sincerely
XXXXXX

Of course, they never contacted me again.
I If you that think that what I'm writing here is not true. Ask EXPEDIA by yourself ([protected]@customercare.expedia.com, [protected]@expedia.com) and/or read carefully all the documentation in related websites.

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Sep 05, 2007 7:21 pm EDT

We made our travel arrangements through Expedia.com. They booked us on a flight from Los Angeles, CA to Portland, OR with a connection through Sacramento, CA on 8/6/07. I was contacted by Expedia a week before our flight stating that there was a schedule change from Delta and that I needed to contact them ASAP. I did and they said that I needed to change my return flight. I agreed to change it, but when the agent told me that we would have to pay additional fees, I asked her why I had to pay when we were being re-booked by the agency. She put me on hold and when she came back on the phone, she told me that she spoke with a Delta airline agent and that our original flight was just fine. We had a connection time of 28 minutes, which I later found out was an illegal connection time. We arrived to Sacramento, CA on time, but because we had to change terminals and did not have enough connection time, we missed our connecting flight. The Delta agent told us that there was documentation showing that they contacted Expedia regarding the illegal connection time. Also she told me that when there is a terminal change, the connection time needs to be at least an hour. I spoke with an Expedia agent right away. They apologized for their error. The agent told me, after much discussion, that they would compensate us for the last leg of the flight, $110. Although I didn't feel that was adequate compensation for them intentionally deceiving us and making a reservation with an illegal connection time, we took what we could get at that moment. We were already going to miss our plans and I didn't want to "discuss" it any longer with the agent. A month later, after not seeing the refund on our credit card account, I called expedia again only to be told that there would be no refund. The agent said there was no documentation of the refund and that since we were able to be re-booked onto another flight back to Portland, they would not be able to compensate us as they had already paid Delta for the flight. I believe it is highly unethical for a travel agent to use deceptive practices to obtain business from clients who are unaware of airline regulations. Expedia made an illegal reservation, we paid the price and they refused to compensate us for our inconvenience. This is my complaint.

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Jun 26, 2007 1:25 am EDT

I definitely agree, expedia is insane. It generated so much stress and such unnecessary chaos when something simple could have been done. Everyone that i've spoken to through expedia has no idea how to do their job... Its ridiculous. I been trying to speak to supervisors and they keep hanging up on me. I need to do something about what i have gone through. Please someone get back to me. Thx

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john lee
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May 16, 2007 10:29 am EDT

Made a change to my e-mail address

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Adam Drake
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Mar 23, 2007 9:11 pm EDT

Yep, I agree... been there done that with Expedia. Their Customer Service SUCK! I've spent tons of money on telephone calls from outside the states trying to resolve a simple issue with flight schedule changes. They outsource their operators from god only knows what country. Half can't speak English or even understand it and will tell you everything is confirmed when it's not. Expedia needs to get it's act together, until then I will never use them again!

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Had booked 4 nights at the Essex House through Hotels.com (Expedia). My stay there was very unsatisfactory. The hotel room was worn and dirty, the staff was rude and unpleasant, the mechanics of the building kept falling apart, I had to make several phone calls and wait 4 hours to get a mini bar opened. All of this for $700 a night! I finally had had enough...

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Expedia I am still waiting for the refund

On september 30/2005 I bought two tickets from expedia to travel on december 29 2005 to madrid. On october 2005 my husband had an accident with cerebral hemorrhage. I call expedia to cancel the trip and they told me that I have a year to use the tickets due to the situation. My mistake was that I believe what they told me.

When I asked again for the refund they ask me for a doctors letter. I sent all the papers they ask me for via fax [protected]. On june 7 I ask again for the refund and they said to me that it takes 2 or 3 billings periods to be reimbursed to my credit card. I am still waiting for the refund. When yesterday I sent an e-mail to them asking for the refund. They told me that I have to talked to iberia at [protected]. Then I call iberia and they told me that I bought the ticket thru expedia and they are the one who has to gave me the refund. I think that they are playing pi-pon with my situation.

If anyone can help me with this I will appreciated very much. We are a retired couple. If you have any questions please contact me via e-mail or telephone
305-984-7sss. Thank you.

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Jun 05, 2009 2:36 pm EDT

Iberia sent me an email saying they could not process my details, that I should contact the airline or make a new reservation. So I contacted the airline and the sales lady told me I had not successfully purchased the reservation. I had to get a flight out on the date I had intended to travel, and so went ahead and made a new reservation. Now my credit card has been charged twice.
I still have the email but I think that airlines are very hard to obtain a refund from. Has anyone else been in a similar situation? What should I do? I'm so annoyed.

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Jun 02, 2008 5:24 pm EDT

Helou

i'm from Slovenia and i have problems with Iberia too...

Can you help me and tell me what did you do... i write to iberia and they said to me i don't get a refund. But i have a ticket which says that flight was oversoled... what is my next move...

thank you

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Carlie
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Apr 16, 2008 1:44 pm EDT

It has been almost 2 years since i was garuanteed a refund from Iberia airlines. After claiming they had "sent the refund" it took them more than a year and a half to admit that it was never put into my account...and then I was told that I would recieve it immediately...that still has not happend 6 months later... believe me I have tried everything i could think of to get it back. Before I take it to court please let me know if you have any suggestions...

Carlierae24@hotmail.com

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rebecca watts
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Dec 12, 2007 6:41 pm EST

First of all...look at who charged you for what..then if you read the rules before you buy your trip...clearly states that they only charged you 5 dollars...no offense...but they just work between us and the airline. when i bought my flight..it was through expedia..but on my credit card it showed 5$ to expedia.com and the rest went for delta airlines. Besides... you can always dispute this as well.

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Jul 02, 2007 6:39 am EDT

I also had a bad experience on an Iberia flight, IB 3166, 29th June 2007, 16:30.
We had already spent 2 days traveling back from Peru and were on our last flight from Madrid to London Heathrow.

We were on the tail end of the queue for boarding, so when we climbed aboard the plane we discovered our designated seats had been filled with other passengers. We looked about in economy for empty seats, but there were none.

We decided to walk to business class and sit at the very back. A few moments later the air stewardess in business class came over to us and asked to look at our tickets. We explained our seats had been taken in economy and these were the only seats empty. She then very rudely asked 'Do you want ME to find you a seat?!' Jana replied, 'Yes please.'

We followed the air stewardess back into economy where, of course, there were no empty seats, and then left us stood in the gangway in front of all the other economy passengers and went back to tend to the business class passengers. After 5 minutes I started to get quite angry at the way we were being treated. After all, we were fare paying passengers and had originally been given a designated seat number. I asked an air steward if we could take a seat as we had paid for one on the flight, and if we sat in business class they did not need to serve us any drinks or food. He said very little and went up to business class.

Finally the air stewardess came back into economy and moved a lady in the front row of economy into business class and seated Jana in her seat. I was then split from my friend and placed in business class on my own. Bizarre.

Why give passengers a boarding pass with a designated seat number, only for it to mean nothing when boarding the plane? No apology was given at the lack of seats and we were made to feel unnecessarily awkward for no reason.

Also, why split myself and my friend up for no apparent reason, by moving another lady from her seat? I did look for the air stewardess as we disembarked from the plane at Heathrow so I could ask for her name, but she was nowhere to be seen. She was not even there to say goodbye to her business class passengers.

When I arrived inside the terminal, I then discovered my luggage had been lost. I then queued with many others whose luggage had been lost on the flight at the Iberia desk which had only one member of staff dealing with us all. Nobody else was there to help, and therefore it took well over an hour.

Sara Challice.

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Edel Martinez
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Nov 26, 2006 6:47 am EST

I am in a similar situation and I've called once already but I've seem to have lost the address of where I'm supposed to send the doctor's papers. Could you email the address to me at latina0206@gmail.com ? I'd greatly appreciate it.

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