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We booked to stay at a hotel in guernsey with four friends in May 2020. Due to the pandemic, the trip was cancelled by Hotels. Com and we were told the very strict procedure for applying for a full cash refund. We did exactly as we were instructed. Our friends were all given a full cash refund immediately, and we were given a voucher, and after trying to get a refund numerous time see gave up and reluctantly accepted. The expiry has now been extended to Dec 2021. On trying to book the same hotel, there is NO AVAILABILITY before the expiry date .We we're promised a cash refund when this became apparent during a telephone call, but despite NUMEROUS calls and promises that we would receive our money in the next few days, we still have no refund. My latest call today saw the operator speaking to her supervisor who was adamant a refund was not possible as we had a voucher( despite the fact it cannot be used and is worthless ) . I asked to be put through to refund dept/manager/supervisor to be told this was not possible and I could not speak to anyone else who could help. I have phoned the hotel directly who were appalled that hotels. com had not returned our money. Our booking reference is [protected] and our case number is [protected]. I cannot believe we haven't even had the courtesy of an email. So we are in a position where we have a voucher we never wanted which is not worth anything, but being refused a refund because we have it! Madness and frankly disgusting . Please help, I think our only other option is taking a legal route through the small claims court . This has now become a matter of principle as the customer service at Hotels.com when things go wrong I'd frankly a disgrace and it seems the customer is powerless

Please be aware that if you purchase gift cards for someone as a gift, they can only enter one gift card number per trip. I was given four $50 gift cards and expected to use them on one stay as a combined $200 but was shocked when I found out that I needed to ask the person who gave them to me for the reciept in order to use them all. I was also shocked when I was hung up on by the customer service agent. When I tried the online help they directed me to an email address to help me. I emailed them but got no response. I would recommend not falling prey to their gift card scam they have going. It is more of an inconvenience for you and the person you are gifting.

I booked my room to Butterfly Boutique Hotel on the 2nd September (confirmation number [protected]) for 5 night starting from the 4th of the same month.

Once arrived at the booked hotel Butterfly receptionist told me hotels.com didn't send them the reservation for my room and at the moment they didn't have any free room, so they relocated me to a different hotel Amphitryon Boutique Hotel which of course I didn't choose.
After waiting at the least 30 minutes I went to the new hotel.

The lady at the reception of Amphitryon told me they even didn't have an available room but they would have given me the suite, but in case the would have needed it, I would have to change the room again. At this point I expressed all my disappointment as I was in the city just for 5 night and I was not happy to pack again my things to change the room. I was really impressed to her rudeness. She made a phone call talking loud and in Greek which I was not able to understand, and still at the phone she threw on the desk the keys of a regular room and a paper with wifi information.

The attitude of this girl (I don't know the name but she was the only lady at the reception during my stay) was unaccettable when after a few days I went gently complainting I was missing a card of mine that I put in the power switch to keep the room refrigereted for the moment I would came. She replied with these words "It's your fault" if the housekeeper took the card because you are not suppose to keep AC on when out. I was speachless of her attitude. After paying a room I think It's my right to decide to keep the AC on even more It's not possible to hear these words as a paying guest, I took the chance also to explain her how she treated me the first night was not nice and instead of apologize she kept her way of acting.

By the way she called the 2 housekeepers to ask if they took my card, but of course they said they didn't take anything.

I felt humiliated and not welcomed at all, I will never come back and if hotel.com doesn't find a solution to compensate my unhappy stay I won't even choose this website again, and inform people of how I have been treated.

I didn't mention I was missing paper toilet (I asked the second night for it) and condition of the balcony was disgusting as one chair was full of hair as por picture attached.

The worst experience ever. Hotel & Tru by Hilton oversold the room, cancelled my reservation without any notification.

I booked using Hotels.com, they confirmed the reservation number [protected]. I drove 7 hrs. with two kids to arrive at the hotel, when trying to check in they told me the reservation was cancelled. Nobody called me from Hotels.com, all the email received was to check in "contactless", True Hotel did not call me either. They did not care about the kids or anything. I contacted Hotels, waited an hour in line and they did not provide any solution. They did not know my reservation was cancelled, when they called Tru by Hilton they confirmed it was canceled, they tried to relocate me to another hotel and all hotels around were sold out. All they offered was $25 credit. I told them I did not care about the money; I needed a room for my family. After an hour of waiting Hotels did not do anything for me and my family. I had to contact at least 10 different hotels in the area, found a room available 1hr away from the location I needed.

Tru and Hotels.com did not show any care for the situation. A family trip that was supposed to be to enjoy the weekend ended up being a disaster and nobody cares. Hotels charged my credit card and two days later gave me a refund. BUT if it was my fault for sure they would charge me for one night and I did not have a right to claim anything, BUT it was their fault and all they did was to refund the money.

I really need somebody to contact me and explain to me why this thing happens. I personally won't use this app/platform again and will provide feedback everywhere to make sure nobody uses it.

Hello there: I'm Serag
I booked a hotel through Hotel.com web site
Went to the hotel in time.. Found no booking for me.. The Hotel changed its name since 1 year.. And they now not accepting bookings through the internet..and told go police and ask them for your money..talked to them many time but in vain...they told we will see.we will discuss...i feel they are not serious in returning my mony
Confirmation nu: [protected]
Reservation From aug 4.. To aug 7
[protected]@gmail.com
Tel: [protected]

Arrived exhausted in Las Vegas and opened Hotel.com app on my phone. Found a hotel and the app said I could make a reservation and NO MONEY WOULD BE CHARGED TO MY BANK CARD, AS I WOULD PAY AT THE HOTEL.
Within 5 minutes, a $487 debit showed up on my bank account. As that was directly the opposite of what they said, I said I wanted to cancel the reservation. Now all of the sudden, the reservation became a "Booking" and if I wanted to cancel a "Booking", the hotel would keep half of what i was charged, unless I called the hotel and they agreed not to. I called the hotel and they had no record of any reservation and said I would have to deal with Hotel.com. Hotel.com has NO HUMAN TO EVER TALK TO, and they claim it's the hotel keeping your money, when it's them. I was not suppose to be charged a penny, and now it will be up to "review" and that will take 10 days. I have an email from them saying NO MONEY WOULD BE WITHDRAWN from my bank account and yet $500 was grabbed instantly. I think it may need to be class account suit time. These people are theives. DONT GIVEC THEM YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER!

I cancelled a hotel within the timeframe and am eligible for a full refund of £3, 000+. Three weeks later, 6 calls later and 5 emails later I still have not received my money. I am told every time I call that my situation is an isolated case, they apologise and say my matter has been escalated to the highest tier. I have been told I will hear back within 24 hours, 48 hours, 7-10 days or whatever they decide. Not once has anyone from hotels.com called me or responded to any of my emails. I have done all the chasing at considerable expense - each call takes approx 45 mins. I'm fed up with repeating myself and being given promises and reassurances which never materialise. Having looked at other complaints, my issue is clearly not isolated. Something is very wrong here.

We booked a room since we were going to be out of town for my mother in law's funeral. Due to delays with our last minute trip, I called shortly after booking to let them know that we would be delayed and would not check in til the following night. They said they would charge us for the night. I said ok. The next day when we arrived, we had booked 3 nights, we were told that we did not have a reservation. Our credit card was charged for 3 nights. We had to book a different hotel for the following 2 nights. To this day, hotels.com has refused to refund our $347. We basically got ripped off by this business

I prepaid a room at the Holiday Inn in Amarillo, Texas. When i arrived I learned the the hotel had no running water due to a main water pipe break. i was told it would be repaired within 30 minutes. Five hours later it was still not repaired and other hotels in the area were filling up. The manager Varun Chitkara made arrangements for us to move to another unaffiliated Holiday Inn near by and said my room would be cancelled and refund made. I moved to another hotel and paid an additional charge for it. It is now almost 3 weeks later i have not received a refund. The hotel manager says he will call Hotels.com and clear up the matter and the chat agent with Hotels.com says they can not make a refund because they can not get the hotel to respond concering the matter. i think they expect me to go away. I am considering cancelling my Hotel.com account, but I will continue to file complaints until this is resolved

I have tried my best to get in touch with hotels.com and send them the below email outlining my situation that happened over the weekend. I have tried to call but the customer service has been diabolical and done nothing but caused more stress.

Dear Sirs

I am writing to make a formal complaint about fraudulent activity via your platform (on two occasions) and extremely unhelpful customer service.

I booked the Laystall Apartments in London via Hotels.com (booking reference [protected]) for Saturday 28th August to Tuesday 31st August and paid £351 for the booking (on terms that I could not cancel after 14th August). As instructed on the confirmation email I received from Hotels.com, I contacted the property (using the number provided on the confirmation email) 72 hours prior to arrival for check-in instructions, however, the telephone number provided kept going straight to voicemail and so I was unable to get through to anyone. I rang multiple times on Thursday 26th August, Friday 27th August and Saturday 28th August prior to arrival but every time I rang the number went straight to voicemail. I also tried contacting via the "message the property" option on Hotels.com and I could see that some of the messages had been read but I still received no response. Whilst travelling down to London on Saturday 28th, I got increasingly concerned about the lack of response and so called the Hotels.com customer services phoneline a number of times. I found it extremely difficult to get through to anyone on the customer services line, the phone cut-off on multiple occasions and I was put on hold several times before the phone just cutting off. When I finally managed to speak to someone, I explained the situation and I was provided with an email address for the property (this was Nathan.[protected]@gmail.com). I emailed Nathan straight away to request check-in information and I received the following response from Nathan at 12:20pm (with check-in expected at 2pm):

"please contact hotels.com to cancel as we are overbooked"

I was very shocked to receive this response just over 1 hour before check-in, having made the booking weeks in advance, having paid for my booking in full and having travelled 250 miles to London that morning. I tried calling Hotels.com to resolve the situation and again had real difficulty getting through to anyone - as you will appreciate, this was extremely frustrating.

As I was already in London by this time and was unable to get through to your customer service team to discuss this, I booked another apartment (Bridgwalk Apartment - which was in a completely different area of London) for the same dates (booking reference [protected]) via Hotels.com (and again paid in full for the booking - this time £486) and when I received the confirmation email from Hotels.com, quite unbelievably, I saw that the telephone number to contact the property for the check-in information was the same contact number as for the Laystall Apartments and so when I rang this, it took me straight to the same voicemail that I had got through to for the Laystall apartments. As you can imagine, I was very distressed at this point and so again, tried calling Hotel.com multiple times to speak to someone to resolve this situation. I spoke to a number of people - all of which were completely unable to comprehend the situation or able to offer any assistance or support whatsoever. I was told by one customer services agent to just turn up at the Bridgwalk Apartment as "someone would be there to let me in" - despite me reading several times to them the statement from the confirmation email that there is no reception desk or check-in facility on site. I asked to speak to a manager repeatedly but wasn't put through to anyone else and was constantly told "the manager was unavailable but would tell me to turn up at the property". I also requested that both bookings be refunded to me and I was told that this could not happen until the owner of the property had approved this and that you could not get in touch with the owner of the property - again showing a complete disregard and lack of understanding of the situation.

I have been a very loyal customer with Hotels.com for a number of years (you will see this from my booking history) and I have always used this as my preferred booking platform - however, as you will appreciate, I am extremely angry and shocked that you permit this fraudulent activity via your site, you do not have appropriate safeguards, checks and procedures in place to prevent these properties being listed on your site and your customer services team were completely incapable of offering any assistance or support in a very distressing situation. The fact that this situation happened to me twice in literally the space of 20 minutes suggests that there are a large number of properties on your site which are not legitimate and needless to say, I will never be using your site again.

I am also reporting this matter to the police and I have left reviews in respect of both properties warning others of this scam.

Please provide a full refund in respect of both bookings as soon as possible and confirm that this will be actioned. I would also request that you remove these properties (and any other properties operated by the same individual) from your site to avoid this happening to other people in the future.

I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

I recieved an email on the 24th feb providing me with details of a voucher for the covid cancelled booking make with hotel.com vouchers from tescos clubcard (value £165). I have tried to use the voucher on 3 seperate devices and it informs me each time "The coupon code is for email subscribers. Its only valid when you click through from your coupon email. I sopke to someone from Hotels.com and was told to send an email explaining what was happening with photographs. I recieved a conformation email, informing me someone would get back to me in 10 days. I have emailed again as have had no response. And have still not had a response.

June 24, 2021 I made a same day reservation through Hotels.com for a room at the Quality Inn in Sparks NV. At he time I made the reservation it stated no cancellation refunds but since we would be at the hotel in the evening I went ahead and made the reservation The reservation # is [protected]. The amount I paid to Hotels.com was $112.85. When we got to Quality Inn that evening we were told the hotel or Hotels.com had overbooked and there wasn't a room for us. I cancelled the reservation per the Quality Inns direction. We tried contacting Hotels.com 5 times to get a refund because of either the hotel or Hotels.com error. Each time we were sent to another department and I would receive an email of denial. I should get a refund because of the error of either the hotel or Hotels.com. The reservation was made under my name Janet Manchester and my phone # [protected]. Please notify me to let me know this was received. Thank you.

They treated us poorly we went and booked this for my daughters birthday they left kids in the car and a pregnant lady in the car for 5 hours with no were to go I want compensation we wasted 50 worth of shopping and a £70 cake got spoiled because we had no we're to go on they gave us a voucher to stay in a hotel which did not cover us as it was bank holiday plus there system was down on that weekend too hand we only could book through them they had a duty of care and failed to provide us suitable accommodation due to the fault of there selves in relation to our original accommodations I want to take this higher and get compensation we had to end up spending more money and they still have not refunded us back

I made a hotel booking via hotels.com. This was cancelled due to Covid and I received a coupon. As the amount was substantial I split the bookings and this worked very well. Each time I made a booking I received a new coupon with the updated amount. Until my final booking for July. Hotels.com claims they sent me a new coupon on the 5th of July. Unfortunately I never received it. Because of this I am not able to make a booking using my coupon - 2390 USD is pending. I have spent many hours on the chat - it has all been documenten and the call center agents have been pushing me around - telling fairytales just to get off the chat. The only thing that needs to be done is to resent the email they claim to have sent on the 5th of July. The so called emergency team is supposed to get back to customers within 24 hours - guess what they never do. Please make an effort in getting MY money back. Thank you. Alexander Doll [protected]@gmail.com

I booked a stay in London a month ago via tesco Clubcard points. As soon as I realised a day or so later that the points hadn't been applied and the full amount of £252 had been taken from my account I contacted hotels.com via chat to explain the circumstances ad was promised a full refund. One month and many chats later this still hasn't happened. I did get a call from a Phoenix Arizona number last Tuesday saying my refund would be processed within 5 days so I was hopeful at that point. But still nothing and the chat service is saying it will be another 10 days. This is totally unacceptable.

Last May 2020 I had planned a trip with my family to Cape Verde, however due to the Pandemic we were not able to Travel.
A Voucher was provided however the Hotel that I was staying before currently is closed. Based on that I have contacted your Customer Service and luckily, I got the information that with the new rules from 2021 a new Voucher would be sent to me and I can make a reservation in a different Hotel and Country (contact done in the beginning of August - S#[protected]). I just had to wait a maximum of 7 days and I should receive the respective Voucher. Unfortunately, I did not get it.
Yesterday (August 23rd) I got in contact with the Customer Service again and after explaining the full situation I have provided the details for the new reservation with Hotel Name, Location, Dates for Travel, Number of passengers, everything. After searching for the Hotel, the Customer representative was giving a quotation that was almost the double of what I was finding on the website. After providing additional information like the Hotel Address, I was requested to wait on the line and suddenly the call was turned off (the Customer Representative Name was Lucas) after almost 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Today, I have called again, and I was able to talk with a different Customer Representative (Vinucius) that has informed me that the request raised with the ID S#[protected] was cancelled internally without providing me any information or explanation. So, I believe I could never get the New Voucher, right? After explaining, again, the full situation Vinicius was able to find the Hotel with the same rate that I was getting in the website. "WoW, we will resolve this finally!", I thought (S#[protected]).
Well, I was wrong, Vinicius informed me that he could not do the reservation and he had to put a request to a different department and the request will take approximately 7 days again. But this is not what got me really upset. The issue was when he told me that if any price change applies to the reservation between today and the date that I would be contacted for the other department, this cost should be supported by me.
Well, I am trying to make the reservation since the beginning of August and since then the prices already went up and for sure will continuing going up and I truly believe that does not make sense to have a customer paying for something that he is not responsible for neither can make anything.
I have requested to talk with a Supervisor, and I was informed that I would receive a call from the Supervisor today, however, as I was already expecting, no call was received.

I booked a 5 night stay at the Hilton grand for 6/6/21 thru 6/10/21. After a 9 hour drive to Myrtle Beach SC when i went to check in the hotel had no record of my reservation. the Manger called hotels.com and after being on hold for 30+ minutes, they hung up. The Hotel did not have a vacancy to cover my 5 nights, so I had to find a place to stay. When I got back home, I contacted Hotels.com concerning my problem. They said they would look into it and get back to me. They emailed me to say they were unable to contact the property thus there would be no refund under the contract. I had contacted Hilton Grand corporate office [protected] (Gregory Siegel) and they confirmed they never received the reservation nor did they receive any payment. Confirmation number [protected] For them to say they were unable to contact the property is absurd. If this is not taken care of they leave me no other choice but to take legal action.

Justin Murgatroyd, Booking reference: [protected]
Bayhouse Scarborough - dates 22nd & 23rd August 2021.
When we arrived we were shown a notice that said the main guests at the Bayhouse were council referrals! - we would not have booked if we had been aware of this.
The notice also stated that there would be no servicing of the rooms for the duration of your stay.
There was a excrement stain on the bathroom floor trying to be passed off as hair dye, in my opinion under no circumstances should this room have been let until the disgusting stain had been removed. We were offered a £10 reduction if we paid but we had already paid.
The hotels.com website said that breakfast was available at the venue - this was not the case.
We had paid prior to the event and were badgered to pay again, even though we told the greeter that we had already paid.

I found a price for my room in Cabo San Luca that is lower than what is being offered on Hotels.com. For over a month I have been getting the run around from customer service, with each person telling me one lie about how to resubmit the claim and the next person saying something different. Finally I was directed to send an email to their tech support team and give them 10 business days to respond. I have been waiting for over 2 weeks.

I strongly believe that the plan has been to wait out the lower price, until it increased.

Cancelled BOTH my reservations.

Almost messed up our long planned family vacation. Still waiting on one of the refunds from February. Truly unacceptable 4 hour wait (3) days in a row to speak to representative. Never never ever again will I use hotels.com

Really screwed up because I just spent 9 weeks on the road and you lost ALL that business $9000 hotel bill paid for by my insurance company that could've been yours if ANYONE had done their job or picked up the phone to fix the simple problems.

James Bores
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