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Hotels.com My login email is retired.

I have a bunch of free nights but I can't log in because the only option is that they send a verification code to the retired email which is inaccessible.

Repeated calls to customer service have done nothing with them stating to me they don't have the ability to change it and

Just about the worst login system out there and obviously, it was done to screw people out of already-earned free nights

Recommendation: Use a different app

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Hotels.com Reservation online

I recently made a reservation on this site online paid in full. I was informed that my reservation was cancelled and on the online site it clearly states that reservations are non-refundable. However on my conformation email it notices me of my reservation being cancelled. My only complaint would be if the transaction states clearly that my reservation cannot be cancelled or changed how and why was this action complete.? With me not having any more available funds to repurchase or rebook the through the same hotel, waiting on the refund will and is causing me to checkout without funds for another room due to my circumstances.

Claimed loss: I LOSS MY FUNDS AND VAUABLE ITEM APPROXIMATELY WORTH UP $1500.00.!

Desired outcome: COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OF TIME, FUNDS AND SERVERE STRESS CAUSED BY FALSE ALIGATIONS AND POLICY PROCEDURES BEING OVERTURNED.!

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Hotels.com are scammers. When you call to dispute a charge(s) they try to put you off on the hotel. They fraudulently charged my credit card. I did not book a reservation with them. All I did was check their rate and that was it. I subscribed to their website and that was it. I did however save my credit card to my profile. They claimed that I booked a...

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Hotels.com Hotels.com Gift Card Damage through no fault of my own

My parents gifted me a hotels.com gift card for my christmas present, On February 1st 2024, i went to use this gift card, i opened the gift card up where it said to open, and the paper lifted off the 'Pin Number' as i opened it. Therefore, i could not tell what the pin number was to use this card.

I thought it's ok, i will contact hotels.com and they will be able to see that i haven't used this card, and will replace it, or add the total amount to my account so that i can use.

But, this wasn't the case. They told me that it cannot be replaced. I asked the question, that they could tell the money on it hadn't been spent, and i had a receipt with it, to show that it was purchased, but they still wouldn't.

£80.00 for my parents is a lot of money, and now it's something that i cannot use, caused by damage due to poor and shoddy gift cards.

Please see attached image to show where the pin number is missing. Because of the way the gift card is made (out of paper).

Claimed loss: £80.00

Desired outcome: I would like the £80.00 returned to my hotels.com account, or a replacement gift card sent out to me.

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On 1/10/2024 We made a reservation at hotels.com for Red Roof Inn in Tucson, AZ. After booking it around 7:00p we went to the hotel and they would not take the itinerary # sent to us in the email. They wanted a confirmation number. My wife and I called numerous times to hotels.com and all we got was the phone tree, when we finally were able to get somewhere...

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I am writing to inform you of a fraud attempt your partners in our car rental booked for 12/5-12/12 in Mexico. We feel like we are being deceived and have requested a refund, which they are now denying. When we arrived at the America Car Rental agency in San Jose Airport, we were told that we needed Third party liability. We told them that we may have thi...

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I’m contacting you regarding my booking ref- [protected]. This booking was originally for 2-4 December. We had some family emergency on the 2nd which meant we were not going to be able to make it to Porbandar in time to check in on that day. I then spoke to Miguel via the online chat and explained the situation. He then contacted the hotel and it...

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Hello, I am writing to express my deep dissatisfaction with the service I have received from Hotels.com, specifically regarding your unresponsiveness to my emails and the frustrating nature of your bonus system. Despite my previous attempts to communicate this matter, I continue to encounter challenges with the registration of my bonuses. They are...

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Hotels.com rewards

Hi I have 83.11 in OneKeyCash but when I go on to book a room it only shows $4.11

Please check into this. I have the print out that shows the $83.11. I need to book a room in Dec. Please get back to me ASAP. I have been booking from Hotel.com a long time. I booked under Barbara Coates then got married now Barbara McCombs

4587 S Rio Camino Loop

Fort Mohave AZ 86426

Thank you

Claimed loss: $83.11

Desired outcome: To be able to book a room with the $83.11

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my itinerary No [protected] Hampton by Hilton, Guarulhos airport, Sao Paolo on checking in to the hotel I was advised that my room had been cancelled by Hotel.com despite me having paid a 50% deposit on the hotel.com app. The hotel advised that this deposit had never been received by them and that the expedia group that owns hotel.com did not have an...

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Hotels.com Reservation cancelation...

On November 6th 2003 I was trying to book a hotel online. I thought I was dealing with the hotel directly. I found out that it was hotels.com through an email I received. I booked for 3 days and 3 days amount of money was debited from my bank when there usually is one day charge to hold the booking. I called and let them know that I did not know I was using a third party to book. Despite my pleading to have a full refund they refused to give me back $199 and only refund the amount for the hotel, and said it was a cancelation fee. My hotel was only a hour away. The booking was. 9 months out.The customer service rep was obtuse to the loss I taken. They will keep your $199 no matter what happens.I will not use this company for any booking. They made the website look like the hotel I was trying to book. I was misled and suffered the loss.

Claimed loss: $199

Desired outcome: I want a full refund including the cancelation fee.

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Hotels.com Hotel stay, bait and switch. Both hotel stay and gt hotels website says they have a kitchenette. That is a lie.

I booked at hotel stay at Expedia travel confirmation - Sun, Oct 8 - (Itinerary # [protected]).The place was not clean. I slept with my clothes on and walked in my shoes on the payment. I received 1 face cloth and two towels. I could not get another face towel until I turned it in.

Both Hotel.com and the GT hotel website said they had kitchenette and that was a lie. I was at the hotel for business. I cleaned the sink, toilet and used gloves to clean out the shower. The tub was so bad that on the last day, I put a towel in the tub so I could shower. I had been using the sink. I will remote to the proper health officials. I became ill and just stayed in the hotel. The people on the property were very scary and for the few days I went out, I came before dark. They did a bate and switch is against the law.

Claimed loss: $405.16

Desired outcome: Refund of Money

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I was a long time Hotels.com costumer and had earned a free reward night. In July, hotels.com switched reward programs and my night was converted to onekey cash amount of $107.72. I logged in to book a room tonight and saw that my one key cash balance says $0. I tried to do customer service chat but it kept reloading and asking me to sign in even though I...

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I have booked dozens and dozens of hotels through your website over the years. Two times I have had issues with hotels I have booked through you. Both times, you take ZERO accountability. You blame the hotel, the hotel blames you. Just came back from Suites Sistina in Italy. Had a huge issue there. Called your 1-800 ... same thing as before. Nothing you can...

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I am writing to you to express how upset I am over the extreme failure of this weekend. I made the booking on 28th September through ‘Hotels.com’ for a house available on 14th - 15th October 2023 for my family to celebrate my daughter's birthday. I received confirmation and was told that I would soon receive a link to complete a form and pay a security...

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I have been long time customer of hotels.com since a number of years ago. I have the Hotels.com app installed on my phone. I use the mobile phone app to make all my travel bookings, both personal and business. For staff travel intended for Oct 2023, I searched on Hotels.com for a hotel room in Sep 2023. Travel dates were not finalized. I hold a hotel...

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Hotels.com Reward points

For years I have been a member of Hotels.com and have enjoyed the ease of making reservations and earning rewards points which I always use towards other travel.

There have been gaps in my travel, sometimes up to 18months, and nonetheless, I have been able to quickly get on the app and make reservations and have been able to apply my points without issue. Furthermore, the points that Hotels.com gave were highly rewarding - a great incentive.

That was until this week when I tried to apply my points to an upcoming trip to find out that they were expired as of 15 days ago.

This was done without warning, without an email warning me ahead of time that the points were expiring, and nothing on the app or the website states that the points are only good for one year.

Since Hotels.com merged with OneKey it's been one horrible experience after another and this is the biggest one. There's no incentive to stay with this service when my rewards points expire - unlike the competition

Desired outcome: I would like my rewards points of $220.11 credited to me in the form of a check as I will no longer be using this service due to their horrible new reward system.

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Oct 16, 2023 1:18 pm EDT

I have used Hotels.com for nearly 8 years now. It's been a wonderful site with an easy to navigate system to book hotel reservations. In addition, and a great incentive, were the Rewards Points.

Every time I stayed at a hotel I booked through this site I would earn points that I could redeem towards other hotels in the future. That was until this week, October 2023.

Suddenly all my points are gone because they've suddenly expired. That never happened before. And second, I never received any notice that they would be expiring or a reason they would expire.

So it was quite the surprise when I went to book a room and over $200 worth of points were gone.

It won't break the bank. And that's not the point. The point is this was an incentive to use this service and it's now gone and the customer service response is there's nothing they can do about it.

And lastly, the only way they make readily available to get help from customer service is through the "Chat". I had one issue and 4 times I got dropped by 4 different agents to be replaced by the next one. It took over 1hr to get resolved a 10min issue.

That's a quick way to lose a loyal and repeat customer.

I'll be booking everything through the competition now

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Hotels.com Deleted stamp rewards

- I had 7 stamps on my account that were going to expire on 23 September 2023

- I therefore booked 4 nights in August 2023 so that the stamps (nights) would not expire.

- These 4 nights were not credited to my account.

D) I called the service center in August 2023 to complain, and they gave me a service number and said that the 4 stamps of August 2023 would be put on my account within 72 hours and that I would not loose the 7 nights which were on my account.

E) The service center FAILED to make this correction. Even though there was a service number generated.

F) On the 23rd of September, these seven nights were deleted from my account.

Desired outcome: Simple; Recredit the seven nights (stamps) that were deleted on the 23rd of September.

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Hotels.com Issue with my account

I'm having issue accessing my account. I have access to my account via your app Hotel.com which gives me all my past bookings but gives me an error code when I try to get my rewards. On explorer I more or less have an empty account?

I don't want to loose all of my rewards, probably 7-8 free nights. Moreover I've been a loyal and intensive user of your services with more than 150 rooms booked/year over at least 5 years.

Furthermore your customer service phone number in France +[protected] never never answers. If we have an issue with a booking, for example I'm in front of the place and it's closed, what do we do? Is BOOKING.COM purely virtual now?

Awaiting your response.

Regards,

Desired outcome: I want to recuperate my account with Rewards ASAP. Thanks

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I'm writing to express my disappointment and frustration regarding a recent hotel booking I made thru hotels.com. I believe its essential that I bring this issue to your attention to prevent similar incidents in future. On 15 August 2023 I I made a reservation thru hotels.com at Thassos Apart Hotel Burhaniye for 1 night 3 persons. (Hotels Com Itineary...

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I booked a hotel today at Village Hotel Solihull i added in my blue light card discount which was accepted at the time and when i paid i realised it ahdnt been added so there was a clear problem with the wbsite. when I spoke to staff they were rude and unhelpful and said that you didnt offer the blue light card disocunt which is completely false as you do...

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