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Made a cancellable booking at Hotel Bayrischer in Heidelberg, Germany using Hotels.com. Due to change of travel plans I cancelled the booking prior to the deadline allowable for changes. To my dismay, the hotel charged me for the full accommodation charge even though it was cancelled. I received confirmation from Hotels.com that the cancellation was successfully processed. Now it seems that I cannot receive a refund.

I have been using hotels.com for at least 10 years. during those years, it's become harder and harder to resolve issues. I can no longer sign into my account since you changed the rewards system. I've call several "customer service" numbers and they all lead into assisting with a current reservation.

I try to sign in and it sends a code. I enter the code and then try to sign in and it sends a code.

I would at least like to use up the rewards I have remaining before i move on to another booking agency.

my hotels.com booking (itinerary number [protected]) is for 215sq.feet room in amsterdam, whereas the hotel room offered in Sharm hotel is only 65sq.feet! The hotel doesn't have 215sq feet room. In all other websites like booking.com and others it is correctly mentioned as 65sq.feet actual whereas in Hotels.com it is incorrectly stated as 215sq.feet. same way the other websites refer this as 2star hotel whereas hotels.com stated as a 3star hotel

I have booked 2 rooms for 3nights. When I contacted hotels.com reservation team, they are offering a very low compensation of 220usd! This is ridiculous as we have been not rightly notified earlier by Hotels.com. we have been offered 1/4th size room instead of 215sq feet room priced at 940euro . This is totally unfair.

As we have checked in first day, we were requesting to consider relocating us to another hotel for the next two days with minimum 150sq.feet by Hotels.com without additional charge as this is not a mistake from my end. It is a mistake from Hotels.com and I deserve to be compensated with this alternate solution. We couldn't check the room size before checkin and hence we cannot be held responsible.

I am a gold member of Hotels.com from the past one decade and I don't think I have to be treated this bad by Hotels.com.

Request and appreciate hotels.com proper response and alternate solution to be shifted to another hotel tomorrow

Pls treat this subject with utmost priority

Thanks and regards

Rajkumar Bhoothalingam

your website does not work...you make us sign in with a new password bur your website continuously has a problem and the customer can do nothing. your IT dept. is terrible. There really is no customer service.

There is no missing information on this complaint that you have brought back to me 3 times now. I keep adding screenshots but the box is empty when you keep telling me there is missing information.

This happened back in February 2022. I booked a hotel in Maui for Maui seaside hotel for April. For some reason that hotel and another hotel called bamboo in was also charged for 1143. I tried to dispute this with my bank and hotels.com both said I had to pay. I have no idea how this got on my account, and complain because hotels.com did not accommodate me in any way would not let me cancel and have to pay this fee. I do want to seek other actions but want to first right complaint first.

I booked a hotel room in Myrtle Beach on Friday July 21st 2023 and was shown a charge of $157 but was charged $402.
Receipt
Hotels.com itinerary: [protected]
Purchase date: Jul 21, 2023
Booking details
Four Points by Sheraton Myrtle Beach
101 Fantasy Harbour Blvd, Myrtle Beach, SC, 29579 United States of America
Check-in: Jul 21, 2023
Check-out: Jul 22, 2023
1 room x 1 night
Traditional Room, 1 King Bed, Non Smoking
Booked for: Bernie franczak
Payment details
Room price
Fri, Jul 21 $359.00
Taxes $43.08
City/local tax
Payable at property
$8.04
Total $410.12

I booked a hotel on 26th June 2023 and cancelled literally within minutes of the booking, I immediately called hotel .com, they confirmed someone will call me to discuss further, no one called and i then called again around 3am I was on the call from 3am to 5.20am the person I spoke to confirmed that they have contacted the hotel directly and the booking had not gone through therefore a refund will be processed by Hotel ,com and it will be refunded immediately.

I never received the refund so i chased again on 29th June the person i spoke to again confirmed the refund is being processed and it will take 5 days . i waited 5 days and called back i was told to give it a further few days as the refund can take up to 10days. this still to date has not been done and i have not heard anything back form my initial complaint, i am more than happy to take this matter further,

I used hotels.com to book a king bed room for me and my wife at America's Best Value Inn Amarillo Downtown. When I got to the hotel they said there were no rooms with king beds. I had to book another hotel but they refused to give me a refund. They said to contact my booking agent. So I used the hotels.com chat service and they were not able to get a refund. They still showed king rooms available on their website but the hotel insists that there are none available. Clearly this is a communication issue between hotels.com and the hotel but neither is interested in resolving it and they stole my money. The hotel gets to keep the bulk of the money minus whatever fee hotels.com gets from them. Meanwhile I have no recourse with either of them as they just keep pointing the finger at the other. So they get to keep the money for the room but I don't get the room that I booked with a so-called 'guaranteed reservation' according to hotels.com.

I have rewards nights that were supposedly going to be converted to cash. THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED! I can no longer sign into Hotels.com even after I set up the new system! I tried signing in today once again and now it says I cannot sign in, apparently the password is wrong. The password is the same, therefore it is not wrong. I tried to reset the password and it would never send me the code! This is the second time I have had to call! My husband and I travel a lot! This is ridiculous! It seems Hotels.com might not be worth the hassle! Very sad, as I really trusted Hotels.com and we used it faithfully!

Sincerely,

Tammy Ferrell

Hello, I use hotels.com very regularly as shown by my gold member status. I have been unable to retrieve my receipts or my rooms i contacted the customer chat portal and at first it was fine but very little help offered and when typing up my response to an answer given to me the are you still there kind of message popped up and Kenneth left the chat like 5 seconds later.

I have since found a way around it to obtain my receipts from hotel.com but it tool me figuring it out.

If i didn't get these receipts it could have resulted in disciplinary procedures as I use a company card.

I on average book 3-4 hotel rooms a week with htels.com but once my loyalty stamps have been used i may consider taking my business elsewhere

I want to make a formal complaint as I did not receive notification that my rewards were due to expire.

I have spent over 3 and a half hours speaking on chat conversations regarding this and was promised a call from a manager within 4 hours. I wasted the day waiting for something that was not actioned. Customer service is appalling!

I tried to use my rewards to book Turkey in June for my brothers wedding but unfortunately was unable to travel after 18 months of illness.

If I had received notification, I would have booked something in advance.

I understand from the chat conversations that the rewards are unable to be reinstated. However, I feel that Hotels.com are obliged to notify customers of impending expiration and have not done this.

I need Hotels.com to acknowledge this oversight and find another way to resolve this issue.

I am not prepared to lose almost two free nights accommodation which I earned due to lack of communication.

I had booked a room for the night in Wales this coming weekend, using my free night reward. I paid a little extra, but not much worth talking about. My plans however have been stopped due to train strikes. So I contacted Hotels.com on Sat 15th July 2023 to try and see about getting the date changed. The man on the other end wasn't very helpful. He kept trying to rush me when I was trying to explain my problem. And he confused me with his proposed resolution. I asked for a change of date and he said he would check up on if it was possible and would also ask about a refund. I said to him that the listing said refunds were not possible otherwise I would have requested a refund. I asked that he ask about a refund first and then to change the date. He said not a problem and that I should leave it with him. He said I shouldn't worry and he would make sure it was all sorted and was made a priority. A couple of days later (17th) I get a reply in which he said he was unable to get a refund. No surprises there, I told him it wasn't possible but he insisted he could get me a refund. He didn't say anything about changing dates which was my original request. And then he mentioned a cancellation fee. There was no talk of cancellation fees. I even after I asked him about that and he said not to worry, he'd sort it all out. But to make matters worse, he didn't even cancel the booking for me. So to recap, I came to him to change the booking for me, but we ended up agreeing to cancel it with a request for a refund. But the result was nothing at all done to cancel, change date or give a refund, with the added negative of a possible cancellation fee he did not mention, even when I asked him about it. It was literally the most useless conversation I have ever had with anyone as nothing has been resolved and no questions answered. I went back to the same method of which I had originally attempted to change the booking, with the intention of cancelling it and asking about the cancellation fee and instead of putting me through to a person to chat to, it automatically cancelled my trip without any options for asking questions, without so much as a "are you sure", it was just cancelled like that, and when it asked me if I wanted to give feedback (which I definitely did), the feedback option was broken and kept sending me to an error screen. So now I have cancelled my booking without being able to ask about a cancellation fee and I have lost my reward night and potentially have to pay for the privilege of not going on the weekend break I'm paying for but not actually attending. It's a complete rip off and has made me think twice about using this service. In addition, I have been having a lot of trouble accessing the companies app and the rewards night has been a colossal waste of time.

I lost rewards to them that I never got back during the Covid era!

Then was traveling and had to open up a new account as I did not have access to the old one. They refused to combine the 2 accounts and I have lost rewards again!

Now it seems they are merging and I don't even know if my login info is good now! They could have notified me. Am I going to lose my recent rewards!

What a ******* company!

They shouldn't even be a 1 star! Maybe a burnt-out star!

I reserved a room for some guests coming from out of state at Days Inn in Ruston, LA The 11th through the 13th of July. When they arrived at the hotel, because it was reserved in my name, he would not let them have the room, would not let me talk to him on the phone and would not give them a refund. He was hateful and rude to my guests. I'm 76 years old and it was 10:00pm and I couldn't get out of bed, dressed and go down there to check in the room. This is the first time ever we have had this kind of problem.

Since the y could not use the reservation because of the desk clerk at the hotel Please refund the more than $300.00 I had to pay for a room we couldn't use.

I booked a stay at Chocolate Express Hotel And Suites in Hershey in PA Due to a technical issue when trying to book the site timed out and it just cycled when trying to pay I assumed it did not go through so I tried again the day we were going I found out it did I got emailed alert alert from my bank of two charges i called both the hotel and hotel.com and to no avail was told I could not get a refund on a mistake that was not mine so yes I’m thoroughly pissed off and all I got was the hotel and hotel.com pointing fingers at each other saying each other is to blame. The reservation numbers are [protected] and [protected]

I stayed at the WoodSpring Suites Round Rock-Austin North in Austin TX from May 28 - June 7, 2023. I booked through Hotels.com using my account. I stayed 11 days for an average night amount of $67.14 ...I have been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for my free night to get "UNLOCKED" so I can use it. It has now been 35 days, so the excuse that Hotels.com has been giving that it can take 35 days to unlock - that is a pure BS excuse! And now Hotels.com created a fake ONE KEY to help Hotels.com fraudulently steal and delete millions of free earned reward days from clients so as to not have to pay for those free nights! I have spent hours on the phone with Hotels.com this past week trying to get my free night...there is NO APP FOR ONE KEY! There is NO WAY TO SIGN UP FOR ONE KEY! ONE KEY IS MADE UP BS to help facilitate the fraudulent deletion of millions of customers free earned rewards days! My email is WILL.[protected]@yahoo.com ...please forward me a link with a redeemable code to use for my free rewards night worth $67.14 ...my Hotels.com itinerary/confirmation = [protected]

I booked a night's stay at the Hard Rock hotel in Orlando via Hotels.com using tesco clubcard vocuhers for the 14th August. Subsequently we found out that friends were going to be there the following week so I contacted Hotels.com via online chat. They said it wouldn't be a problem and they would issue me a goodwill voucher ( as they can't reissue the clubcard vochers) to enable me to rebook. I took a photo of the chat where they said this. When the chat was finished I found the vouchers were emailed to me - 4 at £100 and 1 at £5. I then went to rebook but found I can only use one voucher per booking. I was never told this at any point in the chat and the agent said I would be issued with a voucher and not vouchers. The agent knew I was going to rebook straight away. My problem is I now can't afford to rebook as the hotel is expensive and i can only use £100 towards its cost. Hotels.com never made me aware of this and I feel I haven been deceived by them. I have tried resolving it with them but they say they can't do anything. I have screen shots of parts of the chat where no mention of multiple vouchers is made.

I contacted hotels.com to cancel a booking because of a death in my family . There’s no way I can take a trip to Italy in these circumstances. The cancellation time was just 8 hours later than the deadline for cancellation too. The person I was talking to, kenn roffie, pretended to call the hotel or property management to see if the cancellation could be done without the fees, ie, total cost of booking, I waited over 5 minutes and this person came back with ‘ no we could not cancel without all the costs’ . But what about hotels.com fees, they can’t refund those charges ei. Even airlines refund charges for customers during a bereavement

My assistant accidently booked double booked me for a conference in St. Louis 5/21-23. My reservation at the Lumiere was booked on Hotels.com and advertised as no penalty if cancelled by 5/20/23. When I realized the double booking at 6:00 a.m. on 5/20, I attempted to cancel the reservation at the Lumiere. I was told that I would be charged for 50% ($150) of the stay. When I objected and said that the reservation said it could be cancelled with NO penalty thru 5/20...I was told that (fine print) the reservation had to be booked by 12:01 am. Hotels.com said they could appeal to the hotel on my behalf, which I requested as I was not staying in the hotel. They said that they needed to keep the reservation open to be considered for an appeal. I stated that I was NOT staying in the hotel, and should be charged NOTHING.

Hotels.com agent said they would see what they could do. 3 days later the hotel denied the appeal, claimed I never cancelled the reservation, and charged me the full $300. I appealed to Hotels.com which said their hands were tied...the Hotel has the right to do what they want and nothing they can do about it. I again appealed to the Hotel...and got a curt NO. 100% ripoff. Recommend you take your business to any of the other reputable hotels in St. Louis

I have been trying to cancel reservation number [protected] 3 nights 2 rooms at Yotel London City. I have been rerouted from page to page and cannot get anywhere. I reached out to the hotel who told me that Hotel.com was the one who needed to cancel the reservation. Ive tried it through the website and the APP and it won't allow me to click cancel, it only allows me to contact the property... Very frustrating and time consuming!