Opodo
Reviews and Complaints

Incident date: Dec 2016
Booking reference: [protected]

I cancelled my trip in Dec 2016 and was told by an agent a refund would be coming from 30-60 days. Today would be Day 53 with zero update.

Now, the biggest issue is contact and communication. The website provides many places to send an email, however the email will be returned over and over again as "undeliverable". When I did call several times, costing me $.20 a min for a total of $100 on my cell bill) I informed the agent of the technical issue with the email system and process. As of today, still unable to email the company. I have even contacted them on Facebook without success. Please help! Beware! As of now its a black hole.

This company is the worst! I booked with opodo (big mistake). On arival at the airport I was held at security with united airlines and asked many person questions that have absolutely no relevance to them and after 45 minutes they decided I was not allowed on my flight as I did not have a visa to enter America (it is not required as I was only passing threw transit). After showing this to them they still would not let me on my flight or allow me to cancel my flight. I called opodo to cancel and they told me I was marked as no show so are not able to refund my ticket! I have proof of being at the airport, I even had to book another flight from the airport for 2 hours later with a different airline as I already out of my home country. This is pathetic. I advise anyone booking with this company to re think the idea. This will be taken to the press.

It was the morning of 14th December and everything was set. My wife and I had planned for our trip to New Zealand for over a year. The moment was finally upon us. Christchurch to Auckland, 3 weeks in our self-contained campervan, nature, lakes, glaciers, caves - you name it and our itinerary had it. This was going to be perfect. We had used all the tips and recommendations from friends and Lonely Planet to build the trip of our lives - this was going to be epic. My father-in-law's passing away in November made it more 'medicinal' than 'recreational' - my wife and I needed this time together, away from civilization and everything else. But sadly Opodo and China Airlines did not let it happen!

Back to the morning of 14th December. With our tickets in our hands, we got to the check-in counter. Inspite of the long journey ahead (Frankfurt-Taipei-Christchurch) we were excited. "Can I please see your visas?" asked the lady at the China Airlines desk. I smiled back and opened our passports which carried the New Zealand visas and added "We also have the print-out for visas for Taipei, where our stop over is.". She quickly retorted, "Yes but what about your transit visa for Australia?". For a moment I did not register this - "what's wrong with her? what's she talking about?" I thought to myself. We were told that our flight had a 1 hour 20 minute re-fuelling stop in Sydney and being Indian passport holders, we needed a transit visa for it. Without the transit visa we were not allowed to fly. We tried to explain multiple times, showing our tickets, that Australia was NOT MENTIONED anywhere on the tickets. All the tickets said was, Frankfurt-Taipei-Christchurch and Auckland-Taipei-Frankfurt. Soon the main airline representative was called. She, in a hurried 'I don't really care about it' attitude said boarding won't be possible without a visa. She made no effort to help solve the problem at hand. We asked for help, for alternatives and for solutions - nothing seemed to work. Except for the lady from Frankfurt Airport ground staff who went out of her way to find information and help out, no one seemed to care. We saw our New Zealand dream crumble in front of us as our flight departed and stopped showing on the information monitor.

My wife and I were in a state of total disbelief. We called Opodo - the travel booking agent through which we booked our tickets. In total this was a 4 hour call made to their UK customer service center which refused to call us back instead. At first they tried to convince us that the airline staff at the check-in counter had made a mistake and no such stop-over in Australia reflected in Opodo's system. They confirmed that in case the airline had made a change to their schedule, it was possible that they had not informed Opodo and thus we were also not informed. I immediately asked for a written confirmation on the same, which was promptly sent to me. However a few hours later they confirmed that all China Airlines flights have a second stop over in Australia - but why did the booking confirmation from Opodo reflect only 1 stop in Taipei? Why did the same confirmation not mention Sydney or any other place in Australia? And whose fault was it anyway? And who would pay for all the monetary losses we made on our flights and bookings in NZ? We have no answers yet from either Opodo or China Airlines. Neither of them has stepped forward to solve this issue and help us get a fair resolution.

I booked a flight on Opodo website from Simferopol Ukraine to Larnaca Cyprus with Ural airlines for the 15th and 16th November 2016. It was a two legged flight. Opodo misled me when paying for the flight they stated I will get a discount and no service charge will be charged, but when the final total came they charged me for the service charge. They also charged for me using a debit card, 10 euros, a very excessive amount.
They also did not give me a chance to include check in baggage with my ticket when I was first purchasing teh ticket on their website.
So when I got to the airport Ural airline charged me 35 euros for checking in my bag from Simferopol to Moscow on 15th November 2016 and then anther 50 euros to check my baggage in from Moscow to Larnaca on 16th November 2016. Even though it was just one ticket I had bought.

I booked a flight via Opodo service and they messed everything up and booked me a completely different flight! When I noticed there was a mistake it was already too late and their rep said that nothing can be done.
It took me weeks to get my money back and I got nothing but headache.
I will not use these guys again and would not recommend them to anyone. They are highly unprofessional and unreliable.

Made a booking via www.opodo.co.uk and after I paid for the reservation they added some extra charges. This was the second time I used Opodo and as I remember there were no extra fees when I used this service for the first time. I checked their website very carefully and there was no information about extra fees. Wanted to ask their support what for did they charge me but they did not reply to my question. Well, Opodo is not a bad company, but there is terrible lack of customer support and it is really difficult to reach these guys.

I have booked a flight and later they contacted me and told that they were not able to process my payment so they cancelled my booking. They claimed that they did not charge my card. When I checked my bank statement I saw that they actually did take my money so I immediately contacted Opodo support and asked for a refund. These liars refused to refund my money and kept telling me they did not have my money! Opodo is a total scam, save your money and book elsewhere!

Booked two flights for BA for Gran Canaria to Heathrow plus two bags in the hold. They confirmed this in an e mail. Went on to the BA website and they knew nothing about bags in the hold. e mailed Opodo and they told me to pay the £80 to BA, send them the receipt and they would refund me. They have done no such thing. All they do is play for time telling me I will get the refund "in a few days". They are a disgrace. I have initiated a Visa chargeback via my bank. And I will try very hard to get them on the BBC Watchdog program for sharp practices

Booked a flight through Opodo and needed to make a change to the booking. I accepted there was an administration fee to change the booking, I wanted to know what the total price, including the new flight is. All Opodo could tell me was there was an administration fee. After over a week of emails and phone calls, they cannot get passed telling me there is an administration fee. They have now not responded to follow up emails in over a week, and so far I've spent just under 2 hours on hold on their phone system. Absurd customer service.

My recent experience with Opodo is one of extreme customer service failure, failure to respond to numerous queries about my flights and lack of concern by staff on the telephone in relation to baggage I had paid for as to whether they had booked this with the relevant airline. I fly tomorrow and Opodo has still not confirmed that the hold baggage I paid them for has been booked by them with the airline.

The company has just ignored my numerous contacts with it.

I am a totally dis-satisfied customer of Opodo.

was overcharged in March after I cancelled my flight and I have been waiting for my refund for over 2 months now. I have rang up numerous times to be told the refund had been processed but were unable to give me anymore information as it was being handled by the accounts department. When I asked to be transferred to the department they said they could not transfer me but last week I managed to get hold of the supervisor of Opodo who he promised me that I should get my refund of £244.91 in the card which I had originally used to make the payment. When asked if they could email me confirmation that the refund was being processed this was not done. But I was given the name of the customer agent I had spook too. But I have been ringing up the day after day. The money has not been refunded since March.It's not as if I was asking for a full refund. It's that they told me a refund amount, I agreed to it. They irreversibly cancelled my flights and then told me they would give me a much lower amount.which I have been waiting but today the agent just told me he do not know what is happening to my situation and my money.am so upset right now don't know what to do but I will just let my solicitors to do this for me.

I booked a number of flights starting in Japan, through Beijing and arriving in Bangkok for early August this year. I received a confirmation email, but then received a notification that one of my flight times had changed and to call them. Unfortunately I am not currently in the UK, I am living in Japan and could not use the telephone number I was given. I sent an email to let them know that the change was not a problem, but they said that if I didn't call them my flights could be cancelled.

Over the course of the next couple of months, I have attempted to contact Opodo through email, through the international number (which does not connect) and through the 0333 number I have been given multiple times (it goes through to a Japanese home number), and I'm out of options. I was then told yesterday that another of my flights has been cancelled, and I'm now on another flight which would leave me in a very difficult position of having 25 minutes to transfer. I have emailed them to ask if they can contact me on my telephone number, or discuss this through email, but I just keep receiving the same message over and over with the number I cannot use.

I am hoping someone from Opodo sees this as they are clearly not reading my emails.

Because of a personal issue at home I needed to modify flights. Opodo contact centres open and close at terrible hours so to modify tickets at hours outside the hours they are open it is impossible. I actually got through to Lufthansa because I couldnt change flights through Opodo because of their ridiculous opening hours and they cancelled the first flights with the promise that the second one could be modified with a phone call. I called up this morning before the second flight would have taken off and got a message that their call centre opened at 9am. I called when they opened, got put through to different departments and then was told the flight was non refundable and non changable even with a charge because of the no show, it was only a no show because of Opodo's useless opening hours. I now need to rebook flights and will never, ever book with Opodo again. Lost all the money put into the flights easily resolved with a telephone call that couldnt be made because Opodo likes to save cash on offshore contact centre workers that dont understand much English (Or didnt when I called). My booking ref was [protected].

I booked a ticket with Opodo and after the payment nit going through numerous times it finally went through on the 3rd go. I tgen stayed on the phone with the agent until I received a confirmation from them and my eticket. The next day I was refunded partially and immediately checked my email to see if I gad been contacted. There wasn't any communication from them so I contacted them on the phone. They said that the booking was cancelled and they had tried to contact me. I said that wheb the eticket was sent I was still on the line with thier agents and nothibg was said. I then asked why was it cancelled but did not get a clear answer. I asked to speak to a manager and was told to wait. After a long wait I was put through to another person, I once again explained the situation and asked him to do something about it. He said he couldn't do anything about it and he was quite surprised too to see a cancellation after an eticket had been issued. I then asked for his name and position and it turned out he was another agent and not a manager. I then asked to be put through to a manager and he explained that they did not deal with customers on the phone. He then tried tonrebook and a technical error occured. He then suggested I complain using the online form. I did that abd the reply I received was that they were concerned and understood why I was not happy and hope it won't prevent me from booking withbopodo again. Clearly a generic email they use to deal with all the complaints they receive. I tried once more on the phone and all the responces avoid the issue which is why was my ticket cancelled and why aren't they booking another one for me. It was lucky that I checked my bank account otherwise there would have been 0 communication from them and I would find out far too late to make alternative arrangements. I am now considering legal action as I was issued an eticket and that was cancelled without any reason or even communication.

I booked flight through the company www.opodo.co.uk. I filled the form and got the email, which stated that my booking was on request. It meant that they would reach me soon and provided the ticket. I waited and got nothing. I started to send emails to the customer services, but everything was completely useless. No idea what to do now, so please help me. Post your comments and share any useful info.

People, stay away from the company www.opodo.co.uk. I booked flight through this website. When I checked my account, it turned out that they took hidden charge from me. They overcharged me for £50, ‘coz I used Master Card. WTF? It was too much, as well as it wasn’t mentioned about this fee on the website. They are liars and scammers, and I want to find other deceived customers, who lost money. Please we need to stop this company and return our money. Post your comments.

I booked with Opodo on 12/18/2012 for traveling on 12/24 between two Brazilian cities. They sent a confirmation notice and issued e-tickets details the same day as the booking. Since I later did not get any contact from them either by email or phone call. I presumed the ticketing had been made.. But when the three of us went to check in early morning 12/24, the plane carrier could not found our ticket information and said our tickets were not in their system. Stunned, we spend 3-4 hours tried to contact Opodo to get an explanation and rebook the tickets at the airport. However, Opodo replied that our ticket booking was cancelled on 12/19 and had e-mailed the same day the cancellation. But I could not find any cancellation email in my Inbox or Spam.
Opodo could not book any ticket for us until after new year. We were stuck at a foreign airport without any help from Opodo. Luckily enough, we finally ourselves booked ticket to leave the airport on 12/25 Christmas day, but we have to stay 1 night in hotel, taxi transportation, and other expenses.When we got home we contacted Opodo about this miserable experience and ask for some compensation. They denied their fault and gave excuses, one by one.
First they said they had notified me about the cancellation, and the payment was refunded; they have never been able to show the original cancellation email although we requested many times. Then they said there was a system error/ technical issue. Yesterday, 1/8/2013, they said it was due to the credit card payment being declined [the card has very high, much more than enough credit limit]. Ridiculous, every email from them was a lie.
If they made a mistake and caused a customer's damage, they should admit it and compensate it, but they just lied and blamed customers.