Booking.com

Over three weeks ago contacted Booking.Com for a plane ticket refund due to Helene as the airport was closed during my scheduled flight there. They said they would contact me in a few days regarding my refund. I contacted them after a week of no response from them. They said they already escalated my request and I would have to wait. After two weeks I contacted them again. They were rude and belligerent and said that I would have to resolve the problem myself. I have been a regular customer of theirs and achieved a high level in their customer ratings. I am very upset this is the way they treat their valuable customers. You might save money with their booking but you will have to solve any problems yourself as their "customer service" is non existent. From other reviews and their only two star ratings on review sites; this is a regular problem with them. Pay a little extra and get the service you need as you will be left alone to solve any problems yourself if you book with them.

I had someone else log into my account and make a booking using my rewards points. I use 2FA and they could still get in! No alerts, no upcoming trip notifications, nothing.

I can't close my account because of a "technical error" and booking.com refuse to close my account.

Pitiful.

Customer service is a nightmare. Numerous phone calls and emails. I booked an apartment in Tuscany, Italy. The place was filthy, trash overflowing outside my apartment, steps leading to the apartment was disgusting, trash overflowing, mold everywhere, water did not drain from sink, doors did not lock, wi-fi did not work, no coffee maker or washing machine. The shower was a nozzle on the side of the wall and sprayed all over the room. Never book Calanchi Apartments in Via Sughera, ******* Montaione, Italy. Booking did not offer a resolution and I did not stay. Beware and read reviews.

Booking.com double booked us so we were not able to stay at property and had to find somewhere else to stay with our 5 kids late at night and despite spending hours on the phone, they have not returned our money even though it's been almost a year and they said they would. DONT USE THEM!

I used this service to book a hotel in LA. Paid for it with visa. I booked the wrong date, 1 day later than I arrived. The property immediately messaged booking.com and authorized a refund since I ended up staying there anyway. 1 week later I still don't have a refund. I messaged multiple times with zero response and now I've been on the phone waiting for more than 1 hour. They claim to have live chat but it's nowhere to be found on their site. DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE... If you want to call it that... Now I'll have to call visa and challenge the charge... Use Priceline... There's humans working there in case of any issues.

Never book with them, especially that they are a third party. I've been waiting since May for a flight refund, everytime I call they give me the same crappy story. I called the main air line that my flight was with today (Air Transat) and they refunded my flight to booking.com in June 2024, we are at the end of August and still no refund for them. I just for off the phone with booking.om and again I got the same excuse that I've been getting "the airline has not refunded us the full amount, we have escalated your issue" now I know it's totally bull as Air Transat confirmed the refund was sent in June - what's else can I do - I am sure they are making interest of my money and this is why they have yet to provide me with my refund. NEVER again will I book with them, they lost a customer.

Once you have booked the reservation Booking.com wants nothing to do with you. I booked a hotel in Amsterdam for April 2025. The hotel has sent me numerous emails asking for credit card into and wanting me to finalize the reservation. I already gave my credit card info to Booking.com. The hotel tried to charge my credit card three times today for the full amount of the stay (2 rooms). I contacted my credit card company and reported fraud. Could not find a customer service phone number for Booking.com. On their website they refer you to the hotel for help. I cancelled the reservation. I do not recommend Booking.com.

I had the equivalent of US$ 2000 taken from my room at Casa Morelos in Guadalajara, Mexico
It was US$1300 and 600 Euro. Of course you know who else has keys.
I did send an unfavourable review of this hostel due to other issues including the failure of management to show up and identify themselves when I was seeking to address this issue. I do not want to make a blunt accusation even though it seems obvious who the offenders were, so I left it out and wrote to Booking.com. Three times I contacted them, three times the usual, we will reply in two days, three times NOTHING. I do not believe this passive resistance is other than a REFUSAL to do anything. I was hoping Booking.com will contact Casa Morelos and use their influence but it mow seems that when a customer has a Really serious issue that needs their help NOTHING. I will NOT use booking.com again until they show they are serious about criminal behaviour in one of their business customers.

As a partner with Booking.com, Don't & Don't ever book a flight with them
Believe it or not, this was the absolute worst experience of my life. Do yourself a favor—learn from my mistake and NEVER book a flight with booking.com and their partner gotogate

If you ever need to reschedule, cancel, or request a refund—even on a supposedly flexible ticket—prepare to lose your patience, time, and money. They will play endless games with you, trapping you in a frustrating cycle of non-communication. The only way to contact them is through a chat system, with no option for email or phone support. And their chat representatives have a single, rehearsed response: 'We will forward your request to the support team, and they will get back to you.' Spoiler alert: they never do.

When you try to follow up, you're forced to explain your case all over again, only to be told to wait while they 'check your case'—and then, it's back to square one. It's a nightmare that will leave you wondering whether to laugh or cry out of sheer frustration.

I've been dealing with this for more than 10 days now, and in the end, I had no choice but to buy new tickets at a significant cost—money I shouldn't have had to spend if I hadn't made the mistake of booking with booking.com and their partner gotogate. Save yourself the heartache and avoid this company at all costs.

Trust me, booking.com is a company that doesn't respect its customers, and I will be reporting them to every relevant consumer protection agency I can find. Learn from my costly experience and stay far, far away from with booking.com and their partner gotogate."

I booked a Air BnB for August 2-3,2024 in Murrow Georgia. When I arrived no one was at the house. After waiting for about fifteen minutes, I called Booking,Com. After talking with several customer service representatives for over 40 minutes, I was told they cancel the reservation because the house had some issues. They claim they tried to call me but I checked my cell and could not find any calls from them or voice messages. I was told it would take 4 to 5 business before i get my refund. I will never use them again. This ruined my vacation. I have a copy of the reservation but can't upload it this review. Booker Asberry

They offered a low quality motel as an hotel. Hotel O Markham IL near Harvey/Tinley Park, should not be on business. When arrived, unsafe area ambience was evident. As soon as I went out of my car, people asked me for money, panhandlers are in property. Before me on the check in a prostitute was checking in a room for a couple of hours. When I enter the room, smoke detector low battery alert was sounding, a lot of exposed electric cables and unsafe electric connections were in the place, the room is the worse ever in maintenance, broken bath door, like it was punched, rusty paint, unpainted walls. I left and asked refund, they told me contact booking.com and laugh, now I know why, because reach customer service it's literally impossible, they said the booking is with a partner, so I have to talk to them, OYO Hotels, they don't answer and when answer barely speak English. Booking showed the worst service and are getting responsible is something bad happens in that high-risk place. I lost the money, they lost a client.

I booked a room on booking.com for that very night. They charged my card and I had a confirmation number but when I went to check in, the super 8 said they had no reservation for me. I showed them the confirmation but they refused to give us a room saying I'll have to call booking.com to straighten it out. The guy said he needed to scan my credit card on their machine for some reason and then he told me I had no funds on my card. I was worried I got scammed on the booking.com site. Well, at booking.com there was no phone number to call. The site is tedious to navigate to "customer care". And all they had was an option to message them. When we finally found a phone number, by sheer accident, it was a foreign number in Sweden or something so we couldn't call. We ended up going to another hotel. I never got a response from booking.com. We tried to cancel but couldn't and now are going to have to try to get our bank to get that money back. The super 8 is in richfield utah and they were uncooperative telling us to deal with booking. And the manager was quite careless about our plight and I heard him on the phone arguing with someone. So avoid that place too. Avoid booking.com like the plague.

Extremely disappointing experience with Booking.com. Booked a villa in Tuscany in May for an October stay, specifically chosen for its pool. In August, was informed the pool would be closed during our stay.

Key issues:
1. Pool closure wasn't mentioned when booking.
2. Booking.com confirmed this information was missing at time of reservation.
3. Customer service promised resolution within 24 hours multiple times but never delivered.
4. Representatives seemed to ignore previous conversations, repeating the same unhelpful responses.
5. Requests to speak with managers resulted in disconnected calls or hours-long holds.
6. Forced to cancel reservation to avoid charges, then told they couldn't help because I cancelled.

Spent over a week trying to resolve this through their customer service with no success. Felt like talking to poorly programmed bots rather than helpful humans. Booking.com's failure to resolve the issue or offer alternatives ruined our vacation plans.

Would not recommend using this service if you value reliability and good customer support. They don't stand behind their listings or support their customers when issues arise.

I had a very disappointing experience with Booking.com. I booked a flight ticket through their platform, but for some reason, the flight details were changed. When I reached out to their customer service to address this issue, they refused to change the flight or refund my money.

The lack of support and unwillingness to help rectify the situation was extremely frustrating. This experience has left me very dissatisfied, and I will think twice before using Booking.com again for any travel arrangements. I expected better customer service and a more flexible approach to handling such issues.

Words are insufficient to describe how terrible my experience with Booking.com was. We booked a place in Cavtat, Croatia. Upon arrival, it was not as described. Extremely dirty and broken air-conditioning. We booked a second place using Booking.com. It was a scam and the host demanded cash. We booked a third place, and it was not possible to reach the apartment by taxi. I can't say for sure if it even existed.

I called Booking.com to explained the problem and get a resolution. They promised a full refund of the third property, and (because the host of the first property promised a partial refund), a partial refund. These refunds never arrived. I called back multiple times. I was hung up on, placed on an endless hold, hung up on again etc. I sent emails that went unanswered. When I finally got a hold of a person, I was told they couldn't issue the refund that was promised without the permission of the host. Then they told me the host hadn't responded to their requests, so I was just out of luck. In the end, they issued a goodwill payment of about 1/5 the cost of the third property.

I cannot say this strongly enough: Do not use Booking.com. Some of the properties are scams, and the company takes no personal responsibility for this. Our experience completely ruined our vacation and we returned home, 11 days early.

Should be called bookings-con
Had guest from Italy checkout yesterday and upon arrival the place was a mess and glasses and hairdryer missing/ stolen. Tried to submit a claim but the guest declined it and BDC won't pay out. Now I have to deal with a retaliated 1 star review

So to sum it up, guests can come, steal, and there's nothing you can do about it. Then you will be hit with a retaliated one-star review

I paid in advance for a rental car. Only then did Booking.com let me know that the driver had to be under 75 years old. Since I am 85 I was out the price and was not allowed to cancel.

Rented an apartment in New Orleans for 4 days. When the confirmation came through the 4th day was not included.It happens to be during the time Taylor Swift will be performing in the city. I wrote to the space manager listed as Silvia Elder. She came back to me with an invitation to rent luxury 4 bedroom, 4 bath apartment for the same cost. I of course jumped at the chance. Payment was to be made to an account at HSBC in London. I wrote her back telling her i needed an address that would take my credit card. She said to send it through Remitly, an outside company that does international traansfers. I tried this and waited for my confirmation. Called Amexx and was told credit cards can not be used with Remitly I then tried to reach Silvia and found out her domain was no longer viable. So the plan was to get me to send cash to the bank acct in England and I would never see my $1770 again nor would i have had any reservation. SCAM! Booking.com still shows my "unpaid" reservation for a property that is probably fake. I tried checking direct with Booking.com but you cannot speak with someone unless you hve a PIN#. I have no Pin# so I coulldnt even report the fraud to them. I will never book thru Booking.com and they do not check their listings and if it happened to me it can happen to anyone.

Booking canceled my reservation already paid four months ago. The reason was overbooking. They told me to reserve an other hotel and promised me that they will refund me the difference.
After the check out they didn't pay me yet any amount for the difference. It is already one month and I didn't see the money promised by Booking for that difference.
The reservation that was canceled was at Sogni Stellari in Bergamo (Italy) and I paid 46,17€ and the second reservation where I stayed was at Casa vacanza Orio al Serio Bergamo (Italy) and I paid 113,40€. They didn't want to pay me 46,17€ the difference between two reservation.

This company are basically morally and ethically bankrupt.
I booked accommodation via their website and received a full booking confirmation. They also took payment in full. I had booked via the mor expensive option that allows cancellation until the day before the booking starts.
With just under one week before travelling I received messages via Booking.com from the accommodation owners refusing to honour 8 days of the 14 day booking. I tried to cancel, only to discover that Booking.com had changed the settings to non refundable.
I telephoned their appalling customer services to be told they would not honour a refund despite me having proof of me having booked the refundable option. After much remonstration, along with several hours of repeatedly being placed on hold whilst the operative claimed to consult a manager, the operative agreed to refund me. Owing to the time difference all other listed accommodation of similar type was several hundred pounds more expensive.
The operative then stated that Booking.com would pay any difference in price.
However the operative then stated that it would take 7 - 12 WEEKS before they would even process a refund for the monies paid for the original booking, then further days to actually process payment - despite them being in the wrong.
The operative then insisted that I would have to pay in full for alternative accommodation and only after the trip try to claim back both the monies paid on the original booking and the excess monies paid for alternative accommodation.
I made a formal complaint via the CEO about this appalling conduct and was telephoned by a a woman called "Olga" who stated she is part of the complaints handling team. She also stated that after the trip was taken they would refund the difference in price.
Paypal intervened to insist on refund of original monies paid.
I have now taken the trip - and all e mails asking them to honour their agreement of paying the difference in costs have been ignored.
This company are morally and ethically bankrupt on every level and their staff are liars and charlatans.
AVOID AVOID AVOID!

I booked 5 flight tickets online through Booking.com and received a confirmation email almost immediately. Within just 5 minutes, my money was taken, and I was sent another email informing me that the booking had been cancelled. When I reached out to customer service via live chat, they were not helpful at all and kept repeating their refund policy, insisting I wait up to 7 business days for my money to be returned. I then called their customer service line, hoping for better assistance, but they too were unhelpful and couldn't expedite the refund or provide any real support for rebooking. Their only advice was to try booking again and assured me it shouldn't happen again. This was the worst booking experience I've ever had!

I booked a stay with Holiday Inn Express & Suites Toronto Airport South through Booking.com. We did not show up at the property at the time of stay - the no-show policy states that the customer will be charged a cancellation fee. We were charged a cancellation fee + the cost of a FULL stay we booked. This happened in August 2023. Today is June 2024 and I have not received my money back which is more than $1,500. Booking's customer support is non-existent. I have received tens of generic emails requesting the same information over and over again. They cannot manage properties of their website, there is ZERO customer protection. I have been a loyal customer of Booking for years, I will NEVER use this service again. Scam.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Otelyer. He had a favorite toy – his grandmother's house, where his friends and their friends would come to play. Everyone lived happily and in harmony.

One day, a bigger boy named Buking came along and suggested that Otelyer let his friends come to play in the house too. In return, he would give him candies and promised only to bring good guests.

But one day, Buking brought some guests who broke the house, behaved disgracefully, and rudely offended Otelyer. The boy tried for a long time to explain to Buking that such behavior was unacceptable, and that the damage and negativity left by his guests needed to be fixed. But Buking kept dodging, making promises, and stalling for time.
So the boy went to the town square and began telling his story to the passersby. It turned out that the big boy Buking had behaved this way with many kids in town. He called everyone his "partners," but continued to only think of himself and lived at the expense of the smaller children.

One day, an old wise traveler passed through the town. He heard Otelyer's story and decided to help the boy and his friends. He told them that in a neighboring country lived a kind and caring boy named Aerbnb. He was empathetic, attentive, and took good care of the homes of his friends.The kids were thrilled by this news and all together they went to the neighboring town to befriend Aerbnb.

Time passed, and the old traveler passed through the town again. He was greatly surprised by how much the town had changed. Everyone was happy, friendly, and living in abundance and joy. On the outskirts of the town, in an abandoned, old house, he saw Buking, alone and impoverished.

Then the wise traveler thought, "Friendship ends where distrust begins."