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France
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Had 2 flights cancelled. Trying to get refunds and penalties for over 3 months for the first one, more than 1 month for the 2nd. Have called many times. Always "wait 72 hours." Or, even better, "We'll contact you in 24 hours"... news flash: they never contact you.

Date of experience: August 6, 2019
GB
1 review
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Appalling Company
August 21, 2018

Booked city break with these people and paid required deposit. Then received E mail saying awaiting confirmation. This went on for two days. I made several phone calls to them during this spell but couldn't get sensible answer. I then received E mail saying our booking had been cancelled. No explanation! Dreadful company, just don't deal with them. No customer service whatsoever.

Date of experience: August 21, 2018
Israel
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Be careful
December 18, 2022

Be careful! Do not approach! I booked a flight to Budapest for the whole family through them, immediately after booking I noticed that I mistakenly booked from Monday to Wednesday instead of Sunday to Thursday, a minute after I booked I immediately started sending emails and corresponding with the chat about the mistake and that I would like to correct and change by Thursday, and this is their answer: if Add 750 gbp! Fine! What? I told them I want to cancel the flight, they replied that if I cancel the flight the tickets are gone... and all this within 3 hours of making the reservation. I will publish them on all websites, against the consumer law!

Date of experience: December 18, 2022
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Do not use
July 18, 2023

I was emailed to say my confirmation had not been confirmed and therefore I would not be able to fly home. This was on the way to the airport. I then booked a flight through an airline directly. At a considerably increase in cost.
I tried to speak to customer services, who were zero help, said my booking hadn't been cancelled even though lastminute emailed me saying it had been. He said I would not be refunded either...
They have quite literally robbed me on top of making me pay an extortionate amount for a flight with an airline at the airport. On top of the interest rates incurred due to these costs and the stress I missed my pre booked travel home from the airport.
I would be more likely to recommend Hitler for prime minister than recommend it to a friend, let alone someone who I despised.
You also cannot be contacted via telephone, emails are all no reply inboxes and your service agents clearly have no training or understanding of what their job is or how to help customers.

Date of experience: July 18, 2023
Mexico
3 reviews
26 helpful votes
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I gave this company one star because I cannot give them none.
For starters, they are type of company that makes it hell, for customers with a problem, to communicate with them. They have all kinds of devices, like sending you emails telling you that the email you wrote to is unmonitored; you cannot contact them by phone; the chat bot refuses to refer you to the management for complaints.
At present, I am stuck in Mexico as Lastminute rescinded on the flexible tickets I purchased which allowed me to change the date of my flight. Every time I debunk one lie they give me, they make up another one. They obviously use the technique of 'wearing out the complainer until he gives up'.
But I am not giving up. I am taking the matter to court when I manage to return to the UK. It is going to cost me a lot to buy single tickets, let alone the anxiety they are causing me.

Date of experience: May 5, 2023
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Lastminute.com will take your money and not confirm booking and you can't cancel until booking is confirmed by them so in short a SCAM to hold your money i wouldn't be surprised if they are going into administration as this is a very strange way of conducting business. Also help desk is infuriating as it's in Albania and they just read off script and tell you what's on screen that you are still waiting confirmation, so don't spend the 5 hours in the phone to them my advise don't use them.

Date of experience: July 24, 2020
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Still no refund after months... no way to contact customer services! You are just continuously referred back to the website which tells you nothing. Appalling company, disgraceful behaviour... I'm having to take them to small claims court

Date of experience: September 29, 2020
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great first experience
December 3, 2019

Everything was so easy to complete and change on website.
We book hotel flights and transfers. Used this company first time and can not recommend enough. Our 4 night trip was amazing and will defenatly book again!

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Date of experience: December 1, 2019
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Tried to book a flight with them through a fly search engine as they were the cheapest of all the other agencies. Added in all my info and got to checkout and it turns out they only allow Visa debit cards with no fees. Otherwise there are a whole bunch of fees added to the cost (which you don't see, but the total goes up).

I thought this practice was illegal now but it seems they still try it. I wasn't even trying to pay with Amex, but with Mastercard debit.

Never using them again. Went with a competitor and they did no such thing.

Date of experience: December 9, 2020
India
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I used to use last minute.com a long time ago quite regularly in fact but recently after them booking the rong hotel and mis selling it they refused to give me a refund and all the emails and numbers go to the same ignorant and incompetent people who don't respond or selectively respond. Worst headache and waste of money ever!

I will never book with them again.

Date of experience: October 24, 2018
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awful, DO NOT USE!
June 27, 2020

Booked flights only to Barcelona on Feb 27th. Less than 30 minutes later cancelled. They received the refund from the airline on the 5th March. STILL waiting 4 months later for it. Called many times. RIP OFF company. DO NOT USE! Awful customer service. Avoid at all costs

Date of experience: June 27, 2020
Turkey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I had bought a return ticket from Cologne to Istanbul. When trying to check the flight info through airlines company, the website did not find my ticket which was supposedly bought for me by LastMinute. HOWEVER, LastMinute charged me immediately after I had confirmed my tickets with them. So what happened is that the airline operating the flight had not received the money from LastMinute. I ended up spending 11 hours at the airport, 3,5 hours of international calls, no explanation, solution whatsoever, and terrible customer service, they hold on you for 20 minutes and explain the same sh*t what they had told you earlier. So, in the end, I bought the first available ticket which cost me 233 euros=3 times more expensive than my original ticket.

Date of experience: September 8, 2016
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Beware
April 5, 2019

Made and paid a booking for weekend trip on Friday morning. In the evening they email: "We're unable to confirm your booking. We are sorry, but it is not possible to confirm your booking. A full refund has been issued to you which, depending on your bank, should be visible in your account in the next 7 days (maximum 20 days)."

So they have taken my money, it took several hours to cancel and now I have to wait for refund for days. Meanwhile, the prices have skyrocketed and I am even more out of pocket. There were alternative flights, but do they care? NO

It is not the first time this has happened, actually. I have not used lastminute.com for some time, but decided to give them a go.

Date of experience: April 5, 2019
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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No stars awarded I cannot contact Ryanair or lastminute.com. Last minute have a customer service telephone *******5499 on answering you are informed calls are charges at 7p a minute. Along protracted speech then asks to enter your booking id plus hash key or enter the telephone number from where you made the booking followed by the hash key. Despite doing this accurately several times the answer always is cannot find your booking and the call ends by them. There is no telephone for Ryanair and all e-mails from both companies are sent to you with "No Reply". How do I get to them?

Date of experience: April 15, 2020
Kansas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fraud Site
July 13, 2020

I'm going to keep this review short and to the point. Booked a flight with them. They cancelled the flight without informing. I arrived at airport to no flight. Was told a refund had been processed. 3 months later I get a email from Lastminute saying the can't refund back to my original payment method and need my bank information, they included a link to click on to provide the bank information but the link did not work(takes you to a blank page). I call their customer service hotline where they keep me on the line with a pre-recorded robot for an hour and then the line just goes dead. They don't respond to any of their social media accounts. Non-existent customer service. Fraud.

Date of experience: July 13, 2020
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is the worst company i have ever dealt with. Despite request for cash refund they gave me voucher for cancellation of flight last year. I was told i can either redeem voucher within year or request for cash after 6 months. Almost year pass by i have requested for cash refund but they are not honouring my request.

Current status: They saying my bank rejected to accept the funds (refund from last minute) and its been two month i am asking them reason and any further feedback from bank but to no avail. It feels i am banging my head to the walls as customer service is pathetic and rude and they have stopped responding to my emails. I do not what to do.

My advise if you want to loose you money then go to last minute else i would rather pay more and purchase it directly with airline.

Date of experience: July 13, 2021
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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ALBI I spoke to on the phone is useless! Doesn't solve anything, I'm playing ping pong on the phone with british airways, without saying that i have no rights with my ticket that i lost even by law saying that we have the lost flight for a year. $#*! company.
I was on the phone for over 2 hours and nothing was resolved.

Date of experience: November 18, 2021
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Disgusting service
March 18, 2020

Absolutely disgusting service
Booked a flight and hotel package in Indonesia
Double checked all the flights were confirmed before leaving as they had originally cancelled our return flight and put us on another flight the next day. We left before the quaratine requirement was issued. 2 days after arriving in Indonesia we get an email saying our flight home has been cancelled. No new flight booked. No phone call or even email response to help us figure this out. They left us stranded in Bali with no help what so ever
Spend 2 days trying to contact them. We ended up having to pay close to $1000 per person with another company to get home. Pretty much a complete nightmare because of there negligence we felt completely helpless. Exactly what you dont want from a holiday. Dont bother booking with lastminute.com this has been a horrendous experience all because of this company

Date of experience: March 18, 2020
Hungary
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Most horrible service
April 11, 2023

The online luggage change does not work. The so called assistance took 35 minutes, and told me that they will process it in 3 days in 2023, when they are online and takes 3 minutes. Ridiculous! Do not ever book a flight via lastminute.com it is so last minute that in case you need to book sg last minute it will take them 3 days to add some luggage, that you can do yourself in 3 minutes on the airline's website.

Date of experience: April 11, 2023
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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STAY AWAY from lastminute.com<. Au> I have been battling with them for over a year to get ticket credit which they initially "couldn't find" then we went back and forth from them calling me to make a booking over the phone to them "not receiving an answer' on my end-bull$#*!. They never called when they claimed they had. I spent hours and money to call them from the U.S. to their Australian line, waiting on hold to be told I'd get a full refund to my credit card, and of course that never happened. They are now asking me to make a booking so I'll be refunded after. LIKE HELL. Please never use this site, they have cost me more than money, but time and so much stress.

Date of experience: February 19, 2017

Overview

lastminute.com has a rating of 1.5 stars from 892 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with lastminute.com most frequently mention customer service, full refund and return flight. lastminute.com ranks 587th among Travel Agency sites.

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