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Agoda

2.5

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Agoda Reviews Summary

Agoda has a rating of 2.5 stars from 4,448 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Agoda most frequently mention customer service, credit card and hotel room. Agoda ranks 15th among Hotels sites.

service
801
value
763
shipping
349
returns
464
quality
660

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Canada
1 review
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I was quoted a price on the phone. Then when I got my bill I realized I was charged too much. Tried to get a refund and just getting BS about "special private rates" That special private rate is higher than the rate available to the public based on my experience. Do not use them!

Date of experience: May 19, 2022
Philippines
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Got to hotel booked on Agoda. Asked about internet, clerk said it's not working and no idea when wifi will become available I waited 5 hours in the lobby hoping it would come on in that time. Meanwhile I asked Agoda for full refund because I need internet for my work and it's not available as advertised on their booking website. They said they might give me partial and they will send message to another department for my request. I said no, you should give me a full refund because I'm not getting internet as advertised to be available. I said I would give them the lowest review and take my business elsewhere which I did.

Date of experience: May 18, 2022
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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LOOTING MONEY.
May 14, 2022

This is an unreliable application. No facility to connect with the customer care team if any issue faces other than automated replies. ******* Booking confirmation received money deducted from my account and after that booking was cancelled without any reason. When contacted the property, rude behaviour and asked me to contact the application provider which was impossible as mentioned earlier.

Date of experience: May 14, 2022
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not trustable
May 14, 2022

We booked a hotel on toronto through this app and when we went to the hotel, there was no booking. W

Date of experience: May 14, 2022
South Africa
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The place i booked for a week, i could only stay one night as i came late and had no other option, this place was advertise as a luxury room but looks like a drug house with a shared bathroom, they offer refund of 10% as point at them this is unexpectable, dont book with them they crooks

Date of experience: May 14, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The worst
May 12, 2022

This is a scam company! Easy to book, it they will NOT cancel your reservation OR refund you at all. They came up with 8 reasons in a 5 hours period. This has been draining. Money hungry company.

Date of experience: May 12, 2022
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Conned out of £1650 by AGODA -AVOID
May 12, 2022

Wife looked for Seville hotel, £630 3 nights…. Nope, that was per night.
I saw the Amex bill flash up, so I contacted Agoda to use the cancellation policy, but …. THEY DONT HAVE ONE!
I could have booked direct with the hotel for £330.
This company AGODA are cowboys, I emailed and phoned, was ignored and cut off, eventually I spoke with a broken English girl Vian, she sent a request to cancel. Instantly rejected!
DO NOT BOOK AGODA, THEY WILL CON YOU

Date of experience: May 12, 2022
Philippines
1 review
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DO NOT TRUST AGODA
May 8, 2022

I have booked HENANN PALM BEACH RESORT BORACAY from Agoda, they've processed and approved it week before our flight. We came to the hotel thinking that we already have a room, the receptionist told us that Agoda did not reserve any room for us and their rooms are all booked. They even said that I should be the one to contact Agoda about this because it is not their fault. They gave me an email address to contact them and Agoda did not respond promptly. Both the Henann and Agoda should communicate since they are the ones gaining from our payment and yet they did not even bother communicating with each other. In the end we booked with another hotel and just left without Agoda even fixing our probem. Should have been a nice vacation but Agoda and Henann ruined it for us. The only solution that Agoda gave is a refund but never even bothered how we wasted our time, effort and even money to book another hotel for us to stay. Never book your hotel at Agoda, THEY NEVER CARE.

Date of experience: May 8, 2022
India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Even though we faced so many struggle on getting a booked room due to hotels fake address and name misunderstandings eventhough the property (TREEBO ADRAK SUMMER SAND VAGAMON, KERALA) just Abandoned us even we paid the full amount where AGODA atleast helped us to get back the paid money even it delayed to take decision by agoda. And the lady who helped to get back the money for us was really a good employee and an asset for AGODA

Date of experience: May 6, 2022
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Agoda is a broker and don't verify and validate their suppliers. We paid 30% more for room with breakfast and ended up with room only. Customer service offered no help and support, at the end they didn't even bother to respond to our written complaints. We cancelled our subsequent reservation with Agoda and used competitor instead which turned out to be much more efficient and transparent process. I'll never use them again!

Date of experience: May 3, 2022
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It's not worthit
May 3, 2022

Hotel signature hari nagar was not good I will be reckoned no body go there because ac is not working and staff is not helpful thanks

Date of experience: May 2, 2022
India
1 review
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Never book through agoda cheating site
May 1, 2022

Agoda given name of Hotel in their site which actually have no tieup with agoda. I booked at Hotel Shalimar metro kochi and paid to Agoda. But when i called hotel to confirm my booking they said they have no tie-up with them. They already asked manytimes to remove their name from agoda site but they are still taking money from customer and not giving that to hotel. So Technically hotel not getting money. And we are not getting refund from Agoda too.

Date of experience: May 1, 2022
India
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Customer Support: Very Poor
Pricing: Fluctuating prices
Cash Back: This is just an eye washer. They are deducting more amount from you in advance, and offering your cashback. Cashback is also not flexible.

My experience has been bad. I would suggest to compare the competitive prices on other portals before booking.

Date of experience: April 26, 2022
Florida
1 review
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Do NOT book with Agoda! Left us high and dry on a trip!
Wanted to share my terrible booking experience with Agoda this past weekend as a warning!

My partner and I plans this weekend to spend the night at The Plaza Resort in Daytona Beach with some friends. I booked the room through Agoda and got the confirmation a week in advance. We drove over on Saturday morning, and I went to check in. The hotel had NO information about our reservation in their system. They called their reservation team. The team said Agoda must have not sent it over, and they told me to call Agoda's customer service.

I called their customer service, and the man on the line said he needed to reach out to their "booking partner." And after being on hold for 15 minutes, he said he could not reach the partner and was going to escalate the issue and someone would call me in 30-60 mins.

Two hours goes by, and I haven't received a call. I called them back, and talked to another man. He said he was going to try to get a hold of the booking partner, and again could not. I ended up asking them to refund me because I had spent well over an hour on the phone with them, probably half of that on hold, with no resolution. I asked The Plaza if they could book us but they were entirely full. Every hotel that had availability was double the price we originally paid.

We ended up just going home. Thank God we were only an hour fifteen minute drive from home and not a plane ride away. I'm never booking with Agoda again.

After all of this, the next day Agoda emailed me and asked me if I ever could check in. After telling them no, they gave me $18 "Agoda cash" for the inconvenience. They said it would take 15-30 days to process the refund as well.

Anyways… ALWAYS call the hotel and make sure your third-party reservation went through before traveling. I usually do and forgot this time and it bit me in the behind.

Date of experience: April 25, 2022
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Booking issue
April 25, 2022

I have booked hotel in rishikesh and they have booked a room and then I cancelled it but they didnot refund my money despite the refund policy very bad experience. I will never book any hotel from Agoda.

Date of experience: April 25, 2022
Singapore
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Booked 2 bookings with agoda that didnt have the immediate payment option, thought that it would be fine since the amount charged should remain the same right? WRONG.

Ended up being overcharged for both bookings not once, but TWICE - since the first time it happened, i had to receive a call from some guy in hungary(which is suspicious enough by itself pls) and ask for an immediate refund because they just keep pushing their responsibilities around one another

He told me to make payment first, so i did, and he also assured me that all charges would be final without any further changes, apparently their system screwed up and he was 'kind enough to help me process a refund' lol wtf

So the payment was a pending charge, but when i checked in again a few days later it turns out that they decided to hike the amount AGAIN (maybe because they think people are just that stupid not to check their bank account balances?)

Anyways please just avoid this site entirely, theres so much hidden charges that its a living joke to even exist in the first place

Second lady that i talked to didnt care enough to let me speak because she was so concerned with getting her words out, that she just told me to wait in call for another 5 to 7 minutes because she had to 'check an email i sent out to them' like? Who takes that long in the first place unless they're tryna hide away from their responsibilities?

Date of experience: April 24, 2022
California
1 review
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Forget about your refund, after doing your part to cancel timely! Repeatedly lied to me... I documented! Unconscionable!

Date of experience: April 21, 2022
Singapore
1 review
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Price go up
April 21, 2022

You notice when i search the same hotel once too many time, and your price go sky high, explain to me why the price difference when I use another device to search

Date of experience: April 21, 2022
New Hampshire
1 review
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Hiding Negative Reviews
April 18, 2022

My friends and I stayed at a hotel via Agoda for a couple of weeks and we all gave it a one star - Agoda has not published the review and just hides most of their negative reviews. They should be honest with all their members. It's recommended that you do your own review on the hotels and not rely on Agoda's reviews/ratings.

Date of experience: April 18, 2022
Mozambique
1 review
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Waiting for refund
April 18, 2022

On 2 March I made a booking through Agoda for one night in a SHA+ hotel in Thailand under the "Test & Go" programme. Somehow, and I did not notice, the system defaulted to 14 nights. The last page before confirmation showed a price that seemed high but ok for the one nigh under the programme. The next page showed I have booked for 14 nights and I could not correct, The booking was made. I called the hotel and Agoda, both were very helpful and cancelled the booking. Agoda promised a full refund and this was shown in my account. Now 47 days, and several promises from Agoda, later no refund. They have stopped answering my queries on this one. I am over $2,000 (Aussie) down on this very bad experience. Does anyone know how to get Agoda to keep its promises made in emails?
If Agoda is at all interested the booking ID is *******

Update: The refund was made straight after i posted this review. Job done

Date of experience: April 18, 2022