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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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India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Cheap cheater
April 16, 2022

I have booked a room in kodaikanal with agoda,, they have charged me Rs 6000 per day. With breakfast included. After checking in I came to know that my next room ( we have same size room) have payed directly to the property only Rs 2900 breakfast included. I have booked lot of room from booking. Com never had any issues. This is the first time I had booked through agoda. And I had worst experience with agoda. This is my booking id *******

Date of experience: April 16, 2022
Illinois
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Don't use Agoda
April 16, 2022

Agoda didn't finalize my reservation, even after I called them to confirm it.
I arrived at my hotel to find that they had no record of it. So I had to make other arrangements - not the way to start a vacation.

Date of experience: April 15, 2022
Cyprus
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Allows scammers on platform. We have been scammed out of a 2 apartments rental in budapest, and were left with 4 kids waiting for the owner to show up. He never did and after 2 hours called back at us yelling that we will get a refund. We ended up booking another rental at double the price somewhere else. After that we received an email from agoda, with the owner claiming that we never showed up. Our Bolt records showed us arriving there, and our agoda chats and viber logs showed that he never responded to our calls. Instead of getting a full refund and an apology from agoda, we got a late cancellation refund! The owner is still on the platform scamming people, with what looks like no actual properties, and reviews from 8 years ago!

Date of experience: April 15, 2022
Cambodia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No updates till 2019
April 12, 2022

Traveled in die last 3 years in south east Asia and very often happened that all the places thats is showing are don't existing anymore. It seems that Agoda isnt doing regular checks. And so its a waste of time. Or you have trouble like me if you book and arrive on a place that is not there anymore or closed for good. Big Company sad reliability. I used to like that page but now its on the bottom of my list.

Date of experience: April 11, 2022
TT
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No refund policy
April 11, 2022

I had to cancel a hotel booking because of Covid and Agoda refuse to refund, really unprofessional given the circumstances.

Date of experience: April 11, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This company is a fraud! They billed us for a stay we didn't even do. They did not refund us and didn't try to resolve or help us. They also provided mis leading information on their bookings.

Date of experience: April 8, 2022
Kansas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Should be 0
April 7, 2022

Agoda sucks! Period. So does PayPal. Booked a room through agoda and paid through PayPal. Got to resort and they had no reservation but PayPal still allowed them to steal this money from us. Clearly a crime but they both are liable for allowing this to go on. Fought through this through PayPal resolution and still did not do us any good. Never again.

Date of experience: April 7, 2022
Thailand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fake review
April 5, 2022

Booked two nights at a hotel that was rated 8.3 with Agoda that should have been rated 3.3 when contacting customer service they made every excuse to brush me off do not use this site if possible you will be disappointed as I was and many other people the respects and customer care for their clientele is disgusting the room has a missing sliding door to the balcony got mosquitoes and bugs came and went as they wished through the gap of the missing sliding door to the balcony and the laminated flooring was damaged and loose and food into pieces that was very dangerous to trip over

Date of experience: April 4, 2022
North Dakota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Nonsense
April 1, 2022

Booked room and confirmed, arrived at 2 am, in Florida and the hotel had no reservation for me, no available rooms i was wondering the streets looking for a place to stay. Adoga was suppose to refund my money over $200 on feb 26, over a month ago and still no refund and the costumer service people are horrible, just keep repeating themselves and you can talk to a supervisor. NEVER AGAIN WILL I BOOK THROUGH THIS SITE, next step is the b. B. b. And see how this company likes that

Date of experience: April 1, 2022
Puerto Rico
1 review
3 helpful votes
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There's no way to contact this company, they list phone numbers for many countries none work. They advertised a hotel with airport shuttle service when I called the hotel they couldn't find the reservation and did not have a shuttle service. When I try to contact agoda via email they said "48 hrs", I expect I will never hear from them. My only option is to dispute the charge on my credit card

Date of experience: March 30, 2022
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SUCKS they go through a third party that they cannot even get in touch with if you have an issue, Agoda claims they will have to get in-touch with their third party to cancel or change a reservation, when I made the reservation it was today special after I paid the date was for a Sunday not the same day which was Saturday not going to work for me need them to put for today special they offered. I called them and told them what happened if they could fix it and guess what! NOPE thEY don't give a $#*! they got your money, they say THEIR THRID PARTY will not answer their phone or emails sounds like a scam when you look up Agoda third party it is Chinese writing great Owner not here lol good luck with that. I had to call my bank to fight the charges, will not use a third party company to make a reservation when its not much more to just call the hotel that you are going to stay at and pay them directly.

Date of experience: March 29, 2022
Idaho
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Used this service to book a hotel in Florida- somehow they didn't get my reservation even though they took the $ out of my account. Took an hour to get it straightened out, was promised a call back, never received it. When I got home the hotel had charged me again, currently trying to get my $500 back. Too much effort to work with this company.

Date of experience: March 27, 2022
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Do NOT use Agoda
March 23, 2022

I was directed to Agoda through Trivago. We arrived in Vegas to find out that Agoda had not communicated my booking correctly. A little research would have shown me this is common with Agoda so my mistake on that. Instead of 4 rooms they booked 1. The hotel was not able to give us the additional rooms as they were sold out. The booking was paid in advance and Agoda had me going in circles on the phone for hours trying to resolve the issue. Four times they assured me they'd find another hotel to accommodate us and never got back to me while my group had nowhere to sleep for the night. We were forced to book another hotel ourselves and pay again. Five days later they are still fighting me over a refund. Agoda is trying to blame the hotel while the hotel is blaming Agoda. Meanwhile, my trip was ruined, I had to pay for another hotel, and I'm still fighting for a refund. I feel like I was scammed and advise everyone to stay far away from Agoda.

Date of experience: March 22, 2022
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Unethical
March 22, 2022

We made a booking. Two nights in Melbourne, received booking confirmation, got charged. Upon arriving, we found our booking was non-existent and spent a long time trying to get in touch with Agoda to see what was happening. Were finally advised that Agoda would get us alternative accommodation within the hour. Over an hour later got an email with two hotel options to chose from. Immediately replied and asked for confirmation. Whilst waiting on this, made our way to the second hotel to find that they were fully booked for the night and had never been contacted by Agoda. It was 8 pm at this point. We barely managed to find a hotel that could accommodate us for the night at this hour, at an exorbitant last-minute booking fee. We never heard from Agoda that night again.
Missed out on an important event and will likely never see the refund judging by their reputation which we were obviously not aware of. Agoda is based in Singapore. They could scam you too.

Date of experience: March 21, 2022
New Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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DONT BOOK WITH AGODA! EVER!
March 20, 2022

Wow. DO NOT BOOK A HOTEL ON Agoda! Totally fraudulent. I reserved a hotel room for 3 days several days ahead of time. I paid an extra $20 to make sure I could cancel it for free (why I have to do that Im so sure). The reservation said very clearly: "FREE CANCELLATION". The day after I booked I tried to cancel and they expect $125 ($150?) cancellation fee! The Agoda lady tries to pin the blame on the Hotel which she says has a 7 day cancellation policy. If thats the case why did it say so clearly on the Agoda web site as I was booking: "FREE CANCELLATION". Now, Im sitting on the phone w/ the Agoda lady who is pulling my teethe in order to refund the $125! There's much more to their bait and switch tactics to describe but I think Ive said enough. After all this she has the nerve to ask: "Would you like your refund as a credit on our website?" Im like No! Give me my money back! She says it'll take 30 days. Im not so sure Ill see this money again. DONT BOOK WITH THESE CLOWNS!

Date of experience: March 20, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Disappointed
March 14, 2022

Hi, I have a bad experience with Agoda.com I booked a room for one night (Saturday) in London. The arrival day's midnight, they send an email that sorry your book had cancelled, we can give you another alternative option. I answered ok, so I didn't have more options because this a last minute almost all hotels full in London as Saturday. Also they are really expensive because of weekend. During our traveling, I received a new email, with the same message. I accept the second alternative. After two hours later I received an email that they said sorry... Then offer third hotel. And later they had confirmed that the hotel accepted. So I was so happy, finally we know where we are going... We have already our final direction, seat on the bus on Saturday 12pm. Then I checked my email, I saw another email from them and said, the hotel had been cancelled due full booked. We will transfer back your money. I checked that hotel it wasn't full. Anyway we was really disappointed for their games. At 1pm afternoon on Saturday you are in London, so you can imagine? I had ever happened with me before. I booked first time by Agoda. I think last time too. Thank you Agoda.com

Date of experience: March 14, 2022
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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We purchased a hotel room through agoda during a busy time several months in advance. However, 1 month before our reservation we tried to cancel because we learned that my wife was pregnant. It would've been easy for the hotel to fill that room. Agoda said I had to contact the hotel. We contacted the hotel and they make us fill out a Hardship Request Form. Afterwards, they said we needed to book another reservation at the same hotel and through agoda before they could request that Agoda sends us a refund (what a scam). It's been over a month and we never received a refund. So we booked for 2 hotel rooms in 2 different cities on 2 different dates (the 1st date is already past) because we were told that was required and we haven't received a refund from any of them. This is a terrible company and nothing but a scam. Also, good luck trying to talk to anyone! Terrible customer service!

Date of experience: March 13, 2022
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible company
March 13, 2022

Bad situation and they offered no help and still fought the charge when I didn't get what was sold toe at all.

Don't trust them

Date of experience: March 12, 2022
Singapore
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Poor AGODA response
March 12, 2022

Recently booked a SHA+ Hotel in Phuket via Thai Pass recommended link which I think should comply fully Thai Government requirements. Later I found the booking confimation mention nothing about the airport transport and ART kits as required. Tried for three, four days to message AGODA, email Hotel The Nature Phuket but received no response from any of them. I may not be able to enter Phuket with the above.

Date of experience: March 11, 2022
Florida
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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They stole money from me, and they are liters, Book with priceline. They make you wait for your own money, book elsewhere with Expedia

Date of experience: March 6, 2022