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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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All my hotel bookings are done here. Very convenient and competitive prices. The reviews are great and gives a good hint before proceeding with the reservation. Thank you AGODA Team!

Date of experience: September 6, 2019
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Horrible, sleezy company
September 6, 2019

I have been trying to get the difference in cost cost for a room I booked and they have found every made up reason to not honor their best price guarantee. Just a slimy, unethical company. I would never book with them again even if the prices are higher else where. It's just nit worth it. Furthermore they told me my booking has free breakfast but when we contacted the company they said it didn't. They SUCK!

Date of experience: September 6, 2019
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Sucks
September 6, 2019

No reservation booked then got a totally different room ( way less $$) called to let them know I was checking out early said they couldn't contact hotel 3× then I get a customer service rep who is yelling at me. WOW

Date of experience: September 5, 2019
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Tried Agoda.com for the first time, booked hotel, received confirmed booking email, they placed a hold on my credit card for the amount; only to arrive to the hotel and told we didn't have a reservation and they have been fully booked for days before we made the booking. Contacted customer service - four calls and over an hour to be referred to another hotel that was also fully booked! Ruined our holiday!

Date of experience: August 26, 2019
Thailand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I booked a room in Pattaya A-One Star hotel. When I booked, I read "Breakfast included", I have the screen capture. When I arrived hotel, they receptionist informed me that Agoda written to them that no breakfast. I have written to Customer Support many times, but they did not pay attention to my complain. I believe Agoda is cheating customers in man ways,

Date of experience: August 23, 2019
Cyprus
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I booked a single room with shower and large bed in Quentin Golden Bear hotel in Amsterdam via Agoda for three nights (price: 370 euro). The room that was given to me by hotel (Room 11) was not the one I paid. It was a terrible narrow room with share facilities (common shower), like a prison cell. Hotel said to me that Agoda sold to me a room that was not available. The room that I stayed was cheaper than the one I paid (296 euro). Agoda doesn't send me the difference (74 euro). Instead it suggested a compensation of 36 euro for my next booking at Agoda! After this experience I wonder why they think that I will use Agoda again in my next trip.

Date of experience: August 23, 2019
New Hampshire
1 review
0 helpful votes
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After navigating through the Agoda site I realized that the dates I had put in were constantly changing every time the page updated or changed. I booked three different hotel rooms for the same night but the first one was one day off because it had changed and I did not catch it. I was more careful with the subsequent bookings, however, when I reached out to Agoda to change the date by one day they told me the booking was non refundable. I said I was not looking for a refund but to change the date... to which customer service informed me that there are no amendments or changes. I have to wonder if the website changes the dates constantly just to have these non refundable bookings get fouled up? It was my first time using Agoda and I won't be using them again... all the reviews that suggest Agoda is not reputable and they have questionable customer service practices are TRUE. Buyers beware... USE WITH CAUTION!

Date of experience: August 22, 2019
KR
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I do not reccommend booking through AGODA, they stole my money and wont give me credit... this is unfair and unprofessional and now they wont give me credit... i should have my room at the very least rather than them cancelling my room and not giving me back my money

Date of experience: August 20, 2019
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This site wasn't truthful and transparent enough to bill us the real charges despite us declaring the ages of our children. In their site, children are aged 17 and below. We were horrified to know upon check in that the resorts policy on children are age 13 and below. We could no longer back out as the time to cancel has already lapsed and we have to pay extra to cover it. NOT RECOMMENDING THIS SITE!-Cesar

Date of experience: August 17, 2019
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam total scam
August 16, 2019

Forced to pay for the same vacation twice. They keep promising a refund but don't deliver. If I could locate them I would personally deliver $#*! whoopings until someone could stop me. Make female idc you rob me your all deserving of it every single one of you.

Date of experience: August 16, 2019
Arizona
1 review
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Unreliable
August 15, 2019

I booked a room on a road trip since we needed somewhere to stay half way. About 2 hours from the hotel we booked, we had car trouble. We called the hotel and they said since the booking was done through Agoda to call them for refund. I contacted Agoda today and they say the hotel won't wave the fees, even though they said they weren't at full capacity and it wouldn't be a problem. Seems like a game of finger pointing and no one owning up to their part of a "reputable" company. I will never use them again.

Date of experience: August 15, 2019
Thailand
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A few moments ago, I completely fouled up my reservation on a non-refundable room. Agoda Customer Service phoned the hotel and personally corrected my mistake. This was not the first time. They have also arranged for refunds three months after I did not show up for a reservation. While YMMV. Mine has been nothing short of first class.

Date of experience: August 12, 2019
Canada
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Agoda is not reliable
August 12, 2019

We recently booked online thinking that we were booking with the hotel directly. Online, we see there is a pool. Rooms looked spacious and nice. We were suppose to have a Queen size bed. Well, we checked in. There was an issue. They said we had been booked for something else. There was no pool so my daughter was disappointed. Get to the room and it was teeny tiny. Had an claustrophobic attack. They should be very forthcoming. When rooms are this small, they should note it down. I was extremely disappointed with agoda. Not impressed.

Date of experience: August 11, 2019
Philippines
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Report them!
August 9, 2019

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Date of experience: August 9, 2019
Nevada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scam
August 9, 2019

They say their number is international but you will get charged! They are a scam company and should be stopped and regulated

Date of experience: August 9, 2019
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Just as I clicked the button to book the hotel, I noticed the date was off by 1 day. No modification or cancelation policy. $350 room booked for a night that I won't be in town. Not cool at all.

Date of experience: August 5, 2019
Malaysia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Placed my booking through Agoda.com for a hostel in Singapore. I clearly remember keying in new credit card details as the page stated it has no store card details in my account.

There were some issues with receiving a confirmation code and the payment couldn't go through after multiple attempts. All of a sudden, the screen changed and show that payment was successful. I also received an email with confirmation of the booking showing payment done.

I was concerned there may be scams, and called the bank to cancel my card immediately. Prior to proceeding with cancelling my credit card, the officer on the phone affirmed there were no charges made on my card. I felt relieved but persisted to cancel my credit card.

A month later, I received my bank statement with Agoda.com charging another credit card which I did not enter the card details. To my horror, I found the card was used 2 years ago while I was making bookings through Agoda.com. I requested for refund and made a complaint to Agoda.com.

The person who handled the complain assured Agoda.com would NEVER store card information without customer consent. They questioned if I keyed in the credit card details therefore allowing my card to be charged.

Refunds were not possible as the hotel requested for police reports in English, while the police station I reported could only produce reports in Malay which is the national language.

Would not recommend Agoda.com to anyone.

Date of experience: August 4, 2019
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I booked a room through AGODA was quoted 310.00USD for a 2 night stay. I started to recieve emails from them saying I needed to sign an agreement as I looked they tried to charge my credit card 842.86 which they arent suppose to do had a 250.00 added charge for cleaning... this company is a rip off. I cxld my reservation through Vtrip whose company AGODA booked it through and they said they never heard of AGODA before. I reported them to the Better Business Bureau and to the FBI fraud line and the company is based out of Singapore...

Date of experience: August 2, 2019
Singapore
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Make a booking through Agoda, forget to set the currency to local. End up paying in USD plus cross border charges, ask for refund to re-book, but they refuse. BE EXTRA CAREFUL IN BOOKING, THEIR DEFAULT CURRENCY IS IN USD. Really an expensive lesson

Date of experience: July 29, 2019
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Agoda = scammers
July 25, 2019

How did they get 4 stars read their FB page. They scam almost everyone what a joke. Everyone getting scammed by agoda please call your financial institutions and let them know agoda is just a scam and they will but out a security alert. My was kind enough to stop their transaction.

Date of experience: July 25, 2019