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Booking.com Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company reflects significant dissatisfaction among customers, primarily due to inadequate customer service and a lack of accountability. Many reviews highlight issues such as harsh refund policies, unresponsive support, and problems with fraudulent listings, leading to frustrations over lost funds and unresolved complaints. While some customers appreciate the variety of accommodations offered, the overwhelming sentiment indicates a lack of trust in the company's commitment to customer satisfaction. To improve its reputation, the company must enhance its customer service responsiveness and take greater responsibility for the listings it promotes.

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service
1,844
value
1,682
shipping
700
returns
1,068
quality
1,450
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Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst so far
June 28, 2021

I will never use this co. Again. Customer service VERY BAD. Don't even let them tell you reservations will call you to rebook and or make ANY changes to booking. Cost me over $300 extra. Flights going up every min. Called me back 6 hours later after calling 3 times that reservation dept. Will call back with in 1/2hour. Won't happen. Cost me $309 extra for same flight do to no call back in time, them they hung up on me after complaining. All eastern Indian employee's 2 were hard to understand. Very rude attitude in 2 od reps. Don't do it.

Date of experience: June 28, 2021
Austria
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Terrible service. I hate booking. They Steal money! They charged my credit card wrong and never paid me back! Fingers away!

Date of experience: June 27, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I went to book a room at a hotel in sunriver oregon, the sunriver resort. I put in for 3 nights during a horrid heatwave. I was given a price and they said that is the total and there will not be any surprises. I looked to actually find an invoice before paying but they did not provide that. I paid, after the initial cost I was assured was final, taxes and a 140.00 property fee was added totaling over $200 from the original assured price. Not only that, I was only booked for 2 nights, not the 3 as I was told. Now, I am a school teacher paying over 400.00 per night. I tried and tried to call but could not get through, phone went dead after entering my account number. I got financially raped by these lying cheating billionaires, this will hurt me for a long time. School teachers do not pay 400.00 a night for hotel rooms for a reason. That is something for the rich who never work half as hard as I. I hate that I have to stay there and what it will cost me, this country and its billionaires must just sit around asking themselves how they can financially rape people. I needed a break after working 18 hour days through the pandemic, now I have nothing but more stress. No doubt the billionaires are patting themselves on the back for their thievery. I cannot explain the harm this is doing me or my disgust for this company and the place I will stay. I will be filing a complaint with the consumer protection bureau but doubt it will help. That is all this country is about now, working people being continually financially raped by the one percent.

Date of experience: June 26, 2021
Michigan
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Never again
June 24, 2021

Wanted to cancel reservations for the hotel due to it being in horrible condition. They dont do research on the hotels that they contract with. Hotel was nasty. Had bugs. Drug and prostitution going on. Homeless people hanging around. When called regarding the issue they said that we only was booked for one day but was charged for five days.

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Date of experience: June 24, 2021
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have booked a hotel at $499 and they charge me $567. I have called help center 5 times, they only say unfortunately can not do nothing now, please wait for 2mins, but it went through over 30mins and the call was disconnected, I had to call back. After 5 times call, it took me over 3hours, they don't receive my call. Ridiculous. Why need to write 120 words to up load review? I don't recommend the booking. Com. They are not responsible, no look after for customer. They ignore you if you have any complaints.

Date of experience: June 23, 2021
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They lie
June 24, 2021

Called thinking we called the hotel direct. Asked them if they were third party and they said no. We booked the room and paid extra for our dog even asked them if dog fee included and they said yes. It didn't. That's two lies. We arrived and they tried to collect the dog fee from us. We refused and told them to call Booking if they wanted more from us. We called Booking and we're conveniently disconnected three times. Do not trust them.

Date of experience: June 23, 2021
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Double Charged
June 21, 2021

I stayed one night in Des Moines Iowa hotel and was charged twice, once by Booking.com and once by the hotel. A week later, Booking.com has yet to release their charges. I was told by customer service it would take up to 5 days, It's been 7 and I'm still trying to be reimbursed.

Date of experience: June 21, 2021
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Booking cancelltion policy is a lie you wont get a refund even though it says refundable. I booked through expedia and cancelled due to a problem and got a refund not with booking.com thought that wont happen

Date of experience: June 19, 2021
Georgia
6 reviews
11 helpful votes
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MIGRAINE STATUS
June 19, 2021

Ya, PRAY NOTHING GOES WRONG with your booking bcuz these ppl COULDN'T CARE LESS. The cust svc dept (both 800# and website) is set up to take you nowhere - circular nightmare with no viable way to reach a human. If you dont have DETAILS (booking conf# AND a PIN) of a booking you've made then forget it. OF COURSE MINE ARE NEVER LISTED. Blacklisting these ppl b4 i have an aneurism

Date of experience: June 19, 2021
Louisiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This hotel does not live up to the review rating or photos online. Probably the hotel did look like the photos at one time. It was basically clean, but the property is in need of updates, and there was no attention to detail. The first room we were shown smelled of cigarettes. Outside of all the rooms (not just smoking rooms) on posts were cigarette receptacles. The room we ended up staying in was okay, but the sheets were worn, and the furniture was stained and scuffed. The carpet did appear okay and everything worked. The bathroom appeared clean at first, but there was mold around the soap holder and under the rim of the commode. The walls were somewhat thin, and we occasionally heard other people. The outside was not as clean as the photos either; the sidewalks and parking lot were dirty. The pool was closed due to Covid I guess, although other places have opened theirs. There were picnic tables in the courtyard, but they did not appear as clean or new as the pictures. Breakfast was okay. We knew it was to be cold foods, basically grab and go. The location was convenient, near the highway but not in the best of neighborhoods. Some of the occupants appeared "shady," perhaps long-term residents. One person even had had a shelf for plants, etc. outside her door. For the price, I should not have expected better, but the rating should not have been a 7 out of 10. I doubt that the hotel meets Wyndham standards. There was no one at first at the front desk when we arrived, and no one was there the next morning when we left. It was all right for one night's sleep, but I don't think I would book here again.

Date of experience: June 18, 2021
New Hampshire
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bait & Switsh
June 17, 2021

I have been a Booking customer for at least 8 years. I am a member of Genius & when I tried to book this week, I was offered a Genius discount at one of the pricier hotels in NYC. I have attempted to reserve & the site would not accept any of my credit cards. Of course, I check with the cards & they did not even receive a request for Booking for any amount. Then, I received an email from booking inviting me to complete my reservation. When I tried to do that, the amount for the room was at least $100 more per night, i. E. without any discount. I have attempted to contact the company & received an unhelpful email telling me to call but not providing a phone number. When I finally called they refused to talk to me because I did not have a reservation confirmation number. Of course, I did not have it because they did not accept my credit cards. It appears to me that Booking has attempted to use Bait & Switch - i. E. offer the discount but when I attempted to pay, refusing to process payment with the discount. It is clearly evidence by the follow up email inviting me to finish payment form for the much higher rate. This is a violation of US law, the Lanham Act. I am very disappointed in their services and in complete absence of customer support. Recommend against using it.

Date of experience: June 17, 2021
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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We booked a 2-night stay in Sydney 5 weeks in advance for our weekend away without kids, 2 days before our daughter became very ill and we decided it was best to reschedule to the following month. Booking.com refused to help us at all and simply claimed nothing could be done and their policies don't allow for reschedule or refund even with the 48hrs notice. Hours on the phone they kept playing dumb and giving us the run around. Booking.com pushes responsibility on to Agoda, their parent company, saying they have the money and need to handle this, then Agoda says Booking.com needs to handle it, then they both say its the Hotels policy, then the hotel says they we're never paid for the booking because we never stayed. 3 days back and forth with booking.com and Agoda and they both claim they can't refund, shift blame and refuse to return our money or reschedule us. The hotel has been the only ones willing to try and help and they're also a victim as they haven't even been paid.

We haven't had a weekend away together for years and we this planned for weeks to make sure we could get sitters and time off work. After loosing our money we have decided to forget the whole thing. Booking.com stole $650 of our money and theres nothing I can do about it but hope this review will spare someone else this headache and financial heartache.

DO NOT USE BOOKING.COM OR AGODA. Book direct with the hotel, it is actually cheaper and they money stays in Australia and not sent to some lying thieves overseas.

Look at their reviews, they suck for a reason.

Date of experience: June 16, 2021
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Paid almost $200 more then I could have by booking.com reservation. Their small print needs to be read completely. I'LL NEVER USE BOOKING.com AGAIN!

Date of experience: June 11, 2021
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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In my opinion booking. Com deserves 0 stars and this is why! I booked a 1 night stay on this site for Oyo hotel in st Louis Missouri we drove from southern Indiana 247 miles total and when we got to the hotel to check in the clerk said we got scammed I showed him all The information and confirmation number and he said someone has been selling his rooms on booking. Com and that his hotel didn't even have online booking thank God we was able to find another hotel and a better one at that!

Date of experience: June 8, 2021
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Wld gv zero stars
June 7, 2021

Had the most frustrating experience transactioning with em. They mislead people into paying more for something they don't provide

I had booked an ocean view room in a hotel, 3 days later I get an email that I hv to pay more for an oceanview room (which they had already confirmed when I 1st booked)The customer representative was rude n was not of any help, kept repeating the same thing.

Date of experience: June 7, 2021
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very bad customer service and rude staff. This company rips people off to get bookings and are not helpful. I will be talking to a solicitor to take legal action against them.

Date of experience: June 4, 2021
NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A company who's ceo and board are a bunch of ordinary thieves.
They requested 65.000.000 € in covid support from the Dutch government.
It was given under the condition that there would be no bonusses for the board.
What do they do?
They bend the rules of their own bonus policy so they can give it to themselves anyway.
They paid themselves a bonus of 28 million for 3 persons.
Money STOLEN from Dutch taxpayers!
I would not be surprised if they pulled this trick off in more countries.
Do NOT! Do deals with this agency coz it's board has proven to be
A not trustworthy
B liars
C the perfect example of executive robbers that do not care about anything but lining their own pockets with YOUR money.
To prevent prosecution the company is paying back the 65 million but you can bet that the board does not loose a penny.
They probably fire a few people to save money in the company while they sit on their stolen money in a tropical paradise laughing at the suckers who trust them.
A curse on your houses for eternity and I do hope you enjoy prison you bunch of greedy thieves. Coz that is where you belong.

Date of experience: June 4, 2021
Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A client posted accidentally a very bad review to our hotel Merida Santiago hotel boutique and booking.com is not willing to take it of. When I was having a conversation with Yuta, our client on WhatsApp he told me that he was sorry that he posted the review to our hotel and that it was is intention to post it for another hotel. He also wrote us on WhatsApp that our hotel was amazing good. When we contacted Booking.com and tell about this error their reaction was that the review was according to their guidelines and that they will not delete it or post it to the hotel it was intended for.
The Booking.com employees do not show much sympathy for small hoteliers and easily cooperate in defaming and destroying the hard work done by our team, which the do with pleasure for our guests.
In Dutch newspapers (ie de Telegraaf https://www.telegraaf.nl/financieel/*******/boosheid-over-bonus-voor-top-van-coronasteunontvanger-booking-com) came out last days, that in COVID 19 time the Dutch government gave support of million of dollars to the Booking.com company. In the same year the received Corona Support and fired employees lower in the hierarchie the president and vice president received super big bonuses. Please think twice before you make a reservation with them and try to contact the hotel where you are staying direct. Wishing you all happy holiday and many nice travels enjoying new countries and cultures!

Date of experience: June 3, 2021
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was charged a 407.00 cancelation fee!... I was only refunded about 60.00! We had a fishing trip in NJ and due to weather not allowed to travel. I hope and PRAY a special place in HELL for these people! They should of NEVER charged my credit card till I checked in! I WILL do everything in my power to stop Booking from doing business in Pennsylvania!...

Date of experience: May 29, 2021
Poland
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I have booked many times with booking.com. Their website is very helpful and clear to use. However, if a problem arises it is very difficult to talk to someone, or almost impossible. It happened to me only once, and I was very upset with the service

Date of experience: May 29, 2021

From the business

Booking.com provides online bookings of hotels, resorts, hostels, and other travel accommodations around the world. The site attempts to separate itself from rival reservation sites by offering deals and its own hotel reviews. Booking.com is a subsidiary of Priceline.com, a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: PCLN).


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