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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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Minnesota
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Misleading advertising
December 15, 2022

I just booked an executive room in Florida that had a picture of a king bed with an ocean view. After paying and getting my confirmation it was noted that it was a full size bed with not that view. No refund offered as I didn't have the three day window. Only option was to pay more money and hope for a room with at least a queen size bed. Very misleading and deceiving.

Date of experience: December 14, 2022
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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The sun inn ulverston
December 13, 2022

Please i beg you never waist your money on staying at this slum.it isn't what it says.the food is puke.the beer is warm.and over priced.the room is rubbish.ordered fish and chips.no fish.had a chicken and beef burger.it was vile.heard a member of staff threaten another staff member from the kitchen.come on the if you think you are a f.ukin man.what a slum.

Date of experience: December 13, 2022
Poland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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這家公司的優惠卷系統讀取出現了問題,我立即聯絡客服等了大半天才有回覆。然後客服推卸責任說我沒有馬上聯絡他們,所以現在優惠卷到期了不能用。我一出現問題已經立即聯絡!他們在推卸責任,讓我損失了優惠而且沒有打算補救,客服員態度極為怠慢,我不會再用這公司的系統預訂酒店!

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Date of experience: December 12, 2022
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Don't trust
December 12, 2022

They will take your money month down road and act like they have no idea what you are talking about and you have to go through so many hoops just to try and get it back.

Date of experience: December 12, 2022
Ohio
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Would not recommend
December 12, 2022

First time booking a flight in forever. Unfortunately I didn't do my research. Booked a flight from booking.com from USA to Philippines. 2 months before date to leave, they canceled my flight. I called an they told me I had to request cancelation. (probably so they can take there cut) here it is two an half months later an I've called multiple times. They just keep telling me to wait an there team will get back with me. Which never does. So who knows how long I will be waiting to get refund if I even do at all. Asked them if I would get refund before end of the year, they say yes, but doesn't look like it will happen

Date of experience: December 12, 2022
AE
1 review
0 helpful votes
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You send continous mails and complaints, nobody takes action. Their email doesnt work, and when you contact customercare through manage booking, they remove the booking/or when you put confirmation number, it always shows error so u cant basically complain. Pathetic

Date of experience: December 11, 2022
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Don't dealing with booking.com, very bad,
Unresponsive and we can said fraud, don't believe it. 2 bedroom after paid become 1 bedroom + 1 extra bed in dining room
Sarkas suite, dishwasher broken, bath up leak, stove didn't work properly. Dangerous conditions. Shame on you, disgrace

Date of experience: December 11, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great Customer Service
December 12, 2022

I had to ask Booking.com to provide a refund for a non-refundable reservation *******441 due to my partner's unexpected death. Booking.com contacted the hotel provider on my behalf and organised a full refund with no cancelation fees. They were of a great help and showed compassion to me in the saddest time of my life. Thank you!

Date of experience: December 11, 2022
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The specifics of the property I stayed at, including the address, were misrepresented and not revealed until I arrived at the property. In fact, I was told to go to a neighbouring property to meet the host. If I had known the history of this property I would not have stayed here. A quick Google search reveals ongoing issues with alarms going off in the middle of the night, multiple shootings that left bullet holes in the building, facilities including elevators and fitness not maintained, etc. The Host and Booking.com were uncommunicative. I booked this through booking.com but when I need to make a change to the booking, Booking.com was of no help. In fact, their responses to my requests came from a "noreply" email address so it was impossible to communicate with them adequately. My requests to the host for a receipt for the extra day I paid for have been ignored.

Date of experience: December 11, 2022
Romania
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I rented a place with my family, under the impression that they were renting a decent room, based on a false advertisement allowed by Booking.com. I tried to contact the owner to request the change, the cancellation, but it is not possible. There are contact details on the Booking.com website that no one answers. I tried to get at least a partial refund and booking.com is useless. TERRIBLE customer service, they only send automated excuses designed by the marketing department. Will avoid using them again.

Date of experience: December 11, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No Customer Service
December 10, 2022

Mis-booked hotel room and initially told me to submit claim with paperwork once I'd paid the extra to the hotel. Claims then met with same constant reference to not being their problem as "Partner Offer" despite all contact, booking, and payments being to Booking.com. Not hotel error!

Mails to executives merely fed back into the No-Customer Service team.

Date of experience: December 10, 2022
Pennsylvania
14 reviews
31 helpful votes
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Was listed as a Host for 2 years and got one booking total (ironic as we are the TOP property in our area with other platforms.

Johnny Vago of Booking.com starts blasting us on email that he's been trying trying to reach us (LIES) and threating to delist us, etc. We end up wasting a bunch of time trying to fix things and the system keeps giving errors.

One booking in 2 years ISN'T WORTH OUR TIME or this harassment.

We are INDEPENDENT HOSTS. You make a commission (14 - 25%!) when you actually bring us bookings. One in 2 years isn't worth this BS or Harassment.

We are FULLY booked without you. WAVING BYE BYE!

The last thing we need is some guy in a call center barking orders at us or else!

Date of experience: December 9, 2022
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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If you use them, you are the fool! That's our warning, you will not reach customer service, you will not be satisfied. Case Closed

Date of experience: December 9, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No customer service.
December 9, 2022

I am experiencing issues with a booking and even being at genius level (and supposedly will get priority customer service), I cannot get a hold of anybody on booking.com. Worst ever!

Date of experience: December 9, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Stay away from this company!
December 6, 2022

If I could give negative stars I would. Reserved a rental car through them. The rental company never sent the shuttle to pick me up. The rental company nor bookings answered the phone. Bookings will not refund your reservation.

Date of experience: December 6, 2022
Cyprus
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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For months now I have tried to terminate my booking.com listing as well as terminate my partnership, account etc with booking.com and they have not done it. I followed their instructions on how to terminate partnership via extranet several times and still it has not happened. I am sick and tired of their canned responses whenever I contact customer service. They are useless and keep sending me round in circles. Completely frustrated and disgusted with booking.com. I regret having used their platform.

Date of experience: December 6, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Do not use booking.com
December 5, 2022

The service its bad if you cancel flight or hotel or car rentals you will wait on that refund and keep waiting because you will not get it back if you call they will not resolve the problem pretty much they will tell you they cannot fix the problem even if the airlines provide the full refund which they give you 24 hrs to cancel bookin.com will stay with that money. And if you want to cancel with them they will tell you their systems are down

Date of experience: December 5, 2022
Morocco
1 review
0 helpful votes
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As soon as I got genius level 3, they do not care at all about any request I make. They never call back if the line drops, they showed a different attitude.
They have some cheap properties on their site, where owners do not respect customers or treat them equally.
All they care about is money, even if it means disrespecting customers.
I was so happy with booking at 1st, but now I know how things work.

Date of experience: December 4, 2022
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst customer service I've ever dealt with!
December 4, 2022

My wife got hospitalized at 22 weeks and gave birth to my twins at 28 weeks. I canceled my trip which I found out was non- refundable. They offered to give me credit for a future trip. Then after the fact, said I was a no show and refused to give me a credit. I had purchased four tickets to Spain where I was to be married.

Date of experience: December 4, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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DO NOT BOOK WITH BOOKING. GET READY FOR THE SCAM!
December 4, 2022

I received emails about booking canceled flights to my last destination, so this forced my hand to cancel my remaining flights since they couldn't find me connecting flights anymore. NOW THE SCAM STARTS!

Booking inc has gave me wrong confirmation numbers, gave wrong phone numbers, and Hang up the phone each time I have called.

Singapore airlines tried hard to process my refund. They needed phone number from booking (which booking was unable to provide)

Ultimately booking stopped giving me updates on the refund status. The money is gone, since it first has to reach Booking inc hands before, so if Booking inc doesn't report it to me it's their money.

Highly unethical. I tried to escalate the case and they didn't give me a supervisor. You will get a guy from India, so their wage vs your time it's profitable to keep your ticket money.

Close to 800 dollars gone. The refund is processed, so my eticket is now deleted, so go ahead and contact singapore airlines and they will say it doesn't exist.

Date of experience: December 4, 2022

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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