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Expedia Reviews Summary

Expedia's reputation is significantly marred by widespread customer dissatisfaction, primarily stemming from poor customer service and issues with booking accuracy. Many customers report difficulties in reaching live support, leading to frustrations over incorrect reservations, unexpected charges, and inadequate responses to cancellations. While some users appreciate the variety of options available through the platform, the overall sentiment reflects a lack of trust due to perceived unethical practices and inadequate support during critical situations. This feedback suggests a pressing need for Expedia to enhance its customer service responsiveness and transparency to rebuild consumer confidence.

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returns
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Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Cancel fee
June 30, 2017

Expedia says they have no cancel fees but then the hotel will charge you the full price to cancel? Thats a misrepresentation. Will never book through them again.

Date of experience: June 30, 2017
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Booked car rental on Expedia / Avis for $570 Canadian taxes and fees included. I added some extra insurance at pick up. They ended up charging me $1104 on my credit card. More than double the original quoted amount. Adding car insurance never doubles the original price.
Stay away. Biggest rip off ever.

Date of experience: June 29, 2017
Canada
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I made a reservation error. Impossible to correct with Expedia. No phone number available. No reply to my email. Proved to be frustrating and costly.

Date of experience: June 28, 2017
Maryland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Worst website ever!
June 27, 2017

I will NEVER use expedia again. Found out the morning I was leaving to go home they changed my flight and didn't even notify me!

Date of experience: June 27, 2017
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Do not get the car rental insurance through Expedia. It is through a third party and nonrefundable. It appears as you are getting it through the rental company but not the case. I will not use Expedia ever again. Too shady.

Date of experience: June 26, 2017
Texas
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Crooks
June 24, 2017

These people are liars and their site has issues which cause errors. They are not willing to fix their mistakes. I called and talked to several people and they all blame the hotel. After you talk to the hotel, you find that they aren't involved because they have yet to be paid. They advise Expedia to give us the money back, but Expedia wants to have incompetent people waste my time on the phone.

Date of experience: June 24, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Hotel Disaster
June 24, 2017

I booked through Expedia for a hotel in Klamath Falls Oregon. Upon check-in there was no reservation under my name or reservation confirmation. The cities hotels were completely booked due to a college graduation and prices had gone from $107 per night to $350. After going round and round for an hour and a half they figured out they made a mistake and booked me in Kalamazoo Minnesota at the same hotel chain. Because of third party booking, they had already taken monies from my credit card. There was only one room left at this hotel which I had to take. After a three day fight with Expedia, they agreed to refund my money. Use this company with caution. For myself, NEVER AGAIN!

Date of experience: June 24, 2017
Massachusetts
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I realize that people want to save money when booking hotels and trips, however, you had better hope you do not need to cancel any part of that trip or speak with customer service.
The gentleman I needed to speak with had a very thick accent, which made him difficult to understand, UNTIL he put the phone on the counter to pretend to call the hotel about my cancelation. THAT was when he spoke perfect English telling someone else in the office that he liked to 'pretend' to help people out while on the phone. I am completely disgusted by the whole situation and will NEVER book with them again. I don't care if the trip is free.

Do not ever deal with them. If I could have given no stars, I would have.

Date of experience: June 23, 2017
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Expedia refund
June 22, 2017

I recently cancelled a return trip booking made with Expedia. I've been assured by the Expedia staff that I will get my refund credited back to my credit card account minus the cancellation fee.
Am a bit worried reading the negative reviews about Expedia.
Anyone able to shed some light if the refund will indeed be made?
Thanks heaps

Date of experience: June 21, 2017
Georgia
11 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Expedia tries to get people to buy vacation packages by using stock market pricing. There are XX rooms available and the number is changing while you are trying to plan a vacation with someone. We tried for 3 weeks to get what we wanted and every day the price changed and the availability changed. We finally went to southwestvacations.com and got a deal for Captiva Island for $1900 for 6 days/nights plus airfare for 4. The rapid changing of prices and availability is a big turnoff and pain to manage.

Date of experience: June 21, 2017
Louisiana
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Customer service is really frustrating. Its always better to get rid of the middle man and book direct with the companies so when you are trying to get refunds or reimbursement or just to communicate in general it protects the customer. Expedia uses the fact its insurance and everyone they 'middle' for that they can not directly help you and that leads to a huge headaches and their hands constantly 'being tied', really its a cop-out and they end up not being responsible to you 'their' customer. By booking thru Expedia you end up in no mans land and all to easily get lost in the third parties fine print and they get away with your money. ZERO stars

Date of experience: June 20, 2017
KR
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I had to cancel my flight for which they gave me airline credit.
In order for me to make a new reservation, i had to do it through a phone call which was inconvenient enough as I was outside of the US.
First rep put me on hold several times and I was on the call for nearly an hour when he abruptly said he needs to call me back, hung up on me and never called me back.
When I called them back, they admitted the first rep made some kind of a mistake. I also found out that they omitted critical info regarding restrictions on cancelled tickets, so now I'm about to lose about 900 dollars in useless credit.
I asked to speak with a supervisor, for which they ASSURED me that my call wouldn't get dropped and i would be able to connect to someone higher up. Now i'm holding for about 25 minutes. Expedia's business practice warrants a lawsuit and their customer service is non-existent and only serves to frustrate their customers. Never again will i do any kind of business with them and I'll be telling everyone i know to steer clear. What a piece of $#*! company.

Date of experience: June 20, 2017
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I'm writing this as I continue to be on hold with expedia for over 2 hours now.

On this one vacation Expedia had managed to cancel a booking, cancel a ticket (after I had called twice to confirm it) and now I'm waiting to find out if they will refund my money for having to purchase a ticket twice.

I find them bewilderingly incompetent

Date of experience: June 17, 2017
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I called expedia on june 13 to cancel an itinerary which I booked one hour earlier because I found a cheaper price at air canada website.
The agent assured me that expedia will refund the difference through price match and there's no need too waste time to cancel the ticket.
However, the price match department refused to match the price and I finished by paying the expensive expedia price.
I talked to one of your managers to explain the issue. But she wasn't helpful neither.
I asked her to listen to the conversation with the expedia agent that assured me that I'll get a refund. She said that it's not possible
I will report this issue to the better business bureau.

Date of experience: June 17, 2017
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I accidentally booked wrong date and called within 5 minutes to cancel. I was told no problem. When I did not get a confirming e-mail I also canceled on line. Even through on the web site they except cancelations and will refund. THEY CANCELED THE RESERVATION AND CHARGED THE ENTIRE CHARGE EVEN THOUGH I CANCELED WITHIN FIVE MINUTES. I have spent many hours trying to get my money back with no luck and lost over $1,200.00! People are from South American country and I heard other callers while I was on hold going through same thing.

Date of experience: June 17, 2017
Singapore
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I booked my flight ticket on Expedia, but found out that I need to cancel it for some reason, so I called back to them but they redirected me to call airline company to cancel it.

While then, I called the airline company, airline company mentioned that only expedia can cancel my flight. So I wrote more than 20 emails, no one has response properly, only sent me rubbish auto-reply. From within a 24 hours cancellation request to now already 3 weeks past, no one responses, and I am still talking to myself on the cancellation request. And still waiting for Expedia to reply.

Not sure how this company run their customer service team? KPI: Piss your client off, try to get your user band Expedia site.

Date of experience: June 15, 2017
New York
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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ELEMENT ROOFING WAS A GREAT PRICE.THE JOB DONE IS BEAUTIFUL AND VERY CLEAN. FRIENDLY PEOPLE AND TRUST WORTHY.

Date of experience: June 12, 2017
California
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
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About an hour and some minutes later, the supervisor sent me an e-mail with a refund. The refund was not just what I paid to Expedia, but it also included the cost of my daughter and her friend to purchase new tickets at the gate.

What happen:
I ordered Knott's tickets online one day prior to the event.
Expedia's website does not give an option to add the names of whom the tickets are for. The website automatically pulled my name from the billing information and added it to both tickets. The issue with this is my daughter's friend's mother is accompanying them to the park and not me. Therefore the I.D. will not match the name on the tickets.

I called Expedia, they contacted Knotts. Unfortunately, because I'm unable to give them 72-hour notice they were unable to make any changes (mind you I purchased the tickets 24 hours prior). I explained this is the fault of their website, being there was never an option for anyone's name but my own (from billing).

The first 26 minutes of my call the guy transferred me back to the cue in which I had to start all over with another agent. About an hour and some minutes later, the supervisor sent me an e-mail with a refund. The refund was not just what I paid to Expedia, but also included the cost of my daughter and her friend to purchase a new ticket at the gate.

Although I am not happy with the amount of time it took to resolve this issue, nor their website. I am happy with the outcome and that they took the time to resolve this issue.

Date of experience: June 12, 2017
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I bought extra ticket by mistake and I just wanted give up the seat without getting refund. They need to charge me $200 for change fee. I didn't want to change anything but just give up the connection flight that I bought by mistake. And I can't even cancel whole trip because they won't refund. Their best suggestion was buy one more ticket to go back to my destiny from the place I bought by mistake or give up the ticket I bought ($1800 worth) buy whole trip again with their best option which comes down to $1200 pay on top of what I paid. This is what I got from 2 hours of phone conversation. DO NOT USE EXPEDIA EVER! Common sense doesn't make sense to them for their own "policy "

Date of experience: June 11, 2017
Georgia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Sharks for high cost
June 9, 2017

Good for corporate travel where budgets are less important. For retirees to see and travel to their families across country it is no choice.

Date of experience: June 9, 2017