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GoToGate

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Gotogate USA offers good deals on flights, hotels and car rentals. Welcome to visit our site for your next trip, whether it' s a domestic or international trip.


gotogate.com
Founded in 2009
Miami, FL, United States
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GoToGate Reviews Summary

The company demonstrates a mixed reputation, with customers appreciating the competitive pricing and user-friendly booking process. Many users report successful transactions and commend the quick service and ease of navigation on the website. However, significant concerns arise regarding hidden fees, unexpected price increases, and inadequate customer support, particularly in resolving issues or clarifying policies. Complaints about website glitches and poor communication further detract from the overall experience. While some customers express satisfaction with their purchases, the recurring issues suggest a need for improved transparency and customer service practices.

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Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fly tickets
February 2, 2024

The website is easy to navigate!I am waiting to have a good time

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Thieves
February 9, 2024

They Told me that they charge 56 $ if canceled but tgey charged me double the amount. They wont answer back

Date of experience: February 2, 2024
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I have been trying to get a refund for over seven months. The email exchange with this company is really poor, as soon as they get your money they don't care about you. I am so sad to see these kinds of companies continue to abuse without any accountability. There should be an authority to stop them. I will continue to denounce this on all platforms. A very friendly advice, avoid them.

Date of experience: January 29, 2024
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Don't use GO TO GATE!
February 1, 2024

It is the worst place to buy tickets, they don't give answers to your questions, they don't make date changes, there is no good customer service. They are a disaster!

GoToGate attempted to help this customer through the SmartCustomer Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: January 25, 2024
Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Extremely disappointed! GoToGate was supposedly denied access to Thai Jet Air and Thai Air Asia, so they couldn't honor the flexible ticket. Because they couldn't help me with my flight changes, they offered to refund my flight only, and not the additional services they promised-- flexible ticket, seat reservations... I lost $200 dollars and will NEVER use this company again and regret not paying attention to the reviews in the first place as they only have 1 star! Go figure! On top of all of this I incurred expensive international call fees as I was put on long holds many times.

Date of experience: January 22, 2024
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Rip Off Pricing Policy
January 26, 2024

Whilst Gotogate appears to have competitive prices be VERY careful when booking. The prices are low purely to come up at the top of searches on travel booking sites such as Skyscanner and Kayak. But they mark up the "extras" very heavily.
The airline ticket that I bought did not include a luggage allowance so I added one piece during the check-out process of the booking. They charged £26.99 for this although on the airline's own site (Air Asia) they only charge £10.24 (THB 468)
This is an over charge/mark-up of over 260%
When I phoned GotoGate they said that they are entitled to mark up their prices, that I had chosen to add the luggage and that they do not give refunds of any kind on the extras that they sell as part of the bookings.
Beware when booking with GotoGate

Date of experience: January 19, 2024
Israel
1 review
0 helpful votes
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On 12/07/2022 I ordered 4 plane tickets to Romania through the GOTOGATE website, the
First order I did not receive confirmation, the computer was stuck for a long time, so I started everything from the beginning and made a second payment. When I returned from Romania I discovered on my credit card that I had been charged for both ticket orders. Since the names and flight details are the same in both orders, I contacted GOTOGATE to credit me for the double order!
GOTOGATE did not agree to help and I contacted the airline directly which credited GOTOGATE with 4,636 ILS, after many inquiries and months of waiting, GOTOGATE returned me only about 2,700 ILS.
I am turning to you for help in returning the remaining money.

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Rude customer service
January 24, 2024

Worst ever customer service. Even disconnected the call on me since they found out the issue is on GotoGate side and refused to accept the error. And in a tactic just disconnected the call saying "This call is going no where". Infact the agent also insulted me saying "Am I kidding". I want to make sure no one else has this plight by making a booking through these guys. Be aware. While I made the booking it clearly states the baggage allowance that I am entitled to and in the back end GotoGate has booked a different fare type with a lower baggage allowance and the passenger needs to be pay the price for it. They refused to accept their error and just disconnected the call.

Date of experience: January 16, 2024
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Run from this one...
January 23, 2024

Avoid using this company at all cost. They will give you the run around on a legitimate need for a refund and then close out your refund request after you have jumped through all of their hoops. I do not believe they are an upstanding nor legitimate company. Customer service is very poor. Run from this one...

Date of experience: January 15, 2024
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam Fraude
January 22, 2024

I search in KAYAK website and after that they transfer me to GOTOGATE because i choosed the price of 4776$ CAD, When i start to fill out the info it change automaticly to EURO and when i booked i was CHARGED for 4909$. So i wanted to Cancel with in 30 mn after booking. They charged me 470$ cancellation fee in euro is 319 EURO WHAT A SCAM NO ONE ANSWER. ITS SCAMMMMM
This is my order number MRJK1D

Date of experience: January 15, 2024
Ireland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I claimed refund for my flight to Egypt because of the war in Palestine and 2 death tourists from Israel and bombs on the territory of Egypt. After that on the website of Ministry of Forein Affairs appeared information to not travel there if it's not necessary. The called the airlines and Gotogate and both confirmed that I have right to do it because of circumstances. But I have been waiting already 3 months! I contacted them 3 times and the last time I should be the final one as I was promised by agent as he said after 1 week they have inner rule that have to provide answer and guess what? The lady on the phone was surprised and she said that I have to wait „a bit longer" were talking about 3 months. When I asked when I will receive answer they can't provide such information as they don't know. Gotogate and Eagean are the worst and try to avoid those companies as much as you can!

Date of experience: January 15, 2024
South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scammer!
January 22, 2024

Honestly, I don't even know why this travel company is still allowed to operate, they are the most pathetic travel company I have ever seen. In December they cancelled my flight without telling me, I got to the airport with all my luggage when I checked in the airline couldn't find my ticket in the system, I then called Go To Get, to check what had happened, it only then they told me that they cancelled my return ticket, and I ask them why they didn't tell me and then lied they said they tried to call me on my mobile number but they could find me. I asked them why they sent me an email since we were communicating via email before. The lady I spoke with on the phone her name is Vincy Brown the one who cancelled my flight ticket, she didn't even apologize about it. She told me to buy another ticket, because my refund will take 15 to 20 days, mind I didn't even have money to purchase another ticket. I was left stranded in a foreign country I had to sleep at the Airport for 2 nights without food.
Until today they haven't refunded me my money and this Vincy Brown woman doesn't reply to my emails any more when I ask her about my refund. It is not even easy to communicate with them.

I will never use their services anymore and I will make sure that anyone I know will never use them. They don't respect customers at all

Date of experience: January 15, 2024
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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AVOID AVOID AVOID
January 12, 2024

I was directed to Go To Gate from one of the bigger booking agencies (I cannot remember if it as Expedia or Rome2Rio) - entered my info and paid for 2 tickets - web site showed 100% refund if cancelled within 24 hours. Well, I realized within a few minutes that what I booked was a one way ticket not round trip. Tried to cancel and was charged a $45/ticket HANDLING fee. Called and talked to them and they would not budge on the issue - just kept saying "you agreed to the service fee when you bought the tickets!" I told the agent he better look for another job because this company will go out of business if that is the way they abuse their customers. I wish I had thought to check reviews before booking with them in the first place. Avoid at all costs!

Date of experience: January 12, 2024
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Avoid at all costs.
January 9, 2024

Gotogate failed to confirm my flight despite booking three weeks in advance and I received an email the night before that the flight was not confirmed. I then booked a flight directly with the same airline. Gotogate refuses to refund the original ticket price for having performed no service at all.

Date of experience: January 8, 2024
South Africa
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I am so so disappointed with gotogate after I booked tickets for me and my wife, with kids.
I was left stranded at the airport, after gotogate claiming they booked my tickets with lift airline.
I had to to buy new tickets from my pocket with another airline after lofts air line said they didn't get any bookings for me,.
Even their call centre told me to buy myself another tickets, some even dropped the phone for me.
Disappointing

Date of experience: January 5, 2024
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Thieves! Keep away!
January 4, 2024

My flight was cancelled by the airline. I requested a refund from GoToGate and received a stating that GoToGate requested the airline to refund me, and I will receive it as soon as the airline transfers that refund to GoToGate. GoToGate's website shows the refund status as "waiting for the airline to issue a refund."
I contacted the airline directly and got confirmation that the flight had been refunded and the funds had been transferred to the booking agency.
Nevertheless, GoToGate's website keeps showing the status as "waiting." I tried to call GoToGate customer service and waited in a queue for 3 hours for the agent to answer. When it was my turn, the call was disconnected.

Date of experience: January 4, 2024
Greece
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The customer service was horrible but kost importantly, as Gotogate is not an authorized partner of the flight companies (in our case Ryanair), it caused a HUGE problem regarding the check-in, ruining our last day of holidays and alkost leaving us without a way to come home. Won't use the same retailer ever again, highly suggesting you to stay away.

Date of experience: January 2, 2024
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam of a company
December 29, 2023

They scam clients by saying no details can be changed, even if you call in 1 minute after submission, they tell you the whole ticket is cancelled. I even got on the phone with the airline, and they were willing to help me out but in the end it relied on Gotogate making the changes on their end. Even though they had all the information, and had the airline company assisting, they decided not to do anything and just let the flight ticket get cancelled.

I will be filing a charge back on this pathetic excuse of a company

Date of experience: December 28, 2023
NL
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Nieuw inzicht gotogate
December 29, 2023

Na een eerste slechte ervaring en weinig vertrouwen in de beloofde afspraken, is er toch contact geweest en hoop op een goede afloop

Date of experience: December 28, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Utterly Disappointed: Avoid GoToGate at All Costs!

I regret to say that my recent encounter with GoToGate has left me seething with frustration and disappointment. I purchased flight tickets through their platform, intending to include our newborn baby in the booking. Shockingly, their ineptitude and lack of communication with the airline prevented them from making this seemingly straightforward adjustment. Unbelievable!

When I attempted to rectify this, their customer service proved to be an absolute nightmare. Not only did they fail to assist in adding our baby to the booking, but their refusal to provide a full refund was the final straw. It's appalling that a company supposedly facilitating travel couldn't manage such a simple request and then had the audacity to deny a reasonable refund.

Communication? Non-existent. Support? Abysmal. Transparency? Completely lacking. GoToGate's disregard for customer needs is utterly appalling. What's worse is their attempt to swindle customers with additional charges when alterations are necessary. It's beyond comprehension how a company can operate with such disregard for customer satisfaction.

Save yourself the anguish and avoid GoToGate. The allure of cheaper prices quickly fades away when you're confronted with their incompetence and their readiness to exploit customers. My experience has been a cautionary tale, and I implore anyone considering their services to steer clear and opt for a more reputable and customer-centric alternative. GoToGate, you've not only lost a customer but also tarnished any semblance of trust in your brand. Shame on you!

Date of experience: December 27, 2023