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Opodo Reviews Summary

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Negative Highlights

  • Unauthorized Opodo Prime charges occur and refunds are difficult to obtain.
  • Customer service is described as unresponsive, with long wait times and generic replies.
  • Advertised benefits like Best Price Guarantee and flexible tickets often fail to deliver.
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Oct 19, 2025

I booked a return flight Amsterdam–Alicante for 5 people via Opodo, choosing the most expensive flexible tickets and even signing up for Opodo Prime. What they don't tell you is that all changes or cancellations apply to all passengers together and only ONE change/cancellation is possible. These crucial details are buried deep in the fine print. Furthermore, after making the one change, Opodo unilaterally changed our flight on the new day from 12:00 to 17:20 and after weeks of waiting for this "internal Call Request" claimed I had "approved it over the phone" — which is false. When I asked for proof of this call, they said it I would have to submit this Call request on their site and it would take 6–8 weeks for me to receive, long after the flight! I still have not received it, 2 months after this, again empty, promise. Customer service is more than appalling: endless hold times, agents barely speak English or Dutch, and all they say is "company policy." I lost money, lot's of energy, and half a day of my trip. Advice: Always book directly with the airline — Opodo is a scam and the so-called flexibility is pure illusion.

Dec 21, 2025

I've had multiple terrible experiences with Opodo and especially with Opodo Prime. The "benefits" they advertise felt like false promises in my case. 1. Best Price Guarantee: I was entitled to a refund but had to spend hours on phone calls and email chains to get it. It was extremely stressful, and it genuinely felt like they tried everything possible not to pay what I was owed—though they eventually did. 2. Prime Cancellation "Guarantee": They advertised guaranteed cancellation of two flights with an 80% refund, but when I tried to use it, they refused and instead charged me a large amount for a flight change. 3. Passenger Name Change: I paid £23 for a name change and later discovered they never even contacted the airline. More wasted time and now I'm chasing a refund. 4. Customer Service: Repeatedly poor. Long waits, no updates on ongoing requests (so I always had to follow up with them), inconsistent answers depending on who you speak to, and multiple instances where it felt like they were trying to avoid providing the services they promise to Prime customers. This whole experience has wasted so much of my time and caused needless stress. Based on my experiences, I strongly recommend avoiding Opodo.

Feb 22, 2026

I used opodo in 2024 to book flights. I did not realise I had signed up to an annual £90 fee until I saw an email reminder this year (2026). I filled in their online form two weeks ago (early Feb 2026) to claim back the fee for 2025 as I hadn't used their service - but have had no reply. Be warned! They bombard you with advertising emails so it's easy to miss the renewal email. Plus, our flights in 2024 were delayed and opodo passed on our details to 'Air help'. This sounds benign but actually is a scam as they take 33% of refund claims! It's very easy to claim a refund from the airline directly. In short, I found opodo unhelpful and disingenuous. If you use to book cheaper flights then cancel any subscription immediately afterwards. They're not out to help you but just want to help themselves to your money!

Jul 27, 2026

I booked a flight through Opodo. During the booking process, Opodo's baggage allowance screen clearly stated: Personal item — Included Cabin bag — Included Checked bag — Not included After the booking was completed, the cabin bag was not included in the issued reservation. I contacted Opodo and supplied screenshots. I later also provided an uninterrupted screen recording reproducing the same problem: it shows the selected flight, the baggage screen stating that both a personal item and cabin bag are included, and then continues through the booking process to the final payment page. Instead of properly investigating the issue, Opodo repeatedly sent generic template responses. They even advised me to check the booking confirmation to see whether the baggage was included — despite the difference between the information shown before payment and the final confirmation being the entire subject of my complaint. They then demanded a timestamped screenshot of the final payment page from the original booking. No ordinary customer would think to take screenshots of every checkout step before discovering that the final reservation contradicts what was displayed during purchase. Their responses repeatedly ignored the evidence and suggested that I may simply have selected a different fare, while failing to explain why their own booking interface continues to display the cabin bag as "Included". This handling appears designed to exhaust the customer rather than investigate a documented problem. I am escalating the full correspondence, screenshots and recording to the relevant European and Spanish consumer authorities. My advice is not to rely on baggage information displayed by Opodo. Record the entire checkout process, carefully compare the final airline confirmation, and book directly with the airline whenever possible. They behave like a true scam, selling services that do not exist!

Jan 11, 2026

Just received notification from tesco credit card that opodo prime had charged me £99.99 for a travel membership that I did not want. I called the Indian call center and they told me that they could not cancel or offer a refund. The payment was pending on my credit card. They offered a 50% discount. I said that a refund was all I wanted as I had no plan to travel. I called tesco credit card and they have blocked further payment being made to opodo. I have asked they tesco bank team to request a refund. Do not use opodo as you cannot cancel. Really poor. Nothing more than thieves. I will update if I get a solution as an update Tesco credit card got me a full refund. So this is the route you must take if you want your money back

Jan 12, 2026

Unfortunately, while searching holidays, I ended up with Prime Membership by OPODO. They took money from my account which was big shock! Cancellation request NOT accepted, Keep charging from my Account. There is NO WAY you can disable or STOP payment going out of your bank account. On their website, there is no any option to cancel. Keep ringing them. Automated Tape makes you feel frustrated. Government should be strict with such misleading company to operate.

Aug 23, 2025

This is really the worst of travel agencies. I paid 3500 pounds for a ticket and had to make a change, because of an unforseen medical circumstance. In the app I requested the change, and was told I could make the change for 170 pounds. Very reasonable, I accepted it. Then I got an email saying actually it would be 2,000 pounds. The followed a long four days, with seven long distance calls, over and over again without being able to even accept or pay the aburd price. I would call go over what I wanted ( again and again) and I was told over and over, someone would call me back. Once someone did and they sent me a payment link. I tried three, three! Different debit and credit cards, and none would be accepted. My ¨review" "collapsed", so once again I asked for the change. This time it came back, that I would have to pay 3200 pounds. It seems to me that this is very much a scam. There was no intention of reserving until they managed to push the price to the Moon. Terrible experience. Probably the worst ever

Jan 28, 2026

It's the biggest scam ever. They didn't refund the money for the best price guarantee. Didn't call us, but said they call us. Then they just added a new flight without baggage and told us that we never added it. Even after we send them the proof. Then we wanted to change the flight with flex prime. Amount to pay was 0 (in the app and online) they called us and told us that we have to pay 1000.-, then 700.- and then 390.- (for the exact same flight). Which was all much more then compared to the other airlines

Feb 3, 2026

Opodo is the worst travel-related customer service-related experience I've ever had. This is the kind of company which takes advantage of customer's unawerness. Customer service is a parody of customer service - they are unreachable, and at the end they only copy-paste identical answers without referring to customer's request.

Jan 30, 2026

OPODO PRIME SCAM ALERT Don't be fooled by the "Best Price Guarantee"! I am a Prime member and I found a cheaper public price on Agoda. Even though I sent screenshots within 24h, Opodo keeps inventing excuses to avoid paying. First they lied about the 24h deadline, then they lied about the discount being "private" (it's a public AGODASALE available to everyone). Now they've closed their Twitter support and left Resolver just to hide from complaints. If you don't honor your T&C and refund the 2x difference, I will continue to warn every customer on this page. Shameful business practices! #Opodo #Scam #PrimeMember #TravelScam

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GB
1 review
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Cancel any time guarantee - does cover hotel and flight
February 13, 2020

The policy wording has vanished off the internet.

I have a photo showing it covers the flight and hotel (see below).

Despite them agreeing to refund me after I showed them this photo the money has still not been transferred after 6 weeks. My flight was scheduled for Saturday and worryingly I am still receiving emails from the airline and hotel...

DO NOT USE OPODO..

Date of experience: February 13, 2020
Brazil
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Worst company ever!
February 13, 2020

This has to be the worst company in the world, they speak very bad English, pretent they don't hear you as they pretend the connection is bad and then hang up... they really don't help at all. This company only fills there pockets and as soon as you have an issue there is 0 help whatsoever! I will never book a flight with them again, very very very bad!

Date of experience: February 13, 2020
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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The worst customer service.
February 12, 2020

I have been sent a message to contact OPODO about a change to flights I booked. I have now tried to call 6 times and on hold for a minimum of 20 minutes each time then they transfer me which end after another long wait in being cut off. Absolutely hopeless Indian call centre. Never again.

Date of experience: February 12, 2020
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Atlas global via opodo - cancelled flight no refund
February 11, 2020

Booked a flight via opodo on atlasglobal more than 3 months ago on 3. 11. 19 from london to kuwait. Flight was cancelled due to recent financial struggles of the airlines. Airlines doesn't provide any communciation/information on what they intend to do and what you can do to receive your refund. They don't respond to your emails. When you call them up, they say to get in touch with your booking agency (opodo in this case) and ask them for it.

3 months on, I've been calling both, atlasglobal and opodo. Opodo staff keep saying they have no information from atlasglobal and keep telling me to 'wait for more days'. They don't provide any proof that they are involved in the process or trying to get the refund issued.

Honestly, my suggestion is to stay away from all turkish airlines (atlasglobal, pegasus). I've had many flights cancelled/delayed because of them. Personally I'll never be using opodo again either. Trying to save a few quid is always nice but no gurantees provided via third party booking agencies and you end up losing hundreds in the process.

Date of experience: February 11, 2020
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Awful all round
February 10, 2020

I booked flights at the beginning of August 2019, and at the end of October 2019 I received an email from Opodo saying that there had been a major schedule change to my flights and to contact them to discuss options. I called straight away and the advisor asked if this was suitable, as the return flight had been moved 24 hours back and I said no, this isn't suitable, I have to get back for work commitments. I was told that Opodo would ask the airline if there were any alternatives available, and I would receive a call back within 24-48 hours. 3 weeks later, still no call back so I contacted them again and they said the airline had no alternative so I requested a full refund of the flights so I could rebook flights that suit my schedule. Again I was told I'd receive a call back within 24-48 hours, and again this didn't happen. I decided to open a Resolver case against them and was met with zero help, and after more calls and live chats with customer services (at least 10 different times I contacted them), I'd had no call backs and no more information. I then tried to contact the airline who just pointed the finger of blame at Opodo. They were just blaming each other. At this point (then mid January) I decided to take my case to PayPal (I paid via PayPal) and raise a case for a refund. I raised this on 19/01/2020, and explained the situation, with screenshots and evidence attached. I don't know if Opodo ever replied to PayPal's request for information, but yesterday, 09/02/2020, PayPal ruled in my favour and gave me the full refund. So I can finally book new flights for the end of February!
All in all, terrible experience with Opodo, with zero support and no contact even after multiple promises.

Date of experience: February 10, 2020
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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AVOID AVOID AVOID
February 7, 2020

AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. Please please don't book through Opodo. You might save a small amount of money but if anything goes wrong you will feel abandoned. Holding for hours and hours on the phone. Hours more once we got through to 'customer services' trying to get them to resolve a problem of their making... the day before we're due to travel. So stressful. Holiday of a lifetime already ruined by this appalling company. Gone 1am in the morning and still we wait for them to sort out their mess.

Date of experience: February 6, 2020
Thailand
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Dishonest. Basically on line fraud
February 1, 2020

Never use this company I am 75 years old and by online trickery they charged me almost double the cost of booking direct with the airline for a domestic flight same day. The so called customer service staff then give you the run around absolutely heartless and dishonest. They are a disgrace.

Date of experience: January 31, 2020
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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NEVER! NEVER USE THIS SERVIS!
January 31, 2020

I booked 2 tickets! It was cost 50 pounds. I PUT THE BANK DETAILS AND THEY TAKED MORE THAN 500 EURO FROM MY BANK CARD (WITHOUT MY CONSENT)! HAVE EVIDENCE! I!
Then I called the Call Center... Having waited 1 hour on the line. Men from the call center in India, this one confirmed, can't do anything... Just repeat the same thing, write a letter... Having talked with him I didn't find out anything and didn't decide... WRITTEN A LETTER WITH REFERENCE THEY DO NOT RESPOND! EVEN HAVING EVIDENCE, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING! IF SOMEBODY HAS PROBLEMS WITH THIS COMPANY ALSO, WE GET TOGETHER TOGETHER. A WEEK I GO TO THEM IN THE OFFICE ALREADY FOUND 3 PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR PROBLEMS, JOIN US! *******@gmail.com or FB Oseiko IGOR

Date of experience: January 31, 2020
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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APPALLING customer service
January 29, 2020

Horrendous customer service - AVOID at all costs. Promise to resolve your issue/refund but they lie and lie to you. Book direct instead - these people are crooks! If you want to hold on the line to speak to them for hours and then be cut off and then speak to someone with limited English then go ahead...

Date of experience: January 29, 2020
Czechia
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Awful service with contradictory answers and no solution.

I booked a return flight for three people - two of them having the same name. Opodo reservation system added a suffix "Jr" to one of the passengers, while "Jr" is not in the passport. All this WITHOUT us putting "JR" in the reservation! The airline informed me that that passenger will be denied boarding.

I have been trying to solve this issue with Opodo for a month now, no luck and no answer from their customer service. The customer service is absolutely incomptenent, cant even properly read messages, does not solve anything, promises solutions and does not deliver. My parents, who are travelling with me and know no foreign language, are in bad luck because of Opodo's mistake I will not be able to travel with them shall this not get fixed soon.

Steer clear if you don't want to lose money on someone else's mistake.

Never again.

Date of experience: January 23, 2020
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Bad Experience
January 23, 2020

Opodo charged me twice for one trip. After calling customers service many, many times, somebody listen to my complain and promised that my poblem will be resolved. I called my bank, two weeks after that call and, in fact
Nothig has been done. They took the money from my account, on Jan. 9th and on Jan. 10th and no refunds.
I am still waiting for the end of my saga!
Julia D.
Montreal

Date of experience: January 23, 2020
Ireland
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Stay away
January 18, 2020

This is scam artist's. I surprised thay in business at all. I recomend you to say away from this site if you like safe your time and money

Date of experience: January 18, 2020
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Awful customer service - AVOID
January 13, 2020

I seem to have spent what feels like half my life hanging on the phone and dealing with incompetent customer service representatives at Opodo. They contacted me in December to let me know that one of the flights I booked through them had been cancelled by the airline. Despite being on hold for about an hour since then on various calls to them, each time promised that they would sort the situation out and that someone would call me NOTHING has happened. This company is not fit for purpose. I will never use them again - they have redefined incompetence for me... just read all the other negative reviews on here and AVOID booking with them.

Date of experience: January 13, 2020
Czechia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Quick refund within free-cancellation period
January 10, 2020

I cancelled my booking within the 7-hour free-cancellation period that my flight had when I realized I need a different flight plan.

Opodo refunded my money to the penny within 3 working days (only downside is that since my account is not in GBP I got screwed on the exchange rate, but that's my bank screwing me, not Opodo).

One weird thing is that I still keep getting emails as if my booking was still confirmed and even when I log in to Opodo's site to manage my booking it still appears to be confirmed, only thing indicating a refund is that in the "Billing" section, the mentioned total is "Total: £0.00 Congrats! That's an amazing deal".
Aside from this confusion, really good service.

Date of experience: January 8, 2020
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible company!
January 7, 2020

Completely unprofessional, I will never use their services again and I will advise everyone to avoid them. They had canceled my flight 2 months ago, they rebooked it for a different time and it was practically impossible to reach them to change it to something that suited my plans. I called them twice, every time the answer was, you will be contacted in 48hours to be assisted with a new ticket. I have complained about it and it has been 2 months of them ignoring me. The only way of communicating with them is through facebook messenger where the last 3 times I have been given the same answer: "wait for 24h to be "called/contacted". And of course " don't worry" which has absolutely 0 value in a B2C discussion.

Please avoid them at all costs! Thanks, R

Date of experience: January 7, 2020
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Something is wrong with their online booking system
December 20, 2019

I think there is something not right with their booking system... I am very very careful with booking flights and I always double check the dates and the flight times when booking.

I was directed to Opodo from kayak for the dates and times that I wanted (I checked). I proceeded to enter my passenger and payment information. After payment, i received a confirmation but one of the return flights was different resulting in 13-hour layover time (in the original ticket it was 6 and a half hours). I used their 'free cancellation within 1 hour" option and cancelled it immediately online. They promise to fully refund me within 10 days. My advice is don't use them but if you decide to, then sae all the screenshots at every step of the booking process.

Date of experience: December 19, 2019
Slovakia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My worst experience so far
December 19, 2019

Don't buy from them. I booked tickets by the help of the support and they wrote a wrong name on the ticket. Solving the problem is very frustrating the support isn't helpful with solving the problem at all. They made a mistake and I don't have my money nor my tickets! They lied to me that they guarantee the refund in 2 days. Now it's not possible and no one answers me to the point. What is your Opodo company's policy for not completing their guarantees?

Date of experience: December 19, 2019
TZ
1 review
7 helpful votes
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STINGING TERRIBLE SITE TO USE.
December 11, 2019

I booked my flight then they messed my return dates. Changing dates they told me will cost at least £600. If Cancel then I lose a percent. I chose to cancel and they would refund my moneybin 10days they never. I called them. In 11th day they said in 3days. They Never refunded me. Then I call again. No refund. Until today it has been almost a month
OPODO A HUGE SCAM! SCAM SCAM SCAM... DO NOT USE IT!

Date of experience: December 11, 2019
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Nonexistent customer service
December 8, 2019

Opodo's entire business plan: ignore and deflect. It's impossible to get any help. I needed to make a change because my mom was just diagnosed with incurable cancer. They couldn't care less, they just keep telling me I have to deal with the airline, which is an outright lie. They also send fake coupons to try to get you to buy from them. What a joke this company is! I cannot believe it's still operating. BEWARE!

Date of experience: December 8, 2019
Namibia
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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AWFUL CUSTOMER SERVICE
December 6, 2019

Rude, slow, unhelpful. What more can I say? Takes ages to get anybody on the phone, when you do they spent ages checking info you have already entered on the keypad, offer no help, and to make it worse THEY ARE AWFULLY RUDE!

Date of experience: December 5, 2019