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.
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- 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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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.
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!
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!
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
Very slow and poor assist from support even prime member support is very bad. They wastle time without resolving problem on time.
My glights were cancelled by the airline and I only got half the amount back! They ignore every request! Do not ever use!
We booked with Opodo as we wanted to book with different airlines to and from our destination due to more favourable flight times. One of the airlines for return cancelled the flight time and said we could book on a different time but needed to do this with Opodo as they were our booking agent - made sense to us. Opodo said they could not do this - I still don't understand why, but after a lot of trying to solve the issue we ended up cancelling our whole booking with them so we could then rebook the flights directly with the airlines. We were told we were entitled to 80% refund - we got about 60% back and gave up trying to recover the remaining 20% as it would have cost us more in phone calls to them in order to put pressure on them for this - they used all sorts of excuses like an error in currency rate etc. etc. So that was our first and only time of using Opodo - our advice to anyone thinking to use this website is PLEASE DON'T USE OPODO, you will most likely be ripped off. We've learnt our lesson.
I had bad experience confirms that I would never try Opodo again. I accidentally signed up for Prime membership in January 2023, and despite my attempts to cancel it shortly after, the payment went through and couldn't be refunded due to the 30-day limit. Recently, I discovered that the membership renewal charge of £70 was deducted from my account. When I contacted customer service to request a refund, I was only refunded £50 and given a voucher, which I find unacceptable. The customer service representative, Dana, repeatedly asked if I could hear her due to poor connection, making the experience even more frustrating. It's disappointing that the company's terms and conditions prevent full refunds for customers in situations like mine.
Rude employee bad service stealing for the money doesn't have any ethic
Call center agent very rude and unhelpful
Kept me on the call for more than 30 min and without any solution although the change in booking was their mistake
Beware! This is a ripoff! I booked a return flight from London (coming from Canada) to Manchester as my mother was placed on end of life and with the understanding I could cancel the return flight depending on how things went. Sadly my mother passed away and I needed to cancel my return flight. I Was unable to do this on the app. And forced to chat with on online chat person as I didn't have the option to call them from my mobile being out of country. I was on chat for about 40 minutes, constantly waiting on hold, only to be told that british airways refused to grant the refund? I didn't book thru british airways I booked thru opodo for the one reason I was told I could change or cancel 48 hours before flight. Also, i was charged more than the website stated price! Stay away from this site! They're crooks! I felt I was taken advantage of during a difficult time. How cruel.
Avoid at all costs, they advertise a low price for a flight and then make you pay much more than what you were supposed to. They offered to add extra baggage at a reduced price and then later to find out that no baggage was added when checking on the airline website. I've called to complain they told me they would fix the matter and I've been sent an email the next day to confirm that the baggage was added. To my surprise, this was untrue and after another call to complain, I've been told that these baggage won't be added at all as there is some sort of issues with the airline. I've asked for an invoice which with any professional company, should be sent shortly after the booking confirmation email. I've been told to wait for 72 hrs, to be shocked to receive it stating a price much higher than what was advertised and while I've paid around £300 for the extra baggage the invoice states only £109. Their customer service personnel are trained to be so polite and respectful but at the end of the day they have no authority, no power and if I ask to speak to a senior it is like asking to speak to the king or something. They just send back the customer service personnel to repeat the same words. I am asking for a full refund based on this horrible service, but they only offer that I pay for the extra baggage at the airport and then to submit a request for a refund of the money I've paid which still will make the original price higher than what it should be. They say a full refund will never happen under any circumstances. Totally dishonest and fraudulent service. First time to book with them and for sure willl be the last.
My husband booked from Heathrow - Phuket return.
It stated Premier Economy (4 flghts multi). On looking at confirmation it stated 1 premier flight, 3 were economy. Phoned Opodo and they said technical issue, they will cancel & have money back in 10 days. Not good enough, I have gone back on their website and it is still stating that its available. Absolutely disgraceful. I spoke to Raghul & then the Manager Kashim. Not happy, feel sorry for the next person who books.
NEVER USE THIS COMPANY!...Opodo's management after the car hire company was even more appalling!
I booked car hire via Opodo in Turkey. A car hire company called DMR. All paid up front and was suppose to have 500Euro blocked on the card as per Opodo documentation for hire on arrival. The company tried charging me 1000Euro then settled at 500Euro. Rather then blocking the amount, they charged it to my card resulting in transaction charges, contrary to the contract signed by Opodo. Most car rentals only block the amount so no charges made. On returning the car, I received no refund and the car company said they will return it after 4 weeks?. No where in any contract with Opodo or the car company it says this.
On return and after a lot of searching I found the complaint email for Opodo to try and get my money back and get answers to numerous questions about how nothing seems to have followed the contract i signed to hire the car through Opodo. Someone called Nahed kept telling me it was related to extra insurance which is not refundable (clearly it was not!). Then eventually said it was a deposit but not actually taken from the card (clearly was on my statement with transaction charges), then even though I asked to have the matter escalated, this still did not happen and ignored my requests. I have supplied all statement, copies, charges etc...and still not resolved or spoken to anyone senior.
Understand that if you use Opodo, there is no complaints process to escalate anything, the contract you sign may not be followed by third party companies, and they just do not listen or read your emails/complaint! I have never come across a company like this or the employee Nahed who repeatedly does not acknowledge to escalate a problem... I need to find the regulatory body for this company. Even the CEO does not reply backor get senior management to look into the problems.
I am utterly disgusted with the abysmal service provided by Opodo. Since September, I have been waiting for a refund without any proactive communication from their end. It is infuriating that I am consistently the one reaching out for updates, and each time I do, I am met with the same excuse that they are waiting for the airline to respond.
The sheer lack of effort on Opodo's part to chase the airline for my refund is mind-boggling. It appears that they are content with sitting on their hands, leaving me in the dark and frustrated. I expected a travel company to take responsibility and actively pursue resolution, but Opodo has fallen far short of that standard.
This experience has been a complete letdown, and I will not tolerate such negligence. If you value your time, money, and sanity, steer clear of Opodo. Their customer service is a sham, and I would strongly advise against using their services.
DANGER! SCAM! I booked a hotel in Rome using Opodo - when we arrived at the address we discovered that the hotel had been closed and no longer exists. However, Opodo let us book and pay for the hotel for several nights.
We were left with no place to stay overnight and with financial damage. The service hotline (even for us Prime members!) did not respond to our concern! We were kept connected for several hours and left helplessly in a foreign city, with no support or booking of a new hotel, with no refund.
There was simply no response to several subsequent inquiries. Fraud, terrible customer service and an absolute rip off. NEVER AGAIN!
It took more than year to get refund for accommodation they had not canceled. I got refund only after involving County Court Judgement.
Please be very careful of using Opodo to book any travel arrangements as they will take the money out of your account and will not provide you with the service that you have paid for. If you contact their call centre they will try to fob you off and will then cut off your call. If you try to complain online when you get to the end of the complaint form it will say that there is an error in your submission. I have checked with companies house and it seems that a majority of the directors have resigned within a short period of time, and that the company no longer operates from within the UK.
I've been waiting for a refund since the 23 September for a flight that was rescheduled with a connection that was less then an hour. Opodo has continually given me the same line that they are waiting on the airlines. It has been three months. They only get in contact with me from no reply emails and it's always generic. The customer service is based somewhere random. It takes ages to get on a call with a person and they just give the same response. They at no point have ever got in contact with me first and are doing little to get my refund.
ATTENTION, THIEVES. Your company is thieves, it robbed me, took my money and didn't give me the car. Once and never again
Do NOT use Opodo! I would put 0 star if I can. They charged me ANNUAL Prime membership without giving a warning that the free trial period is ending soon! That's GBP 60!
Cancelling the prime membership took many clicks. They are really trying to trap as many people as possible with this scam method.
I tried contacting them via Chat with an agent, but it was a chatbot that kept making me go in loops without solving anything! And they said they are a global site but their customer support number is only a UK number! This is really frustrating!
I bet you this would be the similar customer experience service if you have trouble with the trip. Definitely do NOT recommend Opodo.
Quick enough to take your money, customer service absolutely disgusting. Opodo are third party booking agency, I contacted my carrier direct their customer service endorsed that they have a lot of trouble with Opodo. I believe Opodo are based in Belgium not in the UK. Avoid!
I would put 0 star but I can't.
Scam and rubbery, that are the 2 most convenient adjectives I can use.
Short story, I booked a ticket via Opodo with British Airways. There was a clear message saying that I can add a baggage after the booking without any condition.
The day before I've tried to add baggage but I'm unable to do it.
I've spent 4 hours with the customer service on the phone and all they could confirm is that "They are sorry for giving a wrong information and they can do nothing for me" and "I can add baggage in the airport" without giving any guarantee that I can do it, and without details on the cost price.
Knowing that I have 60kg baggage, I don't want to take a risk and go blindly to the airport.
As a result, I'll need to book another ticket, take 1 or 2 more nights in the hotel in London, and I don't talk about the waste of time and energy, stress and other prejudice.
Anyway I've recorded the conversation, I'll take Opodo to court
Cancelled flight and NO refund
Booked a flight with Opodo in March to travel in late December, but then getting an email on the 02 of November that my flight has been cancelled. I understand that this wasn't Opodo's fault, but it has been 5 days now since I have been requesting a refund for the cancelled flight and haven't received any confirmation that they will even refund my money back. I have spoken to the airline directly, and they told me that they will refund in full, but it has to come through Opodo.
So for me, it was the first and last time that I have used Opodo as it has been a terrible experience. I would not recommend it to anyone.
I bought an airplane ticket and then notice a month later Opodo charge me 80 EUR for a Prime Membership I NEVER ASKED FOR and I NEVER REGISTERED FOR. They charged my credit card a second time with no prior notice, nor any kind of agreement from me (I didn't even signup to their site). On their membership site I cannot discard the credit card nor stop the membership nor ask for refund or anything. So I phoned them 45 minutes international call with 3 different agents none were able to discard my credit card or my membership. At the end Opodo is making it impossible to get back my money and who knows what they will do with my credit card I need to cancel it I think. I am now in contact with my lawyer. Opodo is pure scam, fraudster at its best, Avoid Opodo like plague.
