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travelup.com
Aldermaston, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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TravelUp Reviews Summary

The company demonstrates a mixed reputation, with notable strengths in the ease of the booking process and competitive pricing, which many customers found straightforward and efficient. However, significant concerns arise around customer service, particularly regarding unresponsive support, issues with reservation confirmations, and difficulties in modifying bookings. Instances of billing discrepancies and perceived bait-and-switch tactics have contributed to a growing sentiment of frustration among users. While some customers report positive interactions with staff, the overall trend indicates a need for improved communication and reliability to enhance customer trust and satisfaction.

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706
value
174
shipping
92
returns
132
quality
156
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Florida
1 review
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The original hotel we booked ended up not being available and a much lower tier hotel was offered in its place. We had no option but to accept, but are not happy about the switch.

Date of experience: December 14, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We are sorry to hear and apologize that we weren’t able to provide you with the service experience you were looking for.

We will be sure to pass your feedback on, and we’ll work on improving our customer service in order to meet your expectations in the future.

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to leave us a review!

Regards,

Travel Up

Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I chose an economy ticket with TravelUp and was given a basic economy ticket

Date of experience: December 12, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We are sorry to hear that you have had such a negative experience.

Our team is dedicated to providing excellent customer service, and we strive for 100% satisfaction with every appointment. We would like the opportunity to rectify this situation and help make it right for you.

Please write to us at [email protected] so, one of our team members will assist you.

Regards,

Travel Up

Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It was really easy to book with TravelUp and I am really happy with my experience so far. Thank you!

Date of experience: December 10, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Thanks so much for sharing your feedback about our service.

We’re glad to hear that our team’s performance exceeded your expectations, and we’ll make sure that our representative will receives the recognition they deserve.

Thank you again and have a great day!

Regards,

Travel Up

Hawaii
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible service
January 9, 2023

Terrible service. DO NOT USE. I inquired about cancelling a reservation because I could not find the information on their website. They just went ahead and cancelled it and didn't even credit me for half of what it was worth.

Date of experience: December 9, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We are sorry to hear about the un pleasant experience with us.

We appreciate you reaching out and am sorry to learn that our customer service has fallen short of the level you deserve.

We are here at your disposal and request you to email us at [email protected] so, our expert can look into the issue and assist you.

Regards,

Travel Up

California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Leaving out the resort fee, this site is useless and made my trip worse for no reason. The dishonesty is probably indicative of the type of company and type of people in management. I will never use this again.

Date of experience: December 6, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good afternoon,

We are very sorry to hear that you didn't have a great experience at the property. Our mission is to provide excellent guest experiences, so we are sorry to have let you down.

Please note, local fee, resort fee etc. are to be paid locally at the property and are never included in the cost of the stay. They are decided and govern by the local authority, and we have no control on it. We have taken your feedback on board, so it will be shared with the supplier, and they will strive to make improvements accordingly.

We sincerely apologize for the unpleasant stay.

Regards,
Travel Up

District of Columbia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've been unable to login to the online system to view and modify my booking. Additionally, I haven't been able to make a simple adjustment, removing one room from my three room reservation.

Date of experience: December 5, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We are sorry to hear that you have had such a negative experience.

Our team is dedicated to providing excellent customer service, and we strive for 100% satisfaction with every appointment. We would like the opportunity to rectify this situation and help make it right for you.

Please write to us at [email protected] so, one of our team members will assist you.

Regards,

Travel Up

District of Columbia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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THE MOST DISHONEST COMPANY
January 5, 2023

THE MOST DISHONEST company I have EVER dealt with. I bought a one way business class ticket from them and another one way business ticket from another company and had to cancel both ticket more than one month before my trip due to unforeseen circumstances. The other company penalized me $500 and refunded me within a week. Travel up penalized me over $880 which I agreed but it took several emails to get partial payment of my refund after about 8 weeks. I kept writing to them and they kept saying rest my refund is in process and then stopped responding to my emails. I had to go to my credit card company to get the rest of my refund. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING from this DISHONEST company.

Date of experience: December 5, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Thank you for sharing your concern.

We apologize for the delay in refund deliveries. We recognize these delays may affect customer satisfaction. Currently, we are working to resolve this issue with the airlines supplier and prevent it from happening again. We hope to resolve this issue on priority basis.

If there’s anything more specific that happened, please let us know at - [email protected], so, we can follow up internally.

Regards,

Travel Up

New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No problems at all
December 5, 2022

No problems at all. Very quick and easy to book your reservation.

Date of experience: December 5, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

It’s great to hear that you had a positive experience with Travel Up

Our team will be happy to hear that their hard work has paid off! If there’s anything we can do to serve you further, let us know.

Regards,

Travel Up

GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Avoid - Not refunding you for no reason
January 2, 2023

I have booked the flight but it's been cancelled by airline. Travelup gave me the two option voucher or cash refund, which will be flight ticket minus £50 admission fee, in my case they told me the refund amount will be £649.58. They clearly stated this amount for option 2 then I agreed for cash refund. First of all, refund was not made for a month, it's same experience as other critical reviews say, email response is not attentive which makes unreliable. Finally I got refunded in the bank but it was £291.71. This number didn't make any sense. They owe me £357.87 and they don't provide me any breakdown of this amount. There is no explanation about their initial statement £649.58 is so different from what they refund, £291.71. Please avoid this company not to lose your money.

Date of experience: December 3, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Thank you for reaching out to us and sharing your concern. We profusely apologize for the unnerving experience that you had to face and shall make sure to pass your feedback on to our management team working closely for such episodes.

Kind Regards

TravelUp Team

Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It was easy to navagate the site and complete my booking
November 30, 2022
Updated review

It was easy to navagate the site and complete my booking. I have used Travel up before a d found the best price available on their site again.

Date of experience: November 29, 2022
Tony W. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Thank you for getting back to us with such splendid feedback as your words make it more meaningful for us to serve you the best ceaselessly.

Kind Regards

TravelUp Team


Easy to complete booking
November 28, 2022
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Easy to complete booking

Date of experience: November 28, 2022
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Booked wrong date I
December 25, 2022

Booked wrong date I. Cancel within 12 hours but cost me $40 plus ….Never use u again and will let all my family and friends not to use your company to book any travel…

Date of experience: November 25, 2022
Tony W. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We profusely apologize for the inconvenience caused you. However, we have the easier and clearer cancellation policy that helps you find our standard booking fee applicable to all the services you avail as we are a service provider working close towards the best deals, we possibly could honor you with invariably.

Further to this, if you are looking to get your concern addressed, kindly write an email to our team at [email protected].

Kind Regards

TravelUp Team

Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great really easy and enjoyable thanks looking forward

Date of experience: November 24, 2022
Tony W. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Thank you for writing this nice feedback. We feel privileged to be serving you for all your travel needs with us.

Kind Regards

TravelUp Team

New York
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Refusal for refund deposit when trip is 7 weeks away. Son is unable to travel with college.

Date of experience: November 23, 2022
Tony W. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Thank you for reaching out to us and sharing your concern. We profusely apologize for this unpleasant experience you had. Though deposits are non-refundable. However, we still raise requests with the suppliers to manage wavers at times bur this could not be ensured for you despite of some sincere efforts eventually.

Kind Regards

TravelUp Team

Pennsylvania
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Most terrible experience
December 23, 2022

I booked tickets with reserved seats that I paid for additional £300. Now 5 days before travel I find out that seats were not reserved. Extremely difficult to contact the company, they either put you on long hold, or so not answer at all. Their website shows me that at this time they cannot retrieve my reservation. Reached them finally on Sunday, they told me they get back to me. Nobody did, and when I called two days later, two days before my flight, they finally sent my claim to management. Now they are advising me to be patient. This is a trip to Madagascar that has two very long legs, and I am afraid I will end up in the middle seat. DO NOT USE THEM!

Date of experience: November 23, 2022
Tony W. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Thank you for reaching out to us and sharing your concern. We profusely apologize for this unpleasant experience that you encountered. However, in further investigation to the highlighted concern raised by you, evidently, we could see our team member has been assisting you for those preferred seats we had requested the airline for you but later it was not honored by them.

We also kept you informed that, we are corresponding them with your request and have also submitted the refund of your preferred seats. Your booking is not cancelled and still existing as the issue cropped up due to the refusal of selected seats you preferred.

If you are further looking to get your queries addressed by our specialized team, we shall request you to kindly drop an email to us at [email protected].

Kind Regards

TravelUp Team

Massachusetts
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I call them to make a hotel booking for Montego bay Jamaica. They send me a payment link I put my husband as the lead guest since it was his credit card that pays for the hotel. When they send me the voucher it stated my name instead of my husband. Been emailing them since then and they keeps on giving me the run around. My husband will be in Jamaica before me and won't be able to check in.what a mess.I will update my review when I finally get confirmation about my Husband Been the lead guest which was there mistake.

Date of experience: November 22, 2022
Tony W. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We apologize for the challenging situation you have been through. However, we are glad that one of our team members, assertively has sorted this and gotten the booking placed under your husband's name.

Kind Regards

Travelup Team

Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I could find reservations on google maps, while your website always gives 0 results

Date of experience: November 22, 2022
Tony W. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good afternoon,

We abundantly apologize for the challenging experience you had. We have made a note of your highlighted concern and shall definitely share this with our designated team working closely towards such concerns. If you are looking to discuss anything further with our team, kindly drop us your concern at [email protected].

Kind Regards

TravelUp Team

GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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TRAVEL NOWHERE WITH TRAVEL UP
Firstly there should be some accountability as to why Travel up is allowed on websites such as Sky scanner and such. This "travel agency" is a total rip off. DO NOT BOOK ANYTHING ON THIS SITE. I booked a flight for myself and partner and child. Leaving from London Heathrow. I agreed the booking paid the money over the phone when Travel up sent a email payment link to process. The agent sent me the itinerary before I paid leaving from LHR. And I paid. He said the confirmation would be there within 24 hours. Only to wake up the next day, and check and see the agent booked me flying out from London City airport! This on Friday afternoon is a 3 hour trek through London. I called the agents back and after what seems liked hours of trying to make these people understand, they agreed on email to give me a refund minus the booking fee. Now why would I pay for a booking fee that was booked in error by the agent. This is absurd! This happened in May 2022. Its now November 20th 2022. And Travel up have just sent me and email after months of battling with these people to get a £400 refund they cannot give me one. My advise to Skyscanner's and the big platform providers is to review properly these charlatans, thieves, low energy vampires, and get rid of them off their platforms. I also emailed the CEO ALI SHAH but as usual he made his wealth of ripping normal people like us off. I will be taking legal action on Travel up as these online thieves cannot have a voice or and standing. TAKE ACTION GET RID OF THESE ROBBERS.

Date of experience: November 19, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We sincerely apologize for the upsetting experience you had due to challenges in correct airport being booked. Your feedback is important to us, and it has been forwarded to the management so it can be addressed.

We checked the record and see that one of our agents is helping you out with this issue and we hope it will be resolve as soon as possible.

If you have any concern and you are looking to get it addressed. You could reach out to our team at [email protected].

Kind Regards,
TravelUp Team

India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is a copy of my email sent to you (admin) on Nov 9 2022 with no reply:

To whom it may concern;

This is the first time I used your site to book a flight. I booked it and tried to cancel hours later because my partner told me she just discovered the dates were possibly going to change. However when I spoke to the CSR, who put me on hold 3 times over a 30-40 duration, told me there was a $50 cancellation fee and a non refundable booking fee. This was a complete surprise to me especially since every other online flight booking company I've used be has a free 24 hour full refund booking policy.

This is my Booking No - TH*******

Please rectify this as soon as possible and let me know by email. Or this maybe the first and only time I use your service.

Thank you
Neil Mark

Date of experience: November 18, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We apologize for the upsetting experience you had. However, we have passed your concern to our designated team on priority, they shall take adequate measure hereafter to resolve the issue.

Kind Regards,

TravelUp Team

Arizona
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Bait and switch!
December 17, 2022

They consistently provided a certain price, but had an "error" each time I tried to book. When I reached out, they never picked up the phone, and their email was a canned response of "try another hotel" terrible site that should be pulled down.

Date of experience: November 17, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good afternoon,

We abundantly apologize for the upsetting experience you had due to error faced while booking.

However, we have passed your concern to our designated team on priority, they shall take adequate measure hereafter to resolve the issue.

Kind Regards

TravelUp Team

California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It was an easy process and the price was good. I was able to find what I was looking for.

Date of experience: November 15, 2022
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good afternoon,

Thank you for this fantastic feedback regarding the price of the property. We strive to repeat such experiences for you in the future.

Regards,
TravelUp Team