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Worst Hotel Booking Experience Ever
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Rating: 1/51

We will never use Hotels.com again, and neither should anyone else! We booked a hotel through Hotels.com that did not have a check-in desk, so we needed to call to make arrangements to check-in. The hotel did not answer their phone or return any of my many messages for 3 days, so I contacted Hotels.com to cancel. I never got a response to the online instant messaging on Hotels.com.

I spent over 2 hours on the phone with them, being transferred around to 6 different agents/managers, I was hung up on twice, and they kept trying to charge me an 80$ cancellation fee! It's still not resolved. If they try to charge me, I'll have my credit card deny the charges, which is what I should have done from the start, if I had known how difficult this company would be.

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Awful
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DESTIN, FLORIDA -- Recently; I rented a beautiful 2 bedroom 2 bath spacious condo at Sundestin through Hotels.com. Once we arrived the unit was nothing like the pictures. After complaining the Resort said I needed to call Hotels.com because I did not call the hotel directly. Both Bathrooms were so small you had to stand in the shower prior to opening or closing the bathroom door. Also there was no washer and dryer in the unit like the website noted. After calling Hotels.com they said the Hotel was not picking up their phones so they could give me a 100 dollars. The cost for 3 nights were almost 1,200 dollars

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Refund
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I made a reservation for 3 rooms at Baja, Mexico through Hotels.com. When I arrived at the hotel I was told that 2 of my rooms reserved had been cancelled by Hotels.com. After trying to get on the phone with them for an hour I was unable to so I had to pay for three additional rooms at the hotel. When I came back to the states I contacted them and told them my situation. They were really sorry for what had happened and told me I would be getting a refund for the full amount.

It has now been 2 months 3 days and about 10 phone calls to them averaging an hour on the phone. Still no refund. Managers can't refund the money and there appears to be no one capable to refund the money. They keep stating that the billing department will get back to me within 72 hrs. and like I said above it's been 2 months and no refund. To make things worse I've spoken to three managers and even they can't seem to get it right. This company is worthless and useless. I will not be using them anymore and will spread the word of their unprofessionalism.

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Refuse to Refund From Cancellation
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DALLAS, TEXAS -- Was driving to VA beach - made a reservation but realized the hotel was too far away. We called and cancelled, automation said reservation was cancelled and if we needed further information please continue to hold for representative. I called and verified and it promptly told me that refunds take up to 4 days to be credited to account. 4 days go by and no refund was issued, I called Hotels.com and told me that we never called and have no records of it. Next they told me that the hotel refuses to give a refund... These people are crooks!!!

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Sold Me a Hotel That Didn't Accept Credit Card Then Charged Me 1 Month Later!
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WEBSITE, NEW YORK -- I booked a hotel through Hotels.com website and paid with my credit card. The Hotels.com website accepted my payment and gave me my booking info. The hotel then told me (by email) that they did not accept Amex, and cancelled my booking. A month later, I get an Amex bill for a week's stay in this hotel. When I contact Hotels.com, they state that they gave my credit card info directly to the hotel (why then did I use their secured payment service?) and don't understand why this happened. They offered me a $100 coupon to use on their website, as an apology.

The coupon never worked to book anything on their website - constant error messages, currency cannot be used for this booking. I contacted them several times by email and they took weeks to answer, finally saying that they don't understand why their coupon doesn't work and to call them. I didn't bother to call, they are obviously giving me a run around and the coupon has now expired. Why book with an online booking company if they can't even do that! Awful, slow service. Completely unreliable. I have used their services for years and have even moved up to "silver member", but never again. AVOID using this website!

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Listing False Name of Dangerous Hotel
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Rating: 1/51

I used Hotels.com to book a hotel called Speco Hotel. I arrived and it was really called The Richmond Grand Magnuson Hotel which was under investigation by the State Attorney for fraud. I immediately checked out after arrival due to safety of hotel. Hotels.com would not refund my money they said I paid through hotel and would not refund it. I had always paid on Hotels.com for privacy and security, I am not sure how Hotels.com deceived me but apparently even if you choose pay now with Hotels.com you are paying at hotel after you read fine print on email confirmation.

I reported this to Hotels.com and they refuse to refund me my money and they still advertise hotel under incorrect name on their website. The true name of the hotel and reviews shows there was a recent shooting in lobby 3 months ago which can be googled and seen on channel 6 news. The phone didn't work, the elevator didn't work and they had a club attached where they were frisking all the customers. These were the only other customers staying at hotel.

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Hotels.com Gave Us The Wrong Address Of The Hotel Which Cause Us End Up Nowhere
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Rating: 1/51

I would give negative five star if there's an option! Do not use hotels.com ever! They gave us the wrong address of the Grand Canyon Inn hotel through email which caused us to drive extra 2 hours in the middle of nowhere at 8pm! And when I called them, the representative was so rude, he kept on telling me it is not their mistake and told me I contacted the wrong hotel.

He is the one who gave me the hotel's phone number and by calling the hotel I get the correct address, so I talked to their supervisor in which I did get some coupon but I did not receive the coupon within 72 hours like he promised! I had to talk to their customer service online again to get the coupon! Mad! Do not use hotel. Com. This site sucks!

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Adventures with Hotels.com
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I booked a room with Hotels.com based on the free cancellation policy. Hotels.com immediately charged me for the whole 23 days without previous notification 20 days before my arrival to the hotel. Due to changes in my plans I had to cancel my reservation. After tedious efforts, I was finally able to cancel my reservation and received a message that I would be reimbursed within 30 business days. This means that Hotels.com will be sitting on my money for approximately 50 days.

Imagine they do this with at least 1000 people per month at the rate of 1000 dollars per person! What a fantastic business! They are permanently sitting on millions of dollars while you have no say and no mean to get back your money. I tried to complain but of course didn't receive any answer.

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Did Not Honor Promise of $100 Credit
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TEXAS -- I booked a hotel and received my confirmation. A short while later Hotels.com asks me to contact them. When I call the number they inform me that their had been a miscommunication and the hotel I wanted was booked. The reservationist then tries to find another hotel and twice she said the hotel she was trying to book for me was filled while we were on the phone. Finally she found an opening at the Marina Inn at Grande Dunes in Myrtle Beach, SC. The cost was an additional $60.

The representative told me that because of all the trouble they were issuing me a $100 credit good towards my next booking. There was nothing I needed to do everything would be associated to my email address. Today, I attempt to book and use my $100 credit and after being on hold for twenty minutes, and being told several times they are confirming that the hotel can accept the voucher, they then tell me they cannot help me and they will transfer me to customer service. They then cannot transfer me but give me the 800 number to call.

I reach the agent at customer service who then tells me there is no record of my canceled booking. I tell her that cannot be right, what about phone records, the email that was sent to me, the person I spoke to last week, all of that cannot be random. "I am sorry, is there anything else I can help you with before I let you go?" Wow, really, that's it, you are an international travel site and you have not records of email or phone calls?!? They're worse customer service! Broken promises. Luckily there are other options and I have and will continue to use them instead of Hotels.com.

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Hotels.com Is Unreliable
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TULSA, OKLAHOMA -- I made reservations for 4 rooms through Hotels.com on 3/27/12 for our trip to the Caribbean July 2 through the 12, 2012. We were leaving from Tulsa International Airport so we decided to arrive to TUL the day before departure so we can explore the city. We booked our hotel rooms using the website and selected the Tulsa Airport East Hotel & Conference Center due to the proximity to the airport and based on the pictures displayed on the website.

To our surprise, on the day we arrived there, we come to find out that the hotel had changed ownership and names. It was now a Motel 6. We never received any information/messages/emails from Hotels.com to inform us of the changes. The hotel did not look anything like the pictures online and it was old, in disrepair, and dirty. We checked in the motel because we were tired and wanted to start our trip on a good note. However, as we entered the rooms assigned to us we noticed a very disgusting smell in the room. I approached the housekeeping attendants that were working the room next to ours and asked them to check the room.

The housekeeper walked into the room and said that the smell was mold and that there was nothing she could do about it. I went to the front desk and asked for another room... meantime our friends were settling down in their room. After getting another room I noticed that the A.C. unit was not working properly. We decided to go and eat and then come back and deal with that. At the time we came back to the hotel we notice that the A.C. system was not working in the hallways nor lobby. A myriad of small fans were brought in to circulate the air in the affected areas.

The hotel began to get hot and smell really bad. We thought to ourselves that we were just there for one night and we would stay and make the best of it. Around 5 pm we noticed the kind of people checking in the hotel: drug dealers, prostitutes, drifters, etc... We walk into the main hallway and noticed the smell of pot, cigarettes and what I know it was meth. There were drunk people stumbling in the hallway and very strange individuals rushings into some of the rooms with prostitutes. That was it for us!

We packed out belongings, called Hotels.com and told them what had occurred from the hotel ownership change, the physical state of the hotel, the non functioning A.C. system, and the people checking in. It was a very difficult call because that Hotels.com Customer Service calling center is somewhere overseas where English is not the first language. We could hardly understand the representative on the phone. After almost an hour on the phone we finally got Hotels.com to cancel all of our reservations (we were coming back to the USA on the night of the 11th of July and staying in the same hotel again) and requested a refund.

They canceled our reservations, sent us cancellation emails, and promised us a refund for all nights/rooms reserved. It has been almost a month and the refund has not been made!!! Every time I call nobody can tell me what is going on and the reservation & cancellation numbers they gave us are invalid. On our own we found a nice Holiday Inn Express a few miles away and decided to change hotels. We are very disappointed with Hotels.com and intend to never use their website again.

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