Are any online accommodation booking platforms reliable? It is starting to sound like none of the major online travel booking platforms, like Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, etc., can really be relied upon. I keep hearing horror stories, in this subreddit and elsewhere, of accommodations cancelling at the last minute and the travel platform’s customer service being completely useless and failing to provide…

Rent a car insurance using booking.com experiences? Hi, Me and my girlfriend are going to Mjorca in june and as we booked a hotel and flights we realised that we might want to rent a car aswell. Right now im looking at some car rentals around the airport and all of them are like 50€ a day while booking.com has an option for 110€ for the whole 7 days. I understand that means there is no insurance …

overnight layover in zurich, worth booking a hotel? I F18 have an overnight layover from 9pm-6.55 AM in zurich tonight, and I’m contemplating spending the €224 for an airport hotel. Is it worth it or are there other options submitted by /u/blondednightss

Booking.com host asked us to change dates I have a booking with booking.com at a private apartment from the 1st till the 5th of July. The booking is non-refundable. The host messaged me today stating that their will be construction on the building on the 1st of July and that he cannot book that date. He said that he will upgrade us to a better room for the remaining days and asked us to…

Booking.com account hacked, genius level decreased and wallet credits gone I received an e-mail yesterday in a language that seems to be Indonesian saying that someone in Germany tried to login to my Booking.com account. Immediately after, another e-mail in the same language said they had tried to change the registered e-mail address in my account – and a link for me to click on in case I didn’t recognise the activity….

Booking.com lied to the Visa dispute team and won’t give me my refund of $375 A while ago I made a refundable hotel reservation through Booking.com that I later cancelled within the allowed time frame to get my money back. A few weeks go by and the refund doesn’t show up on my credit card (Capital One) so I call Booking’s customer service. Rep said that their system indicates they already sent out my refund, so I need to …

LPT: Don’t Use Your Middle Name When Booking A Flight Just a little life pro tip I picked up recently: don’t use your middle name when booking a flight. I know, I know, it sounds weird, but hear me out. So, I was booking a flight the other day, and I decided to use my full name just like it appears on my ID, including my middle name. Turns out, it caused a bit of a headache. When I got to the airpo…

Booking Connecting Flight Directly With Airline I am looking to travel from YUL to NAT Air Canada is the only airline that seems to allow me to do this I am looking to book a flight with COPA. They don’t operate the final flight. When I try to book this directly on their website, the airport I seek to travel to doesn’t appear on the dropdown list. I could, however, book third-party travel s…

Another Booking.com question I booked a place in Venice using Booking and received a message stating: “Hello, Thank you very much for your reservation. First of all send me now a message on WHATSAPP because I don’t see the booking messages. Reply me on whatsapp and don’t here on Booking I will send you on WhatsApp a PDF file to help you reach the apartment on your own and f…

Easyjet booking “mistake”, Dilemma. Hi Guys, Booked a flight yesterday with Easyjet. (I am still within 24 hours). I intended to add one piece of luggage, a big checked bag. while booking I saw the option add a bag of max 23 kgs. I figured this would be a checked bag and tried to check but it didnt say anything about dimensions as far as I recall. After paying, sudenly i see i boo…

Didn’t provide my middle name while booking an international flight, should I be concerned? Hi, I recently booked my flight with Etihad airways to mumbai and I didn’t enter my middle name while booking the ticket. There was no text field for entering the middle name while booking the ticket online. When I booked it and got the confirmation for booking, I realized there is no middle name in my ticket and I decided to check online for a …

Booking Multi-City Flights and wanting to use 2 passports? Australian and Dutch Hey Everyone I am Looking at Booking flights (Listed Below) and was wondering how the process goes as I have an Australian and Dutch Passport. The first flight is from Sydney to Shenzen where I will be spending a 4-day Stopover across the Border in Hong Kong, Using my Australian Passport to Leave Australia and My Dutch Passport (15 Day Visa Fre…

Booking.com Refund Nightmare Hi all, looking for abit of advice of what my options are. I’ve booked to stop near Disneyland Paris at the beginning of December, we used a private host through booking.com. It was a relatively new host with only a few reviews but they was all 10 rated and thought nothing else of it. Paid in full non refundable cancellation. Checked my messages…

Booking.com unresponsive host First time to book through this app. Host is unresponsive. I even texted them as they automatically gave their contact number after the booking was confirmed. Yes, it is outside of the platform because they are not replying in the platform itself. Was also shocked that my booking was confirmed eventhough I did not link my card. Anyways, wanted …

Booking.com phishing scam and how I got my money back quick Hello! I recently and very stupidly got scammed through Booking.com. I was sent a message through their website that asked me to resubmit my card info or face cancellation – as the booking was critical for my work my husband added his card details and we lost 500+ euros. We only later learned that it was a scam widespread through booking and clo…

Dealing with damages during booking.com stay So this is a bit of an embarrassing story, but I need some advice. My friend and I moved to the UK for university from Australia and we stayed at a booking.com place for a couple days before we could move into our uni accommodations. My friend noticed that the toilet wouldn’t flush at all, but didn’t mention it to me, or report it to the accommo…

Booking.com has gone downhill The site used to be excellent but now I find there are increasing problems with it. My biggest gripe is that they used to give you the final price including taxes and fees, but increasingly they have gone the route of other platforms and present you with a misleading “lower” price (without additional fees) that makes it more difficult to compare…

Booking Scams Through Booking.com’s Messaging Service and Email I wanted to share a recent experience I had with Booking.com, particularly concerning their in-app messaging service and follow-up emails. I had an upcoming trip to Japan and everything seemed to be going smoothly until I received an “official” message through Booking.com’s app and emails. The message claimed to be from the property where I had …

Seeking advice on getting refund from Booking.com for last-minute hotel change Hello everyone, During a one-night stay, my hotel reserved on booking.com cancelled at the last minute, just as I was about to check in. I contacted Booking.com customer service, and they confirmed that I would be 100% reimbursed, which has been the case, so far no problem. However, I needed a place to stay for the night, and Booking.com continu…

Booking.com phishing scam: Beware! I was looking for a place to stay in Melbourne, Australia just before Christmas on Booking.com. These two places came up: New Cozy Apartment in Melbourne Lux Apartment in Melbourne The prices seemed far too good to be true – and, after a quick google image search, they indeed are. Both are pictures of private luxury apartments ripped straight fr…